65 Years Ago
August 1953
1 COLONY Miss Helen Neuenswander, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. I.L. Neuenswander, left Monday for Guatemala, where she will be stationed for five years as a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. Her work will be twofold. She will have a medical clinic for the natives since there are no doctors or nurses in the village. As a translator she and co-workers will go among the various Indian tribes, learn their languages, devise their alphabets, make dictionaries, grammars and primers, teach reading and writing and, finally, translate the Bible into native languages.
5 The Iola City Planning Commission recommended a portion of the Cyrus-Morrell property at the corner of State and Buchanan streets for the new National Guard Armory which was approved by the voters last month.
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The Model Grocery has installed a seven-and-a half-ton air-conditioning unit. Charles Hattan, manager, reports the unit maintains a temperature of 79 degrees even in the warmest days. The Model is the first grocery store on the square to install a cooling system.
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A proposal to hold a centennial celebration in Allen County next year was discussed. Kansas was recognized as a territory in 1854 and the first white settlers may have arrived in this area shortly after that date. Allen County was first legally established in the spring of 1855 by the so-called bogus legislature.
