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Friendship Meals Menu

Following are next week’s menus for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels. The recommended cost is $5 per meal, if you are able to pay.

Bid approved for highway projects

SUMNER COUNTY – The Kansas Department of Transportation has announced the latest round of approved bids for state highway construction and maintenance projects. Two local projects were approved.

Take steps to avoid a Thanksgiving cooking fire

Thanksgiving and the day before are the top two days in this country for the chance of a cooking fire to happen in someone’s home. Cooking causes an average of 158,400 home fires per year, which is 44 percent of all home fires in the United States.

Fire blamed on faulty furnace

120 Years Ago The Citizens State Bank is moving into its new brick building on the corner this week. Miss Harris, who bought the Central Hotel, is having it overhauled, rearranged, replanted, repapered, and repainted.

Haysville Memories

9 Years Ago On Saturday, Nov. 11, Haysville resident Lesa Hiebert met members of six different animal rescue groups in the parking lot of Goddard's Walmart.

Argosy Files

Charles Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young, of this city, has been announced by the war department as one of three Kansans who have accepted appointments on the reserve corps. He was announced as second lieutenant, air reserve.

Star Files

From November 1926 F.C. Myers, the last of the pioneer businessmen of Conway Springs, sold his stocks and dry goods, and store here last week to Wessers. Nash and Martin of Wichita are putting on a sale to close out the stock.

Two unique ways to cook Thanksgiving turkey

Thanksgiving is a beloved holiday. Families may have their own unique Thanksgiving traditions, but one staple of this kickoff to the holiday season is bound to make its way to Thanksgiving dinner tables no matter how unusual families’ holiday celebrations may be: turkey.
This Thanksgiving, hosts can try something new by deep frying or smoking their turkeys. Metro Creative

Tips to budget for the winter holidays

The beginning of the winter holiday season has begun, filled with food, family, friends and fun. Kansas State University family resource management specialist Elizabeth Kiss says that as celebrations are planned, it is important to consider the mental and financial stresses of the holiday season.

County to pay $3 million over newspaper raid in Marion

Kansas Reflector The county involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor. In two of the four agreements, the Marion County Sheriff ’s Office also crafted a statement admitting regret.
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