75 years ago 1927:
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Odell, who have been in charge of the Winter Hotel are now also taking over the Commercial
Hotel. (Alice (Crabtree) Gregory Clippings, submitted by Sherri Gregory)
The graduating class at the St. Francis Community High School will be the largest class to
complete the work in the history of the school Thirty boys and girls will received diplomas including Earl Arrants,
Gerald Bear, Gladys Carmichael, Arthur Cass, Edward Cook, Lewis Collins, Ernest Confer, Harry Dopp, Paul Dopp,
Edythe Duncan, Ellen Evins, Francis Fallis, Charles Follett, Elmer Felzien,Oma Greer, Henry Indorf, Thelma Kail,
Lynn Kannel, Kathryn Kincaid, Herbert Lampe, Rachael Miller, Adelheit Neitzel, Myrthel Parks, Clara Rath, Marie
Ramsey, Lyle Scoby, Eleanor Tapp, Virgie Waters, Leslie Webber and Doris Zimmerle. (Alice (Crabtree)
Gregory Clippings, submitted by Sherri Gregory)
For 42 years the Herald has chronicled the events that have happened in Cheyenne County. We are told that when
the paper was young it struggled along just as all the early settlers of the portion of Kansas did. Through it
all the Herald has never missed an issue in that period. (Alice (Crabtree) Gregory Clippings, submitted
by Sherri Gregory)
~St. Francis Herald, date unknown