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Ellsworth County commissioners dealt with a cool situation Monday as they approved a request by Jeremiah Brown of the county EMS department for the purchase of a new ice machine. Brown said the $3,955 ice machine is capable of producing 400 pounds of ice in 24 hours.

Friendly Neighbors The Friendly Neighbors FCE unit met May 21 at the home of Ellen Brownback. President Sylvia McNeal called the meeting to order. The Pledge of Allegiance and NAFCE Creed were recited.

When Todd Britton started working for the Kansas Department of Corrections, Ellsworth Correctional Facility was just being constructed. It was 1988, and the chances of finding gainful employment in Ellsworth were slim.

GENESEO — E.D. Janzen believed in the existence of visitors from other planets — visitors who came to earth not to frighten humans, but to warn them of the dangers of the atomic bomb. In many ways, Doc Janzen — as he was called by his patients — was a product of his time.

It’s not the kind of harvest where farmers move from field to field, stripping heads of wheat until only stubble is left. This is the kind of harvest where farmers pick and choose the fields that are ready because many of them have spots still drying out from this spring’s string of storms.

KANOPOLIS — With only days to go until the Fort Harker Days celebration kicks off July 12-13, Joye Neuman is buzzing about, making final preparations for the community’s biggest event of the year.

From The Files Of The July 4, 1957 Ellsworth Reporter.

LORRAINE — The ownership of former railroad property was discussed at the June 18 meeting of the Lorraine City Council. City attorney Theresa Staudinger said she had found that the BNSF Railroad had abandoned the property and returned control to the city.