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The Ellsworth American Legion Post 174 serves a chicken fried steak dinner at 6 p.m. at the post home in Ellsworth. The cost is $15 per plate. Menu includes chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, roll, dessert and drink.
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Members of Kyler & Son use a crane to hoist a side porch into position on the side of the Central Kansas Dentistry Building on Douglas Avenue on Monday. Dr. Kurt Williams said the project was approved in June 2021, and the porch was built by MaiCo Industries Inc. See the I-R Facebook page for a live video of the project. KAREN BONAR/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter
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Jasper Lamia, 9, takes a direct hit in the face wtih a water cannon at the splash pad in Priesker Park on Aug. 1. After a week of cooler weather, the temperatures will climb back into the triple digits. KAREN BONAR/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter
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Hannah Noll of Emporia, left, and her sister, Abigail, strike a pose Friday in Wilson’s Lions Club Park. Hannah was crowned Mini Princess and Abigail competed for Little Princess during Friday’s Miss Czech Princess Pageant conducted at the First Baptist Church in Wilson. I-R Photo by Alan Rusch
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Pick up a copy of this weeks I/R which has the Summer Edition of The Magazine. You can also find it on our website, www.indyrepnews.com under special sections.
Read more“Price is what you pay, value is what you get,” Warren Buffet is fond of saying. That line was running through my head recently as my wife and I were preparing to have some flooring replaced in our kitchen and living room.
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Cholera struck with a vengeance the summer of 1867 along the line of the Kansas frontier. At the end-of-track boom town of Ellsworth, panicked townspeople raced to get away, reducing the population from nearly 1,000 to only 40 citizens by the middle of July.
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