Walnut News
By EVELYN SEVART
Special to The Girard Press
The Walnut Family and Community Education Unit met April 16 for a monthly meeting with all members present. Following lunch at Pizza Hut they held a regular meeting at the Extension meeting room.  
Roll call was answered by members naming a spring flower. The unit had received a check from Best Choice for UPCs from the labels that were sent in. The unit can always use more UPCs.
Two lessons were passed out to the members. President Marjorie DeLange told about having cholesterol checks at the Crawford County Health Department in Pittsburg. You must make an appointment and they are done on each Thursday. They will cost you $25.00.
The unit along with the Walnut American Legion Auxiliary recently sent 636 items to the Winfield Veterans Home, Topeka Veterans Hospital and the Leavenworth Veterans Home.
The meeting closed with the members reciting the flag salute.
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The Walnut American Legion Auxiliary will be serving a dinner May 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Walnut American Legion Post Home. This is also the monthly meeting day for the Auxiliary. The menu will be chili, vegetable soup, ham and beans, chicken and noodles and desserts. A free will offering will be taken. The money will go to scholarships.

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Farlington News
By MARY HUGHES
Special to The Girard Press
Joyce Purdon of Frontenac spent Friday with her father James Marsh. I would bet she had fish for lunch.
Two new families have moved into Farlington. We welcome them and hope to meet them soon.
Marcia Bowersock of Ft. Scott and Matthew and Madison Bowersock of Coffeyville spent Sunday evening with Mary Hughes.
Only seventy three attended church and seventeen were children, several are still ill.
Mother/Daughter Salad Supper was well attended, with beautifully decorated tables and lots of salad
Don't forget Sunday the graduate dinner at noon.
Sympathy goes to Perry Frakes and family.
With clothes the new are best. With friends the old are best.

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Arcadia News
By MARY V. SHEAD
Special to The Girard Press
Allen, Linda and Douglas Watt with Michelle & Jarric Presnell attended the concert of The Blue Man Group in Wichita on Sunday Night.
Galen and Jodie Dunn spent some time in Branson, Mo., recently and he had to be hospitalized for a short time before coming to Arcadia on Sunday.  She was at the piano while Mrs. Don Talent led the singing on that Sunday night in Open Door Mission. Galen, a home town boy, preached the evening service. A good crowd responded well the whole evening including snack and fellowship time. The Dunns are home on leave from the mission field due to surgeries for Galen. Their goal is to be back in the Philippine Islands in time for June graduation of the students of Chariots of Fire School. Max Davidson, though moved to Liberal, Mo., is still the official greeter at the Open Door Mission in Arcadia.
Don and Esther Talent who started the Mission in Arcadia in the old Methodist Church and after the fire, with his congregation, built the new church with the same church bricks, are back sharing the pulpit part time with Roy and Mary Widmar.
Our sympathy goes to the family of Lois Odle who died Saturday in the Arma Care Center. There is cremation and no formal burial service. Local survivors are her husband Web Odle and son J.D. Odle and granddaughter Nellie Odle.
A dinner with Vickie Shead as hostess, was held to honor Larry Shead for his 58th birthday Sunday afternoon. Those present were Mark and Haley Shead with Katy from Ft. Scott; Maria Shead and Mitzi and Joel Ray with Cademon from Tulsa, Okla., and the two great-grandmothers, Shirley Applegarth from Tulsa and Mary V. Shead of Arcadia.
After Larry demonstrated his birthday gift by trimming a few limbs on a tree, the birthday cake and ice cream were served
The Southern Hills Christian Church in Edmond, Okla. had a blood drive in their church on Sunday in memory of the late Margaret Wickstrom who was once in charge of Church Blood Drives for the Oklahoma Blood Institute where she was employed. She was a native of Arcadia.
Carmen Ange of Topeka visited her mother, Lilly and Jerry Coonrod last week.  After a doctors appointment she returned to her home in Topeka on Monday.
Ralph and Cindy Shead brought supper to the Arcadia Shead home on Monday evening and visited with Pastor David Peterson. Arrangements are in the making for the Sheads to speak in Arcadia Christian Church on the first Sunday morning in September. They will explain the meaning of LATM, one of the missions the church helps support.
The second bake sale of the season was held on Saturday morning in the Arcadia Fire Station. A large sign on the lot near Race Street announces the day the bake sale will be held. This is a fund raiser for new equipment.
Marissa and Liberty Mongahan enjoyed their Bible lesson and craft work taught in Christian Church SS by Betty Dehn. Announcements were made to remind the ladies of the Retreat to be at the church on Saturday. All ladies are invited to attend starting with a continental breakfast as they register between 8-8:30 a.m. A salad luncheon brought by all will be enjoyed at noon. Susan Casey of LATM will be guest speaker. She is a returned missionary from Santiago, Chile, now living in Joplin, Mo. For the craft work, bring some favorite family snap shots.
Saturday evening, Marilyn Shead Soash and husband Charles from Salina visited a distant relative, Mary V. Shead in Arcadia. Marilyn's Dad, Elza Shead was a cousin to Paul Shead's father, Ralph Everett Shead. Marilyn is doing genealogy study on the Shead side of the family. Her great-uncle Wallace Shead was a charter member of the Arcadia Christian Church, so with Mary V. Shead went to the church to make a copy of the charter for her files.  Mr. and Mrs. Soash left Arcadia that evening for Ft. Scott where they visited their two granddaughters over the weekend. The Elza Shead family was from the Mulberry area when the children were growing up.