90 Years Ago

Mrs. Emmett Gallagher and Miss Grace Skenyon were two lucky women considering the minor injuries received in an automobile accident on Tuesday evening.

Vernon Hutton, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Hutton, was critically hurt Monday at Smith Center. Vernon, who is employed by the Kansas Power Company, was on his way to work and, while crossing a street, dodged a motorcar only to be hit by another car.

Seven-year-old Keith Dix, son of Mabel Russ Dix, left last evening for the Bell Memorial Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, where he will enter for a cleft palate operation. Miss Floyd, principal of the grade school, is to be highly commended for the part she has played.

The movement started by the Stockton Chamber of Commerce to have the oil from the Silvers field piped to the railroad at Stockton instead of going south to Zurich on the Union Pacific is developing satisfactorily.

The two young men, George McGee and Howard Johnson, were arrested in Wichita last Wednesday with charges of robbing the Cash store in this City and the Swank store at Woodston. They were returned here on Thursday evening.

The J. P. Vallette Cash Store was broken into Monday night, and merchandise of about $200.00 was taken. A pane of glass from the rear door was removed, permitting the robbers to unlock the door.

A wedding of more than usual interest was solemnized in the Methodist church on September 29th when Miss Lena Lambert was united in marriage to Mr. Hugh W. Bigge on the golden wedding anniversary of the grandparents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Lambert.

Motorists from the west of North 40 Tuesday morning brought the information that a Packard car had been wrecked and, as a result, caught fire and burned that morning at a point about 20 miles west of Stockton.

One of the most unfortunate automobile accidents to be reported in years in western Kansas occurred last Thursday evening on Wilcox Creek, about six miles north of Hunter, when three young men, employees of the Kansas Power Company, plunged over a 40-foot embankment into the creek bed as they were...

Pussyfoot Johnson, accompanied by Col. Frank B. Ebbert, newly elected superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Kansas, is now making a tour of the state. He is expected to remain in the state for two or three months, lecturing in every county as far as possible.