What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago
John W. Hazelbaker, field manager for the Midland Trail, made the race over the trail yesterday, competing for the time against the Rock Island Railway. Hazelbaker left Kansas City at 2:00 o’clock in the morning and was ahead of his schedule up to the last report received, which was at Burlington, Colorado. He passed through Stockton at 10:40 a.m. just an hour and three minutes ahead of the schedule previously announced. The first hundred miles of the race was through mud and he lost a couple of tires and received a puncture at Simpson. Hazelbaker was driving a stock Buick car, carrying a relief driver, a mechanic and reporter. He was piloted from Osborne to Plainville by M. O. Koesling, Buick dealer, and at Plainville the Buick representative took up the piloting to the next Buick point. Mr. Koesling very highly complimented the county for the splendid patrol work given along the trail and the excellent condition of the roads through the county, which is due to the efficient work of our county engineer, J. A. Bodine.
J. J. Sightam is in receipt of a letter from his granddaughter, Edith Slightam, who was privileged to view the Harding funeral train as it passed through Chicago. Mr. Slightam permits the Review and Record to publish the following paragraphs from Miss Edith’s letter: “We saw President Harding’s funeral train as it passed through Chicago on its way to Washington. It certainly was a sad sight. There were about fourteen coaches and the president’s body was in the last coach, guarded by two soldiers and two marines. There were two coaches just loaded with the most beautiful flowers you ever saw. There was a pilot engine that went ahead to see that everything was alright. It was all draped in black and white. We waited about four hours to see it for it was late on account of the great crowds of people that lined the tracks. I am glad we waited for. It was worthwhile to see it.”
Little Lowell Lauesen, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lauesen, suffered a bad injury to his left thumb last Friday evening, when he got the member caught in the door of their sedan. The bone was snapped in two and the flesh badly lacerated.
A garage, granary and automobile belonging to Sereno Miller was destroyed by fire last Tuesday night. Neighbors at a distance noticed the blaze and gave the alarm to the Miller family. Mr. Miller is at a loss as to the origin of the fire, but it is conceded that it must be the work of vandals. In the early part of the spring Mr. Miller lost his beautiful home to fire while the family was absent, and some weeks ago, Mr. Miller discovered the concrete steps leading up to a porch were defaced and broken away.
H. C. Sweet and Neville Terwilliger left Monday on a thee-day business trip to Concordia, Manhattan and Emporia.
Mrs. John Stewart was in Kirwin the latter part of last week taking in the Kirwin celebration and visiting her son, Harold Stewart and family.
A most important need these hot August days is a can of fragrant Talcum. WE have it in all specialized brands at the Ellvin’s Drug Store.
Some men figure that the world cannot get along without them. As a matter of fact there is no man alive that we can’t get long without; but there are several that it is next to impossible to get along with.
W. A. Cooper returned Friday from his eastern trip. He visited with a brother at Yarmouth, Maine for several weeks having enjoyed some of the best visits of his life. On his way home he stopped at Knoxville, Iowa to spend a few days with relatives.
A peculiar accident occurred at the Lebanon Municipal Electrical Plant one day last week, which burned up one generator and a part of a switchboard. On investigating for the cause, a mouse was found burned and charred. It was obvious that the mouse had jumped into the wiring and his body started a short across the terminals, which caused the blaze.
Reverend and Mrs. F. A. Ziegler of Long Beach, California, came in last week to visit in the home of his brother F. G. Ziegler. Rev. and Mrs. Ziegler had been at Battle Creek, Michigan, at which place he officiated at the marriage of his son. He is an old time newspaperman and we acknowledge a very pleasant visit with him and Gus.
Kensington citizens were greatly shocked and pained last Friday afternoon on receipt of word that Mrs. E. Seavey had attempted suicide by shooting herself at her home in the east part of the city. She had gone upstairs to get her regular afternoon a nap and about three o’clock she committed the rash act, after which she walked downstairs and informed Mr. Seavey’s mother what she had done. Doctors were hastily summoned and succeeded in removing the bullet, which entered the body just below the heart and lodge under the skin in her back. Her condition has been most critical, but it is believe she will recover from the self-inflicted wound. Mrs. Seavey expresses herself as being unable to give a reason why or how she came to commit the rash act, and it is believed she was seized with a sudden spell of some nature, which caused her to commit the act when she was not herself.
The Fairview Sunday School met in the grove at R. D. Thrasher’s and after the regular lesson a picnic dinner was spread and everyone proceeded to enjoy a bountiful repast, consisting mostly of fried chicken with the usual trimmings. After dinner an impromptu program of songs, readings and short talks by various ones present. Late in the afternoon, everyone departed having thoroughly enjoyed the day, especially the Sunday School Services out of doors.
Mr. and Mrs. Elam Bartholomew left last week via Phillipsburg for a six week trip to Wyoming and Montana. Mrs. Bartholomew will go direct to Billings to visit her daughter, Mrs. C. R Ingle and family while Mr. Bartholomew will drop off in Wyoming to make a botanical survey of the region lying along the eastern base of the Big Horn Mountain range, where he expects to find many interesting things in the vegetable kingdom. Later he will join Mrs. Bartholomew at Billings and they will return home about the 25th of September.
