100 years ago
january 5, 1911
Electric lights have been put in the school building. Who says MHS is not up to date?
V.E. Healed has been granted a license to operate seven pool and billiard tables and a bowling alley for the next six months. The license fee is 25 dollars per table and 50 dollars for the bowling alley. That is the fee for these six months.
Fred Wheeler returned to St. Louis Wednesday and Chas. Wheeler will go there tomorrow and then they will pitch in to break their own record as expert shoe salesmen.
Misses Dot and Fern Pollitt will leave for St. Joseph, Missouri, tomorrow. They have positions in a large millinery establishment.
Edmunds and Griffith expect to move their barbershop into the room now used by Hargett & Bryan for their restaurant. The restaurant will soon be moved to the Forney building recently vacated by the Richardson Bros.’ grocery.
Mr. and Mrs. John Greer have given their children the cutest little Shetland pony ever seen here. The pony is black and very small, even for Shetland, and a nice harness and swell little cart make a combination that attracts lots of attention. The children now have three ponies.
We have heard of a good many cases of farmers losing cattle that had been turned into the cornfield. According to our Canada correspondent, the losses seem to have been especially heavy in that vicinity. Al Nienstedt, who lives six miles northwest of town, reported yesterday that he has just lost a fine young bull that had been turned into the cornfield. The cause or causes of these deaths should be more fully understood so that further losses may be guarded against.
The writer dropped in at the Gazette office in Peabody the other day and found W.H. Morgan setting type, and evidently enjoying getting back for a while to the case. He is here on a visit from New Mexico where he owns and operates a fruit farm and couldn’t resist the call of the print shop.
Marriage Licenses
Jesse E. Davis and Ruby Mills, both of Plevna.
Fred A. Taylor, Marion, and Esther E. McCamm, Florence
Archie L. Bishop, Peabody, and Eva R. Olson, Junction City.
Earl Crites, Madison, and Ethel C. Shields, Lost Springs.