100 years ago
october 13, 1910
Forty years young
The Record completes this week its fortieth year and next week’s issue will be Vol. XLI, Number 1. The life of this town and county from the days when they first began to shake off the earliest pioneer conditions is recorded in its files. It has seen the open prairie fight its losing battle with the advancing tide of civilization and culture. It has seen the alchemy of calloused palm and open mind, of toil and faith and conquering spirit transform a raw country into one of the most prosperous and best counties in the state—or in the United States, to be bluntly truthful. Life has gone on apace and the folks in this old town and this good country have been mighty kind to the Record. With good will and coin of the realm, with corn cobs and cord wood they have helped the Record struggle up with other folks—struggle up from a little back room where one man did all the writing’ and typesettin’ and devilin’—and bunked in the corner when the day’s work was done about midnight—to one of the best country printing plants in Kansas, a newspaper home unequalled in Kansas in a town twice the size. Tried to be modest, or would have made that a good deal stronger.
And the Record is still but a youngster and frisky as a two-year-old.
The gang at work on the ditch west of the Rock Island have been putting in good work the past week. A bridge is now built across the ditch on Main street so that wagon travel is no longer hindered.
Gottfred Reisig of the Strassburg community had quite a run away last Saturday. He had his horses hitched to a disc drill and a wagon tied on behind. While picking melons those animals became frightened and started to run. They came through the yard and dashed up against the kitchen, damaging it quite badly. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
The German Lutherans at Lincolnville dedicated their new school house last Sunday. They have a fine building and have hired another teacher to help in the work.
Editor George Morgan was over from Peabody on Monday. He looked over the Record’s new home and pronounced it “fine.” Said that the print shop was the best lighted of any he’s seen.
The Baptist church is undergoing considerable repairing and improving and on that account no church services were held there last Sunday.
Mr. T.W. Butcher is completing an addition on the northwest of his residence—the new room to be used as a kitchen.
S.D. Pollitt of the firm of Pollitt & Kleinhammer went to Burns on Wednesday to put in two more heating plants.
Frederick Trapp and A.A. Pickerel, Scully land agents from Lincoln, Illinois, were here from Saturday to Tuesday.