100 years ago
(From Hill and Valley)
HILL
The 08's are sporting new caps this week.
Plans are being made for the Hay Makers' Costumes.
Library showed signs of being house cleaned and floors were newly oiled this week.
Falling in has been practiced on the ice some this week but nothing very serious has happened.
Mrs. J.N. Rogers is assisting Miss Harris in drilling the pupils for the cantata.
A particularly interesting feature of the "Excelsiors" program last Friday was the debate on the subject "Resolved, the Woman's clubs are a menace to the Home." Affirmative, Elfie Dean and Myrtle Rice. Negative, Hazel Butcher and Ethel Reed.
The Zeniths will give a Literary program one week from next Friday afternoon.
Any number of pupils were out of school this week on account of sickness.
VALLEY
Mr. Howenshell, who is the author of the Grammar used in the public schools, made a talk to the seventh and eighth grades Tuesday afternoon.
The sixth, seventh and eighth grades are arranging for two basketball teams and are making up funds to purchase a fine ball and fixtures for the ground.
The Ne Pius Ultra Society will give a program tomorrow afternoon.
The eighth grade pupils had a sleighing party Tuesday evening.
Skating parties are occupying all the spare moments this week.
Ella Farmer and May Brewer visited the seventh and eighth grades Friday afternoon.
The seventh grade has taken up U.S. History in the place of Kansas History, which they completed before Christmas.
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The Marion Auditorium case was before the court all day Tuesday, but no decision on the merits of the case made. Mr. Fraser was continued in the management of the Auditorium until the case should be finally settled. Whether or not the case will be heard this term of court depends on whether the parties reach agreement by which it can be done.
The RECORD extends to Editor Morgan, of the Peabody Gazette, the deepest sympathy in the great sorrow that has just come to him — the death of the one whose companionship has blessed him for so many years. Mrs. Morgan was of a rare spirit, and her life was made useful by the exercise of splendid talent, and made beautiful by the fruitage of Christian graces. Her memory is a gracious influence among all who knew her.
Quite a serious accident occurred to Dr. Saylor of Ramona last Monday evening when he was going to see a patient about four miles from town. He started to cross the R.J. crossing about a mile and a half east of town when the buggy was about half way over it was struck by the "Golden State Limited" and the doctor was thrown out of the buggy for quite a distance. The buggy was considerably broken up, but the team was unhurt. Fortunately for the doctor he escaped with little injury. He was considerably bruised up and had one bone in one of his limbs broken.
An effort will probably be made to consolidate the religious forces of District 56 and Youngtown with the intention of building a church about midway between the two points.
What might have been a very disastrous fire at the Cottonwood Valley Mill last Saturday was averted by prompt action on the part of Ben Bell, who happened to be working on the floor where the fire started. The fire whistle blew and the hose cart was being taken to the mill, but the fire was extinguished and the hose cart stopped when it reached Freeland's establishment. Very little damage was done.
The following young people made up a "bob-sled party" Tuesday evening: Misses Vinnie Wible, Margaret Saggau, Ola Yost, Fae Paddock and Gertie Sheets and Carl Sheldon, Fred Coburn, Chas. Vaughn, Otto Schmersey and Leslie Bryan. They went to Mr. John Anderson's three miles west of town and enjoyed there an oyster supper.
The city council is discussing the proposition to buy a stone crusher for the use of the city. At their meeting Monday evening Mr. Finley Shanklin was appointed to investigate the matter thoroughly, to visit nearby places where crushers are in use and to make report at the next meeting of the council. The manufacturers of the crushers agree to pay all the expenses of such trip or trips.
Mr. Steve Winchester and Mr. Harry Beaston have been putting up ice this week. The former's ice house is on the Cottonwood, above the Cottonwood Valley Mill, and the latter's north of town, on the Luta. The ice is very fine — very clear, and seven or eight inches thick.
