125 years ago

june 25, 1891

If you want the best machine to handle flax, see the Deering light reaper at Irwin Bros.

Mrs. Truax and little son of Newton spent the day with Miss Emma Bauslin yesterday.

Something being the matter with the water pipe leading to the library fountain, Superintendent W.K. Palmer opened the pipe and found a mass of roots, some 10 to 12 feet long and round like a rope. They were from a cottonwood tree nearby.