Days of Yore
10 years ago
april 24, 1997
A deceased, unidentified body was found April 15 at approximately 11:30 a.m. by Kansas Department of Transportation workers. The body was in a ditch two and one-half miles east of Peabody on U.S.-50. An autopsy performed April 15 determined the body to be a white female, 5'6" in height and weighing 130 pounds.
Frieda J.A. (Kottwitz) Everett died April 1, 1997, at Renton, Wash. She was confirmed in the Lutheran church in 1917. She was survived by a brother, Herbert Kottwitz of Peabody and a sister, Grace Dunn of Seneca.
Herbert Ernest Kottwitz, 86, died April 21, 1997, in Marion. He was baptized in 1914 in St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Peabody. He was married to Frances Kenard in 1938 by K. DeFreese. They had six children, two sons and four daughters.
25 years ago
April 8, 1982
The first of several senior citizens tours was the trip to Yoder and Hutchinson last Wednesday. Traveling in three cars and the senior center bus, a group of 24 drove to Yoder for lunch at the café, visits to the Koffee Haus and bakery, then on to Hutchinson for the Cosmosphere show.
Mrs. Dorothy Craig was hostess to a luncheon meeting of the History Club Friday, April 2, at her home. Mrs. Hazel McNeil was co-hostess. Fifteen members attended. Mrs. John Berns was a guest.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Slocombe and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Taylor were among those attending the Mennonite Central Committee relief sale in Hutchinson Saturday.
50 years ago
april 11, 1957
Thomas C. Hansen, 73-year-old retired farmer, was killed instantly when he was struck by a passenger train on the Santa Fe tracks just south of the grade school. The accident was seen by several people waiting at the depot two blocks away and by a number of children playing on the playground only a short distance from the tracks. Hansen's car was found stuck in the mud on the road south of the disposal plant a few blocks away. Apparently he had started to town to get help, walking up the track to avoid the muddy fields.
Wesley Bentz again stopped the pole vault field in Class B at the latest track meet entered, the Ottawa Relays, last Saturday. He placed first in the event and Rod Herbert placed fourth. Loren Hodel picked up a fifth in the high hurdles.
Mrs. Harold Johnson gave a surprise birthday party for her son, Fredrick, honoring his fifth birthday.
100 years ago
april 18, 1907
Little Vernon Harsh had a birthday Saturday and a crowd of his little boy friends helped him celebrate with a party Saturday afternoon. The little fellow had a royal good time.
David Bowers has been making much improvement in his farm home in East Branch, papering and painting and graining the woodwork, etc., and last Saturday as a surprise to his wife and young daughter Mabel, upon whom the mantle of housekeeper has fallen in the long invalidism of her mother, he took home from town a complete set of new parlor furniture and a fine kitchen cabinet.
A hard freeze Tuesday night killed off what fruit and vegetables had escaped the other cold spell. The freeze followed a day of rain, sleet, and snow. The moisture was badly needed as there had been very little for some time.
125 years ago
april 12, 1883
Children's photos made in one second, adults in 1-5 seconds — by the gelatine bromide process — at Mayes' gallery in Peabody.
The thanks for the school district are hereby tendered to Dr. J.M. Miller and Mr. Case for the liberal donation of trees for the ornamentation of the school grounds.
Charley Christ is at home this week. On Monday next he will commence teaching a spring term in the Weaver school house (District #40) where he taught last spring.
