Days of Yore
10 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 5, 1996
Sunny Levy will present an informational "show and tell" performance at the Carnegie Library Dec. 7 and 8. Levy entitles her presentation "Judaism in Everyday Living" and she will incorporate symbols of the Jewish traditions.
Bob Clark of Peabody died Friday at his home of an apparent heart attack. Clark was 66 years old.
Jack and Betty Sebree will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 14, at the Peabody United Methodist Church. Frederick S. Sebree and Elizabeth Anne Hess were married Dec. 14, 1946, in the Baptist parsonage in Rising Sun, Ind.
25 years ago
November 26, 1981
Charley Moffett, longtime official on the West Coast, was one of those officiating in the Kansas City Chiefs-Seattle Seahawks NFL football game in Kansas City Sunday. Moffett is a former Peabody and Kansas University football star.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Richmond were hosts to the Down One Bridge Club Saturday night at their home on North Sycamore. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Walker were guests.
Career Women's Guild met Nov. 17 at the senior center for their buffet dinner and program. The program was presented by Mrs. L.D. Siegfried and Mrs. Hilda Baskins. Mrs. Siegfried entertained with a series of pop songs of past years. Mrs. Baskins read a variety of selections.
50 years ago
november 1956
The Sunflower Theater will go to a two nights a week basis for the present. Ted Sheahon will again take over management. Sheahon said Tuesday he has quite a number of top shows lined up for the next few weeks. He plans some extra shows during the Christmas holiday season.
Dinner guests on Thanksgiving Day of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Highfill, Jr. and Gary were Mr. and Mrs. Keith Freeburne and family, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Wray and Kevin of Wichita, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kline of Marion and Fred Highfill, Sr.
Warren Slocombe returned to Hays Sunday were he attends school and Ed Slocombe returned to Manhattan on Monday were he attends school. The boys had spent Thanksgiving with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Slocombe.
100 years ago
December 6, 1906
When in need of plants, fresh lettuce or cut flowers, remember Gowen's greenhouse. If you want to keep this business in Peabody it will be necessary to patronize it for all your needs in this line or I shall be compelled to seek a more renumerative location. It costs no more to purchase through me than through other sources, many times less, besides building a business that will be of great benefit to you in the future. Fred Gowan.
On Wednesday night, Nov. 28, the home of Mrs. C.W. Nusbaum northwest of Peabody, was the scene of a very pretty wedding when her youngest daughter, Grace Valeria Nusbaum, was united for life to Mr. Henry W. Jackson. After the ceremony and hearty congratulations of friends present, a two course wedding luncheon was served from the large table in the dinning room, supplemented by lunch tables in the other rooms. About 60 guests witnessed the ceremony.
Mrs. W.H. Morgan received a telegram yesterday announcing the death of her brother's baby, Dorothy Jones, who was here during the month of August, for treatment. Death came very suddenly and the telegram was the first intimation received of her illness. She was one year, two months and 14 days old. Her little twin sister was taken away last July.
125 years ago
December 1, 1881
Another attempt upon the life of the assassin Guiteau was made shortly after the adjournment of court on the sixth day of the trial. The prisoner was being convey back to jail in the prison van. As the van turned in to East Capital street, heading for the jail, a man on a wiry sorrel gelding dashed up to the side of the vehicle. "Oh, there you are, you son of a _____!," shouted the rider and discharged one shot from a revolver through the side of the van at Guiteau. The real shooter escaped. Guiteau was pitiable plight. Already he had suffered a hundred deaths from Abject terror. His grazed left wrist was slightly grazed but bleeding freely. His terror had produced a spontaneous movement of the bowels and presented a disgusting appearance.
Alex Wenger and Hannah Hornberger were married last Sunday and had a grand wedding dinner, at the residence of the bride's parents north of the city.
It is against the law to shoot prairie chickens after today, Dec. 1.
The Goodrich ice house is going up whenever the weather permits of stone laying.
