Yesteryears
25 Years Ago
June 8, 1978
Editorial — "Towns are always alive when they start. They come into the world like a bawling infant; they insist on making a noise. It's after they live a while that the dying begins. The real test is not how a town starts but what it is doing to keep alive! If a town is dead, nine of 10 times its citizens killed it — and then moved away. If there is anything wrong with Florence, consider whether you haven't been trying to draw the town in a hole after you. Come in the open and get into the stand-up-and-knock-down fight for your home town. This was originally written on April 19, 1917, in the Florence Bulletin. It was written some 61 years ago, but how true it is today."
There's another new business in town. The "Dari-Corner" is located at the corner of Main and Fifth streets. Marvin and Shirley Hinde, owners, would like to invite everyone to their grand opening this Friday. There will be a drawing for five prizes in the evening with specials throughout the day.
50 Years Ago
June 11, 1953
The high school band, under the direction of Glenn Peak, will present a concert Saturday night of this week at 7:30 p.m. on the city lots just south of the Horner Hotel. Concerts will be given throughout the summer every other week.
Showing this week at the Mayflower Theatre is "Gunsmoke" with Audie Murphy, "Because of You" with Loretta Young, "Golden Hawk" with Rhonda Fleming and "Old Overland Trail" and "Star Dust and Sweet Music" with Rex Allen.
75 Years Ago
June 7, 1928
We are reminded of the time our deceased friend, Frank Ireland, came to the Bulletin office for some sale bills and asked the price, and we said so much for the first hundred and gave him the additional hundred price which, of course, was much less than the first hundred cost. Mr. Ireland told us to keep the first hundred and that he would take the second hundred.
A dog recently testified for itself and its master in court. The owner swore that he had been wantonly attacked by a man who declared that the dog should be chained up when it started frisking around the assailant. The case turned on whether the dog was vicious or merely playing, and throughout the hearing the dog sat quietly at the clerk's desk or licked the hand of anyone who approached. The judge decided that the assault had been unprovoked.
106 Years Ago
June 11, 1897
Joseph Richardson died in New York today. He made his fortune in railroad building and was closely associated with the Vanderbilts. He came as a poor boy from England, and leaves an estimated $20,000,000. He dressed more like a tramp than a wealthy man and lived and died in a house only five feet wide. It was built because the surrounding property owners refused to meet Mr. Richardson's terms for the narrow lot.
Jerome Smeathers of Owensboro, Ky., his wife and seven children were poisoned at Yelvington, with Paris green. The poison was on a shelf,mice cut the paper, the contents sifting into a bucket of water below. One child is reported dead, two dying, none may recover.
