Yesteryears
25 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 16, 1978
Bennie Holtsclaw, well known country and western singer will be appearing on Kaleidoscope on KAKE television next Wednesday, Feb. 22. Be sure to watch.
The snow is not all that funny, but then nothing else seems to be funny right now either. Now that we have set a modern record for number of snowstorms in a single winter, and for a length of time the ground was covered with snow without one thawing off, maybe it's time to start bragging about it, rather than complaining. Did it occur to you that we have had more snow in Marion County this year, than in all of Colorado last year? Murphy's Law says that if anything can go wrong, it will. It does not always apply, of course. We could have had three feet of snow instead of six inches Sunday night. We could have had 10 below readings instead of just below freezing, and this could be November instead of February. At least now we can look forward to only about a month or so more of this weather, rather than a whole winter of it.
50 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 12, 1953
Folks all over the world can admire the spirit of the folks in Holland when, after losing over 1,000 of their citizens and with 1/6 of their land under water, they announced that they would never surrender an acre of their land to the sea. Theirs was the first flooded country to start reconstruction and with that spirit they should certainly succeed. Several communities in Kansas have started drives already to help these folks.
A display of Cub Scout work in honor of Boy Scout week is in the window of the Rath Variety Store this week. Mrs. O.W. Bruington and Mrs. Buster Huntley, den mothers, prepared the display which has created considerable favorable comment.
75 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 16, 1928
Colonel Charles Lindbergh's request that he carry the day's air mail once more on his old route from St. Louis to Chicago has been granted and he will make one more trip over his old flying mail route. He will carry the air mail next Monday, and will make the return trip, leaving for Chicago the following day at 5:50 a.m.
The Fred Adams family is quarantined on account of chickenpox. Junior and Leroy are recovering from the disease and Louise showed symptoms of coming down with it the first of the week.
106 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 12, 1897
Florence people get along better, and have less trouble, than the people of any other town in the state. It is due from the fact that the town has no lawyers.
