110 years ago

aug. 24, 1916

Repair work on the stone-arch bridge approach began last week. A wall will be built about eighty feet upstream and a “return” wall built to the bank

Seymour Packing expects to employ from 75 to 90 people.

Have you noticed how fine W. Main St. is looking these days? Lots of businesses are there, too. There’s a new garage, all dressed up, and the new packing plant looming up to the west, in addition to two big poultry houses, Freeland’s Veterinary hospital, two good blacksmith shops, and a big feed barn. Fine doin’s.

Topeka papers carried an item Tuesday to the effect that Louis Myers, one of the young men recently sent to the penitentiary for the killing of Marshal Healea, was permitted to go to Wichita, with a guard, to attend the funeral of his mother.

The story said that the mother died of a broken heart, having grieved continuously since that tragedy. All of which is not unlikely, for it is the old, old story of the innocent suffering for the guilty. But punishment cannot be withheld merely because the innocent will suffer, even though the innocent one be some devoted mother.

People are out today with petitions in connection with the movement for a new high school building.