110 YEARS AGO

JAN. 6, 1916

Clyde Loveless and Will Kieferle are in St. Joseph this week assisting in the selection of a new stock for a store that will open about the first of February in rooms vacated by the Loveless establishment.

Orlan Carroll, who lives 5 miles southwest of town, was accidentally shot through the leg the first of the week and is now a patient in the hospital here. He is getting along nicely.

Bertha Willey and Wm. Carr were married at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Christian parsonage by pastor I.A. Wilson and left in the afternoon for their new home at Lakin.

The grocery department of the Grand Mercantile Co. has been moved into a room adjoining on the east, and inside connection has been made between the rooms. Shoe stock is being moved into quarters vacated by the grocery department, and the men’s furnishings department will receive additional space.

From the jail report made by Sheriff Mansfield for the past year, it appears that there were 88 persons in the jail during the year, of which 77 were men or boys and 11 women or girls. There were 52 Americans, 11 Germans, 12 Negroes, 5 Mexicans, 4 Poles, 1 Irishman, 2 Danes, and 1 Italian. Twelve were in on charges of vagrancy, 8 for gambling, 7 for petit larceny, 5 for grand larceny, 8 for drunkenness, 5 for wife desertion, and 5 for violating prohibitory law.