Days of Yore
10 years ago
MAY 23, 1996
Toby Levy of Peabody has earned a valuable scholarship competition at Kansas State University. The award is presented through the school of art and design and is worth $1,500 to the recipient.
Janet Sims of Hutchinson spent Saturday with her mother, Gladys Jewell.
Larry and Shirley McClure have arrived back home from a trip to Ireland. One of the highlights of the tour was Larry kissing the Blarney Stone.
25 years ago
MAY 21, 1981
Jamie Crawford graduated magna cum laude from Wichita State University on Sunday, May 17. She received a bachelor of arts degree in international studies.
Mrs. Alice Litton visited a daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Olin Kliewer, Pawhuska, Okla., through the Mother's Day weekend, returning home last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Albright, Stephanie, Amy, and Mike of Pretty Prairie were Sunday visitors of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Spangler.
50 years ago
MAY 24, 1956
Emil Dyck died in a Newton hospital last Saturday afternoon, an hour after he was critically injured in an explosion while doing welding work. He was welding a leak in a tanker used to haul oil for road construction at the Rhodes Construction Company yards. Dyck was 59 years old. He and Mrs. Dyck, the former Mary Rempel, were married in Marion in 1925.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Beeton and Janice, Mrs. Nora Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gilmer, and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Denny and children of Wichita enjoyed a picnic in the city park Sunday noon.
Hoyt Baker of Kansas City spent the weekend in the Paul Baker home.
100 years ago
MAY 23, 1906
A fishing party followed by a fish fry was the order of procedure at the Tibbins farm last week. The fishers were Mr. Tibbins and wife, John Benda and wife, Allen Fitch and wife, and Frank Jackson and wife. The size of the haul was only surpassed by the size of the yarns they told about it.
Supt. E.W. Stephens of the park board, says the park is now in fine shape for picnic parties — and as for baseball, the Hutchinson team which played here lately, said this is the best "diamond" they had seen in the state.
A very pleasant social affair was held at the home of Mrs. F.B. McKerscher Friday evening by the History Club. It was given in honor of Prof. Ross, whose lectures upon U.S. history have been the source of great pleasure and profit to the club. The two course supper was served in the dining room by Hazel Baker, Catherine Davison, and Henrietta Schroeder.
125 years ago
MAY 20, 1881
Miss Flora B. Eddy, one of our live teachers, is teaching her third term in Summit district.
The editor and his wife started, last Friday morning, for New Mexico, with the Arkansas Valley Editorial Association. Under the supposition that they might starve to death in that wild country, our folks took along a lunch — the best part of which was a huge cake, properly named "angel food." The editor writes that he likes to feed with the angels, and he votes 10,000 thanks to the donor, Mrs. Fred Bush, who is acknowledged the best cake maker in the city.
Henry Woolheater has some of the finest soda pop ever brought to this city. It is kept on ice, and makes a cool, refreshing drink.
