News items from 100...50...25 years ago

[SoCalDem]

Googling my home town and found this.. click on any date on the calendar at the right.. Some of these articles are hysterical..

gypsies...hunting accident involving plow horse.. 18 yr old kid building a steamboat & giving river rides..

how the times have changed


http://www.ebclink.com/SHM/Archive/August02/081002.shtml

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Trousers on fire?!?!?! OMG! ROFL

A 13-year-old Lucas boy working at a gas station was burned when his gasoline soaked trousers were ignited by a customer’s cigarette.

Bless his pea-pickin' heart! :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

2. “Fall 2 Pc. Pant Suits, Misses’ sizes, $8.44

Kresges was a horrible place to buy clothes.. (a precursor to KMart)


25 Years Ago Today...

The Cheyenne United Methodist Church in Luray was set to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The church “had gone from sod to wood to brick” and changed names several times over the century.

“Fall 2 Pc. Pant Suits, Misses’ sizes, $8.44, Queen sizes, $9.44. Large assortment of pretty fall colors.” (Advertisement for Kresge’s)

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Yup...times have changed!

50 Years Ago Today...

5,000 people packed into agricultural hall for the annual Scout Circus. 1500 scouts from all around the area kept the crowd “in stitches with their hoop and holler antics.”

Spring cleaning week began and extra trash trucks were scheduled for pickups for “any housewife bent on giving her house a scouring.”

25 Years Ago Today...

A downtown Salina liquor store was victimized twice by a man who left 55 cents on the counter to pay for a $1.75 bottle of wine. The man made threatening gestures to the clerk when he tried to stop him.

A 19-year-old Salina man was taken into protective custody when he decided to sit down in the middle of Santa Fe after a drinking bout with a friend.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. This poor family! Mutiple Lightning Strikes!

Lightning struck thrice at the home of a Gypsum family, this time setting fire to an organ in the living room. It was their third strike in the past 5 weeks. The first bolt killed four dairy cows.

:rofl:

Clicking on the dates is fun :rofl: SOOOOOO much news! :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

4. I found the main page link..Many more entries

I love looking at what was newsworthy in times past.. espcially with what we have now :eyes:

The fact that it's my home town makes it mroe interesting too since i remeber some of the places they speak of..



http://www.ebclink.com/SHM/

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. *WoW* Real "Skeery" Law Enforcement way back when!

A prisoner was still at large after walking out of the Saline county jail. The jailer was awakened by the smell of smoke when the escaping prisoner stopped to light a cigarette on his way out the door.

A man who pleaded guilty to burglary escaped momentarily from the custody of the sheriff. However, Deputy Sheriff Moyers recaptured him a few minutes later after pulling his gun and “scaring the prisoner into surrendering.”

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

6. Beach Boys "Bad Vibrations"??

February 16
100 years ago today

“A wedding present passed through Salina this morning for Miss Alice Roosevelt and will reach Washington about tomorrow evening. The present consisted of two brooms neatly tied together with white satin ribbons. They came up from Lindsborg on the morning train and were sent out on the Union pacific at 11 o’clock.”

50 years ago today

“A thick layer of mist and fog moved into Salina Wednesday night as the vanguard of a new cold wave.”

25 years ago today

At Monday night's Beach Boys concert in the Bicentennial Center, some of the two-by-four ceiling tiles over the concourse gave way. The collapse was probably caused by vibrations when the crowd in the upper sections began stomping with their feet in time with the music. The Center director said the collapse may have been a cumulative effect from past concerts. Observers noted that Monday's crowd was particularly active.

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. ROFLMAO

These are real news gems!