The way it was

100 Years Ago -- December 5, 1903

A new rule has been adopted. Recorder Ewing has adopted the rule laid down by the law charging not only the dollar for the license but also fifty cents for "swearing" the parties who wish to obtain a marriage license.

This "swearing" comes before the marriage and costs you only 50 cents.

After marriage if any swearing comes it is because you have already paid a larger sum or are about to do so. The new rule applies to only those whom the recorder does not know or those whose years are not evidenced by looks.

75 Years Ago -- December 5, 1928

NORTHEAST BADGER AND VICINITY- Ben Shrewsbury of Nevada was in this locality on Wednesday, Nov. 28.

Badger School closed on Wednesday, Nov. 28, for the remainder of the week. There was no school on Monday, Dec. 3, on account of the shortage of fuel.

Miss Virginia McGinly visited in Nevada last week. Dr. Burns, a veterinarian of Nevada, was called to the Drake Farm Saturday evening. W.M. Coats and son John, were in Walker Saturday. George Fry, formerly of this vicinity but recently of Oklahoma, visited at the C.C. Hoover home last week.

50 Years Ago -- December 5, 1953

A search for gold thought to have been cached in East Arkansas by badman Jesse James will be resumed next week, thanks to a wealthy Oklahoman's flair for buried treasures. Herb Lipps, owner of a vast dairy ranch near Enid yesterday wired $500 to finance more digging into a bank of the Black River near Corning, Ark., and advised that more money is available if needed.

There's a legend that James' gang dropped a chest of gold from a Missouri holdup into the river when a posse got too close for comfort. Thirteen men succeeded in finding a chest at that spot in 1926 but dropped it just as they got it to the surface.

This year George Emerson of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, said he located the gold with a divining rod. He and five East Arkansas sawmill workers began digging. They, weeks ago, reported touching something with a long metal rod about thirty feet below ground level. Then their hole caved in and they ran out of money so they discontinued the search.

Lipps told them by long distance telephone, "I've always been interested in things like this. I've also negotiated a gold hunt in Texas and a hunt for silver in Mexico."