The way it was

100 Years Ago -- January 9, 1904

ITEMS -- Rich Hill stomachs have been crowded of late from the oft and repeated banquets. Wednesday night a local lodge banqueted 300.

Thursday night, three lodges banqueted seven hundred-fifty and Friday another lodge followed with a banquet for two hundred. The week closed in that town with a blaze of red banquet lights and many overtaxed stomachs.

The Fraternal Union of America had a splendid growth during 1903 both in memberships and financially, being one of the best insurance orders in this county.

Persons desiring safe insurance at actual cost should see some of the Nevada members.

75 Years Ago -- January 9, 1929

UPDATE -- The regulation of automobile traffic, particularly rules for parking, has proved a difficult problem for all towns and cities. So varied are the actual conditions to be met that it is difficult to formulate a set of parking rules that will be fair to all concerned and at the same time promote safety and keep the traffic lanes open. Various regulations have been tried but no city seems to have really solved the problems. A special Committee of the Chamber of Commerce is going to tackle the problem.

50 Years Ago -- January 9, 1954

SPORTS -- For the third straight year, Maureen Connolly, the World's Tennis Queen, was chosen female athlete of the year for 1953 in the 23rd Annual Associated Press Year End Poll. Little Mo, who holds all the world's major tennis titles and leads the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association rankings for the third consecutive year in 1953 ran up a heavy margin in a nationwide poll of sports writers and sportscasters. She beat out another famous San Diego athlete, channel swimmer Florence Chadwick, who had 21 first place votes. Connolly has said she plans one more year of big time tennis. Chadwick had four major channel conquests in five weeks last fall. She swam from England to France in fourteen hours and forty-two minutes.

SULPHUR SPRINGS -- The Rev. Dennis Hale delivered the sermons here both Sunday morning and evening. The Sulphur Springs Church will hold an ordination service Thursday evening at the Union Hall Baptist Church. Three deacons, Frank Shumaker, Eugene Collins and John Goff will be ordained. Family night will be held Wednesday evenings with all the auxiliaries holding meetings.