The Way It Was

100 years ago:

Johnson sues MK & T.

Carl O. Johnson through attorneys Scott and Bowker has filed suit against the MK & T. for $410. He alleges that sparks from defendant's engine set fire to and burned over 30 acres of his meadows and also destroyed 14 tons of hay.

75 years ago:

Youth admits he broke into armory

Chief of Police R.B. Moore and Policemen McBratney and Long arrested Albert Armstrong and Moses Eversoll and they are being held in connection with the robbery of the Armory last Wednesday night. Armstrong is one of the boys arrested by Chief of Police Moore on a charge of stealing two five-gallon cans of gasoline and oil from the Standard Oil station near the freight house. After arresting Armstrong, Chief of Police Moore and Prosecuting Attorney Elliott "sweated" him for some time and finally the youth made a statement admitting entering the Armory and taking two .45-caliber Army pistols.

50 years ago:

Nevada eyed as Air Force site; decision may be delayed

Nevada may or may not be the site for an Air Force installation calling for an outlay of $400,000 in the next several months.

The Daily Mail learned today after running the gamut of Air Force and Corps of Engineers top brass.

Although there was some knowledge of the project known to a handful of Nevada civic leaders for several months, the matter did not come to the attention of the public until last night when Brig. Gen. W.E. Potter, Missouri River division engineer for the Corps of Engineers, said in an address to a meeting of the Kansas Contractors Association in Kansas City, Kan., that Nevada was among a number of communities in which installations would be constructed for the Air Force.