Sells & Downs Circus arrives in Nevada

The big Sells & Downs circus arrived here early this morning on two long trains over the Missouri Pacific from Butler where the circus drew an immense crowd Monday. The work of unloading the show was witnessed by many people and the big crowd of small boys was well entertained.

Unloading is one of the features of such an immense combination and the small boy is simply in his glory when he can sit on a box car and see the elephant.

75 years ago:

Man stabbed in the neck but not dangerously injured

City Physician Dr. Todd was called to the Janes boarding house on East Cherry Street shortly after 11 o'clock this morning, where he found a man named Ray Stevens, who had an ugly knife wound in his neck.

After removing the man to the Amerman Hospital, where he was attended, it was said the wound in Steven's neck was not believed to be a dangerous one. Dr. Todd informed Chief of Police Moore about the case and the latter made an investigation and soon convinced himself that Steven's wound was inflicted by his wife; however, she did not admit to the officer that she stabbed her husband.

At first Steven's claimed a man he did not know had stabbed him but would recognize if he saw him; however, later he told Chief of Police Moore he knocked his wife down and that she stabbed him.

50 years ago:

Rushton killed as car hits a bridge

The Labor Day holiday weekend started off on a tragic note in Vernon County when a young airman, who was based in Mississippi, was killed at the Marmaton bridge north of Nevada on Highway 71 while enroute to his home in Independence, Mo., on furlough.

According to Sgt. Tom Loy of the Highway Patrol, who investigated the accident, Airman Roy Frederick Rushton Jr., 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Rushton, of Independence, was killed outright at 7:08 a.m., Saturday, when the car he was driving went out of control and crashed into the left side of the bridge.

-- Compiled by Nick Wright