The Way It Was
100 years ago:
No removal of railway division
President W.F. Norman of the Nevada Business Men's Club is in receipt of a letter from General Manager A.W. Sullivan of the Missouri Pacific as regards the removal of the division from this city.
General Manager Sullivan's letter is dated at St. Louis the 8th, in which he says most explicitly: "I do not know of any intention on the part of this company to remove any of the divisions now terminating at your city to Carthage, Mo."
This is authentic and ought to settle it.
75 years ago:
House occupied by the Kinney family destroyed by fire
The house on East Atlantic avenue, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. James Kinney, caught fire early Monday morning and burned to the ground. Practically all of the household furniture and the clothing belonging to the family were lost. The fire department was called and responded but the house was outside of the city limits and not in reach of water connection. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is thought that the blaze started from defective wiring or from a stove.
50 years ago:
Low reading of 19 degrees from high 67
Nevada and Vernon County residents shivered last night and today in below freezing temperatures and had difficulty getting about as a thin sheet of ice, powdered with light snow, covered the area. The frigid temperatures and icy snow were being accompanied by a brisk wind adding to the discomfort of the cold snap.
Today's frigid weather was an abrupt change from yesterday's balmy atmosphere where the temperature climbed to a high reading of 67 and the populace was tricked by Mother Nature into thinking about golf games and gardens.