The Way It Was

100 years ago:

Sheriff Adkinson to arrest Ed Estill

Sheriff H.A. Adkinson arrived here last night and left on the first train for New London, taking with him Ed Estill, who was arrested here by chief of police Janes.

Estill is wanted at New London for stabbing a negro man and is also charged with forging a check for $4.

75 years ago:

Estimates given on crops of state

Farmers of Vernon County, after deducting loss of wheat from winter and adverse spring weather, estimate the wheat harvest against the assessor listing last year of 23,700 acres as 26,570 acres ... Our farmers put the local May condition of wheat as 60 percent normal; oats, 64 percent; hay 49 percent; potatoes, 75 percent; pastures, 56 percent; apple bloom, 51 percent; and say that 80 percent of the 1930 corn crop was planted at the first of May.

50 years ago:

Post Office Cleanup Week May 16 to 21

Postmaster Bob Bell today announced that the week of May 16 through May 21 will be Post Office Cleanup Week nationally.

Locally, mailboxes will be cleaned and repaired where necessary, new posts will be installed where needed, and post offices cleaned generally.

In cooperation with the national program this year, rural box holders will be urged to place all rural mail boxes on the right side of the roads, in the line of travel of the rural carriers.

It has been found that many traffic hazards have arisen by rural carriers having to cross and recross highways and stop on the wrong side of the roads.