110 years ago

feb. 3, 1916

Jerry Forney is getting ready to put in a garage at the Rink Livery corner. The building will be remodeled, a new roof put on, and a veneer of cement blocks put on the outside. A cement floor will be put down. A general repair business will be done, and the place is to be headquarters for the Gardner-Williamson automobile agency.

Twelve below zero last Monday night, but very quiet.

Harry Rogers will present a revival of the old-time masterpiece “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” with home talent Feb. 9. He says he has a Simon Legree that is the best you ever saw and “a lawyer Marks who has Chas. Chaplin backed off the map.”

The Loveless-Seneker store opened for business last Saturday, and old friends and new came to bring their greetings and their patronage. The regular clerks at present are Mrs. Anna Blackburn, Sam Frazer, Will Kieferle, Fred Oyer, and Georgia Wakefield. Others will help on certain days of the week.

Lots of folks here do not realize the magnitude of the egg and poultry business done here by the two produce houses. S.L. Brose of Jensen Produce Co. did a little figuring concerning egg shipments. His company shipped from here last year 57 cars of eggs — more than a car every week, for 8,298,000 eggs.