From The Files Of The June 13, 1957 Ellsworth Reporter.

OUTBOARD MOTOR

STOLEN

Paul Aylward is offering a one hundred dollar reward for the apprehension of the thief or thieves who stole an outboard motor from his boat at Lake Kanopolis the middle of last week.

Aylward had used the boat on Sunday, and as he didn’t go out to the Lake again until Thursday, is not definitely known exactly when the motor disappeared, but the time has been set at either last Tuesday or Wednesday.

Description of the motor is given as a 1956 h.p. Javelin DeLuxe Model Johnson Outboard, model No. RJE-18E, Motor No. 1415043. Color Holiday Bronze, trimmed in white, green accessory steering handle. A reward of $100 is being offered for information leading to the apprehension of the thief or thieves.

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SCHOOL ELECTION

A QUIET AFFAIR

The annual school election of District 1 was on the very quiet side, with only twenty-one interested citizens attending in addition to the officials and board members.

Two vacancies appeared on the board this year, and Cecil Grubb and Dr. Dick O’Donnell were reelected for three-year terms to succeed themselves. Other members of the board are Lloyd Grothusen, Mrs. Amalia Sommers and Vinc Wison. Also re-elected were Grothusen as director, O’Donnell as clerk, and Wilson as treasurer.

In the submission of reports for the past year both the clerk’s and treasurer’s reports were approved; and the proposed general and special transfer funds were adopted. Will Holt and Roy Swalley were appointed as the auditing committee, which will present their audit report for publication.

Printed copies of reports by the clerk were given to those attending the meeting.

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NICKLE CAN BUY —

In this day a nickle won’t buy much, but last Sunday a lot of nickels “bought” a trio trouble, and for a time looked as if it was going to be even worse.

Sunday noon a trio, two boys, 22 and 25 years of age, and a girl, 22, stopped at Charlotte’s Cafe to eat, and also to fill up with gas. They paid the total sum of the bill with nickels, which aroused Mrs. Bohl’s suspicion of the group, and she notified the Highway Patrol, who in turn radioed Sheriff Zavesky [who] gave chase, and enroute radioed the Russell county sheriff for assistance.

When the trio was apprehended about a mile over the Russell county line a search of the car brought forth nickels to the amount of $103, wrapped in bankers wrappers, hidden under the front seat; in the glove department the authorities found a couple of prying bars. In the back trunk were two full boxes of coin wrappers, each box holding enough wrappers to wrap $5,000 worth of coins. One box held wrappers for nickels and one for dimes. The FBI was called in on the case and after close questioning of the trio at the Ellsworth county jail were released. However, the authorities telephoned to Callipois Ohio, for confirmation of the address of the group; the police were acquainted with the trio, but had nothing definite on them. Enroute from Ohio, the group had spent $300 in dimes.

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THEY TASTED

THE EVIDENCE

The liquor trial last week in Ellsworth county court, in which Salina teenagers were involved, brought forth memories for some of the old-timers of another liquor case years ago, during the prohibition days, when raids on private homes within the county were not uncommon, a good many of the raids yielding a good supply of evidence.

Such one case came before the jury, and the bottle of “spirits” was presented to the judge, with the jury being summoned in on the case. When the case came up, the attorneys took a sip to make sure the contents were what they were charged as being. The bottle was passed to the judge, who also took a sip to pass better judgement on the case. The witnesses were then “asked” to verify the charge that it really was whiskey which the bootlegger was selling under the counter. Then, as the story was reported to us, the bottle had to be passed around again to give further evidence to proof of the charge. All this time the jury members were licking their lips with strong hopes that they, too, would be asked to sample the contents of the bottle, but by the time the bottle made the second round, the contents had been emptied, and the jury was dismissed on the grounds of lack of evidence and without even a sip.

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THERE’S ONLY ONE

FAMOUS COW

For some 350 years now cows have been part of the American economy, nurturing generation after generation of people. But there is only one really famous cow in our history that is famous for her infamy.

It was back in 1871 that a cow, very likely a scrub cow at that, kicked over a lantern carelessly left in the barn of one Mrs. O’Leary in Chicago and started a fire that almost eliminated that city. But forgetting this tragedy, which wasn’t the cow’s fault anyway, if ever an animal deserved a monument, the cow does, for she had done as much for mankind as any beast ever found anywhere.

History records that the first cows arrived in North America with the Vikings and the Spanish, but the dairy cow became a permanent part of our history when a group of Englishmen founded the Jamestown colony in 1607. The early settlers at Jamestown and other colonies learned in a hurry that cows were important to their survival, and they didn’t waste much rime in getting their cows over here.

During June Dairy Month this year the dairy industry is commemorating its 350th anniversary. An industry which started with a few cows at Jamestown, today reaches into every part of our everyday life. Behind the bottle of milk or the piece of cheese in your refrigerator right now is one of the biggest industries in the nation, using the products of untold factories.

After the colonies were settled and the westward trek began families riding in covered wagons took their cows along. Through our early history as a nation the bow was perhaps the most important animal we had. Today many city youngsters seldom see cows, and there have been a few cities which put cows in their zoos.

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MISCHIEF ON RAMPAGE

Last weekend was marked by various forms of destruction to motor vehicles. Sunday night, the license plate was torn from off the Frank Urbanek pickup truck which was parked in front of his home on 506 N. Douglas.

One day last week a thief or thieves attempted to syphon the gas from Milas Doubrava’s tractor which was parked in his field. When it was discovered that the tractor was propelled with diesel fuel, the fuel was drained out on the ground, and all the lights on the vehicle were ripped off.

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YOUNG FOLKS ON TOUR

A group of the Westminister Fellowship class of the Ellsworth Presbyterian church left Monday on a week’s tour of New Mexico where they will visit missions at Las Vegas, Santa Fe, and Taos. Members making the tour include Bobby Blackburn, Ivan Kanak, Jay Buehler, Bruce Engle, Karen Smischny, Sue Erway, Nancy Gwinner, Pat Novak, and Leo Bircher and Karen Jandos, Kanopolis. They are accompanied by Rev. Haydn White and Mrs. Kermit Engle.

The historic items on this page appear as they did in the original publication.