From the files of the Ellsworth Reporter
From the files of the October 3, 1991, edition of the Ellsworth Reporter.
138 YEARS AGO
October 6, 1881
The Court house and school house have been treated to inside window blinds — a long needed improvement and a good one.
John V. Boskirk, knowing that we wanted something good to eat, brought us a fine lot of large sweet potatoes last Saturday.
The heavy soaking rain this week has placed the ground in good condition for plowing. In this vicinity it soaked down to the bottom.
The Western Hardware Company had a beautiful stove on exhibition at the fair.
We are pleased to see Mr. A.C. Dodge on our streets again. We hope he will soon be restored to his former health.
A number of men can find steady employment on the railroad at good wages by applying to Charley Bell, of this city. He can be seen at the depot.
If you don’t see anything in this column worth reading, look through the other 35 columns.
George Dressler has our thanks for a large pumpkin.
The Everett & Foster mill of this city are manufacturing five car loads for the Penitentiary at Leavenworth.
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128 YEARS AGO
October 1, 1891
The Former Polly Sparks who went to Oregon and got married last year, was on Ellsworth streets again this week.
Another glorious rain fell last Friday and Saturday. Kansas seems to be specially favored for putting in the fall crops.
The boys have organized their band with 13 members, the name is to be Ellsworth Junior Band.
Mr. Herzig has a new delivery wagon.
A new ten foot walk from the Hodgded store room north this week. Marshal Schafer is also getting in a good deal of work.
James Young, ex-cattle king of Elm Creek, was up from Carneiro this week. He’s trying to work into the old business.
There is a prospect that a Catholic school may be established at Ellsworth very soon. The bishops are ordering this where there are 30 Catholic children of school age in a range of three miles from a church.
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102 YEARS AGO
October 5, 1917
Henry Peterson, Eben Fowler and Ray Buchanan of the Langley neighborhood were in Ellsworth last Saturday. They informed us that the well which is being drilled for oil at Marquette is down 700 feet, at which point a flow of gas was struck.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Hostetter of this city Tuesday, October 3.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Shade of this city at the hospital Monday, October 2.
L.T. Steele has purchased R.W. Bradshaw’s barber business and is now in charge. Mr. Bradshaw will remain in the shop for the time being.
H.O. Seitz is putting in a cement cellar under his residence at the head of Douglas avenue.
The $7 lady’s gold handled silk parasol which was given away at the Golden Belt Theater last Saturday afternoon at the matinee, was drawn by Mrs. T.E. Holt.
A. Sidney Chase, probate judge, has performed four hundred and ninety marriage ceremonies during the twenty-four years he has held that office. The Judge is serving his last term and will retire voluntarily from office on January 1st. He is anxious to perform an even five hundred ceremonies before his time is up, so if there are any couples contemplating the marriage rite, it behooves them to overcome their bashfulness and have the knot tied before the first of the year. This is Leap Year, the Judge ought to realize his ambition to marry five hundred couples before he retires.
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78 YEARS AGO
October 2, 1941
Ellsworth folks Wednesday enjoyed a sunshiny day after three days of rain and cloudy weather that was general throughout the state.
A Navy recruiting officer will be in Ellsworth next Thursday, October 9th, in the morning, according to word received from the U.S. Navy recruiting substation in Salina.
Reed’s Close-Out Sale – Hill’s Bros. coffee, lb. 30 cents; P & G white laundry soap, 10 bars 43 cents; Ivory, large size, 3 bars 26 cents; oatmeal, quick or regular, large pkg. 19 cents; Kix, 2 pkgs, 25 cents; navy beans, 10 lbs. 55 cents.
The Ellsworth Bearcats won their first football game of the season and their first game in the Central Prairie League last Friday night when they defeated the Lindsborg Vikings 39-0.
C. W. Roper and a crew of men from Geneseo are plastering the court room and adjacent small rooms leading into the court room. Mr. Roper’s contract price for the work is four hundred dollars.
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53 YEARS AGO
October 6, 1966
Harold Welk, EHS senior tackle, who was a factor in the Bearcats 26-14 win over Hoisington last Friday has been named the Topeka Capital’s Lineman of the Week.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Novak have moved to Ellsworth from Indianapolis, Ind. Roger assumed his duties Monday morning as manager of Novak’s IGA store replacing Don Snyder who has moved to Medicine Lodge.
Ellsworth population count, previously announced by Ellsworth County Assessors, is 2,513 as of January 1, 1966. The county population was 7,588 on the same date.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred I. Skalicky of Wilson celebrated their golden wedding anniversary September 25 at the Wilson Opera House.
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38 YEARS AGO
October 1, 1981
Ron Lloyd, a former owner of Ellsworth’s Smoky Hill Implement, has assumed sole ownership of the company.
Lloyd assumed ownership from Kerry Woods and Ermal Davis, and the company will be called Lloyd Implement.
With the steel jail cells torn out and all but one of its seven trees torn down, the old Ellsworth jail looks rather barren these days. The project to refit the jail with offices is ahead of schedule according to owner Rick Tramp of Ellsworth.
Playing virtually flawless volleyball, the KMS girls’ volleyball team stopped a fundamentally unprepared Delphos team 15-2, 15-7 Thursday, September 24, at Delphos.
The Quivira Heights High School Thunderbirds continued their winning streak last Friday with a 32-16 triumph over the previously unbeaten Pawnee Heights Tigers. The victory improved the T-birds record to 3-0 and the Tigers fell to 2-1.
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33 YEARS AGO
October 2, 1986
As mysteriously as it disappeared, a painting by Ellsworth artist Charles B. Rogers reappeared last Thursday at the governor’s mansion in Topeka.
The painting, which had been missing for nearly a year and a half, was placed between the screen door and the front door of Cedar Crest, according to Alden K. Shields, secretary of administration for Gov. John Carlin.
Gov. John Carlin will be in Ellsworth Tuesday for the ground-breaking ceremonies at the site of the Ellsworth Correctional Work Facility. Joining Carlin will be Richard Mills, secretary of corrections.
After fighting with Sylvan Grove early, Quivira Heights adjusted to a wide open Mustang offense and ran away with a 48-12 win.
The historic items on this page appear as they did in the original publication.