From the files of The Ellsworth Reporter
From the files of the November 7, 1991 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter.
139 YEARS AGO
November 10, 1881
We are having such beautiful fall weather that everyone feels glad that they live in sunny Kansas.
We have received a large stock of visiting cards of the latest styles. Call and see them and leave your order.
L. Sampson and daughter, Sarah, called on Saturday evening last to witness our power press in operation.
H.H. Olsen of Venango, called last week, and informed us that his wheat and corn crops had turned out exceedingly well, and that Kansas was a good enough country for him.
I.W. Phelps has received five loads of potatoes.
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129 YEARS AGO
November 12, 1891
Henry Trump and family, of Thomas, have been in Ellsworth lately.
Mrs. Darrell and family will move over the Bank’s store on Douglas Ave. to live.
Mr. James Gillespie will move his family to town and he and a daughter will go to Montana for the winter.
Attorney L.H. Seaver has had his office painted and papered, which improves the looks of it very much.
Fred Schwerdtfeger’s daughter, Ida, will be married tomorrow to Reinholt Hass. They will be married at the Oak Creek German church by Rev. Overmove.
Sunday was a dark blustering day with rain and sleet, but Monday was as nice as could be wished. The farmers and threshers are crowding their work for all it’s worth.
Miss Edith Markell is now the owner of her father’s store, and will in a few days take charge and put in a stock of candies and notions. Mr. Markell, her father will about the 13th leave for Leavenworth for medical treatment, and we trust he will be benefitted.
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104 YEARS AGO
November 9, 1916
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Peterman announce the engagement of their daughter, Louisa Augusta, to Mr. Max Welk of Alma, Kansas.
A surprise party was given for Robert Tanton at his home north of Ellsworth last Saturday evening by twenty-four of his friends. The evening was spent in playing games and having a general good time.
For sale — Bronze turkey gobblers: sire weighs 50 lbs.; $4 if taken now. Also gray Toulouse geese, $2.50 a pair. Inquire Mrs. Will Hughes.
Wheat per bushel, $1.80. Ellsworth Mill & Elevator Company.
1917 Grant Six, $825. For sale at Golden Belt Garage.
The Republican state ticket has been elected by forty to sixty thousand plurality over the Democrats. The legislature is safely Republican and several districts still in doubt.
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79 YEARS AGO
October 30, 1941
Just a few years ago Kansas was praying for rain — now it wants someone to shut off the spigot.
It has been rain, rain, rain all year long. Since May scarcely a week has gone by without some river going out of its banks. Last week virtually every stream in central Kansas flooded.
Soap is added to most automobile greases to give them the oiliness and stating power which they do not possess naturally.
Lake Nicaragua, in the country of that name, is the only lake in the world with fresh-water sharks.
Miss Bertha Mae Schneider started work last week at the Sherriff drug store.
Enjoy a turkey dinner at Sherriff ’s Soda Lunch Department Saturday noon, only 20 cents.
Values in new merchandise — Lamp shades, 10 to 75 cents; table oil cloth, yard, 35 cents; paper window shades, 10 to 15 cents; 1 qt. furniture polish, 25 cents; 9x12 felt base rugs, $4.95. — Dryden’s Hardware and Furniture.
Alvin Henry Wamhoff of Holyrood was accepted for enlistment in the U.S. Navy at the Kansas City, Mo., recruiting station last week.
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54 YEARS AGO
November 10, 1966
Ellsworth County voters followed the trend in electing Robert Docking as Governor of Kansas. Docking out-polled Avery by 354 votes.
Joseph G. Torrez has been appointed psychiatric social worker for the Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina. Mrs. Nenetah Ryden, Ellsworth County Welfare Director, announced this week.
Ellsworth Veterinarian, Edward F. Ptacek, escaped serious injury when his pickup overturned on a county road about 8 miles north of Ellsworth, according to Highway Patrol Troopers Wedermyer and Dowdell.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bruning were guests of honor at a basket dinner Sunday at St. Paul’s School basement. The occasion was the Golden Wedding of the Brunings which was Nov. 8.
Camaro Sport Coupe, $2,466 — Larsen Chevrolet Co., Inc.
Ohse all meat wieners, lb. 49 cents; Winchester picnic hams, lb. 35 cents; Gerbers strained baby food 4 1/2 oz. jar; 9 for 99 cents; ice cream 1/2 gal., all flavors, 55 cents; Tescott cheese, lb. 63 cents. — Mr. AG.
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39 YEARS AGO
November 5, 1981
“It’s a dream come true!” Thousands of hours of donated labor combined with financial contributions went into the completely renovated historic building on Ellsworth’s North East Main Street — the new home of Ellsworth County Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6485. Members moved the last of the post’s belongings to the new headquarters last Saturday afternoon.
Brach’s chocolate covered peanuts or peanut clusters, 12 oz. size, $1.39; Contact capsules, package 20, $2.69; Luden’s cough drops, bag of 35, 49 cents; Crest toothpaste, 6.4 oz. $1.37. — Seitz Drug.
Last week Steph Zavesky and Jan Carlson brought home Ellsworth High School’s first ever state championship trophy in tennis competition from the 4A State Tennis Championship at Nickerson.
Ellsworth High School debaters went trick or treating last Saturday and bagged a first place trophy at the Rock City Invitational Debate Tournament at Minneapolis. The two teams of Damon Slechta and George Tompking and Sherri Wheeler and Mark Meyer both complied 4-1 records at Minneapolis.
The historic items on this page appear as they did in the original publication.