Friday, May 23, 2025
100 YEAR MAY 14, 1925
New Midland Trail field man, Mr. George Wylie of Clay Center, is on the job this week. He succeeds the late J.W. Hazelbaker. Mr. Wylie will make a short visit to all the “Trail Towns” between Kansas City and Denver. Mr. R.M. Sawhill, National Secretary of the trail: Wylie is a road booster with a lot of pep and all who know him predict he will do a good job… MARRIAGES: Miss Glenna Windhorst to Harry Heald, will live north of Wells. Mrs. Ella Mae Milligan, of Spicard, Mo., to Mr. Claude L. Fosdick, of Miltonvale, they expect to live in Miltonvale… The annual year book of MRHS “The purple and white,” the book is neatly made up and will serve as a reminder of events of the school year… BIRTHS: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bull have a girl… Chas. Chartier won over Joe Neill in horse shoes and is the Miltonvale Champion for the year… Miltonvale is more than holding its own this spring as the best produce market for its size in Kansas. More than $2,000 worth of cream, eggs and chickens were marketed here last Saturday…
75 YEAR MAY 11, 1950
Lioness Club elected officers. They are, President, Mrs. Walter Fessenden; Vice President, Mrs. Dean Owen; Secretary, Mrs. Arthur Lange; Treasurer, Mrs. Geo. Palmer and fine collector, Mrs. Jim Sharp… Miltonvale Track team wins Solomon Valley League track year. MRHS will graduate 18 this year… They are the champions this year… The new officers for FFA next year are, President Bob Wilkins, Vice President John Lee Tanzer, Treasurer Dennis Lyne, Secretary George Shoryer, Reporter Dean Catlin and Sentinel Paul Shannon… BIRTHS: Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cyr of Perry, Iowa, have a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Willard of Wichita have a son. Mr. and Mrs. Gwynn Lassey have a daughter…Wheat $2.09… BIRTHDAYS: Mrs. Frank Pacey… A tornado strikes in Cloud County Monday night at 9:15 in the area between Concordia and Miltonvale. There were no lives lost but several farms lost most of their outbuildings: they were Cletus Gibson, Robert Fyfe, N.J. LeDuc, Armond Castongay, Austin Brown and George Bisnett…
50 YEAR MAY 8, 1975
WEDDINGS: Patricia Rae Collen Birdsall to John Allan Schwenk… The Methodist parsonage is being reroofed… Ed Shannon has moved one of his barns… The Hadorn’s pole shed is finished across the road from Walter’s house… Lumber yard is putting up a new building… Mr. and Mrs. John G. Foster of Miltonvale toured the Northwest Kansas Area Vocational-Technical in Goodland, as part of the KTA members inspected the student housing complex that is currently under construction… ANNIVERSARIES: Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Balderson 60th… BIRTHS: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brumbaugh and John of Miltonvale have a son… The Assessors report for 1915, population of Miltonvale city as 1115 and Starr township 547. Also in 1915 , the wheat acres of wheat 8,002, corn at 1,076 acres and oats at 1515 acres. There are 832 horses and 242 mules…
25 YEAR MAY 11, 2000
Julie Lange is appointed as Postmaster for the City of Clyde… Michael Cote will graduate from KSU… BIRTHS: Martin and Heidi Dulohery have twins, one boy and one girl. Aaron and Jennifer Vesterberg have a boy… Kindergarten roundup had five kids show up… The greatest one-day, non-annexation population increase in the history of U.S. cities took place on April 22, 1889, when 10,000 settlers moved into Oklahoma City, Okla. … Moisture for the week .14… Education is—hanging around until you’ve caught on—ROBERT FROST…
