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All information which appears here is attributed

to The Louisburg Herald.

100 years ago

From the February 27, 1913

Louisburg Herald

(Note: The embroidery club meets again!)

(Note: The proofreader did not catch the fact

that it is now 1913.)


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Claude Hendrix apparently pitched for the local

baseball team, the Louisburg Cubs prior to making

it in the Major Leagues and has an all-time rank

slightly ahead of KCs Charlie Liebrandt.

http://www.baseball-

reference.com/players/h/hendrcl01.shtml

Pharmacy school has become much more difficult

to enter and expensive to complete since the days

when Clem Weir and later, Win McElheny,

became pharmacists.

Doc Dickes stone house still stands, just west of

the intersection of 271st and Rockville, on the

south side of 271st.
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50 years ago

From the February 28, 1963

Louisburg Herald

Note: Ethel Bastian was Bob & Carol Grandons

and our landlady for quite a few years. Very nice

person. Never knew she was Anna Keefovers

sister until I saw this.


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Tornadoes

Louisburg has been fortunate to have thus far avoided a major hit by a tornado. Growing up in Louisburg, I

always heard that legend had it that an old Indian spell protected Louisburg and no tornado would ever hit

Louisburg. So did Editor Bob Reynolds, as he mentioned it in his Devils Column.

Rural resident Clarence Brocker would probably dispute that, having the misfortune of his farm suffering

tornado damage in both the 1960 and 1968 tornadoes.

Good Friday, April 15, 1960 (From the April 21, 1960 Louisburg Herald)


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May 15, 1968 (From the May 23, 1968 Louisburg Herald)

Eight years and one month after the 1960 Good Friday tornado, yet another one caused damage northeast

of Louisburg, tracing much of the same path.


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Neither of these tornadoes touched down inside the city limits of Louisburg proper, so the Indian myth was

still technically still true. But in 2011(?) a tornado DID touch down inside the city limits, uprooting some

trees in the cemetery and flipping a pickup truck over on K68 highway near the cemetery entrance.

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