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From the Past
All information which appears here is attributed to The
Louisburg Herald .
This issue is about events occurring in the years 1907 and
1934.
1907Many times I have heard people make fun of the format of
small-town newspapers, ridiculing the so and so
was an afternoon guest of so and so type of news item typically
found in them.
In 1907, Charles E. Hind was the editor of The Louisburg Herald
. The format he used was quite different;
there isn
t a single item of local news on the front page and not a great
deal of it on the inside pages.Whether this format was typical of
his predecessors is not known but Mr. Hind was the editor for only
oneyear. In 1908, the Herald was bought by one of its employees,
Adna White, who became one of the most
widely known and longest tenured Herald editors since its
founding in 1876.
August 22, 1907An announcement from Louisburg s four barbers
appears. Presenting a united front, James Overby, P.
J.(Phin)Hennigh, J. C. McGuirk and A. Williams announce they will
all charge extra for shaving the neck andwill close promptly at
8:00 o clock excepting Saturdays.
No fewer than nine fraternal organizations publish meeting
notices. Meeting places include the M.W.A.
(Woodmen) Hall, the K. P. Hall, the Odd Fellows Hall, and the
I.O.O. Hall.
Joe Dauwe advertises that he has returned to Louisburg and has
opened a shop known as Joe, the Tinner ,in the Simmons
building.
Upcoming Base-Ball (with the hyphen) games featuring the
Louisburg Athletics against La Cygne on August
25 th and the Commercial Nationals of Kansas City, KS, on Labor
Day, September 2 nd , are announced.
Attorney Frank M. Sheridan has an advertisement for legal
services. Mr. Sheridan would become knownlater as one of the
defense attorneys in the 1912 McElheny murder case.
Death notices include Lula (Cook) Stowers and George B.
Breckenridge. Both are buried in the Louisburgcemetery. Mr.
Breckenridge, age 37, was killed in a railroad accident between
Ottawa and Pomona.
(Note: The circumstances of his death, as told in the newspaper
article, leave a lot to be desired in the wayof credibility. It s
hard to imagine that a person could fall so soundly asleep that an
approaching steamlocomotive would not wake him up in time to move
out of its way. In fact, there may have been furtherinvestigations
into Mr. Breckenridge s death as his great-granddaughter was told
by her grandmother that
foul play may have been involved. I will have to see if I can
find more information about this.)
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May 24, 1934A local farmer, Bernard Alonzo (Barney) Morgan, 54,
was fatally injured when kicked in the abdomen by amule. (Note:
Barney was the husband of Zina Morgan, a neighbor of my parents who
lived in a small house
on the southeast corner of what is now S. Broadway and 8 th
Street. Eddie Perdue built a new house there.)
Coleman Wade Truitt, 41, a Louisburg pipeline welder and
painter, was killed when the scaffold he was usingto paint a 30 ft
tall gasoline tank collapsed. A fellow Louisburg man, Jim Stark,
was not injured.
As Memorial Day was near, a list of veterans buried in the local
cemeteries appears. (At least one name wasomitted my
great-grandfather Thomas Morgan, a Civil War veteran, buried in the
Cashman cemetery.)
