The Way It Was

100 years ago:

Railroad mass meeting tonight

The Railroad Committee appointed to confer with the President of the Kansas City, Nevada and Springfield Railroad held a meeting last night and are now ready to report. The committee urges every citizen interested in the welfare of the city of Nevada to meet with them at the Commercial Club room tonight at 8 sharp.

The committee has secured from the Kansas City, Nevada and Springfield Railroad Company the best proposition ever submitted to the people of Nevada.

75 years ago:

Butler gains only three in population

The population of Butler as ascertained by the 1930 census just completed, is 2,705, according to a telegram received Wednesday by Postmaster C.H. McNay from Hon. R.J. Grover, district census supervisor.

The figure shows a gain of three in population over the 1920 census, that enumeration giving Butler a population of 2,702, says the Butler Times.

50 years ago:

Horse back in the limelight

In the Vernon County-Nevada Centennial Year, the horse has definitely come back into his own in these parts. On weekends. most of the emergency cases at Nevada Hospital are the result of automobile accidents; but this weekend things were a bit different.

George Ebbs, Nevada abstracter, was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning for treatment of injuries to his head and shoulders after falling from a horse-drawn buggy. He was dismissed after treatment.

Donald E. Marshall, 25, El Dorado Springs, was admitted to the hospital yesterday for treatment of a fractured arm suffered in a fall from a horse he was riding. Marshall was kept in the hospital for further treatment of the damaged arm.