The Way It Was

100 years ago:

Cousley injured in rail yard accident

Sam B. Cousley, the night yard master who has his face severely bruised yesterday morning while at work is to be out today but he wears a bandage on his face as big as a bat. Mr. Cousley was on the board of the switch engine when the engine bumped into a string of box cars throwing

Cousley against the step on the front of the engine.

His face was badly bruised and several stitches had to be taken in his cheek. During Cousley's enforced idleness, George Farar will be night yardmaster.

75 years ago:

Fire on South Spring Street

The fire department was called to the home of Mrs. Mary E. Howard, 403 South Spring Street, at 10 o'clock Friday night to extinguish a fire that started in a shed. The building was a total loss.

The origin of the fire is unknown.

50 years ago:

Senior class play will be presented April 20

Opening night of the Senior Class Play, "George Washington Slept Here," is only one week away, April 20.

Clifford Haislip, speech and dramatics instructor will direct the play, and Carol Diehr will serve as student director.

"George Washington Slept Here" is a comedy which chronicles the tribulations of a family man who craves, and gets, a little place in the country to call his own.

The Fuller family, consisting of Newton, his wife Annabelle, and their daughter Madge, are hypnotized into taking over one of those windowless, waterless, almost roofless houses that dot the countryside.

-- Compiled by Nick Wright