The Way It Was

100 years ago:

School teachers elected for next term

The Nevada School Board met Saturday evening. All the members were present and the board elected the teachers for the next school term.

Professor W.Y. Foster of the high school asked the committee for an increase in salary of $15 per month and instructed the committee to hand in his resignation if the board refused the increase.

The board declined to grant the increase and Professor Foster's resignation was accepted.

75 years ago:

Missing Fort Scott banker is in jail

Fort Scott, Kan. -- Jail means more freedom to Paul McAfee than the wide open spaces now. He has been running the wide open spaces, including the hills and dale, prairie country and Ozark hills, for three weeks, since he left Fort Scott holding the sack for his ruined Peoples State Bank.

Sheriffs and constables have been after him. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning, Sheriff George Hessong of Fort Scot captured him in a shack on the edge of the Ozarks in eastern Oklahoma, near Flint.

"I'm tickled to death to be here," McAfee said in jail last night.

A lawyer already had seen him and told him not to talk, but he seemed ready to unburden himself. He had just shaved, for the first time in weeks, and that made him feel 100 percent better.

He wore dirty overalls and other unbankerish attire.

50 years ago:

Melodrama makes big hit with first nighters

For those with a touch of nostalgia in their hearts for the good old days, "Fashion" the tree-act comedy presented last night at Cottey College hit the entertainment jackpot.

The 19th century melodrama centers around Mrs. Tiffany, a former milliner newly rich, and her efforts to marry off her daughter, Seraphina, to a so-called French Count.

Tiffany, expertly portrayed by Elizabeth Bentley of Red Wing, Minn., fancies herself a social leader and brings her husband, played by Fargo Richardson, to the brink of bankruptcy before she realizes the error of her ways.