The Way It Was

100 years ago

Get a license or don't hunt

After reading the article in the Thursday's issue of the Daily Mail relative to the new game law, Prosecuting Attorney J.H. Moss informed the representative of this paper that all hunters in Vernon County must secure license before hunting. The licenses issued during the past few months all expired on Jan. 1, and as the St. Louis Court of Appeals has sustained the law there is no question at this time but what the hunter must secure a license.

Should any man be arrested now for hunting without a license the lower courts would of course follow the ruling of the St. Louis Court of Appeals and declare the new game law valid. The opinion handed down by Judge Bland was concurred in by all judges of the St. Louis court of appeals.

50 years ago

Two teens arrested in stolen car

Highway Patrolman Howard Delcour, with the assistance of Nevada Policeman Walter Ketterman and Stanley Brittingham, last night arrested two Kansas City teenagers, Jack Edward Scogin, 15, and Granvel Troy Sparks, 16, in a stolen car at the junctions of Highways 71 and 54.

Patrolman Delcour said the boys were arrested at 8:45 p.m., in a 1949 Chevrolet stolen from Earl Evans of Rich Hill. The boys were taken to the police station and detained until the Bates County sheriff came and picked them up and returned them to Butler to face car theft charges.