100 Years Ago

Thursday, October 25, 1923 Our county Court had a narrow escape from death or serious injury last Friday. The Court...

Thursday, October 20, 1923 A case of very considerable interest in a livestock country was the trial of Divers Sharp...

Thursday, October 11, 1923 S. L Brown, local observer, reports on the weather for the month of September as follows:...

Thursday, October 4, 1923 An editor, living at a distance, writes to know why I do not put headings to...

Thursday, September 27, 1923 It was announced last Sunday that the last service had been held in the old Methodist...

Thursday, September 20, 1923 Among the students off for college this week are Miss Genevieve Yeager, Miss Alice McClintic, Miss...

Thursday, September 16, 1948 H. Lee White was over at his old home in Crabbottom last week. On his return...

Thursday, September 6, 1923 COUNTY RACE DAY Arrangements are being made to have a day or two of racing at...

Thursday, August 30, 1923 The county fair was held and a great number of thousands came in cars and beheld...

Thursday, August 23, 1923 Last week was fair. The county fair was held and a great number of thousands came...

Thursday, August 16, 1923 Dog days ended August 11th and those of us who were awake Sunday morning at break...

Thursday, August 9, 1923 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so are my ways higher than your...

Thursday, August 2, 1923 SUICIDE NEAR CASS Clarence Wamsley committed suicide in a cave on the farm of Joe McLaughlin...

Thursday, July 26, 1923 J. C. Wiley, a Confederate veteran still living in this county, was present at Droop Mountain,...

Thursday, July 19, 1923 An automobile party from Lexington ate a picnic dinner at the Fair Grounds one day this...

Thursday, July 12, 1923 After about four false starts at different times in the last year or two, I finally...

Thursday, July 5, 1923 Deputy Sheriff Elmer Moore, Special Officer L. S. Cochran and Constables Charles K. Butler and Upton...

Thursday, June 28, 1923 “Rimfire (Eli) Hamrick, chief game and fire protector for Webster county, came down from this lair...

Thursday, June 21, 1923 The old reliable June flood showed up in due form. It started to rain Monday the...

Thursday, June 12, 1913 Maj. W. J. Cackley has returned from the Confederate Veterans Reunion at Chattanooga, and reports a...