Safety council advises not to hug the line

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

If you ever tried to wash your fine laces and fabrics with ordinary yellow laundry soap, you know it is simply out of the question. All yellow laundry soaps contain rosin, and rosin is injurious to finer fabrics. Sunny Monday contains no rosin -- that's why it's white. It contains a wonderful "dirt starter" which saves rubbing and spares your clothes.

The body of a man who was killed on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at Linwood, near Lawrence, a week ago either by murder or by accident, was yesterday identified as that of A.B. Cump, an old Memphis Road conductor out of Fort Scott. He was married and his home was in East Fort Scott. After leaving the employ of the Memphis Road, before it was taken over by the Frisco, he ran out of here on the Missouri Pacific for a time. It was 10 years ago or more that he left Fort Scott and of late years he has been living at Springfield.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

Bourbon County Safety Council:

There is safety and security in that little line that runs down the middle of the rural highway pavement. It is a veritable lifeline to motorists who will use it as they should.

Keep to the right and you will always be right. While this is true at all times, it is especially important as you approach a curve or the brow of a hill. Motorists coming from the opposite direction have a right to expect this of you.

Don't hold to the center of the road, even though the highway is deserted ahead. This practice, typical of the "Sunday Driver," slows up traffic and causes accidents.

Riding the line is "hogging the road." Don't be a road hog.

To serve you better, the Union Bus Depot has been moved to larger, more convenient quarters at the Goodlander Hotel, Wall and National. Phone 216. Private off-the-street loading docks will promote safety -- always foremost in Santa Fe Trailways service. -- 5 buses daily to Joplin; 3 buses daily to Kansas City; 3 buses daily to Wichita; 2 buses daily to Dallas.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

(April 25) PRESCOTT -- (By Jack Fairfield) -- This small southeast Kansas community and surrounding areas were hit hard by a tornado which skipped along the ground in a northeasterly direction about 6:40 last night.

The twister is believed to have lifted from the ground just as it hit the north edge of town, passing low overhead, and again touched the ground two miles north and a mile east of here at the farm homes of Charles (Pete) Holmes and Richard (Judge) Holmes. The twister took off about 300 square feet of Prescott High School. Numerous trees were torn from the ground. According to Fred Cochran, operating superintendent for the Kansas Power and Light Co., numerous poles were broken off. Damaged occurred on the farms of Fred Norbury, Harold Holmes, Charles (Pete) Holmes and Robert Williams.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

Susan Bloomfield, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Bloomfield of Bartlesville, Okla., won the 100-yard backstroke at the McDonald's/United States Swimming National Junior Olympics championship on April 5 at the University of North Dakota. A member of the Bartlesville Phillips 66 swim team, Bloomfield was selected to the UPS National Junior team for the 1986 Olympics Festival in Houston and has qualified for the Senior Nationals this summer in Santa Clara, Calif. She has signed a national letter of intent with the University of Kansas, where she will attend this fall.

Sheila Spurgeon, formerly of Osawatomie, recently took over as manager of First Kansas Federal Savings & Loan, 2205 S. Main. Mrs. Spurgeon replaces Jim Wolmelsdorff, who took a position as agricultural loan officer with Citizens National Bank.