Caldwell Messenger Flashbacks –
August 20, 2014
August 17, 1914
The Kansas wheat yield was the largest in history, 130
million bushels, and the corn crop is forecast at 180 million.
C. W. Cupp’s automobile was sold at auction on the street
for $155 to John Metzinger, who failed to make it run and hauled it home with
the aid of a horse Later he found out it
was out of gas.
August 15, 1924
New Kimono silks at Neal and Brown. Just $2 a yard.
August 16, 1924
Farmers Coop is offering coal for your heat this
winter. Price is $9 to $12 a ton.
A young Kingman man didn’t yell once when a physician picked
out 43 #7 shot out of his body. The surgeon
wouldn’t give the boy’s name but said he had been helping some young ladies “get”
some watermelons from a farmer’s patch.
The farmer shot true and the doctor did the rest.
