March 16, 2015
Just Remember, One Day These Will be the Good Old Days.

Does anybody else love to read those "looking back" columns with significant quips from days gone by listed side by side.  I'll have to say that these days I find myself checking out the "50 Years Ago" portion more and more these days.  I guess I'm dating myself a bit, but those are the days I'm starting to really enjoy remembering.

I ran across such a column the other day from an old Murray County Herald newspaper.  Mind  you, it had been published in 1980 (okay, I did the math and that's 35 years ago), so the "50 year ago" column is even older times now.  

Let's see how many remember back in 1900 when Mr. Hagerman, a Divine Healer, began a series of meetings in the school house of district no 25.

While driving on Bloody Lake last Friday two of Mr. Weichert's boys broke through the ice team and all. The team drowned but the boys escaped. (Thankfully!)

The Georgia Up-to-Date Minstrels performed at the opera house in January.  "None Better", so it was said.

The building season of 1900 will open as soon as sufficient material can be secured for the construction of a two-story brick block 25' x 100', which will be built by Dinehart and Weck just south of Nelson Bros. 

Marshall Low was bitten on the leg above the knee by a vicious boar last Saturday and received an ugly wound.  Dr. Lowe dressed the limb and no serious harm resulted from the bite.

Do you recall Miss Estella Moret, who in 1935 purchased a new Atwater Kent radio from Ed Kilen last week. 

And the Chandler Athletic Club defeated the Rushmore Independents by a 25 to 15 score at Chandler Monday night.  The local boys took the lead at the start and held it throughout the game. Near the end of the game they made a final spurt and placed themselves in a comfortable lead.  The chandler team played a good game, Hart, Hofkamp and Olson playing strong defensive games while Schneider and Brookhouse led the offense. 

Frank Hartman of Iona sustained a serious compound fracture of his wrist from cranking his car last Friday and was brought to the hospital for treatment. 

In 1955 police chief Miles Lowe waited patiently for his haircut while Stan Nordin and R.B. "Pete" Reed purchased their March of Dimes benefit basketball tickets from Milo Jacobson.  The game was to feature university cage coach Ozzie Cowles, Chuck Mencel and all-American gridder Bob McNamara and pitted Slayton's 1955 varsity squad and alumni against many former S.H.S. greats.  

Members of the Slayton Lutheran congregation voted unanimously at their annual business meeting to build a new church as soon as possible.  

A deal was made last week when Don Cummiskey took over the stock from the Mobil gas station in the southeast part of town from his brother, Phil Cummiskey who had run it the past two years.  Don will be assisted by Gerald Pommier as he plans on continuing his Mobilgas agency and bulk Mobil gas.

Just remember as you read these remembering columns, these are the days that will one day be recollected in a column such as this.  Isn't it grand to think that we are all making history just as simply as ever?!