Editorial Comment

Started by W. Gray, March 07, 2008, 01:31:45 PM

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W. Gray

March 07, 2008, 01:31:45 PM
Perhaps it was a slow week.

Editorial comment from the Howard City Beacon, August 7, 1875

"Wonder what that couple of sweetnesses had been doing on the grass a little east of town last Thursday or Friday night at 10 o'clock?"

East of town was probably where the courthouse is now. Back then, it would have been total darkness without street lights, etc.
"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU
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