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50 YEARS AGO
Hitchhiker is shot A hitchhiker was shot and seriously wounded and his girl friend was criminally assaulted Friday night after the care they were riding in broke down on I-10 west of Columbus Charged with aggravated assault and aggravated rape was Genovevo Vargas Saldana, 29, of San Antonio. He was released after posting a total of $15,000 in bonds.
Prairie to seek council’s okay to drill in city
Prairie Producing Co. of Houston will ask the city council July 28 for permission to drill a gas well within the city limits.
A hearing on the request will be held at 7 p.m. July 28 at the city office.
75 YEARS AGO
‘Curvely’ Billie Hintz win Legion’s plane trip to Cuba Miss Billie Hintz, curvaceous blond beauty who won the American Legion’s bathing girls revue July 4, plans to leave with her monther Mrs. Bill Hintz of Columbus, on their expense-free trip to Havana, Cuba late this month.
She was chosen the most beautiful by Miss Kay Cordemann, Houston modeling school ower, of the 17 entries who paraded across the Memorial Hall stage in bathing suits Tuesday afternoon and in evening dresses at the dance Tuesday night.
Alleyton girl, third polio case, now back home
Three-year old Susan Rogers, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Alton Rogers of Alleyton, was released Sunday from Jeff Davis hospital at Houston where she was treated for a light case of polio.
The little girl was the third Columbus County polio case reported this year.
100 YEARS AGO
Glidden celebrates Independence Day On Wednesday, Glidden celebrated Independence Day by holding an all-day picnic at the grove just west of town. By noon everybody from Glidden and the adjacent territory had taken their places at the long tables prepared for the occasion. Dinner was served by the businessmen of the town and consisted of barbecue, bread, pickles, salad and coffee.
Negro boy drowns in river Lapas Hall, fourteenyear- old negro boy living on the Herder farm, south of town, was drowned in the Colorado River on Wednesday evening of last week.
With two smaller boys, he was bathing in the river and waded out to deep pater and when he came to a step off where the water was over his head, he was unable to regain the shallow water. None of the boys could swim.
125 YEARS AGO
Who said it
Dean Swift is credited with “bread is the staff of life.”
It was Kesin who said, “a thig of beauty is a joy forever.”
“Man proposes, but God disposes,” remarked Thomas a Kempie.
Imperialism condemned
Coincident with the celebration of the first anniversary of Admiral Dewey’s glorious victory in Manila Bay it will be gratifying to discern a brighter promise for the best settlement of the Philippine problem.
The administration should by this time have awakened to the fact that a policy of expansion and the permanent holding of territory in the Old World is unqualifiedly condemned by the people of the United States.
