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100 YEARS AGO
Columbus may have baseball team this year A move was started this week to organize a baseball team at this place, and a meeting is called for Sunday afternoon at three o’clock at the Court House to perfect plans.
Matters that will come up for consideration is the location of grounds and the selection of a manager.
The team has a supply of good uniforms, ample equipment of bats, gloves, mits, etc. and there will be no demand made upon the people for financial support.
Ben Faber attends School of Instruction First Lieutenant Ben H. Faber, Engineer Corps, leaves today for Fort Humphreys, Va. to attend the Regular Army School of Instruction for Reserve Officers. The school will be in session until the first of June.
Fort Humphreys is located twenty miles south of Washington, D.C. on the Potomac River, on a part of the old George Washington estate and is in one of the wonder spots of the United States.
Ben has appointed several committees to look after his unfinished business in these parts during his absence and the Citizen force is detailed to entertain the ladies.
Tick inspectors doing effective work State Inspector L. T. Richardson Tuesday gave out a statement that during the month of February 279 herds, consisting of 10,762 cattle had been inspected and dipping done in cases where necessary.
Of this number only seven herds are now found ticky and only eighteen head in the seven hords.
Mr. Gus Williams of Glidden had been appointed Assistant County Tick Inspector to help Mr. N. P. Isgrig with the work.
50 YEARS AGO
Accident at Vox Populi claims Weimar man A Weimar man was killed last week in the collision of his car with a semi-trailer truck on S.H. 71 at Vox Populi.
The victim was identified as James Marcel Carter, 50.
The driver of the semi-trailer truck was Clarence Brown of Houston. He was not hurt. The truck he was driving is owned by Butler Drilling Co.
Highway Patrolman Gary Eden, the investigating officer, said both vehicles were going south on S.H. 71 the afternoon of Feb. 27.
Sales tax hits a record high
The city of Columbus collected a record total of $23,797 from the city’s one-cent sales tax for the fourth quarter of 1974, City Manager Richmond Peters announced this week.
This represents a 5 per cent increase over the collections from the same period in 1973 and a 2 per cent increase over the previous record for a single quarter of $23,249 set in the third quarter of 1974.
The fourth quarter collection raised the total for 1974 to a record $88,851, up 10 per cent over the previous record of $80,805 in 1973.
Davie? Davie Crockett on Project Here One of those working on the Stafford Opera House restoration project is none other than Davie Crockett.
Crockett is a structural engineer with Krahl & Gaddy Engineers of Houston. He is a native Texan.
Arthur J. Wilrod, restoration architect in charge of the project, retained Crockett’s firm to assist in the work of restoring the historic opera house.
