Looking Back

1 years ago

The price of Bluestem and early Baart wheat advanced on Thursday to $1.47 bushel, an increase of 5 cents a bushel. This is the highest wheat has been here this year. It is estimated that about 25% of this year’s crop is unsold and remains in the farmer’s home storage.

Frank Laughbon, county traffic officer is riding around on a new Harley Davidson motorcycle secured last week after the county commissioners decided it was better to buy a new machine than to continue to try and fix the old one.

The rains of the past few days have been a boon to a number of small water and power pla...