In Edwardsville a candy manufacturer will break ground on a new building financed with $1.6 million in revenue bonds. The city will receive $1500 annually in lieu of taxes for 10 years. The company will employ 60 people.

The John Conrad family enjoyed fresh watermelon the other day, just like out of the patch, except that the watermelon came out of the basement and had been there since last fall.

Mr. And Mrs. Larry Haislip announce the birth of a daughter, Carrie Lynn, January 27, 1973, at Cushing Memorial Hospital.

Bill Stephenson, representing the First State Bank of Tonganoxie, recently presented awards to Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Wedel and Robin Leach for their outstanding work with dairy herds in 1972. The Wedels were presented the Efficient Dairyman award and the High Herd award.

World Day of Prayer will be held at the Sacred Heart Church, Friday, March 2nd at 1:30. All churches are invited to come and take part. Let’s have a good turn out and give thanks that our Prisoners of War are returning home and Pray for a lasting Peace.

Rinda Chapter No. 82 O.E.S. held their regular meeting with Sadie and Joe Coffman, Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron, presiding in the East.

Candidate filings for school board races in the Linwood-Basehor district have forced primary elections in two of the three board  positions up for election. The position four race has three candidates, Robert Gravatt, Robert Raines, and David Breuer. Incumbent school board president Howard Jones faces Barbara Chamberlain in the position six race. In position five race, incumbent Richard Brandt faces Claude Williams, Jr., Garth Christoff and Jeffery Simons.

75 years ago: Feb. 18, 1948

The new highway routes are inspiring many of the towns’ retail stores to meet and discuss improvements for the city. Among many items talked over were the need for suitable city signs, a new high school, beautification of the town, more sidewalks and improved city water systems. The main thing was whatever is wrong needs to be fixed and whatever is good, needs to be better.

And just like that, the weather has turned springlike. Remember last week when the cold dipped into the teens and snow piled up? These warm temperatures have people wishing for planting time.

George Washington is famous for tossing a coin across a river in his town. Ever since then, that Washington neighborhood has become famous for tossing money until now the sum has reached into the billions. Toss your dollars into First State Bank and get it back when you want it.

Another medical miracle reported from Ratliff’s Drug Store. Many months were spent isolating the rabies virus and even longer to find a cure. Louis Pasteur conducted the first test of his rabies vaccine on humans in 1885 and it has saved thousands of lives today. Shop at a Pharmacy for your medical needs.

Little Robert Quisenberry is finally home and happy about it. Robert was injured in January when he slipped on the ice and rammed into a parked car. His leg was broken in two places and is in a cast from waist to ankle. His other leg is casted as well with a rod between them holding his two legs steady. He cannot wait for the day he is out of the two casts.

100 years ago: Feb. 22, 1923

GOOD ROADS are not made by talking. It requires work, more work, and still more of it. The advent of the automobile has made it necessary for state authorities to take up the matter of road construction and maintenance.

Local authorities have their duties and responsibilities in furthering the good work. But responsibility does not end there. Our town streets and country roads would be in far better condition if each citizen would do just a little of his own volition.

That soft spot in the road along Mr. Farmer’s land could be much improved by the dumping of a few loads of gravel where it is most needed. The hauling of a few loads of gravel would neither make nor break Mr. Farmer. Of course, his neighbors would get the benefit of it, but so would he.

Mr. Townsman may have a hole in the street in front of his home. A few minutes time on his part would suffice to fill up the hole and tamp it down. The fact that the whole town and people from the countryside would benefit from his work should only serve to make him prouder of his act.

If we wait for the state or local authorities to do everything there are many things that will not be done. They are guided by the amount of funds at their command, and beyond that point they cannot legally go.

Try, and make it a pleasure instead of a burden.

MAIN STREET PAVING. As can be seen by an ordinance in another column of this paper the Council has definitely decided to make the Main Street paving thirty feet wide for the three blocks from Fourth street to First street, then eighteen feet wide to the railway switch north of the condensery.

A committee consisting of William Heynen, Foster Laming, E.C. McNerney and the Editor, waited on the County Commissioners last Saturday. The Commissioners unanimously agreed to construct a new bridge over Tonganoxie Creek near the Franklin Ice Cream Condensery. The Council will advertise for bids on this project as soon as it is known what the legislature does about the road laws.

125 years ago: Feb. 24, 1898

The following from a Kansas City paper of interest and importance to the people of Leavenworth County:

From present indications it will not be long before citizens of Leavenworth will be able to ride on electric cars to several of the county towns. A line of track is now being laid between Leavenworth and Lansing, and it is expected that cars will be running between these points within the next sixty days, this road is being built by W.E. Winner, of Lansing but who is well known in connection with the Winner bridge at Kansas City. The iron and other material are now on the grounds and the track between Lansing and the Soldiers’ Home is already graded. As soon as the weather settles tracklaying will begin and work pushed to completion. The line will connect at the Soldiers Home with the present electric system, thus making a continuous line.

Mr. Winner was in Leavenworth last week and announced that he proposes to extend the line from Lansing to Fairmount, and probably, to Tonganoxie. The preliminary survey of the proposed extension will begin under the supervision of F.C. Waite, of the city engineer’s office. Mr. Winner stated that the work would be pushed as rapidly as the weather permitted and ne soon hoped to give residents of the country towns easy access to the city.