On Thursday, at 3:30 pm at Bitler’s Hickory House Restaurant, former Kan. Senator Bob Dole will chat with supporters as part of his Thank You Tour. “I’m doing this to thank the people of Kansas for their long-time support,” Dole said. Dole served 27 years in the US. Senate and 8 years in the House of Representatives.

Saturday, January 10th marks the second annual Kaw Valley Eagles Day to be celebrated in Lawrence, Kansas. This year’s event is being organized by the Jayhawk Audubon Society and will be hosted again by the Lawrence Factory Outlet Mall. Field trips will be led by staff members of the US Army Corps of Engineers at both Clinton and Perry Lakes to see eagles in the wild.

The 1998 Kansas Fishing Regulations Summary, the definitive brochure on Kansas Fishing laws and regulations, will be available wherever license are sold by mid-January. Of special interest to Kansas anglers are new rules on fish length and creel limits.

50 years ago: Jan. 4, 1973

Calvin Quisenberry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hervey Quisenberry and a recent graduate of the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science, is now a member of the family business, The Quisenberry Funeral Home.

Robin Hilewitz, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hilewitz, went Christmas shopping during the holiday rush with a well filled wallet. She laid the billfold down on the counter of a large store in Kansas City while she inspected a toy. When she picked up her billfold her money had been removed. It’s hard to imagine how surprised and disappointed someone must have been when they discovered it was very real looking play money.

Seems like winter has had three main ingredients snow, ice, and cold weather. The roads have been hazardous with numerous accidents reported. Seems to us this has been the most severe since about 1960.

Captain Larry B. Doege, son of Mrs. Ambrose Dempsey of Tonganoxie, has joined a relatively new group of air defense technicians to help alert this continent against attack. In addition to keeping one eye on the sky, Doege and other select technicians with the North American Air Defense Command are now constantly searching the seaward approaches to the United States for submarine launched ballistic missiles. Doege, along with 65 missile watchers, mans the site near Laredo, Texas.

The burglars who broke into the Kansas State Bank of Overbrook did not get away with much. They took a small amount of cash left in the main bank vault and broke into 29 safety deposit boxes. According to the bank president, Max Friesen, they contained very little of tangible value.  It was hardly worth the trouble.

Repair of the bridge over Nine Mile Creek has been announced and estimated to cost $23,000.

75 years ago: Jan. 1, 1948

Hog Uncles recommends its delicious flavorful feed over straight corn. It builds pork almost twice as fast and costs about the same by the bushel. Get it at Trosper Feed Store.

Farm property Leavenworth County is now worth more than $14 million. It’s listed as the best condition in history. These higher valuations come because of the increased modernization of rural farmhouses with new conveniences. Electric lights, tiled baths and showers and running water are just some of the improvements that have helped raise the property value. These increases have been steady since 1940.

Let it snow and let it blow while you ride in cheerful comfort on the Union Pacific. Get yourself a sleeping car or coach and watch the scenery go by from your window. We are the road of the daily streamliners.

Today we share a medical miracle developed by a Danish physician, in 1925. It’s the whooping cough vaccine that gives protection to children over six months of age. Incidence of disease is lower and the severity lessens if contracted. Ask your doctor today.

The current inflation rate is difficult for the folks on fixed incomes. Of course, no resident wants to return to the days of the depression. The Mirror believes in leveling off prices with consumers resisting unfair values. In other words, if it’s too expensive for your budget, don’t buy it until the price comes down.

100 years ago: Jan. 4, 1923

The officers of the Athletic Association have been very busy the last few weeks trying to think of a plan to earn money for the new basketball equipment. They knew if they didn’t think of something soon there would be no more athletics for the T.H.S. this year. But good fortune seemed with them when Mr. Wadell, a salesman for the Curtis Publishing Company, appeared Wednesday afternoon, Dec 20.

By the time Mr. Wadell left, each student was a salesman for “The Country Gentleman,” a farm magazine published by the Curtis Publishing Company. But best of all the school was to receive fifty cents for every subscription sold. In addition to this, each student selling three subscriptions will receive an eagle pencil. The student body organized into two companies the “Barney Googles” and the “Spark Plugs.” The losers will entertain the winners with a party.

125 years ago: Jan. 6, 1898

A stove, radically different in principle than any yet constructed, is now in constant use at the home of the inventor just west of Tonganoxie. Caveats were secured on several features of the invention some time ago but only recently application for a patent was filed.

C. Olsted, the inventor, is enthusiastic over the success of his efforts, for he has been working on the principle for seventeen years. He had three stoves made by a Kansas City stove company, and they attracted considerable attention among stove men. The three stoves are now in use at his home. One is a cooking stove, one a simple heater and the other a simple heater with a steam attachment. 
It would be impossible to give an intelligent description of the stoves in a newspaper without drawings. The draft is directly beneath, and around the fire there is a dead air chamber. The marvel of the stove lives in the fact that it is a smoke consumer. Last week Mr. Olsted had one in Tonganoxie, and while everyone who saw it was mystified, all agree that the smoke and gases are consumed. The stove pipe was detached from the stove, yet with a fire within no smoke or gas escaped into the room. The consumption of gases and smoke economize fuel, and coal used in the stoves leaves but little ashes.

The principle embodied in Mr. Olsted’s invention will really be of more value in the great factories than in the houses, for it will do away entirely with the smoke nuisance of which so much complaint has been made recently.

The inventor has an offer from a Kansas City house of one dollar royalty on each stove manufactured, and the firm agrees to erect a branch plant in Tonganoxie if a cash bonus is given. The Mirror believes there is enough in this to warrant an investigation on the part of our public-spirited citizens, and if they find the firm means business there is enough push and enterprise here to put up a reasonable bonus to be placed in escrow until the firm completes its part of the agreement