Seventy years ago
January 1949
Several hundred persons lined up to buy motor car license tags this morning at the courthouse. Some got the numbers they were after, but some were disappointed, and others gave up in the face of a somewhat overwhelming situation. It took two hours or more to go from the end of the line on the first floor of the courthouse to the counter in the treasurers office on the second floor.
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Dr. G. E. Myers, who has been associated with Dr. J. Russell Nevitt at the emergency hospital, has opened his own office at 14½ South Washington and will engage in the general practice of medicine, he announced this morning.
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Yesterday new combination red flashers, bells and flood light signals were put into operation at the Santa Fe Railway crossings on both West Street and North State Street. Motorists using either Highway 54 or 169 will now have little excuse for collisions with trains at these two points. The flood lights illuminate the crossings and both sides of a train brilliantly. A train on the tracks can be readily seen for a distance of several blocks.
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Although dairying is now Allen Countys largest industry only a fraction of this areas potential milk production has been realized. That was the conclusion emphasized last night by John Brazee and A. J. Miller who spoke before the Chamber of Commerce on the growth of the local plant Pet Milk Company during the past 25 years. The plant now has about 2,000 patrons from whom it purchases milk every day, employees 70 to 85 men and has 34 others who operate milk routes throughout the plants territory, extending 40 miles from Iola in every direction.
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Mayor T. O. Waugh said this afternoon that lights will be turned on at 7:30 at the football stadium in Riverside Park tonight to provide illumination for ice skating. Many students gathered at the park after school yesterday to ice skate. The melting ice will probably be hard enough for skating by nightfall.
