Yesterdays

Harry Rich, the man who made the slide-for-life famous, was in Brighton this week and pulled off his big stunt Monday night when he laid across a wire and slid from the top of the water tank to the ground at the Princess theatre. A magic show at the Club House followed and he was billed to repeat the next night but became ill while spending the day with his wife’s relatives near Woolson and postponed the performance until Wednesday evening he called it all off after a preliminary collection amounted to just 90 cents.

From a June, 1922 Fairfield Tribune:

Two boys, Maxwell and Robert Long, aged seven and eleven year respectively, ran away from their home Tuesday and set out to see the world. Using the Rock Island railway for a highway, they tramped the six miles to Libertyville spending the night in the woods just this side of Libertyville. A telephone call from the sheriff’s office succeeded in getting the boys located at Libertyville Wednesday morning, and they were sent back home by train. The children are the sons of Mrs. Long.

From the June 15, 1922 Richland Clarion:

Hopewell: Preaching at Hopewell next Sabbath evening.

Earl Bond and family visited at the Reddig home Sabbath.

Aunt Rhoda Morgan is very sick.

Amon Bond who has been a great sufferer with a cancer on his hand is getting some better.

Ray Singleton and family visited at the Harry McClure home Sabbath afternoon they report Edith is getting better.

Will Smith and Milo Cox have been doing some tiling for V.W. Fleig.

The Kensington Ladies with the aid of some of the church members cleaned the church last Thursday. They were entertained by Vera Steinbeck and she was assisted by Clara and Delpha Fleig. They had a picnic dinner and were served ice cream and cake in the afternoon. The women believe in combining pleasure with work.

Rubio: Walter Nordyke and family went to Ames to see their son Ray Nordyke graduate.

P.B. Johnson and family, Eugene and Hubert Morgan attended commencement at Penn College at Oskaloosa. Elwood came from Ames and graduated with his class.

Otto Schmitter and family spent three days at Queen City, MO.

Otto Tice and sister, Lena Heing and children of Kahoka, MO visited over Sunday at O.W. Smitters and at the Amos and Oscar Mourer homes.

Ila Johnson is working at R.M. Black’s.

Merle Bridges and her Sunday school class will picnic on the Bluffs Thursday.

Letha Johnson will entertain her Sunday school class at O.B. Morgans Thursday.

From the June 29, 1922 Richland Clarion:

Asleep on track, killed by train: A most distressing accident happened at Brighton shortly after 7 o’clock Tuesday morning. Three young lads from Winfield, Ted Ollinger, 18 years old, Robert Young, 16 years old and Carl Ward 15, were returning from a trip to Missouri and while waiting for a freight train on the M. & St. L. on which they expected to go on to their home in Winfield, they sat down on the track and went to sleep. They did not hear the train when it arrived and the train struck them, killing the Ollinger boy outright and severing the lower limbs of Young, who was taken to the Washington hospital and is not expected to live. The other boy, Carl Ward was only slightly injured. According to young Ward’s story the boys had come to Washington on Monday night from Trenton, MO and came on to Brighton early Tuesday morning and were waiting for a freight to ride to Winfield when the accident occurred. They sat down on the track to make sure that they would not go to sleep and miss it, but since they had been up all night and were quite sleepy they slept too sound and did not hear the train in time to escape.

From the July 13, 1922 Richland Clarion:

Falls under wheels, killed: Last Thursday afternoon Nathan Trail a well-known farmer residing six or seven miles southeast of Richland met death by being thrown from a wagon and the wheels of the vehicle passing over him, killing him almost instantly. He was assisting his brother, James Trail, to put up hay when the accident occurred, and we understand the team he was driving ran away and threw him under the wagon with the above results. Besides his brother James Trail he leaves two sisters, Mrs. Milo Cox of this city and Mrs. Charles Rubey of southeast of Fairfield. He was quite well known in Richland and the community. The funeral services were held from the McDowell Chapel Saturday. Thirty years ago his father was accidentally killed on the same farm by being thrown into a buzz saw.