Lyon County, Kansas
Newspaper Tidbits Index
Kansas now has 518 miles of Railroad in Operation ~ January 17, 1868
An Escaped Captive ~ February 7, 1868
A Proposal ~ June 19, 1868
$5 Reward ~ August 28, 1868
Only One Paper In The State Older Than The Emporia News ~ September 18,
1868
Billiard Saloon For Sale ~ September 18, 1868
Two Osage Indians Made Their Escape ~ November 6, 1868
Seven Feet of Snow Reported in Maine ~ March 19, 1869
Rev. M. S. Croswell resigned the Pastorate ~ June 11, 1869
Fourth of July, 1776, Occurred On A Thursday July 9, 1869
Large Numbers of Texas Cattle Drovers Are Passing Through Town ~ July 9,
1869
M. G. Mains Writes His Impression of The Country ~ August 20, 1869
Punished for Murder ~ December 31, 1882
A Kansas Mayor Dead (Mayor J. B. Walkup) ~ August 24, 1885
Destructive Prairie Fires Swept Over Different Parts of Lyon County ~ December
10, 1891
Wreck Near Emporia ~ March 9, 1893 ~ 9 March 1893
Henrietta Van Cleve Files For Divorce and Reveals A Rather Interesting Story
~ December 7, 1893
A Kansas Storm - Many Persons Injured ~ May 6, 1894
Boy Burned to Death ~ January 4, 1895
Wedded At A Death Bed - Prof. Simms and Miss Anna Urquhart Married in Emporia ~ April 30, 1895
Lyon County Republican Convention ~ July 21, 1895
Small Twister In Kansas ~ May 2, 1896
An Attempted Suicide (Alice Perrin) ~ August 27, 1897
Twelve People Killed In A Collision ~ September 10, 1897
Jury Blames King - Full Text of The Verdict ~ September 21, 1897
Fourth Class Postmasters Appointed in Kansas ~ October 26, 1897
An Attempted Suicide (Della Richardson) ~ November 2, 1897
Queer Conceit of Lyon County Lovers Causes Trouble ~ January 25, 1898
Butter Making In Lyon County ~ February 11, 1898
A Suicide (Etta Clopton) ~ April 1, 1898
Emporia Woman A Suicide (Julia Northington) ~ August 18, 1898
Was It Suicide? (Frank C. Sparks) ~ August 24, 1898
Lyon County "Reformers" ~ September 2, 1898
Lyon County Tangle - (John Madden and Jesse Gray) ~ September 13, 1898
An Emporia Ghost Story ~ October 1, 1898
Peculiar Accident (Carl Johnson) ~ November 4, 1898
Suicide Followed Bank Failure (Charles S. Cross) ~ November 17, 1898
Killed At A Crossing (E. H. Harris) ~ January 24, 1899
Interesting History of Early Days of Lyon County ~ January 27, 1899
Dr. Edith McCrery Suicide ~ November 29, 1899
He Fell In Battle - Funeral of Archie A. Aldrich ~ February 23, 1900
Death of Lyon County Pioneer - Prof. Edward Elias ~ March 16, 1900
Pushing On At Emporia ~ March 16, 1900
Deserved A Good Dinner ~ March 16, 1900
Cross Bank Failure A Factor ~ April 10, 1900
Lyon County For Breidenthal ~ April 17, 1900
Editor Eskridge of Emporia Shoots Himself (Charles Eskridge) ~ July 17, 1900
New Text Books ~ July 31, 1900
Fatal Accident (Mrs. H. Whittaker) ~ August 3, 1900
Emporia Man Stabbed ~ August 10, 1900
Victim of Lightning - George Atkinson ~ November 2, 1900
Mrs. C. S. Cross Purchased 40 Acres ~ December 12, 1900
All Over Our State ~ December 28, 1900
Arrest of L. M. Peoples of Hamilton ~ February 19, 1901
Lyon County Aroused - Olpe Women Threaten to Smash Joints ~ February 19, 1901
Biscuits Are Unhealthy ~ February 22, 1901
W. A. White Agrees to Furnish the Tar ~ February 22, 1901
Two Masked Men Held Up an Olpe Crowd ~ March 12, 1901
Orient Road Work ~ April 26, 1901
Kansas Is In Need of Rain ~ May 3, 1901
May Johns' Suicide ~ May 29, 1901
Attempted Suicide (Olive Clements) ~ June 6, 1901
The Mystery of Emporia ~ June 17, 1901
Lyon County to Plead for a Reduction of Its Assessment ~ July 22, 1901
Trainsman Killed In Kansas Wreck (Ziegler) ~ August 28, 1901
Confessions Found In Pockets of Man Who Killed Himself (Stephen Conkling) ! March 28, 1902
Methodist Corner Stone ~ April 10, 1902
Building Unsafe ~ April 24, 1902
He Blew Out The Gas ~ April 24, 1902
May Change Librarian ~ April 24, 1902
Church Abandoned ~ May 1, 1902
Suicide At Reading (Robert Wilson) ~ May 22, 1902
Kansas Rivers Run High ~ June 6, 1902
Tear Down an Old Land Mark ~ July 10, 1902
Struck By A Train (Theodore Voste) ~ July 17, 1902
Dr. R. R. McCandliss Injured ~ August 7, 1902
Mrs. Mary Rashford Declared Insane ~ September 11, 1902
Body Sold to A Medical School ~ September 18, 1902
A Rich Farmer's Will (J. W. Osborn) ~ November 13, 1902
About Jim Maier's Death ~ January 21, 1903
Both Want Divorces---Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wicker ~ July 30 & November 12, 1903
Found Dr. Hudson's Body ~ August 27, 1903
Stove Exploded ~ August 27, 1903
Shot In The Shoulder ~ September 3, 1903
Hartford Marshal Killed (Charles Hobious) ~ September 10, 1903
The Quaker Doctrine Exploited In Kansas ~ October 30, 1903
Dropped Dead on Street (M. B. Jacobs) ~ November 19, 1903
Mangled Beneath Freight Train (Christopher Redmann) ~ December 10, 1903
Predicted The End of The World ~ December 10, 1903
Rumph May Recover ~ December 17, 1903
Was Not Legal Adoption (Harold Wilfred Paul) ~ December 17, 1903
Tried To Cut His Throat (Charles Miller) ~ December 17, 1903
Didn't Know Leg Was Broken (Cook Daughter) ~ January 7, 1904
Bertha Murry vs. Frank Murry ~ January 7, 1904
A Painful Accident (Mrs. E. J. Preston) ~ January 7, 1904
Charged With Bigamy (Henry C. Parker) ~ February 11, 1904
G. H. Briens Acquitted ~ February 11, 1904
New Welsh Church ~ February 18, 1904
Hurt In A Runaway (Jake Wolfe) ~ February 18, 1904
New Poor Farm Manager ~ February 18, 1904
Jury Acquitted Waldo Williams ~ February 18, 1904
Surprise Party for Mr. and Mrs. Mather ~ February 18, 1904
Ed Jay Discharged ~ February 25, 1904
Criminals Sentenced (Henry Parker, Dr. R. L. Cornwell, Alfred Young, Charles Fenney) ~ Feb. 25, 1904
New Jail Next Week ~ March 10, 1904
David Hunter Injured ~ March 10, 1904
Farmer Loses Much In a Fire (J. H. Lusk) ~ March 17, 1904
Neeley Pleaded Guilty ~ March 17, 1904
Darr Road Case Settled ~ March 17, 1904
Settled With David T. Morris ~ March 24, 1904
Rest Room For Women ~ March 24, 1904
Dairy Barn Burned (Philip Sowerby) ~ March 31, 1904
Paid the Alimony (John A. Williams) ~ March 31, 1904
About the Wreck ~ April 21, 1904
Farmer's House Burned (J. L. Treadway) ~ June 2, 1904
Train Ran Down A Handcar ~ July 15, 1904
General Mills Coming ~ April 22, 1904
Dr. L. D. Jacobs is Sick ~ April 22, 1904
William H. Folsom is Unable to Be At Work Today ~ April 11, 1904
Another Engine Blew Up ~ May 5, 1904
Scorched His Face (Milton Toomey) ~ May 5, 1904
Old Land Mark Gone ~ July 21, 1904
T. E. Gilbert Accident ~ August 4, 1904
Insane From Wound (William Miller) ~ December 17, 1904
The Last Lyon County Saloon ~ March 5, 1905
Train Wreck Near Badger Creek Bridge ~ December 19, 1905
Will Jennings Shot ~ January 4, 1906
Assault and Battery Charge (Newman VanGundy) ~ January 4, 1906
District Court Sustained (Ella Hoopes) ~ January 4, 1906
A New Welsh Preacher ~ January 11, 1906
George Grimmett Children Burned ~ March 15, 1906
Prickett Sentence ~ March 15, 1906
Mrs. M. Roup Pleaded Guilty ~ March 22, 1906
He Blew Out The Gas (Amos Wools) ~ March 29, 1906
Edmund George---Suicide ~ July 24, 1906
About Susanna S. Ruggles ~ August 18, 1906
An Emporia Woman's Suicide (Ruth King) ~ August 22, 1906
Joe Mayes A Suicide ~ February 11, 1907
Emporia Fifty Years Old ~ February 21, 1907
John Beyer Sentenced ~ July 4, 1907
Tom Lauderbeck a Suicide ~ September 5, 1907
About That Skeleton ~ November 28, 1907
A Fair In Lyon County ~ October 7, 1908
Seven Emporia Grocers Arrested ~ October 23, 1908
Kansas Robbers Get $2,000 ~ November 30, 1908
Some MacMillan History ~ January 19, 1909
Forest Carle Run Over By a Train ~ April 26, 1909
Peeled His Scalp Off (Chester Hurst) ~ January 25, 1910
Two Emporians Drown (Roy Fees and Albert Heaton) ~ August 11, 1910
Olpe Goes Thirsty Again ~ August 6, 1911
Kansas Woman Gives Threats For Threats ~ September 23, 1911
Yates Center Visitors ~ June 10, 1913
J. W. Fichtner A Suicide ~ July 3, 1913
Charles Victor Tiffany Killed ~ July 12, 1913
Damage Suit Against City ~ May 15, 1914
Earl Samuels Love Killed ~ July 10, 1914
Andrew Stinson Dead ~ November 21, 1914
Last Emporia Founder Gone ~ February 8, 1915
Arthur Carroll A Suicide ~ February 17, 1915
Ducks are Lifesavers ~ August 15, 1915
Found Mud, Left Marble ~ June 8, 1916
Walter Pine Serious Accident ~ June 8, 1916
Sad Home-Comings ~ June 8, 1916
Kansas Sheriff Is Killed In Gun Duel (Walt Davis) ~ August 17, 1916
Curtis William, Colored, Dead ~ November 9, 1916
Highs to Play Yates Center ~ February 17, 1917
Olpe, Kas., Well Shows Oil ~ February 15, 1917
Emporia Poet Writes Christmas Cards for Lyon County Boys ~ December 26, 1917
Good Roads For Lyon County ~ January 1, 1919
Al Triggs A Suicide ~ July 3, 1919
Killed By A Train (Reeder Krause) ~ January 3, 1920
Breaks Spinal Cord in Football Game (Jack Reeves) ~ November 8, 1920
Kansas Boy, 12; Killed In Accident (Porter Hyde) ~ December 25, 1920
Sheep Grower Kills Self (William Lee) ~ January 29, 1921
Emerson School Teacher Drowns ~ August 7, 1921
Kansas Hunter Dead Under Motor Car ~ November 10, 1921
Burglars In Raid At Olpe, Kas. ~ June 27, 1922
Booze Raids In Emporia ~ October 20, 1922
Hopkins Won't Participate In Trial of William Allen White ~ November 14, 1922
Hurt In Auto Accident (Charles Jones) ~ April 30, 1923
Woman Uses Revolver To Catch Boy Joyriders ~ April 30, 1923
Gas Station Robbed ~ May 14, 1923
Normal Graduate Dies from Self Inflicted Wounds (Evelyn Boyd) ~ June 18, 1923
New Remedy for Diabetes Used by Emporia Doctor ~ June 20, 1923
His All To Children (E. J. Alexander) ~ June 30, 1923
Building Progresses ~ July 2, 1923
School Board Selects Junior High Location ~ July 3, 1923
Fire Station Needed ~ July 6, 1923
Boy Sick With Lockjaw Cured By Serum Treatment ~ July 17, 1923
Arrest Man For Throwing Rocks At Train ~ July 23, 1923
Dodge City Man Is First Guest At New Hotel ~ July 26, 1923
Farmer A Suicide (John Blomstrom) ~ July 30, 1923
Robber Who Stole Wrong Dope May Get Big Surprise ~ January 3, 1924
Hurt In a Runaway (Marion Childears) ~ January 15, 1924
Rocker Bought in Emporia in 1867 Is Still in Use ~ April 10, 1925
Frank Mouse Faces Trial & Sentencing ~ April 14 & 20, 1925
New Slogan for Emporia Points Out School Advantage ~ April 16, 1925
Emporia Man Has Read Church Paper Eighty-Two Years ~ April 16, 1925
Grace Methodists' Building Burns To Ground ~ April 27, 1925
Grace Methodists' To Build New Church ~ April 28, 1925
College to Receive $5,000 Gift from Woman's Estate ~ April 29, 1925
Falls Dead While Digging Grave in Dry Creek Cemetery (Albert Sturman) ~ February 3, 1926
Breaking Ground for Music Hall, Founders Day Feature ~ February 11, 1926
Fall Into Empty Cistern Is Fatal (John W. Morgan) ~ February 15, 1926
Vanette Enery, 14, Drinks Poison When Reprimanded ~ October 29, 1927
Boy Drowns In Pond (Harold Bausman) ~ July 6, 1928
Emporia Students Fatally Injured in Cycle Crash ~ March 7, 1930
Woman Flyer, Motor Flaming, Forced to Land ~ August 24, 1930
Children's Orchestra Here Friday (Kansas Masonic Home) ~ April 13, 1933
Lyon Farmer Dies At Livestock Sale (O. M. Lewis) ~ May 5, 1939
Emporia Boy Burned In a Gasoline Blast (Allen Scheikofsky) ~ January 29, 1948
Liquor Store Bandits Identified at Salina ~ January 1, 1951
Fourteen Accidental Deaths Listed in 1950 ~ January 2, 1951
Arens to Hatch New Type Chickens ~ January 2, 1951
Draft Fourteen More From Lyon County ~ January 11, 1951
New Professional On The County ~ February 23, 1952
Fire Destroys Three Barns ~ January 6, 1960
Two Kansas Youths Killed (John Hoskins and Howard Wechsier) ~ October 23, 1961
Collision Fatal to Miss Kansas (Margene Savage) ~ May 3, 1965
Sniper Buried in Kansas (Mark "Jimmy" Essex) ~ January 14, 1973
How To: Relationship ~ March 1, 1983
No Cure Known For Genealogy Bug ~ March 30, 1985
Basic Genealogical Information Given ~ January 2, 1992
Social Security Information For Genealogists ~ July 9, 1993
Students Raise Money for Copter ~ October 9, 2007
Emporia Main Street Receives Accreditation ~ October 16, 2007
Bedtime Stories ~ October 27, 2007
Free Day Is Good Incentive For Food Drive ~ December 8, 2007
Playhouse Benefits A Second Chance ~ December 22, 2007
2007 Emporia Year Review ~ December 29, 2007
Olpe High Ranked Among Nation's Best ~ February 13, 2008
Lyon County Bee Lasts Quite A While ~ Nishat Yasmin Is A Victor In 17 Rounds ~ February 16, 2008
Somali Farewell ~ February 29, 2008
Flipping for 60 Years ~ Kiwanis Club Members Keep Tradition Alive ~ March 1, 2008
Olpe Water Project Is On Hold ~ March 12, 2008
Family Operation ~ Five Guions Work at Furniture Business ~ March 15, 2008
Boatload of Help ~ March 25, 2008
Emporia Main Street Accredited ~ April 9, 2008
50 Years of Tasty Food (Olpe Chicken House) ~ May 1, 2008
Playground Open! ~ May 5, 2008
'Neuter Scooter' Program Launched ~ May 10, 2008
Helicopter Painting Project To Be Modified ~ May 17, 2008
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