Monday night and all day Tuesday probably twenty or more of our fishermen and boys were lined up along the big ditch east and south of town endeavoring in diverse ways to secure some of the larger fish making their way in the back water from the river. Several hundred pounds of fish were secured. One fish weighed thirty-five pounds. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. May 20, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
Hail Storm
Noah Tobaka of the Vermillion district was in town Monday and reports damage from the hail Sunday morning of considerable proportions. Guess he was about right as it was noticed that he bought twenty-two window lights to replace damage done by that storm. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. May 20, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
Lusitania Sunk
The Lusitania, a British merchant steamer, going from New York to Liverpool, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine near Queenstown, Ireland. Only 658 passengers out of 2,160 were saved. Nearly 200 were Americans. The United States had warned Germany about the destruction of American lives, and this incident is expected to cause serious complications.
No one in New York sympathizes more with Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt than Mrs. John Jacob Astor. The fact that Mr. Vanderbilt has been lost with the Lusitania brings the tragedy home to Mrs. Astor, whose own husband was drowned when the Titanic struck an iceberg three years. ago. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. May 13, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
Pipe Dreams & Chickens
WAMEGO, KS – In a few years Wamego banks are going to be overloaded with money. A number of amateurs have bought a few hens and the results go something like this. Twenty hens will lay eggs and hatch over one hundred eggs per year. Next year we will have 2,000 hens who will lay and hatch out 20,000 eggs. Next year they will pay the German war debt. Some pipe dream and some chickens. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. May 13, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
Lew Jones Exhibition
Lew Jones, the well-known Wabaunsee County horseman, will exhibit two of his best stallions at the Panama Pacific International exposition at San Francisco. He expects to take his horses to the fair in August. His horses made a splendid showing last year at the Hutchinson State fair, the Missouri State fair and the American Royal Live Stock Show at Kansas City and he has been asked to exhibit them at the San Francisco fair – Alma Signal. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. May 6, 1915. © Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
James Mansfield Dies
James Mansfield, a pioneer of this community died at his home in West Wamego Friday, April 9, 1915. Funeral services were held at the home Sunday afternoon in charge of Rev. Phillips, and services at the grave in charge of the Masonic Lodge. James Mansfield was born in Columbiana, Co, Ohio, October 31, 1842, and died in Wamego, Kans., Aril 9, 1915, being at the time of his death 73 years, 5 months, and 8 days old. He came to Kansas in the year 1869 and purchased land in Union Twp, this county. In 1882 he purchased and moved his family to the farm near Wamego where he lived until advancing years forced him to retire to the home where he resided at the time of his death. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
William Asmussen Naturalization Celebration
WAMEGO, KS – William Asmussen is today celebrating his naturalization as an American citizen by acting as Captain of a “gang” in today’s annual clean up. William has charge of the northeast quarter of the town and is giving it a thorough manicuring, raking, etc. He is bringing to bear on the job all the enthusiasm acquired in forty years residence in this country and all his inborn German efficiency. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. April 15, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
Post Office Robbed
Robbers blew open the safe of the Louisville post office early Saturday morning, and secured about $75. As soon as the officers arrived on the scene, they roped off a space around the post office, and telephoned to Concordia for Sheriff Moore’s bloodhounds. A deputy sheriff arrived in Manhattan Saturday night with the hounds, coming over from Junction City on an interurban car. He arrived here shortly after 8 o’clock and employed Pete Whitelock to take him and the hounds to Louisville. A crowd of several hundred people awaited their arrival there. Because no persons had been allowed to visit the post office and the space around it, the hounds had no difficulty in picking up the trail. The dogs followed the trail into Wamego and to the depot platform, where they sniffed the air and stopped. This proved conclusively that the robber or robbers had managed to get away on a freight train some time before daylight – Manhattan Nationalist. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. April 15, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
Jess Willard Wins Championship
When Jess Willard knocked out the big smoke, Monday, he won the championship of the world, and put Emmett, Pottawatomie County, on the map. Willard was born on a farm near the little town of Emmett. He is 28 hears of age, and for some time he ran livery stable at Emmett. When a lad he established a reputation as a bronco buster and broke all the wild horses and males for farmers who didn’t have enough nerve to do the job themselves. He never drank intoxicants, which is certainly something new in the line of prizefighting. Many Wamegoans are acquainted with the champion and it appears to be the general opinion that he is the kind of a man who can stand prosperity as well as he stood the punches of Johnson. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. April 8, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.
Violation of Prohibition Law
Last night county Attorney Dunn and Sheriff Kersey came to Wamego. All was quiet and peaceful, except in spots. Marshall Thompson was pressed into service together with a Mr. Huffman who drove the car for the county officials. Assembled in force with all the law of the city and state, a raid was made on a residence, and two women, with four others, one a prominent business man of a neighboring city, were captured. There was one present who escaped. A prosecution for violation of the prohibition law, and perhaps others will follow. That residence is apparently hoodooed. A fire Saturday, a raid Wednesday, seems to give it plenty of action. The Wamego Reporter, Wamego, Kansas. April 8, 1915. (c) Transcribed by Janeice Crosson for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.