Good Old Days

8 years ago

The Commoner, August 25, 1893

Andrew Johnson, who drives a coach for H. H. Conover on the old Hubbard place, met with a distressing accident on Sunday morning. Johnson had hitched up a team and was ready to drive up to the house when a piece of the harness got loose and frightened one of the animals. The horses jumped to one side and overturned the vehicle, and Johnson was thrown out and sustained a fracture of the left leg. Dr. Pocock went out from this city and dressed the broken limb.

100 years ago

The Colfax Commoner, August 23, 1918

The members of the city council took up th...