Good Old Days

8 years ago

Aug. 3, 1888

The circus has lost none of its glories and attractions it possessed a generation ago as was evident by the large and eager crowd awaiting its arrival at the depot Sunday afternoon. The irrepressible small boy spent fifteen hours at the depot listening for the whistle of the locomotive, and the fathers and mothers were not far behind him.

On Friday afternoon last, the blacksmith shop of George Mood near Kamiak, was destroyed by fire. Mood had been at work in the shop and about 4 o’clock had left to do some work on a shed near by, leaving a small fire in the forge. By...