70 Years Ago
July 1949
TOPEKA (AP) Liquor will go on sale legally in Kansas this week. It will mark the end of an era of colorful crusading and multimillion-dollar bootlegging business in this long-time stronghold of prohibition. For almost 70 years the sale of liquor has been banned in Kansas by the state constitution. And for 32 years the states bone dry law made possession of so much as a thimbleful of liquor punishable by a jail sentence. But last November Kansans voted 422,294 to 358,210 to repeal prohibition.
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The Iola Board of Education has OKd a contract for the construction of McKinley Elementary School. Work will begin tomorrow.
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County Health Officer Dr. A.R. Chambers said today that eight polio cases have been diagnosed in the county since the beginning of the summer and there isnt any way of telling whether the situation is likely to get better or worse. Most of those diagnosed with the disease will make a complete recovery but some are still struggling with a degree of paralysis and it is impossible at this point to estimate the degree of their recovery.
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COLONY Roy F. Denney makes a hobby of keeping bees and a living from it, too. Denny owns 250 hives of bees and has housed one of them in a hive with glass sides so that the bees can be watched as they go about their business. Denney said most of the bees in this area feed on clover. Last year the Dennys sold 1,200 pounds of honey, most to motorists who stop at their home on Highway 169 just north of Colonys main street.
