50 Years Ago
August 1958
Mr. and Mrs. Harley King, owners of Dairy Queen, are opening a new sandwich shop known as Kings Sandwich Shop in a new building recently erected at 321 S. State St.
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A quarter of a mill levy to finance a county health program was added to the 1959 Allen County budget, according to LaRoy McCall, chairman of the board of county commissioners. The levy will raise $8,315.20 which will be administered by the county health officer.
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The Allen County Historical Society has started gathering items for a museum which will be a feature of the new courthouse. Three board members of the society, Angelo Scott, Spencer Gard and Nat Armel, went to Topeka yesterday to examine fixtures and methods in use at the State Historical Society Museum and to confer with its director. Otis Ayling, of the Iola Planing Mill, accompanied the group in order to examine the construction detail of certain types of display cases which he will construct for the local museum room.
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T.H. Bowlus observed his 50th anniversary as president of Allen County State Bank on Aug. 4. On that day in 1908, following his fathers death, Tom was elected president by the banks board of directors. From that day to this he has made the decisions that have built ACSB into one of the outstanding financial institutions in Kansas.
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Representatives of the National Portland Cement Association have visited the construction site of the Allen County Courthouse, taking pictures and conferring with Robert LeSage, superintendent of construction for Dondlinger and Sons, about his methods in the concrete work. Ed Sell, Iolan and resident engineer, says the walls of the courthouse are exceptionally true, of fine texture and smoothness, and without cracks, division lines, or honeycombing. The Kansas Contractors Magazine has written two stories about the concrete work on the courthouse.
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