The following are articles found in a newspaper mailed out of Madison which combined the following newspapers from towns located in Greenwood County: Hamilton Herald, Climax Chronicle, Virgil Visitor, Utopia Union, Quincy Quill and Neal News.
“From Madison it came to our notice sometime ago that a certain Madison banker was in favor of cutting Madison and Shell Rock Township loose from Greenwood County and attaching them to Lyon County. A. Barnard says he is in favor of the proposition. He says that he has nothing against Greenwood County. Emporia is nearly ten miles nearer Madison than Eureka is and the train service from here to Emporia is much better than it is to Eureka. Those are among the main reasons for Mr. Barnard taking the position he has on the question.
From the Neal News in January comes news of a rabbit hunt. Mr. Elmer Cunningham and Mr. Ross Hamilton chose up sides for a rabbit hunt. Everyone in the community was chosen and the losing side paid for an oyster supper which was given at the schoolhouse Saturday night after the hunt.
Between 800 and 900 rabbits were killed as well as several crows. Mr. Cunningham’s side won. The rabbits were sold to Mr. Doud of Eureka. A prize was given to Neil Glass for killing the most rabbits.
In January of 1921 five coyotes were killed southeast of Lamont. One was killed within a half mile of the south line soon after the hunt began. One was shot at the round-up and the dogs from Hamilton killed three at the round-up. The five coyotes were sold for $50.50 and the amount was turned over to the Near East Relief Fund.
This article was from Madison in 1921: Some people in Madison blame Mitt Wilhite for the two stories that have been put out derogatory to Madison lately. One is that the Pixlee oil well belongs to Emporia and the other is that Madison and Shell Rock townships, taking pity on the Lyon County people to have to pay such high taxes, are about to break loose from Greenwood County and join Lyon County. Madison mayor A.L. Sauder says that Wilhite is the biggest frost in Emporia, that Wilhite used to fool some of the people in the town around Emporia but that they have now gotten wise to him, and if Wilhite is not ready to admit it, he, the mayor, stands ready to demonstrate the accuracy of his position. As Wilhite is one of the best boxers in Emporia, there may be some business for the undertaker at an early date.
The Quincy basketball teams left Friday morning in January of 1921 for Benedict and played a double header there Friday night. The boys won by a good score but the girls were defeated. They then went on to Buffalo where they had a game matched for Friday night. Quincy boys were again victorious, and the girls were again defeated. They returned home Sunday.
In January of 1921 Rev. Hughes, a former pastor of the Methodist Church in Quincy was shot while hunting with two other men near Admire (northeast of Emporia) at which place Rev. Hughes is now the pastor of the M.E. Church. Sam Spencer, city attorney of Emporia, is the man who did the shooting. Rev. Hughes was not seriously injured as he received only three bird shot and they lodged in his leg. Mr. Spencer tells the following story of the accident: “Rev. Hughes, Carl Ricker and I were hunting in a cornfield near Admire. The reverend and I were on the opposite sides of a draw and he started up a rabbit that came towards me. The rabbit was below him, so I bore down on it and shot it. I had one of those automatic shotguns, and instead of stopping like a well behaved one, it kept on going when I raised it, and the minister across the gully got the benefit of its continued discharge. He got only three bird shot in him and he hunted two hours after the near tragedy occurred. At dinner time, he ate more than Carl and I put together. He preached two sermons Sunday, and evidently has not been bothered by the shot he is carrying. It takes a lot to kill a preacher. The affair bores me because I have a good reputation as a hunter, and my bifocal glasses and that confound new gun pretty nearly spoiled it.”
Two young men from Quincy, Clyde Dawson and Harry Wilson were badly hurt in March of 1921 in an automobile accident. They were driving to Eureka and striking some newly graded road, the car, after the king bolt had broken, turned over twice, pinning the Dawson boy beneath it. Aid was summoned at once. Clyde was hurt pretty badly and was taken to the Chanute Hospital that evening. Harry is suffering considerably, two of his ribs being cracked and the muscles torn from his thigh.
Elwin Smith from Climax had quite an accident in March of 1921 with his car one Saturday evening. Someone left a seed drill partially in the road and Elwin, coming along in the dark, did not see the drill. His car ran into the drill breaking a front wheel. The drill was also broken.
The Quincy Quill in April noted that Quincy will have some good lights soon. A canvass was made last week and money was raised to install an electric light plant. The building is located on the west lot of the United Brethren Church property. It is completed and everything is ready for the engines which will arrive soon.
In April a freight train running fast to arrive at Madison Junction (two miles south of Madison) ahead of the south bound passenger train, the Moline freight coming up from Hamilton, had a wreck, seven of the cars in the train jumping the track. The track was torn up for a quarter of a mile and traffic on the line was suspended until 11:00 Sunday morning when a temporary track around the wreck was completed. It was Monday evening before the derailed cars were gotten back on the track. The cars derailed were 3 cars of rock, 2 tank cars of oil, 1 car of eggs, one merchandise car and the passenger coach. The section men from Olpe, Hamilton, Madison, Utopia and Climax helped put the cars back on the track and rebuilt the torn-up section of the track.
This article was from Climax in 1921: We noticed the writer of the Climax Clippings in The Eureka Herald has taken exceptions to a couple of items in the Climax news found in The Climax Chronicle of two weeks ago. Possibly the items should have been more fully stated. In regard to the one business man in town referred to, he was in no way responsible for the item and no doubt was as much surprised to read it as was The Herald correspondent. We meant to say that when an expert in a line in a small town like Climax can get business from larger towns from ten to forty miles distant, from towns such as Fredonia, Howard, Eureka and Madison, we feel that one should be recognized and encouraged whether his business is that of a welder, merchant, a druggist, a doctor, or any other line.”
