Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday

Today is Thursday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of the year. There are 94 days remaining in 2023. Below are news items found in the Creston News Advertiser for this week in history.20 years ago (2003)As school districts’ budgets continue to dwindle, area school officials are looking for ways to effectively control costs and provide quality education. Creston and East Union school boards, along with their respective school administrators, met for dinn…

Throwback Thursday

If we can’t find any joy in this year’s Red Sox, at least we can look back on the very first game of the World Series with fondness. On Oct. 1, 1903, the Boston Americans (soon to become the Red Sox in 1907) of the American League played the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates. Pittsburgh won the game 7-3, but lost the best-of-nine series to Boston, 5-3. This aerial view taken on Oct. 1, 1903 shows the Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds …

Throwback Thursday: September 28

News from around Johnson County as reported on Sept. 28 in the pages of the Daily Journal and the Franklin Evening Star from the last 111 years. On this day in 2002, the main story on the front page of the Daily Journal was about a local man who was in high demand for helping libraries move books. Cecil Maness was a Johnson County resident with a national reputation in an unusual business. He founded Library Movers of America, whose clients sinc…