Looking back in time

50 YEARS AGO

What happened in 208? Child murdered here?

City, county and state officers are investigating the possibility that a 3- to 4-year-old child found dead Monday at the roadside park south of Giddings was murdered at the Holiday Inn in Columbus.

The skeletal remains of the child were found 5.4 miles south of Giddings along U.S. 77, wrapped in a flat, green sheet and tied in two dark green trash bags.

75 YEARS AGO

Houston architect firm employed to outline courthouse enlargement Wyatt C. Hendrick Architectural firm of Houston has been retained by the county to plan enlargement and other possible repairs on the courthouse.

All commissioners court members met in a special session Tuesday with B. Daugbierz, representing the Hendrick firm.

Guardsmen return from training at Fort Hood Colorado county national guardsmen returned Sunday from two weeks of Army training at North Fort Hood and to their jobs minus only one soldier, who became ill.

John (Bubba) Holland was left in the veterans’ hospital at Temple where he may remain a week.

100 YEARS AGO

Columbus team ends a successful season Columbus played the last game in its schedule at Bellville when, minus the services of Waddell and Buchaneck, the locals went down to a 9-4 defeat. Fritz Zapalac was on the mound and pitched a good steady game up to the last of the seventh when Bellville coupled five safeties with an error to score five runs and Kearney came in from right to finish the game.

Two new subjects offered in school The high school will offer in addition to its regular course of study the two new departments, Home Economics and Commercial. This new work will be offered as an elective to the 10th and 11th grades.

125 YEARS AGO

Democratic reorganization

John R. McLean, democratic nominee for governor of Ohio, is now the head of the ways and means committee of the democratic national committee. His appointment was announced by Wm. J. Stone, it being one of the features of the reorganization plan decided upon at the Chicago meeting of July 20.

A rattlesnake eater Moses Henderson is a sable sone of Africa and lives two miles from Amricus in a rocky field, where rattlesnakes are plentiful. Moses makes a living by capturing snakes and selling them.