Yesterday's Phillips County News Memories for August 1, 2018

1 years ago

August 7, 1918

Carl Wolden is among Phillips County boys who recently enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Police Judge Harry Cosner had entered the 191st case on the police blotter. Since Malta had recently become a “city of the third class,” ordinances were being enforced. Street fights, drunkenness, carrying concealed weapons and creating disturbances were chief crimes committed.

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Mrs. Tay Bentzin had returned from Virginia where she had visited her husband, encamped there awaiting embarkation orders.

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B.D. Phillips had sold all but 100 head of a 1,500 head heard of pu...