The gleanings below come from microfilmed newspapers available on interlibrary loan from the Kansas State Historical Society. Click HERE for more information on borrowing film from the Society.
Local newspaper offer a wealth of information and insight into the lives of our ancestors.
What follows are gleanings from Lincoln County newspapers for your perusal. Included here are marriages, births, divorces, departures, arrivals, special celebrations, tragic accidents, etc. We have tried to indicate this when those names show up. McDowell, California, with a unit of the U.S. Field Artillery, having the Phillipine Islands as their destination. He arrived in the US aboard the battleship Oklahoma, direct from Spanish waters where the ship had aided in the rescue of men and women who were fleeing from the war.