Early Files

75 years ago
Nov. 13, 1935
Cafeteria likely
Plans for the installation of a cafeteria in the basement of the Lebanon High School was fully discussed yesterday afternoon at a called meeting of the PTA. Action, however, was deferred to a date in the near future.

50 years ago
Oct. 5, 1961
Library circulation dips
The September report of the Marion County Public Library, presented at yesterday’s meeting of the Woman’s Club by the librarian, Miss Mary A. Phillips, shows the customary circulation drop for the month in which children lay aside library volumes and take up school books. The month’s circulation totaled only 440 books, 214 adults and 226 juvenile.

Harmon honored

50 years ago
Sept. 14, 1961

New health officer
Dr. T.I, Campbell, veteran Lebanon physician, has been appointed temporary health officer at Marion and Taylor counties, succeeding Dr. Genrose DeSimone. The latter, who has held the position since April 1960, has been granted a leave of absence in order to work toward the master’s degree in public health at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Campbell has been a practicing physician in Lebanon and Marion County for 54 years.

75 years ago
Aug. 7, 1936
Bicycle trip
That Lester and James Spalding, sons of Mr. and Mrs. B.G. Spalding, were in Louisville Tuesday is scarcely news. But when they made the round trip all in one day on bicycle’s, that’s news that makes one’s legs ache to think about.
During the course of the 134-mile jaunt, they occasionally stopped for a sandwich and soft drink, commenting that the trip wasn’t such a tough one. “Besides,” one of them added, “muscle is cheaper than gasoline.”