Wells Bostwick, a twelve-year-old son of Sumner Bostwick, a former well-known insurance man, fell into Mead’s brick yard pond, at the head of Mill street, and was drowned, Tuesday evening. The pond in some places is fifteen feet deep and the bank is very slippery. It is thought the boy Continue Reading
Slabtown
Coroner Makes Another Investigation Today and Sheds Light on Darkness
“The story of the finding of dead body on the West Side, mention of which was made Monday, was thoroughly investigated today by order of the Coroner.” “Sol Hughes and S. F. Royse, the two men who claimed to have found the body, were corralled and, with Undertaker Fuller and Continue Reading
1932: The Origins of Popcorn Point
“Lodwick Ulrich, a native-born Slabtowner, for past four score years who died recently, oft recalled an amusing incident that occurred when the old river town was in its swaddling clothes, and he was but a lad of six or seven years of age. He had gone to Pig Iron corner Continue Reading