High cost of living, Sawmill to idle for winter, Firemen light up fundraiser and Superman makes a 'fly-by'

100 Years Ago:

Living’s High Cost:

On every side we are being hemmed in, and the cost of living is hemming in closer every day. Business nationally is on the toboggan and no end in sight. We are burdened with a “war tax” in a time of peace. It looks very much as tho’ influence and capital were just trying to see how much of a monkey they could make out of the Wilson administration. There is little doubt but what the speculators and some corporations were at the bottom of getting Uncle Sam to ship out all his flour, that he might speculate in wheat and raise ned with the price of fl...