Our Town One Hundred Years Ago: May 1926

Little did people realize in May 1926 that the great depression was just a few years down the road.

The front page of the JV News was filled with local, mostly good, news. National and world news were a few pages back in the paper. President Coolidge was greeted by more than 2,000 Boy Scouts during the 16th convention of the scouting national council. A gold rush was growing in Canada; Kilauea was erupting; Lions International was planning a convention in San Francisco; airmail service was improving, with just twelve hours needed to take a letter from Chicago to Dallas and 24 hours from New Yo...