Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago March 26, 1924 Children of the city schools are busy these days practicing operettas. Four operettas are scheduled, including “The Maid and the Golden Slipper," to be given Friday night by 150 children of the junior high school; "On Midsummer's Day," by 130 children of Eugene Field School, April 4; "The Forest Court," by 150 children of Lincoln School, April 11, and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," by Forest Park, Lakeside and Central schools, the date to be announced. Ben Lopez, a Mexican about 35 years old, was killed by a rock fall in in his workplace at the Rose & Mertz Coal company mine near Chicopee about noon yesterday.