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Shots fired during naturalization classes
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Rep. Joe Skubitz and Martin Schallo, former Pittsburg mayor, talking about an anti-abortion law in Washington from the Feb. 6, 1974 Morning Sun. - photo by File Photo
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Feb. 6, 1924 Farmers came on foot and on horseback, through snowdrifts waist deep in places, to attend a good road meeting held in the city hall at Walnut yesterday. The building was filled nearly to capacity with farmers and citizens of Walnut, despite snow-blocked roads which made travel by automobile impossible, and low temperatures which ordinarily would have kept them indoors. County officials were notified last night of apparent attempts to terrorize a meeting at the Lone Star school, west of Pittsburg.