Carrie Nation
It was 25 Jan 1901 when The
Goodland Republic newspaper in Goodland, Kansas reported that my
grandfather, Ora Albertson, along with Ivan Higbee were "keeping
bach" while Ora's parents, Nathan E. and Mary M. (Hockett)
Albertson were in Wichita, having her face doctored. Two weeks later
the paper said that they had returned from Wichita after three weeks
getting treatment, but she was not any better.
Then a few days later the paper
noted that Nathan along with two other Goodland area residents were
possessors of pieces of glass from the saloon wrecked at Wichita by
Carrie Nation. Was this really true? Was it logical to have happened?
I searched using Google to try
to find out more about Carrie Nation. I discovered that it was 27 Dec
1900, when prohibitionist Carrie Nation smashed a saloon in Wichita,
Kansas. Since that was just a few weeks before the Albertsons went to
Wichita, I can believe that great-grandfather really could have a
piece of glass from the saloon smashed by Carrie Nation.
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