In the 20th Century, women were known for wearing extravagant hats with even more extravagant hatpins. The photo above shows just a few of the hatpins we have on display at the museum. Hatpins were, for a time, protested and asked to be banned by male protesters. On May 28, 1903, Leoti Blaker boarded a crowded stagecoach and found herself next to an older gentleman. The gentleman proceeded to assault her sexually, and Blaker, not taking any of this, took out her hatpin and st

TWIN CITY NEWS "LOYAL TO YOUR BEST INTERESTS...IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH" MRS. O.E. WEIST Editor and Proprietor; MADGE BEYER Associate Editor THE SPOTLIGHT: Lillian Brison "AN AMERICAN IS BORN...That's the name of our (Liberty Union) senior play...The following people make up the cast: Wayne Keiser, Vietta Poff, Lillian Brison, Erladeen McBee, Lois Kohler, Jimmy Kellner, Earl Welde, George Stilwell, Patty Mason, Bette Bryan, Walla Chase, Marna Fishbaugh...The play will be g

There has been much talk about the especially rainy weather this spring. Flooding has been in the news frequently. I thought our readers might be interested in taking a look back to March and April of 1913, the time of the Great Flood. In Ohio, deaths reached figures between 422 and 470 and some 20,000 homes were totally destroyed. Homelessness became a major dilemma. Ironically, with the current, impending National Registry recognition of the Bibler Lock it is also notable