
LOOKING BACK
125 YEARS AGO: 1899 An uncommonly large acreage of sorghum cane was planted this year and, as the crop is a fine one, people hereabouts can, if it comes to a pinch, snap a cane and sweeten their systems with sorghum and saccharine. A citizen begs the Leader to make “The hardest kind of kick” on the people who leave their wagons in the alleys, which he says are often so blockaded that it is next to impossible to drive through them with a load of hay.