Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

C. Jay Boyington, the principal of Webster School, believed the boys at his school were getting a little too shaggy. He got “tired of looking at the same hair on a head for so long a time.”

So he purchased a set of barbering tools.

“I have decided that the only solution to the problem is to remove the hair myself,” he said. “The boys and myself all find it great fun, this barbering, and the little fellows, many of them unable to afford a haircut, are only too anxious to submit to the clipper.”

From the crime beat: Police were puzzled by a mysterious case of assault in Peaceful Valley.

Lester H. Snyder, 55, was discovered beaten, bruised and nearly frozen by the side of a road at 7 a.m. He had apparently been there for hours.

He regained consciousness long enough to say that he had been in an automobile, but then he lapsed back into a coma and shed no other light on what had happened.

Police surmised that he had been enticed into an auto, beaten by thugs, robbed, and tossed onto the roadside to die.

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1865: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward.