A Drop of Ink Is Our Demise Inevitable?       What a week! We've lost our Superintendent of Schools. The Hospital Administrator has resigned. A hospital board member has called it quits. Our once strong Chamber of Commerce is on life-support and the Turner Foundation can't find a youth director. It appears that a yacht salesman would be easie... More ... FRIENDS AND FANCIES BY BOB MORELAND       The Gordon American Legion Auditorium was packed on Good Friday,with friends and relatives for the funeral of Florence "Floss" Jensen. She passed away two days after her 92nd birthday, which was March 17, 2008. Floss was a legend in her time, an outdoor woman in the true western tradition. More ... The Lay of The Land The Way That We Were By Lyn Messersmith       This is the way that we were. Sunburned, tangle haired, rosy cheeked, raggedy, barefoot, out of breath, and smiling; when we weren't convulsed with laughter. More ... NOTES FROM A SINGING HILL BY RLG       Historic pre-Easter events inform our memory even in the group of everyday "cruciferous" vegetables that are SO good for us. Scientists tell us that cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and Brussel's sprouts, all with cross-shaped flowers, are .effective cancer-fighters in ordinary diets. More ... A Leaf Turned Back Rushville and Hay Springs Revisited       100 years ago - 1908 Logan C. Musser returned Friday from the south part of the county where he had been on a hunting trip. It was his pleasure, or displeasure, to help fight a prairie fire, that had got away form a homesteader, for most a day and night. More ... ECHOES OF THE PAST       Taken from the Journal files 100 years ago - 1908 About 11 o'clock Tuesday, while a strong wind was blowing from the north, it became heavily laden with the smell of a prairie fire, and soon the telephone lines were busy finding its location, which was north of Margrave's ranch on Stinking Wat... More ...