Money Trees in Lukin
One of our researchers who reviewed the February 1924 local newspapers found several items about events one doesn't hear about happening in 2024.
Several men met last Wednesday afternoon and cut wood for the church at Olive Branch.Â
Henry Harness is laid up for a few days due to a fall from the hay mow while feeding stock.
There were a lot of chickenpox cases in Billett. Dr Snyder of St Francisville was making house calls.
Charles and Helen Hahn of Lawrenceville Rt 6 are ill with the measles.
Mrs. Will Loos of lower Denison entertained the ladies’ class of Sand Barrens church with a quilting at her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jones, and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Jones assisted Mr. and Mrs. Harve Jones with their butchering.
Tickets for High school basketball games cost a lot less than they do now. In fact one LTHS student reported in the Lawrence County News that he appeared at one of the basketball games and presented a dollar bill to the ticket seller. It called forth such a grand surprise that numerous questions were asked as to where it was secured. He took the opportunity to inform the doorkeeper that his father owned a farm in Lukin where the dollar bill is a crop commonly raised on trees. When the crop is mature it is picked and stored in barrels. The crispness of the bill was due to the opening of a new barrel. So, there you have it…something we have suspected for a long time. Money DID grow on trees in Lukin one hundred years ago.