West Jefferson in Days Gone By - series 124 by Charlie Miller
___March 1929 – Gene Compton and Lon Campton have opened up a garage on N. Walnut St.
____May 1, 1929 – Air and Army maneuvers were held in the West Jefferson area. A company of men was stationed in Lilly Chapel.
____May 16, 1929 -Dr. Kerr has installed a new emergency hospital in the Kuehner Building on W. Main Street. (This is the same building on Main St. that collapsed in 2015.)
____May 23, 1929 – The local dog races are coming under fire from law enforcement officials.
____June 27, 1929 – The Dog Track is still going strong, a twenty day season recorded 40,000 in attendance.
____July 18, 1929 – Dr. J. Wm. Hurt, a recent graduate of the College of Medicine, Ohio State University, is now associated with Dr. George Kerr.
____February 5, 1929 – Lou Reason will move the White Kitchen from the Stutson Building, where it is now located, to across the street and a little bit east, to the corner recently vacated by the Biggert Confectionery. (This was in the Mantle House corner of Main and Chester Streets.)
____October 10, 1929 – A restroom is to be built by Frank Olney on the lot west of Town Hall. It will be ten feet off the back of the Fire Department room.
____October 10, 1929 – West Jefferson’s sanitary sewer system is to be completed by January 25, 1930.
____November 14, 1929 – M. W. Stutson, Mayor-Elect, was given prominent mention in the Sunday Dispatch. The article was headed by the Mayor of half a century ago who returned to office In West Jefferson. Mr. Stutson, 81 years of age, is full of vim and vigor and determined and perhaps enters with as much interest in the community growth as he did 57 years ago, or to be exact, 1872. He is quoted in the Dispatch as saying, “After I had served my term as Mayor, I thought I was through, but my friends wouldn’t have it any other way at the last election, and I had to consent to run. And you know now that after I have been elected, I am glad I did run because I think I have lived long enough to know what is good for the village. One of the first things that I’m going to do is get rid of the motor cop. I see no reason for such an expense on the village since the state has changed the speed law, and it will just save the village government $2,000.00 a year.”