More items from my microfilm gleanings: The Fremont-Mills Athletic Oratorical Assn.(started at Tabor) was immensely active, stretching both the bodies and minds of young people. State Senator Shirley Glllilland of Glenwood, noting that the Missouri River had a tendency to flood and swing its channel all over its flood plain, thus causing much anguish and expense to some of his constituents, called on the U. S. Corps of Engloneers to straighten the Big Muddy and keep its channel in one place. And I noted another item about Malvern's early-day professional baseball player, Dakin Miller. He had retired from the Chicago White Socks with enough money to set his dad up In a furniture store, remodeling the old Kneeland men's clothing store block then used as a bowling alley, repapering it, etc. to get it ready for the public’s inspection. He must have had a little money left over as he hurried down.to Kansas and invested in some oil Helds. A