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As the Civil War ended, returned veterans dug 30 miles of ditches to drain a swamp and the railroads and seven competing stock yards formed the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company of Chicago, which opened Christmas Day, 1865. Packingtown boomed and fortunes were made. But thousands of Polish and Lithuanian immigrants from “back of the yards” sweated 10 hours a day to earn 15 cents an hour in the
Panthers Begin
Up & Down Season
The RCHS baseball team defeated Luray 7-5 Monday afternoon on the local diamond. Ernie Dennis was winning pitcher for the Panthers and Gifford Frye’s home run in the bottom of the seventh provided the winning margin. This brought the Panther’s record to 2 and 2. The end of the story was not repeated by the Panthers when the team faced Elkton Tuesday afternoon on the local field. The Elks were victors with an 18-3 score. Maury Nichols was the losing RCHS pitcher.
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