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Mail Tribune 100, Aug. 28, 1922 By Alissa Corman Aug 28, 2022 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Aug. 28, 1922 J. WINBURN BUYS ASHLAND HOSPITAL FOR ‘COMMUNITY’ Ashland, Aug. 28. — It’s a cold day even in the good old summertime when Jesse Winburn is not either directly financing some noted public improvement or subsidizing one on a liberal scale. A late move of his is the purchasing of the Granite City hospital and presenting the same to the city outright, with but few strings attached. The object is to have a community hospital, unfettered by any denominational control. It will be neither a Methodist nor a Presbyterian institution, and will also be minus the designation of any saintly patronymic, both Jew and Gentile being welcome within its walls. The hospital was built some ten years ago or so, and has witnessed the vicissitudes of many corporate institutions built on a stock basis. When originally constructed it location was on extensive acreage, a circumstance which was thought to be an asset at the time, but developments proved to the contrary and a portion of the land was sold, this sale helping out the stockholders to a limited extent. The installation of sewers and paving improvements added a heavy burden to the concern’s liabilities. Of course Winburn did not pay par for this stock. It has never been a dividend payer, and the transfer is said to have been made on a fair basis considering this fact. The purchase will carry with it in due time the installation of notable improvements. Whether the name remains the same is yet to be determined. However, the city will control it, either by municipal management direct, or by lease to some responsible supervision, subject to control the same as that exercised over other departments. HORSE RUNAWAY STIRS PRE-MOTOR MEMORIES A rare thing indeed in these days of the monopolization of traffic by the automobile, occurred this morning when a horse, belonging to the local branch of the American Railway Express company ran away and caused a good deal of excitement. He was standing in the rear of the company office when something caused him to become excited and he started out at a lively clip, with the express wagon following after. His course took him down North Front street to Jackson street, up West Jackson to Fir and down Fir to the Farm Bureau building, where he either was stopped by someone, or ran out of wind. Nothing was damaged except part of the harness, which was torn loose during the debauch of speed. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]