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Days Gone By In Staunton

Stories from the files of the Staunton Star-Times in years gone by.

Thursday, June 28, 1923 -- LIVINGSTON MAN DROWNED FRIDAY -- Lost Life While Swimming in Reservoir -- Anton Korun of Livingston Friday afternoon at about 4 o'clock was drowned in the reservoir east of Livingston while he was out swimming. A number of Livingston people were at the reservoir at the time, enjoying an outing. Most of the people there at the time were unable to swim, and Korun, who was a large and powerfully built man, offered to carry members of the party to the other side of the reservoir on his back. He took a boy of about eleven years, and with him on his back, started to swim a...

 

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