Memories spring eternal

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

This morning Mrs. Oscar Rice found a new vest hanging on a small tree in the rear of the Prager yard at Third and Crawford. Whether the vest was blown there by the wind or was thrown away by a thief is not known. It was thought at first that the garment might have belonged to A.M. Keene, whose home was robbed Saturday night. However, the waistcoat was not of such dimensions as would enclose the buxom Keene.

There was another litter of young wolves brought to the courthouse today and the yelps about drove Charley Holstein and Jimmy Stapleton crazy. Within the past day or so there have been 28 wolves brought in from the country to the courthouse. The crop this year seems to have been unusually heavy and the harvest has been a bountiful one. It costs Bourbon County $1 for every wolf that is caught in the county.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

Ross Leek and family are now residents of Stringtown, north of Fort Scott. They came from Richards and live on a farm vacated by W.M. Hall and family. Wanda and Winifred are the most interesting members of the family. They are little twin girls. The Leeks moved here to be near the college for two of the boys.

"The ad I gave you sold all my flax," L.B. Schwatken of near Hammond said. Mr. Schwatken had a quantity of flax seed he wished to sell and ran a classified ad in The Tribune with the result that he was sold out in a few days.

Your farm reporter observed a rural school with only three pupils. This brings to our attention rather vividly the matter of consolidation of the rural schools in this county. One man said the district school is about the only thing the country people have left that comes right down to the local community and where the people of a neighborhood exercise the privilege if a pure democracy.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Members of the Maple Grove School Board met for a clean-up days of the school yard and tore down the old garage.

Jack Schwatken, who is with the Western Insurance Companies, left for Davenport, Iowa, to take up his duties for the insurance company there. He will move his family there at the close of the school year.

Mrs. Nixon Blair, Route 3, reports they have never had a water problem on their farm. Springs that never go dry feed ponds and provide plenty of water livestock and also furnishes water for the house and farm buildings.

The spring reunion of the Scottish Rite Masons comes to a close this evening with a banquet in the spacious dining room hall at the temple. Preparations have been made to serve 800 people, cafeteria style.

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

A delegation of Fort Scott High School students won the Class 5A sweepstakes trophy at the 11th annual Kansas Scholastic Press Association state competition at Lawrence at the University of Kansas. Four Fort Scott students, Steve Jones, Tammy Rickerson, Louis Schafer and Kim Sinn, placed in the competition as the Fort Scott students earned the school's first sweepstakes trophy in the competition.

The Fort Scott High School class of '82 decided to ask Kansas Governor John Carlin to be the commencement speaker. Fred Campbell Jr., superintendent of schools, told the board that the seniors had asked school officials to invite Governor Carlin to deliver the address. The invitation was extended and Governor Carlin accepted. Carlin's appearance would make the class of '82 the first FSHS graduating class to be addressed by the state's governor, Campbell said.

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Editor's Note: Memories Spring Eternal is the expanded version of the Other Years, a feature appearing daily on the editorial page of The Tribune. Interaction is welcome from readers who relate in some way to the chronicled events. Comments may be directed to The Fort Scott Tribune, Box 150, Fort Scott, Kan. 66701.