Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907)

Will Poe, a farmer living two miles south of Hiattville, this afternoon found in the timber on his place a leather wallet that was stolen from the Redfield Bank when it was robbed by dynamiters six weeks ago. The wallet contained some stock certificates and some notes, just as it was when taken from the bank.

The "Flight of the Oil Burner" might be termed a great run that was made on the Frisco system this afternoon from Pittsburg to K.C. when the U.C.T. Special whirled through the country. The train was pulled by Engine No.

629, a fast passenger engine which is decked out with an oil burner. Spafford was at the throttle and Allen was the conductor.

At 2:10 the train left Pittsburg and at the scheduled time the train reached this city, having made the run of 35 miles in 40 minutes time, together with three stops. At some places it is figured that the schedule was high as 70 miles an hour.

75 YEARS AGO (1932)

Mrs. Susan McGuire, mother of Bernard McGuire and Mrs.

Mary Hartman, and a resident of Fort Scott and Bourbon County for the past 76 years, passed away this morning at her home, 832 South Main Street. In 1856, when Mrs. McGuire was 12 years of age, her parents moved to Kansas. They made the trip by covered wagon and ox team and homesteaded a strip of land near Marmaton. Cheney Chapel has charge of the funeral to be held tomorrow at the Church of God, Wall and Broadway. Interment will be in Marion Cemetery.

There was a drop of 30 degrees here last night, according to Weather Observer E.A.

Shaver. The high mark yesterday was 77 and the minimum last night was 47. The barometer showed a mark this morning of 28.8 and was falling.

50 YEARS AGO (1957)

The theft of 12 Austra White hens from a henhouse at the Fulton home of Mrs. Sadie Barnett brought the total of hens stolen in the county in recent weeks to over 100, according to Sheriff Ray Cummings. Mrs. Barnett discovered this morning, the theft of her entire stock.

Deadline for completion of the annual Bourbon County assessment has passed and County Assessor O.M. Hessong asks all persons not yet assessed to come to the office.

The Fort Scott Coca Cola baseball team will open the season Friday when the players meet the strong Stockton, Mo., team on the Stockton field. Players making the trip will include Dave and LaVerne Dennis, Leon and Danny Farrell, Eldon and Leon Crane, Ray Pfeiffer, Bob Miller, Bob Farmer, Neil Hopkins, Carney Smith and Randy Hessong.

25 YEARS AGO (1982)

Mike Hembree, a junior, swept three straight matches to take the No. 2 singles championship and carry Fort Scott High School's Tigers to a fourth place finish overall in the Southeast Kansas League tennis meet.

Hembree's championship is the first in either SEK singles or doubles for the Tigers since Dale Eshelbrenner and Larry Boyd swept both singles divisions in 1978. Meanwhile, the No. 2 doubles team of juniors John Miller and Bret Allen finished third, senior Jeff Doerfler was fifth at No. 1 singles and senior Dale Lockwood and junior Matt Witt took seventh at No. 1 doubles for the Tigers.

Kitchen Kabinet (By Nell Dikeman)--Our Mother's Day tribute takes on an aura of familiarity as The Tribune files provide a "look at yesterday." The title role in the article focuses on Esther Weeks, who with her husband Mark Weeks, founded the Fort Scott Greenhouse more than 60 years ago. It has remained in the family.

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.

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