Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

There will be a big temperance rally in this city this week at which a number of delegates from surrounding towns and a number of representatives from other cities will be in attendance. There will be two distinct meetings. The first will be the Bourbon County Institute and the second will be the W.C.T.U. convention of this county.

Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Katzung have gone to Chicago and New York to buy the fall line of goods for The Famous.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

A 45 caliber automatic pistol and two loaded cartridge clips found in the bunk of Harvey Bailey, convicted bank robber, occupied the attention of Sheriff Harry E. Hyle as the official sought information concerning the persons who smuggled the weapon into the jail where Bailey might have used it to shoot his way to freedom. The sheriff found the gun last night when he went through the jail and gave the "shake down" given regularly to prevent prisoners from getting weapons or other dangerous instruments. Sheriff Hyle said he found the weapon secreted in the mattress of the lower bunk in the cell which Bailey occupied up until transfer to the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing following his conviction for the robbery of the Citizens National Bank June 17. Whoever smuggled the gun into Bailey's cell apparently intended that it should be used some time before the convicted gangster was taken to prison. Officers believe that the rigid guard and watch they kept over Bailey, even though he did not know the gun was in the jail, prevented any attempt on his part to shoot his way out.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Fott Scott High School has a teaching vacancy in home economics and science. Contact T.W. Goodwin, superintendent. Phone 69, Prescott.--Adv.

PLEASANTON--Mr. and Mrs. Walter Newman will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with open house at their home on Sept. 1. The Newmans have two sons: Clarence, of Arlington, Va., and Carl, of Pleasanton.

William Singmaster, Route 5, said recently that his feed crops are light. He said he has not put up any hay or feed yet.

W.D. Campbell, out near Rock Creek Lake, says milking the 115 cows he has on the farm now in production is something of a task. The dairyman reports that milking and caring or the milk is such a job that he and his son, Walter Jr., and other members of the family some times meet themselves coming and going.

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

Left fielder Donnie Doherty smashed a game tying, three-run homer to spark a five-run rally in the top of the sixth Thursday night as Fort Scott Newman-Young Clinic shaded Topeka Livingston's Fashions 6-5 in a loser's bracket game of the state Major Division men's fast-pitch softball tournament. Livingston's, which has lost to NYC in state competition now in three of the past four years, jumped ahead 4-0 with two runs in the first two in the third against starting pitcher John Sipe, who had to leave the game in the third when he aggravated a groin pull. Roby Martin took over and went the rest of the way for NYC to notch the pitching victory. Down 4-1, Stan Meek started NYC's rally with a one-out double. Dan Weston walked and after Bill Zimmerman forced Meek at third, Doherty crashed his home runover the left center field fence. Gary Grimaldi then reached on a bunt and scored the go-ahead run on Steve Larsen's triple. Larsen was then plated on an RBI double by Jim Barrows.