Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

Hereafter, the schools and churches of this city will be expected to pay for the water they use. At last night's meeting, the council voted in favor of establishing a schedule that will affect these places. For a long time there have been complaints that the schools wasted millions of gallons of water every year and with a rate in effect it is believed by the council that there will be less carelessness shown in this matter. The churches that do not operate pipe organs will in the future pay the sum of $4 a year for water; and those with organs will be assessed $8. Each school will be assessed at the rate of $3 per room for water.

Mrs. A.M. Keene and daughter Louise left for St. Charles, Mo., where Louise will enter college.

Miss Kate Hart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Hart of 512 South Main Street, this morning went to Lawrence where she will enter the state university.

City Attorney Jackson is quite a farmer. Jack planted considerable cantaloupe and watermelon seed and last evening for dinner he had watermelon from his garden. Jack says they are sweeter than those offered on the market.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

Personals At Hepler--The following members of the Gem Seekers Club enjoyed the show "Down to Earth" with Will Rogers at the Liberty Theater and six o'clock dinner at Cohn's Coffee Shop in Fort Scott. In the group were Mesdames R.L. White, W.E. Chambers, L.B. Fulkerson, W.L. Byers, A.R. Wilson, H.A. Attkisson and F.H. Gillaspie.

The town of Farlington, 20 miles south of here in Crawford County, holds free boxing wrestling shows twice a month. The next show will be Sept. 26.

Ed Redman and Newt Johnson went up on the Osage this morning and will spend the day at Ball's cabin where a party of Fort Scott men, including Walter and John Luffel, Jim McElvain and Guy Willford, are fishing.

A Fort Scott motorist traveling west yesterday afternoon encountered a number of farmers with tanks headed for water holes. Many wells over the country are going dry and a good rain is badly needed.

Miss Mabel Smith of the Western Insurance Companies office will spend Sunday in Pleasanton with relatives.

Mrs. Tillie Fulton, general delivery clerk at the post office, and son Claud left this afternoon for a trip to the Ozarks.

Mrs. Nellie Gunsaullus has taken apartment 301 in the Berner Building and will act as hostess for the building.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957))

"Reading & Writing With Reeds"--Orlando Cheney was a friendly man.

He proved in his everyday life that the old American spirit of neighborliness still has a place in the American way of life.

He was a man who never lost the spirit of enthusiasm, which so many of us find to be dull with the years.

He was devoted whole-heartedly to preserving the buildings, the mementos and the records of Fort Scott's pioneer past. He had a spot in his heart for the city's beautiful old trees and was eager to see the city's tree-lined streets preserved .

But above all, Orlando Cheney liked people.

And in a day when there is a good deal of grumbling about "this younger generation" he had an abiding faith in America's youth.

What finer memory could anyone leave?

Richard Griffin, member of the Cheney Funeral Home staff now in army service at San Antonio, secured a week's leave and drove all night to be here to help with arrangements for the funeral of Orlando Cheney. Bud Beeler and Ab Cheney also were here for the service.

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

No publication.