Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

When W.T. Monahan’s fine stallion strayed away one night and fell off the Missouri Pacific bridge and was killed. The owner did not have the animal’s body hauled away. Later, a scavenger removed the body and filed a bill for $5 with the city. The bill was turned down by the council, it being decided that the owner of the animal should stand the cost.

The street car officials have decided that smoke inside the car is unpleasant and unsanitary and that this should not be tolerated. All smokers who are found inside the car are ordered to the rear of the platform. It has been the practice of many male passengers to sit on the rear seats and smoke if the car was not crowded with women and children.

It is said about John D. Rockerfeller that he actually handles very little money. It indeed would be a great hardship for him to be obliged to count it all himself.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

There is noticeable increase in the number of automobiles bearing campaign slogans. One observed this morning carried the admonition to “Keep and enforce prohibition.”

James Anthony, a Deerfield merchant, who is quite well known in Fort Scott, lost several hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise on Thursday night when burglars entered his general store and carried away various articles.

Here is a Depression story from the East Side: One resident caught a groundhog and locked the animal in his coal shed. Mr. Groundhog gnawed out and was killed by a neighbor. Anther neighbor ate the carcass and still another made a cap out of its fur. It was not reported whether the feet and bones were used for fertilizer.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Jim DiNardo has been named cubmaster for the new Cub Scout Pack 49, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, also the sponsors of Boy Scout Troop 49. Albert Eshelbrenner is assistant cubnmaster and Mack French is pack committee chairman.

Notice: Seventy beautiful colors of chrysanthemums now starting to bloom. Cut flowers for sale.�"Mrs. Stump, 718 S. little.

The AOW-a Ki Ya Camp Fire group had a tea at the home of their leader, Mrs. Ed Gray. Kathy Hewlett sang “Would You Like To Take A Walk?” She was accompanied by Janice Gray.

Fort Scott had four representatives at the Kansas Chiropractic Association convention at Hutchinson, which drew 400 delegates. They were Dr. Alice Elliott, Dr. Sam Elliott, Dr. A.W. Litchenberg and Dr. J.R. Brodnax.

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

Photo caption: “Raquel Field, a member of the Fort Scott youth delegation to the State PRIDE Day convention at Salina, is distributing promotional items to their delegates from other communities. The Fort Scott PRIDE Committee and Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce both had booths at the convention.” �" Photo by Tom Braker

Work began today in Fort Scott to change all public telephones from per call price of 10 cents to 25 cents. The quarter pay phone call will be standard for all of Bell’s 14,000 pay phones in Kansas by the end of the year.

Photo caption: “The Youth PRIDE award in the largest population award category was presented to the Fort Scott Youth PRIDE president Andy Carson at the State PRIDE Day at Salina by Kansas Senate Minority Leader Jack Steineger. This is the fourth year Fort Scott has won the award. Dan Pence, 1982 Fort Scott PRIDE chairman, accepts the 1982 PRIDE cash award for cities with a population of more than 5,000. Fort Scott wins the award for the second consecutive year.”�" Photo by Tom Braker