Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

Ed Gates dropped in at last night's council meeting and after the council had taken favorable action towards one of his claims he retired and purchased a large sack full of candy which the assembly partook of at intervals throughout the session. Ed had asked for the payment on the Crawford street paving debt.

The largest fish caught in this vicinity this season was landed by a young farmer boy named Owen, who resides two miles northeast of Fort Scott. The fish, of the cat specie, weighed 35 pounds and was almost the equal in physical proportions to the man who made the catch. The fish was pierced by a spear in young Owen's hands. Near the Military Ford Dam there is an old abandoned fish trap and it was in this hole that the big fish found its way. The head of the fish was severed from the body soon after the monster was taken to the Owen home and was found to tip the beam at exactly nine pounds.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

Hundreds of sorrowing friends, groups from fraternal organizations, nurses, doctors, Royal Neighbors, Legionnaires and girlhood friends from Hepler, Porterville, Crawford, Bourbon and Vernon counties, gathered at the home of Dr. C.L. Mosley, 624 S. National Ave., at 2 o'clock Wednesday to pay a last tribute to Dr. Mosley's wife, Georga Euphema Mosley, so widely beloved in may circles. Parlors, halls, verandahs and lawns were filled with mourners. The casket was literally embowered with flowers of rare beauty. Since Dr. Mosley is city health officer, sympathy was expressed by the design for Mayor Miller and city officials, police, fire, water and street departments. Mrs. A.B. Konantz softly played sacred numbers. The Rev. R.O. Penick, pastor of the Methodist church, spoke in eulogy of Mrs. Mosley and gave comfort from the Holy Word. As the casket was borne to the hearse the honorary pallbearers, members of the Bourbon County Medical Association, acted as escort. Active pallbearers were Messrs. John Synnott, Martin Miller, Ross Odell, Charles A. Katzung, Harry Brooks and Ralph Bright.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Special for Saturday: Delicious baked turkey and all the trimmings, 70 cents, Courtland Coffee Shop. Evelyn Moore, owner. Adv.

Randy George Bolen, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bolen of Route 1, fractured the middle finger of his left hand when a desk toppled on him at the Diamond School. He was treated at Randles Clinic.

Arthur Bailey, Garland, an employee of the claims department at the Western Insurance Companies, was treated for an injured right thumb at the Newman-Young Clinic. While he was operating a staple machine, one of the staples accidentally penetrated his thumb.

Photo caption: "Sixty-two persons can be seated comfortably in the dining room of the new White Grill, located at the junction of US-54 and US-69. Harold (Red) McLaughlin has announced the formal opening for tomorrow."--Tribune photo

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

WASHINGTON (AP)--The nation's unemployment rate climbed to 10.4 percent in October as joblessness among blue-collar and full-time workers shattered the post-war records set only a month before, the Labor Department announced today. The jobless roll last month swelled the unemployment total to 11.6 million.

Photo caption: "The dining room of Martha Jane Gentry's home, 801 S. Crawford St., has become something of a mail-order office. Gentry and Mary Margaret ‘Maggie' Kerr, Route 5, are marketing a book of holiday counted cross-stitch designs nationwide. The book was published two weeks ago."