Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

Get your meats from us for your Sunday dinner. In doing so, it ensures you a delicious dinner, as our meats are only of the choicest kind.--The Market Square Meat Market, No. 8 East Oak.--Belkham, Griffith, Morrow. Telephone 111.

Announcement: Fort Scott banks are all right. Your check on any bank in Fort Scott where you have money deposited is good for dry goods at our store.--W.J. Calhoun Company

This morning at 2 o'clock when the J.E.H. banquet was drawing to a close the 150 guests crowded about the lobby and cloak room waiting until the porters and bell boys brought their coats. By accident, some of the gentlemen jammed up against the fire alarm bell. The result was the fire alarm sounded in almost all the rooms of the big hotel and a rush was made by the tenants for the hallways. The spectacle was not unlike a midnight parade of some victorious varsity squad. The guests were finally informed that there was no disturbance whatever.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

(By the Associated Press)--A mighty Democratic tornado whipped across the country in Tuesday's voting. It tore relentlessly into every section of the nation, elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Presidency, assured him a strongly Democratic congress and brought success to a multitude of his party's state and local office-seekers.

In Tuesday's election, voters performed an unprecedented feat and selected two Democrats to join a third on the board of county commissioners making the board completely Democratic in political makeup for the first time on record.

Among Farmers By H.V. Cowan--Your writer, the other day, stepped into a market and paid 15 cents for a half-pound of bacon, which at that rate is 30 cents a pound. Scanning the livestock markets that evening revealed that the price of hogs that day at Kansas City was a little over 3 cents a pound.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Furnishings from the Goodlander Hotel will be sold at auction Tuesday. The sale will be conducted by Cols. Charlie Brown and Glenn Nightingle. Nearly 40 bedroom suits are included in the furniture to be sold to the highest bidders. About 50 occasional chairs will be sold in addition to office furniture and lobby furniture. A large quantity of miscellaneous items will be offered, including medicine cabinets, light fixtures, fans, glassware, floor lamps and tables. Bathroom fixtures will not be sold at this auction, but will be disposed of when the building is razed.

Lonnie Webb has purchased a late model moving van and has extended his moving service into 15 Midwestern states along with coast to coast facilities.

A bid of $605 to raze the First Christian Church building at First and Judson streets was accepted by the property committee Rex Noel, chairman.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

After 33 years of observing the weather in Fort Scott, Jack Stapleton, 1119 Burke St., has received one of the highest honors paid cooperative weather observers by the National Weather Service--the Holm Award. The award is named after John Campanius Holm who published the first known weather observations in this country. The observations were made in 1644 by his grandfather, the Rev. John Campanius, without the use of instruments.

Photo caption: "Members of the Fort Scott Community College basketball team includes Linda Bean, Alexia Newhouse, Barbara Burdick, Ursula Dent, Sally Linaweaver, Donna Ragan, Sherri Foerschler, Lisa Jolly, Lisa Walthall, Stacey Perkins, Flo Wynn and Kim Elliott, coached by Larry Krull."