Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

The "Has Beens" football eleven, which plays Hiattville here at Athletic Park Thanksgiving Day, will have no easy time with the "Villains." On Saturday Hiattville played the Parsons Business College eleven, admitted to be the strongest bunch of fellows, and walked all over them. The score was 37 to 4 in favor of Hiattville. The Has Beens realize they will have to practice harder. Hiattville went football wild over Saturday's game and the indications are that the whole town, as well as all of Hepler, will be here on the special train for Thursday's battle. Athletic Park today was prepared for the battle, the grounds having been gone over and goal posts put up. The Has Beens will meet at Cohn's Cigar Store this evening at 7:30 and will later practice. They are doing faithful work and expect to make monkeys out of the Hiattvillle eleven, though they acknowledge that they will have no easy time doing it.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

A resident at 117 West First Street complained to the police this morning that some boys had stolen milk from their porch.

Folks who think the snowfall a few days ago was such a rare thing for November should recall Thanksgiving Day seven or eight years ago when a regular mid-winter snow storm prevailed.

Lon Brown of this city and Charles Kirker of Uniontown went wolf hunting yesterday in the western part of the county but failed to bag a single animal.

Olin Crane has organized an orchestra known as the "Royal Aces." They will play for a Thanksgiving dance at Fulton. They also will appear on a Fox Liberty program.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

W.W. Patterson, 80, president of the City State Bank and a veteran of 60 years in the banking business, died Nov. 25 at his home, 401 S. Crawford. Walter William Patterson started in the banking business at Caldwell, Kansas, over 60 years ago. He worked in a bank in Dodge City, going to Preston, Kansas, in 1905. He sold his interest there in 1910 and bought the bank in Bronson. In 1917 the veteran banker bought a dairy farm located just north of the present Fort Scott Country Club. He operated the dairy five years. In 1922 he went to work for the State Banking Department and worked there two years. He lived in Wilson, Kansas, for five years. He moved to Fort Scott in 1928. He first operated a bank at 108 East Wall, moving to the present location in 1931. Mr. Patterson had planned to move his bank to a new building now under construction at the corner of First Street and Scott Avenue. Mr. Patterson is survived by his wife, Edna; and two sons, Walter, a Fort Scott attorney, and Preston, who was associated with his father in the City State Bank.

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

A Fort Scott attorney and former member of the Kansas Legislature representing Bourbon County, died Tuesday evening at Mercy Hospital. Charles Newton Briggs, 59, 802 S. Judson, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital. Mr. Briggs served in the Kansas Legislature from 1961 to 1963 and was a member of the Bourbon County Bar Association. Mr. Briggs served in the United States Air Force during World War II. Survivors include his wife Chlorine; a brother, Kenneth Briggs; and a sister, Opal Briggs. Services are under the direction of the Konantz Funeral Home.

Editorial: "Season's Best"--The vivid hues of early November have given way to bare limbs for the most part, except for the hardy oak, whose leaves defy the browning of autumn. Some will hang on until spring's buds push them away, resisting the tugs of winter's worst winds. Up go the downtown Christmas decorations adding a needed note of cheer to the change of seasons.