Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

Some of the crosswalks on the East Side are reported to be covered with mud and almost impassable to pedestrians. The walk on East Wall Street, leading from Brown's Restaurant to the Frisco Depot platform, is always covered with a sea of mud after each rain and is impassable. Some of the walks in the residence part of the East Side are also in an impassable condition and should be looked after at once.

The total amount donated to Mercy Hospital for the Christmas donation was $76.50. The donations came from the people of this city and the hospital very greatly appreciates this generous act.

All members of Lodge No. 18 Homebuilders Union are requested to meet at Stayner's place Sunday at 1 p.m. to attend the funeral of Brother Conway, deceased.--J.B. Stayner, Secretary.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

The month of December just passed was very cold with plenty of precipitation, according to the report of E.A. Shaver, the government observer for Fort Scott. The average mean temperature was 33.69 with low mark of 5 degrees below on the 11th. The mercury also got down to zero on the 16th and one above on the 17th. It was the coldest December since 1927 when a low mark of five below was recorded and the average temperature was 32.04. The total rainfall during the month measured 3.96 inches, the heaviest rain of 3.52 coming on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th. The total of 3.95 was almost as much as in the previous four Decembers. The minimum temperature for the month was 69, recorded on the 5th. Total snowfall was 4 1/3 inches. The clear days numbered 20, the cloudy days 10, and partly cloudy one. The prevailing wind direction was southwest.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Wednesday special! Baked ham with sauce, candied yams, whole kernel corn, Jello salad, hot rolls and coffee.--Elmer's Cafe, 20 South National Ave.

The Good Luck 4-H Club met at the Bethel schoolhouse with George Hall presiding. New members voted into the club were Ronnie and Billy Lewis, Tommy Collins and Steve Haas.

Drywood 4-H Club held its Christmas party at the Charles Sinn home. Refreshments were served by the Sinn family.

A cheese food spread on the trigger of a mouse trap proved a tempting lure to two mice that were caught simultaneously at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Akers, 124 North Broadway. Akers found the mice side by side in the trap where they had dragged it behind a refrigerator. Mrs. Akers admitted that she was too nervous to bait the trap and that "unmousing" the trap was another duty to which her husband had fallen heir.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Competition for motorists' gasoline dollars brought the price of regular grade fuel below a dollar Wednesday night at several service stations in Fort Scott.

Falling below a dollar were Quick Trip, 603 South National; Hudson Oil, 1512 South National; Severy Kerr-McGee, 1920 South Main; and Seven-Eleven, 2 Jersey Avenue.

By The Associated Press--In an encouraging sign for would-be home buyers, the average interest rate that Americans paid on new mortgages dropped again in December, the fifth consecutive monthly decline. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said the average rate on long-t term, fixed rate mortgages fell 0.37 percent to 14.26 percent, matching the level of November 1980. The stock market surged Tuesday with the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rising 19.04 points to 1,046.08.

Only Security State Bank offers 12 percent on our seven-month investment certificate, with a $10,000 minimum deposit.