Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

Frank Cullers, who for some time has been conducting a lunch stand and restaurant down near the Frisco Depot, has sold his business to E.G. Tucker who will conduct it in the future. Mr. Tucker intends to remodel the place and make it more up-to-date..

Some weeks ago the board of education of this city established the school savings bank system here and since that time it is pleasing to note that the system has proven a great success. The children have taken to the banking idea kindly and many of them have established quite a snug little account in some instances reaching $10 or $15.

Mrs. Kepley, of Devon, was yesterday operated on at Mercy Hospital for tumor. Dr. Carver performed the operation which was a success.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

The Y.M.C.A. gym and balconies were packed last night for the Old Fiddlers' Contest. The hundreds of people included not only the old-timers from the rural areas but many of the younger generation to whom the old fashioned music is a great novelty. Ten of the gray-haired musicians competed and at times there was considerable comedy. The 10 entries in the contest were J. Riley, Fort Scott; J.F. Carrington, Fort Scott; Alf Smith, Mound City; Charles Grimes, Fort Scott; J.A. Post, Mound City; Ed Freedman, Hiattville; and T.H. Moran, Fort Scott; and J.B. Marra, of Kansas City, Mo.; George Purdy did not bring his fiddle and therefore could not play. Judge C.H. Danner announced the winners to include the following: Ed Freedman, 67, third time champion, $5; J.B. Marra, 76, father of Mrs. W.S. Davison, second, $3; and John A. Post, 70, and third place, $2.

Forty members and visitors were present for the December meeting of the Drywood 4-H Club. Thelma Duncan led the club pledge. Apples, sandwiches and popcorn were served.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

The purchase of the former Central Life Insurance Co. building at 102 S. National, from the Victory Life Insurance Co. of Topeka is announced by C.C. Otto, president of the Western Insurance Companies. "Since Western Insurance Companies remodeled our present building over 10 years ago our business has more than tripled. We have used up the space in this building and we feel that Central Life building offers us good office type space which we can use to relieve the congestion of our present building," Otto asserted. The Central Life Insurance Co. was founded here in 1906 by Robert Tiernan and H.L. Stout. Tiernan moved to Kansas City in1927 when he organized the Equitable Savings Life Insurance Co. The firms merged in 1929 with Tiernan as president.

A car owned by August Oberzan, 1702 S. Eddy, received an estimated $75 damage in an accident at the Safeway parking lot. Oberzan was shopping when another vehicle evidently skidded on the ice and struck Oberzan's car. Police said the other driver left the scene.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

The board of education agreed that a grand piano would be purchased for the junior high school with the junior high P.T.A. paying a part of the cost. Two upright E-flat tubas were also purchased for the junior high band. P.T.A. funds used for the purchase of the piano were proceeds from school carnivals held at the junior high building two years ago when Mrs. Pauline Irby was P.T.A. president at Central School. The money has been held in escrow.

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