Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

J.I. Sheppard and G.W. Marble went to Garland this afternoon to attend a telephone meeting.

Over at Klein's second hand store Councilman Coyan has a crop of corn well underway. A while back he deposited some grains of corn in a pot where grew a fern. The corn grains sprouted and now three small stalks are to be seen issuing from the pot. They are about three inches in height.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

You owe it to yourself and to Fort Scott to support the Y.M.C.A. V.M. Liston, Superintendent of Schools: The Y.M.C.A. has made a real contribution to the oral and spiritual welfare of this community. In these days of careful budget planning we should look upon the work of the "Y" as an investment which we cannot afford to dispense with The record of the present management fully merits sacrificial giving to the end that the work may be continued.

Alvin E. Ruddick, President Kiwanis Club: The Y.M.C.A. offers to the young men and boys of Fort Scott an opportunity for character training and wholesome recreation with well trained leaders that should be taken advantage of by every boy in Fort Scott that can possibly do so.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Photo caption: "Pest Eradication" is the theme of a contest now underway at the FFA unit at Fort Scott High School. Jerry Stoughton and Richard Stark Jr. are team captains, shown here with vocational agriculture instructor R.P. Lattimer. Evidences shown in the picture are coyote foot, 150 points; mouse tail, 5; crow's head, 25; rat tail, 10; starling's head, 10; sparrow's head, 5; and rabbit tail, 10."--Tribune photo

Teen Talk (By Sharon Jarman)--Girl of the Week is Judy Hammons with brown hair an hazel eyes. Her favorite recording star is Elvis Presley; actor, Rock Hudson; sport, basketball; food, chicken fried steak; pastime, watching television or listening to records; pet peeve, people who don't speak; ambition, home economics teacher.

Approximately 51 band members under the direction of Raymond McCrum presented a band assembly in front of the high school and junior college students. Specials were by Howard Purcell on trombone and a trio of Ernie Lee, Jerry Witt and Phil Frick on the trombone. A hill billy trio included Sonja Cawlfield, Lorna Johnson and Carol Carpenter, who sang. The last number was a march that was written by Mr. McCrum.

Hammond: Correction--A correction seems in order on the last items published. Printed was RESTROOM instead of ROSTRUM (which was refinished in the church building. To date the church does not have a restroom. Work in the church has about been completed. Venetian blinds have been installed.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Sharon Johnston was elected president of the Fort Scott Camp Fire Council at the annual meeting. Also elected were Claudia Wheeler, Judy Rodgers, Linda Hessong, Joe Titus, Mary Schnichels, Penny Berry, Carolyn Bradbury, Margaret Titus, Gerald Hart and Richard Eckel. Organizational representatives include Judy Rodgers, Winfield Scott and St. Mary's; Myrtle Smith, Eugene Ware; Barbara Hoofnagle, Uniontown; Cindi Lipe, executive director; and Joan Crane, Judy Carter and Angela Lee, members at large.

Photo caption: "Steve Underwood, Devon, and Jim Cowlishaw, Redfield, unload building materials in front of the Ralph Richards Museum downtown. Members of the Historic Preservation Association of Bourbon County hope to have the first floor of the museum ready to open within year."--Photo by Tom Braker

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