Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

Dr. Anderson and Dr. Holeman, of Garland, this county, both quite young but old enough to have some gray hairs, are it is said, perfect marble fiends. They are at present, so a Garland report says, putting in their idle moments in a series of games "for keeps" on a specially prepared marble ground at Garland. According to Garland folk, the two dignified doctors carry a pocket full of "chinies" each and each has a choice "mooney" for a "taw." The games are attracting wide attention.

Notice: The Love Hand Laundry has resumed operation under new management. Mr. William Parker, the present proprietor, is an experienced laundry man with 15 years of experience.

Try Bachmann's Soda Pop. We are always glad to show the public our plant. -- C.H. Bachmann, Wall and Ransom.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Residents of the East Side feel that hot weather is enough for them to have to put up with during the summer nights when they are trying to sleep without having to listen to train whistles. At any rate, complaints have been coming into the city commissioners about the whistling of trains on the Frisco, and when the matter was brought up it was decided to look into it. The city attorney is to confer with the Frisco officials and see if the soft pedal can be put on the locomotive whistles while they are pulling into and out of Fort Scott. An ordinance against trains whistling in the city was passed several years ago and is still in effect, it was said. However, it was thought that the whistling is not general on the Frisco, but that evidently one or two engineers who do not know of the complaints have been turning loose on the disturbing blasts.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Howard Campbell, 845 South National Avenue, tells this story about traffic on US69 during a holiday season. He was sitting on his front porch one day last week and counted 763 cars going north on the highway in one hour's time.

A group of adults and children took part in a trail ride sponsored by Ola Rylander. A free picnic was served at Rock Creek Lake by Mrs. Jack Todd and Mrs. Richard Hixon.

June is Dairy Month! Shop at Whiteside's: all brands cottage cheese, 2 pounds, 39 cents; homogenized milk, half-gallon, 37 cents; Half & Half, pint, 25 cents; Longhorn cheese, 16-oz. package, 30 cents; Velveeta cheese spread, 2-pound box, 79 cents; Maxwell House Coffee, 1 pound, 69 cents.

Ken Edwards was the Fort Scott Country Cub invitational gold tournament here with a cut of the cards after he was tied by Bob Coyan with a par 72 for 18 holes.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Look what we are paying! 6-month Money Market CD at 9 percent interest. -- First Kansas Federal Savings

A lifetime collection of antique typewriters made its way into the hands of the Historic Preservation Association of Bourbon County, Inc., or eventual display at the refurbished Ralph Richards Museum in downtown Fort Scott. The collection of 17 typewriters, valued at about $3,000, made its way to the HPA through the Fort Scott Rotary Club, which had spent $1,000 as part of a bequest from Harold Calhoun, who died last year, and Rotarian Lyndon Lewelling, who had hoped that the collection could be maintained intact in this area. Lewelling started his collection in the Depression years and some machines date back to 1890. In his typewriter business Lewelling explained a willingness to barter. Older typewriters were traded in for new ones. Lewelling said he once took five pigs in payment for a typewriter.