Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

D.F. Coon is home from St. Louis, having returned for the wedding of his daughter, Miss Stella, who today became the bride of Mr. Lulun Chittenden, of St. Louis. The Rev. Watkins officiated in the presence of family members. A bridal breakfast was served and the newlyweds left for Kansas City enroute to Canada and eastern parts. After August 1 they will be home at the Hamilton Hotel, St. Louis.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coon are here from Devon. They came for the Coon-Chittenden wedding.

Bob Jones, the black boy who has been working at Cohn's, and his bride left this afternoon for Colorado Springs.

Much of the designing done to fixtures at the Catholic church is the work of a young lady student at Notre Dame Academy. Many who attended last night's opening almost refused to believe that the work was not that of some imported designer and artist.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Arthur L. Wright, Fort Scott, and Dwight Greenfield, Garland, have been recommended to federal authorities by Gov. Alf M. Landon as foremen at the Federal Civilian Conservation Camp (CCC) at Pittsburg, according to an Associated Press wire. The men have been recommended at West Camp No. 202, near Pittsburg, one of a half-dozen camps being established by the government in the state. Wright was formerly a state oil patrolman. The foremen will receive a monthly pay of $119.

Thieves last night stole garden tools, seed, rope and automobile tires from Ben Harper and Harry Lee, farmers living west of Fort Scott, it was reported to Sheriff Harry Hyle this morning. Only recently, Mr. Lee had several chickens stolen. From Mr. Harper's motor car was parked in a shed, where four tiers and two wheels were taken. The Harper farm is about two miles from the Lee place.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Plans for Fort Scott's proposed new motel on the site of the old Goodlander were favorably received by the 120 Fort Scott business and civic leaders at a buffet dinner held last evening at the Country Club. The dinner gathering launched the community effort which has been in the planning stage several months, to finance the hotel project which is estimated to cost a total $400,000. Local investment funds of at least $200,000 will be sought to complete the financing of the motel. Of that amount, $44,500 has previously been subscribed and the funds used to buy the old Goodlnder site at the corner of National Avenue and Wall Street. A lot adjoining the Goodlander site on the south was also acquired to provide a 200-foot frontage for the new hotel. G.W. Marble, president of the hotel promotion company, told the group the replacement of the Goodladner had been a community goal for many years and had long been a subject of study by civic leaders.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Photo caption: "Nanette LaRoche, shortstop for K&K Auto Parts, makes a dusty slide safe into third. Pizza Hut's Theresa Buntain tries to scoop the ball as teammate Linda Sterup and K&K coach John Keating look on during a Women's Division II game."

Western Insurance slipped past Hammer Insurance 10-8 in a Men's Division II fast pitch softball game at the Softball Complex "A" diamond. Western had nine hits to support winning pitcher Tom Riley. Dennis Tally was two-for-five and Mark Douglas was two-for-four for Western. For Hammer, Larry Weatherbie was three-for-four.

Photo caption: "Jim Elgaard, Fort Scott Country Club building supervisor, pointed out a burned golf cart while Virgil Hall, of the Western Insurance Companies, and Chip Gross, of Gross Insurance Agency, viewed the debris. Damage to golf carts and a storage shed from a suspected electrical fire was still unestimated this morning." -- Photo by Tom Hutton