Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

Nearly $100,000 is spent in Mexico City every week on lottery tickets, and in the same period only about $70,000 is paid back in premiums.

Pearl necklaces and pearl earrings are popular for summer wear. See what we have and get our prices. -- D. Prager & sons

There is no reason why anyone in Fort Scott should go away to the mountains to spend the summer. You will find no more delightful weather in Colorado or in the North than we have had right here of late. It is true that the days have been pretty warm some times, but there hasn't been a really oppressive night yet and in another eight weeks fall will be here.

Yesterday, a woman appeared at the Frisco station to purchase a ticket to a point down in Oklahoma. She anxiously imparted to the agent the story that friends of hers had told that Indians down there were uprising and that the situation was fearfully ugly. She didn't want to make the trip if there seemed any danger.

Another evidence of the prosperity of the farmers of the state of Kansas is the fact that 56 percent of the 2,100 students in the State University come from the homes of Kansas farmers. The first college paper issued at the University of Kansas was during the academic year 1876-77.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

The biggest rain to visit this vicinity since May 28 fell here Saturday night and Sunday morning when 2.42 inches were recorded. A grand total of 2.81 inches fell over the weekend. Futon and Barnesville report 4 inches. The rain was a great help to corn and pastures and in many places filled the ponds to provide stock water. It also was an aid to some garden truck. such as tomatoes, beans and sweet corn. The thermometer stayed in the 90s over the weekend.

Scott's Scrapbook: It is a mystery why nature has protected the armadillo with a heavy coat of armor because the animal is almost worthless.

Waterworks Notice: Water bills are now due and payable with 10 percent discount until July 20.

New tennis champions are being established in the city tennis tournament held on the Civic Cub court at Eighth and Eddy streets. The men's singles championship will be determined when J.C. Gross contends with Charles McKey. Gross defeated Stuhl in a spectacular match while McKey won from Charles Warren. In men's doubles Liepman and McKey vie with Gross and Coleman for the crown. Gross and Coleman defeated Warren and Collins, while Liepman and McKey were victorious over Stuhl and Humphreys.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Hal Humphrey, former Fort Scott resident, now living at Lakewood, Calif., paid a visit to the old home town today after an absence of 32 years.

Central Gun Shop won 13 to 1 over Meadow Gold Dairy at Othick Park last night. LeRoy Ruhl pitched perhaps the finest game by any pitcher in the league so far this year. He allowed only two hits and one unearned run.

Larry Dunham, Don Carson and Ernie Lee have returned from Newport, R.I,, where they attended the International Jazz Festival. They were gone 10 days. They visited New York City for the first time.

Janet Seitz, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Seitz of Garland, who fell from a swing at the Drive-In Theatre Saturday, is now convalescing at Mercy Hospital after an X-ray at Newman-Young Clinic disclosed a fracture.

Roy Jackson, Junior Evans and Bill Mills visited Riverside Park at Independence, Kan., and took colored movies of a Santa Fe steam engine at the park to be used in connection with a railroad story which they have written.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

No publication.