Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

Forty-eight years without smoking is a pretty good record. It is the record of Hugh Draper, the veteran of the Fourth Ward. At the distinct clerk's office this morning, while J.H. Crain was scouring around trying to find a match to light his cigar, Mr. Draper casually stated that had not smoked for 48 years.

The firm of Thogmartin and Coe, builders of six miles' extension in the good roads leading from Fort Scott, dissolved partnership today. Mr. Coe is retiring from the firm and Mr. Thogmartin will conduct the business of the firm in the future. There seems to have been a scrap for the past three days between the builders and during that time work has been at a stand-still. Now that an amicable dissolution has been agreed upon, the work will be resumed. The firm of Thogmartin and Coe has a $20,000 contract from the good roads commission. It was to build six miles of extensions and has a mile-and-a-half of the work already finished. The nature of the trouble abrew between the men has not been announced. It is not known what Mr. Coe will do in the future.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Photo caption: "Pictured is Miss Mabel Stark, one of the star wild animal trainers with The Al G. Barnes Circus which will show in Fort Scott Aug. 12. Performances will be given at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Hudson pasture, south of the city. Miss Stark is recognized as the greatest woman trainer in the world."

Some time last evening thieves stole the trumpet horn and gear shift lever knob from the Floyd Mason car parked in front of his residence in the south edge of the city.

Bert Wallen has just bought from the school board the frame house at Third and Little and will begin razing it at once. This house is on a lot which is part of the tract bought by the school board as a site for a new school. The house formerly belonged to the First Baptist church.

Harry Cowman, Tribune rural reporter, is taking a week's vacation in the Ozarks.

J.E. Dudley has leased the store building at the corner of Sixth and Lowman streets and is remodeling the interior preparatory to opening a new grocery store

The office of Dr. Bergstresser in the Marble Building is being remodeled preparatory to the return of the doctor to his practice after an enforced vacation due to injuries received some months ago when struck by an automobile.

Dave Sipe of Devon was here Saturday transacting business.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Photo caption: "A happy smile comes from the newly appointed Brigadier General Richard Garfield Weede of the Marines. Also smiling their approval of his promotion are his wife, the former Margaret Dunton of Arcadia, who taught music several years ago at Eugene Ware School, and their son Richard Dunton Weede."

Karen Perry, rural Mapleton, was accidentally struck over the left eye by a pump handle at her home. She was treated at the Newman-Young Clinic.

Photo caption: "Hotel Besse Trophy, a traveling second place award of the SEKAN Ladies Golf Association, was awarded the runner-up Fort Scott team. Team members are Dorothy Leek, Grace Gardner, Ernestine Leek, Virginia Crane and Barbara Gench. Coffeyville won top place with a score of 43 1/2. Fort Scott was second with a 42,"--Tribune photo

Scoutmaster Dwayne Query, Troop 112, and Scouts Larry Brillhart and Donald Odell, Troop 114, will attend camp near Joplin where they will be initiated into Order of the Arrow, one of Scouting's highest honors.

Be sure and stop in at our exhibit at the Bourbon County Fair. Free ice water." McDonald Implement Co., 204 North National, Fort Scott.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

No publication.