Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

Captain G.F. Pond, of Peck's Villa, will go over to Nevada in the morning to attend the old soldiers reunion.

The Sunday School of the First M.E. church will hold a picnic tomorrow at Fern Lake Park. A special car leaves the uptown center for the park at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The telephone company will issue a new directory Sept. 1. Parties intending to have a telephone put in their residence or business should call up Main 515 at once, as this will be the last directory issued before Jan. 1, 1909.

The all-day tour has been planned for the Northeast Scott 4-H Club. A basket dinner will be held at the home of Woodrow Strader in the district of Shiloh School. Let every member be present in doing his part for the club and the educational value he will receive.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Funeral services for Nehamiah Jones, retired farmer of Devon, were held Aug. 9 at the Cheney Chapel and was largely attended. Interment was in Mapleton Cemetery with the I.O.O. F. Lodge at Blue Mound in charge. Honorary pallbearers were L. Silvers, E.L. Kepley and Arthur Beth. Active pallbearers were J.A. Mulkey, Charles Provst, Bryan Paddock and Harry E. Murrow, selected from the I.O.O.F. Lodge at Blue Mound.

The funeral of Monroe Wesley Moudy, veteran barber, was held Thursday at the Christian church conducted by the Rev. J.R. Babb. Among the many old friends present were members of the Moose and a large group of barbers of this city. Burial was in the family lot in Evergreen Cemetery, beside his wife.

The Al G. Barnes show train of 29 cars is scheduled to arrive in Fort Scott at 7 a.m. tomorrow from Sedalia, Mo. The show will be unloaded at the Missouri Pacific Depot and the cars switched to the Katy tracks where they will be loaded Saturday night for travel to Clinton, Mo.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Town and Country -- By H.V. Cowan, Tribune Farm Editor:

The recent flood here is still a common subject of conversation. As a group of men talked about the flood a few days ago, mention was made of the damage in North Fort Scott and the crops along the Marmaton River bottom which were under water for two days. Other floods were recalled by some of the party and Bob Banes, candidate for county commissioner of the First District of Linn County, recalled a heavy rain storm which was apparently a cloud burst just south of Mound City years ago. Barnes thought the date was about 1908. He said the rain was so heavy that a number of turkeys, roosting in the trees on a farm, were drowned on their roost. The water fell in such a downpour that the birds could not breathe and fell dead on the ground.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Tax payers protesting a planned tax increase of more than one-third at Fort Scott Community College walked away from a meeting with promises that the school's trustees would pursue trimming "frills" from the 1983-84 budget. The meeting opened with a flurry of demands and questions from the 35-member audience with responses from FSCC officials often cut short by additional questions. Besides a lengthy discussion about putting a cap on the number of foreign students enrolled at the college, several people said the trustees should eliminate classes with small enrollments and said the college hired too man administrators, custodians and teachers.