Boat trips to be offered at Gunn Park

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

Did you ever try to find a vacant house in Fort Scott? You have had pretty hard luck in finding a good house if you have, for the homes of this city are great in number and nearly every house has an occupant. It is as hard to find a good vacant house as it is to find a good pearl in a clam shell, and almost all of the houses in Fort Scott are good ones. You may tramp up one side of a street and down another and you may not see a single house without an occupant. People coming here made those tramps and invariably they go to a hotel after a futile search and wait for their friends to inform them when a vacant house is found.

Board only $3.25 a week. You bet they are good meals. There are over 40 steady boarders now. Come join our crowd if you want the best meals for less money. Short orders, too. -- Long's Restaurant, 506 E. Wall

Oscar Herold and Paul Rathford are spending these days fishing near Redfield.

P.S. Perkins, Bert Smith, B. Harris and attorney W.F. Jackson went out on Paint Creek this morning fishing.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

The Marmaton Gunn boat, one of the finest little crafts to ever to sail the waters of the Marmaton, will be launched at Gunn Park within a few days and will be one of the attractions during the summer months. Will Malone, owner of the boat, who has the boating concession for the park, has been notified by the W.H. Mullins Company of Salem, Ohio, that the boat should arrive here soon. Exclusive to the freight, which reached to over $100, the boat cost Mr. Malone $1,383. It is the automobile type boat and will seat in comfort more than a dozen passengers.

All of the seats are upholstered and everything is arranged for the convenience of the patrons of the boat line.

Mr. Malone plans to operate the boat regularly during the summer. Each trip will be about nine miles, starting from the park. In addition to this boat there will be two other launches on the river and a large number of row boats. The park board is endeavoring to secure other amusements for the park and if possible will have them installed by the Fourth of July when it is intended to have an opening celebration.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

Plans for building sites at Lake Fort Scott are moving ahead, the city commission indicated today. In other business, a building permit was approved for Tom Moreland, 802 Horton, for converting a porch into a bathroom.

Dean Ralph Evans announced this morning the valedictorian and salutatorian for Fort Scott Junior College. Valedictorian Mary Ann Cromer had a grade average of 2.81; 3.0 is a straight-A average. She was also valedictorian of her high school class at Fulton in 1959. Mrs. Hazel Stoughton, salutatorian, received a 2.77 grade average. She also was graduated from Fulton High School. Both students plan to transfer to Pittsburg State College.

The Fort Scott Municipal Swimming Pool will not be opened to the senior high school graduates as part of their parent-sponsored party following commencement, due to the weather interfering with the annual painting of the pool before filling, advised Joe Arkle, pool lessee.

The "swim" has been a custom for several years.

Fish fry every Wednesday night at Downtowner Hotel Restaurant. All you can eat fried fish, French fried potatoes, cole slaw, cornbread. coffee. Adults $1 and children 75 cents.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

No publication.