Red Barn restaurant featured in magazine

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

A number of those in from the country districts today expressed themselves as enthusiastic for a countywide celebration here on the Fourth of July for the opening of Gunn Park and a large attendance from the county and smaller cities is assured. Efforts are being made to secure the Hiattville, Mapleton and other bands from over the county and each would be accompanied by a large delegation of citizens.

There will be plenty of room and shade at the park for all rigs, a large grove in which they may be tied and every accommodation offered for those who care to picnic there, bringing their dinner baskets with them.

Restful -- Thirst Quinching -- Nerve Relieving. Drink a bottle of Coca-Cola. Order a case from your dealer, 24 bottles 75 cents; or telephone 201, Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

Harold Ewing, an employee of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, 301 E. Wall St., is nursing a badly swollen left ankle, believed to be caused from a bite of a spider.

Harold was lying on a couch at his home on South Clark Street Saturday evening when, he said, something bit him. He plans to get medical attention.

The Athenaeum Study Club was delightfully entertained by Mrs. Anna Brown, 623 Burke. The club enjoyed a review of the Reader's Digest given by Mrs. Grace McLemore. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Nancy Parks.

A total of 52 persons was employed today on the county's $1-a-day emergency relief projects.

Of those, 20 were women employed in the county sewing room in the basement of the courthouse.

J.D. Warren went to his farm near Hiattville to superintend the vaccination of 150 cattle.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

AMEN -- The Red Barn Restaurant of Fort Scott is one of four unique eating places appearing in Ford Times, a travel magazine of nationwide distribution. The feature is entitled "Famous Recipes of Famous Taverns." Accompanying the Red Barn's favorite recipe, "Heavenly Hash," is a color painting by Charles Bank Wilson.

Save every day of the week at Whiteside's IGA: IGA American or Swiss sliced cheese, lb. 29 cents; IGA Tablerite Margarine, 2 lb. packages 39 cents; fresh Florida tomatoes, 4 in a tube, 15 cents.

Photo caption: "Boys Staters look over literature in preparation for their trip to Wichita for the 2nd annual Boys State convention. They are Melvin Woods, Phil Hammons and Bill Frick." -- Tribune Photo caption: "Carl Clinesmith pushes Mrs. Clinesmith down North Crawford Street last night when the couple was charivaried on their silver wedding anniversary by the Mariners Club of the Presbyterian Church." -- Tribune photo

Ora Stuart, 607 S. Margrave, was selected by the Fort Scott Board of Education in a meeting last night to teach mathematics at the junior high school next year.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

Editorials/Features

That utterly forgettable new formula Coke, which for a year or so the Coca-Cola people have been trying to say is the real Coke, has now slipped from its market peak of 15.5 percent of soft drink sales in U.S. food stores to about 2.6 percent.

And now McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken have jettisoned the new stuff for the good of reliable old formula, which the Coca-Cola people insist on calling not Coca-Cola, but Coca-Cola Classic.

When the Coca-Cola Co. completes its purchase of Dr. Pepper, things are likely to get even stickier as available bottling time must be appointed among several brands that do sell and one that doesn't.

Maybe they'll just end up acknowledging that the attempted Coke change was a Classic mistake.