Something missing from the National Cemetery

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

Pat Gorman, one of the best known of Bourbon County's stock raisers, is a patient at Mercy Hospital and is nursing a hand from which one finger was cut off and another badly crushed. The accident happened at Fulton Saturday when Mr. Gorman was closing a car door. The injury was dressed by Dr. Smoot of Fulton. Yesterday it became so painful that Mr. Gorman decided to come to this city and he is now a patient at the Mercy Hospital.

The V.Q. Powell Jewelry store, this morning, received a new safe which will be used to lodge jewelry.

The safe weighs 4,000 pounds and was manufactured by the Carey Safe Company.

The annual old settlers' picnic and M.W.A. log rolling opened this morning at Garland and will continue for the remainder of the week.

Today and tomorrow are the regular days for picnicking. A carnival is being given this year in connection with the picnic. A number from Fort Scott went for the picnic today and many more plan to go tomorrow should the weather prove agreeable.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

Bourbon County Safety Council:

The right side of the road is always the right side on which to drive. To keep well to the right is a universally good policy when motoring. Even then, there may be danger, but the fault will not be yours.

In 1935, seven accidents resulting in eight deaths were caused by the violation of the traffic rules in Kansas. How long will you and I be lucky?

The government is advertising for sealed bids to be entered by Sept. 16 for a booster pump for the new federal building here. The pump will be used to force pressure for the fourth floor of the building where pressure is inadequate.

Wayne and Don Meek did not play with the Hume baseball team yesterday against the Kansas City Booster Girls at Hume. The intense heat kept the boys at home.

The fire department answered a call at 6:39 a.m. this morning at 1430 S. Ransom St.

A neighbor heating water over an outside fire excited Clarence Armour and he called the department. There was no damage.

The fire department was called to the Nazarene church, Wall and Broadway, yesterday at 9:35 o'clock. They found an old log burning in the church yard.

There was no damage.

Why suffer with piles? Use Synott's Pile Preparation; $1 a box.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

"Something was missing at National Cemetery" was the title of an inquiry appearing in yesterday's Reader Opinion column. Missing, according to the writer, are the familiar cast iron plaques at intervals on each side of the driveway, on which were engraved Theodore O'Hara's poem, "Bivouac of the Dead." P.O. Crawford, superintendent of the cemetery, today confirmed that the plaques are gone. They were removed about a year ago, he said, on government order. He had them trucked to Fort Leavenworth, the disposal center for government-owned property for this area. They were presumably junked. Removal of the iron plaques was prompted by maintenance problems, according to Crawford. They cost $110 a year to be painted. They were difficult to mow around. They served as bird roosts. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, also embossed on a cast iron plaque, remains in the cemetery. It is attached to the porch of the superintendent's residence.

MOUND CITY -- The centennial pageant, "Kansas in Review," drew more than 2,000 people here last night despite muddy grounds. The pageant was narrated by Leighton Fossey, Mound City attorney. It was estimated 6,500 persons attended yesterday's fair. It was necessary for workers to lay straw in the area to for spectators.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

No publication.