Hours reduced for Missouri Pacific shops

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

E.A. Shaver, government weather observer, has filed his monthly report showing August with 5.7 inches of rainfall, which makes the total for the months of July and August 10.86.

It was given out today at the Missouri Pacific shops that the working hours for all departments, after tomorrow, will be eight hours instead of nine as has been the condition for some time past. It is also stated that a number of men will be taken from the payroll and that the number may be large.

The company is working a very large force at present. But in view that a large part of the work has been done, the company finds that the laborers number too many to warrant permanent employment for all.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

Pouring of concrete for the new band shell at the South Main Street Park was finished Saturday and indications are that the structure will be completed by Sept. 20.

The work of the installing the plumbing and putting on stucco remains to be done. The band shell is to have two dressing rooms.

There will be outside steps on each side making the stage accessible from the ground.

Authorities at the Crescent School District, between Fort Scott and Devon on K7, reported today to County Superintendent Mona Page that they had had a test made of the water in the well at the school and that it had been found that the water contains bacteria which makes it unfit for drinking.

In an effort to remedy this condition the authorities will have the water in the well removed and will disinfect the well with chemicals. Fresh water will then be hauled in from Fort Scott.

Miss Lorna Johnson, supervisor of the WPA educational project in the county, has rented 15 typewriters to be used in instructing classes in typewriting.

Miss Johnson is asking that all persons who wish to join the class meet Wednesday evening at the women's sewing room on the third floor of the Calhoun's building.

The picture of Mrs. Virgil Spencer, who before her marriage last Sunday was Miss Dorothy Lee of this city, appeared in the Sunday Topeka Capital, and an account of the wedding was given. Mrs. Spencer is shown in her going away costume.

The Eugene Ware-Parent Teacher Association will have another book exchange at Eugene Ware School all day Wednesday.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

Jim Hunsicker, a bee keeper, says he eats honey on his peas. "It makes the peas taste terrible, but they stay on my knife," Jim says.

Fort Scott students who will attend the University of Oregon at Eugene are Tom and Bill Pollock, Gary Cross, Gordon Zimmerman and Shannon McMillen. Kenneth Mosier, former Fort Scott teacher, instructs debating at the college and also will be working on a degree.

Northwest Scott (By Mrs. Ed Blair) -- Bunker Hill School opens Aug. 31 with Mrs. Bill Forbes and Mrs. Milton Kohrs as teachers and Jesse Duncan as bus driver.

RICHARDS (By Mrs. Donald Koontz) -- The school bell rang Aug. 28 with faculty members ready to meet the students.

Registered are 71 in grade school and 41 in high school. Music teacher George Schuman will divide his time between Richards and Walker.

ARCADIA (By Nancy Brown) -- A one -night old fashioned revival was put on at the Cato Church near Arcadia. It was in response to a demand by Nelson Corporon's Pittsburg Sunday School class, none of whom had ever witnessed a service of that kind

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

No publication.