Flooding hits Fort Scott

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

An eight-inch rainfall last night has resulted in the worst flood in years in Fort Scott. North Fort Scott is flooded and many lives and much property has been endangered there. Early this morning the work of moving families out of the flooded district was started and it has continued for much of the day. The rain of last night was probably the heaviest ever recorded in Fort Scott and vicinity, the government instruments recording a total precipitation of eight inches up to 7 o'clock this morning.

Again it becomes our sad duty to chronicle the death of another beloved citizen. On the afternoon of the 7th inst. William Peele left his home in apparently as good health as he had been for more than a month to haul a load of lumber preparatory to building a new barn. He came to Hiattville, transacted his business and started for his home at 5 p.m. When about 2 1/2 miles from his home he was seized with paralytic stroke and was unconscious when found. He moved with his parents at the age of 23 to Kansas from Indiana. The funeral was held at the M.E. church at Hiattville. Interment was in Hiattville Cemetery.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

The drought of 1936 became just a long list of figures in a file of musty records today as Fort Scott's first fall weather moved in early today on the heels of a steady downpour that by noon today had brought nearly three inches of rainfall. At Pleasanton about 2 1/2 inches had fallen this morning, the most rain that had fallen since July 1933, at one time. Motorists coming in from Uniontown and Bronson this morning reported every little stream and creek between those points and Fort Scott to be full of water.

The Evergreen Cemetery Association has asked County Engineer Hubert McCurley to prepare specifications for the resurfacing of the lanes in the cemetery and Mr. McCurley now has the work under way.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

Amen -- The Tribune's proofreader thought Elmer's Cafe had come up with a new dish when she read "Boiled Beer and Noodles" in the cafe's advertisement ... A check of the copy showed it should have been "Boiled Beef and Noodles."

UNIONTOWN -- The following selections at Uniontown High School are as follows: Cheerleaders--Evelyn Jones, Sherry Wood, Mary Royston and Carol Perry.

Pep Club officers --Sharon George, Mary Ruth Ramsey, Nancy Bowen, Nancy Graham and Martha Royston.

Paper staff -- Carol Perry, John Wiede, Evelyn Jones, Marion George, Mary Ruth Ramsey, Dale Guder, Neil Stevens, Nancy Graham and Larry Williams.

MAPLETON -- (By Mrs. Al Dennis) -- Mapleton grade school opened Sept. 1 with an enrollment of 50.

The all-new faculty includes principal, Miss Dorothy Lilly; seventh and eighth grades, Jean Isaac; fourth, fifth and sixth grades, Ruth Dahl, first, second and grades. Ruth Dahl reports an enrollment of eight in the special education room.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

The fourth annual reunion of Fort Scott's historical Battery E, 161st Field Artillery, will be held at the Best Western Fort Scott Inn Sept. 26-27. A tour of the local area has been arranged by the Olson-Frary-Burkhart Post 1165, Veterans of Foreign Wars, with Quartermaster R.C. Coyan in charge.

The former guard unit was activated in 1922 as part of the 35th Infantry Division, replacing Company G, 137th Infantry, which had been deactivated following World War I. Battery E was federalized Dec. 23, 1940, and later saw action in the Aleutian campaign and ended up in Germany after being redesignated a unit of the 209th Field Artillery which was deactivated following World War II. During the 18 years prior to federalization in 1940, hundreds of Bourbon County's young men served in Battery E.

Patrons Mutual Insurance Association, 118 W. Second. -- Ken Clary, Agent.