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Opinion
Farmers oppose quail slaughter
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
100 YEARS AGO
(1911)
A number of farmers who have been in the city during the past few days have stated that the slaughter of quail since the season was opened on the 15th has been unprecedented, and that to avoid the extermination of this useful bird there are being organized over the county anti-hunting clubs, whose object is to supress hunting in general by others than those who reside on the farms, and to prevent the slaughter of quails. North of the city the farmers are well organized, and are refusing permission to hunt on their farms. They met recently at the Maple Grove schoolhouse and adopted stringent rules. The penalty for hunting on the premises of another without the permission of the owner is a fine of not less than $5 and not more than $20 for the first offense.
We wish to take this method of thanking you for your many favors and for liberal patronage during the past year. We are still doing business at the same old stand and we hope to be able to supply your wants in the grocery line in the future as we have in the past. We beg to announce that we have just bought a wagon load of fine turkeys with which to supply our Thanksgiving trade.--E.O. Spencer, 702 East Wall Street.
75 YEARS AGO
(1936)
More than 1,000 persons visited the completely remodeled showrooms, banked with baskets of flowers from scores of Fort Scott merchants, as the Filizola Office Equipment Company held its big formal reopening at the newly- expanded store, 114 East Wall street, Saturday.
From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. hundreds of guests visited the store to offer congratulations to the owner-manager, Dee Filizola, whose policy of courtesy and service has built the business from its humble beginnings in 1916 to a firm requiring a four-floor building with modern repair and service departments.
Representatives from the Kansas City offices of the RCA Victor Company and the Nu-Enamel Company were present for the opening. Each visitor received a unique and useful gift.
Carroll West, recently of Joplin, has been added to the refrigeration sales staff. Others of the Wall Street firm are Louise Erickson, Gerald Toner, Frank Pshide and Charley Brookfield.
Let Ellis Music Co. provide your Thanksgiving turkey. With each Philco radio sold between now and Thanksgiving Day of $100 or more in price, we will present the purchaser with a nice big dressed turkey. Select your radio today!
50 YEARS AGO
(1961)
Photo caption: "Blue Mound is the reigning Linn League champion this year, completing the season with an 8-1 overall record. In the photo are Danny Needham, Dale Wayne Cobbs, Elton Murrow, Dick Booth, Jesse Randall, David Ungeheuer, Melvin Caylor, Raymond Harvey, Fred Ermel, Richard Long, Sam Shipley, Eddie Murrow, Jim Casida, Tlommy Rogers, Dwayne Broyles, Ralph West. Carl Smitheran, Jerry Booth, Jim Needham, Neil Spillman, Jim Cox, David Scharenberg, Larry Hester, Bill Murrow, Robert Stewart, Richard Miller, Dan Underwood, Gene Wright, W.E. Hoppes (freshman coach), Gary Wood, Willis West, Greg Post, Walter Johnston, David Brillhart, Jerry Rose, Mike Bishop, Marvin Hartman, Claude Adcox, Dale Dennis (coach), Dick Booth."
Photo caption: "Glenna Faye and Debbie Garnand, daughters of Mrs. Eloise Garnand of Route 2, are enjoying a break in the recent cool spell. The girls were visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chinn, 122 West Oak. The warm spell lends support to the old adage: 'If you don't like Kansas weather, just wait a while; it will change."--Triibune photo
25 YEARS AGO
(1986)
No publication.