Santa visits children's home

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

Hog Lard -- Without a lot of compound in it, ABSOLUTELY PURE, the kind you used to buy in the old days still going at 10 pounds for $1. Best sauerkraut you ever tasted. Better try some pickles, too; sweet, sour and mixed. -- C.S, Abbott, East End Market, 1204 E. Wall St.

The 16 Tribune Monitor boys were entertained this afternoon by circulation manager O'Brien at a theater party at the Vaudette Theater. The boys used their new whistles for encores.

The whistles encores were used orderly, and added something to the zest of the entertainment.

Mark Pinkston and his relatives enjoyed a duck dinner at his house today. It was a duck dinner and they had two big fat ducks that were literally bottle-raised.

Last summer a neighbor gave Mr. Pinkston's boys a couple of duck eggs.

They were set under a duck and after setting on them about three weeks the hen duck abandoned the nest.

Mr. Pinkston's mother took the eggs and put them on a hot water bottle, paying close attention to them and keeping them at as an even temperature as possible.

In due time two little ducks were hatched. They were puny at first and finally they prospered. They made a fine feast for Thanksgiving.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

Out at the Burke Street Mercy Hospital 12 crippled children will have as their visitor tomorrow, the royal guest whom all Fort Scott will turn out to welcome. Santa Claus is a busy fellow these days, but he will take time during his visit here to motor out to the west side hospital and call on his little friends who can't be downtown to welcome him.

Sometime Saturday night burglars entered the home of the manager of the Montgomery Ward Store, H.L. Williams of 201 S. Eddy St. The house was ransacked from top to bottom and two wristwatches and $6 in silver were taken.

A child's bank which contained the money was found yesterday morning on the sidewalk in front of the house. The robbery was discovered when Mr. and Mrs. Williams returned yesterday morning from a Thanksgiving trip out of town.

A gift of enduring beauty and sentiment is the cedar chest -- priced as low as $13.50 at Conine-Larimer Furniture Co., 8 N. Main St.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

Editorial Comment:

In the Pittsburg Sun, Editor F.W. Brinkerhoff recalls an old character of this vicinity, probably still remembered by a number of old-timers hereabouts. "29-YEARS-AGO item notes that the Frisco had asked permission to close its station at Anna up in Bourbon County just north of Farlington. This is remindful of the picturesque character who had lived there. Brown was an early settler of Cato. His cabin home was on a creek north of that town. He outsmarted bushwhackers when he was home during the Civil War by building a tunnel from his cabin on a creek bank. After the war, he founded Pawnee Station and owned everything in the town.

The Frisco made it one of the stops. Brown was prominent all over the area and was often in Fort Scott as he was later often in Pittsburg. As soon as he founded the town he was given the nickname of "Pawnee" -- Pawnee Brown. But when the Frisco discovered there was another station by the name of Pawnee and changed the name to Anna, wags immediately changed Brown's nickname to "Anna," which the vigorous, aggressive Colonel Brown did not like. He was by no means feminine in his manner.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

No publication.