City votes to overlay brick streets

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

A two-alley bowling alley has been bought by the directors of the Y.M.C.A. and it will be installed January 20th. Only members of the association will be permitted to use the alleys and they will be charged a nominal fee for playing to maintain a man in charge and to help pay the cost of the installation. When the Y.M.C.A. building was erected space for a two-alley bowling alley was left along the north side of the basement.

A large number of women are preparing to enter the Tribune-Monitor Baking Contest, which will be held in the Requa Building, No, 13 S. Main St. next Wednesday. The first 74 women who sign the coupon below will be assured of $1 worth of groceries. You can rest assured the goods will be delivered to your house the next day. Medals will be given to the first and second place winner.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

City schools will be dismissed Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for students first through sixth grade so that they may attended the Christmas party at Memorial Hall sponsored by the businessmen of Fort Scott. Students in the county under 12 years of age will also attend. The sponsors have ordered 4,000 sacks of candy weighing a ton to be given out. These will be issued to the children by Fort Scott Boy Scouts.

The delights of Christmastime will not be missed by the little patients in the crippled children's ward at Burke Street Mercy Hospital. Ten patients are in the ward. There will be a Christmas tree and Christmas carols and moving pictures Sunday afternoon in the Nurses' Home on Tower Hill.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

Photo caption: "The Gunsaullus Boys Choir of Eugene Ware School sang Christmas carols for the residents of Oak Haven Nursing Home, the Lyons Rest Home and Mercy Hospital. Pictured is Mrs. Flora Wolf at Oak Haven, who was the home's first guest. Larry Jones is choir president."--Tribune photo

Key Work Clothes Inc. held its annual Christmas dinner and program Friday night at the Presbyterian Church. Kenneth W. Pollock, owner, had charge of introductions. Harold Kraft, master of ceremonies, introduced the program. Bonus checks totaled $11,474. The evening's entertainment concluded with dancing at the Elks.

John E. Diesel, CPA of Fort Scott, has been elected a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

(Dec. 19) -- The Fort Scott City Commission voted 4-1 at a special meeting to proceed with the controversial overlay of two Fort Scott brick streets. Commissioners Claud Norris, Wally Anthony, Peggy Niles and John Baker voted in favor of the proposal while Charles Gentry opposed the overlay.

The streets that will be overlaid are Broadway, from Wall to Sixth streets, and Sixth from Margrave to Broadway.

The proposal was hotly contested at a public hearing with a group from the Historic Preservation Association of Bourbon County against the overlay, and a group of residents of the streets in question asking that the streets be blacktopped.

Opposition said that the streets were an important asset to the community because of their historic significance, while others argued that overlaying the streets would be less expensive than repairing the brick streets. Several Broadway residents had told the commission at a previously they felt brick streets were rough and noisy and were damaging their cars.