Basketball nets mixed results

100 YEARS AGO

(1912)

Last night at Columbus, the boys of the Fort Scott High School met the boys of that city and suffered one of the severest drubbing they have received this year. The score at the end of the game was 43 to 19 in favor of the other fellows. Just why the local quintet was so badly defeated is not known, not even by the boys themselves. The team there has their basketball court on the stage of their theater. It was small and up before everyone as to give our boys stage fright. This puts the boys in third place in the league. The girls are now champions of Southeastern Kansas and will be entered at Independence to compete for higher honors.

Bob Armstrong is the first person to buy a new car this year. He has purchased a Reo from the Fort Scott Implement Company.

75 YEARS AGO

(1937)

News of Farmers and Farming (By H.V. Cowan, The Tribune Farm Editor):

Ladies, how would you like to have gone out during the recent stormy period through storms and cold, when the ground was covered with ice and footing was slippery and dangerous, wading through mud and water since the thaw, and milk 10 cows morning and night? Well, we know a young farm woman who has been doing just this.

This young woman and her husband were only recently married and obtained employment managing a dairy farm and the two have been milking by hand the 26 cows on the farm in addition to the work of feeding and otherwise caring for the herd and other livestock. Now, doubtless all will agree that this is just too much of a chore for any woman and this young lady is slender and not too robust. But just the same no one can help but admire a young pair who will tackle a job like this and hope and believe they will succeed in anything they undertake.

50 YEARS AGO

(1962)

Photo caption: "Miss Beth Clayton receives a trophy from Ernie Lee for winning the Fort Scott Junior Miss contest representing the city in the state contest at Bellville this past weekend. Lee served as chairman of the Fort Scott Jaycee Junior Miss committee. Miss Clayton's expenses to Bellville were paid by the Jaycees and Tom Branch of the Coca-Cola Co."--Tribune Photo caption: "These five youngsters were chosen winners of a roller skating twist contest at the Fort Scott Roller Rink: Susie Coffman, Paula Phillips, Mary Lawson, Greg Blankenship and LaDonna Young."--Tribune Photo caption: "Billy Graham and Andy Gillispie were the leading bowlers in team competition this weekend. Graham had one spare and struck the rest of the frames. Gillispie had two spares and the rest strikes."-- Tribune photo

25 YEARS AGO

(1987)

Stinging sleet gave way to snow about 8 p.m. Monday, laying down a blanket of about 4 inches this morning. Roads in Fort Scott and throughout the region were reported snowpacked and icy today.

Editorial:

Lee Alexander, erstwhile secretary of the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce, is off to Topeka with our good wishes. For almost five years, Lee Alexander was the chamber to many people. For businessmen or tourists or just people with questions, hers was the smiling face and the friendly, helpful voice that answered the questions.

Editorial:

Probably it comes as no surprise to anyone that the Red Cross Bloodmobile has again met its quota. That occurred last week in the quarterly drive held on the Fort Scott Community College campus. It has happened so often that it seems almost routine.