Memories spring eternal

100 YEARS AGO

(1906)

While in St. Louis, F.A. Hornaday purchased an automobile which will be one of the finest in the city. It will arrive in a few days. Mr. Hornaday bought a machine that has been used just a little and he got it as second rate. It is a machine which costs, when direct from the factory, $4,200. Mr. Hornaday got a good reduction. It is a forty horsepower, four engine Packard, with good speed capacity.

A horse drawing a buggy and driven by a farmer got scared at Grant Hornaday's automobile yesterday afternoon on the South Side Boulevard and ran into a ditch. The buggy hit a telephone pole and was slightly damaged.

75 YEARS AGO

(1931)

Fire of unknown origin which started last night about 11 o'clock destroyed the plant of the Fort Scott Hydraulic Cement Company north of the city and caused a loss estimated conservatively at between $75,000 and $100,000 to the buildings and machinery. The fire was discovered by E.V. Bates, night watchman at the plant. By the time firemen and other aid had arrived the structure was enveloped in flames and smoke was rolling upward in dense clouds. Workmen from the Kansas Utilities Company were called to take charge of he tension wires. Howard Thomas, president of the company, said the plant was insured and that he planned to rebuild immediately. Destruction of the plant is a serious blow to Fort Scott labor, as the cement company has been employing men steadily for the past several months. The cement plant was destroyed by fire about thirty years ago, it was recalled, but was rebuilt.

50 YEARS AGO

(1956)

Frank M. Stone, 72, former Fort Scott utilities executive, died Saturday at the Neurological Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., following an illness of several years. Mr. Stone came to Fort Scott in 1919 when he purchased the electric utilities company here. He expanded the company into a wide area as the Kansas Utilities Co. He remained as president of the company when it was sold in 1942 to the United Light and Railways Co. and took the name of the Eastern Kansas Utilities Co. He retired as president of the company in 1949. Survivors include his wife wife and three children, Mrs. Douglas G. Hudson and Dr. Francis M. Stone, Fort Scott; and Mrs. W.R. Heckman, Wakeeney. The funeral will be held at the Cheney Chapel with burial in Evergreen Cemetery.

25 YEARS AGO

(1981)

Photo caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Howard Armstrong will be honored for their 40th wedding anniversary with an open house Oct. 25 at the Armstrong home, 623 South Eddy. Howard Armstrong and Agnes Workman were united in marriage Oct. 26, 1941. The couple moved to Fort Scott from the Hepler area in 1960. The event is planned by their children: Steve, Stan and Diana."

Photo caption: "It has been quite a while since fishermen were able to fish the spillway at Lake Fort Scott. The eight inches of rain that fell on Fort Scott during the last week pushed the lake level above spillway elevation for the first time since early spring of 1980, according to Buzz Hawpe, Fort Scott Lake marshal."--Photo by Tony Fitts

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Editor's note: Memories Spring Eternal is the expanded version of Other Years, a feature appearing daily on the editorial page of The Tribune. Interaction is welcome from readers who relate in some way to the chronicled events. Comments may be directed to The Fort Scott Tribune, Box 150, Fort Scott, Ks. 66701.