Memories spring eternal

100 YEARS AGO

(1906)

Miss Nana Gunn, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Gunn, who has been attending a private school at Washington, D.C., is expected home a few days to spend the holidays. Miss Gunn is with her aunt, Mrs. Baker, at Washington.

A.J. Scott, father of Mrs. Geo. E. Ware dropped dead yesterday at the dinner table at his home in Scotland, Ill. Mrs. Ware was advised of his death by wire and she and Mr. Ware left last night for that place to attend the funeral. Mr. Scott was a wealthy retired farmer, living in the Illinois town that was named after him. He had many Fort Scott acquaintances.

The pamphlet edition of the flag raising proceedings on Dr. McDonald's lawn, which is soon to be issued, will be an attractive and interesting little document and something which the participants in that affair will hand down to posterity and to their heirs with great pride. Those who have been asked to do so and have failed to provide half-tone cuts from their photographs for this edition will have to act quickly if they desire them inserted in the publication.

75 YEARS AGO

(1931)

"The announcement that I have bought a home in Kansas City, while true, was greatly exaggerated as to the particulars and the amount involved," R.B. Duboc said today. "There is no significance to be attached to it so far as the business or location of The Western Insurance Companies is concerned. Our rapidly expanding interests in and around Kansas City are requiring more and more of my time and as a matter of personal convenience the location of my home there may become desirable. However, I am not severing any of my connections with Fort Scott, and will be here just as much of my time as before.

The Margrave PTA entertainment drew a packed house at the school with Mrs. H.L. Whitehouse and Mrs. Earl Schumaker in charge. The proceeds will go toward the milk fund and to supply extra nutrition to those in need.

50 YEARS AGO

(1956)

Pearl Harbor (AP)--Where once the battleships were moored row on row--inviting targets for the Japanese planes which smashed them 15 years ago today--a trim little motor launch ties up every morning. Some 100 tourists walk slowly aboard, subdued, chatting in whispers, awe-struck by the scene where history was made the the United States plunged into World War II on the day that "will live in infamy." There were 94 ships in Pearl Harbor on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. Some 2,000 men died, torn to bits in the explosions of bombs, burned to death in the flaming waters of the harbor as oil spilled from stricken ships and caught fire from incendiary bombs trapped below decks of ships on their way to the bottom.

25 YEARS AGO

(1981)

These five Fort Scott area men look back upon more than 200 years of railroad engineers' service with fondness, frustration and feelings that they would do the same things over if they had the chance. The five, all friends since Fort Scott High School days in the late 1930s, signed on with the Frisco before World War II. All but one retired this year, the others retired in 1978. Lon Conrad, Lloyd Townsend and Max Willard all went to work on Christmas Day in 1939. George Baird climbed aboard almost a year later, Dec. 20, 1940, and Wes McClain joined his buddies March 31, 1941. Willard retired in 1978, McClain last March and the others last May.

The brilliant new KG&E entrance on National Avenue adds much to the attractiveness of that street. This is the kind of downtown improvement that add to the pride in Fort Scott as a business and shopping center.