Memories spring eternal

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

Alva Clark, aged 13 years, son of W.C. Clark, a Katy track laborer who lives in the old stone shanty at No. 219 North Eddy Street, came near drowning at 7:30 this morning in the Marmaton River near the Katy bridge. A venturesome youth and thin ice tell the tale. Had not a Katy freight crew gone to young Clark's aid he would surely have sunken to a watery grave. The boy was fished out by the trainmen who used ropes, but not until after he had gone down once and was feebly battling against the broken ice to save himself. All day today he lay on a cot at his home and shivered from the effects of his early morning bath. Young Clark had left home early to try out a pair of skates. The ice did not seem weak at first, but when he was in the center of the stream the ice broke and the boy went down. He screamed for his life. As the Katy freight train was puling out and the engineer seeing the boy's dilemma, he reversed the locomotive and summoned the crew. This is the first accident during the present freeze to result from skating. The lakes are all frozen over sufficiently to bear up any number of skaters. Parents, by all means should keep their boys off the river.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

DIAMOND

Rehearsals are going forward for the presentation of the annual play by the junior class of the senior high school, which will be given in the school auditorium March 10-11. Miss Ina Seagrave is directing the three-act play entitled "Dixie Rose." Members of the class chosen to take part are John Ault, Melvin Bloomfield, Herbert Thayer, Douglas Hudson, Dorothy Crain, Rosamond Barr, Daniel Walker, Frances Wood, Elizabeth Baldwin and Helen Purkey.

A pigeon killed at the Masonic Cathedral this morning carried a brass band around one of its legs. It had the following inscription on it: August 31, K.C,-1957."

Save by bringing your sash to Keplinger's and have glass installed.

Opening day special at Sanitary Cafe, 13 North Main Street: Regular 35 cent dinner, 25 cents; regular 25 cent dinner, 15 cents.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

School superintendent John F. Haberbosch and the four administrators of the Fort Scott schools were re-elected last night at the meeting of the Board of Education. Continuing next year in their present capacities besides Haberbosch will be C.W. Trogden, dean of the junior college and principal of the high school, Joe Arkle, principal of the junior high school, and Frank Albright and Eldred Sprecher, principals of Eugene Ware and Winfield Scott elementary schools. Fort Scott is scheduled for a dial telephone system, according to William T. Hall, manager of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., exchange. The first steps, in fact, including the installation of a couple of dial phone sets, have already been taken, he disclosed. The telephone executive is quick to warn that conversion is still in the distant future. It is a huge job and involves a long period of planning to accomplish, he said. Last year Fort Scott's growth surprised the telephone experts. Hall said a total of 205 new phones were installed in Fort Scott, many more than were anticipated. The Bell people can't explain the growth. They were of all types in regard to occupations and locations.

Some time Wednesday night during the inclement weather, a telephone pole near the corner of Eighth and Burke streets was struck and knocked down by a motorist when his car skidded on the slippery pavement. The damage was repaired early yesterday morning.

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

No publication.

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Editor's Note: Memories Spring Eternal is the expanded version of the 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, Kan. 66701.