Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

The Old Soldiers monument to be erected by D.P. Bruce & Co., marble dealers of this city, is to be at Quenemo, Kansas, instead of Pleasanton. Mr. Menezes, the marble cutter and designer in the employ of Mr. Bruce, went up and secured the contract. In doing so he had to compete with seven or eight firms that had represented Topeka, Emporia and Ottawa. The Fort Scott firm won out. This speaks great credit upon the Fort Scott institution. When a firm can go into a contest and win against the bids of all others, it is something to crow about.

J.I. Sheppard, in his speech at the Labor Day festival, stated that while he was a believer in the cause of the churches he thought it a mistake to horde up a vast sum of money and expend it in erecting fine edifices, etc.

In Volker's Court this morning Dump Davis Trickle French and Allie Wells, whom George Cowan and Dick Fowler arrested for shooting craps at Athletic Park, were fined $10 and costs each. They were locked up because of their inability to liquidate.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

One group of excited children went to the circus this afternoon in a body as the guests of the Rotary Club whose annual custom it is to see that the kiddies in the Fort Scott Children's Home get to see the big show. They were taken in cars by members of the Rotary committee and given seats in a section especially reserved for them and given free by the Walter L. Main Circus management.

When W.S. Davison, president of the Fort Scott Teachers Club, welcomed the new teachers to the Fort Scott system at the reception Saturday, he mentioned the gratification that so many had received a major part of their education in Fort Scott's schools. Introduced were Miss Louise Burton, Miss Martha Hardin, Gladys Mason, Marguerite Jones, Frances Varvel and Fred Elliott.

Ova Newberry and wife left Saturday for the Ozarks where they will spend a week fishing and camping.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Fort Scott residents have been eating Ozark vegetables for a long time and now Bourbon County products are being shipped there. About every other day Wilbur Davis, truck gardener of northwest of the city, delivers a truck load of cucumbers and squashes to the Thomas Fruit Company at Pittsburg and the company in turn takes the vegetables to Joplin for distribution.

Sam Cole, of northeast of the city, injured his left leg in a fall at his home yesterday. He was treated at the Newman-Young Clinic.

Now showing at the Fox, "Funny Face" starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.

With the opening of the football season, coaches "Bud" Cole and Harold Raines of the Fort Scott Junior College football squad are putting their squad of 29 boys through some rugged workouts. Most of last year's outstanding players graduated last year. Up from the 1956 high school team are Gerald Woods and J.L. Sanborn.

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

Bread and stew will be featured among the special attractions at the Fort Scott National Historic Site during Labor Day weekend. Bakers John Regan and Mike Guilfoyle will be operating the Post Bakery on Saturday. Sunday activities will include the preparation of Slum Gullion Stew by company cook Charles Marsh in the Dragoon Barracks kitchen. The stew is prepared from an old military recipe. Sunday afternoon music will presented by Dragoons Ralph Carlson, guitar; Red Stradley, fiddle/bones; and Tim Travis, harmonica.

Christa Farmer, 11-year-old gymnast, has accepted an invitation to join the McCracken Gymnastics Club in Olathe. The invitation was the culmination of work during the past year with Fred McCracken to refine and improve Farmer's skills. The club competes in United States Gymnastics Federation sanctioned meets.