Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

Opening for young man who has a desire to learn journalism and has some natural ability in that direction. The right party can find a good opening by calling at the Tribune-Monitor office. Must be of good habits and industrious. Good opportunity for the right man. Young man between the ages of 17-20 preferred. Call at once.

Charles Long, representing the Lachman-Loos Hippodrome Shows, is in the city making final arrangements for the coming to Fort Scott of this amusement enterprise. The fall carnival will be held on Main Street near the high school. This company carries 10 big shows, a giant Ferris wheel and Merry-go-round. The shows with this company are moral and refined, being endorsed by the press, public and clergy. The company will arrive Sunday and will be going full blast Monday evening.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

Fort Scott football followers who may be seeing the Kansas University squad in action the next few weeks will recognize Ray Brinkman, Fort Scott boy, when he appears on the field by his number which is 66.

In the Tribune window bulletin window is some fine corn raised on the Willard Templar farm near Porterville. The 12 white ears are fully matured and weigh 14 pounds and 4 ounces The Templar farm is on Highway 39 and Roy M. Ellis is the tenant.

Dr. L.W. Richardson has vaccinated a large herd of hogs for George Golden, of near Garland. He informed a Tribune reporter that the price of vaccination is being reduced, the same as the price of hogs.

With the recent frosts, the Maple trees over town and in the forests have turned a golden brown.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

The Bourbon County Medical Society and the Mercy Hospital staff held their monthly meeting at the Mercy Hospital with Dr. Leland Randles presiding.

A 1930 Model A Ford was estimated a total loss by city police following an accident at Oak Street and National Avenue. The accident occurred when Clarence W. Rohrer, 82, Richards, driving the Model A was making a left turn onto East Oak.

A special Christmas toy center will lift the curtain on pre-Christmas shopping here a 1 p.m. tomorrow as Mack Comstock of the Comstock Service Center opens his new Comstock Toy Warehouse, 114 North National Avenue. Featured are toys and a gift line which will include bicycles and dolls at wholesale prices. Comstock says these are neither "seconds" nor close-outs, but the nationally advertised line of Firestone toys.

25YEARS AGO

(1982)

Photo caption: "Diana Kraft, a Fort Scott High School junior, receives a bouquet from Donnie Hall, Tiger defensive end, just before being crowned Tiger Homecoming Queen for 1982. She is the daughter of Harold and Wanda Kraft. Jeffrey Good, 4, is crown bearer, and Amanda Brown is the rose bearer."

Photo caption: "The granite cornerstone for the new Fort Scott High School sits amidst other elements of the high school's dedication ceremony conducted Friday in front of 75 spectators. Floyd Parks, president of Bruce Marble & Granite Works, and his wife Lois, class of '46, donated the corenerstone for which a niche has been carved in the school's west wall. The class of '27 stone, which was repaired after being chipped, will be sealed in concrete and placed just east of the flag pole on the west front lawn. The copper box, which will be sealed inside the building, contains old high school annuals and other memorabilia. Dick Hedges, high school principal, is seen in the background."

-- Photo by Dale Wetzel