Junior college invited to national contest

100 YEARS AGO

(1911)

Gus Greenfield is building new cement walks around his home at the corner of Third and Crawford streets. There is no small amount of walkway around the house as there is a side entrance and a front entrance to the house. Mr. Greenfield has one of the finest looking residence properties in the city.

Hungry robbers entered the cellar of the Ben Files residence sometime Sunday night and helped themselves to two pounds of butter and three-dozen eggs. Nothing else in the cellar, or any part of the house, was bothered. Mr. Files said he has some information as to whom the robbers were.

The funeral of Miss Elsie Lyon was held yesterday from the home, 316 S. Lowman St. The family left a short time later with the body for burial in the Mt. Orum Cemetery. The beautiful floral offerings told in a way the high esteem in which Miss Lyon was held.

75 YEARS AGO

(1936)

Farmers and Farming (Edited by H.V. Cowan, Tribune Farm Reporter):

Living on a farm where they were 2 1/2 miles from school and 3/4 mile from a mail route and on a road which was difficult of navigation when it was muddy, the family of C.E. Caldwell came to know the value of a good road and of being near school and a rural mail route. So they left their farm near the state line north of Garland and bought the George Van Dyke place near Devon. Now the Caldwells live on a hard-surfaced road near school and where a mail route goes right by the door. They are putting out much manure on the land this spring and are planning to make some improvements on the farm with a view to making it their home.

50 YEARS AGO

(1961)

Fort Scott Junior College debaters have again received an invitation to participate in the National Junior College Debate Tournament, to be on the campus of the Stockton (California) Junior College April 11-15.

Chub Brown was the top bowler to go into action last night in city league getting a high line of 219, backed by lines of 193 and 189 for the series.

Richard Dixon counted 215 for second place and Louvett Van Buskirk tallied 202. Jessie Sapp was the high scorer for women with a 231 and a three line 517.

Reports circulating that the Fort Scott High School and Junior High had been reduced in state rating were denied today by Lawrence R. Simpson, director of certification of State Board of Education. Simpson told a group of Fort Scott men in conference telephone interview that the rating of the schools had not been reduced from Class A to Class B, as was reported widely. A $785,000 bond issue calls for a new junior high school building adjacent to the high school and a joint gymnasium for the two schools. The present junior high building would be used for the junior college.

25 YEARS AGO

(1986)

The additional flurry of activities will accompany the nostalgic festivities of the 1986 Good Ol' Days festivities weekend June 6-8 as Fort Scott holds one of seven regional celebrations for the 125th anniversary of Kansas statehood. The Good Ol' Days attracted about 60,000 people during 1985, organizers estimate.

Organizers said they expect that the atmosphere will be more reminiscent of the1890s because most of the downtown building restotration and canopy projects are complete.

Photo caption: "Spring jonquils, like these at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 123 S. National, add their own bright yellow bonnets to the celebration of Easter." -- Photo by Michael Beck