Memories spring eternal ... (07/02/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) County Assessor J.R, Connolly is still making additions to the county tax rolls. Seldom a week passes but what Jim unearths certain property which deserves a berth on the tax rolls, but which has always escaped. The rain which fell in torrents this afternoon was of course not needed. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/01/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) It is understood that a movement has taken tangible form that will probably permit no more baseball to be played on the Sabbath. A delegation of citizens, who are interested in the Sunday enforcement law, has waited upon the county attorney and told him a complaint would be asked for every person who engaged in a baseball game on Sunday hereafter. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/27/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) A report is sent out of the Missouri Pacific general office that the company intends jerking out phones in the stations where phones months ago went in the place of telegraph instruments. The report says that the company has decided to return to its old system, as the phone business wasn't a signal success. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/27/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) A report is sent out of the Missouri Pacific general office that the company intends jerking out phones in the stations where phones months ago went in the place of telegraph instruments. The report says that the company has decided to return to its old system, as the phone business wasn't a signal success. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/26/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) OYSTER BAY -- President Roosevelt will leave at 1:30 Friday afternoon on a special train for Princeton to attend the funeral of Grover Cleveland. With him will go Mrs. Roosevelt. When the president's train reaches Long Island City the Pennsylvania Railroad tug, Lancaster, will receive the party and steam to Jersey City. From that place a special train on the Pennsylvania Railroad will convey the party to Princeton where the president will arrive at 4:45...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/25/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Manager Orchard, of the Chautauqua, is going to appear before the city council and ask permission to pitch the Chautauqua tent across Scott Avenue, north of the high school. This will furnish a site that will be in line more directly for the south wind than if the tent be located directly at the north of the school campus...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/24/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Residents of the East Side, who some time ago started an effort to have a fire station erected over there, have not abandoned ideas along this line by any means. The East Side people have offered to go down in their pockets and furnish funds with which to erect a building and there is little doubt that that the council will agree on the terms of the people of that end of town...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/18/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Twelve employees of the Fort Scott Post Office will have their salaries increased beginning July 1st. The increases are generally at the rate of $100 per year. The 12 include six of the rural mail carriers out of the city, who will hereafter get $83.33 per month. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/18/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Twelve employees of the Fort Scott Post Office will have their salaries increased beginning July 1st. The increases are generally at the rate of $100 per year. The 12 include six of the rural mail carriers out of the city, who will hereafter get $83.33 per month. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/17/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) D.F. Coon is home from St. Louis, having returned for the wedding of his daughter, Miss Stella, who today became the bride of Mr. Lulun Chittenden, of St. Louis. The Rev. Watkins officiated in the presence of family members. A bridal breakfast was served and the newlyweds left for Kansas City enroute to Canada and eastern parts. After August 1 they will be home at the Hamilton Hotel, St. Louis...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/17/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) D.F. Coon is home from St. Louis, having returned for the wedding of his daughter, Miss Stella, who today became the bride of Mr. Lulun Chittenden, of St. Louis. The Rev. Watkins officiated in the presence of family members. A bridal breakfast was served and the newlyweds left for Kansas City enroute to Canada and eastern parts. After August 1 they will be home at the Hamilton Hotel, St. Louis...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/13/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The series of ante-nuptial functions complimentary to Miss Nanna Gunn, the charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Gunn, whose wedding to Kenneth Calhoun will be celebrated Wednesday evening, are in progress. The first party was a breakfast given Monday by the Misses Lillian Bolevar and Pearl Bowen at the Brown residence. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/12/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) One of the most noted women this country ever produced was Miss Susan B. Anthony, who at one time lived in Fort Scott and whose death a few years ago at the Anthony home in Rochester, N.Y is well remembered by the woman's friends here. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/11/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Old Ben, the giant white horse used on the chemical engine at the fire department, is soon to be retired. Ben has been dragging fire apparatus around the streets here for 17 years and is getting ready for retirement. He is a mountain of strength yet, but hasn't the speed or grace he once had. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/10/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Dr. Anderson and Dr. Holeman, of Garland, this county, both quite young but old enough to have some gray hairs, are it is said, perfect marble fiends. They are at present, so a Garland report says, putting in their idle moments in a series of games "for keeps" on a specially prepared marble ground at Garland. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/05/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The elderly man who has been living in a house on the southeast side appeared before Judge Volker this morning and pleaded to be not bothered with further court proceedings. It seems that the man has been living in the house for nine months and that during that time he has paid rent for only three months. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/04/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Chief Clerk Hunt, of the railway mail service, has been sweating blood for more than two weeks on account of the floods in Oklahoma and Texas. It is almost impossible to get mail into Texas at all. All the mail is taken a round about way. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (06/03/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The subjects of dogs, water, finances and tax levy occupied most of the council's time last night. A delegation of owners of wolf hounds appeared and asked that they be not compelled to pay license tribute. The unusual claim was made that the dogs were a public benefit in that they destroyed wolves. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/30/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) R.H. Tiernan has received a shipment of the handsomest bear skin rugs ever brought to town. They came from his brother, who is located near Seattle. There are six rugs made of bear skins with head, yawning jaws and claws intact and one robe all made from the pelts of the black bear. They are indeed beauties...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/29/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Students and faculty of Draughon's Business College had an outing Fern Lake Park this afternoon. The furious storm at noon somewhat dimmed the prospects of a picnic, but later when the firmament was clear the young people commenced arrangements for the picnic. There was a large attendance and plenty of well-filled baskets...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/28/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There was cannonading in the calaboose yard yesterday and when the smoke cleared away the official dog catcher had added 17 notches to his gun. The 17 dogs killed were gathered up from the streets the preceding day and as no one called to pay license they were shot. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/22/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) R.C. Campbell, of the Fort Scott Laundry, will not get his dry cleaning establishment started until about the first of the month. He has experienced some trouble in getting his machinery here, although the most of it has been installed...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/21/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) At 3:40 this afternoon one of the most remarkable freight trains ever operated through this city made its appearance at the Frisco yards. It came tearing down the incline from the south--ensconsed in smoke and dust, paused long enough to change crews, which occupied but three minutes (during which a local photographer photographed the train) and it whirled northward towards Kansas City. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/16/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) One of the most peculiar robberies that has ever occurred in this community was perpetrated last week when a headstone was removed from a grave in Mount Zion Cemetery, south of Fulton. It is possible that it was the work of mischievous boys, but the more sober minded of the cemetery stockholders discredit this theory. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/15/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Superintendent D.M. Brown, of the city schools, announces something rather unique as a "last day of school" exercise. The schools will close one week from Friday and the afternoon of that day will be given over to an outing at Fern Lake Park in which 2,000 students with their parents and teachers are to participate. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/14/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) What do you know about diamonds? If you buy from Prager you get the benefit of a selecting from a large stock and 38 years of experience. Miss Virgil Gordon, a member of the high school senior class, is conducting the history classes at the high school in the absence of H.C. Hubbart, who has gone to Chicago to do post graduate work at the university. Miss Gordon is a sister of B.E. Gordon, formerly a high school instructor here...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/13/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Commencement week is on at the Collegiate Institute and six young people will be awarded diplomas. Last evening Miss Anna Smith, who graduates in music, gave a final recital at Chapel Hall which was crowded by the young friends of this pleasing young lady. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The most important meeting of the school board held this year was conducted in Supt. Bowen's office last evening when teachers for next year were employed. There will be few changes in the teaching corps next year. Principal's and their salaries include J.B. Stokesberry, $1,500; John Hughes, $870; Gabriella M. Pratt, $675; Isa Green, $675; Lucy Ware, $675; Mary D. Stevens, $675; Grace Redfield, $675; E.J. Hawkins, $675...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/06/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Willie Hunnicut, a four year old boy whose mother takes care of the rooms in the Hale house, is perhaps the youngest chauffeur in the United States. The boy's undertaking of the various parts of an automobile is simply marvelous. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/02/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Leslie Liepman, Dr. M.F. Jarrett, Will Fortney, D.C Congdon and R.C. Campbell went to Yates Center this morning to attend the funeral of their Scottish Rite brother, Dr. Burke, the Episcopal rector whose death was announced yesterday...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/01/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The plans for the Collegiate Institute meeting at Convention Hall on May 8 assure much interest in drawing a large crowd. The meeting will be open to the public and owing to the great desire on the part of everyone to aid in this institutions' growth, as well as assisting the lately blossomed poet, Rev. Newlin, the hall will likely be crowded...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/01/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Major G.W Combs has returned from near McCune. He states that the Frisco track there is in a very unsafe condition and that with a party of other gentlemen he walked down the road and found spikes in the rails so loose that they could be pulled out by hand...

Memories spring eternal ... (05/01/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) A veteran gambler and saloon proprietor, whom this city council paroled from the city jail about a year ago after he had piteously begged for leniency and sworn to forever abstain from selling whiskey, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/25/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) An exciting announcement is made of a bunch of mirth-makers and songsters to be seen at the Elks' Minstrels. Just seventy-five cents for a thousand laughs. Pictured in their respective roles: W.H. (Billy Duck). Father and promoter of local minstrelsy, under whose direction the "Grander and the Greatest" will be given.--Freeman Martin, soloist. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/18/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Lakin-McKey Manufacturing Company has formally taken its place in the business world. A visit to the plant s certainly worth one's while. The old students' home has been completely remodeled for this institution and meets in every way the demands the factory makes on it. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/17/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Tomorrow has been set apart as a holiday in the city of Fort Scott, a day dedicated to the cause of cleaning the town from center to fringe. At 12 o'clock the schools, banks, business houses and offices will close down and a general effort, well planned and properly supervised, will be started to "clean-up." It is the first effort of the kind that has ever been launched in this city and success is assured. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/16/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Last evening at 8:42 the fire department received a phone alarm calling them to Third and Clark streets. Upon arrival the boys found the barn on the old Herring pop factory site, belonging to Mrs. B. Harring, ablaze. Four horses were tied in the barn. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/11/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) City Clerk Brown wants to see the alley near Odd Fellows Hall cleaned up before the Odd Fellow meeting, the 25th. The alley there is a dumping ground for a festering lot of accumulations and the clerk wants the place cleaned as, the hundreds of visitors who will be here for the reunion, will have to pass by this place many times...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/09/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Some of the Reverend Mackenzie's ministerial friends are laughing over a predicament in which he found himself today. He brought his Sunday trousers downtown and had them nicely pressed. On the way back home he stopped at Planck's Hardware Store and asked to leave the bundle there for a time. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/08/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) C.W. Goodlander, funeral director; Orlando Cheney, assistant--Undertakers, Licensed embalmers, established 1858. Open day and night, 14 Scott Avenue. Telephone 86. Finest equipped establishment in the state, with chapel. Reasonable prices. Rubber tired funeral cars. Free ambulance service...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/03/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There is an increase in the price of meat on the Fort Scott market, at an average of 2 cents or 3 cents a pound. The Fort Scott Slaughter Co., which has been supplying some of the local butchers, was compelled to raise its price to 9 cents for dressed beef. This is the price the big packers have been charging for two weeks or longer. Corn is selling here at 60 cents to 62 cents per bushel and this necessarily raised the price of fat stock...

memories spring eternal ... (04/02/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Early today, in reply to inquiries filed at this office, the Tribune obtained an official statement from Mr. Shaver, the weather observer for the government, as to the exact temperature of last night. The government's register caught a seven degrees below freezing record, or 25 degrees above zero, sometime during the early hours of the morning. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (04/01/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) G. Sherman Knox, of the Katy station, recounts an incident which shows Arch Davenport's originality. When the main portion of Kansas City was washed away, Mr. Knox and Arch decided to hold a benefit baseball game here for the devastated people. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/31/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) All Fools Day is always popular and today those who make it a custom to perpetrate jokes were not conspicuous by their absence. There were some pretty clever jokes planned and executed. Phony calls on the telephone were registered and bewildering statements were sent out by some who wanted to fool a friend...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/27/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Why don't some of you newspaper reporters say something about how the railroad shop boys have all, or most all, found work since the shutting down of the shops? Shutting down abruptly a shop where about 375 men are told that their services for the time being are not needed is a pretty severe blow to the men, but many of them have found temporary employment in other lines. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/26/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Following is the report of Catt School, Dist. No. 44, for the sixth month ending March 20, 1908: Number of pupils enrolled--boys 8 and girls 6. Those neither absent nor tardy were Gladys and Pearl Carson. Bertha and Otto Marsh were tardy but once. Visitors during the month were Bessie and Harmie Carson, Nathan, Mary and May Harris and Homer Query. Parents and fiends are cordially invited to visit us and inspect our work.--Mabel Wood...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/25/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Harry Brown, the veteran member of the board of education, dropped in at last evening's council meeting and made a speech. Mr. Brown does not like to see the schools charged for the water they consume and also would like to be given some good reason why the water rates should be raised...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/24/08)
(1908) Company G held its drill at convention last evening. There was a large number of the members present. Work preparatory to the coming inspection was taken up. Lieutenant Snyder held a short inspection to determine the condition of each man's equipment...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/20/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Wednesday afternoon the people of the Hammond community gathered at the church and planted the church yard full of shade trees. There were present George Currier, H.B. Gordon, John Manning, Fred Alford, P.M. Orr, W.W. Wood, Chester Hodges and Wesley Johnson...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/19/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Perkins & Smith's restaurant has just taken on a new suit of Sunday clothes, and they will be worn every day. The main part of the restaurant is carpeted with a fine new linoleum which promises to last several years, so thick is it. And in addition the walls and ceiling have been repapered and the appointments repainted and varnished. The restaurant presents a new and neat appearance and the proprietors are proud of the improvements...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/19/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Perkins & Smith's restaurant has just taken on a new suit of Sunday clothes, and they will be worn every day. The main part of the restaurant is carpeted with a fine new linoleum which promises to last several years, so thick is it. And in addition the walls and ceiling have been repapered and the appointments repainted and varnished. The restaurant presents a new and neat appearance and the proprietors are proud of the improvements...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/18/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) E.P. Bowen, the paint contractor, has quite a line of business from the Kress store people, who seem to think he is just the fellow for decorating their stores. Since he fixed up the interior decoration of their Fort Scott store, they have had him decorate every store they have started in this section. He is now at Parsons...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/14/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The W.C.T.U., at its meeting held yesterday, didn't take such pronounced stands on municipal questions as were forecasted. The ladies did not want so much publicity given their efforts to bring about certain reforms believing that premature publicity only lets the enemy know what the methods of procedure are to be...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/13/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) It will be of concern to school patrons of Fort Scott to learn that fire drills have been practiced at every building, save the high school in town this week. This afternoon about 2:30 the alarm at the Central building was sounded and the children made a hurried exit to the school yard. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/12/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Mrs. Francis Hayes, formerly Miss Chinn, who taught in the Plaza schools here, and now a teacher in the Blue Valley School, Kansas City, Mo., was badly injured in a streetcar accident at Kansas City Monday night. Mrs. Hayes and another teacher, D.G. Watson, endeavored to board a streetcar. The motorman started the car as they endeavored to step on and both were thrown and dragged. Mrs. Hayes was injured internally. The many local friends of this woman regret the accident...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/11/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dikeman, 1 1/2 miles east of the Maple Grove School, burned to the ground Sunday morning (March 9), said Fire Chief Sam Ayers who went to the scene. About $1,200 had been spent recently for redecorating the $10,000 home. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/11/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dikeman, 1 1/2 miles east of the Maple Grove School, burned to the ground Sunday morning (March 9), said Fire Chief Sam Ayers who went to the scene. About $1,200 had been spent recently for redecorating the $10,000 home. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Harry Bamberger has worn a mustache for 17 years until yesterday when he had the mower clip it off. A large number of residents of adjoining towns and cities had business in the Solid City today, among them to include J.W. Grubb, Fulton; R.H. Elder, Redfield; C.D. Kirby, Devon; J. Sessler, Uniontown. and A.W. Post, Redfield...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/06/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) At Monday night's special council meeting it is believed favorable action to installing a $10,000 settling basin will be taken. Most of the members seemed inclined to the belief that such action should be taken. It would greatly improve the present equipment of the water works...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/05/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) No arrests have been made in connection with the burning of the old Labor Exchange Colony at Fulton. Officers are still at work on the case. Garland Items: Dr. A.C. Wise, the traveling medicine vendor of Uniontown, has been in this section the past week...

Memories spring eternal ... (03/04/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) E.D. Webb, 109 Main Street--Good things to eat! Meats: brains, sweetbreads, beef tenderloin, calf and hog liver, beef heats, boiled ham, smoked beef, tongue, spare ribs, Vienna sausage and choice cuts of beef, pork, mutton and veal. Fruits and vegetables: Fancy eating apples, grapes, grapefruit, oranges, lemons, bananas, cranberries, coconuts, leaf and head lettuce, cauliflower, radishes, onions, celery spinach rutabagas and turnips...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/29/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Items from Feb. 29, Leap Year: Lee Newbolt has resigned his position at the Perkins and Smith Restaurant. In the future he will write life insurance in the National Life Company. The weather for the past day or two has been so chilly that Gene Cross has closed up his stand at the corner of Main and First streets. Gene will wait for more moderate weather to continue operations...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/28/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There was a misapprehension manifest regarding the program of the Pierian Club-Federated Women's Society entertainment of today. The program published last night listed Perry Hermus for a vocal solo. Local friends of the celebrated baritone understood from this that Hermus was in the city. But the solo was a phonograph record by Hermus from the Victor talking people...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/27/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) L.G. Porter, for many years of this county, register of deeds here from 1983-87, founder of the town of Porterville in western Bourbon County, died a few days ago at Walnut. The funeral was held at Walnut today. Mr. Porter is well remembered by all the early settlers of this county. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/25/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) E.A. Kaufman, of East Third Street, who is down with the smallpox, was reported in a much improved condition today. The health officers think that they have the disease well in hand and do not anticipate any spread from this case...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/22/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) A decidedly serious entanglement is abrew as a result of the proposed attempt on the part of the board of county commissioners to do away with Military Bridge, dismantle it and erect in another place a bridge across the Marmaton River. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/21/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Surely the fates are again the successful prosecution of the city's new garbage ordinance which was passed by the council after running the gauntlet of cross-fire and amendments of numerous ladies' societies, who worked for the passage of the afore-said ordinance. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/20/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Resolution: You are hereby notified that J.M. Thompson has been appointed garbage collector subject to the provisions of Ordinance No. 1020, of the City of Fort Scott, and the following scale of prices: 1 Private residences--5 cents per week...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/19/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Orlando Cheney went down to Hiattville this afternoon on business for the Goodlander Supply Company. The Goodlander Undertaking establishment today sent its funeral car to Hiattville where a funeral will be conducted tomorrow. The roads are so rough that it was considered impassible to start the car in the morning and have it reach Hiattville in time for the obsequy. The driver had a breezy time of it going to Hiattville...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/18/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) George Starne, the veteran drayman, had a narrow escape from instant death this afternoon. With his men, he was unloading a massive marble slab at the new Bachmann Building on East Wall Street. When the men who were assisting him thought the slab was up to its proper place in the house, they released their hold slightly and the heavy slab fell on Mr. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/15/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Twelve carrier boys are employed by the Tribune-Monitor to distribute the Daily Tribune and these boys cover all parts of the city. The routes have increased in size from 15 to 25 percent and new names are being added daily, so mistakes are bound to happen. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/14/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The promoters of the skating rink project have made no definite announcement as to where the rink is to be located and when to be erected. It was stated today that the building would not be commenced until after the spring rains, as the floor is to be made of concrete...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/13/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Missouri Pacific railroad company has abolished the telegraph office at Devon, nine miles northwest of the K.&D., and the people of that town will hold an indignation meeting Saturday afternoon to protest against the company's action. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/12/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Ernest Catt, who has been farming southeast of the city for a good many years, and who is one of the best known farmers in that locality, has decided to move to Oklahoma where he will re-engage in farming. According to the auctioneer, Col. Tom Macon, it was one of the most successful ever held in the county...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/11/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Tribune-Monitor has made a change in its circulation department. Mr. Clarence Mahler, who has so ably represented this department of the business for years, has resigned and the business has been disposed of to Mr. Mark Pinkston, a well known and popular young man who will have complete charge of that department in the future. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/08/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There were several persons from Fort Scott to attend the wolf drive down in the Hiattvile-Hepler region today. The lines were formed at 10:30 as programmed and commenced to move. The round-up was to be held in a big pasture. It is expected that a great number of wolves will be killed today in the gigantic movement. There were scores of men and boys in this drive...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Company G basketball team left this afternoon for Yates Center where a game will be played with the state militia boys of Yates Center this evening. Bert Potts, who has been one of the city's leading hot tamale merchants for the past decade, has decided to open a place nearer the center of the city but with this aim in view his efforts are meeting with numerous obstacles. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/06/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There is a bill pending in congress at this time--in fact it is thought to have been passed--which increased the pensions of all soldiers' widows from $8 to $12. Heretofore the widows, unless by special provision, were paid $8 per month. The increase will be appreciated by the local parties affected. There are numerous widows of Union soldiers here who are on Uncle Sam's pay roll...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/05/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) No arrests have been made in connection with the burning of the old Labor Exchange Colony at Fulton. Officers are still at work on the case. Garland Items: Dr. A.C. Wise, the traveling medicine vendor of Uniontown, has been in this section the past week...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/04/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Post Master Cheney entertained all of the employees of the post office at a supper last evening. They all went in a body to the G.A.R. Hall where the ladies of the Congregational church served an elaborate luncheon. Unique Restaurant, H.H. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (02/01/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) What is conceded to be the biggest wolf drive ever planned by man, in this state at least, is announced by the residents of the country lying between Hiattville and Hepler. The drive is to occur February 8th and will enclose 64,000 acres of earth, covering a radius of 100 miles. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/31/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Because some person or persons dissented in a political view with the founders of the Labor Exchange Colony up near Fulton was not a justifiable ground for that person or persons to set a match off to the five buildings there and destroy them, as reported in last evening's paper. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/30/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Carnegie Library Board was in annual session last evening and Chas. Nelson, one of the oldest members on the board, was elected president to fill out the unexpired term of the late W.H. Stout, who died last week. Mr. Nelson has been vice president under Mr. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/29/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Fifty cups for a quarter. Rich, delicious and fragrant. It's our Golden Blend. The best coffee value that's ever been offered. It tastes right and it is right. Fresh roasted daily and delivered to your door.--American Pacific Tea Company, 5 South Main. Telephone 118...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/25/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Two small boys spend their leisure time driving harnessed dogs through the uptown district. The dogs draw small carts on which the boys ride, and their presence is the signal for much laughter from those who have witnessed the odd procession. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/24/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) A community does not remember a man for the extent of his wealth. The loss of those who have been useful and helpful in public ways, or who have distinguished themselves by some great accomplishment in life is often mourned but no man is so honored among his fellows nor carries with him to the sod such lasting memories of those whose lives he had touched as the one who has evidenced throughout life a substantially good heart and whose activities have been sentineled by a sensitive conscience. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/23/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Last evening, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. A.E. Currier, 312 Eddy Street, occurred the wedding of Mr. Edward Gordon and Miss Grace Anna Currier, daughter of George Currier, the Hammond merchant, and a granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/22/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The extremes of what juries often do are strikingly shown by two cases in district court. Both are civil actions. In one suit the jury returned a verdict inside of 15 minutes; in the other the jury has been out over 24 hours and will in all probability never reach an agreement. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/21/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) J.I. Sheppard and G.W. Marble went to Garland this afternoon to attend a telephone meeting. Over at Klein's second hand store Councilman Coyan has a crop of corn well underway. A while back he deposited some grains of corn in a pot where grew a fern. The corn grains sprouted and now three small stalks are to be seen issuing from the pot. They are about three inches in height...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/18/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Fort Scott High School boys and girls' basketball teams came home from Nevada today nursing a pretty big cargo of injured pride. It was the first time the girls' team had lost this year and they felt it keenly. It was more like practice games, as the games will not affect the standing of the teams in the basketball league. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/17/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Perkins & Smith, the enterprising restaurateurs are sporting a new gold and bronze cash register of the latest pattern. The old register had seen lots of service and the boys simply had to have a new one. This one fills the bill in all respects...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/15/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Garland News: We are not down on looks at all. There is a great deal in good appearance, but it is not everything. We think more of good old fashioned, honest friendship. We want you to be friends as well as customers. We bespeak for you kindness and consideration. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/14/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Kansas City, Jan. 13--The Union Station annex on Union Avenue adjoining the Union railway station was destroyed by fire early today. Union Station proper, one of Kansas city's landmarks, was saved by firemen after a hard fight. The burned building contained the receiving office of the Adams, Wells Fargo and Pacific Express companies, and a branch mailing room of the post office, offices of the Fred Harvey Eating House Co., Pullman Palace Car Company's linen room, Railway Y.M.C.A. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/11/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The peafowls, which are owned by the manager of the Tremont Hotel, were enjoying themselves up on top of the fire department building yesterday evening and didn't seem to mind the height in the least. At present the birds are wearing a very beautiful lot of plumage and excite a great deal of admiration by everyone who sees them...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/10/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Leap Year business seems to have opened with a decided flurry. The girls seem to have taken the initiatives tradition gives the Leap Year--and several propositions are said to be on file. The city is getting tired of having the paved streets torn up and the brick laid in an unsatisfactory fashion. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/09/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Abe Kinlex, the old reliable barber, who has been located in the Ohio Block for some time, has rented the Klingbell building formerly occupied by the Federa Clothing Company on East Wall Street and has moved his furniture and fixtures there. He has fitted up a fine place and is bidding for many new customers to add to his long list of old ones. He is contemplating putting in baths but has not fully decided...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/08/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Frank Cullers, who for some time has been conducting a lunch stand and restaurant down near the Frisco Depot, has sold his business to E.G. Tucker who will conduct it in the future. Mr. Tucker intends to remodel the place and make it more up-to-date....

Memories spring eternal ... (01/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Pawnee Brown, who is known as a weather prophet, was asked a rather unusual question this morning. "Mr. Brown," a man began, "I am praying for clear weather for the next 10 days. Is there any use of my effort?" Mr. Brown assured the man that insofar as finite faculties were able to determine he believed that clear weather would last for a few days...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) B.F. Othick, head of the Othick and Company firm of real estate and abstractors, announced that he contemplated moving from the present quarters in the basement of the Masonic Temple building into the room lately occupied by the new state bank on Wall Street. Mr. Othick contemplates having numerous repairs made at the new home and will have one of the most nicely equipped offices for real estate and abstract business of any firm in Kansas. He will move January 11th...