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Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Hopes ride on downtown program (02/09/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) All day today Main Street has been a flue for all the chimneys in the business district end even some of those more distant sent their fumes and smoke to Main. There has been one continual stream of smoke blowing up and down the street and in the words of one wise philosopher, "It 'soots' me just fine."...
St. Mary's School marks birthday (02/07/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) Up to date not a marriage license has been issued during the month of February. Judge Russell had expected a rush of business all during Leap Year but it has been duller than during any other year. George Lotterer was able to be at the store today for the first time in the past week. He has been confined to his home with a severe attack of the grippe...
Local teacher wins state award (02/03/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) County Attorney Ramsey addressed letters to all of the rural school teachers in Bourbon County asking that they cooperate more closely in the enforcement of the anti-cigarette law over this county. The complaint has been made many times that boys under age are using tobacco in violation of the laws of the state. ...
Church to hold fundraiser (02/02/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) Beginning this morning the new order making Fort Scott the main terminal for train crews from the east and west, went into effect. The crews, which consist of a conductor and brakeman, turn about here and go back to the other end of their run. Nearly all of the conductors in here today expressed their intentions of moving their families to this city...
Choir receives high praise (02/01/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) The Droughon Business College team returned yesterday morning from Arcadia where they had participated in a game of basketball on the evening previous with the high school team of that city, and told of their defeat by the score of 14 to 7. ...
Pleasanton helps flood victims (01/31/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) The girls' basketball team of the high school, who have played so well so far this season, and have never suffered defeat, will be rewarded if they continue the good work by the school sending them to Independence to compete for the Southeastern Kansas Championship. ...
Tractor showing scheduled (01/27/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) The students of the local high school have been expressing much interest in the annual literary contest with Iola High School. The contest will be held this year at Iola and as has been done in years past a special train may be arranged for the accommodation of those attending...
Writer's work appears in magazine (01/25/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) Every little bit added to that which is already, makes a little bit more of daylight each day. In other words, the days are getting longer, and by the same token the nights are getting shorter. This will keep up until sometime in June when the longest day of the year will be here. ...
Candidates file for city posts (01/24/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) The last few days have caused a rush of farmers to the market and many of them have brought in a load of produce of some kind. Yesterday, at one time, there were 16 loads of coal on the Square, all of which was disposed of during the day. A total of 20 loads was weighed yesterday by Judge Shipp. All of this coal has brought 14 cents to 15 cents on the market and has found a ready sale...
Rough sledding on local roads (01/20/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) There are 20 new lawyers in Kansas during the past few days, two of whom are located in Fort Scott -- James and Kate Sheppard, members of the law firm of Sheppard, Sheppard & Sheppard. The 20 are those who successfully passed the state bar examination given at Topeka...
Strong winter storm hits area (01/19/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) In a well played game Saturday night, the Arcadia High School team defeated the Draughon Business College team by the close score of 21-20. The game was enjoyed by the few who were able to witness it. Tea, coffee, chocolate deliciously served in cups or individual pots. Hot chili, sandwiches, oyster stews, tomato toner. A nutritious lunch superior to the "other kinds" served elsewhere. Visit our Friday Bargain Day! -- Herold's Palace Sweets. 110 S. Main St...
Cost of taking care of poor rises (01/18/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) The cost of the keeping of the poor in the city and caring for the transients who apply daily at the calaboose for shelter and food, has been heavy during the present month and will probably cost the city more than during any month for a number of years. ...
Palmer appointed to Regents (01/17/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) Fort Scott was so near without natural gas today that many people were unable to use it for fuel at all and had to improvise other means of cooking their meals. Not since we have been on the natural gas line has the pressure been as low as it was today. Coincident with the shortage of gas, the coal dealers hiked the price of coal $1 per ton. They agree that the price was raised that much at their mines today and that it cannot be sold at a cent less...
Difficult Junior Miss selection (01/12/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) You Want a Friend? If your salary stops when you are sick or injured reach out for a friend. $1 per month will buy a perfect disability policy in the Old United States (Old Line Company), that pays $50 monthly for accident, limit 5 years and $50 a month for illness, also other indemnities, depending on occupation. Phone 1264 -- R. McGuire Jr., District Manager, 14 S. Main...
Local department store sells out (01/11/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) There will probably little or no street car service tonight as the snow has drifted over the track at many places. A considerable time will be required to remove it. The wind accompanying the storm this afternoon drifted the snow badly and it will probably greatly inconvenience traffic on the railroads as well. A snow of only a few inches often drifts to a depth of several feet, stalling trains. The snow this afternoon was extremely dry and will drift badly...
Post office does brisk business (01/10/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) (Jan. 8) -- As was predicted, the thermometer on Saturday was to the lowest point for a number of years past, registering 15 degrees below zero for much of the night. This is the coldest recorded here since 1905 and is many degrees colder than the average for Fort Scott. ...
Cut rate sales in evidence (01/06/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) Cut rate sales are in general evidence in Fort Scott, and not to be outdone Probate Judge W.R. Russell announced this morning that for a few days only a cut rate sale on marriage licenses will be in effect and that they may now be had for $1.78 instead of the usual $2. ...
Cold weather, good skating (01/05/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) The continued freezing weather has made skating the best it has been for a number of years past and each night large crowds gather at the river and each of the ponds near Fort Scott. The sugar mill pond has proven a popular place for this sport, as in years past, and the crowd there nightly has been a large one. ...
Fire department report issued (01/04/12)
100 YEARS AGO (1912) Police Judge Frank Johnson said to a Tribune-Monitor reporter that the insinuation that he had given out information about impending prosecutions of bootleggers was as false as anything could be. He says he has no interest whatever in such matters except to try the cases impartially when they come before his court. ...
Challenger top news story (12/30/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Tribune market reports furnished by A.B. Shipp, weighmaster: Poultry -- hens and pullets, 8 1/2 cents; young cocks, 6 cents; old cocks, 4 cents; turkeys, 12 cents; geese, 8 cents, ducks, 7 cents. Livestock -- fat heifers, 3.75; cows, $3.50; hogs, $5; sheep, $4; lambs, $5...
City sees gains in business (12/29/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) To give every man and woman over 60 years of age a pension from the United States Treasury is the surprising proposal of a congressman. What most old people need is help in keeping up strength and vigor. Thousands of them know that the greatest help they can get is our delicious cod-liver and iron preparations without oil, called Vinol...
Drinking, driving 'poor associates' (12/28/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The Tribune-Monitor's dime contest ends Saturday evening, and in the meantime, the boy and girl contestants should get in their best licks in order to win the big prize of a $20 gold piece or the numerous other gold pieces and watches...
Christmas lighting winners (12/23/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Today proved a record breaking day in the amount of mail handled through the post office here and the office remains piled high with packages of all descriptions, in spite of the fact that the numerous carriers have left the office with their arms loaded at every trip today. ...
Lots of calls for Christmas (12/22/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Fire Chief Ausman has issued a second holiday warning asking that the greatest caution be used in all Christmas decorations. It should be taken into consideration by property owners that their insurance is invalid when they have increased the fire risk by installing decorations of a flimsy combustion nature, and should a fire result it would be difficult to collect on the loss...
Merchants close for Christmas (12/21/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) We will close Christmas. We the undersigned merchants, do hereby agree to close our respective places of business all day on December 25, 1911, Christmas Day: M. Liepman & Bro. Rodecker Bros. Bob Roberts Bamberger's Clothing House...
City votes to overlay brick streets (12/20/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) A two-alley bowling alley has been bought by the directors of the Y.M.C.A. and it will be installed January 20th. Only members of the association will be permitted to use the alleys and they will be charged a nominal fee for playing to maintain a man in charge and to help pay the cost of the installation. When the Y.M.C.A. building was erected space for a two-alley bowling alley was left along the north side of the basement...
Records from Evergreen (12/16/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Workers this morning started the repairs on the federal court room in the post office building. This part of the building was delayed until the last on account of court being in session there after the other improvements had started. The walls and ceiling, as well as all of the woodwork, will be thoroughly gone over and refinished. The room is larger and will require some time to complete. Much of the other work on the building has been completed...
'Dollars for Scholars' grows (12/15/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Cecil Harris, one of the progressive and extensive farmers of the Devon neighborhood, has purchased a 33-horsepower gasoline traction engine that will be used extensively in his farm work. The engine was ordered through the Armstrong Hardware Company and will be here within a few days. ...
Excursion to Florida starts here (12/14/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Next Tuesday, Dec. 19, is the day on which the excursion from Fort Scott to Florida, under the auspices of the Iowa & Illinois Land Co., will start from here. Many are planning to go. The trip takes you to Florida and back right in the season of the oranges and tropical fruits, for $40.40. ...
Longtime farm editor passes (12/13/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Workmen this morning started to excavate on North Main Street in looking for a number of gas leaks that exist in the mains along that part of the street. Gas can be seen bubbling through the brick pavement in many places following a rain...
Expression delivered (12/09/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) It now develops that the child born to Mrs. Koblich yesterday, had made its advent into the world before the mother reached the ambulance, this event having occurred at the office she had gone from the depot. Mrs. Koblich was at the station and was feeling badly when she quickly went to her family physician's office. ...
Midwest Distribution moving (12/08/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Well, well, here is a new wrinkle -- one that certainly ought to make a hit with the Tribune-Monitor readers. After giving away cans of pork and beans, soups, macaroni and spaghetti, and other of the delicious Yours Truly line of foods, now Yours Truly is going to give away dimes -- dimes to every reader who will watch the Tribune-Monitor closely for the coming week and learn the simple conditions on which the dimes are given away...
Disturbing reports of dog stealing (12/07/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) When J.R. Randolph formally turned over his stock of drygoods and ladies' ready-to-wear business this morning, he closed a brilliant career as a merchant, being one of the founders of the mercantile business of Fort Scott, and the oldest drygooodsman in the city except J.M. ...
Important real estate deal struck (12/02/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) One of the most important real estate deals consummated in Fort Scott in recent months was completed last evening when the contract was signed by the Rodecker Brothers for the purchase of the Drake Building on Main Street, one of the best business properties in Fort Scott. ...
Hospital to get new equipment (12/01/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) A further retrenchment of 25 men was made at the Missouri Pacific shops yesterday and the force at the present time is but a small one, one of the smallest in the history of the shops here. The recent retrenchment was general over all of the system, the working force at each terminal and shop point being reduced. ...
Santa visits children's home (11/30/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Hog Lard -- Without a lot of compound in it, ABSOLUTELY PURE, the kind you used to buy in the old days still going at 10 pounds for $1. Best sauerkraut you ever tasted. Better try some pickles, too; sweet, sour and mixed. -- C.S, Abbott, East End Market, 1204 E. Wall St...
'Let Happiness Ring' in place in Fort Scott (11/29/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The funeral of David Prager was held from the family home at 224 S. Eddy St. and in spite of the extreme cold and snow, hundreds attended, many having to stand outside for the lack of room in the large house. There were countless pieces of floral offerings. ...
Farmers oppose quail slaughter (11/23/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) A number of farmers who have been in the city during the past few days have stated that the slaughter of quail since the season was opened on the 15th has been unprecedented, and that to avoid the extermination of this useful bird there are being organized over the county anti-hunting clubs, whose object is to supress hunting in general by others than those who reside on the farms, and to prevent the slaughter of quails. ...
'It's Likum Good!' (11/22/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) "It's Likum Good!" Not only is this sentence pat as pertaining to the stories -- in prose and verse -- they were written for the contest given by the Fort Scott Sorghum-Syrup Company showing the merits of "Sunshine Syrup," a new brand now put out by this popular company, but it is applicable to the syrup itself. ...
Prominent Devon resident passes (11/18/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The Apple Blossom Club was entertained yesterday afternoon by Miss Alice Clifford. Storytelling proved a new and delightful feature for the club. Extra guests were Miss Helen Glaze, Miss Dorothy Webb, Miss Ethel Hamlin and Miss Ruth Hamlin...
Lions club starts new project (11/17/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The contracting firm of Thogmartin, Gardner and Martin has just been awarded the contract for the construction of a complete water works for Mound City. The contract price is $22,000 and includes reservoir settling basin, power plant and 1,700 feet of mains...
Hiattville celebrates a retirement (11/16/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The community of Hiattville gave expression to its feeling in an emphatic way Tuesday evening by filling baskets with delicacies that only farmers can have. And at the appointed hour all went to see Mr. Reynolds and family. They were very careful not to tell them beforehand, and the surprise was complete. ...
Circulating library to start (11/15/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The school fund of Bourbon County will be enriched by the sum of $504.67 soon, the amount of the estate of the late Mrs. Lucinda Spurgeon as a final settlement of the affairs of the estate has been made by Administrator E.W. Minters, is that there are no legal heirs for the estate. ...
Keep an eye on your hens (11/10/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Last evening fire was discovered in the office of the Chenault real estate company, in the Prichard Block on Wall Street, and an alarm was sounded. Both wagons responded. The fire had resulted from an explosion of gas and it was some time before it could be discovered as it was burning under the floor. When the blaze was at last located it was necessary to cut a hole through the floor in order to extinguish it. Damage was slight but the entire building was filled with smoke...
Donation offered to children's home (11/09/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Everybody likes to "play to capacity," and the hotel and rooming house keepers are not immune from enjoying such a situation. Last night, as is frequently the case, every room in the hotels and rooming houses was full and not a bed or pillow were to be had...
Old county farm is sold (11/09/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The polls opened at 6 a.m., and by 4 o'clock this afternoon, only 665 votes had been cast in the five voting places in Fort Scott for congressman to succeed the late Hon. A.C. Mitchell. But a light vote was expected during the rest of the evening at each of the various wards and probably not more than one thousand votes will be cast in the entire city. Reports from the country districts are to the effect that voting there is lighter in proportion than in the city...
Wier saved from rushing river (11/04/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Ducks were never so plentiful in Bourbon County as they are this season. Every night flocks and flocks of geese are going over, looking for warmer climate. City hunters can't attend to business for hiking out into the country. Both refreshing drinks for any season -- bottled Coco-Cola and bottled Hire's Root Beer, 75 cents per case of 24 bottles at your grocers or telephone 201 for Coco-Cola Bottling Co. C.J. Getsinger, proprietor...
Halloween antics continue (11/03/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) It was thought that the boys of Fort Scott had gone the limit in Halloween jokes by throwing rocks through windows in two residences of the city, but the boys of Clay Center went them one better by trying to burn a bridge in that city. The fire was discovered before any great damage had been done...
Final papers filed at Eagle Foundry (10/28/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The final papers disposing of the plant of the Fort Scott Eagle Foundry to the United Iron Works people were filed today. The United Iron Works is a big concern having a capital and surplus of over a million dollars. Its big plant is in Springfield, but subsidiary plants are operated in Joplin, Pittsburg, Independence and Iola...
Pioneer resident passes away (10/27/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) "What is the success of public sales this fall?" was asked Colonel Tom Malcom, the popular auctioneer, by a reporter for the Tribune-Monitor. "They are all well attended, and generally speaking the farmers are paying cash for their purchases," was the reply. "They go to these sales well supplied with cash and they do not have to go around and give their notes like they used to do some years ago."...
Johnny brings home first report card (10/25/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Last evening, robbers entered the Hahn Millinery store on South Main Street and carried away with them willow plumes to the value of over $200. There is absolutely no clue to the robbers. Miss Anna O'Conner, trimmer at the Hahn store, discovered the loss of a valuable pin about 8 o'clock this evening, and after telephoning Miss Sadie Hahn decided to go to the store to look for the pin. ...
Local producer sees turkey prices fall (10/21/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) After the close of business this evening the Citizens National Bank began preparations for its removal back into its old corner room in the Masonic Cathedral at First and Main streets. The bank has been located for several months in the old First National Bank room at Main and Wall streets in the Opera House building, pending extensive improvements to its old quarters a block south. ...
Fort Scott wins in baseball (10/20/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) In this issue of the Tribune-Monitor will be found an advertisement of the Primel Company. The people of the city are already familiar with the product manufactured and handled by the company and they need no introduction. The principal product is what is termed Primel -- a breakfast food that has an excellent health-giving appetizing quality, a food that no table in Fort Scott should be without, not alone because it is a local product but for the further good reason that it is good, wholesome food made of the very best cereals. ...
Kiwanis Club marks 40 years (10/19/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Ten Minutes With Miss Freeburg: When you have been looking for a perfect corset for years, it is time that Miss Freeburg show you the Modar Corsets with the "Improved Front Lace." You will find it will do more toward bringing out the improvable qualities of your figure than any other corset you ever had. A pleasant surprise awaits you when you see Miss Freeburg. She will be with us this week only. -- Katzung's, 16 S. Main St...
Whiteside crowned queen (10/18/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The Vaudette, one of the popular Main Street moving picture theaters, has been sold by P.C. Hesser, who has conducted it for a year or more, to C.R. Blubaugh, who came here from Omaha and who is now in charge, assuming the ownership after the close of last night's performance. ...
State Farm Family of the Year chosen (10/14/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) T.J. Beatty has bought one of the new model Cadillac motor cars from the Fort Scott Grain & Implement Co. It is electric lighted and self-starting and one of the handsomest cars ever seen here. Jack Corby, of Pleasanton, last night contracted for one of the same cars from this company...
Souvenir flood edition available (10/13/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The manufacturers of Yours Truly canned goods will serve a fine soup lunch to every family in Fort Scott tomorrow. All that is necessary to get a can of any kind of the soup put on the market by this company is to clip the coupon from the ad on the first page of the second section of this issue of the Tribune-Monitor and present it to most any grocery store tomorrow. ...
Bear trap to be shown at Fiesta (10/12/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The Monitor Binding and Printing Co. has just completed arrangements to represent one of the largest calendar houses in the United States -- the Robert Chapman Company of Brooklyn -- and is in a position to furnish calendars for the year 1912. This line of calendars is positively the best and most up-to-date to be found anywhere and those who have not already purchased and intend doing so should look at the complete line...
Whiteside's marks 65 years (10/11/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) By a vote of 843 to 428 the voters of Fort Scott and School District 55 yesterday decided in favor of the issuing of school bonds to the extent of $110,000 for the erection of a new high school building replacing the two old structures on South Main Street that have housed the high school the past 12 years, and for the remodeling and enlarging of Margrave Street School building. ...
Farmers hope for sunshine (10/07/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Almost without an exception, the farmers of Bourbon County are hoping that the rainy weather of the past month may cease and that we may enjoy several weeks of sunshine and clear weather, as much of the success of this year's crops depends upon it. It is now impossible for farmers to enter their fields to gather their corn or cut cane of hay, which is now ready for harvest...
Stranded cow shows flood extent (10/06/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The county officials from this city spent yesterday at the Uniontown fair. They returned last night and were back in their offices today. The Brick Plant manager, D.P. Thomas, said today that the company soon will have plenty of brick for the South Main Street improvement. All of the concreting has been completed and that the laying of brick on a part of the street is all that remains...
Aussies visit county cattle ranch (10/05/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) In the middle of the afternoon, during in the rush of news-getting and news-setting, the Tribune-Monitor was left without power or gas for fuel, both of which are required to print this paper. The Gas & Electric Company was compelled to make a gas main connection at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and to do so all gas was shut off. ...
100-year flood (10/04/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) "Break the glass, unlock the door, and pull down the lever at once," is the instruction on the front of the fire alarm boxes over the city and that is exactly what a lady did this afternoon at 3 o'clock when she wished to mail a postal card at the corner of Main and Wall streets. ...
A chance to see 'Our Gang' stars (09/30/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) We are receiving large shipments of drugs and chemicals and when we have stopped these shipments it will be when you can buy anything you would ordinarily expect at a first-class drug store. Try us today. Doctors' prescriptions. -- James Lear Jr., 14 S. Main St...
Bourbon County a cattle 'mecca' (09/29/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Attorney W.F. Jackson, Sher Perkins and Beatley Harris have long heard of game hogs, but they have discovered a new species -- the fish hog. They are advocates of an open season for this class of game from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. Yesterday morning they had spent some time on Paint Creek fishing, with good results, each landing a good string of bass and crappie. ...
Excellent fishing reports continue (09/28/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Reports of excellent fishing continue to come in and the best catches of the season have been made within the last week. The smaller streams are reported exceptionally good for fishing at this time and a number of fine strings of bass and crappie have been taken from Paint and Pawnee. It is the theory of fishermen that the fish ran up into the smaller streams during the recent high water, remaining in them when the water went down...
Parks photos uncrated (09/27/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) County Attorney Chester Ramsey has been making an inspection of the books of the various railroads and express companies doing business in Fort Scott to determine the amount of liquor being received here and is being received by any person. ...
Dry summer gives way to fall (09/23/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The home of the Citizens National Bank in the Masonic Cathedral building is rapidly nearing completion and will be one of the finest banking houses in the state. Workmen have been at work on the new fixtures for some weeks and within a few weeks the room will be in readiness for occupancy...
County's oldest case filed in 1867 (09/22/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) For rent signs are out of fashion. They are becoming obsolete, for they have been suspended by the more modern method of securing tenants through the Want Ad Columns. Prospective tenants no longer walk the streets seeking the for rent beacons that used to denote that an owner or an agent had property for rent...
Sugar mill resumes operations (09/21/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The Sugar Mill has resumed operations after several days resulting from the extensive rains of the past week. The fields were so wet that it was impossible for farmers to enter them to cut and deliver cane. The fields have now dried out enough that they can be worked and many loads are being delivered daily...
Objections raised to sewer district (09/20/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Some objections are being made to the proposed East Side sewer district -- that it includes a considerable amount of worthless property and at the same time misses much property in the east part of the city that desires to be included...
Flooding hits Fort Scott (09/16/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) An eight-inch rainfall last night has resulted in the worst flood in years in Fort Scott. North Fort Scott is flooded and many lives and much property has been endangered there. Early this morning the work of moving families out of the flooded district was started and it has continued for much of the day. ...
Football players get a surprise (09/15/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Four large concentrators, for use in mines in Old Mexico, were completed yesterday by the Eagle Foundry and Machine Company and shipped to the southern destination. These are of a new design and are expected to prove very successful in treating the ores taken from the Mexican mines. Each concentrator weighs about 1,200 pounds...
Veteran engineer dies (09/14/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) D.H. Dunham, one of the veteran engineers on the Katy who was killed a few days ago in a wreck at the Santa Fe crossing near Chanute, was well known to many of the railroad men of Fort Scott. Mr. Dunham had been pulling an engine for the past 40 years and pulled one of the first passenger trains over the Neosho division of the Katy. ...
Longtime local attorney retires (09/13/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) It's dangerous to experiment with all kinds of drinks. Bottle Coca-Cola is save, refreshing, invigorating, thirst quenching. Telephone 201, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. -- C.J. Getsinger, Proprietor. American Beauty roses, carnations, asters -- Reynold's Palace of Sweets, 110 S. Main. Phone 1127...
Buffalo Bill Wild West Show here (09/08/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Tomorrow will be circus day in Fort Scott, the Buffalo Bill Wild West and the Pawnee Bill Far East shows, probably the only circus of the season, will be exhibiting in the city. The show will arrive from Pittsburg, where they are showing today. They will exhibit here at Athletic Park, the only place near the city that will allow space for their spacious tents. A capacity of many thousands are covered by canvas...
William Jennings Bryant to speak here (09/07/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Railroad Notes: President Bush of the Missouri Pacific states that operating reports for the second and third weeks in August indicate that the business of the company was the heaviest in the history of the line during any like period...
Lawsuit, bank charter filed (09/02/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) In District Court today Mrs. Harriet Randall, who lives on Scott Avenue, filed suit through her attorneys, Sheppard, Sheppard and Sheppard, asking $10,000 from the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, which she holds responsible for the death of her son, Charles J. ...
City should be renamed 'Great Scott' (09/01/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) "I think this city should be named Great Scott instead of Fort Scott," declared N.W. Benning, the new secretary of the Y.M.C.A., in addressing two big banquet tables full professional men. Upon being happily introduced President George O. Bacon, the new secretary said he had heard a lot of good things about Fort Scott...
Hours reduced for Missouri Pacific shops (08/31/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) E.A. Shaver, government weather observer, has filed his monthly report showing August with 5.7 inches of rainfall, which makes the total for the months of July and August 10.86. It was given out today at the Missouri Pacific shops that the working hours for all departments, after tomorrow, will be eight hours instead of nine as has been the condition for some time past. It is also stated that a number of men will be taken from the payroll and that the number may be large...
World-famous educator to return to Fort Scott (08/30/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Julius Kaiser, clerk at Kaiser-Cohn-Prager Cigar Store, this morning demonstrated the advantage of the Tribune-Monitor want ad. Kaiser lost a diamond ring which he has been wearing for some time and was about to order an ad in the Tribune-Monitor when he found his ring in the cigar humidor, one of the largest cigar storage rooms in the state...
Variety of items to be had around area (08/26/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Take notice: I have purchased the entire crop of melons from Mick Ruthrauff, the best melon raiser in Bourbon County. If you want a good, sweet melon, call up Phone 77. -- A Schafer. The Wallace Restaurant, a good place to eat: Short orders a specialty; fish and game in season; ice cream and cold drinks; cigars and good tobacco. -- H.S. Wallace, No. 5 Market St...
Something missing from the National Cemetery (08/24/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Pat Gorman, one of the best known of Bourbon County's stock raisers, is a patient at Mercy Hospital and is nursing a hand from which one finger was cut off and another badly crushed. The accident happened at Fulton Saturday when Mr. Gorman was closing a car door. The injury was dressed by Dr. Smoot of Fulton. Yesterday it became so painful that Mr. Gorman decided to come to this city and he is now a patient at the Mercy Hospital...
Store clerks hold meeting (08/24/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Clerks of Fort Scott stores met at Union Hall last night for an organizational meeting. A.H. Campbell, of Randolph's was elected president; George Firlin, of Rodecker's, vice president; Walter Harper, of White's, secretary; Nora Connor, of Glaze & Lewis, treasurer; Mrs. ...
Red Barn restaurant featured in magazine (06/03/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) A number of those in from the country districts today expressed themselves as enthusiastic for a countywide celebration here on the Fourth of July for the opening of Gunn Park and a large attendance from the county and smaller cities is assured. Efforts are being made to secure the Hiattville, Mapleton and other bands from over the county and each would be accompanied by a large delegation of citizens...
Liquor stock captured by Fort Scott police (06/02/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Booze will flow freely next Monday because of bootlegging. The stock, carried by an inmate of the county jail, will be destroyed by the police and before it is destroyed it will be inspected by F.A. Johnson, police judge, who probably will find that every drop captured is present. ...
As years go on, war veterans passing away (05/27/11)
Editor's Note: Due to Memorial Day weekend, The Tribune will not have a Tuesday edition. This is Nell Dikeman's column for May 31. 100 YEARS AGO (1911) (May 27) (AP): New York. Coney Island -- New York's playground suffered the worst fire in its history this morning. ...
Gas and Electric Co. getting back up to speed (05/26/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) William H. Clark died last evening after an illness which dates back to about 11 years ago. The funeral will be tomorrow at the Christian church. Mr. Clark came here from Illinois 32 years ago. During the years he enjoyed good health, Mr. ...
Boat trips to be offered at Gunn Park (05/25/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Did you ever try to find a vacant house in Fort Scott? You have had pretty hard luck in finding a good house if you have, for the homes of this city are great in number and nearly every house has an occupant. It is as hard to find a good vacant house as it is to find a good pearl in a clam shell, and almost all of the houses in Fort Scott are good ones. ...
Peas coming in, farmers looking for hands (05/24/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Home-grown peas were brought into the market Saturday morning. A number of housewives were surprised to be able to get these, as the spring was cold and late and the extreme dry weather also made the progress of vegetation slow. Wesley Seaver, a farmer living east of the city, brought in quite a large amount which brought $2 a bushel...
Graduations held in Bronson and Fort Scott (05/20/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Yesterday and last night, Bronson turned over its every resource of entertainment to the students who were given diplomas for work at the high school in that city. It was a day of good fellowship and seniors were the center of attention. The 11 graduates include Abbie Ford, Mollie Camp, William Drake, Carrie Johnston, Faye Irene Thompson, Ethel Perry, Mary Helen Rohles, Mabel Holeman, Emilie Heaton, Lonna Brown and Lois Matter...
Two important court cases coming up here (05/19/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Tomorrow will be a busy day in police court, as a number of cases that have been continued from time to time, some for two months, are to come up to trial. Each of them is an important case. A junk dealer on East Wall Street is held on the charge of buying stolen property. ...
Annual festival packs grade school venue (05/18/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) On account of the large volume of business this cash store is doing, it has caused us to study the problem of free delivery. We realized that this is one of the most important items which makes the cost of living higher. The great problem which confronts us this: "How can we reduce the cost of deliveries?"...
Neighbors help neighbors; graduations held (05/17/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) (May 16) -- Neighbors of George Bowers, of south of the city in the Godfrey neighborhood, who yesterday lost his 8-year-old son, his home and all of the contents in a fire at an early hour yesterday evening, took up a collection for his aid. ...
Well-known physician mourned; grad gifts (05/13/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Gifts for the Graduate -- Everything for the Class of 1911. We have a complete line of mesh bags, tapestry bags, belt pins, hat pins, card cases for girls; tie pins, cuff links, tie clamps, watch fobs, chains for boys. -- Verne Powell, 7 S. Main St...
Postal routes combined; debate team wins (05/12/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Yesterday and today were the busiest that City Weighmaster Shipp has had for some time. Much corn came in yesterday, as compared with the past few days, and at least 50 tons of hay were sold. It was the biggest days business for several weeks. The price of corn is hovering around 50 cents per bushel. Wheat is bringing around the 82-cent mark, though very little is being offered. Farmers say a nice little rain would be good...
Temporary injunction against roadhouse (05/11/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The building of roads in Gunn Park is progressing. In a short time, an excellent roadway will be completed west to the Marmaton River from the park entrance. The road winds down off the high hill just north of the old Fern Lake entrance. ...
Western Insurance executive to be honored (05/10/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) Editor Tribune-Monitor: The University of Kansas increases faster than any other school in the middle west and if the school is allowed enough money to support it, it will continue to increase as it has before. Fifteen years ago, what was there on the hill to show that this was a college town? There was an old North College, the mother building of our school; Fraser Hall, which has now almost past its ways of usefulness. ...
Local man raises large family on a few bucks (05/06/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) George Julian, a laborer of this city, works hard every day and has gained a reputation as a good, honest workman. He is the father of 21 children, most of whom are living. He is 64 years old and has lived in an around Fort Scott for the past 30 years. He lives on the Seagrave place, west of the city...
Work now complete on South Main Street (05/04/11)
100 YEARS AGO (1911) The Boston Bloomer Girls are to appear at Fulton on May 10th in a game of baseball with the Grays of that city. The fans there are expecting a large attendance, as the game of baseball with the Grays has not been played for many years...
Nell Dikeman
Memories spring eternal ...