Fort Scott Tribune: Columns: Nell Dikeman

Memories spring eternal: FSCC sets new game score record (02/10/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) Contractor Tom Thogmartin is repairing the Fair Ground and Evergreen Cemetery good roads. Today was pension day. The vets or widows of the Great War of the reconstruction period were out today having their vouchers filled out and will send them way and receive in return the sum the government allows them. ...

Memories spring eternal (02/06/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) The juniors of the high school last evening gave a five course dinner to the members of the faculty at the home of Miss Grace Hart. 512 Main Street. The senior girls of the high school decided upon a uniform dress for graduation. They will wear white linen shirt waist suits with black string ties and black slippers. No decision as to the wearing of an academic cap has been reached...

Memories spring eternal: Local residents push brick streets (02/04/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) A vast number of owners of property abutting upon West Sixth Street are of the opinion that the street from National Avenue to Couch Street the terminal of the west paving extension should be paved with brick instead of macadamized. ...

Memories spring eternal: turned away patron breaks glass, leaves (01/23/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) County Superintendent Rose Allen is unable to explain why anyone should seek to destroy the Gwinn schoolhouse. There is unmistakable evidence that fire bugs did the work. There have been many school rows at various places in the county but Gwinn always escaped. There was a fine class of students coming from good homes and the teacher, Mrs. Pellet-Godlove, was well liked by the students and their parents. The matter is being subjected to a close investigation...

Memories spring eternal: Farmer has severe hiccough fit (01/21/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) Everybody should get a good chicken supper tomorrow at 118 Wall Street, first door east of Planck's Hardware store, for the benefit of providing a restroom downtown. Help the good work and get a good supper for only 25 cents. Menu -- chicken, jelly, mashed potatoes, hot biscuits, pickles, pie and coffee...

Memories spring eternal: Fort Scott prepares for post office (01/14/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) The 50th annual congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian church will be held this evening. In the summer of 1859 Rev Mr. Rankin came to Fort Scott from Buffalo, N.Y., and organized the First Presbyterian church with three members, Mrs. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/09/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) Lon Hornaday had a severe fall at his stock ranch northeast of town yesterday. He was carrying an armload of lumber when he stumbled and fell. His nose was almost broken and badly skinned and his knee was hurt. Mr. Hornaday was in own today looking as if he had been in a prize fight...

Memories spring eternal ... (01/02/09)
100 YEARS AGO (1909) Newt Gunsaullus has become a permanent attache of the courthouse. He is at the register of deeds office each day now and expects to absorb a great deal of information about the routine of that office between now and Jan. 11th, the day the present incumbent, Mr. Drum, surrenders to him...

Memories spring eternal ... (12/30/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There are 519 women in Fort Scott entitled to vote at the coming spring election, according to City Clerk Brown. This is the same number that voted one year ago at the spring election. Dr. Ingraham, of south of the city, butchered two large hogs for his family's winter use. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (12/26/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There are now 300 men working at the Missouri Pacific shops and every day Master Mechanic Carberry is employing additional workmen. The prisoners of the county jail were all treated to a banquet yesterday. It was Christmas Day and Sheriff Hesser always makes it a point to give his inmates a touch of high life on that day. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (12/19/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Ever peep into that well conducted store on North National Avenue, just as the Marmaton bridge is crossed? Well, you want to. It is well worth your while, for you will see lots of things that you never thought of before. The proprietor is A. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (12/02/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Dr. C.A. Hellman, of Uniontown, met with a frightful and painful accident yesterday while driving to see a patient four miles northeast of his home. The county roads had been so cut up from recent floods and rain and were frozen yesterday that the doctor was making his calls riding in a cart drawn by two ponies. ...

Memories spring eternal: FSHS football takes 5th (11/05/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) C.F. Louderback, who was drafted into accepting the nomination for the legislature and who was elected over A.M. Keene, Republican, today issued the following: "It appears upon the face of the returns that I have been elected representative from the 21st. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (10/17/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The other day out at the Uniontown Fair a drink dispenser liberally sold a concoction termed "Cream Ale" which later, it was discovered, produced drunkenness. Pure Food Inspector A.G. Pike is having the beverage tested. Farmers are indeed busy hauling sugarcane to the syrup works. The place is one of the busiest to be seen about town. Scores of loads of cane are hauled every day...

Memories spring eternal: X-ray mobile unit (10/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) For Rent: the north half of my double house at 735-737 South Judson. This is a modern house in every respect; located in a choice neighborhood; gas range; water and lights free. Rent $17.50 a month. -- Grant Hornaday The rain storm has greatly increased chances of successful duck shooting. The fall weather has been so dry that but few ducks were found in these parts...

Memories spring eternal ... (10/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Plans have matured for a swell Scottish Rite function. It is to be a ball and reception at the Scottish Rite cathedral room on Oct. 30. The reception will be held in the parlors of the temple. The spacious and elaborate banquet room, one of the best in the West, will be converted into a ballroom. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (09/17/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The C.C. Crain Hardware Co. has adopted a novel method of giving away one of its superb $35 Garland Steel Ranges, reputed to be the very best to be had. In fact, the ranges are called the world's best. Those who have used them are out with such testimonials. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (09/04/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The compulsory educational law as affecting school children under the age of 15 and over 8 years old will be enforced from the first day of school. Those were the words of Superintendent D.M. Bowen in commenting upon the law which requires all children of such ages to be in school. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (09/03/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Notice: For 30 days the Fort Scott Gas and Electric Co. will install gas services from the main to your home free of charge. Heretofore, we have made a charge for all work done after the curb was passed. This offer should be a great inducement to those desiring the use of natural gas for fuel purposes. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (09/02/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Fern Lake Park closes Labor Day, Sept. 7, with a grand picnic and sham battle given by Company G, of the Kansas National Guard. The Fort Scott Marble and Granite Works of this city has sold more granite and more marble in the past 30 days than in any previous 30-day period for the past year. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/28/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There are signs that fall is here -- such as the little green bugs which appear under the street lights or swarm by the thousands upon lighted windows. They never come till cool weather makes its appearance. Then, too, there are autumn fires being set off. The excessively dry weather parched leaves on many trees and as a result the leaves fell earlier this year than ever before...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/26/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) From the Richards Progress: One day last week a little knot of men happened to be together on Main Street in what was a rather unique gathering. It is nothing unusual to see seven or more men in a bunch, but the strange thing about this particular accidental meeting was that they were all old-timers, who lived in the Richards vicinity 50 years ago. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/22/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) A freak in the "Feather Family" is found at Richards, 10 miles northeast of Fort Scott. From the Richards Progress: "Harry Rohrer has a freak in the way of a chicken. It is unlike any we have ever seen or heard of. It is a rooster in appearance, yet a hen in fact. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/21/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The Katy Flyer, going south yesterday morning, ignored a flag run out by Frank Pfeiffer, and crashed through his wagon loaded with hay and smashing it to pieces. The horses had been unhitched in anticipation of the coming of the Flyer and were not hurt. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/19/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) There were two sections of the Frisco flyer through here today. This travel north and west is heavier than it has been in years. Sunday there was a special flyer through here with nothing but Pullmans, there being eight of these rolling palaces. The southbound passenger this afternoon was so heavy that two of the big passenger engines were used to draw it...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/12/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Captain G.F. Pond, of Peck's Villa, will go over to Nevada in the morning to attend the old soldiers reunion. The Sunday School of the First M.E. church will hold a picnic tomorrow at Fern Lake Park. A special car leaves the uptown center for the park at 2 o'clock in the afternoon...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/08/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Roy Coe, a Frisco brakeman, and son of H. Coe, the well known veteran, was attacked and severely bitten this afternoon by a big shepherd dog near Riley's flag shanty at the Frisco's Wall Street crossing. The dog's attack was not actuated by anything Mr. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/07/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Forty-eight years without smoking is a pretty good record. It is the record of Hugh Draper, the veteran of the Fourth Ward. At the distinct clerk's office this morning, while J.H. Crain was scouring around trying to find a match to light his cigar, Mr. Draper casually stated that had not smoked for 48 years...

Memories spring eternal ... (08/05/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Will Barr, the expert drummer, has been signed by the manager of the Vaudette Theatre to play at the performances Saturday evening. Mr. Barr operates the drums and bells. When the show opens for nightly performances after Sept. 1, Mr. Barr will be the regular musical attraction...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/31/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) J.T. Tryling, a lineman for the Katy at Sedalia, was here yesterday on business. Mr. Tryling, a rather unassuming gentleman, proved himself a hero at Nevada yesterday and according to G. Sherman Knox, of this city, will be decorated with a Carnegie Award for bravery and presence of mind. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/29/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Railroad Notes: Passenger train No. 2 on the Katy, due here from the south at 4 o'clock each morning, was nearly five hours late today. Cause of the delay was not made known here. Mrs. Lizzie Johnson, nee Lizzie Crain, has returned to her home in Newkirk, Okla., after visiting here with her mother and her brothers, J.H. and C.C...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/24/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) It is an interesting sight to watch the excavations being made on East Wall Street. One big plow that is operating over the stony street is drawn by four big mules and a giant span of horses. Four men today piled on top of the plow to hold it in the earth while the six animals bent their backs in pulling it through the streets. The combined strength of these big animals is nearly equal to that of a small locomotive...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/22/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) W.H. Watson, the Frisco conductor who was stabbed near Chandler, Okla., is reported slowly improving. It is reported that Watson was stabbed nine times. It is said a passenger jumped upon the thug and beat him into insensibility, the man being for three days so near unconscious that the officers could not get a statement from him regarding the attack...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/18/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) A financier of this city, in talking about city parks, says he has a scheme for a public park which, if carried to execution, would provide an uptown park. He would make into a park all that portion of Judson Street between the courthouse and Central School. This would mean that a whole square would be cleared off and some pretty nice residences removed, but a fine park site would be the result. A good scheme, but likely one that will not be undertaken this generation...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/17/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) The company at the Airdome this week is one of the best stock companies that has appeared here since the building of the summer theatre. The play "In a Woman's Power" given last night was one of he most thoroughly enjoyed dramas of life that has been put on here. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/16/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) TOPEKA -- Twenty-one of Topeka's business men, including the proprietors of cigar stores, confectionery stores and Sunday newspaper men, are to be arrested today charged with violating the Sunday labor laws. Theatrical managers, whose houses had been closed, swore to the complaints. The city council today met and declared ice cream, cigar and soda water sales before 9 o'clock on Sundays are not labor law violation...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/15/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) While in Los Angeles the other day Fred Hornaday came across several Fort Scott men. When he struck town Fred called up Harry Wing and Mr. Wing, who is a traveling salesman, came down to meet Mr. Hornaday. They went around to Lamb Brothers offices, which seem to be a rendezvous for Fort Scott boys. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/11/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Berry Coran, one of the most widely known African Americans of this city, died yesterday at his home, 1123 East Elm Street. The deceased had been a resident of Fort Scott the past 25 or 30 years. He was one of the most honorable and upright men who ever retained a residence here. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/10/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Nearly $100,000 is spent in Mexico City every week on lottery tickets, and in the same period only about $70,000 is paid back in premiums. Pearl necklaces and pearl earrings are popular for summer wear. See what we have and get our prices. -- D. Prager & sons...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/09/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) Well, Frank Davis and Jim Durbin couldn't stand it any longer when they read in the Kansas City Times this morning that Blaine Durbin was at bat four times yesterday, with two safe hits and three put outs. They at once planned to go to Chicago and see the kid work. ...

Memories spring eternal ... (07/03/08)
100 YEARS AGO (1908) In a report for the weather for June there were no hot days during which the temperature rose to 90 or above. The total rainfall was 10.57 inches, which is 5.83 inches above the average rainfall for June, and which is the greatest rainfall of any June in our 41 years' record. Only 10 days of the month were without precipitation. The nearest approach to this June's record is that of 1888 which was 8.31 inches...

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 ... (06/26/08)
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 ... (06/17/08)
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...

OK, Mr. Davenport, what exactly is Lincoln pie? (03/24/08)
With the publication of the death of Arch Davenport's death in the Fort Scott Tribune and The Fort Scott Monitor dated March 30, 1908, it is noted: "There never was a man in Fort Scott, nor any other place for that matter, who had a wider circle of intimate friends than Arch Davenport. A history might be written, based upon his good traits, eccentricities, natural wit, etc."...

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 ... (03/18/08)
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 ... (03/07/08)
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...

Nell Dikeman
Memories spring eternal ...