Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

Now in our display window is a real life-size teddy bear which will go to a lucky boy or girl. How you can get it? Come to our store and get a package of coupons FREE. Get your friends to bring the coupons back to us. With only 25 cents and one package of coupons a friend can buy six solid nickle-silver spoons or forks. The child who spends the most coupons gets the bear.--The Davis Hardware Co., 16 North National Avenue.

Notice: Watermelon on ice at the Faust Restaurant, Market Square.

A farmer living west of town lost a gold hunting case watch and would ld like to recover it. He will pay a reward of $5 or $10 to the finder. If the watch is left at The Tribune, the owner will make settlement for the reward.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

Spectators on Wall Street were treated to an old-fashioned thrill today at noon when a horse attached to an old-fashioned buggy belonging to Joe Hall of Hell's Bend, west of the city, dashed out of the alley at the rear of the Marble Building and headed west across National Avenue. The vehicle was badly smashed when it turned over near the Konantz Mortuary after striking the rear of an automobile, and the horse came to a halt.

FULTON EVENTS--School opened Sept. 5 with an enrollment of 110 pupils in high school. Last year the enrollment was 104 at the beginning of school. Eighty are from outside the Fulton district.

The Bourbon County Democratic Women's Club is looking forward to Sept. 26 when Mrs. Jonathan M. Davis will give a tea at the Davis Ranch at Bronson. A fine program is being arranged.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Richmond Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Richards, and a former resident of Fort Scott, attended the 57th wedding anniversary celebration of his parents held here yesterday. "R.J." is a lithograph salesman with headquarters in Chicago and Detroit.

The Catt Community meeting will be Wednesday at the school. Lola Pellett, Cloyd Schoonover and Ruby Becco are on the refreshment committee. Members of the program committee are Lola Armour, Buena Baird and Junior Schoonover.

The Fort Scott Tribune won two places in the 1957 Kansas Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Kansas Press Association. First place award for excellence in classified advertising was given The Tribune. Frank Reed was given an award in column writing for his "Reading and Writing With Frank Reeds."

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

D'Arcy McElroy's death recalls the saga of the Wilder House, built in 1863 at the southwest corner of Main and Wall streets. The Tribune reported May 13, 1947, that "an era has come to a close as McElroy's Cafe (offspring of the Wilder House) closes its doors tonight. The closing marks the end of a continuous reign of more than 72 years as a restaurant. McElroy, familiarly known as "Mac" to his friends, purchased the restaurant business from C.B. (Bert) Smith, who operated under the same name of Smith's Cafe. Previous owners were his employers, Sherd Perkins and Guy Foster, who had purchased the business from Jake Conine, father of Herb Conine. The McElroy Restaurant occupied the old hostelry built by George Dion. The brick was made in the old Post brick yard on the Peter Reding farm. The grand hotel was named after Carter Wilder, a friend of George and Charley Dimon who had been a congressman from Kansas and was later stationed here as commissary officer. The hotel was patronized by army officers.