(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.

The young people of the First M.E. church offer a rather unique entertainment for this evening. a Track Meet social is the bill and they expect a large attendance.

Reunion is announced for 50-year residents of Fort Scott: On the 22nd day of March, 1858, we arrived in Fort Scott and I think there are only five persons here today who were present on that eventful morning: Messrs. B.F. McDonald and Albert Campbell, Mesdames E.C Goodlander, T.F. Robley (then young children of Col. H.F. Wilson) and myself. There must be a number of persons residing in the country that arrived later in that year. I am desirous to have a reunion of all the actual residents of this city 50 years ago at my residence and will be pleased if they will send me their addresses as soon as convenient that arrangements can be made for a permanent organization of the few left to commemorate that occasion.--By Mrs. C.H. Hanes, 111 South Eddy Street, Fort Scott, Kansas

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Mark W. Weeks, president of the Chamber of Commerce for the present month, presided at the regular meeting of the board of directors of the chamber yesterday and one of his most gracious actions in his new capacity was to present the chamber with a bouquet of carnations. Mr. Weeks is president under the plan recently decided upon by the directors for each of them to serve a month as president of the chamber, in rotation.

The mercury ascended to the 80 mark in Fort Scott yesterday for the warmest day of the new year. It was the warmest day here since a reading of 90 was recorded last Oct. 18.

Seventy-five air mail letters came into the Fort Scott post office this morning addressed to local people, coming from relatives and friends in the earthquake area of southern California. The letters served to relieve the anxiety of many local people who had some relatives or close friends in the devastated areas.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958))

Raymond McCrum, band director at the high school and junior college here since 1945, has accepted a position as band director and chorus director at R.H.S. 4, Uniontown. The salary will be a "sizable advance" he said.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Birt Petition, Deerfield, honored their parents March 9, it being their 45th wedding anniversary. A turkey dinner was served.

Fort Scott Printing and Advertising Co., 5 Market Street -- Good selection of wedding announcements and invitations at reasonable prices. Prompt service. Phone 89 --Adv.

Photo caption: "National Guard enlistees were given into the 195th F.S. Battalion Monday at the Fort Scott Armory. Lieutenant Arthur Bailey, Battery Commander, administers the oath to Harold O. Allen, Wade R. Purcell, David E. Cullop, Charles E. Lakin, Ernest M. Bever, Howard A. Purcell and Ronald D. Odell. The men will begin six months of active duty in July at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. -- Gene Mercer Photo

Ray Shepherd, 1400 Horton, is said by his doctor to be making good recovery following an appendectomy at Mercy Hospital.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

When his winning word --"squelch"-- came, Tom Dobbins, a sixth grader at Eugene Ware Elementary School, didn't flinch. "I knew that one. I had seen it spelled before," Tom said. He is the son of Dan and Carolyn Dobbins, 624 South Hill St. He had won the fourth annual Bourbon County Spelling Bee by outlasting a field of 56. Tom will compete at the state level and the winner there will be sent to Washington.

Safe guard your valuables with a safe deposit box at the Citizens National Bank -- a safe and inexpensive way to safeguard your valuables. The coupon published here is a special offer through the month of March for new customers: Rent any medium-size lock box for one year and receive a coupon with $3 or lunch any Fort Scott restaurant or drive-in.