Memories spring eternal ...

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.

Those contemplating erecting monuments before Decoration Day should place their orders no with D.P. Bruce & Co. who furnish the best material and employ the most skilled workmen.

Five little girls on their way to the Central School had a lively time on Main Street early this morning. The wind blew a bundle of papers from the pack of books one girl carried and the girls sprinted down the walk to recover the same. The wind blew a gale and the girls' efforts were successful in recovering the papers.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

The Rev. B.W. Young, pastor of the Presbyterian church, will be the speaker at the annual banquet of the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce tonight. His subject will be "What the Depression Has Taught Us."

A lone bandit entered the Blue Lantern Cafe at 710 East Wall Street about 1:15 this morning and, pushing a gun in the face of Miss Dorothy Clarida, who was in charge of the place, took between $15 and $18 from the cash drawer. She was alone in the cafe when the holdup occurred. Night Patrolman Ed Helms had just left a few minutes before. Miss Clarida said the bandit was short, heavy-set and wore a cap. He was unmasked. The cafe is owned by Miss Goss.

The Ellis Music Company, in cooperation with Moser-Suor of Kansas City, Mo., will hold a meeting at the Goodlander Hotel this evening with dinner at 6:15 o'clock. Representatives of the Fort Scott and Nevada stores, also branches of the Moran, Humboldt and Iola, will attend. There will be a display of 1933 Norge refrigerators. All the new improved mechanisms will be explained.

Hugh Coyan, widely-known furniture dealer, today filed for the office of mayor of Fort Scott. Mr. Coyan has been very successful in business. He has always taken an active part in business and civic life of the community.

The I-O-Pen-Er Club me with Miss Dorothy Moulder and Miss Elizabeth White on North Eddy Street. The afternoon was spent in sewing.

With Hiattville Folk: Earl Toyton and family have moved onto the Nevada Road. Clair Toyton is staying at Dr. Gibbons' most of the time until school is out, which will be in about six weeks.

Get your seed potatoes at the A.W. Karbe Grocer: Ohios, per hundred pounds, $1.19; Cobblers, per hundred pounds, $1.15.

Charley Cole, RFD 2, had business in town yesterday.

Assistant Postmaster Herman Littleton announced this morning that the post office is cashing a limited number of pension checks each day as far as funds will permit.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Fort Scott will be represented Thursday by Charles Warren at a hearing to be conducted by the Kansas Corporation Commission at Parsons on the proposed discontinuance of Katy passenger trains No. 5 and 6 running from the Kansas-Missouri state line to Parsons. The railroad seeks the discontinuance on grounds that the trains have been operating at a deficit through lack of patronage. Similar application has been made for discontinuance of the trains in Missouri to St. Louis. Removal of the trains means the end of any passenger service on the Katy through Fort Scott.

Dr. and Mrs. J.R. Prichard have returned from Wichita where he attended a cancer conference.

Bennett O. Popp, of Bronson, was the winner of a 1950 Mercury given away by Ray Shepherd Motors in a drawing Saturday night.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

The Fort Scott High School forensics squad amassed 147 points in preliminary rounds at the Independence Forensic Tournament to receive the second place sweepstakes trophy. Fort Scott's Improvised Duet Acting teams of Michael Hunt and Brandon Purtle and Andy Carson and Chris Kerr tallied over twice as many points in that event as any other school in the final round. Original Orators, John Miller and Robin Larsen, and Informative speakers, Peggy Rimbey and Lisa Morrell, also outpointed all other schools in their areas.

Alvin "Pete" Arens, 202 South Crawford, has purchased the T-N-T Taxi Service and has renamed it Pete's Taxi Service. The dispatch office is located at 1 1/2 North Main Street.

Real Estate: Mr. and Mrs. Doug Ropp, Springfield, Mo., have purchased a home and 85 1/2 acres near Fort Scott from Mr. and Mrs. Albert Malcom. The transaction was handled by Ron Nickelson of Town and Country Realtors.