(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. Mayor Harris, as well as the council and school authorities, are very anxious that there be a general response to the call extended to all to join in tomorrow's efforts If the city is given a right good scouring it will be in a more sanitary condition when hot weather sets in within the next six or eight weeks. There are hundreds of loads of manure and refuse in the alleys that will be heaped up tomorrow and carried away. There are millions of dandelions growing on green lawns that will tomorrow be uprooted. There are streets in festering conditions caused by stagnant water, manure, etc., that will be cleaned off, as will crosswalks. Gutters where water backs up will be cleaned out, in fact the whole town will be gone over and given a cleaning such as it never had. There will be hundreds of school children engaged in the work of cleaning their school yards. Later the children are expected to clean up the premises at home. The work will be under the direction of Street Commissioner McElroy. Do your part and make this holiday a profitable one for the town's good.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

County Clerk W.I. West today received notice from the state tax commission that when it meets in July as a board to equalize the assessed valuation of property in different parts of the state it will formally order a cut f 16 2/3 percent in the assessed valuation of all Kansas real estate and improvements thereon.

R.L. Blum of the Western Insurance Companies office and family, who have been living in the Klingbell Apartments, have moved to the McCoy property, corner of Fifth and National Avenue.

Twenty-six years ago on April 15 E.A. Shaver took up the duties of government weather observer for Fort Scott and has been dispensing Kansas brand weather during all of that time. He is now the seventh point man in Kansas from a point of service. At the time of his appointment to the position of observer, Mr. Shaver was the youngest man in the service in Kansas and still holds that distinction.

Lath Branch School will close for the summer vacation on April 28th.

C.T. McDaniel, manager of the Bell Telephone Company, has moved his family from 210 South Main Street to 207 Judson.

Charles Lewis and family will move next week from 803 South Barbee Street to a farm on R.F.D. 5 north the National Cemetery.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Photo caption: "Three spoonbills weighing 50, 45 and 35 pounds, were caught last week near Osceola, Mo., by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Durossette, 2121 East Wall Street."--Tribune photo

A six-hour sale held yesterday at Ruddick's Music and Furniture store across from the post office was called an "unqualified success" by Alvin Ruddick, store owner and manager. "I just had time to open the doors at 4 p.m. when the crowd streamed in," Ruddick said. By the time the doors opened about 150 people were waiting to seek the tagged bargain merchandise.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

No publication.