(1908)

BOYS! School will close this week. Here is a chance for you to make money during vacation days. The Tribune-Monitor has decided to give the boys of Fort Scott an opportunity to make money. Now this is no contest in which one boy gets a prize at the expense of all the others, but a chance for every boy to earn something, the amount of which will depend on the amount of work he performs. We want everybody in Fort Scott to take the Tribune-Monitor and the boys can help us bring about this result. The Tribune-Monitor is an evening paper and the only paper in Fort Scott printing the Associated Press news. The price of the paper is 50 cents a month. We have not raised the price and do intend to do so. One of our representatives secured 300 new subscribers in three weeks. This was last fall and the opportunity is now just as good as it was then. We can use every ambitious boy in Fort Scott. Call to get the plan fully explained.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Staff Sergeant James M. (Merrill) Reynolds, Company 8, 3rd Engineers, U.S. Army, stationed at Scholfield Barracks, territory of Hawaii, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J .W. Reynolds of 823 South Margrave Street, qualified as an expert rifleman with a score of 333 out of a possible 350, during the current target season recently closed. His score stands as second highest in the department. Reynolds entered the service in February 1927. The message was received in Fort Scott by Edith Sterling of The Tribune office which is also in receipt of a letter from Mr. Reynolds, who said he would be glad to hear from any of his old friends in Fort Scott. Mr. Reynolds went to Hawaii with the impression that he would stay about two years. But legislation has been enacted requiring that he stay three years. He says he plans to visit Kansas as soon as he gets back to the states.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Teen Talk (By Connie Campbell)

The Student Council held "Clean-up Day" on May 13. They swept school walks and picked up papers.

Boy of the Week --Pat Henry is treasurer of the sophomore class. His pet peeve is interviewers (Humph). Coin collecting and athletics are Pat's favorite hobbies. His favorite sport is baseball which he plans to play this summer. He likes to watch football.

Bands, National Guardsmen, floats, horsemen and candidates in a queen contest paraded past the Trading Post Cemetery yesterday, in observance of the Marais des Cygnes Massacre. Approximately 3,000 people witnessed the hour-long parade. Cars lined both sides of US-69 for a mile.

Shop Whiteside's IGA, Be Wise, Buy Wise: 3 No 2 1/2 cans peaches, 3 for $1; Imperial Cane Sugar, 10 lbs. 99 cents; Sure Jel, pkg., 13 cents; Swifts bacon, lb. 49 cents; fresh Arkansas strawberries, quart box 29 cents; Puritan ice cream, 1/2 gal. 69 cents.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Sister Mary Trinity Jackson, Mercy Hospital's outgoing president and a chief executive officer, was presented with a key to the city as Mayor Robin Reeves declared Saturday as "Sister Mary Trinity Jackson Appreciation Day." She is leaving Mercy July 15 after 15 years at the hospital's helm. An appreciation dinner is being sponsored by PRIDE, The Friends of Fort Scott, Ltd., and the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce. Sister Trinity began nursing in 1946 at the former Burke Street Hospital, a spot now marked by a parking lot west of Mercy's existing location. Sister Trinity said, "I want you to know that my life has been enriched by just being a member of the Fort Scott community."