(1908)

R.H. Tiernan has received a shipment of the handsomest bear skin rugs ever brought to town. They came from his brother, who is located near Seattle. There are six rugs made of bear skins with head, yawning jaws and claws intact and one robe all made from the pelts of the black bear. They are indeed beauties.

Attorney Sam McWilliams went to Bronson to deliver the Decoration Day address.

J.S. Weaver and wife came down from Mapleton last night to attend today's Decoration Day exercises.

Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Stidworthy, who have sold their residence on South Judson Street, are storing their goods in the old Monitor Building. With their son David Jr., they will go to Savanah, Ga., from which they will take a liner for New York City.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

It was a drama of young hearts that was played out last night in Memorial Hall at the junior college and senior high school commencement. Fully 2,000 persons jammed their way into the big auditorium. People were standing in the exits. The chief actors, of course, were the 233 boys and girls who finally were given their diplomas at the hands of Harry Crane, president of the board of education. It was their night, their hour of glory, their moment of fame before they were swallowed up in the oblivion of the years to come. And in regard to the parents, It is their sacrifices, the patient toil, the generosity of heart and purse that enabled that brilliant group of youths to march across the rostrum and receive their diplomas.

America's war dead have not alone given us a record of achievement and human sacrifice; they have created an ideal that is to be forever cherished and handed down to succeeding generations. It is that ideal that is memorialized today throughout the nation. So spoke Payne H. Ratner, of Parsons, who delivered the Decoration Day address this morning before 500 persons in Memorial Hall while the few remaining Civil War veterans were recognized along with veterans' groups.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Fort Scott's Municipal Swimming Pool opens for the season on Sunday, June 1. Life guards on duty at all times. Admission: children 6 through 11, season ticket $6 or single admission 15 cents; children 12 through 16 season ticket $8 or single admission 25 cents; adults (over 16) $10 or single admission 50 cents; family season ticket $15.

The Stockton, Mo., baseball team, one of the strong teams in the semi-pro ranks of this section, will play the Fort Scott Coca Colas at the fairgrounds Sunday afternoon. Cokes manager Charles Marshall will use all three of his pitchers, Hamilton, Heggee and Graham. Lon Farrell will do the catching. Graham made a good showing against Osawatomie last Sunday, hurling three innings without allowing a hit or a run. Due to the National Guard unit leaving for camp with three of the Coke players, the management will use a couple of extra players from Pittsburg.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Boys State, which Bob Waters describes as a "good round lesson in politics," will be home for nine Fort Scott High School juniors most of next week as the annual mock exercise in state government gets underway at the University of Kansas. "It is government from the grass roots up," said Waters, the local Boys' State chairman. Fort Scott delegates include Harold West, Kevin Griner, Mike Tourtillott, Todd Egbert, Mitch Johnston, Tim Post, Mike Kite, Corky Lemmon and Owen Fine.

Letter to the Editor: "Do you know where Sheppard Street is? Neither does the City Street Department. We have called many times, both last year and this year. Bushes and weeds are so bad two cars can't even pass in the street. It is a mess. Thanks for letting me use your paper to blow off steam. Maybe it will get some action. -- Pamela Korinek"