(1908)

TOPEKA -- Twenty-one of Topeka's business men, including the proprietors of cigar stores, confectionery stores and Sunday newspaper men, are to be arrested today charged with violating the Sunday labor laws. Theatrical managers, whose houses had been closed, swore to the complaints. The city council today met and declared ice cream, cigar and soda water sales before 9 o'clock on Sundays are not labor law violation.

The output of the overall factory continues to increase from week to week. The sales by retailers of the garbs made here have given the highest satisfaction and the plant is certainly forging to the front.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

A Frisco freight train which passed through the city yesterday carried 15 cars loaded with beer apparently enroute to the Oklahoma border in anticipation of a beer victory at the polls in Oklahoma today.

It was learned this morning that a shipment of 54 carloads of beer out of St. Louis over the Frisco, destined for points in California, had been ordered held at Monette, Mo., in anticipation of an opportunity to divert to Oklahoma to slake the thirst of Oklahomans after today's vote in that state on beer.

Fred Johnson of the Johnson Electric Company at 9 Market Street has purchased from the city the lot and building which was once used as a city toilet and later abandoned. Mr. Johnson plans to use the building as a storage room.

Weasels or groundhogs are taking a toll among chickens around the suburbs of the city. Last night, varmints killed a number of frying-size chickens at the home of Orville Stone, a Tribune linotype operator, who lives on Parker Boulevard. The prowlers sucked the blood from the chicks and left the bodies, as was the case a few nights ago of the chickens belonging to Mrs. J.E. Ball of Gunn City Park.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

More rain, possibly severe, was forecast for this area tonight as Fort Scott braced for the crest of what may press a disastrous Marmaton River flood this afternoon. Scattered thunder storms are forecast through tomorrow, with locally heavy rains tonight. Flood waters from the rampaging Marmaton River were splashing three-feet deep across Humboldt Avenue in Belltown at 1:30 this afternoon and all but a handful of Belltown residents had been evacuated following night-long rains in Fort Scott that dumped 5.70 inches and rains that totaled 8 inches at Uniontown. The Marmaton was 25 feet above the pumphouse dam at 1:30 and Mayor William O. Rardin refused to make an estimate of what the crest would be, nor at what hour it would come. Rardin said the water was as deep now as it had been in the 1951 flood.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

The Bourbon County Fair. , with its nearly 150-year history, is the only local showcase for agriculture and an example of a long-standing country tradition. The fair has grown considerably from its humble origin in the 1800s. This year there are 25 categories of 4-H competition. There were 38 members of the original fair board.

Beth King, recreation commission director, announces a fishing derby for all ages at Gunn Park. Friday. Bait will be provided. Prizes will be awarded.

Photo caption: "The Pirates finished their season with a perfect 70 record to capture first place laurels in the Pee Wee League. Team members include Eric Corsester, Jared Goering, Jordan Witt, Kirk Poyner, Matthew Goering, Troy Biggs, Nathan Bukowski, Richard Smith, Frank Atkins, Rob Anderson and Dana Hale. Coaches are Gary Bukowski, Mark Bolton and Vic Anderson." -- Photo by Bob Weems