Memories spring eternal ...

(1908)

It is an interesting sight to watch the excavations being made on East Wall Street. One big plow that is operating over the stony street is drawn by four big mules and a giant span of horses. Four men today piled on top of the plow to hold it in the earth while the six animals bent their backs in pulling it through the streets. The combined strength of these big animals is nearly equal to that of a small locomotive.

A man was arrested last evening and charged with peeping through windows at West Side homes. The man behaves rather strangely, to say the least. He was discharged today as the persons whose premises he trespassed upon are members of the same church and they did not want to start a prosecution. The man was warned to discontinue the practice

William Albert, living on the Clayton farm a mile east of Walkertown, brought to this office today a peck of early Pippin apples which he has been marketing in the city. They are as fine as apples grow. Mr. Elbert had but 40 bushels of this particular variety, whereas he had 200 bushels last year.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Word has been received by relatives here, including a niece, Mrs. J.R. Prichard, of the death of Mrs. Martha Belle Penniman Burger, widow of Dallas B. Burger. She died at her home in Pasadena, Calif., at the age of 72. She had been in California the past 15 years. She is the last of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Penniman, whose homestead was at 614 South Main Street. She spent most of her life in this city. She was married in 1901 to Dallas B. Burger, one of the owners of the Fort Scott Carriage Works. She was the only sister of the late Edward, Frank, Andrew and Charles W. Penniman.

Burglars, last night, visited the office of Dr. R.Y. Strohm in the Tiernan Building at First and Main streets and carried away articles valued at $200. Among the things taken were a microscope, a portable typewriter, two boxes of sleeping tablets, 33 cents in stamps and 20 cents in change. The intruders had forced the lock on the front door and cut through the door of the private office. Dr. Storm had only recently moved from the Stout Building to the Tiernan Building.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Robert Todd, of southwest of Redfield, reported there was a seven-inch rain there and that low ground was all under water. He said the amount of damage to crops is uncertain.

Fred Tyler, of southwest of Garland, said that Drywood creek is flooded all his crops, but that he did not know what he extent of damage would be.

Chet Ober reports that all his 20 acres of good corn inundated and he fears that it has suffered much damage.

Frank Hereford had 160 acres of beans along the bottom which he fears may have been damaged heavily. Some local men who have seen the crop since the flood have stated that they fear the beans are killed.

Kaley Blythe, farmer of near Uniontown, had wonderful corn along the river, and he says he does not think it has suffered much damage. He says injury to crops will not be nearly so great there as it has been near Fort Scott.

Now is the time to get your school books for city, rural, and parochial schools. The longer you put off, you are sure to start school with one or two books short. Cowmen's Book Store can fill your book lists now. -- Adv.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

No publication.