Memories spring eternal

100 YEARS AGO

(1906)

About 25 feet of stove pipe is required to connect the stove at the M.K.&T. depot with the flue. Last night while all was quiet about the station, there came a sudden crash, smash and bang. A dark cloud enveloped the office, but Night Operator Tom Barrett was unharmed. The stove pipe had fallen without the least warning and that ticket office looked like the interior of a soft coal burner.

Don Williams, a well known young man who graduated from the Fort Scot High School and was prominent in athletic affairs, but who has been farming south of town for some time, and his brother-in-law C.W. Strode, a school teacher of Hiattville, have negotiated the purchase of the A.M. Routh general merchandise store at Hiattville. This is one of the large retail businesses of the county and is an old established store. The two men are well liked and will do a fine business.

Mr. Routh, who was postmaster at Hiattville, has been prominent in Hiattville affairs. He has made some fine investments in western Kansas land which have made him big money.

75 YEARS AGO

(1931)

The farm house on the John Dalton farm west of Fulton was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday. The cause of the fire was unknown. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton were not at home. The flames were noticed by neighbors. Most of the contents were saved as the alarm was given immediately and willing helpers removed practically all of the contents.

The start of the gifts which will bring a happy Thanksgiving to the needy of Fort Scott was made yesterday when members of the Mothers Council brought contributions to the Welfare Association headquarters. The council presented to Mrs. Elizabeth Caney, secretary of the association, twenty cans of fruit and vegetables and $1.50 in cash.

50 YEARS AGO

(1956)

Ed Hess, of near Richards, reported that a heavy rain at his farm had filled his ponds so that he does not have to worry about water now. Hess says crops had been good there.

Heavy hail and an estimated one inch of rain fell in the Diamond neighborhood, five miles southeast of the city, this morning between 9 and 10 o'clock, according to a report by Tribune correspondent, Mrs. Ralph Singmaster.

The Uniontown Mutual Telephone Co. met last night at the Uniontown High School and voted 71-20 to dissolve their mutual company and join the R.E.A.

Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Eshelbrenner, 742 South National, will entertain with a family dinner Thanksgiving. With the exception of their son Bob, who is assistant coach of Newton High School, the family will all be together.

Photo caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waldo Cox, Pleasanton, will be honored at a reception Nov. 22 at the Pleasanton Community Building. The event marks the couple's 40th wedding anniversary."

25 YEARS AGO

(1981)

Editorial:

There is a bumper sticker around town that says, "If you read this, thank a teacher"--food for thought during National Education Week. The key to a good educational system, according to U -234 Superintendent Fred Campbell, is a positive and supportive attitude in the community which that system serves. We agree. We should insist that teachers be people who teach, not because they have a piece of paper that says they are entitled to earn a living by teaching, but because they find great pleasure and fulfillment in helping youngsters open new horizons and enter new frontiers. That pleasure and fulfillment begets enthusiasm, an essential and contagious ingredient in the educational process. There is evidence that good things are happening in U-234--a variety of professional awards, including the Kansas Teacher of the Year, bear testimony. We have a core group of excellent teachers and an administration committed to a progressively improved system. We have much that merits our thanks.