Memories spring eternal

100 YEARS AGO

(1907)

For a month now it has been known that negotiations were going on which would ultimately lead to the erection of a new brick building across from the Goodlander Hotel. The deal has never been formally consummated but probably will be completed by tonight. It was the intent of the promoters to keep the matter quiet until it was definite. Another paper stumbled on to it and published it. C.C. Nelson is agent for Mrs. Elizabeth Goodlander. The building will likely be used as offices for the Gas & Electric Company. If it goes through a two story building costing upwards of $10,000 will be put up.

75 YEARS AGO

(1932)

Every baseball fan in Fort Scott remembers Campbell who played first base for Fort Scott last season for a couple of weeks after Cy Mason had been sold to Independence. Campbell is in the city now and is anxious to put in a team here to represent Fort Scott in the Kansas State League, provided he can meet with proper encouragement. Campbell played on the Hutchinson team last season after leaving Fort Scott.

The organization of the High School Crimson was formally perfected today and the corps of officers will get ready for the first number of the paper which will be off the press next week. The Crimson is the project of the industrious high school students. Jim White, one of Harry Ernich's stage hands at the Davidson Theater, has a little pet dog which no can but Jim can caress and fondle. But the other day, recall the stage hands, Bob Fitzsimmons grabbed the dog by the tail and had all kinds of fun at the dog's expense.

50 YEARS AGO

(1957)

Free polio vaccination clinics will be held here Feb. 19 and March 12 under sponsorship of the Bourbon County Medical Society in cooperation with the city and county heath office. This is for persons between the ages of six and 19 years.

The Happy Go Lucky Club of the Humboldt School District carried out a surprise birthday party for the teacher, Mrs. Martina Street. The girls presented a play. Games were played. Refreshments were cake, popcorn and fruit punch.

Judge and Mrs. Harry W. Fisher and Mrs. Emma Anderson were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Fisher last night at a birthday dinner in honor of Judge Fisher.

Photo caption: "After 49 1/2 years as rural mail carrier of Route 1, Uniontown, William (Willie) E. Johnson, 70, checked in the mail for the last time before retiring today. He started in the postal service at Uniontown. Aug. 15, 1907, making his route for the first seven years by horse-drawn mail wagon. Johnson estimates he traveled 477,000 miles, or over 19 times around the world during his course of duty.--Tribune photo

25 YEARS AGO

(1982)

Photo caption: "Sophomore Lisa McKenney, who scored a personal best 20 points in a loss to Columbus here earlier this month, scored eight points and grabbed 14 rebounds Tuesday as Fort Scott high school girls downed Paola 35-30 in the first round of an invitational tournament at Louisburg."--Photo by Mickey Crystal

The home of Paul and Winkie Rollings at Devon was gutted by fire this morning in a blaze apparently ignited by an overheated flue. The Devon and Fort Scott rural fire departments responded to the fire reported which was reported shortly after 5 a.m. Paul Adamson, a member of the fire department, said Rollings discovered the fire when he looked out a window.