Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907)

Harry Bush, the boss barber, who has been located near the corner of Main and Wall streets for several years, has leased the room recently vacated by .C.

Rose and will install his effects there.

The Elks will tonight give a dance to the young ladies who recently participated in the production of the Mikado show. A large number of invitations has been issued.

There is still no definite date for the opening of the new bank for business. It depends altogether upon when the Gas and Electric Company evacuates its present quarters. Work for the foundation of the new office building at the corner of Wall and National is being rapidly pushed.

The Fort Scott High School Operetta will be one of the best amateur performances ever seen in this city.

75 YEARS AGO (1932)

A downward trend in the expenses of school districts in Bourbon County for the coming year is evidenced in the amounts voted by the districts as necessary to operate the school. Reports of the amounts voted are being filed with County Clerk William I. West.

As examples, District 29 cut its amount in half from $1,000 to $500; District 50 reduced from $1,200 to $540.

Tom Thogmartin, who owns the Harkey Park ground in the east end of the city, is wondering if Fort Scott is going to have a ball team this season.

Tom wants to plow up the ground if there is not going to be any baseball.

Two new families are residents of Ballinger Hill on the straight south road. P.L. Anderson and family live in one of the Eddy bungalows and Paul Schroader and family live just across the road. Mr. Anderson is a trainman and Mr. Schroader is a telephone man.

50 YEARS AGO (1957)

At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pease on Route 2 they are beginning to wonder if broken bones are "cheaper by the dozen," The cast only recently was removed from Mrs. Pease's right hand, after she broke a bone in her hand. Then last week Larry, 8, broke his left shoulder when he fell on the playground at the Hammond School. Then his big brother, Ronnie, 10, tried a little highjumping on the school grounds. He fell and broke his right shoulder.

The proceeds from the student nurses dance at the Fort Scott Armory will be used to send Miss Carolyn Ward and Miss Hazel Martin to Chicago to represent the Fort Scott school at the national meeting.

Cato-Drywood (By B. Leverich)-- A noon basket dinner marked the closing of Large School. The teacher, Mrs.

Mason, will teach at Pawnee next year.

25 YEARS AGO (1982)

Members of the Iza Stompers Square Dance Club here attended the 35th annual Northeast Oklahoma Square Dance Association Festival at Tulsa.

Attending were Vivian Houston, Sandra Lewis, Maxine Kinney and Jennie Elbrader; Bill Eshelbrenner, Randy Key, Don Brink, Jim Tarter and Clarence Nation; and Bob and Doris Mason, Jim and Jessie Streeter, Tom and Claire Weston, Judge and Goldie Morrell, Norman and Jean Gates, Glen and Bessie Fowler, Jake and Doris Underwood, John and Jackie Allison, Sonny and Edith Peterson, Raymond and Avis Stradley, Gene and Norma Golladay, Dan and Bobbi Ward, Virgil ad Annabelle Hall and Warren and Irene Schooley.

Sisters Mary Anastasia Little, Mary Geraldine Simmons and Mary Martha Bux of the Fort Scott Sisters of Mercy Convent celebrated their Golden Jubilee on April 17. Mass was celebrated in the Mercy Hospital Chapel and a reception was held at the convent.

Editor's Note: Memories Spring Eternal is the expanded version of the Other Years, a feature appearing daily on the editorial page of The Tribune.

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