Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907)

"That old building that they are tearing down supplanted by the new Y.M.C.A. building," said Jake Bamberger this morning in pointing to the dismantled structure, "was here in 1864 when I came to town. It was then occupied by the late Dr. Hepler who ran a drug store there. It is one of the old landmarks but will no longer be a reminder of the stirring times in Fort Scott in the sixties when but few people inhabited the Solid City. At that time but few people realized that Fort Scott would ever be the prosperous city it is today."

E.A. Shaffer, of 524 Couch Street, has been appointed local weather man to succeed Mr. J.L.

Brown, who leaves tomorrow for Chicago. Mr. Shaffer is an employee of the Missouri Pacific shops.

75 YEARS AGO (1932)

A.J. Gamble, Iola, accused of perjury and cheating by false pretenses in connection with the payment of bounty for 239 crow bills, was acquitted by a jury in district court. The jury deliberated about 45 minutes. Gamble was arrested when he brought the crow bills to the office of the Bourbon County clerk here and received $23.90 bounty money.

Gamble's defense was that the crows had been killed in Bourbon County on the farm of Pete Pave, of Route 3.

The American Legion Auxiliary announces winners in the Poppy Day art poster contest as follows: Elizabeth Batten, $1, whose poster showed the "Angel of Mercy" hovering over a field of vivid red poppies; Thelma Baldwin, 50 cents, whose fine drawing was a copy of a famous statue, a dough boy helping a wounded comrade from "No Man's Land."; Sam Mercer, 50 cents, who had good ideas in lettering "You Aren't In Style Without a Poppy" and "Help Those Who Gave For Their Country." He drew pictures of the trenches during the dark days of the war.

50 YEARS AGO (1957)

PLEASANTON -- The newly completed Heiser Animal Clinic will be presented to the public Sunday afternoon, May 19. The modern facilities at the suburban home of Dr. and Mrs.

Robert G. Heiser at he south edge of Pleasanton will be shown in an open house. Heiser graduated three years ago from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State College, and started his veterinary practice in Pleasanton. Last fall he purchased the former Carl Herring property on US-69. He has recently converted the barn into the animal clinic.

Dr. and Mrs. Heiser are former Fort Scott residents.

The programs for the Memorial Day services here Thursday, May 30, are off the press and the Chamber of Commerce is sending out copies to relatives over the nation who have World War II boys interred in the National Cemetery and come here each year for the service.

25 YEARS AGO (1982)

Dr. John Durling, Fort Scott veterinarian, will speak for the promotion for about 80 members of the Eugene Ware Elementary School sixth grade class that includes his son, Johnny Durling. Shirley Palmer, 1982 Kansas Teacher of the Year, who is a second grade teacher at Winfield Scott School, will address about 92 sixth graders in promotion exercises at Winfield Scott. For the Fort Scott Junior High School graduation, to be held in the high school gym, an eighth grade student representing the school, and a ninth grade class representative will speak. Angela Emmerson, ninth grader, will present a vocal solo for the event that will involve about 150 ninth grade candidates for graduation.

Kansas Governor John Carlin plans to address about 150 members of the 1982 Fort Scott High School senior class at commencement exercises at Frary Field. Baccalaureate services for the high school will be in the high school gym with the Rev.

Leon Weece, Community Christian Church minister, speaking.

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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