Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

The Leap Year business seems to have opened with a decided flurry. The girls seem to have taken the initiatives tradition gives the Leap Year--and several propositions are said to be on file.

The city is getting tired of having the paved streets torn up and the brick laid in an unsatisfactory fashion. Last night at the council meeting, Miller opened fire on this practice and all the members concurred in the idea that where the bricks are removed the city must have a guarantee that the pavement will be replaced just as first found.

Miss Bertha Hornaday left this morning for Kansas City where she will spend the day at a pipe organ school.

The last brick on the new Y.M.C.A. has been laid. From now on the builders will give their attention to putting on the remainder of the roof and working on the interior structure. This is a fine building and will offer just such a home for the young men of this locality as they have long needed.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Announcement was made today that a quartet of high school students will provide music during the Chamber of Commerce annual dinner at the Y.M.C.A. The dinner is being offered for 25 cents--an unprecedently low charge. Secretary Marion Webb yesterday issued a warning that all reservations must be in by today noon for tonight's event.

The year 1932 was a busy one for the Fort Scott Fire Department, according to the report of Fire Chief C.H. Durossette as filed with the city commissioners yesterday. The report shows that the department answered 152 calls during the past 12 months and the total loss resulting was $19,450.77. The total insurance paid was $18,507.67, leaving a net loss to the property owners of only $943.10. The last two months of the year had the highest alarms, while May was the smallest month with only four alarms.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

R.A. Needham, Tom Cooney and Leon Harlan attended the hardware convention held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.

FULTON--John Hinderliter, of the Barnesville neighborhood, celebrated his 91st birthday Sunday when his children and relatives gathered at his home for a dinner in his honor.

Dr. R.R. Nevitt is preparing to move from the Newman-Young Clinic to the Conyer Building, 205 South Main.

Old unpaid traffic tickets, unlike old soldiers, do not just fade away into oblivion. In Fort Scott they get paid, eventually. Wesley Thomas Giddens, 416 Garrison Street, ticketed by city police June 5, 1957, on a charge of failing to obey a stop sign, today paid a $10 fine.

The Fort Scott Junior High ninth and eighth grade basketball teams scored a double victory over Lakeside Junior High at Pittsburg. Kuplen, Roberts and Fornwalt each scored five points for the local ninth graders and Woods led eighth graders with 14.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Happening of Other Years (25 Years Ago, 1958)--Thanks to the generosity of a KG&E employee, The Tribune carriers will soon have a regulation backboard and "basket" with which they may resume basketball practice while waiting for the daily press run to begin. Jack Fairfield, circulation manager, said today that Jack Phillips, 210 North Eddy, has offered to donate the sports equipment.

The Bourbon County Civil Defense program was enriched this week by a gift of 27 single bed mattresses from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Bob Galvin, director of Civil Defense for Bourbon County, has announced. The mattresses will be used at a first aid reception center in the event of a disaster. They are being stored temporarily on the third floor at Cheney's Memorial Chapel.