Memories spring eternal ...

100 YEARS AGO

(1908)

County Assessor J.R, Connolly is still making additions to the county tax rolls. Seldom a week passes but what Jim unearths certain property which deserves a berth on the tax rolls, but which has always escaped.

The rain which fell in torrents this afternoon was of course not needed. It will serve only to retard work on the farms, as well as well on the streets and our good roads. The rain of over three inches the other night was sufficient to saturate the earth and this rain today was not needed.

Frank Jordan has been cured of buying cheap hats. Frank had a strawhat which this morning became smeared with paint. In an effort to remove the paint with a sponge and water Frank succeeded in turning the hat to a rich yellowish color.

75 YEARS AGO

(1933)

Two years ago today a protracted heat spell lasting 16 days during which the thermometer soared above the 100 mark on several occasions, was broken by a cool wave.

Park Lockwood yesterday sold his 40-acre tract of ground in the Maple Grove neighborhood to William H. Leitz, of the Fort Scott Packing Company.

Dave Rager, northeast of town, is driving a new Dodge bought from the Richardson Motor Company.

Despite the fact that June was a dry month with practically no precipitation, there is considerable moisture in the soil due to the heavy rains a month ago.

Two cowboy film stars will be featured in a plane speed race July 3. Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson are entrants in the national event in Los Angeles.

MOUND CITY -- The following businesses will be closed all day July 4: Brown's Grocery, Kenney's Grocery, Shinkle & Company, Anne Underhill, W.R. Austin, Mound City Bakery, Carr Produce, Latham Produce, The Republic, Lauck Produce Company. Open for a short time will be the City Meat Market, Graham's Meat Market, Corbin Hardware, Murray Hardware and Gottleb's store.

50 YEARS AGO

(1958)

Gas dealers in Fort Scott and its fringe area are assured a fair distribution of sheriff's office gas purchases under a new system put into effect June 1. Also designed to simplify county bookkeeping, the system operates this way: The names of the 26 gas dealers are written on individual slips of paper and placed in a cigar box. Twice a month, on the first and 15th, one slip is drawn from the container. Sheriff's office gas purchases are then made at the service station during the following two-week period. When all the names have been drawn from the box, new slips are made and the cycle begins anew. The Tribune reporter yesterday drew the name of the Runyon Texaco Service Station, 1503 East Wall, which will supply gas for sheriff's patrol cars during the present period which ends July 15.

Ray H. Woods, Futon, is the 10,000th patient admitted at Mercy Hospital here since its opening Jan. 16, 1956.

25 YEARS AGO

(1983)

Dick Hedges, for four yeas the principal of Fort Scott High School, was named Fort Scott Community College's new president. He will begin his new job July 5 replacing Wayne McElroy. Hedges is a native of Blue Mound and a graduate of the former Blue Mound High School. Hedges emerged at the top of what selection committee chairman Tim Bloomfield called an "avalanche" of 167 applications for the post. "My first priority is to find out what my priorities are," Hedges said. He said he applied for the job because he wanted it, and not because he had been asked to. Hedges said, "If I had not been here, I would have been quite happy to work at the high school. To me it was a win-win situation."