Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives

100 years ago

May 7, 1926

Pittsburg will be the mecca of old settlers and pioneers of Crawford County on Thursday, May 20, on which day will be celebrated the 50th anniversary of the birth of the city on the Kansas frontier amidst a wild expanse of wilderness and waving prairie. Letters inviting old settlers to return for the celebration will be sent out daily, starting next week, and continuing each day as the names of the pioneers of the district are obtained. Attractive and appropriate letters of invitation have been prepared for the occasion by Mayor C. Mart Montee, chairman of the executive and invitation committees.

Frank Meade, formerly a Kansas City Southern employee here, pleaded guilty in the city court this morning to having a Ford truck with changed motor numbers in his possession. Because of the fact he has already been in jail 45 days, awaiting the preliminary, Judge Robert S. Lemon did not give Meade a jail sentence, but assessed a fine of $200 and costs. At the time of Meade's arrest, police believed him to be a member of a gang of motor car thieves operating between Pittsburg and Kansas City. It was said today federal operatives still are working on the case.

Steps toward securing an endowment fund for the establishment and maintenance of a home for aged residents of Pittsburg who are dependent on the Pittsburg Charity & Humane Society for support will be discussed tonight at the meeting of the board of directors. The problem of finding means of support for aged people here has been steadily reaching a climax, according to Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, field secretary of the society. There are now fifteen old people in Pittsburg who are either totally or partially dependent on the society for support, and the cost of this phase of the work has been steadily mounting.

50 years ago

May 7, 1976

Plans to gain accreditation in "two or three years" for the Gladys A. Kelce Center for Business and Economic Development at Kansas State College were discussed by the Center's board of advisors in a meeting Thursday which excluded the public. Dr. Richard Hay, director of the Kelce Center, said after the meeting, plans are now being formulated to gain accreditation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. The St. Louis-based ACSB is the most influential business accrediting organization in the country, and currently recognizes 185 U.S. business schools, Hay said.

If there is something more dependable than ants at a picnic, it must be counting on rainy weather on the day of the Environmental Cobweb. And although it has rained on three of the four Cobwebs, another thing that can be depended on is that the Cobweb will be a success despite annual bad weather. Nearly 1,000 elementary and junior high students, Pittsburg High students, local school district teachers and Kansas State College of Pittsburg teachers took in a full morning of activity and learning before the showers started about 12:30p.m., Mrs. Marjorie Sharp, chairman of the Cobweb steering committee, said Thursday.

Curt Schneider, Kansas attorney general, told the Kansas State College Department of Business banquet Thursday that life cannot be based on how much money a person makes, but rather how much they get involved in what goes on around them. Schneider briefly addressed the 18th Annual Awards Banquet of the KSCP business department Thursday night at the Student Union. Some 40 scholarships and awards were presented to students in the Department of Business Administration of the Gladys A. Kelce Center for Business and Economic Development.

25 years ago

May 7, 2001

Ten minutes before Pittsburg State was to take on Washburn in its final regular-season baseball game a thunderstorm dumped heavy rain on Falley Field Sunday afternoon, leaving puddles of water across the infield and forcing umpires to call it about 10 minutes after the scheduled first pitch. Interestingly, a rain of words followed. Pittsburg State head coach Steve Bever all but called the cancellation hogwash and players took it a step further by accusing Washburn of ducking them.

Volunteers worked Sunday with donated paint to spruce up the interior of the CLASS LTD group home in Pittsburg. "The Foundation for CLASS grants out an amount of money each quarter, and they tend more toward hands-on projects," noted Claudia Christiansen of CLASS. "We decided that painting the interior of the group home would be a good project, and we contacted the local Sherwin-Williams store."

TOPEKA - Legislators were working Sunday to put together the deal that would end an impasse over budget and tax issues and allow them to adjourn their session. The House and Senate must agree on a plan for eliminating a $206 million hole in the next state budget. Crucial to that plan was a bill to increase gasoline and diesel fuel taxes by 1 cent a gallon on July 1, and another to increase taxes on insurance companies.