Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago June 30, 1923 Crystal Pool Park, the new $30,000, fan shaped, 110- by 127-foot concrete pool located two miles north of Fourth and Broadway, and the modern bath house connected was the subject of much favorable comment as hundreds of persons got their first squint at the bathing beach on the occasion of its opening last night. Automobiles began filling the parking spaces early in the evening and continued to arrive until late. A delegation of Shriners from Parsons, 125 strong, swooped down on Pittsburg last night, captured O. E. Coulter, potentate of the of Mirza Temple, and with him in the lead staged a parade on Broadway, boosting for the Shrine circus to be staged in Parsons July 17, 18 and 19.