Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives
100 years ago
June 6, 1926
Work of remodeling the Kelso building at the southeast corner of Fourth and Pine streets will be started tomorrow to appoint the corner rooms of the building as offices for the Lincoln Building. Savings & Loan Association, which now is located at 104 East Third. The entire building now is occupied by the Kelso Grain Company, which will vacate the corner rooms and occupy business quarters in rooms to the east and at the rear of those to be occupied by the Lincoln company.
Within the lapse of little more than 24 hours, the lives of two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. O'Connor, 1807 North Elm, were claimed early yesterday morning and this morning by measles. Nina Catherine O'Connor, fourteen months, was the first of the two children to succumb to the disease, dying early Sunday morning. Her sister, Rosemary O'Connor, aged four, was the second. The older girl died at 9 o'clock this morning.
Members of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Shrine in this jurisdiction will stage a "get together" and social program on June 24 in observance of St. John's Day. A program is being arranged for afternoon and night. The third degree will be dramatized in the Masonic Temple, Sixth and Pine, in the afternoon. All other parts of the program will be staged in the Shrine Mosque. A barbecue dinner will be served at 6 o'clock in the dining room of the Mosque.
A map of the United States showing all the various companies under the control of the Cities Service Company is on display in the window of the Pittsburg Gas Company on East Fourth. The local company is a branch of the Gas Service Company, and the latter is controlled by the larger concern. Nearly 100 companies, each of which serves a large territory of its own, are represented on the map of the United States, as are several of the holdings in Canada and in Mexico.
50 years ago
June 6, 1976
Deteriorating communications within the Kansas State College of Pittsburg was cited as the foremost campus problem by several college administrators and staff members last week. The five men interviewed are all leaving KSCP for positions at other colleges and universities. They were asked to give their retrospective views of problems and possible solutions at the Pittsburg campus.
GIRARD - Two more cattle thefts in a series of livestock thefts in Crawford, Bourbon and Wilson Counties have been solved, Crawford County Sheriff Jim. Sellars said Saturday. The theft of a calf from the John B. Brackett farm three miles west of the U.S. 69 and U.S. 160 junction, stolen March 6, and the theft of two head of cattle stolen from the Clarence V. Scott farm four miles east and a half-mile south of the U.S. 69 and Kansas 126 intersection between Feb. 15 and 16 were admitted to Thursday by John and Roxanne Steffens, 28 Fourth St. Circle in Pittsburg, Sellars said.
The advantages and goal of national advertising by Mid-America, Inc., an economic development corporation, for the purpose of bringing industry to Southeast Kansas, will be pointed out by Roland Loveless, executive vice president of Mid-America, when he meets with the Crawford County Commissioners at Monday's 10 a.m. commission meeting in the County Courthouse, Girard. Loveless will attempt to convince the commission that the county's annual $6,000 payment to Mid-America for the national advertising program is beneficial to Crawford County, despite the fact that this county has not received an industry through the advertising.
Salaries of the Central Office staff and building administrators, substitute teachers, clerks secretaries, instructional aides and bus drivers will be discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Pittsburg board of education at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The Unified District 250 board will meet at the Education Center, 510 Deill St. Salary increases for the Central Office Staff and Building Administrators range from an 8.89 per cent increase for David Huffman, assistant superintendent of schools, to a 22,7 per cent increase for John Williamson, USD 250 purchasing agent, according to figures published in the June 7 agenda.
25 years ago
June 6, 2001
The Pittsburg JCPenney store is asking its customers to pardon its dust. The store began a major interior renovation about two weeks ago, and it is expected to be done in August, according to Steve Scott, store manager. The renovation is part of an effort the J.C. Penney Co. Inc. is making to improve many of its stores. "We want to make it a more enjoyable shopping experience for our customers," Scott said.
Time is running out for some victims of sexual assault in Kansas, especially those who were molested as children. The statute of limitations, KS Statute 21-3106, states that prosecution must begin within five years after the commission of the crime of child sexual abuse. "I was abused at age 3," explained Marti Emerson. "The statute of limitations would have run out when I was 8 years old." Emerson is not using her real name for this story, nor is she divulging identifying information about her assailant. She doesn't want to jeopardize a conviction if the case is eventually prosecuted.
A Pittsburg church will be able to continue to conduct services in its existing building while its new building is built right next door. The city Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously approved two variances that will allow the project at Lighthouse Temple Church of God in Christ, 215 W. 11th St., to proceed. The new facility will be built west of the current one. When the new one is finished, the old one will be torn down.
GIRARD - The Crawford County Commission voted Tuesday to give one county office a room with a view. The commission unanimously approved a change order on the Crawford County Judicial Center project that will allow a 4-by-8-foot window to be added to the district court clerk's office. The change order added $3,164 to the project cost. "A $3,164 164 window?" Commissioner Anthony Pichler asked. "What kind of window is this?"
