Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives
100 years ago
May 29, 1926
More than 2,000 of the quota of 3,000 poppies had been sold by the school girls and members of the American Legion Auxiliary at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon in the annual poppy selling campaign to secure money to support and care for disabled veterans. The poppies, which were quoted at ten cents each, were bringing more than that amount, and it is estimated that about $350 will be secured from the sale. Officials of the auxiliary stated this afternoon that they would "carry on" until the last poppy had been sold.
Motor cars were troublemakers for Pittsburgers this month, according to the monthly report of the police department completed today by Tommy Stowers, desk sergeant. There were 184 arrests, and of that number 84 were for parking more than two hours. Thirty-two others were booked for driving without a taillight, five for non-stop on Broadway, three for having only one headlight burning, five for speeding, and one each for reckless driving, having no license, jay driving and interfering with traffic, for a total of 133 arrests, leaving only 51 for other causes.
Pittsburg assumed a metropolitan appearance along Broadway last night with the dancing lights of the marquise of the Colonial theatre flashing in identical manner with the display signs of foremost theatres in the largest cities. Today a huge perpendicular sign bearing the name, Colonial, was placed in position above the marquise, which extends in canopy fashion out over the sidewalk immediately in front of the theatre entrance,
50 years ago
May 29, 1976
GIRARD - Permission to obtain $100,000 in no fund warrants for operation of the county sanitary landfill system will be requested by the Crawford County Commission in a letter to the State Board of Tax appeals. At Friday's county commission meeting, the commissioners instructed County Clerk Harold Hutchins to send a letter to the Board seeking permission for a hearing on the no fund warrants, which will be used to set up the sanitary landfill.
GIRARD - Bids for a county jail air conditioning system were accepted and opened for the second time Friday at the meeting of the Crawford County Commissioners, and a new bidder submitted the lowest project cost estimate. B & L Sheet Metal, Pittsburg, which did not bid at the first letting, submitted the lowest bid opened Friday. However, no contract was awarded by the commissioners pending a study of the bids by County Road Supervisor Larry Pommier. The total B & L bid was $6,526 for units totaling 12 tons.
Officials of the Crawford County Mental Health Center announced that the Center's staff has recently completed a process of evaluating current services to county residents in addition to planning for additional services during the coming year. The program planning was done through the work of various sub-committees composed of agency personnel and culminated in an all-day retreat held May 21. Betty Moore, the Center Community Consultation nurse, was chairman for a committee on programs for the aging. Highlights of her committee's recommendations included home visits to persons living alone, utilizing the services of both students and volunteers.
25 years ago
May 29, 2001
Five members of the Class 2-1A state champion St. Mary's-Colgan baseball team were named to the first team of the All-Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League teams announced on Tuesday. Pitcher Nick Smith, catcher Eric Schiefelbein, second-baseman Andy Wachter, designated hitter Pat Moodie and outfielder Paul Gill all were named to the first team, while the Girard Trojans also added Derek Crumpacker, T.J. Franklin, Clint Callanan and Lukas Cheney. Girard's Dan Smith was named coach of the year.
GIRARD - Tosha Gier and Robert Murphy have been selected by their Girard Middle School eighth grade classmates to receive American Legion Awards. The awards are sponsored by George C. Brown American Legion Post No. 26, Girard. The awards, made on the basis of courage, honor, leader ship, patriotism, scholarship and service, were presented during eighth grade graduation cere-monies held May 22 in the Ted R. Taylor Auditorium. Making presentations were Donald Schultz, American Legion commander, and Gary Pernot, Girard Middle School principal.
WICHITA (AP) - City and Mid-Continent Airport officials, who estimate Wichita loses thou-sands of departures every year to nearby airports that offer cheaper flights, are pursuing the numbers to back up that contention. Data confirming their estimate, they said, would give a boost to Wichita's push for subsidized air service to Kansas City, Mo. "If we can show literally hundreds of thousands of people are driving away from this market, then we may be able to get the attention of the existing carriers or some other carrier to provide a higher level of service," said Bailis Bell, Wichita’s director of airports.
