Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives
100 years ago
June 13, 1926
Girard - Ed S. Dolson, defaulting cashier of the Farmers State Bank of McCune, held in jail here on charges of embezzlement, making false entries and accepting deposits during the bank's insolvency, today had not indicated his plans regarding the charges pending. It was said that nothing will be done regarding the case before tomorrow, when Dolson probably will be taken into a justice court in Pittsburg.
L. M. Resler of Pittsburg announced today that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for judge of division No. 1 of the Crawford County district court. Petitions for Mr. Resler already are in circulation. Mr. Resler has served as first assistant county attorney for the past five years. He is a graduate of the law school of the University of Kansas and has been engaged in the practice of law in this district for fourteen years. He maintains his office in Pittsburg.
Wheat harvest in Crawford County, which was started with a few cuttings the latter part of last week, will be on in full swing over the entire county this week, and several hundred harvest hands are needed to assist in the work, F. B. Wheeler, member of the agricultural committee of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, said this morning.
Mrs. Jennie Fox's suit against W. H. Ryan, Girard attorney, for approximately $15,000 damages on grounds of fraud and slander was given new life Saturday when the Kansas supreme court reversed a ruling made in the Crawford County district court, in which a defendant demurrer to the plaintiff's answer had been sustained.
50 years ago
June 13, 1976
Only about 10 per cent of the traffic violations filed yearly in the City Court of Pittsburg are heard in court while one per cent are reduced or dismissed, sometimes outside of court, court records show. Of the more than 5,000 traffic cases, mostly for speeding violations, filed yearly, the remaining 89 per cent are resolved when the defendant pleads guilty and pays an automatic fine and court costs without appearing in court.
Crawford County has been invited to apply for a federally funded supplemental food program for women, infants, and children. Areas with the highest levels of infant mortality, low birth weight and low income are now given the first opportunity to participate in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to M.J. Dannevik, WIC coordinator for the Midwest Region.
The Southeast Kansas Community Action Program has received federal funds to finance a summer jobs program that starts Monday for lower-income students enrolled in colleges and vocational and training schools, Ed Brackett, director of the SEK-CAP Manpower division, said. Aside from the program for post-secondary students, a similar summer jobs program set up primarily for high school students began Monday.
If presidential elections were held in Kansas today, the likely democrat candidate, Jimmy Carter, would outpoll either incumbent republican Gerald Ford (44 per cent to 39 per cent) or republican challenger Ronald Reagan (44 per cent to 40 per cent). The first statewide Stauffer Publications Kansas Poll of this election season shows that while all three candidates now demonstrate relatively strong showings within their own parties, Democrat Jimmy Carter has at this point captured a greater share of the independent vote in Kansas.
25 years ago
June 13, 2001
City Manager Larry Stevens presented his proposed $22.6 million budget for 2002 to the Pittsburg City Commission at a study session before Tuesday night's regular meeting. Stevens said the main reason for the increased budget is larger budgeted reserves for the general fund and the utility fund, which the city had worked to stabilize during the last budget year. Stevens proposed a one-mill increase in the city's property tax mill levy. An official projection of the city's assessed valuation won't be made by Crawford
The Kansas Department of and Rehabilitation Social Services' lease with Crawford County on the SRS building at 20th and the U.S. Highway 69 Bypass expires June 30, which is leaving both the agency and the county looking for options. County Counselor Jim Emerson said at Tuesday's regular county commission meeting he had received a letter from Dixie Phillips, SRS lease administration director, seeking to extend the lease to February and then take it on a month-to-month basis.
Their switchboard was closed in 1979, but a group of former Southwestern Bell Telephone operators still keep their lines of communication open. On Tuesday, the informal group, open to all retired and active Southwestern Bell employees, celebrated its 20th anniversary. "We had our first meeting on June 3, 1981, in the Sirloin Stockade," said Arlene Fearmonti. She and Harriet Rudisill started the group meetings. "Harriet's brother-in-law, Maurice Fleming, had been to a meeting of retired railroad men and he asked when the telephone operators got together,"
Pittsburg city commissioners told a bar owner he was doing a good job fixing problems with his establishment but said they hoped things would continue to improve. The city commission unanimously approved renewal of Michael Tuner's dance hall license for On the Rocks, 110 Ε. Sixth St., at its meeting Tuesday night. Maj. Tim Tompkins, assistant chief of police, reviewed a list of 30 incidents occurring at or near the bar which led to filing police reports.
