Stories from Friday, September 1, 2006

The last Saturday in September is shaping up to be a busy one in Fort Scott. Parades, exhibits, games. It seems the activities are limitless. Some of the events taking place that day are part of the Historic Downtown Fort Scott Fall Festival, a day of shopping and fun activities planned by several local downtown merchants...

The Third Annual Taste of Fort Scott fund-raising event will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, at the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. Man St. Tickets for Taste of Fort Scott are $20 and are available at Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce office, 231 E. Wall St...

A lack of offensive chances hurt Fort Scott High's soccer team in its season opener with Louisburg Thursday at Ellis Park. The visiting Wildcats took advantage and scored a 3-0 victory over the Tigers, who host Independence Thursday in the first game of Southeast Kansas League play...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) The Old Settlers Picnic and Reunion, which was to have been held at Uniontown today, was post- poned on account of inclement weather. The event will be held two weeks from today. Several hundred people had gathered at the picnic grounds before the rain commenced, but after the arrangements had been changed they departed for their homes. The many persons who went from this city on the morning train to attend the picnic returned at noon...

Those attending the birthday lunch for Dana Button on Sunday, Aug. 20 were her husband, Barry; daughter, Alissa; parents, Denton and Annette Hixon and Raven; her great-great aunt, Esther Secrest; her uncle Mike Hixon; and her grandparents, Dale and Betty Hixon...

Karen Sue Hedges, age 65, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, August 31, 2006, at Mercy Health Center. She was born in Eureka, Kansas on March 1, 1941, the daughter of John Robert and Hilda Irene Burt Prather. She married Richard Hedges on December 27, 1964, in Eureka, Kansas. He survives of the home...