Stories from Monday, October 23, 2006

The Gunn Park Committee has conjured up a festive new Halloween event this weekend in Fort Scott. The first-ever Halloween in Gunn Park is scheduled to take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the park, located at 1010 Park Ave. Much like the Christmas in the Park event that takes places each year in December, the park will be decorated for the Halloween holiday, and festival-goers will be able to board hayrack rides, enjoy refreshments, and participate in other Halloween-related activities, committee member Diana Mitchell said.. ...

The first full weekend of each December, during the Homes for the Holidays tour, the Old Congregational Church, 502 South National Ave., comes alive with song. Christmas carols and other seasonal favorites ring out into the winter air all around the historic church, but of course, the best place to appreciate them is from a pew in the simple but beautiful sanctuary...

Howard "Bud" Payne, age 72, of rural Arcadia, died on his ranch, Friday, October 20, 2006. He was born on August 25, 1934 in Fort Scott, the son of James Edward and Sarah Isabelle Orr Payne. He married Billie Kay Mobley on September 14, 1955 in Miami, Oklahoma. She survives of the home...

SIMONS -- Kinsey Rae Simons, a girl, was born at 3:06 a.m. on Saturday, October 21, 2006 at Mercy Health Center to parents Landon and Nancy Simons, Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. She joins one sister, Sydney. Maternal grandmother is Karen Gardner, Butler, Missouri. Paternal grandmother is Carma Tucker, Gravette, Arkansas. Maternal great-grandmother is Louise Smith. Paternal great-grandparents are David and Betty Tucker, Fort Scott...

FEAGINS -- Addison Grace Feagins, a girl, was born at 6:24 a.m. on Sunday, October 22, 2006 at Mercy Health Center to parents Adam and Tessa Feagins, Fort Scott. She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces at birth. She joins one brother, Grant Michael. Maternal grandparents are Carol Judy, Fort Scott and Tim and Shirley Goltra, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Cindy and C.J. Feagins, Fort Scott...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) While in St. Louis, F.A. Hornaday purchased an automobile which will be one of the finest in the city. It will arrive in a few days. Mr. Hornaday bought a machine that has been used just a little and he got it as second rate. It is a machine which costs, when direct from the factory, $4,200. Mr. Hornaday got a good reduction. It is a forty horsepower, four engine Packard, with good speed capacity...

In the cold damp that permeated Saturday morning, a searcher discovered the body of a Garland man, who had been missing for seven days, in a rock quarry off of U.S. 69 Highway.