Stories from Friday, October 27, 2006

Noted historical artist and Carthage, Mo., native Andy Thomas will be the featured guest at the 8th annual Blue and Gray Banquet at 6:30 Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Liberty Theater in Fort Scott, 113 S. Main St. Proceeds from the banquet benefit the Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site near Pleasanton...

A group of area junior and senior high school girls from Bourbon County will compete next summer for the honor of becoming the first-ever Bourbon County Relay for Life queen. The week before the organization's all-night relay walk, scheduled for June 15 and 16, the Bourbon County Relay for Life steering committee has planned a local queen contest that will be open to young girls in the 6th through 12th grades...

Betty Jean Hurd, age 75, a resident of rural Fort Scott, died Wednesday, October 25, 2006, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She was born August 3, 1931, in Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Henry Burton Severy and Cora Olive Bilyew Severy. ...

Anna Hayes Martin Wade, age 79, of Fort Scott, died Wednesday evening, October 25, 2006 at the Mercy Health Center. She was born December 30, 1926 in Jet, Oklahoma the daughter of George L. and Katherine Steffen Hayes. Anna worked in Customer Service for Gates Rubber in Iola, for many years...

GARZONE -- Tyler James Garzone, a boy, was born on Thursday, October, 19, 2006 at Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, to parents Chris and Laura Garzone, Pittsburg. He was welcomed by siblings Haley Marie, Molly Christine and Austin Michael Garzone. Maternal grandparents are Robert and Marti Tuchscherer, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Fred and Nancy Garzone, Prescott, Arizona. Maternal great-grandparents are Tom and Martha Lee, Fort Scott, and the late S.L. and Isabel Tuchscherer...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) R.F. Edwards, who was formerly proprietor of the Knox House, but who gave up that hotel some months ago, has leased the east half of the upper story of the Ohio Building and has opened a rooming house. He has fitted up thirteen rooms. He also leased the vacant downstairs rooms and will put in a restaurant for the benefit of his roomers and others...

UNIONTOWN -- The Uniontown Junior Senior High School FFA organization is hosting a tailgate party at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, prior to the tournament football game at 6 p.m. that evening between the UJSHS Eagles and the West Elk High School Patriots from Howard, Kan. ...

Fort Scott doesn't let the math get in the way of a playoff berth

UNIONTOWN -- Chad Hays put Uniontown ahead on a two-yard run in the fourth quarter here Thursday night and Jamie Shelton's interception preserved a 20-14 win over No. 2-ranked Pittsburg Colgan in what was basically the Class 2-1A District 5 championship game here Thursday night...