Stories from Friday, April 13, 2007

COX -- Madyson Leigh Cox, a girl. was born at 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Craig and Jessica Cox, Mound City. She weighed 6 pounds, 10.4 ounces at birth. She joins siblings Michael and Leelo. Maternal grandparents are Jerry and nadine Shannon, Pleasanton. Paternal grandparents are Dave and Roxanne Cox, Pleasanton...

Thirteen Fort Scott Police officers executed a search warrant early Thursday at 1101 E. Oak St. and arrested a 19-year-old for aiding a juvenile who had been charged with a misdemeanor. At 6 a.m., police served the warrant that was originally specified as a narcotics-related search warrant. ...

A little-known part of Fort Scott's history during the Civil War will come to light this weekend, thanks to National Park Service ranger Rosemary Frey's decade-long dedication. At 11 a.m. Sunday at the Fort Scott National Historic Site, Frey will present findings from research she concluded late last year on lesser known civilian war casualties in Fort Scott during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865, one of the bloodiest conflicts in U.S. history...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Francis M. Taylor, an old soldier resident of this city, has made application to the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth. The papers were made out today by Probate Judge Hudson. Harry McKee, one of the lucky chaps who won the Kearns automobile, has converted his share of the machine to money. He left this morning for Chicago. He didn't go there to spend the money, but on business...

Playing at home for just the second time in 16 days, Fort Scott Community College's baseball team played its best against the best, beating Cowley in both ends of a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader, 10-8 and 7-6, at Lions Field Thursday evening...

A longtime local music educator received an emotional sendoff on Thursday afternoon, just hours before directing her final school program. Following a rehearsal for Thursday evening's choir program, a tearful Billie Jo Drake and the entire student body at Eugene Ware Elementary School paid tribute to music teacher Charlotte Swaim, who is retiring at the end of this school year after 33 years at the school. ...

ROUTH -- Daniel Bryan Routh Jr., a boy, was born at 9:24 a.m. on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at the Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Missouri to parents Katrina Rost and Daniel Routh. He weighed 7 pounds, 4.1 ounces and measured 19.5 inches long at birth. ...