Stories from Monday, May 21, 2007

The Good Old' Days annual chicken dinner will be served on Friday evening, June 1, on Wall Street between Scott and Main. The cost of the meal is $6. Chicken dinner tickets may be purchased until 6 p.m. Thursday, May 31, at Country Cupboard, 12 N. Main St. A very limited number of tickets will be available on Friday and, each year, these tickets sell out. The only way to avoid disappointment is to buy one at Country Cupboard by 6 p.m. Thursday...

Some may go on to be doctors or lawyers or teachers. Others may own their own businesses, become stay-at-home parents or maybe even venture into politics. Whatever lies ahead for Fort Scott High School's Class of 2007, on a clear, balmy Saturday night at Frary Field, the capped and gowned students all shared the same title: high school graduate...

Doris Loretta Fowler Stelle, age 90, died May 19, 2007, at 9:50 p.m. at the Arma Care Center, Arma. She was born December 5, 1916, at the Fowler home in Arcadia, to James T. Fowler and Ada Davenport Fowler. Doris attended elementary school and high school in Arcadia, graduating in 1934. ...

FORESTER -- Wyatt Joseph Forester, a boy, was born at 12:21 p.m. on Friday, May 18, 2007, at Mercy Health Center, to parents Lindsey Lane and Randy Forester, Fort Scott. He weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Bob and Sue Lane, Ocheyecian, Iowa and Elvina Schmadeke, Gowrie, Iowa. Paternal grandparents are Ernie and Roberta Forester, Ernie and Jan Forester, Leland and Maxine Zimmerman and the late Hester Forester, all of Fort Scott...

YATES CENTER -- Uniontown's boys claimed the team championship at the Yates Center Cass 2A Regional Track Meet here Friday as two Tribune Area schools will send 15 athletes (not including relays) to this weekend's State meet in Wichita in 24 events...

Audience members in the packed house at Memorial Hall stood as the young man walked across the stage on Friday. The purpose of his presence was the same and yet different from that of the nearly 250 Fort Scott Community College students who received degrees during ceremonies on Friday...

Editor's Note: Some parts of this article could be considered graphic. Reader discretion is advised. In a videotaped interview, the social worker asked the little girl what she considers "good and bad" touches. Good touches are hugs, the girl said, and bad touches are what (the defendant) did to her...

Chalia Gray called the May meeting to order. Twelve members answered roll call by naming what you would do if you won a million dollars. Meredith Hill led the American flag salute and Dacey Simpson led the 4- H pledge. Ashton Mason read the minutes from the previous meeting...

Records Police report Sheriff's report...

President Sabrina Minor called the April 25 meeting of the Bourbon County Junior Leaders to order at 7 p.m. in the 4-H Building at Fort Scott. Eighteen junior leaders recited the 4H Pledge and answered roll call. Secretary Kaitlyn Vincent read the minutes of the previous meeting. Treasurer Elizabeth Meech reported on the money made from the concession stand during the Citywide Garage Sale. The reporter's report was given by Caitlin Jackson...

Family and friends are invited to attend the 50th wedding anniversary open house for Paul and Clarice Russell from 24 p.m. on Saturday, May 26 at the Mt. Orum Church, rural Redfield.

100 YEARS AGO (1907) No publication. 75 YEARS AGO (1932) A truck belonging to the Fulton Telephone Company was stolen at that place Tuesday night. Yesterday the Fort Scott Police found the truck abandoned on Shute Street. It was not damaged. The 24 colored students of the junior college will have their achievement banquet Thursday night at Plaza School. A good program has been planned...