Stories from Tuesday, January 8, 2008

BURLINGTON -- Jayhawk-Linn's wrestling team finished 12th out of 18 teams at the Burlington Invitational here Saturday. The Jayhawks scored 57 team points. Prairie View was the team champion with 218 points followed by Burlington with 168 and Holton with 135...

Hard work and determination have paid off for two local teens, who brought home several awards from a rodeo banquet. Elizabeth Meech, a senior at Fort Scott High School, and J. W. Meech, a sophomore at FSHS, each have been participating in rodeo activities since they were small. ...

James Gilbert Fleharty, Sr., age 71, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, died early Sunday, January 6, 2008, at his home. He was born June 1, 1936, in Sterling, Illinois, the son of George Henry Fleharty and Marion Evelyn Vipond Fleharty. He was a veteran of the United States Navy and was stationed in Guam. ...

Barry Richard Elliott, age 75, resident of 124 S. Holbrook, Fort Scott, died early Monday, January 07, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center Emergency Room. He was born September 26, 1932, in Centerville, Iowa the son of Harry Elliott and Carmella Dezorzi Elliott. ...

Willard Lafayette Houston, 86, formerly of Fulton, Kansas, died Saturday, January 5, 2008, at the Joplin Health Center, in Joplin, Missouri. He was born October 15, 1921, in Bagnall, Missouri, the son of Andrew Jackson and Ida Mae (Snelling) Houston. He married Margaret Ann Barnes April 30, 1947, in Fort Scott, Kansas. She preceded him in death March 1, 2006...

Paula Elaine Johnson, age 71, resident of Prescott, Kansas, died Saturday, January 5, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center Emergency Room. She was born October 5, 1936, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Benjamin Frank Boyd and Mary Ellen Neeley Boyd. Paula worked for many years at Key Industries...

Kayleigh Gene Brown, a girl was born at Memorial Hospital of Texas County, Guymon, Okla. on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 to parents LeTisha Volden and Darrell Brown of Forgan, Okla. She weighed five pounds and 12 ounces at birth. She joins siblings Aundraya Anderson, Talon Volden, Alaysia Volden and Loren Brown. ...

All are to be reminded the next Community gospel Singing will be the first Saturday evening in February, from 6:30 -8:30 PM and then each month thereafter. Attendance is increasing as much interestt is being shown in this city-wide activity. Delton Jr. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Frank Cullers, who for some time has been conducting a lunch stand and restaurant down near the Frisco Depot, has sold his business to E.G. Tucker who will conduct it in the future. Mr. Tucker intends to remodel the place and make it more up-to-date....

Some Kansas grandparents who have raised their children are finding out that their job is not complete. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau, in the 2000 census, about 2.3 percent of all Kansas households contained grandparents caring for grandchildren...

Fort Scott Police officers Sunday arrested four people in connection to methampehtamine-related charges. At 8:29 a.m. Sunday, police received a call from a neighbor about suspicious activity taking place in the 600 block of South Eddy Street. The tipster told police several people were taking items from a house at 602 S. Eddy St. to a pick-up truck parked outside the house...

GIRARD -- The Girard City Council, on Tuesday, extended an offer to current Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Gary Emry to become the new city administrator. Emry, who accepted the position, will begin his new duties on Feb. 4. According to information obtained from The Girard Press, the Girard City Council concluded its interviewing of four candidates over the weekend and chose Emry as the city's next leader, replacing former city administrator Mike West, who resigned in November 2007 but has helped the city out as an assistant the last few months.. ...