Stories from Thursday, April 3, 2008

National Park Service staff members and volunteers at the Fort Scott National Historic Site invite the public to celebrate the 26th Annual Civil War Encampment April 12 and 13 and witness how Fort Scott appeared during one of the most violent conflicts in American history...

The Fort Scott Kiwanis Pioneers Club has set Thursday, May 1, for this year's Community Prayer Breakfast to be held in conjunction with the National Day of Prayer. Event organizer Marilyn Landers and her committee chose this year's theme, "Prayer -- America's Strength and Shield." The event is co-sponsored by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce and the Fort Scott Ministerial Alliance. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) There is an increase in the price of meat on the Fort Scott market, at an average of 2 cents or 3 cents a pound. The Fort Scott Slaughter Co., which has been supplying some of the local butchers, was compelled to raise its price to 9 cents for dressed beef. This is the price the big packers have been charging for two weeks or longer. Corn is selling here at 60 cents to 62 cents per bushel and this necessarily raised the price of fat stock...

Violet Chapter No. 200, Order of the Eastern Star, Fulton, opened in form on March 26th with 27 members present. Worthy Matron Karen Demm and Associate Patron G.C. Smith presided. Karen greeted everyone with a poem entitled, "Welcome the Spring Season"...

Red Cross is urging everyone to plant a seed of compassion this spring by encouaging family and friends to become life-saving blood donors. Recent statistics indicate very few Americans are eligible to donate blood. Until recently, 65 percent of the United States population was thought to be eligible to donate; however, recent studies have shown the figure to be closer to 38 percent...

Lester and Maxine Koch Lester and Maxine Koch, Fort Scott will celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary April 7, 2008. Their daughters Kathy Youngberg and Deb Hand and a special friend Kendall Clevenger will take them out for supper Saturday evening, April 5th...

In celebration of EARTH DAY Southeast Kansas Recycling Inc is bringing you the best used book sale in Southeast Kansas on Saturday April 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The book sale will be at the Southeast Kansas Recycling Center, located at 615 S. Joplin, in Pittsburg. This annual event will save you money on used books of all types...

Union Bend Birthday Club members enjoyed a delicious lunch at the home of Kim Harris on April 1st. The meeting started with President Linda Center reading some "April Fool Fun Facts" and an "April Fool" fun game. Kim Harris read poem, "A Mother's bone" and " For You Mom". Sheila Blubaugh gave the treasure report. Ten members answered roll call telling their summer vacation plans. Hannah Harris was a guest...

On May 25-30, the Fort Scott High School band will perform in the 2008 Chicago Music Festival Tour. The band's trip will include performances at the Navy Pier in addition to a performance at Millennium Park. Also, the band students will tour some of Chicago's main attractions, such as the Lincoln Park Conservatory and Zoo, the Sears Tower skydeck, the John G. ...

Coaches, teams do what they can when rain comes

By Paul Martin Special to The Tribune _ McDonald's restaurant in Fort Scott hosted McPenny Park Night on Tuesday. It was a huge success. The restaurant donated 20 percent of the night's proceeds to the Pennies for the Park fund, which will be used by the Youth Activities Team for the Ellis Park Project...

Bryan Kent Keal, 53, formerly of Fort Scott, and most recently of Overland Park, Kan., passed away Friday, March 28, 2008, at the Life Health Center in Grandview, Missouri. He was born Jan. 28, 1955, in Wichita, Kan., the son of Jeff and Virginia Carol Jackson Keal...

Albert Hutton, 85, of Fort Scott, died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center. He was born on April 23, 1922, in Cameron, Mo., the son of Perry Edgar and Beulah Adline Potter Hutton. Mr. Hutton was a member of the U.S. Army, Airborne Division, during World War II. He served in the European, African and Middle Eastern Theaters. After the war he worked building highways, freeways and airport runways...

GABERN -- Zayne Michael Gabern, a boy, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott at 12:12 a.m., Thursday April 3, 2008, to parents Jesse and Cheryl Gabern, Cherokee. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 1/2 ounces at birth. He joins a brother, Kaleb Blue Gabern. ...

The Gordon Parks-directed film "Leadbelly" will be shown free to the public at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Gordon Parks Center for Culture and Diversity at Fort Scott Community College, 2108 S. Horton St. "Leadbelly" is a 1976 film chronicling the life of folk singer Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as "Leadbelly." The film was directed by Parks and starred actor Roger E. ...

The Bourbon County Family and Community Education (FCE) Council invites the public to attend the annual FCE Spring Social on Thursday, April 10. The event will be at 6 p.m. at Robinson Hall of Community Christian Church. Several members of the Fort Scott High School forensics team, coached by Brian Weilert, will present the program. The team has had a very successful year and will be going to national competition in Las Vegas this summer...

Safely Educating Kids of Southeast Kansas will be hosting a Prevention Summit from noon until 1 p.m. Friday in Room B1 of the Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium. Kansas Attorney General Stephen Six will be the guest of honor at the event hosted by SEK of SEK and sponsored by the Pittsburg Police Department, the Southeast Kansas Independent Living Center of Southeast Kansas and the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Pittsburg State University. ...

PARSONS -- Parsons State Hospital and Training Center in coordination with the City of Parsons are sponsoring a free workshop called "Bridges Out of Poverty-A Brief Overview" on Thursday, April 17 at the Parsons Municipal Auditorium, 112 S. 17th Street. The workshop will be presented at 1:30 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. for those who cannot make it to the earlier session...

A judge has ruled that Paul S. Johnson was justified in filing his appeal even though the deadline for filing the appeal had passed. On Wednesday, Sixth Judicial District Judge Richard Smith ordered that Johnson should have been allowed to file his appeal, even though he was out of time...

A public discussion and information session concerning a local committee's plans to revitalize and beautify downtown Fort Scott is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Courtland Hotel and Day Spa, 121 E. First St. During the meeting, guests will be able to listen and provide feedback on the Streetscape Project, a plan that has been researched and organized the last few years by the Mayor's Phoenix Downtown Redevelopment Committee, whose 16 members are working to restore and revitalize portions of historic downtown Fort Scott. ...