Stories from Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Bourbon County Junior Leaders The March 26 meeting of the Bourbon County Junior Leaders was held at 7:45 p.m. in the 4--H Building. President Elizabeth Meech led the meeting. Fifteen members answered roll call by stating their first and middle name. Taylor Bailey filled in as secretary. Shannon Heckman gave the treasurer's report; Caitlin Jackson presented the reporter's report...

The Fort Scott FFA Chapter held its annual Parent member banquet on the evening of April 9, 2008. At this event members celebrated their year's worth of hard work and dedication. The schedule was as follows: Mr. Steve Mason provided a barbeque dinner, in the commons. Thank you once again for making the night!...

Little did I know this was going to be such a fun day filled with laughter. I decided to go into Wisconsin Rapids and do some shopping at the Dollar Store. When I arrived, I could see there were quite a few shoppers. It's always fun to go there, because I never know what good bargains they will have. ...

One local nursing home is taking steps to raise money for two different medical causes. On Friday, Fort Scott Manor, 735 Heylman, conducted a fun night offering community members an opportunity to help the nursing home raise funds which will be divided between Relay for Life and the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk...

Eva Watson, 94, of Bel Aire, Kans., homemaker, died Sunday April 20, 2008. Visitation with the family will be 6 p.m.-- 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, at Downing & Lahey Mortuary East. Funeral service will be 2 p.m.. Thursday, April 24, at College Hill United Methodist Church. ...

Marguerite Leist, age 90, a former resident of Garland, Kans., died Saturday, April 19, 2008, at the Medicaiodge of Fort Scott. She was born May 6, 1517, in Cherokee, Kans., the daughter of Fred Lashmet and Ann McClean Lashmet. Marguerite moved to Garland when she was three years old, and attended Arcadia schools; graduating from Arcadia High School in 1935. ...

Memorial service for Bonnie M. McCall, 72, Eudora, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Graveside service will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Ft. Scott National Cemetery. Mrs. McCall was born on July 4, 1935 in Kansas City, Kans., the daughter Roy P. and Velma Mae Carter Foster...

Alma Vera Dabney, 93, of Fort Scott, passed away Sunday April 20, 2008 at the Guest Home Estates nursing home. She was born July 15, 1914 in Duvall County, Texas, the daughter of Homer Lee and Mabel Elizabeth (Ratcliff) Holloway. She married Jeff Alvin Dabney in September of 1957 in Hominy, Okla. ...

Viola Mae Hutcherson, age 93, a resident of Fort Scott, Kans., died Sunday, April 20, 2008, at the Fort Scott Medicalodge. She was born September 12, 1914, in Bourbon County, Kans., the daughter of Ralph Hutcherson and Mary Harper Hutcherson. She attended grade school in rural Bourbon County and High School and Junior College in Fort Scott. ...

Nola Ruth Embry, 82, of Fort Scott, went to be with the Lord Sunday, April 20, 2008, after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer. She was born October 14, 1925, in Bourbon County, Kans., the daughter of Richard Arthur and Alma Mary (Fry) Duncan. ...

HARPER-- Hannah Elizabeth Harper, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott at 8:32 p.m., Saturday, April 19, 2008 to parents Jason and Natasha Harper, Redfield. She weighed 6 pounds, 1.6 ounces at birth. She joins two sisters, Fayth and Kaitlyn, and one brother, Evan. Maternal grandparents are Douglas and Patty Thompson, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are David and Ellen Harper, Bronson. Paternal great--grandparents are Ruby Harper, Fort Scott and Darwin Badders, Uniontown...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Mrs. C.H. Haynes has presented The Tribune with clippings of the old Monitor of very old dates. One is a local having to do with an accident that befell Gene Ware and T.F. Robley, described as "young men" out riding on a summer's eve. A farmer's team ran into their vehicle and demolished it. This was years and years ago. The other article was an editorial relating to the exemptions from taxes in this state. Both clippings were discolored because of their advanced age...

Monday marked the first day for, The Fort Scott Tribune to operate with a new managing editor. Justin Messner took over the duties for outgoing managing editor Robin Hixson. Messner was a commercial art major in college, but he also has written literary works while at Pittsburg State University. It wasn't until he joined The Nevada Daily Mail in October that he got the opportunity to combine the two fields, writing and photography, as a journalist...

Nathan E. Goodwin was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15 year old girl. Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward handed down the maximum or "aggravated" sentence on Goodwin on two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, severity level three felonies. Ward sentenced him to 71 months on the first count and 61 months on the second. The sentences will be served consecutively or back to back...

The local school district is setting up a new program, which will enhance its communication ability with parents by utilizing technology. During a special board meeting on March 28, the USD 234 Board of Education approved the implementation of the TextCaster notification system beginning at the start of the 2008-09 school year...

The Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Monday to not renew the contract of non-tenured FSCC instructor Ed Sutton. Two of Sutton's former students, William Dodson and James Crodeaux, were present at the FSCC Board of Trustees meeting to voice their support for Sutton, a former USD 235 Board of Education member who was most recently an instructor in the FSCC livestock judging program. ...