Stories from Thursday, August 28, 2008

Over the past several weeks, Bourbon County farmers and ranchers have been completing the annual task of reporting planted crops, other land uses, and CRP acres to our office in order to gain program and payment eligibility for the year. This year, we have also been assisting producers enrolling in the 2008 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) during this time...

This year cattleman in Kansas will have an opportunity to participate in a steer futurity provided by K-State Research and Extension. The K-State Wildcat Steer futurity is an educational program designed to provide Kansas beef cattle producers with the opportunity to experience the cattle feeding industry. ...

Joe and Shirley White left August 8 for a trip to Colorado. They met Joe's sister and husband, Garyl and Patty Coleman, and enjoyed camping with them. The Coleman's spent a month there. Betty Hixon, her sisters Shirley, Roberta and their families would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all that showed acts of kindness, either by prayer, phone calls, cards and food at the passing of their mother, Dorothy DeCourdes...

Pamela K. Stevens, 53, of Mound City, Kan., died Tuesday, August 26, 2008, at her home. Services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, August 29, 2008, at the First Baptist Church in Mound City, Kan. Visitation will be from 10 a.m., until service time. Contributions are suggested to the First Baptist Church Building Fund. Interment will be in the Pleasanton Cemetery, Pleasanton, Kan...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) There are signs that fall is here -- such as the little green bugs which appear under the street lights or swarm by the thousands upon lighted windows. They never come till cool weather makes its appearance. Then, too, there are autumn fires being set off. The excessively dry weather parched leaves on many trees and as a result the leaves fell earlier this year than ever before...

Bourbon County Commissioners adopted the 2009 Bourbon County budget during the Aug. 15 Bourbon County Commission Meeting. According to Bourbon County Commissioner Bill Britain, the commissioners worked diligently to keep the budget as low as possible this year. Because they were trying to create a very lean budget, Brittain said many requests for more money were denied...

MANHATTAN -- Robert E. White, Farm Loan Manager of the USDA Farm Service Agency for Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, and Neosho counties, announced the availability of farm operating and farm ownership loans for women and members of minority groups who want to purchase or operate a family-size farm...

In an effort to promote safe driving practices, local and state law enforcement officers will be out in full force from now through the Labor Day holiday. According to a press release from the Fort Scott Police Department, additional FSPD officers will aggressively enforce Kansas drunk driving laws, as well as other traffic laws during the holiday weekend. ...

Area motorcycle enthusiasts may want to ante up soon for a poker run event taking place this weekend in different portions of Bourbon County. The 4th annual poker run, which is slated to begin at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Five Corners Mini-Mart, 1122 S. Clark St., is part of several activities planned for the 103rd Annual Old Settler's Picnic, a three-day event that begins Saturday in Uniontown...

Fort Scott High School's soccer team scrimmaged ar Ellis Park Thursday night, just the second chance it's had to try out the newly-sodded field. Meanwhile, on the new scoreboard donated by the Fort Scott Rotary Club, the Red team defeated the White by a scored of 6-4. Although there were a couple of people who thought it was 7-3...

Fort Scott Community College's football team begins its season Saturday night when it travels to Texas to take on Kilgore College in one of the matchups in the third annual Jayhawk Conference vs. Southwest Junior College Football Conference first-weekend series...