Stories from Thursday, January 12, 2012

100 YEARS AGO (1912) You Want a Friend? If your salary stops when you are sick or injured reach out for a friend. $1 per month will buy a perfect disability policy in the Old United States (Old Line Company), that pays $50 monthly for accident, limit 5 years and $50 a month for illness, also other indemnities, depending on occupation. Phone 1264 -- R. McGuire Jr., District Manager, 14 S. Main...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced loans and grants for agricultural producers and rural small businesses across the country to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in their operations. The funding is provided through USDA Rural Development's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)...

A critical date is quickly approaching for landowners who wish to terminate their leases with their tenants. According to the Kansas Farm Lease Law, notice to terminate a farm lease must be given in writing at least 30 days prior to March 1 and must fix the termination date of the tenancy of March 1. This applies to both pasture and crop leases...

Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent Tara Solomon headed to India on a Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE). This program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women in their initial years of professional life...

Jessica Culbertson and Pat Huntley, Mound City, Kan., and sibling Blake are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter and sister Callie June Huntley on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, at 8:08 a.m. at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kan. Callie weighed 7 pounds...

Duain Howard Lafarge, 46, Fort Scott, was arrested Tuesday by the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office for a Bourbon County warrant. He is still being held at this time.

Maxine Ford, 90, resident of rural Bronaugh, Mo., died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, at the Circle of Life Hospice in Springdale, Ark. She was born April 15, 1921, in Worland, Mo., the daughter of James Riley and Arvilla Guss Riley. She married Francis "Bud" Ford on Oct. 30, 1939, in Lamar, Mo. He preceded her in death Aug. 28, 1970...

Army National Guard Pfc. Joshua A. Grant graduated from the Field Artillery Automated Tactical Data Systems Specialist Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. As members of the Army's field artillery team, the course is designed to train soldiers as specialists to operate the advanced field artillery tactical data systems for both cannon and multiple launch rocket systems...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce recently announced a grand opening and ribbon cutting event for Wise Tax & Accounting, located at 119 S. Main St. The business is owned by Melissa Wise, a Fort Scott native who recently moved back to the area...

The Department of Continuing Education at Fort Scott Community College is offering another session of the Great Books class. This is a non-credit course designed to be informative and fun, a news release said. The class will continue its weekly conversazione this spring at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings starting Jan. 24. They will continue the study of the poet William Butler Yeats and read the novel "Brideshead Revisited," by Evelyn Waugh...

The Fort Scott Board of Zoning Appeals will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the City Commission room at City Hall, 123 S. Main St. The meeting is open to the public.

Fort Scott city offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 16, in observance of the Martin Luther King Day holiday. Offices will re-open on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Additionally, the Bourbon County Courthouse and Transfer Station will be closed Monday in observance of the holiday. Both will re-open Tuesday, Jan. 17, for regular business. The Transfer Station will also be closed Saturday for the holiday...

With a 4A debate regional title in hand, the Fort Scott debate team will compete at the state level in Silver Lake on Friday and Saturday. The Tigers captured the regional title when they traveled to Blue Valley West High School to compete in the regionals...

Trenton DeMott wants to lose 30-35 pounds in 12 weeks from his 6-foot tall, initially 218-pound frame. One of 23 participants in Buck Run Community Center's "Biggest Loser" competition, DeMott has made this journey before and he's doing it again this year...

Four major awards will be presented to area landowners for their efforts in conservation during the Bourbon County Conservation District's annual meeting in Uniontown. The evening's activities include dinner, a short business meeting to elect two supervisors, presentation of the conservation awards and awards for the student poster, limerick and essay contest, and door prizes. ...

OVERLAND PARK -- Al-though they were swept in a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader here Wednesday night, both Fort Scott Community College basketball teams showed fight against Johnson County in the second half. Greyhound women fell to the Cavaliers -- ranked No. 1 in the NJCAA Division II poll -- by a 49-40 score but they outscored Johnson 15-3 in the last 5 1/2 minutes of play...

Today, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, is the 150th Anniversary of one of many first in the Civil War, and it is an important date in the history of the United States, African American history and the history of the United States Army. It was here, in Fort Scott, Kan., on Jan. ...