Stories from Wednesday, August 29, 2012

100 YEARS AGO (1912) S.E. Martin and Francis Munn are preparing to open a paint and wallpaper store on East Wall Street in the Marshall Building and will be in readiness for business there by Sept. 1. Mr. Martin has been employed by various painters and paper hangers of Fort Scott for several years, learning his trade. Mrs. Munn, a sister-in-law, recently returned to Fort Scott from Oklahoma...

After 30 years with a bank and 10 years as director of a state quality award program, I retired from the work force in 2003 and have never looked back. As I approach being a septuagenarian in March of next year, I look back on my work history with fondness, satisfaction, accomplishment, excitement, and maybe a bit of frustration. ...

Hope Chapel Assembly of God, on U.S. 54 three miles east of Moran, will host the Southeast Kansas Revival Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Times will be 7 p.m. Thursday; 7 p.m. Friday; 7 p.m. Saturday; and 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Evangelist Bazil Howard-Browne will bring the message. For more information, call (620) 939-4828...

The Bourbon County Courthouse and the transfer station will be closed Monday, Sept. 3, for Labor Day. In addition, the transfer station will also be closed Saturday, Sept. 1.

A search of a local residence by Fort Scott Police Department officers on Monday resulted in the arrest of two people on various charges. Shortly after 11:30 a.m., FSPD officers responded to a call about a vicious dog in the 1100 block of South Margrave. While on the scene, officers discovered a 3-year-old child unattended and attempting to control the dog, a news release said...

Local teen Kinley Rice will perform Friday evening as part of the Friday Night Concert Series at 7 p.m. at the Heritage Park Pavilion at the corner of First and Main streets. Rice, a 13-year-old eighth-grader at Fort Scott Middle School, has performed for the past three years at the Fort Scott Idol and Pittsburg Idol contests. She has also performed at the Fort Scott Country Music Show and also sings at two area churches...

Starting Tuesday, Sept. 4, Mercy Convenient Care will offer expanded hours for patients seeking non-emergent health care services. The Mercy Convenient Care at 1624 S. National will open at 7 a.m. and close at 3 p.m. Hours at the Mercy Convenient Care hospital main campus location will remain the same: Monday through Friday 3:30-11 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m...

For the last 15 years, Chet and Linda Bower have done their part in giving Bourbon County residents access to farm-fresh produce. The Bowers, longtime vendors at the Fort Scott Farmers' Market, set up their booth twice a week at Skubitz Plaza to offer customers the fruits (and vegetables) of their labor. In the spring, the couple plant lettuce, radishes, broccoli, onions, beets, green beans, and turnips. They don't plant any crops in the fall, Chet said...

As part of a planned $47 million upgradeable expressway in Bourbon and Crawford counties, Kansas Department of Transportation officials have identified Eagle Road south of Fort Scott as a viable option for a collector road and possible interchange. And during Friday's Bourbon County Commission meeting, a KDOT engineer presented that proposal to the commission with no objections...

Incentives for getting businesses to locate downtown, filling all the buildings with tenants, attracting shoppers, forming partnerships and helping make dreams for the area come true were just some of the topics discussed by about 50 people at a visioning meeting Tuesday evening...

Randie Lauren Schlichting, 25, Fort Scott, was arrested at 2:22 p.m. Monday by the Fort Scott Police Department for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering a child, and was released at 4:21 p.m. Monday on a $3,750 bond...

The Bronson Ruritan meeting was held Monday at the Bronson Chicken Shack. There were 20 members present and guests Larry and Linda Neville and Reta Smith. President Alan Stewart called the meeting to order. Julia Rhoton led the group in the song, "America." The prayer was given by Geraldine Reeder...

Charles Cable, pastor of Arcadia Christian Church attended the Lamar High School Class of 1954's 58th High School Class Reunion on Saturday, Aug. 25 in Lamar, Mo. The Sunday following, the class met at Chicken Annie's for lunch. On Aug. 26, Elizabeth Semple turned 2 years old and celebrated with a party at Pizza Hut in Fort Scott with many friends and family present. Many of the guests were her church family from Arcadia Christian Church where her father is song leader...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's junior varsity tennis team played two duals here Monday against two teams ftom Pittsburg High. The JV Tigers lost to the Pittsburg Purple team 8-1 and beat Pittsburg White 9-0. "This was a great opportnunity for our JV players to play both doubles and singles in the same day and get some valuable match experience," Fort Scott head coach Lynn Barr said...

Many people would see a 2-0 loss to Louisburg in the first game of the season as somewhat of a positive outcome. Any program that wants to show it can compete on a state-wide level has to be able to play with programs such as Louisburg's. Fort Scott High's head soccer coach Kevin Gray does see the positive in Tuesday's loss. But he also sees that the Tigers have improvement to make,...