Stories from Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Bina Frank Self, age 70 of Mound City, Kan., died Saturday Sept. 8, 2012, at the Fort Scott Medicalodges. Services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday Sept. 13, 2012, at the Mound City First Baptist Church. Visitation will be held from 5 to: 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory Mound City Chapel...

The family of the late Lawrence Russell Wright, formerly of Liberty, Mo., and Uniontown, will conduct a burial of his ashes at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Uniontown Cemetery. Friends and family are invited to the burial service for Wright, who died Jan. 10. A celebration of his life took place Jan. 14 at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty, Mo. Attendees will gather immediately following the service for a social at the Uniontown Community Center...

Tabatha Ayers and Dustin Brown have announced their wedding on July 4, 2013, at Fort Scott Lake. Parents of the bride are Bonnie Jones, Springfield, Mo., and Samuel Peak, Neosho, Mo. Prospective groom's parents are Lavina and Ralph Eschbaumer, Fort Scott, Kan...

Granville Caleb Smith, age 88, resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, at his home. He was born April 12, 1924, in Sugar Creek, Mo., the son of Alvis Edward Smith and Etta Marguerite Tomlinson Smith. He graduated from the Northeast High School in Kansas City, Mo. He then enlisted with the United States Army and served in the European Theatre. He was a member of the 324th Infantry Antitank Company and fought in the Battle of the Bulge...

On Sept. 8, Arcadia celebrated Arcadia's Old Settlers' Festival with a parade that started at 10 a.m. from the ballpark and ended at Main and Nelson streets. Much credit for the parade goes to Ernestine Berkey, who worked hard in arranging the 20-plus vehicles, large and small with many spectators enjoying it all...

100 YEARS AGO (1912) For the past two weeks a tabernacle meeting has been in session at the Christian church at Helper. Up to last night, 84 new members had been added to the church. Sunday services were held the entire day and about 500 people were present...

To show support for teen drivers and remind them to stay safe on the roads, State Farm Insurance is partnering with communities across the U.S. and Canada to host events promoting teen driver safety. Local State Farm agent Kale Nelson, the city of Fort Scott and the Fort Scott Seatbelts Are For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) program, led by School Resource Officer Toby Nighswonger, will host a local event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, in the parking lot of Fort Scott High School, 1005 S. Main St...

HIATTVILLE -- A McCune man was injured in a one-vehicle accident Monday afternoon on 130th Street. A Kansas Highway Patrol report said 55-year-old Charles Gary Shanholtzer was southbound on 130th St., driving a 2004 Freightliner gas truck, when he drove off the west side of the roadway, struck a private driveway, re-entered the road and rolled the vehicle into the east ditch...

A breakfast club for Alzheimer's caregivers will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, in the Xavier Room at Mercy Hospital. The club offers an opportunity to talk with individuals who share similar issues while enjoying a free breakfast. Anyone may attend who serves as a caregiver to an individual with a dementia like Alzheimer's...

Fort Scott High School's Music Department will host a "Pancake Feed" from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, before the varsity football game with Coffeyville in the high school commons. Cost is $5 per person for all-you-can-eat pancakes, with a sausage, (extra sausage is a la cart) and a drink (orange drink, water and coffee)...

A local business was vandalized during the power blackout this past weekend. Fort Scott Police Department Lt. Travis Shelton said police received a report at 10:18 p.m. Saturday of a break-in at Ward Kraft Inc., a local custom forms and labels manufacturer, 201 E. ...

Bourbon County youth will soon have the opportunity to explore new career choices, learn side-by-side with trained fire rescue personnel and develop leadership skills, thanks to the efforts of Bourbon County Fire District No. 3 personnel as they begin a new Fire and Emergency Services Exploring program on Thursday...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce will host a special VIP pre-opening event for the new McDonald's restaurant from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight at the new establishment, located at 2224 S. Main St. It will include food and beverages, a social, a ribbon cutting, flag-raising ceremony and an invocation...

Tribune Staff Report The Taste of Home Cooking School show returns to Fort Scott on Thursday at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the Fort Scott Community College campus, 2108 S. Horton. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and the show begins at 6:30 p.m. The auditorium holds 600 people. Tribune columnist Patty LaRoche will emcee...

Pittsburg won the team title of the Fort Scott junior varsity tennis tournament Monday while the Tigers finished in third place. In addition to the four entries for the Tigers, another Fort Scott player filled an open position for Coffeyville. Kandice Rost played for the Tigers in the No. 1 singles position while Jasmine Davis was put into Coffeyville's spot. When they faced each other, Davis took a 6-4 win...

CHANUTE -- Girard claimed team and individual titles here Monday afternoon while host Chanute lengthened its lead in the Southeast Kansas League girls' golf title race. This was the second of the SEK designated tournaments although eight non-league schools were represented. In fact, the top three finishers in the tournament were non-league schools...

INDEPENDENCE -- Roger Rodriguez scored both Fort Scott goals on free kicks, including one from just outside the 18-yard box with around five minutes left to go here Monday, to give the Tiger soccer program just its second victory ever against Independence. The Bulldogs have won at least a share of all but one Southeast Kansas League championship since soccer became a league sport in 2002...

Uniontown Ruritan Club held its August meeting at the Uniontown United Methodist Church annex Aug. 20. President Randy Rockhold called the meeting to order. Skeet George, club secretary, led club members in singing "America." Ken Middleton gave the invocation...