Stories from Saturday, September 21, 2013

Lora Janiece Toms, age 75, former resident of Fort Scott, more recently of Wathena, Kan., died Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, at Wathena Health Care and Rehabilitation. Funeral services are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Burial will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 10:30 until 11:30 at the Chapel. A full obituary will appear in Tuesday's Tribune...

Floyd Jernigan/Tribune photo Seniors Jonah Erickson and Haley Felt were selected as Uniontown High School's royalty Friday night prior to the Eagles' football homecoming game with Crest. Making the presentation of the football and crown were Jaci Marlow and Trent Eck...

Clowns. Trapeze artists. Jugglers. Animal tricks. These words can mean only one thing; the Big Top must be in town. The Carson & Barnes Circus, hosted by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce, is scheduled to be in town this weekend with performances set for 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday at the Bourbon County Fairgrounds. Each show is about two hours long...

Even though budget work is completed for a new fiscal year, Bourbon County Commissioners continue to keep an eye on the numbers. During their regular meeting on Friday, Commission Chairman Allen Warren shared some possible discrepancies in Road and Bridge funds. ...

Teachers traveled from across the country to Fort Scott Friday to participate in the Lowell Milken Center and Fort Scott National Historic Site workshop, "They Fought Like Tigers: Unsung Heroes of the Civil War Era." The workshop continues today and will conclude with a tour of the U.S. National Cemetery...

Fort Scott High's freshmen volleyball team finished in second place at the Pittsburg Tournament last week, going 4-0 in pool play before falling to Joplin in the finals. Thursday night, the Tigers (11-3) played a quadrangular at Prairie View. They beat the hosts 25-14, 25-3, and Osawatomie, 25-20, 25-10. Louisburg defeated Fort Scott, 25-10, 25-15...

JOPLIN -- Normally, a third-place finish is a good result. But at the Galena Invitational here Thursday, Fort Scott High girls' golf coach Karen Curran seemed to feel the Tigers could have done better. Fort Scott finished with a four-woman score of 247 over nine holes, missing second place by one stroke. Curran said her team felt good going into the tournament, then may not have come back well from an early 30-minute rain delay...

CHANUTE -- There was only one match remaining when the Chanute Tournament was suspended due to rain here Thursday evening. And that match just happened to involve the Fort Scott High School No. 1 doubles team, which was seeking to win the bracket. It was a six-school tournament with the teams split into two pools. Fort Scott was drawn into the Gold Pool with Coffeyville and Columbus...

RIVERTON -- Uniontown High School's volleyball, ranked No. 8 in Class 2A by the Kansas Volleyball Association, won two of three matches against bigger schools here Thursday night. The Eagles (9-3) defeated Class 4A Columbus 25-20, 25-13. Mandie Ridge had 9 kills and Britney Stokes dished 22 assists...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown had little trouble with visiting Crest Friday night, rolling to a 46-0 conquest in a Three Rivers League contest that ended in the third quarter. The Eagles scored on the first two possessions of the game, then returned a fumble for a touchdown, used the passing game to add another score,and to set up the final TD of the opening half...

Pittsburg tailback Alex Barnes is already getting looks from Division I schools as a junior. Friday night, he showed why he is getting that kind of attention with a 232-yard, five-touchdown effort in leading the Purple Dragons to a 33-14 victory in a Southeast Kansas League showdown...