Stories from Monday, September 25, 2006

Charles Edward Kirkman, age 80, resident of 1023 W. 6th Street, Fort Scott, Kansas, died early Sunday, September 24, 2006, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri. Charles was born in Joplin July 17, 1926, the son of Edward Earl Kirkman and Edna Mabel Green Kirkman...

Alice Lorene Wise Harris Keith, died on Friday, September 22, 2006, in Burlingame, Kansas. She was born on November 9, 1921, the second daughter of Ernest and Beatrice Wise. She is survived by her daughter, Catherine Lorene Hall and husband Ed of Burlingame and two sons, Clarence Harris Jr. and James William Harris...

What do you get when you combine the sound of two popular, local rock bands? If recent events are any indication, the answer is success. Last July, brothers and PSU students Alex and Austin Ward, formerly of The Pond Monkeys, and former A.O.P. members Trent Pruitt and Duncan Cheney, both Fort Scott High School seniors, joined musical forces to create The Noise FM...

Jill Warford had originally not planned as many events this year for the upcoming Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture and Diversity as she had in past years, but the phone kept ringing and she managed to fill the four-day event with a variety of activities...

A water quality expert said he can't pinpoint why the city's drinking water has repeatedly failed a government drinking water standard following an evaluation of the city's water treatment plant earlier this year. Pat McCool, a consultant with Kansas Rural Water Association, told city commissioners at Tuesday's meeting he can't determine exactly why the city has not been in compliance with a test that determines levels of total organic carbon issued by Kansas Department of Health and Environment and set by the Environmental Protection Agency.. ...

DODGE CITY -- This is getting good. Fort Scott Community College's football team defeated Dodge City, 16-7, in Jayhawk Conference play at Memorial Stadium here Saturday night thanks to two things coaches will always tell you wins ball games -- turnovers and special teams...

ATWOOD -- Payton Tayler Atwood, a girl, was born on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at Mercy Health Center to parents Eric and Kaylena Atwood, Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. She joins a sister, Hailie Atwood. Maternal grandparents are Torri Poteat, Girard, Ross Poteat, McCune, and Jeff and Debbie Neblett, McCune. ...

GOODMAN -- Lane Augustus Goodman, a boy, was born at 12:09 p.m. on Sunday, September 24, 2006 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott to parents Laura Beth Pulliam, Fort Scott and Jeffery Elbert Irwin, Hume, Mo. He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Frank D. and Donna J. Pulliam, Fulton. Paternal grandparents are Evert and Karen Irwin, Hume, Mo...

VEST -- Adrianna Mary Vest, a girl, was born at 1:04 p.m. on Friday, September 15, 2006 in Joplin, Mo. to parents Amber and Aaron Vest. She weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces and was 19.5 inches long at birth. She joins a sister, Shylen. Maternal grandparents are Frank Jensen, Fort Scott and Jean and Joe Watson, Lee's Summit, Mo. Paternal grandparents are James and Roberta Vest, Osawatomie. Paternal great-grandparents are Charlene Brunts, and Marion and Juanita Vest, all of Osawatomie...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) In order to prepare for the Harvest Home Festival and fall carnival at Fern Lake Park, which commences on October 8th, the management of the park has decided to close the park to the public until that date arrives. The people who are putting up catsup and chili sauce declare that the tomato crop isn't what it promises. Good tomatoes are hard to get a reasonable prices...

Autumn Leaves Senior Citizens met Monday, Sept. 11, in their cottage in Arcadia with eight members present for a good carry in dinner and business meeting conducted by President Carole Garrison. The blessing was voiced by Pastor David Peterson. Chris Kennedy from Hospital District No. 1, Girard, came to do blood pressure readings. She will return at the time of the Oct. 9 meeting. This is a free service to anyone wishing to come either for dinner or the reading or both from 11 a.m. - noon...

Ladies from the Hiattville church enjoying the fall luncheon at First Church in Fort Scott on Sept. 14 were Lavone Page, Beverly Davis, Mattie Nell Dixon and Clara Brewer. Virginia Chambers of LaCygne joined the group. She came to attend the funeral of Norris Attkisson that morning in Girard. While in Girard she made a visit at the home of Herman Werholtz...