Stories from Thursday, September 28, 2006

Five Fort Scott High School band students will take the trip of a lifetime next summer. In June, FSHS senior Rachel French, junior Kellen Wheeler, sophomore Patrick Fox and freshmen Blake Cowan and Garrett Baugher will take part in a goodwill tour of seven European countries as part of the Kansas Music Ambassadors program...

William Isaac Radkay left us sadly but ever so peacefully on his 95th birthday at Mercy Hospital of Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born September 24, 1911 in the "Strawberry Hill" district of Kansas City, Kansas. Willie married Louise Finland in 1970 acquiring a stepfamily and becoming a grandfather to her son and daughter's children. ...

Nellie M. Mitchum, age 82, died Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at the Fort Scott Manor in Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born December 31, 1923, in Perry, Oklahoma, the daughter of Joe L. Mildfelt and Catherine L. Endres Mildfelt. She worked for many years in the Kansas City area in bookkeeping and then for the Social Security Department. ...

Frances Grace Stathem, age 91, resident of Fort Scott Manor, died Monday, September 25, 2006 at Mercy Health Center. She was born June 13, 1915 in Blackwell, Oklahoma the daughter of Arthur Mott and Goldie Sturm Mott. She first married Glen Painter. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1906) The hundredth anniversary of the unfurling of the American Flag in Kansas will be celebrated by the Grand Army Post and Women's Relief Corps at the Grand Army Hall Friday evening. A nice program has been arranged. Charley Tidwell, who for many years was a porter on the Missouri Pacific west from this city, has been laying up for a rainy day and he will start overland the first of the week for southwest Missouri to make his home on a quarter section of land which he bought a couple of years ago with his savings. ...