Stories from Monday, January 15, 2007

Due to the weekend's winter weather and the slick road conditions, the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, set to take place Monday evening at the Fort Scott High School Auditorium, has been canceled. Event coordinator Becky Weddle said many of the performers would have been coming from out of town, and road conditions prevented them from attending...

Bourbon County dodged a major ice storm and many headaches associated with the winter weather that crippled parts of Missouri and Oklahoma over the weekend. Ice accumulation in the area never reached the forecasted levels, instead dumping upwards of one-half to an inch of sleet that made driving slow but manageable...

Delta Warren Gier, PhD, Prairie Village, died peacefully December 19, 2006, after years of coping with a variant of Parkinson's disease.He also had breast cancer.  He was cremated by the Cremation Society of Missouri and Kansas. Honoring his wishes, no funeral or memorial service is planned. ...

Jacqueline Annette McCracken, age 80, resident of Calvary Crossing Apartments, Fort Scott, died Sunday, January 14, 2007 at Mercy Health Center. She was born August 23, 1926 in Rosalia, the daughter of David Corfman and Lydia Spain Corfman. She was a 1944 graduate of El Dorado High School. ...

Kathleen Marie Manley, age 87, resident of 2315 Jewell Road, Fort Scott, died Friday, January 12, 2007, at Mercy Health Center following a brief illness. She was born November 7, 1919, in Wea, the daughter of Joseph Michael Troll and Mary Margaret Tolelle Troll. ...

MALEY -- Alanah Jordyn Maley, a girl, was born at 8:16 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Georgia Young and Joshua Maley, Moran. She weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces at birth. She joins one sibling, Corrin LeShea Maley. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Don't complain if the grocery or meat delivery boy gets to your house a little late these days. Off the paved streets the mud is almost knee deep to the horses and one delivery wagon can do only about half the work it usually does. The country roads are also in a very bad condition...

CHEROKEE -- Due to the weekend storm and the fact that many school districts in southeast Kansas are not in session today, officials at Southeast High School here have adjusted the schedule of the 2007 Lancer Classic. Tonight's games will be played Wednesday at the originally scheduled times. This includes Jayhawk-Linn's first-round contests. The girls will play host Southeast at 4:30 in the east gym. The boys will face St. Paul at 8 p.m. in the east gym...