Stories from Monday, April 23, 2007

April showers bring May flowers, but the Kansas Highway Patrol wants to remind motorists that they also bring slick roads and potentially dangerous driving conditions. KHP has issued an advisory to drive safely during heavy rains and to turn on headlights in adverse driving conditions. Kansas law now requires drivers to turn on their headlights when windshield wipers are in continuous use as a result of rain, sleet or snow, the statement said...

The Street Fair at Good Ol' Days 2007 will showcase many interesting booths. There will be something for everyone who strolls up and down the street. Jewelry items will appear in several different booths. Some will feature fused glass, others will be selling beaded items, and still others will have a selection of sterling silver pieces...

Louie Arthur Harris, age 75, a resident of Erie, died Friday, April 20, 2007 at the Via Christi Home Medical Center in Wichita. He was born May 25, 1931 in Fort Scott, the son of Arthur Hams and Goldie Dunean Harris. He first married Trevah Joan Bissenden in 1952 at Fort Scott. ...

O. Earlene Ewing, age 82, of Sheldon, Missouri died Friday, April 20, 2007 at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri following a short illness. She was born on September 23, 1924 in Sarcoxie, Missouri to Thomas Andrew Moore and Zelpha Mae Pryor Moore. She was married February 13, 1953 in Joplin, Missouri to George R. Ewing and he survives of the home...

Members of the Fort Scott Community College Phi Theta Kappa organization and other FSCC students are doing their part to help benefit the environment. A group of FSCC students planted trees around the lake area on the FSCC campus Thursday afternoon to recognize Earth Day on Sunday, and Kansas Arbor Day, which is Friday, April 27. ...

ARKANSAS CITY -- Cowley freshman pitcher Heather Davis, a 2006 graduate of Fort Scott High School, threw a no-hitter for the Tigers in a 7-0 victory over Kansas City Kansas Community College Wednesday. Davis hit one batter and the Tigers committed one error, which were the only things preventing it from being a perfect game. She struck out nine Blue Devil batters...

HUTCHINSON -- Kansas State freshman Joe Ida, a 2006 graduate of Fort Scott High School, will play for the Wildcats today and tomorrow as the Big 12 Conference Men's Golf Tournament is held at Prairie Dunes Cuntry Club here. Ida is one of two freshmen who will play for K-State, the other being Mitchell Gregson, who is from Waterloo, Ill...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High's baseball split with Labette County in a Southeast Kansas League doubleheader here Friday. Labette County won the first game 3-0 but the Tigers came back to win game two 12-7. These were just the fourth and fifth games of the season for the Tigers, who will play five home games this week...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High School's softball team posted its first sweep of the season as the Tigers defeated Labette County 7-1 and 5-3 here Friday. Afton Gray, 2-2, allowed only two hits and one walk while striking out eight as she pitched all seven innings of the first game...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team won three of four games Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division games over the weekend. Saturday at Chanute, the Greyhounds split with Neosho County, losing game one, 16-10, but taking the second, 15-1. Sunday, the Greyhounds went to Highland and swept the ninth-place Scotties, 12-5 and 5-4...

By Scott Nuzum Tribune Sports Editor Fort Scott Community College's softball program is coming around under first-year head coach Lauren Sigwing. A Greyhound team full of confidence took the field at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Saturday ready to take on Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division leader Johnson County, which came into the doubleheader ranked No. 11 in the country...

Fort Scott High School's tennis teams took first and fourth places in their home tournament Saturday. How's that possible, you ask? When Chanute had to pull out of the tournament, Tiger head coach Lynn Barr put in a second Fort Scott team. The Red team finished first with 13 points. Coffeyville was second with nine followed by Pittsburg with eight, the FSHS White team with seven and Labette County rounding things out with four points...

Hiattville United Methodist Women met on April 9 with Patty Gauthier presiding in the absence of President Glenda Miller. The meeting opened by repeating the purpose. Roll call was answered by seven members telling their favorite rainy day activity...

FSCC students green up campus Tribune Staff Report Members of the Fort Scott Community College Phi Theta Kappa organization and other FSCC students are doing their part to help benefit the environment. A group of FSCC students planted trees around the lake area on the FSCC campus Thursday afternoon to recognize Earth Day on Sunday, and Kansas Arbor Day, which is Friday, April 27. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) A.L. Keplinger, the builder, has taken on a line of roll awnings and will put up several this spring. The W.E. Brooks building and the First National Bank will have two of his nicest pieces of work. Luther Catt has been appointed administrator of the estate of Mrs. Alice Pavey, who died about a month ago. The deceased left a small amount of town property in town...