Stories from Friday, June 8, 2007

Tiger basketball camp starts Monday Fort Scott High School head boys' basketball coach Jeff DeLaTorre has announced that the FSHS boys' basketball camp begins Monday at the FSHS gymnasium. The camp is for all boys going into grades 10-12 interested in playing on the high school team this school year. The camp fee is $10. Daily sessions run for two hours starting at 7:30 a.m...

It's Echoes of the Trail weekend and, rain or shine, the wagons will roll into Fort Scott and set up under the old Sycamore tree between the pond and the Academic Building at Fort Scott Community College. "Cookies" will dig pits in the ground, build campfires, set up iron racks on which they'll hang heavy Dutch ovens, and ready their chuck wagons for a weekend of cooking the way it was done on the trail in the old West...

UNIONTOWN -- Norm Conard, a social studies and video production teacher at Uniontown Junior Senior High School, is one of five teachers nationwide who will be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame on June 14-16 in Emporia. In April, Conard was honored by fellow USD 235 teachers, students and administrators, as well as a group of NTHF representatives, during a special assembly in Uniontown. ...

USD 234 officials said that the old Fort Scott Middle School building could be sold as early as next week. James Mayfield, a businessman from Salina, is involved with the most recent proposal to purchase the 89-year old structure located at 412 S. National Ave., USD 234 Business Manager Alan Drake said. Mayfield has a contract with the school district to purchase the building for $45,000, with the closing date for the sale set to take place on or before June 15, Drake said...

Hazel Fay Scherzer, 69, formerly of North Kansas City, and more recently of Uniontown, Kansas, died Thursday morning, June 7, 2007, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. She was born June 19, 1937 in Nevada, Missouri, the daughter of Richard and Lily (Irwin) Shrewsbury. She married Stanley E. Scherzer December 18, 1974 in Kansas City, Missouri. He preceded her in death in July, 1997...

Josephine C. Faith was born on September 8, 1909, in Fulton, Kansas, to Anna Mary and John Francis Hennessy. Josephine died on June 3, 2007, at Lakeview Village in Lenexa, Kansas. She is preceded in death by her husband, Roy Faith, parents Anna Mary and John Francis Hennessy, and brothers Edward Morris and John Joseph Hennessy. ...

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Overton, Meeker, Colo., and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Gier, Uniontown, are pleased to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their children, Jamie Lynn Overton and Joshua Edwin Gier. Jamie is a 2003 graduate of Meeker High School, and a 2007 graduate of Heartland Baptist Bible College, Oklahoma City, with a bachelor's degree in christian education, majoring in church education and missions...

Evergreen Cemetery officials request the removal of non-permanent Memorial Day decorations before Monday, June 11, for purposes of mowing. If not removed before that date, personnel will remove them.

Several people from this area attended the Good Ol' Days in Fort Scott over the weekend. Even though it rained Friday evening, there was a good turnout for the parade. We all appreciated the participants who braved the wet weather and made the parade a success...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The first sun stroke of the summer occurred this forenoon when Mrs. C.W. McMillan, 418 South Broadway, was rendered unconscious in the yard at her home. Dr. R.W. Bartholomew was called. The physician stated that the patient's condition was serious, but should not prove fatal. The weather today was something terrific. The humidity added to the discomfort. More people complained of the heat than at almost any of the hottest days of last summer...

Friday Night 7 p.m. -- Opening, Arnold Schofield, Johnny Kendrick 7:30 p.m. -- Donna Penley, Delbert Shields and Ron Ratliff 8 p.m. -- Jim Hoy 9 p.m. -- Wanda Cothren, Ron Wilson and D. J. Fry 9:30 p.m. -- Finish Saturday Day Schedule Round Room...

Records Police report Sheriff's report KHP...