Stories from Friday, October 19, 2007

The Uniontown Saddle Club conducted the first of a series of Youth Horse Shows on Sept. 22, 2007, at the Uniontown Saddle Club Arena in Uniontown. Sponsors for this youth show were Fort Scott Livestock Sales and Menzier Feed Supply of Iola. Many youth participated in various competitions during the event. ...

The Kansas State Fire Marshal is urging all citizens to “Change Your Clock Change Your Battery.” Change the battery in all smoke detectors; they do save lives, but only those that have been properly installed and maintained will do the job. Communities nationwide witness tragic home fire deaths each year. ...

Local Fort Scott Christian Heights junior high school students recently experienced a piece of the past. On Friday, Oct. 12, FSCH teacher Karen Schellack escorted her students to Olathe to tour the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm, which is the only Santa Fe Trail stagecoach stop that is currently open to the public, according to a Web site located at www.kansastravel.org...

In the corner of codes director Amanda Proffitt’s office lay a stack of yard signs. Some of the signs announce where a garage sale is taking place. Some promote business offers. Some promote daycare businesses. The signs in Proffitt’s office were taken down by city workers this week in an effort by the city to start enforcing an ordinance that bars citizens from posting certain signs on utility and traffic poles and trees around town...

Hanging on to the past has yielded a few treasures for two Fort Scott residents. Sister Concetta Cardinale, the director of the Mercy Health Center Compassionate Care program, recently discovered an old edition of The Fort Scott Tribune while searching through the archives of the old Sisters of Mercy convent located at 810 S. Burke St., a building now owned by Fort Scott Community College...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) A little while back County Clerk Charley Holstein received a letter from the J.G. Stream Co. of Kansas City asking for a list of the 1,000 “wealthiest people” in Bourbon County. This is an annual request made of the Bourbon County clerk, as well as county clerks in other states. ...