Stories from Monday, January 7, 2008

UNIONTOWN, Kan. -- Erie's girls outscored Uniontown 37-11 in the second half of a non-league game here Friday night and Eagle head coach Ken Holt didn't hide how he felt about it. "I thought we have good effort for 2 1/2 quarters," he said. "Then we quit."...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Fort Scott High's pressure forced 28 Parsons turnovers Friday night as the Tigers went on to vanquish the visiting Vikings, 54-36, in Southeast Kansas League action at the FSHS gymnasium. The Tigers (4-1 in the SEK, 4-4 overall) jumped out to a 10-2 lead after three minutes of play and never looked back. Their press was also already hard at work as Parsons managed to take just one shot -- a make by leading scorer Christiana Taylor -- in that time...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- The things that had plagued Fort Scott High's boys in back-to-back league losses to Independence and Chanute prior to the holiday break didn't come into play Friday night as the Tigers led from start to finish in a 57-37 Southeast Kansas League victory over Parsons at the FSHS gymnasium...

BONNER SPRINGS -- With six medalist leading the way, Fort Scott High's wrestling team took third place at the Dick Burns Mat Classic here Saturday. The Tigers scored 99 team points to finish behind champion Bellview East, an Iowa state power, and Spring Hill. Bellview East scored 204 1/2 points while Spring Hill had 144. Fourth-place Kansas City Sumner Academy had 90 points...

COFFEYVILLE -- Coffeyville -- whose men's and women's teams are both defending champions of the Jayhawk Conference's Eastern Division -- swept Fort Scott Community College's teams in conference openers at Nellis Hall here Saturday night. Coffeyville's women opened the night by beating a short-handed Greyhound team, 93-67. Red Raven men followed with an 80-69 victory...

The seized assets of a local restaurant franchisee are scheduled to be sold during a public auction next month in Manhattan. A 2002 Dodge pickup truck and several pieces of restaurant operating equipment, formerly owned by Trend Enterprises, Inc., D.B.A. ...

State Rep. Shirley Palmer will conduct two public meetings on Friday for her constituents in Linn and Bourbon counties. "The purpose of the meetings is to give Linn and Bourbon County residents an opportunity to visit with their state representative and share concerns, ideas and suggestions before she reports back in Topeka for the the 2008 legislative session," Palmer told The Fort Scott Tribune in an e-mail message on Saturday...

During the Fort Scott City Commission meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Commission Room at City Hall, 1 E. Third St., commissioners will consider the following issues:...

Charles Leonard Cuthbertson, age 65, resident of 25 Golfview Drive, Fort Scott, died unexpectedly Saturday, January 05, 2008, at his home. He was born July 12, 1942 in Pittsburg, Kansas the son of Leonard J. Cuthbertson and Mary Gibson Cuthbertson. Charles was disabled due to a motorcycle accident at the age of 14. He lived his entire life in Girard prior to moving to Fort Scott in 1995. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church...

Robert E. Swender passed away Dec. 28, 2007, at the age of 84 at his home in Downey, Calif. He was born in 1923 in Kincaid, Kan., where he lived until serving his country from 1944 to 1946. In 1948 Robert and his family moved to California to begin a new life. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) B.F. Othick, head of the Othick and Company firm of real estate and abstractors, announced that he contemplated moving from the present quarters in the basement of the Masonic Temple building into the room lately occupied by the new state bank on Wall Street. Mr. Othick contemplates having numerous repairs made at the new home and will have one of the most nicely equipped offices for real estate and abstract business of any firm in Kansas. He will move January 11th...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Pawnee Brown, who is known as a weather prophet, was asked a rather unusual question this morning. "Mr. Brown," a man began, "I am praying for clear weather for the next 10 days. Is there any use of my effort?" Mr. Brown assured the man that insofar as finite faculties were able to determine he believed that clear weather would last for a few days...

Residents of Kansas may be able to receive funds back from their property taxes in 2008. According to Bourbon County Clerk Joanne Long, some Kansas residents will be able to receive up to a $700 refund on their property tax through utilization of the Kansas Homestead Program...

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