Stories from Monday, March 31, 2008

RICHMOND -- Jayhawk-Linn sophomore Taylor Dawson, who won the Class 3A State championship in long jump last season, broke the school record in a meet at Central Heights Friday. Dawson, who won State with a mark of 17 feet, 5 1/4 inches last year, cleared 17' 9 3/4" Friday, also scoring team points that helped her team win the meet...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) All Fools Day is always popular and today those who make it a custom to perpetrate jokes were not conspicuous by their absence. There were some pretty clever jokes planned and executed. Phony calls on the telephone were registered and bewildering statements were sent out by some who wanted to fool a friend...

ERIE -- Thursday afternoon, Uniontown High School created a little bit of school history. For the first time since about the middle 1960's, UHS played a baseballl game and, for the first time ever, the school had an interscholastic softball game. The softball team fell in the first game of a triangular to Erie, 17-2. In their second game, the Eagles lost to Humboldt, a Class 2-1A State Tournament qualifier last season, 14-1. No statistics were available from the games...

It was a full and busy week in the Kansas Legislature. It was nice to get away for the weekend. On Saturday I served on the Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame Selection Committee for this years inductees and on Saturday evening I attended and spoke at the Disabled American Veterans State Meeting held in Fort Scott...

GIRARD -- Fort Scott High School's baseball teams dropped a pair of one-run decisions here Friday as Girard took a 4-3, 8-7 sweep of the Tigers in a non-league doubleheader at Red Wutke Park. Each team scored a run in the seventh inning of the opener. Andre Davis had just tied the game in the top of the inning with a solo home run -- the Tigers' first of the season -- before Girard (2-1) pushed the winning run acorss on Tanner Poppe's two-out single to right field...

By Michael Glover The Fort Scott Tribune _ There will be a fundraiser Saturday to raise money for the Bourbon County Chapter of the American Red Cross Saturday at the Elks Lodge in Fort Scott. The event will feature a filet dinner followed by a silent and live auction and a dance. The fundraiser will start at 6 p.m., with dinner beginning at 7 p.m...

Mercy Health Center has announced the third Spirit of Women event in 2008, to take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, at the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. Main St. Once again, organizers challenge women to become knowledgeable about their health through this health-related entertainment event called "Get Stronger, Get Smarter" or "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?"...

ARKANSAS CITY -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team had chances to win both games of a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader against Cowley here Saturday. Instead, the Greyhound bullpen was unable to hold late leads and division-leading Cowley was able to pull off a sweep with identical 7-6 scores in each game...

ALTAMONT -- Fort Scott High's varsity girls' track team won the team title at the Labette County Invitational here Friday, which was the opening meet of the season for most of the teams here, including the Tigers. Fort Scott's boys placed fourth in team standings. Tiger junior varsity teams also competed here with the girls finishing sixth and the boys ninth. There were 10 schools in all four divisions...

Fama Jean Burns, age 73, resident of 831 S. Margrave, Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, March 31, 2008, at Fort Scott Manor following a long illness. She was born March 25, 1935, in Ozark, Mo., the daughter of Charles James Horst Jr. and Cuma Stewart Horst. ...

Nola Pearlie Poore, 96, formerly of Uniontown, passed away Monday, March 31, 2008, at her home in Fort Scott. She was born April 27, 1911, in Sheldon, Mo., the daughter of Earl E. and Martha Elizabeth Davis Roberts. She married Paul W. Poore April 6, 1929 in Moran, Kan. He preceded her in death September 18, 1988...

Former Quincy resident, Meta Pickett, died on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, in Kennewick, Wash. where she lived at the Charbonneau Retirement Center the past two years. Meta was preceded in death by Howard, her husband of 61 years, on Feb. 17, 2008. Meta was born in Fulton, Kan. ...

Eva A. Hicks, died March 23, 2008, of health related problems. Born June 18, 1919, Eva Aretta Davenport, she grew up in Ava, Mo. There she met and married Robert Earl Hicks. Her family spent most of their early life at School of the Ozarks, Mo. and then in Fort Scott, Kan. There she started college as her son graduated from high school and completed her master's degree in library science. She was the school librarian at Winfield Scott School in Fort Scott until her retirement...

Dylon Michael Deibert, a boy, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, at 10:37 a.m. Monday, March 31, 2008, to parents Michael and Carissa Deibert, Uniontown. He weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces at birth. He joins a brother, Tyson Deibert. Maternal grandparents are Randy and Carmen Beckford, Mapleton...

Addisyn Marie Coon, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, at 11:39 a.m. Monday, March 31, 2008, to parents Robert and Lisa Coon, Fort Scott. She weighed 5 pounds, 9 ounces at birth. He joins a brother, Nathan Coon. Maternal grandparents are Bob and Pat Probst, Bronson. Paternal grandparents are Ray and Susan Coon, Fort Scott...

Bronson Chapter No. 65 held a regular meeting March 3, 2008 with 16 officers and 3 visitors present. Geri Reeder, Worthy Matron, greeted with everyone with a welcome and a poem. The meeting opened in form with Louis Pool, Worthy Patron and Geri Reeder in the East...

Lee and Kimberly Pierce In the company of their family and friends, Kimberly Arleen Lockwood and Thomas Lee Pierce exchanged wedding vows on June 2, 2007. The setting for this evening wedding was Community Christian Church in Fort Scott, Kan. Officiated by Pastor Kevin Moyers. ...

Eight members attended the zone meeting held at Hepler March 20. Pres. Wilkins won the man's gift, he gave preview of club aims for 2008. Easter sunrise services were held at the UMC March 23. Pastor Georgia Hale gave the sermon, David Kuns gave the prayer. ...

Bayley Gray, daughter of Ron and Lisa Gray, Redfield, has received a scholarship to Pitt sburg State University. Gray is a Uniontown High School senior and will be a PSU freshman this fall. Gray plans to major in elementary education. Gray is receiving the Alumni Legacy License Plate Scholarship, which requires applicants tohave a 3.0 or higher GPA, be an undergraduate student, and have PSU alumnus parent...

The deadline to join the 2008 Bourbon County Relay for Life in the organization's effort to raise money in the cancer fight is quickly approaching. Relay for Life co-chairwoman Lavetta Simmons said April 15 is the last day that new teams will be able to register for the organization's 2008 campaign called "Sportin' A Cure," which began in October. ...

Less than 50 years after the Bourbon County rural water district was created, the number of people it serves has grown to nearly 38 times the size of its original customer base. According to Consolidated Rural Water District No. 2 Manager Jingles Endicott, when the first rural water district was created, it only served 77 customers. ...

Hilton and Carolyn Claspill were married on April 7, 1958 in Topeka. They were high school sweethearts in Fort Scott and have lived in Tecumseh the last 36 years. The Claspills have one daughter, Cheryl Foss, living in Omaha, Neb.; and a granddaughter Sarah, married to Patrick Hodgson, Manhattan, Kan. She and her husband are parents to Gavin and Gwendolynne...