Stories from Wednesday, April 16, 2008

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Last evening at 8:42 the fire department received a phone alarm calling them to Third and Clark streets. Upon arrival the boys found the barn on the old Herring pop factory site, belonging to Mrs. B. Harring, ablaze. Four horses were tied in the barn. ...

WILLETT -- Madalyn Elana Willett, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center at 12:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2008, to Tara Monique Gonzales and Jimmy L. Willett, Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches. She joins siblings Immanuel, Mikiylah, and Avious Jr. Maternal grandparents are John and Georgellen Baskin, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Elaine Briones, Iola...

BARTLETT -- Hunter Ray Bartlett, a boy, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott at 3:31 a.m. Monday, April 14, 2008, to Justin and Kayla Bartlett, Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 1/2 ounce. Maternal grandparents are John and Teresa Vanderpool, Uniontown. ...

Gertrude White, 97, formerly of Fort Scott and Fulton, Kan., passed away Monday afternoon, April 14, 2008, at the Country View Nursing Home in Prescott, Kan., after battling Alzheimer's and dementia for the past several years. She was born on Feb. 15, 1911, in Hydro, Okla., the daughter of Wallace C. and Bertha W. Russell Clark of Fort Scott...

Verna Mardell Bunn, 80 longtime resident of the Southeast Kansas area, died at 4:20 a.m. Monday April 14, 2008, at the Sunset Manor Nursing Home in Frontenac, Kan. She was born March 15, 1928, in West Mineral, Kan., the daughter of William Rollin and Blanche (Russell) Lauer. She attended schools in West Mineral and spent her early years in Carona, Kan...

The at 8 a.m. Chamber Coffee for Thursday, April 17, will be hosted by The Presbyterian Village, 2401 S. Horton St. Members can make an announcement about their business, organization, or the community by donating a dollar toward the "Dollars for Dolly."...

The Fort Scott Community College choral music department will present its annual spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Old Congregational Church, 502 S. National Ave. The first half of the performance will feature the FSCC Concert Choir and the Iola High School Singers, who will sing the "Vivaldi Gloria," accompanied by the FSCC Chamber Orchestra. ...

Tribune Staff Report _ Area women will have another opportunity to join "She Power," a Spirit of Women consumer rewards program, at Mercy's "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader" event on Thursday, April 17. Prior to the beginning of the show at 7 p.m., a She Power table will be available in the lobby of the Liberty Theatre, 113 S. ...

A full day's worth of activities await children and adults alike during the National Park Service's upcoming Junior Ranger Day at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The event, now in its second year, will be celebrated at numerous National Park Service-operated areas throughout the United States, including FSNHS, on April 26. ...

More than 20 area students will take their projects to the Kansas History Day competition on April 26 at Washburn University in Topeka. After placing first or second in a District 2 competition last month at Fort Scott Community College, the group of finalists will now compete at the state level for a chance at advancing to the National History Day competition June 15-19 at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., near Washington, D.C. ...

A local blood drive that took place last week may not have been so local after all. The blood that was collected during the April 11 drive, coordinated by Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO), actually left Bourbon County to be used elsewhere...

As a field lesson, a group of local fifth grade students recently traveled to St. Louis, Mo., by way of several modes of transportation. At the monthly USD 234 board meeting Monday, board members viewed a slide production of the elementary students' transportation trip during spring break. ...

Fort Scott Community College will host the annual Women's Appreciation Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on April 24. A buffet lunch catered by Great Western Dining Service will be served in the FSCC cafeteria, 2108 S. Horton St. To accommodate lunch schedules, women will be able to attend anytime between 11:30 a.m. ...

OSAWATOMIE -- Jayhawk-Linn's varsity softball team was swept by Osawatomie in a Tuesday doubleheader here by scores of 3-0 and 8-3. Jayhawk-Linn (2-6) had only two hits in the opener, which came from the bats of Amanda Black and Kelsey Ligman. Lynda Beth allowed only one earned run on six hits and struck out five...

MORAN -- Uniontown's softball team earned a split in its first-ever meeting with rival Marmaton Valley here Monday. The Eagles (2-3) won the opener, 9-6, but the Wildcats took the nightcap, 7-0. Marmaton Valley led the opener 4-0 after three innings and 5-1 after four. The Eagles scored in each of the last four innings, including a five-run rally in the seventh that made it 9-5 at the time...

MORAN -- Uniontown's baseball team continued its pattern of splitting doubleheaders here Monday afternoon. Marmaton Valley won the first game 10-0 but the Eagles took game two 4-1. Eagle pitching surrendered eight hits and five walks in the opener but head coach Chris Wood said errors were to blame foe the loss. He said Uniontown (3-3) committed seven errors...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished second here at the Pittsburg Invitational, missing out on third place by one point after a tie-breaker was needed to sort out No. 2 doubles. Labette County scored 13 points while Fort Scott finished with 12. Three teams finished 3-1 at No. 2 doubles. Pittsburg's team won the tie-breaker because it won 31 total games. Fort Scott's and Labette County's teams each won 28 games but LCHS won the head-to-head match-up...

COLUMBUS -- Fort Scott High School's golf team took third place at the third of four Southeast Kansas League designated tournaments here Tuesday. The Tigers finished with a team score of 330 while Chanute and Pittsburg each scored 326. The unofficial results showed that Chanute and Pittsburg's No. ...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team extended its winning streak to eight after seeping Coffeyville 3-2 and 6-1 at Lions Field Tuesday. It's the longest streak for the Greyhounds (16-9 in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division, 26-16 overall) since winning seven straight during the early portion of the 2006 season. Coffeyville fell to 9-15, 9-19...

There are two things you can't deny Pittsburg's baseball team does well: Hit the ball and score runs. The Purple Dragons remained undefeated on the season with a 17-2, 11-3 sweep of Fort Scott High at Lions Field Wednesday night. The first game ended after three innings as Pittsburg (6-0 in the SEK, 7-0 overall) scored nine runs in the first inning...