Stories from Friday, May 30, 2008

Barbara Laneta Franklin, age 80, Uniontown, Kan., went to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at Mercy Health Center. She was born August 18, 1927, in Uniontown, the daughter of Boyce and Inez Bobbitt Keith, the second of four children. ...

HUBBARD -- Khloe Marie Hubbard, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, at 2:06 p.m., Wednesday, May 28, 2008, to parents Kolby and Katie Hubbard, Hume, Mo. She weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 20 inches long at birth. Maternal grandparents are Ed and Diane Sneed, Hume, Mo., and Norma Payne, Lebonan, Mo. Paternal grandparents are Clay and Tammie Hubbard, Adrian, Mo., Vicki Larch, Hume, Mo. and Dean Allen, Amoret, Mo...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) R.H. Tiernan has received a shipment of the handsomest bear skin rugs ever brought to town. They came from his brother, who is located near Seattle. There are six rugs made of bear skins with head, yawning jaws and claws intact and one robe all made from the pelts of the black bear. They are indeed beauties...

The JOY Sunday School class held its meeting on May 19, in the Christian Church bungalow for a carry- in dinner followed by the business meeting conducted by President Patty Peterson. A sympathy card was signed for the family of Edna Lundberg whose burial was in Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Scott on May 20. She was a lifetime member of the Acadia Christian Church and graduate of Arcadia High School with the Class of 1929...

Ashley Jacobs and Cory Lasseigne will marry in a May 30 ceremony at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Andover, Kan. The Bride-elect is the daughter of Michael and Brenda Jacobs, of Derby Kan., formerly of Fort Scott. She is the granddaughter of Charles and Bonnie Smith, Pleasanton...

Melvin and Marilyn Barker Mel and Marilyn Barker are celebrating their 40 anniversary. Melvin and Marilyn (Tarvin) were united in marriage in the First Christian Church, in Erie, Kan., June 1, 1968. They will celebrate with their children; Mark and family of Ankeny, Iowa, Paul and family, Peculiar, Mo., and Ruthanne and husband Mike, Roland Park, Kan. They are also going on a mission trip to Lawton, Okla...

Special to The Tribune Beginning Friday, June 9, Uniontown will open to the public, a Farmer's Market to be held twice weekly from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Mondays and Fridays at the southeast corner of the Uniontown square. The park shelter house may be used to display the goods as well as truck beds and car trunks...

The Fort Scott Area Community Foundation is taking steps to ensure a strong and prosperous future for many generations to come in Bourbon County. Research results announced recently by the Kansas Association of Community Foundations, including the FSACF, projects that over the next 50 years, more than $1 billion will transfer from one generation to the next in Bourbon County. This transfer of wealth is estimated to be nearly $227 million over a 12-year time frame...

By Michael Glover The Fort Scott Tribune An Arizona man was placed on two years probation for fighting two Fulton residents and stealing a truck owned by one of the men. Dennis J. Russell, 65, was sentenced Thursday to 24 months of intensive supervised probation with the Sixth Judicial District community corrections. He must also continue counseling and pay court costs, restitution to the victims and probation fees...

Tribune Staff Report Five people have been added to the list of those arrested for the illegal purchasing of Pseudoephedrine. Jason Bower, 33, Deerfield, Mo., Derek Stumfoll, 24, Fort Scott, Michael Rhodes, 36, Fort Scott, Daniel Black, 25, Fort Scott, and Doug Miller, 50, Fort Scott, were all arrested on Bourbon County warrants for unlawful acts. ...

By Rayma Silvers The Fort Scott Tribune Whether Bourbon County residents need to register a deed on a piece of property or purchase tags for a new vehicle, employees of the county are on the job ready to assist them. One thing that helps the county's employees offer top quality services to area residents is their ability to work together as a team, Bourbon County Commissioner Bill Brittain said. ...

By Michael Glover The Fort Scott Tribune Fort Scott Police officers went through several firearm shooting drills Thursday at the Hollister shooting range in rural Bourbon County. It was the department's spring firearms training session that covers aspects like the basic fundamentals of drawing firearms to a handgun shooting test...