Stories from Friday, June 27, 2008

Syreta Pearl Todd, age 92, a resident of Flower Mound, Texas, died Wednesday, at the Medical Center in Lewisville, Texas. She was born May 17, 1916 in Arma, Kan., the daughter of George Washington Honsicker and Hannah "Tinnie" Goodwin Honsicker. Pearl grew up on a farm south of Girard, Kan. and was a graduate of Girard High School...

BERRY -- Alexandra Julianne Berry, a girl, was born at Mercy Health Center, in Fort Scott, at 2 p.m., Monday, June 9, 2008, to parents Neal and Tiffany Berry, Girard. She weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces and was 21 inches long at birth. She joins four siblings, Mathew, Nate, Gabe and Abigail. Maternal grandparents are Penny Rothrock, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Nolan and Linda Berry, Girard...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) A report is sent out of the Missouri Pacific general office that the company intends jerking out phones in the stations where phones months ago went in the place of telegraph instruments. The report says that the company has decided to return to its old system, as the phone business wasn't a signal success. ...

Remembering Korea To the Editor, Fifty eight years ago, on Sunday, June 28, ninety thousand North Koreans pushed across the 38th parallel in Korea and drove South. Before the conflict ended 37 months later, 103,200 Americans would be wounded and more than 54,000 killed. Records indicate that 502 Kansans were killed and another 103 are missing in action (289 Korean Veterans are buried at the Fort Scott National Cemetery)...

A big thanks goes to the following people, Julie Fry, for being the director of Bible School, and for these people that gave their time to help; John and Lorna Slater, Joe Ludlum and Dennis Fry. Thanks to the ladies who brought snacks for the children and adults to enjoy each morning. Theme for the school was "God's Family." The offering -- collected during three days of school -- was donated to the camp fund of the U.M.W. There were 12 children registered for the school...

The Mapleton Christian Church wishes to invite everyone to their fourth of July celebration to be held July 6, at 10:30 a.m. The church will be honoring the local military personnel, who are overseas and those who have returned. Following the service the church will have a cookout. Also, anyone who has a church that they already belong to or attend may come to the cookout after that service...

Since some months have five Sundays, a number of local churches get together to celebrate this fifth Sunday. The churches get together and host "Fifth Sunday Sing," This month it will be June 29, at the Cherry Grove Baptist Church, eight miles south of Fort Scott on U.S. 69...

With the help of inmates at the Southeast Kansas Correctional Center, Bourbon County has been able to accomplish tasks that might not normally get done. According to SEKRCC Director of Programs Jimmy Nichols, when the inmate work program at the jail was first created in the spring of 2006, he had only three inmates who participated in the volunteer program. Currently, interest in the program has grown increasing the number of volunteers to about 12...

Some local residents are getting fired up about the 4th Annual Gunn Park Freedom Fest event that will take place July 4. "There is no cost (to enter the park) and there will be a lot of different things for different people," event co-organizer and Fort Scott Gunn Park Committee member Tom Robertson said...

With July 7 -- the official first day of Pennies for the Park laying events -- just around the corner, the Youth Activity Team has organized a final drive to gather funds. Beginning at 8 a.m. today, YAT members and officials will be stationed around Fort Scott and in front of UMB Bank, 324 S. National...

UNIONTOWN -- Food, fireworks and fun are once again on the agenda for an Independence Day celebration at Uniontown City Park. The public is invited to attend the third annual "Independence Day Bash" event, which starts at 6 p.m. Friday, July 4, at the park with food, refreshments, and a variety of games and activities for children. The event, which is sponsored by Union State Bank and Trainwreck Tees, will conclude with a fireworks display that evening...

Hundreds of people filed through the City/County Community Center in Nevada on Saturday, for the annual Bushwhacker Quilt Guild Show. Dozens of quilts were displayed, including challenge quilt projects created by the guild's members, a collection of quilts for the Quilts of Valor program, which provides comforting quilts for wounded members of the military, and a special display of quilts created for the Quilted Hugs program, an effort initiated by the guild's own Ann Jones, which provides quilts symbolizing the comforts of home to those serving overseas.. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) A report is sent out of the Missouri Pacific general office that the company intends jerking out phones in the stations where phones months ago went in the place of telegraph instruments. The report says that the company has decided to return to its old system, as the phone business wasn't a signal success. ...

To the Editor, Fifty eight years ago, on Sunday, June 28, ninety thousand North Koreans pushed across the 38th parallel in Korea and drove South. Before the conflict ended 37 months later, 103,200 Americans would be wounded and more than 54,000 killed. Records indicate that 502 Kansans were killed and another 103 are missing in action (289 Korean Veterans are buried at the Fort Scott National Cemetery)...

To the Editor, I write this in honor and memory of my parents, Joe and Maxine Ruhl. While I haven't been a Fort Scott resident for many years, I was born and raised there and will always consider it "home." My parents are both buried at the National Cemetery. I wasn't able to make it up over Memorial Day weekend. So, Sunday night around 9:30 p.m. on our way through from a day trip, I stopped and put some flowers on their grave...

A big thanks goes to the following people, Julie Fry, for being the director of Bible School, and for these people that gave their time to help; John and Lorna Slater, Joe Ludlum and Dennis Fry. Thanks to the ladies who brought snacks for the children and adults to enjoy each morning. Theme for the school was "God's Family." The offering -- collected during three days of school -- was donated to the camp fund of the U.M.W. There were 12 children registered for the school...

The Mapleton Christian Church wishes to invite everyone to their fourth of July celebration to be held July 6, at 10:30 a.m. The church will be honoring the local military personnel, who are overseas and those who have returned. Following the service the church will have a cookout. Also, anyone who has a church that they already belong to or attend may come to the cookout after that service...

The Palmer - Workman Reunion will be Sunday, July 6, in Gunn Park at Shelter house No. 5. Friends and relatives are invited to come and join in the reunion. A carry-in dinner will be at noon. -- Submitted by Agnes Armstrong

To the Editor, Fifty eight years ago, on Sunday, June 28, ninety thousand North Koreans pushed across the 38th parallel in Korea and drove South. Before the conflict ended 37 months later, 103,200 Americans would be wounded and more than 54,000 killed. Records indicate that 502 Kansans were killed and another 103 are missing in action (289 Korean Veterans are buried at the Fort Scott National Cemetery)...