Stories from Friday, August 15, 2008

Area music lovers are invited to St. John's United Methodist Church, 223 S. Little, on Sunday for a one of a kind musical performance. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Brass Art, a Chanute, Kan. based brass quintet, will perform for area residents during the church's second August Music Fest. The concert is free to the general public...

This Friday night the Pavilion feature including a cast of performers including: Steve Swanko, of Fort Scott, on guitar and vocals. Steve is a graduate of the Coat Guard Academy and the Lutheran Seminary. He is an accomplished guitar player and vocalist with his own unique style. ...

A shower for fire victims Richard and Dee Cullison, Jr. and family, will be held on Friday, August 22, at 7 p.m., at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Garland. The Cullison family lost their home and all their belongings in a fire, May 16. The family has been living with Richard's dad and will soon be moving into their new home, and are in need of everything...

Pittsburg State University is proud to announce student Heather Rickerson, daughter of Mary and Dale Rickerson, Fort Scott, has been awarded with the Charles R. Bennett Scholarship. Heather is a sophomore and is majoring in Elementary Education.

Marion Franklin Edgar, 82, formerly of Fort Scott, and also formerly of Basehor, Kan., died Wednesday, August 13, 2008, at the Kansas City Hospice Care, Kansas City, Mo. He was born February 9, 1926, in Carpenter, Wyoming, the son of Charles Franklin and Ruth Enfield Edgar. He married Rosa Belle Payne on February 20, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kan. She preceded him in death on May 28, 1991...

Margaret "Peggy" Louise Richey, 66, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Wednesday afternoon, August 13, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She was born September 15, 1941 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Frank Burton and Hazel Irene (Gorse) Rylander...

Terry Brandt Henning, 67, Chilhowee, Mo., died Wednesday, August 13, at his home in Chilhowee, Mo. Funeral Services will be 11 a.m., Saturday, August 16, at the Chilhowee, Baptist Church, with Pastor Matt Goodsell officiating. Burial in Carpenter Cemetery, Chilhowee, Mo...

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When the library of the late Ken Postlethwaite, former columnist for this newspaper, came up for sale a few years ago, I bought, among several other of his books, a volume entitled "The World of George Jean Nathan." When I was a teenager (back in the 1950s), I fell under the sway of H.L. ...