Stories from Wednesday, April 25, 2012

100 YEARS AGO (1912) WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Because of the huge crowds interfering with the work, the Senate Titanic inquiry was resumed today in a small room from which the general public was excluded. Thousands were turned away. Third Officer Pitman testified that the Titanic had had only one boat drill. ...

Fort Scott Christian Heights, 1101 S. Barbee, will host the Country Store and Auction Saturday, May 5. Events include a 5K race and two-mile fun walk starting at 7:30 a.m. Country Store hours will be 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Supper is from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. and the auction is at 6 p.m...

The Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce Coffee will be held at 8 a.m. Thursday at West Park Church of the Nazarene, 1728 S. Horton. Members can make an announcement about their business, organization or community event by donating $1 toward "Dollars for Dolly."...

A local musician will join other regular performers of the Fort Scott Country Music Show on stage for a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Hall, 1 E. Third St. Guitarist and songwriter Bob Campbell will be the special guest during the show, which will feature guitarist and vocalist Dewayne Bowman and the Swingin' West Band, including vocalist Ginelle Esry, vocalist and steel guitarist Scotty Henderson, keyboardist and vocalist Gale Richey, drummer Ronnie Blecher, Ernie Reed on fiddle, bass guitarist and vocalist Gary Hill, and guitarist and vocalist Jason Richison.. ...

Glynn Tonsor, livestock economist at Kansas State University, will tackle questions of interest to stakeholders in the beef and cattle industry during a 1:30 p.m. May 1 webinar. The webinar will be held at the Fort Scott Livestock Market. Topics include:...

Fort Scott Community College kicked off its community appreciation week by hosting the annual Women's Appreciation Luncheon at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center Tuesday afternoon. More than 150 women attended the buffet-style meal in the lobby of the fine arts center and visited more than 15 local vendors during the two-hour event...

Ninety Fort Scott Community College football players helped clean up Fort Scott this weekend. FSCC football coaches "lent out" their players for a couple hours on Saturday in an effort to help elderly residents clean and care for their yards. Players found themselves doing everything from raking leaves and picking up stray branches to pulling weeds and cleaning gutters...

Four Bourbon County students qualified this weekend to compete in the National History Day Championship in College Park, Md., in June. More than 300 students representing 51 schools attended the Kansas State History Day Championships at Washburn University in Topeka on Saturday, a news release said. The theme for the competition was "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History."...

The Fort Scott High School baseball team had to settle for a split with Labette County in Southeast Kansas League play at Lions Field Friday night. The Tigers won the opener 6-5 in eight innings as Clayton Hixson scored the winning run on Benjamin Labbe's 2-out double. But LCHS took the second game 11-5...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's boys claimed the title at their home invitational meet here Monday while Eagle girls finished in third place. Jayhawk-Linn finished third on the boys' side and fourth on the girls;. Eagle boys won 21 medals and four events in scoring 120 points. St. Paul was second with 97 points while Jayhawk-Linn collected 15 medals and three firsts as it scored 93 points...

NEODESHA -- The Uniontown softball team scored at least 25 runs in a doubleheader for the fifth time this season as the Eagles swept Neodesha 16-0 and 17-1 in non-league play here Monday. The Eagles (14-2) scored double digits in a single game for the eighth and ninth times this season...