Stories from Thursday, November 15, 2012

100 YEARS AGO (1912) For the first time in several weeks the fire alarm sounded at the noon hour today, the fire department responding to a call at 415 S. Margarine St. A few minutes later and before the first fire had been extinguished, the second department was called to the Lee Milestone residence, near the corner of Fourth and Crawford streets, where a small shed was ablaze. ...

Rachel Leslie Fisher, 19, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department at 2:26 p.m. Tuesday on a Bourbon County warrant for criminal damage to property. She posted a $2,500 bond and was released at 3:54 p.m. the same day. Misty Dawn Bramwell, 32, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday on a Bourbon County warrant for theft. She posted a $160 cash bond and was released at 4:41 p.m. the same day...

Brenton and Courtney Smith, Pittsburg, Kan., are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Kyoko Louise Smith, at 1:29 a.m. Oct. 18, 2012, at Mercy Hospital. Kyoko was 8 pounds, 10 1/2 ounces and 22 inches in length at birth. Maternal grandparents are Dennis and Susan Davis...

The angels heard her voice and God called her name. Sherry Lee Ann Wrench-Williams, age 60, resident of Kansas City, Kan., died peacefully on Monday afternoon, Nov. 12, 2012, after a courageous battle with cancer in her home with loved ones by her side...

Vicki Sue Shotton, age 61, a resident of rural Hume, Mo., died Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. She was born May 29, 1951, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Jewel Dean "Nick" Nichols and Pat Jeanne Allen Nichols. She married Richard E. Shotton in April of 1983 in Fort Scott, Kan. Vicki had worked as a seamstress for Key Work Clothes. She enjoyed sewing, cooking and doing crafts as well as going to flea markets and garage sales...

The commodity markets, though down some from earlier in the fall, remain strong as this year's harvest progresses. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the average Kansas corn price was $7.45 per bushel in August, dropped to $6.87 in September, then bounced back to $7.20 in October. So as harvest time price trends go, that's not bad!...

Huge amounts of time and money are spent by pharmaceutical companies to develop and research new products for the cattle industry. Once a product leaves the company, they lose control as to how the products are handled. It is up to the producer or purchaser to follow label directions to ensure the product will work as intended to maximize producer benefits...

Carlisle Transportation Products has announced that all standard line v-belts are now made in the United States. Carlisle is a global supplier of industrial belts with manufacturing facilities in Fort Scott, Kan., and Springfield, Mo. Many products that were made in China have moved back to Fort Scott and Springfield...

Seaman recruit Christopher West has won the Navy League Award Nov. 9 during the recruit review graduation. He graduated Navy boot camp at Great Lakes Recruit Training Command in Illinois. His parents are Fort Scott Police Lt. Shaun West and Angela Bishop. His step-mother is Carolyn West...

The Fort Scott Area Ministerial Alliance invites residents and their families to attend its annual Thanksgiving Service at 7 p.m. Nov. 20. "A Service of Celebration in Joy and Thanksgiving" will be held at Parkway Church of God (Holiness), 1111 State St., Fort Scott. This year, worshippers are asked to bring an offering in support of Mother to Mother Ministries. Prelude music begins at 6:40 p.m...

Bourbon County Democrats will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the campus of Fort Scott Community College, 2108 S. Horton for the purpose of holding a "reorganizational meeting." Election of officers will be held. All registered Democrats are encouraged to attend...

Clergy and those who believe churches can help make communities better took part in "Leadership and Faith: Southeast Kansas" this week at Mercy Hospital. About 16 people were in attendance in the McAuley Room Wednesday morning with 19 participating Tuesday evening for the program, facilitated by the Wichita-based Kansas Leadership Center...

West Bourbon Elementary will play host to kindergarten through second grade teachers from Central Heights and Marmaton Valley today as they begin collaborative efforts to develop a curriculum for their Common Core Standards, an instructional model to which the schools are transitioning...

Staff and students and St. Mary's Catholic School recently did their part to honor area veterans for their military service. Krista Gorman, the principal of the kindergarten-through-fifth grade parochial school, said students and staff assembled around the flagpole in front of the school Nov. 9 to sing patriotic songs and "pray for all of our veterans, past and present." They also invited area veterans to attend the assembly and about 10-12 turned out for the tribute...

A former Uniontown teacher plans to contribute to an annual auction that raises money for the National Teachers Hall of Fame located in Emporia. Norm Conard, a 2007 inductee into the NTHF and director of the Lowell Milken Center, is sponsoring a golf outing, dinner at the Lyons Mansion and a tour of the Lowell Milken Center -- items that will be part of the NTHF's annual auction that raises funds for its Hall of Fame induction ceremony in June...

I'm glad to be here -- to be a part of the Fort Scott Tribune and our related products and operations. It's great to be a part of a group of people committed to being the best they can be and to doing everything we can to serve the public. This is the first time I've worked for a newspaper in Kansas, but not the first time I've been in Kansas...

Brian L. Baker, 11/6/2012, Location: 710 S. Andrick, $150.00, Nuisance: TV and Trash Danny and Lisa Thurston, 11/6/2012, Location: 416 S. Margrave, $150.00, Nuisance: Wood debris and trash in yard and on porch Camden J. Stiles, 11/4/2012, No Drivers License, $171.50 No Proof of Liability Ins., $471.50...

Ednamarie Jackson hosted the Bronson OES Culture Club Nov. 6. President Julia Ann Rhoton opened the meeting with this thought, "To be happy you must make others happy." Roll call was answered by giving your favorite Thanksgiving dish. Bonita Holeman led the flag salute and Geri Reeder led the collect...

Throughout the Civil War, "Union" officers in Kansas and Missouri consistently referred to Confederate guerrillas as "Thieves, Bandits and Bushwhackers. This is evident in the following report which also includes a follow up to and repercussion of a "Union" loss that was featured in Battlefield Dispatches No. 341 entitled "Killing and Wounded." This report is located on Pages 792-793 in Vol. 13 Series I of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion...

Living Nativity A "Living Nativity" is to be performed prior to and immediately following the Christmas Parade on Tuesday, Nov. 27. Two live performances to be held at 5:30 and 7 p.m. and approximately 10 minutes following the conclusion of the parade. ...

The American Red Cross will be conducting a blood drive from 12:45 p.m.-7 p.m. Dec. 6 and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec. 7 at Buck Run Community Center, 735 Scott Ave., in Fort Scott. To donate blood, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. ...