Stories from Saturday, December 7, 2013

BRONSON -- Few details have emerged following a structure fire that burned through a house in Bronson Thursday. Firefighters from several area departments worked throughout the afternoon and night to contain a fire at the home of R.T. Bolling at 611 Elm St. They were unable to save the house, which caught fire about 3 p.m. and remained ablaze until sometime after 8 p.m., when fire personnel got the fire under control, according to firefighters at the scene...

The mystery of why Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Center staff had so much overtime during the last pay period was solved Friday when Bourbon County Commissioners met with jail and sheriff's office officials. While that is good news for the county, it's not so good for employees who will have to repay much of the overtime...

Union soldiers are moving supplies out of the commissary storehouse at Fort Scott, and preparing to take them to the Kansas First Colored infantry in Baxter Springs. In this scene, the soldiers are also discussing recent activities along the Kansas-Missouri border, which had been causing many problems in the area. The tour continues today, every 15 minutes from 5 to 8:45 p.m...

Georgia Irene Foster, 96, formerly of Fort Scott and Topeka, passed away early Wednesday morning, Dec. 4, 2013 at the Covenant Village of Colorado nursing facility in Westminster, Colo. She was born April 7, 1917 in Pittsburg, Kan., the daughter of Homer and Myrtle Dee (Lucas) Logan. She married Robert Dell Foster in Fort Scott on June 20, 1943. He preceded her in death June 20, 1955...

Bonnie Loraine Heaton, age 66, a resident of Fort Scott, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, at the Landmark Hospital in Joplin, Mo. She was born Nov. 7, 1947, in Joplin, Mo., the daughter of Loren Bolden and Dolores Roy Bolden. Bonnie married Richard Heaton on Sept. ...

Marjorie Lee Weast, age 89, of Moran, Kan., passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan. She was the only child born to Alfred Joe and Thelma Lee (Thorp) Bauer. Lee was born on July 5, 1924, in Jefferson City, Mo. Her family moved to the Moran area while Lee was still in school, she graduated from Moran High School. ...

Chester Louis Picht, 86, of Chanute, passed away Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Louis was born in Fort Scott, Kan., on Sept. 1, 1927, the son of Daniel and Albertina (Mitzner) Picht. He attended Fort Scott High School...

Charles Robert "Charlie" Baird, 66, of Fort Scott, passed away at his home Thursday, December 5, 2013. Arrangements for Charlie Baird are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

MORAN -- Uniontown's boys opened the by crushing Marmaton Valley in a non-league contest here Friday night, 53-13 Eagle girls were not as fortunate as they were shut out in third quarter of a season-opening 34-21 loss to the Wildcats. Uniontown's boys led 14-6 after one period and then allowed just 7 more points to the Wildcats the entire night, shutting them out in the fourth quarter...

WILLARD, Mo. -- Fort Scott High School's teams were playing their season openers. The opponent in both games here Friday night, Har-Ber of Springdale, Ark., was playing for at least the fifth time this season. The experience of having a few games in hand made more of a difference than the discrepancy in the size of the schools as Har-Ber swept the Tigers on the second day of the Willard Four-State Classic...

NEVADA -- A five-minute, 15-second dry spell late in the second half proved costly as Fort Scott Community College's women dropped an 81-78 setback to host Cottey College Friday night. The Comets avanged a November 18 loss at Fort Scott as the Greyhounds won 67-66 that night...