Stories from Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Fort Scott High's baseball team is favored to win the Southeast Kansas League championship by a slim margin in a poll conducted by the Fort Scott Tribune. The Tigers, four-time defending champions, received three first-place votes and five seconds for a total of 33 points. Pittsburg, with four firsts, two seconds and a fourth, scored 32. Chanute was picked third, Independence fourth, Labette County fifth, Parsons sixth and Coffeyville seventh...

'Hounds win 2nd straight walkoff before Cloud takes game two

First place in East will be on the line Thursday, Saturday

Glendon F. "Glen" Callow was born July 5, 1928, in Pawnee Station, Kan., to Charles Curtis and Winifred Callow. He graduated from Fort Scott Senior High School in 1947, then attended Fort Scott Junior College. He married Donna Beth Eden at Bethel Community Church in rural Fort Scott, Kan., on Oct. ...

Wilma Ann Franks, age 75, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, March 27, 2017, at the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. She was born March 31, 1941, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Virgil Crim and Pearl Harvey Crim. She married James H. Franks, Jr. ...

The Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday agreed to take core samples from a road to determine what type of repair would be most effective. George Collinge of Garland, Ken Clary, Dana Arens and Mark Bohlken attended the commissioners' meeting to ask if there is a plan to repair Eagle Road between U.S. Highway 69 and Garland. The road, known as the "old Garland Road," has been "in bad shape for a long time," Collinge said...

Several reenactors demonstrated how 19th officers' wives spent their pastime at Fort Scott. The demonstrations were in observance of Women's History Month at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. Volunteers who had examples of handiwork, which included tatting, knitting, sewing undergarments and bonnets, were Joyce Gobl of Fort Scott, Cassie Edson of Fredonia, Jessica Cox of Pleasonton...

Spring Hill isn't the defending Class 4A-Division I State softball champions for nothing. And the Broncos showed why it's not unreasonable for them to contend again this season as they scored 23 runs in taking the annual season-opening Fort Scott Tournament...

Luella Mae Fuhrman, age 77, of Moran, Kan., passed away on Monday, March 27, 2017 at the KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, March 31, 2017, at St. John's Catholic Church, Iola, following a Parish Rosary at 9:30 a.m. ...