Stories from Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Dillows come to Fort Scott after serving in ministry for three and a half years in the western suburbs of St. Louis. Jeff Dillow will serve at Fort Scott Nazarene Church as worship and administrative pastor. He was born in Iola and grew up in Parsons. Jeff is a 1996 graduate of Parsons High School. He graduated from Mid America Nazarene University in 2000 and has served in full time ministry since then...

The Arcadia Christian Church treated Arcadia children to Kids Fun Days, June 6-8. Attendance for day one was 13. On day two, 15 were present and on day three, there were 19. Prizes were given each day for the one who invited the most who attended. There was a contest between the boys and girls to see who could bring the most money for the Guatemala Mission Milk Project. The girls won the honor. The total offering was $50 to buy milk for the babies and children at this mission...

In Theaters: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted In 2005, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett and David Schwimmer delighted children and adults alike as four lovable friends from the New York City Zoo who hatch a plan to escape captivity and decide to discover what life in the wild is really like...

Harold Dwight and Averil Jean (Hawes) Henry, Bronson, Kan., will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on June 8, 2012. They married June 8, 1952, at the Bethel Church of Christ near Whitewater, Kan. Harold graduated from Newton High School and Averil from Whitewater High School...

Belinda P. Ham, 50, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department at 10:34 p.m. Monday for aggravated battery. She is still being held at this time with no bond. Aarika Tashae Hawkins, 31, Fort Scott, was arrested by the Fort Scott Police Department at 4:18 p.m. Monday for domestic battery and criminal restraint. She is still being held at this time with no bond...

Alwilla Cathline Karleskint, 82, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, June 11, 2012, at the Moran Manor Nursing Home in Moran, Kan. She was born Aug. 19, 1929, in Blue Mound, Kan., the daughter of Elvin A. Boyd and Josephine F. Spillman Boyd. She graduated from Uniontown High School...

Esther Louise Pearson Segebartt, 92, of Hepler, Kan., died at 4:10 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, 2012, at her home. She was born Sept. 3, 1919, at rural Farlington, Kan., a daughter of Emil H. and Ida L. (Zimmerman) Pearson. She grew up in rural Farlington and attended Fairview School and graduated from Hepler High School...

Rose Annie Buckhart, Fort Scott, and Tyler John Greenfeather, Joplin, Mo., and siblings Dalton, Mason, David, Gabriel and Addison are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter and sister Madison Sue Greenfeather at 3:44 p.m. June 11, 2012, at Mercy...

100 YEARS AGO (1912) The present plans for a 4th of July celebration include for the morning hours to be spent in the business district with an automobile parade and the afternoon at Gunn Park. The automobile owners of the city are planning to meet tomorrow to arrange for the parade. ...

The 2012 Advanced Systems Homes charity golf tournament to benefit the Friends of Tri-Valley Foundation will be held Saturday, June 16, at Quarry Stone Golf Course in Chanute. Friends of Tri-Valley Foundation volunteers are preparing for the annual event. Registration runs from 8 a.m.-8:45 a.m. and the tournament is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m...

A June 12 article in the Tribune misspelled USD 234 Board of Education member Belynda Davenport's name. The article also gave an incorrect the date for the next teacher contract negotiation meeting. That meeting will be at 9 a .m. Friday, June 15, at the board office...

The first annual SouthEast Kansas Adult Education Golf Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, June 16, at Prairie Ridge Golf Course north of Erie. It is a two-person scramble with cash prizes and course events. Cost is $120 per team, including green fees, lunch and a cart. ...

A special evening tour on Saturday at Fort Scott National Historic Site will highlight the tragedies of Fort Scott's history. During the staff-guided experience, scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, local re-enactors will tell the story behind the deaths of various soldiers and local citizens during the mid-1800s. Five different scenes will depict how these soldiers or citizens met violent ends...

When doctors diagnosed Dixie McDaniel with stage 4 cervical cancer in 1957, the prognosis wasn't good. "They gave me six months to live," she said. McDaniel watched as friends walked away, strangers denied her financial loans and she couldn't even buy a house...

With Kansas' state and federal legislative and congressional lines redrawn by the federal court, a bevy of new candidates and territories has cropped up. Because lawmakers could not come to an agreement on redrawing districts for U.S. Representative, Kansas House and Senate and Kansas State Board of Education, a four-judge panel from the U.S. District Court for the State of Kansas in Kansas City, Kan., did it for them...

DUNCAN, Okla. -- In his eight-year professional rodeo career, Jared Keylon has missed the regional year-end championship just once. That was last year. The Uniontown bareback rider has Destination Duncan on his mind, a return to the Ram Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo, set for Oct. 18-20 at the Stephens County Expo Center here. It's one of many goals the 27-year-old cowboy has for 2012...