Stories from Sunday, October 5, 2003

The smell of leather, plastic and other materials needed to make high quality saddles for horses saturated the air of the Ortho-Flex building for years. All of that is gone now and Jim King and Jim Skocy, the owners of Xtreme Products, are in the process of turning the building into a plant to manufacture high quality stainless steel extenders for pickup truck beds. ...

I was watching an old episode of the TV series "Friends" the other evening (you can always tell by the smoothness of the six main characters‚ faces; eight years is a long time for a kid), when I suddenly became aware of the show's accompanying laugh-track. ...

If any single unit ever deserved more praise than that owed to the Nevada Tigers' defense after their showing against Webb City, I'd certainly like to know which or who. Granted, the Cardinals scored three touchdowns. But please recall the field position they had virtually every time they touched the ball. ...

October is the first or second-most favored month for many of Missouri's outdoorsmen. As usual, weather plays a very big part as hunters take to the field. Tom Clark, Sedalia, recalled that just a few years ago, on the opening day of the deer archery season, the temperature was in the 70s so he passed up the opener. ...

Hi neighbors. It is officially autumn now. It won't be long till leaves are falling along with the temperatures. The amount of daylight will decrease by almost two hours per day as well. There are lots of other signs that fall is upon us. The big tree in my yard has dropped a few dead limbs -- gratefully not onto the house or anyone's head. ...

CARTHAGE, Mo. -- The Nevada Tigers were rolling along smoothly through most of three quarters, then the wheels came off. Twenty-two unanswered second-half points by Carthage derailed Nevada in a 29-18 Southwest Conference loss at Baker Stadium on Friday. ...

JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Nevada Lady Tiger eighth-grade volleyball team saved its best for last. In the season-ending Southwest Conference Middle School Tournament, the second-seed Tigers snatched a three-game win over top seeded arch-rival Webb City for the tournament championship. ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Baptist Bible College has the Cottey Comets' number. For whatever reason, the Comets cannot seem to play well against this team. Cottey (4-6) traveled to Springfield, Mo., on Tuesday to try to avenge an earlier loss to the Patriots. ...

Nevada Herald In October 1935, Germany left the League of Nations. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was determined to keep the U.S. out of the war brewing in Europe that was to become World War II. A New Jersey appeals court upheld the conviction and death sentence for Bruno Hauptman in the Lindburgh baby kidnapping. ...

100 Years Ago -- October 5, 1903 Uncle Andy Snyder of Montevallo Township was attending to business in Nevada on Monday. He is in his seventy-ninth years and aside from defective sight, he is in good physical condition. Synder enlisted in the Confederate Army early in 1861, under Captain Price in Monroe County. ...