Stories from Tuesday, November 21, 2006

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail It has been 61 years since Pierre Weltmer, Franklin Norman, Father Foland from the Episcopal Church, Loren Rector, James Denman and several other Nevada area World War II veterans started gathering for coffee each morning at the Mitchell Hotel Coffee Shop before work...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail This year's Miss Merry Christmas pageant is just around the corner, and there's still time to sign up. Special guest and hostess of this year's event will be Sarah French, Miss Missouri 2006. "We're very excited to have her here for this. It's going to make it special for the girls" involved in the pageant, said Sherry Steward, who is coordinating this year's event...

Nevada Daily Mail The Missouri State Highway Patrol reminds motorists that wearing a seat belt can save your life. As the holiday season approaches, many Missourians are making plans to travel. Thanksgiving weekend is a time for great food, football, and family. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Among the items up for discussion during a meeting of the Nevada City Council, slated for 7 tonight, is the creation of an animal control board. This proposed five-member board would be composed of members appointed by the mayor, serving three-year terms. The board is conceived, according to city documents, as an advisory board and would give regular quarterly reports to the city as to activity and conditions present at the animal shelter...

Mildred A. Bobbett, 86, passed away Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada, Mo., following a lengthy illness. She was born Feb. 25, 1920, in Vernon County, Mo., to Charles E. Sallee and Melissa Thompson Sallee. She was married March 5, 1962, in Nevada, to Frank Bobbett. He preceded her in death Dec. 16, 1965...

Valma M. Simpson, age 71, of Nevada, passed away on Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada following a lengthy illness. She was born on May 18, 1935, in Greenfield, Mo., to John Harper and Mabel L. Flagg Harper. On Oct. 17, 1956, she was married in El Dorado Springs to Jim L. Simpson and he survives of the home...

Martha Alice Belle Yoder Catron, 94, Nevada, passed away on Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, following a brief illness. She was born Feb. 9, 1912, in Cass County, Mo., to David Augustine Yoder and Ethel Alice Mullen Yoder. She was married to William McKinley "Mac" Catron on Oct. 8, 1931, in Adrian, Mo...

Jason and Lacy Hinds, Nevada, and Bailey are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Darrian Josephine Hinds. Darrian was born at 5:54 a.m., Nov. 5, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 21.5 inches...

Winds of change Dear editor: Well, we got ourselves a change, by golly, whether we like it or not. To loosely paraphrase wise old Ben Franklin, "You got it, now if you can just keep it." Any day now, Senator Kerry will unveil his secret plan to solve the Iraqi problem. ...

100 years ago To prison for 99 years JEFFERSON CITY -- Joseph Cavin of St. Francis County got 99 years in the penitentiary today at the hands of the Missouri supreme court. He was convicted of killing Samuel and Edward Gann at a 4th of July celebration at Knoblick in 1904. ...

By Kelly Bradham Nevada Daily Mail "We knew they were a better team than their 3-and-3 looked," said coach Dave Ketterman after the Allen County Red Devils handed the Cottey College Comets their first defeat of the season, 82-54 Monday at home and improved to 4-3...