Stories from Thursday, June 14, 2007

Nevada Daily Mail Wednesday evening was filled with activities in the opening night of the 43rd annual Bushwhacker Days celebration in Nevada. Ice cream, barbecue, and pomp and circumstance opened the evening. The 200 people gathered on the Square quietly honored the flags as Wes Morton sang "The Star Spangled Banner."...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Nothing. Right now that is all the Nevada R-5 Board of Education can do about the possibility that the Southwest Conference will dissolve with Webb City and Carthage switching to the Central Ozarks Conference. The whole situation is in flux and no decisions have been made with respect to which schools will be in which conferences...

The Wonderful Animals Giving Support Bushwhacker Days dog show offered a casual good time for pets, owners and onlookers. Dogs competed in several categories from longest to shortest tail to ugliest dog, best wiggle and best kiss. Above, Jacquie Brown, who had the honor of judging the best kiss, gets a smooch from one of the contestants. ...

Nevada Daily Mail A very special agenda is in store for those who attend the Vernon County Arts Council meeting on Monday. Arts council member Alice Stevenson has compiled a collection of art from three women whose paints, pens and pencils create no more. ...

Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY -- Gov. Matt Blunt encourages all Missourians to remember Flag Day, today, and participate in appropriate ceremonies. Blunt, Missouri's First Lady Melanie Blunt and their 2-year-old son William Branch will join the residents of Kahoka today for a Flag Day Parade...

John "Jack" B. Wagner, 79, Nevada, Mo., died Thursday, June 14, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following a lengthy illness. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. View obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

Kenneth Dale Rogers, 65, Houston, Texas, died Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at West Oaks Rehab Center in Houston. Family information will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, June 15, at Lakeside Assembly Church, Pittsburg, Mo., near Bolivar, Mo. The family will receive friends from 10-11 a.m., at the church prior to the service. Interment will follow in the Rinehart Cemetery, Metz, Mo...

Meghan Spencer and Abel Miranda, Sheldon, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, AnnaMarie Elizabeth Miranda. AnnaMarie was born at 10:10 p.m., May 31, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and measured 21 inches...

I have been hearing about all the wonders of the electronic age and have to agree with some of the advantages. I love e-mail and I also like the comfort of writing my articles and columns at home and sending them to the newspaper while I am still in my jammies and slippers. ...

By all means, include a little pertinent reading in your observance of Bushwhacker Days 2007. There's no shortage of really good, new titles. The following are, or will be, purchasable from the Bushwhacker Museum, 212 W. Walnut, or from booksellers...

100 years ago Schmitz is guilty SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- A jury of 12 of his peers has declared Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz guilty of the crime of extorting money from the French restaurants before the earthquake, as charged against him by the Oliver grand jury...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- "Stop the bus, let's go to your place." That was basically what Nevada Griffons coach John Hill III heard on his cell phone as his team was passing Jasper on its way to face the Ozark Generals Wednesday afternoon...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail There was no news coming out of the meeting of Southwest Conference superintendents Wednesday, but Webb City made a statement at its school board meeting Tuesday. While Webb City superintendent Dr. Ron Lankford has previously said he doesn't think his school has a choice but to accept its invitation to the COC, the board held off on approving any action until the fate of Neosho could be determined...