Stories from Friday, August 12, 2016

Fern Elizabeth (Walker) Taffner, 94, went to her Heavenly Home Aug. 9, 2016, at the Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Mo. Fern was born at home in Aaron, Mo., Bates County, Feb. 9, 1922, to Louis and Nellie Mae (Thornburg) Walker...

Ronald Eugene Gilliland, 68, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Gilliland was born Sept. 18, 1948, in Nevada, Mo. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Poplar Bluff and was a retired educator. ...

Esther Mae Irwin, 87, of Hume, Mo., passed away Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, at St. Luke's East, in Lee's Summit, Mo. She was born June 12, 1929, to James and Velie Strain Bowen in Nevada, Mo. She married Merritt "Doc" Irwin and together they raised a family of seven. They lived in Nevada, Rich Hill, Stotesbury and Kansas City before settling down in Hume...

Editor's Note: This was originally published eight years ago right before the presidential election. Richard Carpenter has updated it, but he said he still has his doubts about those lefties lol. I, like many of you, have already tired of this presidential election year. I would not be writing this now if it were not of vital importance. For you see friends, there is a "sinister plot" hidden in this campaign. If the news media is correct, our next president will be left-handed!...

Editor's Note: The following column originally ran in the Oct. 25, 2013, edition of the Nevada Daily Mail. The word great has many meanings. In the dictionary one definition is big or large. Another meaning implies more than usual. Other synonyms are: important, remarkable, famous, most important and favorite. And then there is the one meaning that applies to me. That meaning is, divided by a generation...

Nevada Daily Mail Monday night's regular meeting of Bronaugh's Board of Aldermen was preceded by a tax hearing. As cited by Lori Conner, city clerk, "The letter we received has a rate for the general fund and another for the street fund." The 2015 tax rate for the general fund was 15.26 cents per $100 of assessed valuation while for 2016 it could have gone up to 15.45 cents. ...

gfranklin.nevadadailymail@gmail.com At Monday night's MU Extension Council board meeting, Pat Miller, Vernon County program director, told the board about coming changes to the University of Missouri financial allotments for county offices. Changes to the allotments include elimination of mail services funding, health coverage subsidies, and matching retirement contributions...

Nevada Daily Mail While covering many smaller items, Wednesday night's meeting of the Sheldon R-8 school board focused on facilities. "Ed Fowler, president of the class of 1966 and head of the alumni association, asked me what the school needed and I mentioned it would be great to have a flagpole right behind our front sign," said Jason Irwin, district superintendent...

It was a memorable night for Fort Scott's LaRoche family at the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. After serving as co-architect of the Kansas Stars, a club comprised of former Major League Baseball players, LaRoche and his teammates hit the field Wednesday evening to face the NJCAA National Team, falling 11-10...