The Way it Was

100 years ago

Unforgiving on deathbed

FORT SCOTT, Kan., -- Andy Noret, the Missouri Pacific section foreman who was shot last Saturday by Charles Farrell, was buried yesterday. On his deathbed Noret refused to be reconciled to his wife, from whom he had been estranged for some months. He also directed that his brother J.M. Noret should have charge of his body and the funeral arrangements.

The wife then employed an attorney who made a demand for the body, and tried every possible means to obtain possession of it. But the brothers of the deceased resisted these attempts and as Noret had been reinstated in the Catholic faith before he died, his dying request was respected by the church authorities.

50 years ago

Student council members to Cape Girardeau

Six members of the Nevada senior and junior high school student council were scheduled to leave at 5:42 p.m., today for Springfield, enroute to the annual meeting of the Missouri State Association of Student Councils at Cape Girardeau tomorrow and Saturday. The students will stay overnight tonight at Springfield, then travel by chartered bus tomorrow to Cape Girardeau.

Attending the meeting from Nevada will be: Nancy Harper, Doyle Cohick and Tom Runyan of the senior council and Bob Irvin, Ludmila Ann Weir, and Jeannie McGehee of the junior council. Miss Gladys Radford will chaperone the group.