Stories from Tuesday, September 30, 2003

The Nevada Daily Mail and Herald were honored with four awards from the Missouri Press Association during the organization's annual convention on Saturday. The Nevada Daily Mail was awarded first place in General Excellence for Class 1 dailies, or newspapers of comparable circulation to the Daily Mail. ...

100 Years Ago -- October 1, 1903 ITEMS -- J.T. Welborn, a substantial and well-known farmer citizen of Moundville Township was in Nevada today to deliver for shipment, 16 head of Angora goats, which he sold to Geo. Wilson. The stock will be shipped to Highland County, Virginia. ...

By Justin Baldwin Nevada Daily Mail Sometimes it is nice to see a community getting behind an important project. Scores of clubs, organizations and individuals in and around Nevada are working to help bring the Nevada branch of the Children's Center to town. ...

The Nevada Lady Tiger Youth Basketball program will tip off on October 25 for third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade girls. Nevada basketball coach Brent Bartlett, along with assistants Allison Gorman and Jack Tudor, will conduct the clinic. The sessions run on Saturdays, Oct. ...

NEOSHO, Mo. -- The Nevada Tiger girls tennis team saw its 10-year reign as Southwest Conference champions come to an abrupt end with a 6-3 loss to Neosho on Monday. A gut-wrenching 8-9 defeat on a tiebreaker by Nevada's No. 6 player Emily Teepe left the match deadlocked at 3-3 after the singles competition. ...

The coach cries "Huddle!" A wannabe team experiments with some semblance of an oval. It looks like a scene out of "The Little Giants." Among the clamor of constant chatter, high-pitched voices fire questions, complaints and silly-boy noises. Their understanding of order is incredibly abstract. ...

The eighth-grade Tiger "A" squad advanced to the final of the eight-team Nevada Middle School Volleyball Tournament on Saturday. Webb City defeated Nevada 25-14, 25-20 to claim the championship. Other participants were the Nevada "B" team, the only "B" team in the tournament, Lamar, Adrian, Carl Junction, Pittsburg (Kan.) and Carthage. ...

The Nevada Tiger softball team extended their all-time season-high victory total to four with a win in the Clinton Tournament on Saturday. The Tigers (4-10) pounded Warsaw 14-3 in their first tournament game, then lost 10-0 to Clinton in the second. ...

The smell of wood smoke wafted across the fields and the boom of black powder firearms could be heard all over Nevada Saturday as the annual black powder shoot and rendezvous was held at Marmaduke Park. There were 47 shooters who signed in to participate in the shoot, Johnny Preston, said. ...

A rash of burglaries in Nevada have business people wondering what they can do to make their businesses less attractive to thieves. Some of the recent burglaries don't seem to be done by youths, who police say tend to tear up a property and stealing is really secondary to the thrill they get from breaking in. ...

It has moved from drawings to becoming real -- a new Senior Center for Vernon County. It now is only a few weeks off until the Senior Center will be moving into a new home. In recent months we have observed the building being constructed on the corner of Hunter and Main. ...