Stories from Thursday, November 13, 2003

At a recent meeting of the Soroptomist Club in Nevada, we were privileged to have five young women from Cottey College as our guest speakers. Having students from other countries in our midst is one of the many benefits we enjoy in Nevada because of the college...

I found my first serious wrinkle on Saturday -- the morning of The Other Half's 30th birthday. It's on the lower lid of my right eye. At first, I thought it was a bizarre, wayward stroke of mascara or brow pencil or maybe just a spot where I didn't properly blend my foundation...

100 Years Ago -- November 13, 1903 ITEMS -- The M.K.&T. announces especially low excursion rates for investors and home seekers to Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma Indian Territory and Texas. Cheap lands in Louisiana, Texas, Missouri and Kansas, $15 round trip to all points south, November 24. First and third Tuesday's of each month. Address Gen. Morton, G.P.A. St. Louis or O. McGinnis Immigration Agent, Nevada, Missouri...

Nevada Middle School's seventh-grade girls, coached by Tom Davis, pummeled Joplin South on Tuesday. The undefeated "A" team (3-0), led by Taylor Means with 15 points and Heidi Wilson with nine, scored a 42-15 victory. The "B" squad (1-2) rolled 31-5 behind Anna McCoy's 12 points...

Senior class members of the 2003 NHS football team presented head coach Jerry Cornelius ("Coach Corn") with a portrait of themselves posing on a combine in a cornfield with a caption reading "Children of the Corn."

When Specialist Jeff Cox, with the U.S. Army Infantry Airborne and a Vernon County native, landed in northern Iraq with a load of equipment he was expecting sand. What he found there was green fields, mud and cold. "We really didn't expect to see green," he said. After about a month, and a lot of joking phrases like, "Are you sure we're in Iraq," Cox's unit reached the part of the country more like what the soldiers had in mind...

Nevada R-5 Superintendent Ted Davis said the A+ designation of the school district offers benefits to the school and its students, but the state's budget might impact the program's future. Wednesday night during a regular monthly school board meeting, he discussed the district's A+ participation. ...

November 11 was a holiday, but that did not keep city clerk Robin Fisher from opening her office for potential candidates to file for the one open seat on the Nevada City Council. Nor did it stop James McKenzie from becoming the first candidate to file for the seat currently held by Marie Wessley...

Green Forest Engineered Products is getting closer to opening a plant in Nevada to manufacture a composite lumber product made from plastic and wood sawdust. However, they still need some assistance getting their financing lined up. Wednesday, Steve Wheeler and Dave Brown, the owners of the company met with members of the Nevada Area Economic Development Commission Revolving Loan Committee and Nevada City Manager Craig Hubler to try and find a source for what appears to be the last piece of their financing package.. ...