Stories from Wednesday, February 25, 2004

By Justin Baldwin Like the arrival of the first robin of the year, the Vernon County Farmers Market annual business meeting is a sign that spring is on it's way. This year, more than 20 people showed up to elect officers and discuss such issues as market location and starting times...

By Steve Moyer The Nevada Regional Medical Center board of directors met Tuesday evening in a short meeting. One of the first items on the agenda was bad news-good news, Moore-Few Nursing Home had a drop in volume resulting in a loss for the month of January but the drop has not been as bad as other facilities in the area...

By Steve Moyer Phyllis Offret was walking down the street when something in the window of a store caught her eye. It was a decorated candle and she thought she'd like to take it home with her, until she saw the price. "I said to myself, I can do that. Then I went home and tried. It wasn't as easy as it looked but after awhile I got it down."...

Nick Wright/Daily Mail Sacagawea pays a visit to fourth graders at Truman Elementary school Tuesday afternoon, presenting an hour-long program on Sacagawea covering aspects of her life, Native American culture and offering a question and answer period afterward. ...

By Larry Lewis OAK GROVE, Mo. -- It took a three-overtime thriller to oust the plucky Nevada Tigers from the MSHSAA Class 4, District 13 basketball tournament at Oak Grove on Tuesday. The No. 4-seed Tigers were eliminated 54-52 by No. 5 Odessa on a pair of free throws with less than two seconds to go in the third extra period...

Opal Ione Cole Wade, 93, Joplin, M., died Monday, Feb. 23, 2004, at her son's home after a short illness. Opal was born Aug. 27, 1910, near Horton, Mo., the daughter of Ern and Dell Roberts Cole. She married Leon Wade who preceded her in death in 1982. She was also preceded in death by brothers Enis Cole, of California, and Bully Cole, of Nevada, Mo.; and a sister, Lucille Welch, Nevada, Mo...

Gertrude C. Morrison, 92, Nevada, Mo., died Monday, Feb. 23, 2004, at Christian Health Care, Nevada, following a short illness. She was born Oct. 30, 1911, in Stockton, Mo., to William H. Collins and Flora Bidler Collins. Morrison grew up and graduated from high school in Stockton, Mo. ...

It did not take long for the news to spread in this community that a former residence who was a star in Branson, had made the transition from this life experience into another dimension, during the first weed of February. Many of us were in shock, It could not be, especially at such a young age. ...

100 Years Ago -- February 25, 1904 Geo. Nicholson has invited a number of Nevada gentlemen to visit the Portland Cement Company's plant at Iola, Kan. These gentlemen will be guests of the company from the hour they leave Nevada until their return. They will be chaperoned by that prince of good fellows A.B. ...