Stories from Friday, September 24, 2004

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail A quilt can conjure comforting memories of home, warming the soul as it warms the body on a cold winter's night. "There's just something about a quilt. Something warm. Something special," said Ann Jones, Nevada. That's why Jones, with the help of the Bushwhacker Quilt Guild and many, many others, has undertaken the daunting task of collecting 153 quilts, handmade of fabric dyed in soft sand tones and crafted with love, for troops scheduled to head to Iraq sometime in early 2005.. ...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail According to Nevada Economic Development Director Sam Foursha, several companies are looking to relocate their businesses to Nevada. However, the recent openings of several other new businesses puts the city in a situation it hasn't been in for several years -- it's running out of places to put them...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail Early Wednesday afternoon, fire raged through the Country Road Flea Market, located across U.S. Highway 54 from Xtreme Products, near the Nevada Municipal Airport, completely destroying the building's contents and leaving little but a charred, warped, partially collapsed metal shell by the time the fire was out about two and a half hours later...

Births Maci Leigh Barton Jimmie and Wendy Barton, Rich Hill, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Maci Leigh Barton. Maci was born at 6:22 a.m., on Sept. 21, 2004, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces, and measured 21 inches. ...

Politics and religion Politics and religion. There are few subjects that cause as much energy, as much rancor or as much disagreement as these two subjects. This year, more than any other election year that I can remember, the two subjects got blurred together to the extent that it isn't clear whether we are talking one or the other...

Ringing the changes on 'Change' -- again The alltime best-received column in this series appeared, appropriately enough in another election year, under the title "Change is Good? Not Always." Predictably they're at it again, those folks so unchanging in their devotion to "change." John Kerry sanguinely put the bite on a cashless friend with the cheery assurance, "We're sending a powerful message: Change is coming!" I'm sure Caesar said much the same thing to a Rome already punchdrunk from "change," over 2,000 years ago.. ...

100 years ago: Bates County suit sent here for trial Circuit Clerk Huff has received the transcript in the case of Eliza Hammer vs. the estate of John Greenhaldge. The plaintiff filed suit in the probate court of Bates County for $4 per week for four years for care of the deceased before his death and received judgment for $1,200...

All of the Nevada Tigers high school teams will be on the road the next two days. Tiger golf is at Clinton, tennis is at Carthage, softball is at Webb City, volleyball is at Stockton and cross country is at Iola, all today. Football is at Webb City tomorrow...

By Gail Agee Nevada Speedway Track Reporter Wings and billboards were seen tonight at Nevada Speedway as the annual Outlaw Race was held along with the Ugly Truck Contest. Cars were racing hard on the track that was well prepared for racing this evening. ...

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Yet another hurdle has been passed in the ongoing effort to fully restore the William Joel Stone monument on the grounds of the Vernon County Courthouse. In July, Franklin Norman, the crusader working to complete the restoration, submitted the paperwork required to amend the listing of the courthouse on the National Register of Historic Places. ...

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail According to the National Safety Council, there were 710 farm related fatalities in the U.S. in 2003. In order to increase awareness of farm safety, Sept,19-25 was chosen as National Farm Safety and Health Week 2004. Most farm accidents occur during the busy planting and harvest time...

Above, Brad Landoll, Mark Jackson and Chip Balk hang a sign at the Vernon County fairgrounds Thursday afternoon, in preparation for the Four Rivers Sportsman's RecFest, a hands-on activity based festival is this weekend, Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. ...

By Marc Powers Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri voters will decide in November whether Judge Richard Teitelman is worthy of a full term on the state Supreme Court. Vernon County voters will also help determine whether Judge Patricia Breckenridge, a Nevada native, and Judge Paul Spinden keep their jobs on the Kansas City-based Missouri Court of Appeals Western District...

Mike Woody gets to work on repairing a transformer which caused a wide-spread power outage Friday morning, affecting nearly the entire Square, including the Courthouse, the Nevada Police Department and sheriff's offices and several city blocks. At about 9 a.m., Friday, the Nevada Fire Department was dispatched to Lynn and Allison in response to a transformer on fire. ...

Deaths John A. Pilcher John A. Pilcher, 54, died Sept. 21, 2004, services were held at Milo Cemetery on Sept. 24, 2004, at 3 p.m., with the Rev. Bill Platt officiating. Musical selections were "Angel" and "The River." Pallbearers were Fred Buckner, Foxxi Sumner, John Pilcher Jr., Andrew Moore, James Pilcher and Don Brown. Interment was in Milo Cemetery. Arrangements were by Ferry Funeral Home...

Models, cones, radar oh my! The bizarre hurricane season is turning Florida into a state of amateur meteorologists. Of course, we have good reason to become obsessed with The Weather Channel and www.nhc.noaa.gov, home of the National Hurricane Center's forecasts. On Tuesday, both were tracking two hurricanes and a tropical storm...

Democratic candidate may not be better than a baboon, either Dear Editor: I am addressing Mr. Charles Nash who in his Sept. 19 "At Random" column wrote, "If a baboon were the only alternative to George W. Bush, come November, I would cast my vote for the baboon."...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers went into Thursday's softball game with Webb City having nothing to lose. They had never beaten Webb City and the hosting Cardinals were unbeaten so far in the 2004 campaign. None of that changed, but it was not because Nevada played poorly. Actually, in what might have been their best game of the program's four-year existence, the Lady Tigers fell 2-0...

Nevada Daily Mail For the second straight year, the conference tennis championship will elude the Nevada Lady Tigers. At least barring an unlikely turn of events, Nevada will finish second after losing to Carthage Thursday, 6-3. The match was extremely close...

Nevada's Blaik Holland returns the ball during the seventh-grade match with Joplin Memorial Thursday. The A-team and B-team from Nevada both won. The A-team won 25-10, 24-26 and 25-11, while the B-team won 25-15 and 25-19. Holland had three points for the A-team, which is now 5-2. The eighth-grade teams also beat Joplin Memorial, with both the A-team and the B-team sweeping the visitors in straight sets...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers beat Stockton in straight sets Thursday, 25-22 and 25-22. Nevada controlled the first game but had to come from behind to win the second, something that pleased coach Sharla Wilkerson. "I was extremely proud of the girls for last night's games," Wilkerson said...

Nevada Daily Mail In a golf triangular at Clinton Country Club, Nevada defeated Clinton but lost to Smith Cotton Thursday. Nevada shot 200, with Aubrey Jones leading the way at 48. Rachel Prewitt was right behind with a 50, while Tabitha Pitts and Eleanor Horst were one shot behind her...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada cross country team finished fifth out of 18 teams in Iola, Kan., Thursday. Mason Benn led the team, finishing sixth individually in 18 minutes, 10 seconds. Jim Fay and Trevor Hinkle were right behind him. Fay finished 12th at 18:30 and Hinkle was 18th at 18:45...