Stories from Friday, March 4, 2005

By Charles C. Nash Nevada Daily Mail Sponsored by the regularly very generous local branch of 3M, the two-act, two-hour comedy "When the Cat's Away. . ." by British playwrights Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, will be presented at the local Fox Theater by the Community Council on the Performing Arts, tonight and tomorrow night, March 4 and 5, at 8 o'clock; and Sunday, March 6, at 2 p.m. ...

* Conservation group offers seeds to enhance area quail habitat By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Landowners in Vernon, St. Clair and Cedar counties who want to improve the habitat for quail now have an opportunity to do so at a minimal cost. The Tri-County chapter of Quail Unlimited has purchased Korean Lespedeza for landowners to enhance the food supply for quail on their property...

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Thanks to the State Emergency Management Agency's Law Enforcement Prevention Program, Vernon County Sheriff's officers will soon have new radios that will allow inter-agency communication in the event of a major emergency...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce is helping prepare for the Sesquicentennial Bushwhacker celebration with a new mural. The mural will be in the pocket park on the east side of the Square and is scheduled to be dedicated during Bushwhacker Days 2005...

Esther Ruth "Snoocks" Stewart, 62, formerly of Neosho, died Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at Cedar County Hospital, in El Dorado Springs, following a lengthy illness. She was born Jan. 16, 1943, in Neosho, Mo., to George Wright Brashers and Blanche Juanita (Eubanks) Brashers. She married Francis Stewart, Nov. 3, 1963, in Granby, Mo. He survives...

Mary Ferne Fox, 88, Nevada, died Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada. She was born Jan. 5, 1917, in the Sandstone community, Vernon County, to Charles and Jennie Martin. She married Glen R. Fox on June 25, 1938, in Girard, Kan., and he preceded her in death on Nov. 25, 1997...

If you toss foam beverage containers, fast-food wrappers, soiled diapers, aluminum cans, cigarette butts, gum wrappers, empty snuff cans, snot-filled tissues, old tires or worn-out sofas from your vehicles onto city streets, county roads, and state and federal highways, you probably don't want to read any further...

The Other Half killed my will to cook. Not that it was strong anyway. My will to cook had been on life support for a few years, expressed through the same five recipes week after week, year after year. It wasn't always that way. When The Other Half began dating me, I tried to dazzle him with my culinary talents. I believed that whole way-to-a-man's-heart thing...

100 years ago: Another big wolf chase; four wolves bagged J.E. Claypool of Richland township was here Friday. He informed the Mail that from 200 to 250 men and boys went on a wolf chase. They surrounded five miles of country, rounding up and killing four prairie wolves on section 11, one mile northeast of Richards...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Bronaugh Wildcats and Hume Hornets were meeting for the fourth time this season when they hooked up in the Class 1, District 12 semifinals at Hume Thursday. Bronaugh had won the previous three but two of them were games that came down to the wire. Besides that, none of the previous battles meant as much as the win-or-go-home matchup in the district tournament...

Nevada Daily Mail The Calvary Eagles ended their 2004-2005 season with a 78-52 loss to Eagle Heights Monday in Kansas City. Calvary struggled from the onset as Eagle Heights built a 17-11 first quarter lead that grew to 42-25 by halftime. In the third period Eagle Heights increased their lead to 28 at 65-37...

Nevada Daily Mail There were 25 youth wrestlers from Nevada at a tournament in Clinton Saturday, and 12 received medals for their efforts. Skyler Scotten, Jacob Johnson and Tanner Charles each won first place in their divisions, while Caleb Shanks, Zane Shepherd, Slade Stiles and Colby Smith got second...