Stories from Tuesday, October 3, 2006

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Mike Morris has been living in Vernon County since 1974 and has been attending Calvary Baptist Church since 1981. Today he has founded a mission that distributes colorful soccer balls and Bible tracts explaining the color scheme on the balls. Morris is hoping to distribute 100,000 soccer balls before the Olympics in Beijing, in 2008...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Oktoberfest will feature Connie Smith and the Marci Mitchell Band in concert Saturday, Oct. 14, at 6 p.m. in the Nevada High School auditorium. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Smith began her career in 1963 when she won a talent contest in a park, Frontier Ranch, near Columbus, Ohio. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council will meet tonight to consider, among other items, the second reading of a general ordinance to move the council's meeting time back to 7 p.m. from the current regular meeting time of 6 p.m. The council also plans to vote on an ordinance to allow city employees to take part in political activities. ...

Joe and Julie Heathman, Nevada, and Andrew, Tylin and Abigail, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Ella Marie Heathman. Ella was born at 8:58 a.m., Sept. 17, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces, and measured 20 inches...

Andrew and Billie Jones, Nevada, and Dylan, Deacon, Bethany, Sydney and Brianna, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Sayda Ivie Jones. Sayda was born at 8:18 a.m., Sept. 22, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and measured 18 inches...

Jonathan and Johnnie Colvin, Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Jessica Pearl Colvin. Jessica was born at 5:04 p.m., Sept. 27, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and measured 19.5 inches...

John J. "Johnny" Flynn, 80, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada. He was born March 25, 1926, in Mulberry, Kan., to John Joseph Flynn and Josephine Mary Bersnock Flynn. He married Florence Covington and she survives of the home...

Dorothy N. Young, 89, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, at Medicalodge in Nevada following a lengthy illness. She was born Dec. 9, 1916, in Irwin, Mo., to Horace Neas and Mattie S. Walker Neas. She married John Young on March 7, 1933, in Lamar, Mo., and he survives of the home...

Gladys Merle Hartzog, 81, Harwood, Mo., passed away Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, at her home in Harwood following a brief illness. She was born April 20, 1925, in Heber City, Utah, to Leslie Conrad Desmond and Ida Mae Potter Desmond. She married Gene Gilbert Hartzog on Jan. 11, 1942. He preceded her in death on Nov. 17, 1992...

Kenneth Wayne Woolley, 70, Nevada area, died Sept. 27, 2006, at St. John's Regional Hospital in Joplin, Mo. He was born Nov. 10, 1936, in Portales, N.M., to Kenneth Benjamin and Gussie Lee (Childs) Woolley. Private family services were held on Sept. 30, in Holdenville, Okla...

100 years ago An old photograph Judge J.E. Harding, the well known cashier of the Thornton Bank, and one of the best known and highly esteemed citizens of Vernon County, has an old picture which represents the county court, officers and attorneys and citizens which has was taken in the year 1868. The old photograph represents the old county court of that period and many others...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail Three Nevada High School golfers qualified for the state tournament by finishing in the top 10 individually at districts Monday, in Clinton. Sophomore Lakyn Mansfield, junior Heather Klingaman and senior Aubrey Jones all played well enough over 18 holes at Clinton Country Club to stamp their tickets for the two-day Class 1 season finale at Fremont Hills Country Club Oct. 16-17...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The Cottey Comets battled a stomach ailment that infiltrated more than half of their seven regulars, and fought the heavy feet that comes from playing a third match in five days as they fell to the Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College Red Ravens Monday, at the Hinkhouse Center...

Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The Nevada Lady Tigers lost their final home game of the 2006 season Monday, 11-0 to Webb City. The visiting Cardinals got three home runs and a three-hitter from Nicole Hudson to finish unbeaten in the Southwest Conference (8-0)...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada's doubles team of Whitley del Rosario and Molly Ferree was third in the Thomas Jefferson tournament Friday, in Joplin. The team lost to the Thomas Jefferson team comprising of the Prigmore sisters, but won their other two matches...