Stories from Sunday, January 28, 2007

By Lynn A. Wade Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- Six wandering musicians found themselves singing for their supper -- well, lunch, anyway -- as they performed at a Nevada Rotary Club luncheon at the Nevada Country Club on Thursday. "Country it ain't, but it was fabulous," joked an audience member after the performance...

By Jason E. Silvers Herald-Tribune Last month, Shane and Chrystaleah Doherty received the best Christmas gift any two parents could ask for -- having their small infant son there with them to share the holiday. The couple's second son, a 6 pound, 7 ounce baby boy named Elijah, came into the world on the morning of Nov. ...

By Steve Moyer Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- The Vernon County Commissioners met with the jail committee and interested citizens in the third-floor courtroom with approximately 30 people in attendance, to watch Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman make a PowerPoint presentation of pictures of the jail...

By Steve Moyer Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. -- Vernon County voters will be asked to approve two one-half-cent sales taxes in April. The Vernon County Commissioners will be seeking funding for a what officials say is a desperately needed new jail and the Vernon County Ambulance District is seeking an increase to help pay for the increasing costs it faces...

Earlenne Crawford Stout, 99, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, Mo. She was born Feb. 3, 1907, in Nevada, Mo., to Rush Wagner Crawford and Ada Beatrice Holland Crawford. Mrs. Stout was born and reared in Nevada. ...

Hi neighbors. I hope you've enjoyed all the snow and ice. I'm ready to skip spring and go right into August. In case you have forgotten, the ice storm first arrived on Friday, Jan. 12. I remember the date well, because I was driving to Iowa shortly after the sleeting started...

Sonja Deanne Caufield Jensen, passed away at her home in Poteet, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007, at the age of 66. Visitation was held on Sunday, Jan. 28, from 2-8 p.m., at Hurley Funeral Home in Pleasanton, Kan., and services will be held on Monday, Jan. 29, at 10 a.m., at Hurley Funeral Home. Arrangements for cremation are pending...

Luther Clay Lyons, 87, of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007, in Topeka, Kan., following a lengthy illness. He was born May 24, 1919, at Rich Hill, Mo., to Frederick Thomas Lyons and Nannie Brown. He married Neva I. Lyons on Sept. 12, 1942, in San Diego, Calif...

Ronald E. Bailey, 85, of Phoenix, Ariz., formerly of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. He was born Nov. 10, 1921, in Crestline, Kan., the son of George M. and Otha Lyerla Bailey. He married Margaret Jacobs on Sept. 25, 1943, in Quantico, Va. She preceded him in death Nov. 27, 2003...

I used to think the theory that human life is circular utterly nonsense. But now, on the very cusp of old age myself, I'm not so sure. Yes, we start out as children, greedily soaking up experience and knowledge like sponges; then, after a long life crammed with such enriching experience, we start sliding down the other side of the mountain, gradually running out of energy, until we finally reach the stage of dependent childhood/old age, again...

On Oct. 18, 1924, sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote one of the most famous passages in sports journalism as he described the Notre Dame backfield and their role in the upset victory over a strong Army football team. "Outlined by a blue-grey October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore, they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Leighton."...

By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Pittsburg came out with a pretty good game plan against Fort Scott High's boys in the first quarter of the Tigers' Homecoming game Friday night. But the Tigers are a team that can adjust on the fly. And in the second period, the Tigers turned things around with a 14-0 run that allowed them to take control of a Southeast Kansas League game they went on to win 62-41...

By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Fort Scott High's girls opened Southeast Kansas League play by routing Pittsburg once again, this time in a 49-17 decision on Homecoming at the FSHS gymnasium Friday night. The Tigers (3-10) also defeated Pittsburg (0-11) in a rout back on December 12, winning that non-league game 42-9. Friday was the fourth time this season -- and second time in as many games -- that the Purple Dragons failed to score at least 20 points...

By Joe Warren Herald-Tribune NEVADA, Mo. -- The Nevada Tigers took care of business on the boys' side and both Nevada and Carthage won in the girls' bracket to set up an all Southwestern Conference championship round of the Tiger and Lady Tiger Classics Saturday...

They called it the Federal League. The recent death of Lamar Hunt got me to thinking about so-called outlaw leagues, and one that has held a long time fascination for me has been the ill-fated baseball Federal League of 1914-15. I'm certain there are readers among you who are right now going, "Huh?" Let me enumerate for you the eight teams that challenged the National League and American League way back in 1914. ...