Stories from Thursday, November 1, 2007

Jerry Dean Smith, 44, of Kansas City, Mo., passed away Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007. Funeral service will be held 12 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Advantage Chapel, at 6606 Independence Ave., with burial in White Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saturday at the Advantage Chapel. Memorial contributions can be made to the family...

Lewis H. Urner, 85, Nevada, passed away on Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, 2007. at his home in Nevada following a brief illness. He was born Nov. 16, 1921, in Nevada, to Anthony Samuel Urner and Josie May McCain Urier. He married Mable L. Simmons on Dec. 5, 1981, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Frank Wall Hazelrigg Jr., 85, of Fulton, Missouri passed away Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007 at Callaway Community Hospital. He was born Oct. 3, 1922 in Fulton, Missouri, a son of the late Frank Hazelrigg, Sr., and Lillie Mae (Tracer) Hazelrigg. On Aug. 21, 1943, he was united in marriage to Frances E. (Mirts) Hazelrigg who preceded him in death on May 24, 2002...

MARSHFIELD -- In case you haven't noticed, the Brothers Pig fan club has returned to Nevada High School. The group of 15 Nevada students, including several members of the football team, have already made their presence known. They helped to provide an extra boost and some comic relief for the 2007 Lady Tigers volleyball team, which won the district championship for the first time in 10 years...

Nevada High School will attempt to finish its football season on an upswing tonight, but the Tigers have a tough task at hand. Nevada (2-7 overall, 0-2 district) entertains Monett (8-1, 2-0), the Class 3 District 11 champion, at Logan Field with kickoff slated for 7 p.m...

Cottey College's young but talented volleyball squad will attempt to make a run in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II, Region XVI tournament this weekend in St. Louis. Fourth-seeded Cottey (12-10) plays fifth-seed and host Meramec at 6 p.m. Friday in the six-team event. The victor returns to play top-seeded Longwood in the semifinals at 10 a.m. on Saturday...

A Missouri Veterans Commission service officer will be in Nevada to assist veterans with a number of issues, such as helping veterans, dependents and survivors to obtain benefits through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Service-connected compensation, non-service connected pension, education, death burial and survivor benefits are some of the available programs for which veterans or families may apply...

The increase in ethanol plants will result in an increased availability of dried distiller's grains. These products can be used as livestock feed but are not without their challenges, according to Pat Miller of the Vernon County University Extension...

While many farmers and farm suppliers across America have found good use for recent years boosts in technology, no one might have seen the potential in online uploading. Uploading is placing information, i.e.; videos, photos, files online for anyone who is looking to see. Possibly the best known upload internet site being YouTube, a nationally viewed site offering anyone the opportunity to place videos online...

Bates County authorities are holding 56-year-old Russell S. Trawick, who was arrested Monday after 32 years on the run. According to authorities, Trawick escaped from the East Pa-latka, Fla., prison on Christmas Day, 1975. He was sentenced on Jan. 14, 1975, to serve 10 years for six counts of check fraud...

November can be a depressing month. It often means that the wonderful autumn days are nearly gone. With the new rules in effect, it now means that daylight-saving time is over and it will be dark just as soon as most office workers start home. The weather usually begins to get cold. ...

Not being one for personal reminiscences, this writer has never rhapsodized nostalgically on his school days. My memory is too good to imagine they were a happy time. But a NHS class reunion suggested the subject just might be of some interest to others...