Stories from Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School girls golf team defeated host Pleasant Hill 203-217 on Tuesday at Country Creek Golf & Country Club. "The greens were very quick and the girls had a difficult time adjusting to the faster putting surfaces," Nevada Coach Brian Leonard said...

Nevada Daily Mail MONETT -- All but one match went Nevada's way when the girls tennis team took on Monett on Tuesday afternoon. The Tigers won the dual 8-1. Monett's Darian Shields defeated Nevada's Leah Creasy 8-3 at number-one singles. Every other match went Nevada's way...

Connie Diane Belcher, 61, formerly of Nevada, passed away from a heart attack at Villa St. Francis, Olathe, Kan., on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. She was born March 9, 1950, in Nevada, to Roy Pulliam and Eileen Smith Pulliam. She married Robert Belcher in May 1991...

Editors note: This essay was written as one of Branham's 2011 Bushwhacker Days royalty requirements. When thinking about what it meant to be a Bushwhacker in Vernon County during the Civil War, many comparisons came to mind immediately. Working conditions, living conditions and social events resembled nothing that any of us who live in Vernon County today would recognize. Thinking of women's roles during that time brings an even more stark reality of how different things are today...

Joe and Virginia Habjan of Nevada and their six kids have been Vernon County 4-H Club stalwarts for decades and on Aug. 14, the couple was rewarded with inclusion in the Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame. Recognized for a total of 175 years' participation going back to her parents' involvement at Olathe, Kan., in the 1940s, Virginia Habjan says the club prepares young people for adulthood in a broad range of spheres...