Stories from Thursday, September 8, 2005

By Afton Bugg Nevada Daily Mail Christine Whitworth and her mother, Connie Denning, have remodeled their restaurant and changes the name to Christine's restaurant. They serve only homemade cafe style food, and have been reopened since July 11 of this year. The real attraction of the remodeling is the repair to the outside wall...

Nevada Daily Mail From Sept. 2 to Sept. 5, Nevada Fire Fighters Association Local 3031 conducted its annual Labor Day Boot Block to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. This continues the 50-year relationship between MDA and the International Association of Fire Fighters...

Nevada Daily Mail Attorney General Jay Nixon filed a lawsuit Wednesday to prevent a St. Louis man who has captured multiple Web site addresses in the name of hurricane Katrina relief from misleading consumers and redirecting money collected to anti-Semitic and racist organizations...

By Nancy Malcom Nevada Daily Mail On Wednesday, Sept. 7, the Ellis Domestic Science Club celebrated its 90th anniversary. It is the oldest rural club of its type in Vernon County. The club was organized Sept. 22, 1915, by Pearl Gray and Josephine Gist with 11 other members present. Membership peaked in the mid 1960s with around 50 members...

Lori S. McConnaughey and Douglas L. Chadd, and Koby, Seath, Dalton, Dillon and Austin Chadd, of Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Lailee Rose Chadd. Lailee was born at 8:17 a.m., Sept. 6, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces, and measured 18 inches...

Mike and Sabrina Johnson, and Jacob, Nathan and Emily, of Richards, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Katie James Johnson. Katie was born at 8:18 a.m., Sept. 1, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 21 inches...

I have a tendency to put things off. When I see that the floor is getting dirty, I can rationalize that there will be many dirty feet walking on it this weekend, so maybe I should wait until next Monday to mop. There is no use making people miserable by fussing at them for marking up my clean floor...

He's been called "our most notable citizen of all times." His name graces a street. Franklin Norman is campaigning to get the name affixed to a public building. He named and surveyed Nevada. He was the first resident, attorney, circuit and county clerk, and postmaster. He designed and superintended the first courthouse...

By Gail Agee Track Reporter A short rain delay postponed the start of Saturday evening's event. The Show Me Late Model Racing Series came to Nevada Speedway Saturday, which along with our regular racing, made lots of action for the hardy fans to enjoy. ...

It's time for the inaugural edition of my weekly football picks. Throughout the season I will pick the teams I think will win each NFL game, along with points and the reasons for my selections. The opening week is usually the most difficult. Nobody really knows how certain players will do with new uniforms on, and there is always one team that everybody thinks will be good, that isn't. ...

**100 years ago: Young physician dies in tragic firearm accident Nevada has lost another splendid citizen to one of those accidents that seem so easy to prevent but happen so often. Today the lifeless form of Dr. John Jay Richards is the awful evidence of the results that so often follow when a man attempts to go under a fence with a double-barrel shotgun in his hands. ...