Stories from Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Nevada Daily Mail The Bushwhacker Days parade is always a favorite part of the annual celebration, and this year was no exception. Several hundred people gathered on the Square and along the parade route to see the dozens of entries pass by. Winners were selected by a panel of judges in several categories...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council will be considering several bids during tonight's 7 o'clock meeting in the city council chambers in the Public Safety Building. The council will be looking at rejecting the bids for the new terminal building at the Nevada Municipal Airport at the recommendation of the airport board. All of the bids were over the engineering estimate and the amount of money the city has available for the project...

Nevada Daily Mail In the darkened room lit only by candlelight and some rays coming from lights in other parts of the Bushwhacker Museum, Saturday, children leaned forward expectantly as Molly Postlewait's soft voice trailed across the room, weaving a tale of ghostly activities. Suddenly she shouted, mimicking the ghost in the tale. Children recoiled with a start, then relaxed in giggles...

n Vernon County residents may enter online. Nevada Daily Mail The deadline for entering in one of more than 2,500 Family Living classes for the Ozark Empire Fair, in Springfield, Mo., July 27 -- Aug. 5, is June 25. There are several new competitions including contests promoting Breast Cancer Awareness, a Text Messaging Speed Contest, Cooking with Coffee classes, Just Call Me Martha Craft Contest and Elvis at the Fair Contest...

Douglas Dee Pettibon, 59, Flemington, Mo., formerly of Nevada, Mo., passed away at his home on Saturday, June 16, 2007, following a short illness. He was born April 7, 1948, in Nevada, to Homer D. Pettibon and Alice Pauline Kash Pettibon. He married Sharon Pilcher Pettibon on Aug. 24, 1972, and she survives of the home...

Adolph James Soukup, 80, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Saturday, June 16, 2007, at Freeman Health System West, Joplin, Mo., following a lengthy illness. He was born May 18, 1927, in Kanopolis, Kan., to Adolph J. Soukup and Mildred Vondra Soukup. He married Mary E. Raddy on March 8, 1947, in Fort Scott, Kan., and she survives of the home...

Leroy O. "Roy" Breiner, 72, passed away June 14, 2007, at St. Lukes Hospital from a long term illness. Roy was born March 27, 1935, in Butler, Mo. He married Marlene Butler on July 3, 1954. They were happily married for 52 years. He is survived by his wife, Marlene Breiner; son, Chris Breiner and his wife, Trish; grandson Brandon; daughter, Gena Phillips and her husband, Jeff; grandsons, Connor and Ryan; sister, Juddie Young; sister-in-law, Virginia Moore; and several nieces and nephews of Nevada. ...

100 years ago Money saved as ties rot FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- The papers in the comlaint made by the National Union of Railway Trackmen against the Missouri Pacific will reach the offices of the railroad commissioners of Kansas and Missouri some time today. It is the purpose of the organization to file complaints simuitaneously in Topeka and Jefferson City...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The Nevada Griffons entered the weekend with a five-game winning streak and appeared primed to make a run in the Jayhawk League. Sitting in second place with a home doubleheader against the El Dorado (Kan.) Broncos, Nevada had a chance to make a statement...