Stories from Monday, July 12, 2010

Mary L. May, 92, passed away Saturday at the Christian Health Care of Nevada. She was born in Nevada in 1918 to Mr. and Mrs. William Kluth. She graduated from Nevada High school in 1936 and was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, She was employed as a credit manager at Montgomery Ward's in Nevada, Joplin, and Kansas City. She then worked for Woodfill's Jewelry in Nevada for several years. Later in life, she worked for 15 years at the Nevada Middle School...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail "It's not your parents' pork." So said Steve Brier, Midwest sow manager for Murphy Farms, Nevada, in a presentation Friday at the Vernon County fairgrounds on the pork industry. Today's U.S-produced pork is leaner, comes from healthier hogs and is gaining quickly on the global market, Brier said...

By Steve Moyer Herald-Tribune In August, voters will once again be asked to decide an issue seeking funding for a new Northeast Vernon County School. The two separate facilities which house the districts elementary school, in Schell City, and the high school, in Walker, are both more than 80 years old...

* Football players from three towns raise more than $4,200 for man stricken with lung disease. By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail In cooperation with the football teams from Nevada, Webb City and Bolivar, Mo., the Meinershagen Family Fund hosted "Pigskin Fundraiser" on Saturday, in all three cities. ...

Ducks, dogs, cats, calves, rabbits, sheep and goats were all entered in the annual Vernon County Youth Fair Pet Show Saturday afternoon. "Can he do any tricks?" pet show judge Will Sutton asked 6-year-old Caleb Stanley. "He can shake," Caleb told him...