Stories from Friday, November 8, 2013

Fred Allen Prettyman, 74, of Nevada, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, at Via Christi Medical Center in Pittsburg, Kan. He was born Aug. 31, 1939, in Mulberry, Kan., the son of Fred William and Annabelle Lois Portwood Prettyman. He married Connie Hanna on July 7, 1957, in Fort Scott, Kan., she survives of the home...

The Cottey College Department of Theatre presents Margaret Edson's "Wit" Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15 and 16, in the auditorium of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. The curtain will rise at 8 each evening. "Wit," sometimes styled as "W;t," is a one-act play which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for drama. ...

Jean Chamberlin is the third speaker in the 2013-'14 Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by Cottey College's Institute for Women's Leadership and Social Responsibility. She will speak on "Women's Leadership in Aeronautics, Space, Security, and Defense" Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Missouri Recital Hall inside the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. A reception will follow the address...

Nevada Daily Mail Drivers in Schell City will have a reminder to slow down around the Northeast Vernon County Elementary School. The Schell City Board of Aldermen voted 3-0 to approve an amendment to the street ordinance to mark and post the school zone 20 miles per hour at its meeting Wednesday. The new speed signs have been purchased, but not yet posted...

By Carolyn Thornton I have been given two little books called "Hugs." These books explain the value of giving and receiving hugs. It also has illustrations about different types of hugs. These go from bear hugs to group hugs, from side hugs to from-the-back hugs. The premise is that any hug is helpful for both the hugger and the hugee. I have used these books often and find them very useful since I seem to do a lot of hugging...

By Arnold Schofield During the Civil War, by the fall of 1863, it was perfectly obvious to the "Union" troops in Missouri that women of the southern persuasion who lived in rural areas were not to be trusted and in fact supported enemy guerrillas or the bushwhackers. ...