10-16-13 Lamar Democrat

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2013 2 SECTIONS, 12 PAGES

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See page 4A for Lamar homecoming details!

Serving Lamar, Golden City, Lockwood, Jasper, Sheldon, Mindenmines and Liberal for 143 years. Incorporating The Daily Democrat, Golden City Herald & Lockwood Luminary.

SECTION ACorrespondents ........................ 2Friends & Family ...................... 3Friends & Family/School ......... 4School ......................................... 5Sports ......................................... 6

SECTION BArea News ................................. 2Records ...................................... 3Records/Legals .......................... 4Legals/Classi� eds ...................... 5Area News ................................. 6

Emmerson has Grand Champion steer at Kansas State Fair

see page 3A

Metzger’s Mutteringssee page 4A

Students of the Weeksee page 5A

Student Studiosee page 5A

STAR Studentssee page 5A

Tigers host big cross country meet

see page 6A

Tigers bounce back with win over Cubs

see page 6A

Prairie View Land� ll's annual open house

see page 1B

BCMH to participate in national pilot project to improve care

see page 1B

Good Samaritan Shop to be awarded $5,000 grant from Ozark Food Harvest

see page 6B

Dade County Commission explains changes in SEMA and FEMA funding

see page 2B

Runners battle the elements and set new school record

see page 6B

Lamar Career and Technical Center announces LCTC � rst quarter Stars

see page 6B

Weather Forecastsee page 6B

Honoring & Remembering Our Veterans This Veterans Day • November 11, 2013We will publish a special Veterans’ Day page(s) in honor of and in memory of our veterans. To include your veteran, stop by the

Lamar Democrat offi ce at 100 East 11th Street and fi ll out the form. You will be able to select a seal for their military branch and atribute message, then tributes will appear in the November 6 issue of the Lamar Democrat along with the veterans’ photo you provided.

Each veteran tribute ad is $15.00. Deadline is 5 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28You may drop off a photo that can be picked up after the tributes run or you may email a photo to [email protected].

VETERANS’ DAY TRIBUTECpl. Oliver A.

Metzger

In memory of your

service to our country.

Served September 1941 to

December 1945.

January 15, 1920 -

January 14, 1998

Honoring & Remembering Our Veterans This Veterans Day • Honoring & Remembering Our Veterans This Veterans Day • Honoring & Remembering Our Veterans This Veterans Day •

You may drop off a photo that can be picked up after the tributes run or you may email a photo to [email protected].

Cpl. Oliver A.

In memory of your

service to our country.

Served September 1941 to

January 15, 1920 -

January 14, 1998

*Sample is scaled down.Actual tribute size will be 1.8x5 inches.

ONLY$15!

Lamar Bank & Trust Com-pany presented a check to the Backpack Snack program for $1,691. Funds were raised on September 27, at Customer Ap-preciation Day.

� e past two years LBT has o� ered t-shirts for a $1 dona-tion. � is donation is used to bene� t a local community proj-ect. Senior Vice President Kent Morey said that LBT has been

o� ering a new t-shirt design for over 15 years at Customer Ap-preciation Day, but decided in 2012 to implement the $1 do-nation.

� e bank had a tremendous

crowd on September 27, with approximately 1200 hamburg-ers and 500 hot dogs served. � e bank’s sta� would like to thank everyone for helping the Backpack Snack program.

Lamar Bank and Trust Company presents check to backpack program

Lady Tigers team up with BCMH to raise money for HOPE4U

� e Lamar Lady Tiger volley-ball team teamed up with Bar-ton County Memorial Hospital last week to raise money for BCMH's HOPE4U, a program that provides � nancial assis-tance for mammograms. � e Lady Tigers sold breast cancer awareness t-shirts and chances on various volleyball clothing items and a pink and white ball signed by the team. � e items were distributed � ursday

night following a Big 8 Confer-ence win over East Newton that made the Lady Tigers 10-4-2 on the season.

Pictured on the court following

the game are, from left, Morgan King

(background), Kelsey Ta� ner,

Marissa Polodna and Shelby

Haskins.

Be sure to have your little ghosts and goblins stop by the Lamar Democrat (North of Memorial Hall) on October 31st from 3-5 p.m. to get spooktacular treats!

Barton County Sheri� ’s Department stays busyBy MELODY METZGER

Lamar [email protected]

Barton County Sheri� ’s O� ce deputies investigated a domestic disturbance that occurred September 10, south of Lamar on KK Hwy., when David McArthur, La-mar, threatened his brother, Charles, and 84-year-old father, David Sr., with a taser device. � e 52-year-old McArthur was arrested on a domestic assault and given a $10,000 bond. He remains incarcerated in the Barton County Jail.

A vehicle with radiators inside was dis-covered in the driveway of Hilltop Sal-vage on September 11. Jimmy Dale Webb, Jr., 28, Terry Lynn Newton, 26 and Alma Eileen Webb, 57, all of Nevada, were ar-rested by sheri� deputies a� er they ad-mitted to stealing the radiators.

� e Missouri Department of Transpor-tation reported that four weights that were black in color and weighing 94 pounds each were stolen o� a tractor on C Hwy. � e the� occurred September 12. An esti-mated replacement value has been placed at $1200. � ere are currently no suspects in this case and if anyone knows anything regarding the incident, please contact the Barton County Sheri� ’s Department.

September 21, a suspicious vehicle was seen in the area of KK Hwy. A Lincoln SUV, pulling a trailer that had no tags, was allegedly looking for “bitter sweet” plants. Deputy Toby Luce spoke with the occupants and found them to be in pos-session of drug paraphernalia. A pipe and burnt marijuana was found under the seat of the vehicle. Arrested were Christopher

Shadden, 29, and William M. Hickman, 29, both of Ft. Scott, Kan.

Barton County Sheri� Mitch Shaw also received information on September 21 of a possible meth lab set up in Lamar. Shaw and his deputies went to 301 E. 17th St. to attempt to make contact with an indi-vidual in an RV trailer behind the prop-erty. � ere was no one there, but a strong chemical odor was detected and a search warrant was issued. While the warrant was being obtained the resident of the RV returned and Jerry Lynn Rowell, 44, Lamar, was arrested in connection with the meth lab. Criminal charges have not been � led as yet due to the contents of the lab having to be sent o� for testing. However, a warrant was issued on Rowell

for violating his probation and parole. A no bond warrant was issued as Rowell has been charged and convicted of continu-ous drug violations over the years.

Deputies from the sheri� ’s o� ce were called to Prairie Plains due to a com-plaint of suspicious activity. Individuals

were going in and out of the timber be-hind the apartment complex. During the investigation a vehicle that was leaving was stopped and Timothy W. Willis, 41, Lamar, was arrested on a charge of open container of an alcoholic beverage and possession of paraphernalia.

Sheri� Mitch Shaw responded to the in-tersection of SW 50th Lane and SW 85th Rd. on September 24, as Gary Dumm’s hay barn had burned down overnight. Witnesses had seen a vehicle leaving the premises around 6 a.m. Evidence at the scene is being tested for DNA and � nger printing analysis in order to � nd any sus-pects that might be involved in the arson. If anyone knows anything please contact the sheri� ’s department.

� e sheri� ’s o� ce was dispatched to a residence at 812 NW 110th Lane on a domestic disturbance call. O� cers spoke with the individuals in the incident and when they returned to speak with a male subject that was supposed to be at the residence they found Edgar Ellis, 34, de-ceased inside the house. An ongoing in-vestigation is being made into his death.

A 911 call was transferred to Barton County from Jasper County on Septem-ber 27. � e call came from the area of SW 90th Rd. and 10th Ln. � ere was no one on the line, so a deputy was dispatched to investigate to make sure all was okay. When they arrived at the residence they observed what they believed to be mari-juana inside the residence, so a search warrant was obtained. A� er a further search, approximately 265 pounds of marijuana plants were discovered grow-

Jerry Lynn

Rowell, 44, was

arrested in connection

with a meth lab that was

set up at 301 E.

17th St., in Lamar.

see SHERIFF, page 6A

2A • Wednesday, October 16, 2013 www.lamardemocrat.com Lamar Democrat, Lamar, MO

Coonfoot & Vicinity

By LOUISE OTT

Peeking out the door this early Monday morn-ing I see our dear Lord is blessing us with clear skies. What wonderful weather in October.

Steve Patterson, pastor of Alba Friends Church non-pro� t organization, appreciates any donations from anyone. Plans are to serve co� ee, pastries and chips in the evenings on � ursday, Friday and Sat-urday in the fall. All are volunteers and anyone that can help should call Steve’s cell phone at 417-793-3308 or his home phone at 1-417-525-6107. He can tell you more about the lunches and what days. � e café is at 212 Main in Alba.

Gary and Lisa Nelson, Michael Nelson and Ella Mae Turpen enjoy going out to dinner on Sunday at a restaurant.

Arbry Winans, Ray and Nicole Winans, Ray and Tristan and Elvin Winans Jr. and Durella were visi-tors of Marie Winans.

Michael, Melissa, Mar-garet, Mathew and Gay Straw, Marjorie and Janie Dester� no, Louise Ott, Kenneth Dee and Es-ther Archer were dinner guests of George Straw on Saturday. Other visitors were Vanessa and Na-thaniel Hudson and Lon-nie and Bonnie Hudson.

Nathan and Christine Moss and Katheryn Mae were visitors and dinner guests of Michael and Jane Moss.

Remember the big bridge is still out south of Alba.

For-get-me-notsBy GAIL LEAMING

Ron had his surgery on Wednesday, so again my week is all confused. It was outpatient so we were home by 6 p.m. We saw Howard and Linda Kent today in Golden City. � ey are going to hang out here for a few days waiting to get together with the class reunion of Howard’s. He was in Jules Hollingsheads class and he and Twila just got back from Twila’s class reunion of the girls in the 1961 class of GC in Branson

and the pictures look like they were having fun. Sat-urday we go to the class of 63 in Lamar for a re-union. I am like Twila. I get to go to two.

We did get Ron’s hay baled because I raked and Russ came in from St. Louis and ran the baler. Leon and Lorie Stump came by to look at our RV on � ursday. Sorry I missed them, as I had to make a quick trip to Joplin. Friday is the Mil-ford gospel singing at the Church. I did hear that the Dalton Gang got a contract to sing next year at the Bluegrass Festival at Savvy Creek. � ey are also playing at Green� eld on the 19th of this month.

Rebecca Pennell is in from Kansas for a visit and brought the two grandchildren. I don’t think she could come back home without them, right Juanita? � anks again to Carol Eldred who showed up with Joyce Trout with fried chicken from Cooky’s for the Red Oak 2 singing. Delicious as usual. Had to rub it in on Ron, who didn’t know she was coming so he went to eat chicken � rst at a restaurant and a� er 1 ½ hours it was burnt. He missed the good chicken.

Hope you enjoy these. 1. Where there is a will I want to be in it. 2. Since light travels faster than sound, some people ap-pear bright until you hear them speak. 3. If I agreed with you we both would be wrong. 4. � ey begin the evening news with good evening then proceed to tell you why it isn’t. 5. I thought I wanted a career, but it turns out I just wanted a paycheck. 6. In � lling out an appli-cation where it says who do you want to notify in case of emergency, I put in doctor. 7. A clear conscience is a sign of a fuzzy memory. 8. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car. 9. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot � rst and then tell everyone what you were shooting. 10. Nostalgia isn’t what it use to be.

Have a great week.

SheldonBy DARLENE SHERIDAN

Eileen Leininger and I joined several other re-tired teachers from Ver-non County, where we attended a meeting at the

Lamar Christian Church on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 9 a.m., as guests of Barton County. Dade County re-tired teachers also heard a report from newly elected State Missouri Retired Teachers Associa-tion (MRTA) President Marilyn Skipper, who re-minded all that October is membership renewal month. Walt Cochran of Nevada, president of Mis-souri Retired Teachers Foundation (MRTF), also spoke to the group on fu-ture plans of MRTF.

I accompanied Jim and Delores Honey of Car-thage Friday a� ernoon to Lee’s Summit where we visited Delila Brown and Je� and Annette Honey. I spent the night with Del-ila Brown and Saturday morning we joined fami-ly members to watch Jack Honey’s football game. In the a� ernoon we all attended the wedding of Adam Sheridan and Lau-ren Calovich at Prince of Peace Catholic Church at Olathe, Kan., with the re-ception at Ritz Charles at Overland Park, Kan. We returned home late Satur-day evening.

Sunday a� ernoon Vic and Sharon Hines of Moundville hosted a gathering for members and friends of Sheldon Christian Church at 3 p.m., at the “Coal Min-ers Retreat”, with a sup-per enjoyed by all present at 5:30 p.m. It was a most enjoyable a� ernoon and evening. Everyone was pleased to have Bryce and Kelsey Hotchkiss join us, as Bryce is now full time pastor at Countryside Christian Church, Pitts-burg, Kan.

Spencer Huhn is the new minister at the Shel-don Christian Church. Spencer, in addition to his ministry, is a student at Ozark Christian Col-lege.

� e Sheldon FFA is still selling beautiful mums.

Bill Brown of Lee’s Summit has been spend-ing time with his mother, Elizabeth Brown, getting her settled as a resident of Culpepper’s in Nevada.

Sheldon R-VIII Parents Teachers Conference will be held October 23 and 24.

� e Sheldon City Wide Garage Sales will be held October 19 and the Fall Clean Up is October 21-25.

Paul and Phyllis Spren-kle went to Pierce, Neb. to attend the Lambrect Car Auction. � e unique col-lection of cars from the

60’s, 70’s and 80’s were in-teresting to see sell. � ey then traveled to Richland, Wash. to visit with their son, Vince, and his family. � ey were able to attend their grandson, Noah’s, football game and their granddaughter’s march-ing band competition and their granddaughter, Devin’s, birthday.

Maxine’s MusingsBy MAXINE MORIN

I noticed a picture of a plant in an area newspa-per. � e item stated that the pink/purple cone-� owers were blooming in a prairie grass area. I said to Eddie, “� at is not a cone� ower, it is a plain old prickly thistle”. � e next day as I opened the same paper, there in the corrections section it stated that the plant was a thistle. As I read the cor-rection to Eddie, saying, “See there, I told you”, Ed-die’s answer – (censured)! Country people don’t like thistles, as they spread quickly in pastures, also livestock will not graze close as the weed has all those prickly thorns.

� e � rst Monday of the month, October 7, nine former members of the once � ourishing BPW Club of Lamar gathered in Denny’s East Room. At 9 a.m., the waitress took our orders. � is was not an easy task as the chat-ting was going steady. When the breakfast or-ders were delivered, things became quieter. It did not take long to re-charge before the chatting was again in full force. � e ladies present were Donna Wescott, Imogene Williams, Betty Gideon, Juanita Schmitt, Doro-thy Roberts, Sue Hob-son, Beula Miller, Loeta � ompson and Maxine Morin.

� e Classi Lassies Red Hat Society journeyed to the Lamar City Park on � ursday, Oct. 10, for a picnic at the shelter house. Co-hostesses Dor-othy Roberts and Marga-ret Wattenbarger decorat-ed in a festive Halloween theme. Tables were cov-ered in orange with real pumpkins scattered down the center. Favors were � uted cups � lled with candy corn. A lovely cen-terpiece graced the serv-ing table. A Halloween pumpkin was guarded by a scarecrow on each side, standing among color-ful leaves and fall mums with cattails in the back-ground.

Queen Mother Sue Hobson welcomed the 22 ladies and guest, Kathy McManis of Olympia, Wash. Kathy and Max-ine Chesnut are cousins. Prayer was by Margaret Wattenbarger. All en-joyed dinner featuring fried chicken with des-sert of doughnuts and hot cider. � e Pepper Mill Restaurant catered the dinner. Birthdays for October were Maxine Rakestraw and Maxine Rader. Following dinner, the pumpkins were deco-rated and placed on the serving table for all to see. Dorothy was taking the Halloween masterpieces to a healthcare home. � e next meeting will be No-vember 14 with co-host-esses Kathy Stau� er and Anna Feltenberger.

Saturday, Oct. 12 was the Wyatt Earp Fest. � e rain came to a halt early in the morning, so hope there was a good turnout on the Lamar square.

� e Rebekah District 11 meeting was held in La-mar on Saturday, Oct. 12. Lamar District President Marcia Pennell presided

at the meeting. Vice Pres-ident Rebekah Assembly of Missouri Lorraine Kir-shner was the O� cer of the Day. Another guest was Anna James. Both la-dies were from Adrian.

Remember when Bos-ton, Missouri was a bus-tling little town? When I learned about Boston, I thought it was strange that a railroad went through the town so close to the business section. Later, I learned that was the mail service to the town and surrounding area. � ere was an article in an area newspaper about train rides being available at the Corona Depot and Museum Complex, locat-ed at Corona in southeast Kansas. As I read further, I noticed the name “Bos-ton, Mo.” � e Corona Museum Complex had acquired and restored the Boston Depot, which is now resting at the mu-seum with the Corona Depot. I did not know this and thought it quite interesting.

May God watch over our military. Until next time….

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LAMAR COUNTRY CLUB

LADIES ASSOCIATION

Norma Frieden was the hostess Tuesday, Oct. 8, for the gol� ng event of Low on 6, 7, 8. � e win-ner was Sharron Chap-

man. � e hostess for Tuesday, Oct. 15 will be Carolyn Gastel, with the event to be Low on 1 and 9. Tuesday, Oct. 22, Ellen Jo Morey will be the host-ess for a 3 Ball Chipping Contest on Hole 9.

Betty Gilkey was the hostess for Bridge. Imo-gene Williams was the winner, with Betty Gilkey

second high winner. � e hostess Tuesday, Oct. 15, will be Kathy Jenkins, with Betty Weston being the hostess on Tuesday, Oct. 22.

Lamar Democrat, Lamar, MO www.lamardemocrat.com Wednesday, October 16, 2013 • 3A

Leivan family holds reunionLeivan family mem-

bers met September 29 at the Lamar City Park for dinner and fellowship. There were 32 present.

Stan Vallier, Erie, Kan., led in prayer before the food and fellowship. He brought his mother, Mary Louise (Cotteral) Vallier,

Erie, Kan. Also attend-ing from a distance were Larry and Sharon Leivan, Claremont.

Others attending were M. Maxine Foster, Eudo-ra, Kan., and Jewell and Gyneth Foster, Ft. Smith, Ark., the son of Jack and H. Maxine Foster, Lamar, who were the oldest mar-ried couple of 68 years on October 8. Jack was the oldest at 91 years.

Attending from Joplin were Mary Ann Wade, Brenda Wade, Barbara and Randal, Linda and Lisa Switzer, Roger Lei-van, Webb City; Greg and Renae McDonald, Golden City, and Clara Bell McDonald, Mike and Jayne Babbitt, Todd and Cathy Brett and Brooke McDonald and Taylor Overman, Bill and Leona Camp, Terry Linn, Mary Leivan and Warren and Eunice Walker, all of La-mar.

All enjoyed the day and spending time together.

Friends & Family

Bethel Missionary Baptist Church to observe 30th anniversary

Bethel Missionary Bap-tist Church will observe its 30th anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 20. The pas-tor is Brother Gary Scur-lock, who will moderate.

Services will begin with Sunday school at 10 a.m., followed with preaching by Brother Lewis Esling-er. There will be a basket dinner following morn-

ing services.In the afternoon the

church history will be read by Sister Jenna Highley, followed with devotional by Brother Ron Pitts and sermon by Brother Kenny Mallard.

In the evening at 5:30 p.m., Brother Robert Kenney will bring the sermon.

Everyone is welcome.Bethel Missionary

Baptist Church, 21853 S 1500 Road, Nevada, is located south of High-way 54 (Austin Street), 4 1/2 miles on Highway BB, then left 1/8 a mile.

John Emmerson of Fort Scott, Kan., son of Brent and Lynette Emmerson and grandson of Roger and Ionia Phillips, Liberal, is shown with his Grand Champion steer at the Kansas State Fair, held in September. Second to his left is his dad, and far left are his mom and sister, Amanda. John is a freshman at Uniontown and a member of FFA and 4-H. Kansas Ethanol purchased the steer.

Emmerson has Grand Champion steer at Kansas State Fair

Golden City High SchoolClass of 1949 holds reunion

Seventeen graduates of the 1949 Golden City High School, plus spous-es and guests, met at Cooky’s Café on Saturday, Sept. 21, for their 64th year class reunion.

After the 2:30 p.m. lun-cheon the group gath-ered at the Family Life Center of the Christian Church for visiting and taking pictures. A short informal business meet-ing was held and a big thank you went to Bon-nie Carpenter for making reservations and arrang-ing for the group to enter the church. A discussion was held to decide if they wanted to meet again and it was agreed to have this

same type of reunion in one year at the same time and place for all those who are able to attend. It will be the 65th anniver-sary. Therefore, the date will be Saturday, Sept. 20. They are hoping even more classmates will be able to attend this special anniversary.

Those attending from out of state were Larry Harrah, Alburqueque, NM; Gerald Lawless, Fresno, Calif.; Carl Stone, Oxford, Ala.; Kermit and Mary Brooks, Tul-sa, Okla.; Lee Roy and Diamond Bishop, Sum-merfield, Fla. and Ken-neth, Imogene and Ken-dra Phillips, Commerce,

Okla. The remaining who came from Missouri were Donald and Iretha (Sell-ers) DeGood, Springfield; Marvin and Joan (Buz-zard) McIntyre and Rick McIntyre, Springfield; Carolyn (Maddox) Scha-berg, Lee’s Summit; Har-ley Hutton, Springfield; Carl and Shirley Flen-niken, Carthage; Kenneth and Mary Ann Howard, Lamar; Duane Cross, La-mar; Ken and Lila (Holt) Roller, Lockwood and Jack and Kathryn (Brau-berger) Sullivan, Bon-nie Carpenter, Bill and Juanita (Fanning) James, Charles and Merril Hae-berle and Donna Kilpat-rick, Golden City.

Ricketts family reunion held at the Liberal Park building

Sunday, Sept. 22, a C.W. and “Mattie” Ricketts family reunion dinner was held at the Liberal Park building. Although they were a small group, they had a good time looking at pictures, fam-ily histories and visiting.

Those present were Marshall Blinco, Kansas City, Kan.; Mike and Judi Fast, Pittsburg, Kan.; Rick and Glenda Rouse, Welch, Okla.; Frank Bell, Lamar; Lois Bell Ainsworth,

Oklahoma City, Okla.; Blaine Bell, Ft. Dodge, Iowa; Harold Baker and Josie Parkhurst, Lake-wood, Colo. and Dennis Blinco, Nancy Dickey, Larry and Lisa Fast, John and Cathy Williams, Kar-en Noel Carpenter, Elmer Fast and Reba Rouse, all of Liberal.

C.W. and “Mattie” Rick-etts reared a family of 11 children near Hannon.

Lois provided a prize for the oldest man pres-

ent, Elmer Fast; the oldest woman, Reba Rouse; the youngest woman, Nan-cy Dickey; the young-est man, Rick Rouse and coming the farthest, Har-old Baker.

Harold and Josie were in Liberal on Saturday for a book signing of her book by Richard Cooper, employee of the Lamar Democrat.

Blaine and Reba had a 1947 class reunion on Saturday.


By MELODY METZGERLamar Democrat

[email protected]

Well, my St. Louis Car-dinals are one step away from taking it to the World Series once again. By the time this comes out there is the possibil-ity that they have already won their four out of seven with the Los Ange-les Dodgers. Note I said possibility, not probabil-ity; however, I can dream! Adam “Wano” Wain-wright pitched a gem of a fifth game against the Pittsburgh Pirates to get them this far. Pittsburgh had not been in the play-offs since 1992 and they fought a good fight, but

St. Louis was just one game better! The Cardi-nals have advanced to the playoffs in 10 of the last 14 years.

The last time the Car-dinals won the World Series was in 2011. Dur-ing that series third base-man David Freese, who was reared in the Greater St. Louis area of Wild-wood, was a major player in their victory. Freese hasn’t been doing near as well with the bat this year, although he is a great defensive player. I was dearly hoping he would get out of his slump and guess what, last Wednes-day night he did. Freese, who entered the game 2-for-13 at the plate in

the series, hit a two-out, two-run home run, help-ing the Cardinals amass a score of 6-1 and advanc-ing them to the NLCS.

So, now onward and upward as we face the Dodgers and two Cy Young award winning pitchers in Zack Gre-inke and Clayton Ker-shaw. Greinke received the award in 2009 when he was a member of the Kansas City Royals, and Kershaw won the award in 2011 as a member of the Dodgers. I was listen-ing to KOBC on the radio a few weeks ago and they commented that Kershaw did not want to be known as a ballplayer that was a Christian, but as a Chris-tian that also happened to be a ballplayer. What a beautiful testament to our Lord!

Another member of the Dodgers, who unfortu-nately has been besieged

with injuries is Seneca native Scott Elbert. El-bert was going to school about the same time as my son and was a phe-nomenal baseball and football player in high school. He also happens to be tied to Lamar as his sister is married to a local man who was also known for his athletic

prowess, TJ Onstott. The Dodgers selected Elbert in the first round of the 2004 MLB Draft. Elbert is a lefthander and when he was able to pitch he did so majestically; however, as I said, he has seen his share of injuries and just recently underwent Tom-my John surgery.

The last time the Dodg-

ers won the World Series was in 1988, and hopeful-ly it will be at least a year before they win it again! Of course it they take it to game seven I will be in trouble, as that game will be played Saturday, Oct. 19, the day Jud is getting married! Hmmmmm… wonder if he would un-derstand???

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FCA devotion(Editor’s note: The fol-

lowing devotion was read at See You at the Pole, held at Lamar Middle School on Sep-tember 25).

By GARRETT MOREYEighth Grade

Lamar Middle School

Have you ever felt like you were nothing,

like God has no plans for you? A lot of people in today’s society convince themselves that they’re worthless, of no value, or just not sure of their purpose. I truly hope that nobody today at this school believes that, but unfortunately it is pos-sible. My goal today is that if anyone comes here feeling alone, useless, or worthless in life, I’m go-

ing to tell you what God thinks of you, using God-ly examples to display my message.

When you think of a community, town or city, these things consist of people and groups that are working together to complete one task… to keep the town running. All communities consist see FCA, page 5A

Lamar Democrat, Lamar, MO www.lamardemocrat.com Wednesday, October 16, 2013 • 5A

SCHOOL

DRIVE CAREFULLY!SCHOOL’S OPEN!

Allison Talbott with her watercolor tiger she created in Mrs. Cross’ art class. She is � ve years old and in kindergarten at Lamar East Primary.

Riley Johanson is holding her metallic paint and mixed media imitation of Gustav Klimt’s “Tree of Life” that she created in Mrs. Cross’ art class. She is eleven years old and in � fth grade at Lamar West Elementary.

Jacob Pugh, son of Amanda Crockett, is the sixth grade Student of the Week at Lamar Middle School. Jacob likes playing outside with his siblings. He plays soccer. He has a kitten and her name is Butterscotch.

Gabi Miller, daughter of Dr. Erik and Brenda Miller, is the seventh grade Lamar Middle School Student of the Week. Gabi does cross country, basketball and track. She loves to read anything about Greek mythology. She wants to be an artist when she grows up.

Taylor Inman, daughter of James and Karry Inman, is the eighth grade Lamar Middle School Student of the Week. Taylor’s favorite sports are soccer and basketball. Math is her favorite subject. Also in her spare time she likes to draw and listen to music.

STAR Students of the Week

STAR Students of the Week at Lamar East Primary are, third row, left to right, Skyler Crockett, Connor Willhite, Kyle Riggs and Sophie Bronson; second row, Kaidence Wise, Cooper Haun, McKinley Bishop, Jaycee Doss and Kenzie McManis; � rst row, Kinsley Potter, Phiona Read, Brenna Morey and Maggy Jo Thompson.

The character trait at Golden City School for the month of September was Respect. Students recognized were, back row, left to right, London Beck, sixth grade; Ben Wilhelm, � fth grade; Ry-Lynn Owens, fourth grade; Thomas Banta, third grade; front row, Spencer Parrill, kindergarten; Robby Sta� ord, � rst grade, and Kollin Lorenz, second grade.

Respect is Golden City School trait of the month

of certain people that are used for a speci� c pur-pose. For example, bank-ers help control the mon-ey and lend people money when needed, builders/repairmen work to keep things up and running for the community, police-men and � re� ghters work to keep the community safe, teachers educate our children and many more. All people are used to do their job in order to keep the community function-ing. � e same goes for a church family. Everyone is part of a body that is used to spread the word of God. � e fact about a church family that most people do not understand is that all members are considered equal in God’s eyes. For example, the pastor of a church is not any more important than a 14-year-old boy that comes to church.

So the question that is commonly asked is “How does a community relate to God having a plan for our life?” A community is a commonly used ex-ample because with one of their members miss-ing, a community would lack. For example, if La-mar, Missouri didn't have police o� cers, our town would be full of crime, so God put them there to keep our town safe. God has a plan for every hu-man being. Right now God has planned that at 7:30 a.m. on September 25 of 2013 you would be

standing at the middle school � agpole rejoicing in his name. A verse that represents God’s plans for us is Jeremiah 29:11. � is verse states that all life has value and God doesn’t make mistakes. When God created you he had a magni� cent plan and purpose for your life. We all have a place in God’s plan to use our talents, time and abilities to glo-rify God. Some of you are great in encouraging oth-ers. Many of you God will use to teach others about him. Others God will use to li� other people up as amazing prayer warriors. In whatever way God’s using your talent he has an amazing purpose for your life.

Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Be-fore I formed you in your mother’s womb, I knew you.” So next time when you are doubting God’s plan and purpose for your life, remember He created you and He loves you, and He has an awesome plan for you. God’s word says that we can make our own plans, but the Lord establishes our every step. God has a unique purpose for ev-ery person and for every-thing that happens to us. GOD is in control. Trust Him because He knows what He is doing.

Remember, God’s plans for you are more amazing than you can ever imag-ine - and de� nitely worth living for.

FCA, continued from page 4A


SportSTigers host big cross country meet

By CHRIS MORROWLamar Democrat

[email protected]

The Lamar Tigers cross country program hosted a well attended meet at the Lamar Country Club last week and the Tigers impressed on their own turf, taking third in the boys varsity race among a field of 19 teams.

The Tigers were led by Kaden Overstreet who ran a 16:51.95, good enough for second place out of 137 runners. Nich-olas Ray finished eighth, running a 17:21.26. Zane Hull took 10th with a 17:38.78. Peyton Bailey took 33rd place with a 19:02.10. Chase Moore finished 46th with a time of 19:25.02. Jasper Mesner also finished in the top half, as did Jesse Compton. Stockton won the meet with Webb City finishing second.

On the girls side, the Lady Tigers didn't have enough runners to post a team score, but Kaelyn

Sturgell gave the home crowd something to cheer for, finishing 11th out of a field of 79 with a time of 21:51.27.

Other finishers of note: Lamar's Garrett Morey and Brenden Kelley fin-ished sixth and eighth

respectively in the middle school race while Parker King chipped in with a 21st place finish. Kevin Clements took fourth in the junior varsity boys’ race, while Kip Roland took 11th. Hanna Lee paced the young Lady Ti-

gers in the middle school girls’ race by taking 14th place.

This marks the largest meet that the Tigers have hosted. They will also host the district meet No-vember 2.

Lamar Democrat/Chris MorrowLamar’s Kaelyn Sturgell (center) jockeys for position during the early

stages of the cross country race last week at the Lamar Country Club. The meet has grown each year and was extremely well attended. Sturgell finished 11th in the field of 79 runners.

Jasper blanks Wheaton in Class 1 District 3 championship game

JASPER-Pitcher Au-tumn Frickenschmidt struck out eight batters and pitched a two hit-ter as top-seeded Jasper blanked No. 2 Whea-ton in the championship game of the Class 1 Dis-trict 3 tournament, with a final score of 9-0. The game was played Thurs-day, Oct. 10.

The Eagles (13-9) will host a sectional game to-day (Wednesday) against the District 4 winner. Walnut Grove (12-8) and Dadeville (10-12) played Friday at Halfway.

Jasper finished with 15 hits including a home run and double by Lexie Royster and a triple by Liz Dickson.

Lamar comes away empty handed against CassvilleThe Cassville Wild-

cats visited Thomas O’Sullivan Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 10 and left with nothing to brag about.

The seventh grade were going for the record for number of ties in a sea-son and the eighth grade were just wanting to leave a mark of two un-defeated seasons. The seventh grade game had its ups and downs, but a 12-6 halftime lead for the

Tigers was short lived as the Wildcats scored in the third, taking it to 12-12. All things were nip and tuck and with two minutes left Cassville was on a breakaway 50 yard touchdown run, but was caught from behind on the 10 yard line at first and goal.

The Tiger D stiffened and held. Thirty seconds wasn’t enough to score for the Tigers, so once again the Tigers pulled out the

tie, taking them to 2-0-2 on the season – undefeat-ed, but the ties don’t set well with the team.

The eighth grade dis-mantled the winless Cats with a 40-0 victory, rush-ing for over 197 yards and airing it out with 144 passing yards. De-fense was clicking on all cylinders and kept the Cats from the end zone, securing the shutout and only allowing 69 to-tal yards. This takes the

eighth grade to a perfect 4-0 record on the season.

The Tigers travel to Au-rora to take on the Houn Dawgs in what could be an epic battle of the un-defeated for the eighth grade and the seventh grade looks to tack on a “W” in the win column, not a “T” in the tie col-umn. Should be a great match-up nonetheless.

Shores wins 600Cheryl Shores

notched varsity volley-ball win number 600 with a 25-7, 25-16 win over Everton on Sep-tember 5. Shores is in

her third year at Pleas-ant Hope, after coach-ing at Lockwood for 28 seasons.

Her team currently stands at 11-5-1.

Overstreet and Ray complete

another 1-2 punchThe varsity cross

country team compet-ed in Nixa on Tuesday, Sept. 24, trying to gain their third win of the season. After pulling out a two point vic-tory at Monett, Lamar would again be compet-ing against Springfield Catholic in the small school division of the Nixa Invitational. Run-ning on a much flatter course Lamar hoped to decrease times and move into a more deci-sive win against the 15 team field.

Coming out of the woods with 200 meters left Nicholas Ray made his move into first place, but teammate Kaden Overstreet wasn’t about to give up his top spot and fought back to catch him at the line. This is the third straight meet that Overstreet and Ray have finished in the top two spots. With the course being

the flattest of the year, times did decrease. Overstreet ran a 16:42 and Ray a 16:43. Zane Hull placed fifth with a time of 17:16. Pey-ton Bailey placed 18th with an 18:38, Chase Moore placed 30th with a 19:16, Jasper Messner placed 35th with a 19:43 and Jesse Compton placed 40th with a 19:58. The team finished in first with 51 points; a 16 point lead over second place.

Kaelyn Sturgell con-tinues to run well, with a fifth place finish out of 65 runners. She ran a 21:26

The junior varsity ran a 2.2 mile course and Harley Hunt placed 65th with a 22:07. On the boys side Kevin Clements ran 15:12 for 42nd, Kip Roland 15:28 for 49th and Christian McCarthy 16:12 for 79th out of 133 run-ners.

Lamar Lady Tigersearn district title,

advance to sectionalCREIGHTON-A home

run by Cassidy Beem in the bottom of the ninth inning boosted the top seeded Lamar Lady Ti-gers softball team past the No. 2 Sherwood Lady Marksmen in the champi-onship game of the Class 2 District 6 tournament held October 11.

The Tigers (21-3) will play a sectional game today (Wednesday) at Pierce City.

Lamar’s Emmie Rob-ertson and Sherwood’s Amy Atkin battled in a pitching duel for eight in-nings, with three hits be-ing allowed by Robertson in the first inning. All of the hits were bunt singles by Sherwood, loading the bases with one out. Rob-

ertson struck out the next two hitters to end the in-ning and did not allow a hit the rest of the game. She finished the game with 20 strikeouts and one walk.

It looked like the two teams were heading into extra innings when Ryan O’Sullivan walked with two outs in the Lamar ninth and Robertson was intentionally walked. This was Robertson’s fifth intentional walk in the game. Beem slammed a 0-1 pitch over the left field fence for her sixth homer of the season.

The Lamar Lady Ti-gers collected nine hits, including three each by Beem and Addie Maberry and two by Bryn Fanning.

Tigers bounce back with win over CubsBy CHRIS MORROW

Lamar [email protected]

MONETT-The Lamar

Tigers bounced back af-ter their only loss of the season by hammering Monett Friday night 47-0 to move to 6-1 on the sea-son.

Senior running back Jared Beshore was back at full speed after an injury that slowed him in re-cent weeks and he got the scoring going early with a seven yard run. He then added a 65 yard run as the Tigers went up 12-0.

Following a Levi Pe-tersen scoring run of five yards, the Tiger de-fense turned up the heat. Landon Compton made a tackle for little gain on first down and Ben Bai-ley sacked Zack Ham-mond for a big loss on second down. A fumbled exchange and a recovery by the Tigers set the of-fense up at the Monett three and Beshore scored on the next play. His two point conversion run gave the visiting Tigers a 28-0 lead with 6:41 to play in the first half.

Johnny Brooks made a third down tackle to

force a three-and-out for Monett on their ensuing possession and the snap to the punter was over his head and rolled into the end zone. Monett took a safety and the Tigers led 30-0.

Petersen added a touch-down late in the half on a 42 yard run when he seemed to be stopped in the backfield, but broke loose.

The Tigers led 37-0 at the break.

Danny Embry added a six yard scoring run and Todd Morrow booted a 28 yard field goal to set the scoring.

Petersen led the ground attack with 124 yards on 17 carries. Beshore had 95 yards on eight attempts. In all, the Tigers ran for 309 yards behind an of-fensive line that dominat-ed the trenches.

Jed Stahl and Bailey each had eight tackles to pace the Tigers and Bailey finished with two sacks.

The Tigers (4-1 in league play) will host Big 8 Conference foe East Newton Friday night. The homecoming coronation will take place prior to the game, which kicks off at 7 p.m.

Lamar Democrat/Chris MorrowLamar’s Ben Bailey sacks Monett passer Zach

Hammond during the Tigers win Friday night.

William G. Long, 55, was arrested on October 8, following the discovery of approximately 265 pounds of marijuana plants being grown behind his property in the area of SW 90th Rd. and 10th Lane.

Sheriff, continued from page 1A

Lamar Democrat/Chris MorrowLevi Petersen finds running room during the

Tigers victory over Monett.

ing behind the property. A warrant was issued for William G. Long, 55, who was not present at the time. Long turned him-self in on Tuesday, Oct.

8, at the Barton County Courthouse. Deputy Sheriff Robert “Bob” Holt took Long into custody and he was transported back to the sheriff ’s of-

fice where he later posted bond on a $50,000 cash or surety bond and was released.

A report of a stolen truck was made Septem-

ber 29. The truck was stolen from the property of John Davis at the inter-section of Hwys. 43 and

160. The truck was later found in Galena, Kan. In-vestigation continues.

All of the accused are

not considered guilty un-til proven so by a court of law.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 • Section B

BCMH to participate in national pilot project to improve care

Barton County Memorial Hospital (BCMH) will partici-pate in a national pilot project for small rural hospitals focus-ing on transfers from the emer-gency department. The project is supported by Primaris and funded through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser-vices (CMS). The Missouri Of-fice of Primary Care and Rural Health is also working in part-nership on this effort. Missouri is one of eight states participat-ing in the pilot project.

While emergency care is im-portant in all hospitals, it is par-ticularly critical in rural hospi-tals where the distance from urban medical centers makes the effective triage, stabiliza-tion and transfer of patients

essential. For example, when a patient arrives at BCMH’s emergency department need-ing time-sensitive care that includes transfer to a tertiary care center, BCMH’s ability to quickly assess, arrange and get the patient out the door with the necessary and appropriate information can be of life or death importance.

Data indicating how well a rural hospital serves this im-portant care transition role is not currently widely available. This new pilot project will pro-vide and support for BCMH and other rural hospitals to be trained to collect informa-tion on emergency department transfer communication and use the data to improve quality

of care, safety and outcomes for patients transferred from their emergency departments.

Dr. Jeremy Sturgell, BCMH emergency department medi-cal director, states "Being a part of this workgroup gives us the opportunity to focus even more intently on improving the lives of the people who live and work in our community. Trans-ferring patients to the appropri-ate facilities to receive special-ized medical or trauma care is one of the most important roles of our emergency department. We are very excited and eager to be part of this project to re-search and develop systems for critical access hospitals to understand and improve the transfer process."

Good Samaritan Shop to be awarded $5,000 grant from

Ozarks Food HarvestSPRINGFIELD- The Good

Samaritan Shop will be pre-sented with a $5,000 gift from Ozarks Food Harvest, the re-gional food bank, thanks to a grant OFH received from the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program in August. The funds will be awarded once The Good Samaritan Shop raises the amount of the matching grant dollar-for-dollar. It will then be used to help feed in-dividuals in need in Barton County.

This is the fourth annual gift from the Walmart Founda-tion’s State Giving Program that Ozarks Food Harvest has offered to its agencies as the “Walmart Hunger Challenge” matching grant opportunity. Ozarks Food Harvest received grant requests from 47 of its more than 200 partner food pantries and programs, to-taling $158,500. Because the Walmart grant was $125,000, food bank officials say they are fulfilling all 47 requests, but not all will receive the full amount requested.

“As the only food bank in our region, we do more than provide food for pantries and hunger-relief programs,” said Bart Brown, OFH president/CEO. “We offer food safety training and educational tools, warehousing, distribution, food sourcing and more. We’re very proud to offer financial as-sistance as well. Over the past three years we’ve awarded one million dollars in pass-through grants to support food pur-chases, equipment and pro-gram support.”

“By providing a dollar-to-dollar match we’re helping our agencies fundraise in their own communities,” Brown said.

“Pantries’ local supporters like the idea of their donation mak-ing double the impact. The matching opportunity from the food bank also challenges our member organizations to get out and spread the word about the complex issue of hunger in our area. We’re feeding more people than ever before and this simply wouldn’t be pos-sible without the support from the Walmart Foundation’s State Giving Program.”

Through the State Giving Program, the Walmart Foun-dation supports organizations that create opportunities so people can live better. The pro-gram strives to award grants that have a long-lasting, posi-tive impact on communities across the U.S.

“The Walmart Foundation is very pleased to be support-ing Ozarks Food Harvest, and is committed to helping those in need in the communities where we serve,” said Walmart Market Manager Skip Tinney. “Through this grant we are hopeful that Missourians will continue to be served by their network of food banks.”

Last year in Missouri, Walmart, Sam’s Club locations and the Walmart Foundation awarded more than $31 million to local organizations.

Since 2010 Ozarks Food Har-vest has awarded more than 100 pass-through grants utiliz-ing gifts from Walmart totaling $350,000, leveraging the State Giving Program’s donations to $700,000. Ozarks Food Harvest was the first of six food banks in Missouri to grant awards to its partner nonprofits and has been recognized nationally for being a food bank that provides funding to its partners.

Engineering firm visits commission about bridge replacement

By RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

[email protected]

LAMAR-Two representatives from Great River Associates of Springfield, the engineer-ing firm responsible for the design of a bridge replacement on Northwest 100th Road, met with the Barton County Com-mission, September 30. Great River had signed a contract for the project on July 29, and this was its first meeting with the commission since that time. Steve Brown discussed the bridge design and noted that the new bridge will have the same water flow space beneath it as the old span. Toby Steven-son discussed accounting pro-cedures in payment for engi-neering services and observed that the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has recently modified the con-tent of agreements between lo-

cal governments and contrac-tors. He said that most such contracts that formerly were about three pages long now might include as many as 30 to 35 pages. He observed, “It has simplified things for MoDOT but has confused everyone else.”

Later on September 30, the commission met with Darin Hamlink, area engineer for MoDOT, about the financing of the planned four new bridg-es in Barton County. Under the Bridge Replacement Off Road System, commonly known as the BRO program, the county pays 20 percent of the cost of a bridge with credits for “soft” matching funds, and MoDOT pays the remaining 80 percent with federal funds. The com-mission is nearly $200,000 short in having enough soft matching fund credits to pay the 20 percent for all four bridges. Consequently, the

commission proposes to pur-chase the soft matching credits from Greene County, which has accumulated credits of ap-proximately $750,000, likely more than it needs. It would be a bargain for Barton County if Greene County agrees to sell credits on a two for one ratio, two dollars of credits for one dollar in cash. Presiding Com-missioner Mike Davis said the bridges definitely will be built using soft matching funds and whatever cash is required.

Hamlink said he would con-tact the Greene County Com-mission to learn if they are will-ing to sell some of their credits.

BRO bridges are paid for on a reimbursement basis. The county pays the total cost up front and then is reimbursed by MoDOT.

Actual construction of the four BRO bridges in Barton County is not likely to begin until early 2014.

Final Descent Outdoors to be

hosted by Oakton Methodist ChurchOakton Methodist Church will host Bray Clay of Final

Descent Outdoors during their October Crusade to be held Sunday, Oct. 20 through Tuesday, Oct. 22. There will be two services, Sunday at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., as well as a 7 p.m. service on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The church is located at 318 S. J Hwy., west of Lamar. A love offering will be taken each evening.

Final Descent Outdoors was formed in 2009 with a goal to not only produce great outdoor television, but to repre-sent the Creator of it all, God. Final Descent Outdoors is going into its third year of being a national hunting show and their fifth year overall. With staff scattered from Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, they are yearly able to har-vest some great deer and capture some amazing footage for their viewers to enjoy. As a faith based program they want to be a positive message through their words, as well as their actions on and off camera.

Final Descent prides themselves on keeping priorities straight - Faith, Family and Hunting. They serve their churches, provide for their families and use their God given passion for hunting to reach outdoorsman for the Lord. The goal of Final Descent Outdoors is to produce the absolute best outdoor television possible for fans and feature sponsors and their products that help make them successful in the woods.

They are passionate about hunting, but they are also passionate about their faith in Jesus Christ. In life, as well as the show, their goal is to make God look good. Final Descent wants to allow its viewers to walk with them through the unforgettable moments, the laughs and the heartbreaks. Aren’t those the emotions that bring us back to the woods over and over again?

Brad Clay grew up in a tiny town in western Oklahoma where hunting and fishing was a way of life. The Lord called Brad into youth ministry and for the last 12 years Brad served in Oklahoma as a youth pastor. Brad uses his love for the outdoors to minister to students, as well as others. Brad founded Final Descent Outdoors as an out-reach in his church. Brad travels the country challenging men and others through the outdoors to follow Christ. Brad also authors Bible studies and other material for out-doorsman.

Please join them each evening to listen to Brad share his story and the message he has to offer. Childcare will be provided from birth to five years. The church will also have a Children’s Crusade On The Go for first through sixth grades. For more information check out their web-site at oaktonunitedmethodist.org or call the church office at 682-2042.

Lamar Democrat/Melody MetzgerPrairie View Landfill held its annual open house on Thursday, Oct. 10. The weather was

perfect for a barbecue lunch, complete with beans, potato salad, potato chips, a fruit and vegetable tray, desserts and drinks, served from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., followed by a complete tour of the landfill for those desiring to learn more about the operation. The landfill has 25 years of life left on it, with 114 acres being permitted to hold waste.

Prairie View Landfill’s annual open house

Petition filed to disincorporate BurgessBy RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

[email protected]

LAMAR-A petition was filed with the Barton County Com-mission, October 7, to disin-corporate the village of Burgess. Only one name, Linda Cole-man, a resident of Burgess, was on the petition. Just one name is required if the conditions of section 80.580 of the Missouri constitution are met. The ap-plicable portion of that section states, “. . . if the voters of such village shall fail for one year to elect . . . trustees, then such vil-lage shall be disincorporated by the county commission of the county where the village is lo-cated, upon the petition of any citizen residing in such village,

after the publication of notice of the presentation of such pe-tition published for two weeks successively prior to such ap-plication in some newspaper in this state nearest the village.” The newspaper would be the Liberal News. Projected pub-lication dates are the 17th and 24th. Coleman is scheduled to appear before the commission again on the 28th.

Burgess had a population of 57 when the 2010 census was taken. That represented a de-cline of 13 from the 2000 cen-sus. Surprisingly, Burgess was incorporated in 1893, making it the fourth oldest incorporated community in Barton County. It has not had an elected gov-ernment for many years. Efforts by the Barton County Clerk to

secure a list of candidates for the April municipal election have been ignored. About 10 years ago, an effort was made by a reform minded citizen to revive local government in the village, and a list of unopposed candidates was submitted for the board of trustees. The board met once or twice be-fore the reformer moved away. With no leadership, the board never met again, and fell back into its prior governmentless condition.

Burgess sits abutted to the Kansas state line and is at-tached to the Mulberry, Kan. municipally operated natural gas system. It secures electrical service from KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations.

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Dade County Commission explains changes in SEMA and FEMA fundingBy CAROLYN HEAD

Dade County reporter

GREENFIELD-� e Dade County Commis-sion met at 9 a.m. on Sep-tember 30. Present were Presiding Commissioner Randy Daniel, Eastern Commissioner Dallas Maxwell and Western

Commissioner David Rusch.

Discussion centered on township status at this time and it was also mentioned that Melinda Wright, the county clerk, was in mandatory train-ing the week before at Lake of the Ozarks.

Bills to be paid for Sep-tember were reviewed,

with several items being questioned. All were ap-proved a� er knowledge of the items questioned was satisfactory. A mo-tion was made to approve the creation of an Inmate Security Fund. Two yes votes followed. � e deci-sion was made in order to retain the funds locally versus sending to the

state.Dan Long was present

to discuss the bridge on FR 181. Any entrance that is disturbed by the bridge work will be � xed as good, or a better con-dition. Discussion also regarded tinhorns at the present job site. Daniel explained some changes in SEMA and FEMA

funding and there will have to be a reevaluation in scheduling projects to qualify under the new regulations.

Tim Chiles with A� ac met with the commission regarding open enroll-ment for county health insurance. He was avail-able to speak with anyone wanting to enroll.

� e minutes from Sep-tember 23 were unani-mously approved as read. � e fuel logs of law enforcement were also unanimously approved. � ese were the gas logs from March through August 2013 from the sheri� ’s department, as per an audit comment regarding the gas usage logging.

� e old bank building situation was discussed, along with the advan-tages and possibilities of usage by various county o� ces now in need of

space. Advantages for now and possibly in the future were discussed, as well as some of the con-cerns to be considered. � e general feeling was that they would need to do more inquiring of other departments in the county that would share the space, along with future advantages. � e overall consensus seemed to be on the positive side. No commitment has been made to date.

� e salary commission date will possibly be No-vember 12. � e commis-sion received a petition from concerned citizens regarding CAFO permits.

� e commission trav-eled to check on the bridge on FR 181, FR 182 and the junction of FR 142 and FR 21 to look at a culvert.

� e meeting adjourned to meet again on October 7.

Southwest Missouri � eld crop report

Jill Scheidt, agronomy specialist with University of Missouri Extension in Barton County, scouted area � elds in southwest Missouri on October 9, to prepare this week’s � eld scouting report.

� is week Scheidt found grasshoppers and bean leaf beetles feeding on double crop soybeans.

“As long as leaves are green and seeds are

green, pod feeding in-sects remain a threat to the crop. If leaves and seeds have begun to turn color and mature, insects are no longer a threat be-cause pod feeding insects feed on seeds when they are most tender,” said Scheidt.

� e threshold level for pod feeding insects oc-curs when insects are present and have dam-

aged � ve percent or more of pods. Scheidt also notes that ma-turing soybean plants are less prone to disease.

“When plant-ing wheat, wait until a� er Octo-ber 10 to plant � elds that are south of the Vernon County line. � ose in or north of Ver-non County may plant wheat a� er October 6,” said

Scheidt.� ese are the Hessian-

� y-free dates. Accord-ing to Scheidt, planting wheat before these dates increases the odds of Hessian � ies laying eggs in emerging wheat crops.

“Severe yield lost will

occur in wheat if eggs are laid,” said Scheidt.

Sponsors of this weekly � eld scouting report are University of Missouri Extension and Barton County Extension. For more information on this scouting report, or to learn how to receive it a week earlier by tele-phone, contact the MU Extension Center in Barton County at (417) 682-3579.

Bean leaf beetle.

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BARTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER LUNCH MENU: October 21-25MONDAY- Chicken

and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, wheat roll, sliced peaches, co� ee/tea/milk.

TUESDAY- Taco salad with meat, beans, cheese,

lettuce and tomatoes, mixed fruit, tostitos, fro-zen sherbet, co� ee/tea/milk.

WEDNESDAY- Sau-sage patties and gravy, oven hash browns, orange

juice, biscuit, apple, cof-fee/tea/milk.

THURSDAY- Sliced baked turkey and gravy, broccoli and cheese cas-serole, buttered carrots, wheat roll, fruit � u� , cof-

fee/tea/milk.FRIDAY- Chili with

beans and shredded cheese, coleslaw, tomato juice, crackers, cinnamon roll, co� ee/tea/milk.

REXMCMILLAN

JASPER-Services were held at 2 p.m. � ursday at Daniel Funeral Home for Bobby Rex McMillan, 72, Jasper, who died Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin. Burial and military hon-ors will be conducted at Memory Gardens Cem-etery.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the American Heart Associa-tion, in care of the funer-al home.

Condolences may be le� at www.danielfuner-alhome.net.

Survivors include his wife, Donna Joan; a

son, Robert McMillan and wife Marie, Louis-ville, Ky.; three daugh-ters, Natalie Burrell, Fair Grove, Peggy McMillan, Pleasant Hope and Sha-ron Elliott and husband Charles, Carthage; a brother, Louis McMil-lan and wife Betty, Bella Vista, Ark.; nine grand-children, Dena, Ricky, Mickey, Brandie, Paul, Alana, Eva, Katherine and Nathan, and nine great-grandchildren, Kaylee, Mario, Mitchel, Lilli, Nadia, Lysander, Al-lison, Jr., and Jaden.

Mr. McMillan was born May 15, 1941, at Benton-ville, Ark., to Raymond Horton and Martha Edith (Wilkerson) McMillan. He graduated high school in Spring� eld in 1959. He was a truck driver for Butterball in Carthage until he was disabled 24 years ago.

He married Donna Joan Bays on Dec. 22, 1982, at Miami, Okla.

GENEVA L. HOHLBAUCH

ALTON, Ill.-Servic-es were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at the First Baptist Church in Clay City for Geneva L. Hohlbauch, 88, Alton, a former Clay City resi-dent, who died Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, at Rosewood Care Center in Alton. Rev. Brad Harris o� ci-ated. Burial was in Clay City Cemetery.

Arrangements were under the direction of Summers-Kistler Funeral Home in Clay City.

Memorial contributions

may be made to the First Baptist Church in Clay City.

Online condolences may be le� at www.sum-mers-kistler.com.

Survivors include two sons, Bob Hohlbauch and wife Judy, Decatur, and Charles Hohlbauch and wife Karen, Alton; two daughters, Brenda Ragan and Elizabeth Hull and husband Rod, Quenemo, Kan.; a sister, Virginia Kaiser, Ohio; grandchil-dren, Je� Hohlbauch, Leslie Mills, Ron, Mike and Travis Ragan, Blake Strother and Amy Hull; 13 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson; a great-great-granddaugh-ter, Natalie, due anytime and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by brothers, Leo, Don, Gail, Richard and Robert; sisters, Dorothy Jennings, Floetta Lof-ton, Audrey Broadwater, Ivanell Case and Elaine Brown and a great-great-grandson, Alex Mills.

Mrs. Hohlbauch was born April 5, 1925, in Louisville, to Dick and Franke (Rinehart) John-son. She was retired from AMF in Olney in 1988. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Clay City, a member of the Clay City Senior Cen-ter, Eastern Star and La-dies Shrine Club of Car-thage.

She was known for the jelly she made and while living in Lamar, Mo., she won numerous � rst place ribbons at county fairs.

She married Charles William Hohlbauch in 1942. He preceded her in death in 1984. She mar-ried Eddie DeMaire in 1988. He died in 2007.

GAYLE GARRETTRURAL LAMAR-Ser-

vices were held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Daniel Fu-neral Home for Gayle L. Garrett, 82, rural Lamar, who died early Wednes-day morning, Oct. 9, 2013, at Truman Health-care Center, where he had been a resident for the past three weeks. Burial was in Girard City Cemetery.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to Truman Area Transpor-tation Service (T.A.T.S.) in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be sent at www.danielfuner-alhome.net.

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Garrett, of the home; four sons and their wives, Bill and Colleen Garrett, Golden City, Bob and Juanell Garrett, LaHarpe, Kan., Larry and Dawn Garrett, Jasper and Gerry and Robbin Garrett, Lamar; 13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and a large extended family.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Loren Garrett, and a sister, Na-dine Piolette.

Mr. Garrett was born Dec. 28, 1930, near Co-lumbus, Kan., to Charles and Addie Mae (Shearer) Garrett. A� er graduating from Girard High School in 1948 he went to North Dakota, where he worked for the U.S. Geological Department. He returned to Girard, Kan. and he and his wife reared their family on dairy farms in southeastern Kansas. In addition to being a dairy-

man he also worked in a soybean plant and deliv-ered gas and propane.

In 1979 he and his wife brought their dairy op-eration to Barton Coun-ty, milking until 1992. A� er retiring he was ac-tive in his community as a driver for Lamar En-terprises, T.A.T.S., ABC Transportation and the Lucky Dime newspa-per. He was a member of Oakton United Method-ist Church.

He married Elizabeth D. Humble on June 28, 1952.

NANCY I.THOMAS

GOLDEN CITY-Ser-vices were held at 10 a.m. Monday at Konantz Warden Chapel for Nan-cy Irene � omas, 62, Golden City, who died Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin. Minister Rob Wilson o� ciated. Burial was in Memory Gardens in Lamar.

Musical selections in-cluded “Wave on Wave”, “� e Old Rugged Cross” and “In � e Garden”.

� e obituary may be viewed and condolenc-es sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include her husband, James � omas, of the home; a brother, Richard Leivan, Iantha; her mother, Ruth Tyler, Golden City; two step-children, Dewey � omas, Springdale, Ark. and Jea-nette Salzman, Golden City; her stepmother, Mary Leivan, Lamar; an aunt, Eunice Walker, Lamar and an extended family.

She was preceded in death by her father, Ray-mond; a brother, Ronald, and a stepdaughter, Ar-lene � omas Baldwin.

Mrs. � omas was born Oct. 21, 1950, to Ray-mond and Ruth (Baetke) Leivan. She was a gradu-ate of Lee’s Summit High School. She had worked at O’Sullivan Industries, Golden City Foundry, the cap factory in Lockwood and was a self-employed house cleaner.

She married James � omas on Oct. 1, 1998.

WENDEL GLENN KENT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-A me-morial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at New Life Church in Colorado Springs for Wendel Glenn Kent, 81, a longtime resident of Col-orado Springs, who died � ursday, Sept. 26, 2013.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the National Parkinson Foundation, P.O. Box 5018, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5018, www.Par-kinson.org or by calling 800-327-4545.

Survivors include his former spouse, Shir-ley Ann Kent, Fremont, Calif.; three sons, Mark Kent and wife Kim, Fort Collins, Brad Kent, Little-ton, and Patrick Kent and wife Andra, Irvine, Calif.; a daughter, Anne Marie Wickstrom and husband James, Pleasant Hill, Ca-lif. and grandchildren, Evan and Ella Kent, Gra-cie Schweizer and Aidan Kent and Owen and Ivy Wickstrom; a brother,

Howard Kent and wife Linda, Richardson, Texas, and nieces Kathy Crouch, Richardson, Texas and Nancy Townsend, Cedar Park, Texas.

Mr. Kent was born Oct. 27, 1931, in Golden City, Mo., to Charles Raymond and Beulah Bessie Kent. He grew up on their farm in the small com-munity and then proudly served in the U.S. Army,

stationed in Germany. He was a 1958 gradu-ate of the University of Missouri with a Bach-elor of Science degree in Agriculture. He began a career in real estate in the early 1960’s, sell-ing homes in the Kansas City area, then moved his family to Castle Rock. � ere he became a real estate broker and began developing real estate in

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A CARD SHOWER IS BEING HELD FOR Hugo and Mary Schiernbeck, who will celebrate their 67th wedding anniversary on Friday, Oct. 25. � ey would love to hear from family and friends. � ey now re-side at Maple Senior Living, 3 SW 1st Lane, Lamar, Mo. 64759.THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ENJOY an evening with Johnstons and Friends at the Newport Commu-nity building on Saturday, Oct. 19, 5 p.m. to ? Food will be available by the Newport Needle Club.THE AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE will be at the First Baptist Church in Lamar on Mon-day, Oct. 21, 12 noon to 6 p.m. � e church is located at 1301 E. 6th St., Lamar.THE BARTON COUNTY SINGING Convention will be held Sunday, Oct. 27, 2 p.m., at the Method-ist Church in Iantha. All are invited for this non-de-nominational quarterly fellowship.THE LAMAR TRACK TEAM WILL BE awarded their state championship rings at hal� ime of the homecoming football game on Friday, Oct. 18.A HARVEST BLOCK PARTY WILL BE held at the Lamar United Methodist Church, 900 Poplar, on Sunday, Oct. 27, 3:30 to 7 p.m. � is is a free event with free food and entertainment. � ere will also be a hayride, in� atables, trunk or treat and live music, in-cluding the Branson group, “Abundance”. Bring your own lawn chairs and join them.RICHLAND TOWNSHIP BOARD WILL meet � ursday, Oct. 17, 1 p.m., at the home of clerk Dale Huber, 694 SE 40th Lane.THE BARTON COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD of Trustees will meet � ursday, Oct. 24, 9:30 a.m., at the Mary K. Finley Library in Lamar. � e tentative agenda will include (1) � nancial report review in-cluding approval of bills paid, (2) minutes and (3) director’s report.MISS MERRY CHRISTMAS PAGEANT registra-tion for girls residing in Barton County in grades K-12 will be held Monday, Oct. 21, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the Lamar United Methodist Church, 9th and Poplar. Forms may be picked up at the Barton County Cham-ber o� ce. � e pageants will be held December 6 and 7. For information call Christy Heins at 681-0477 or Ann Killmon, 682-3642, co-chairs.BARTON COUNTY MU EXTENSION will hold a free composting workshop during the Lamar Farm-ers’ Market on Saturday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m., at the Moore Pavilion. � is free workshop will include ways to compost, what can be composted, composting tech-niques, building your own compost bin and com-post problem solving. For information call the Bar-ton County Extension o� ce at 417-682-3579.LAMAR CITY OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED � ursday, Oct. 17, for a mandatory training day. � ere will not be sanitation service on this day. � e taxi will be in service.FIBER ARTS GUILD WILL MEET � ursday, Oct. 17, 9 a.m., at Denny’s in Lamar. Gwen Deseure will bring the program. Roll call will be a Fall or Hallow-een poem or item.VFW POST 3691 AND LADIES AUXILIARY will meet Monday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., in the basement of Lamar Memorial Hall. A potluck supper will be held before the meeting at 6:30 p.m. All veterans are welcome.CALICO CLIPPERS OF STOCKTON WILL hold a Colors of Stockton Quilt Show Friday and Satur-day, Oct. 18 and 19, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Ray Zum-walt Expo Center, south of Stockton on Hwy. 39 to Hwy. RB. Follow signs to the expo center. � ere will be a quilt ra� e, food court, vendors, door prizes and plenty of parking.U.S. SENATOR ROY BLUNT’S STAFF will host a Listening Post Meeting Wednesday, Oct. 16, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., at the Barton County Courthouse. Lis-tening Posts are intended for Missourians to share their questions and concerns during meetings with members of Senator Blunt’s sta� . To reach the Sena-tor’s O� ce of Constituent Services call 573-634-2488 or send a letter to 308 E. High St., Suite 202, Je� er-son City, Mo. 65101.THERE WILL BE A STORY TIME AT the Mary K. Finley Library in Lamar on each Wednesday in Oc-tober, at 10 a.m. � e programs are designed for chil-dren from three to six years, but all ages are invit-ed to attend. Programs are free and no registration is required.THERE WILL BE STORY TIME programs at the Golden City branch of the Barton County Library on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 10:30 a.m. � e programs are designed for children from three to six years, but all ages are invited to attend. Programs are free and no registration is required.THE BARTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPART-MENT will give � u vaccine clinics on October 16, 23 and 30, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Private pay or bring Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage or Medicaid card. For information call 417-682-3363.

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DEATHS & PAID MEMORIALS

BIRTH

Holli Renee Borghardt

Scott and Rebekah Borghardt announce the birth of a daugh-ter, Holli Renee, born August 4, 2013. She weighed eight pounds and one ounce and was 21 inches long. She was welcomed home by big sisters, Shelby, Kerri, Gracie and Josie Borghardt.

Maternal grandpar-ents are Doug and Pam Sprouls. Mater-nal great-grandparents are LaVerne Sprouls and Harlan and Joan Schick.


Colorado, Mexico and Belize. He founded The Colorado Land Company and other companies. He had a passion for devel-oping, buying and selling real estate and for flying single-engine aircraft. He founded the Moun-tain West Flying Club in south Denver.

He married Shirley Ann Edwards in April of 1958, in Columbia, Mo.

RONALD MAC DICKENS

RURAL LIBERAL-Graveside services were held at 3 p.m. Monday at Barton City Cemetery in Liberal for Ronald Mac Dickens, 66, rural Lib-eral, who died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, following a long illness. Minister Dalton Windsor offici-ated.

Arrangements were under the direction of Konantz Warden Funeral Home, Lamar.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the

Ron Dickens Agriculture Scholarship at Liberal R-II Schools.

The obituary may be viewed and condolenc-es sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include his wife, Denise Dickens; children, Marty and Te-resa Dickens, Fair Grove, Terri and John Brown, Willard, April Edwards, Liberal, Jeff and Loa Bowne, Independence, and Dr. David Bowne, Phoenix, Ariz.; 15 grand-children; a great-grand-daughter; his mother, Jean Dickens, Springfield, and sisters, Pat Germany,

Springfield and Kathy and Ron Wilken, Preston.

Mr. Dickens was born Aug. 18, 1947, in Spring-field, to Bruce and Jean Dickens. He was reared in the Fair Grove area and was a 1965 gradu-ate of Fair Grove High School. He graduated from SMSU with a de-gree in Agriculture in 1969 and later returned to complete teaching re-quirements for Agricul-tural Education, which he finished in 1987. Early in his life he helped his father Bruce run a dairy farm and later had his own dairy and also be-

came a real estate broker. After moving his fam-ily to Liberal in 1987, he taught Vocational Ag-riculture at Liberal R-II Schools for 24 plus years.

He earned recognition as Teacher of the Year and many other honors as an agricultural educator, as well as moving through the ranks of VoAg Teach-ers in Missouri to finally become their state presi-dent. He was committed to his students and could be found most evenings and weekends working as the FFA advisor or work-ing at school athletic pro-grams.

Mr. Dickens was a successful junior high girls’ basketball coach, as well as a successful high school girls’ softball coach at Liberal Schools for over 20 years. He was also a baseball and soft-ball umpire and basket-ball referee for 20 years. He was able to help some of his students travel to Europe, as well as his tak-ing them on many leader-ship trips to Washington, D.C. and other places in the United States.

He was a member of the Fair Grove Baptist Church.

NOTICE OFTRUSTEE’S SALE

WHEREAS, VICTOR B. DELEPHIMNE, by his Deed of Trust dated August 13, 2009 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Barton County, Missouri, on August 17, 2009 as document # 2009-1081, conveyed to the Trustee therein, the follow-ing described real estate, situated in the County of Barton, State of Missouri, to wit:ALL OF THAT PART OF SEVEN (7) ACRES IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SEC-TION 13, TOWNSHIP 31, RANGE 31, BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURI, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF A FOUR (4) ACRE TRACT IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF NORTHWEST QUAR-TER OF SAID SECTION 13, BEING A POINT 6 CHAINS AND 32 LINKS SOUTH OF THE NORTH-

WEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 13, RUNNING THENCE EAST 24 RODS, THENCE SOUTH 46 AND 2/3 RODS, THENCE WEST 24 RODS, THENCE NORTH 46 AND 2/3 RODS TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, EXCEPT THAT PART HERETO-FORE CONVEYED FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES; AND NOW CONTAIN-ING 3 ACRES MORE OR LESS. SUBJECT TO ALL RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND EASEMENTS OF RE-CORD.which conveyance was made to the Trustee there-in in Trust, to secure the payment of a certain Note in said Deed of Trust de-scribed; and

WHEREAS, default was made and still continues in the payment of said note;

NOW, THEREFORE, at the request of the legal holder of said Note, and pursuant to the provisions of said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Trustee will sell the property above described, at public ven-

due, to the highest bid-der for cash, at the West front door of the Barton County Courthouse in the City of Lamar, Missouri, on Thursday, October 17, 2013 between the hours of 9:00 o’clock in the fore-noon and 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon, specifically at 10:00 a.m. for the pur-pose of satisfying said in-debtedness and the costs of executing this trust.James V. Nichols, Trustee206 West 10th StreetLamar, MO 64759417-682-6003

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURIPROBATE DIVISION

In the Estate of FERN BRATTON, a Disabled Person. Estate No. 13B4-PR00053.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OF DISBALED PERSON

To all persons interested in the estate of FERN BRATTON, a disabled person:

On August 20, 2013, LYNOLA CAREY was appointed Conservator of the estate of FERN BRATTON, a person adjudicated disabled under the laws of Missouri, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri.

The business address of the Conservator is 110 S. Bridge, PO Box 182, Smithville, MO 64089, and her Attorney is Steven H. Kaderly, Kaderly & Kaderly, 114 West 10th Street, Lamar, MO 64759.

All creditors of said disabled person are notified to file their claims in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court.

Date of first publication on September 25, 2013.

By-CHARLES D.

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For default in the payment of debt secured by a deed of trust executed by Sandra R Bean and Shaun M. Bean, dated January 5, 2010, and recorded on January 7, 2010, Document No. 2010-44 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Barton County, Missouri, the undersigned Successor Trustee will on November 4, 2013, at 12:00 PM, at the East Front Door of the Barton County Courthouse, Lamar, Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash:

A tract of land located in the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 29, Township 32 North, Range 32 West, Barton County, Missouri, further described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of said Section 29, thence North 01˚ 27’ 50” East along the East line of said Section 29, a distance of 617 feet; thence South 53˚ 01’ 15” West, a distance of 457.48 feet; thence south 18˚ 39’ 10” West, a distance of 357.34 feet; thence South 89˚ 37’ 28” East along the South line of said Section 29, a distance of 464 feet to the point of beginning, subject to County Road right of way and easements of record, commonly known as 95 Southwest 90th Lane, Liberal, MO, 64762subject to all prior easements, restrictions, reservations, covenants and encumbrances now of record, if any, to satisfy the debt and costs.South & Associates, P.C., Successor Trustee

First Publication: October 9, 2013. For more information, visit www.southlaw.com.

NOTICEPursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.S. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose (Casefile No. 148381 / Invoice No. 148381-665492).

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For default in the payment of debt secured by a deed

of trust executed by Tammy D. Deherrera, dated April 13, 2006, and recorded on April 13, 2006, Document No. 2006-635 in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Barton County, Missouri, the undersigned Successor Trustee will on November 4, 2013, at 12:00 PM, at the East Front Door of the Barton County Courthouse, Lamar, Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash:

All of Lot Ten (10), in RICE’S SUBDIVISION to the City of Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, commonly known as 605 Arthur Aull Road, Lamar, MO, 64759

subject to all prior easements, restrictions, reservations, covenants and encumbrances now of record, if any, to satisfy the debt and costs.

RecoRds/legals

see LEGALS, page 5B

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LEGALS

Deaths, continued from page 3B

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LegaLs/cLassifiedsLegals, continued from page 4B

CLassifieds

Successor TrusteeFirst Publication: October 9, 2013. For more information, visit www.southlaw.com

NOTiCePursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose (Casefile No. 78348 / Invoice No. 78348-666538).

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NOTiCe OfTRUsTee`s saLe

For default under the terms of the Deed of Trust executed by Jacob Good and Kimberly Good, as Husband and Wife, dated May 18, 2001, recorded on May 22, 2001 as Document No. 1217, in Book 464, Page 351, Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Barton County, Missouri, the undersigned Successor Trustee will on Thursday, November 7, 2013, at 12:00 PM at theWest Front Door of the Barton County Courthouse, 1007 Broadway, in Lamar, Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash:

All that part of the

Southwest Quarter of Northwest Quarter of Section twelve (12), Township thirty-one (31), Range thirty-one (31), Barton County, Missouri, described as follows: Beginning at a point 373.62 feet East and 179.53 feet North of the Southwest corner of said Southwest Quarter of Northwest Quarter, thence North 1 degree 07 minutes East, along the East right-of-way line of the East outer-road of U.S. Highway No. 71, 179.53 feet; thence South 89 degrees 29 minutes East 485.27 feet; thence South 1 degree 07 minutes West, 179.53 feet; thence North 89 degrees 29 minutes West 485.27 feet to the point of beginning,

to satisfy said debt and costs.

Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen, P.C.

Successor TrusteeRichard L. Martin, Vice

President(816) 221-1430

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MaRTiN, LeiGH,LaWs & fRiTZLeN, P.C., as sUCCessOR

TRUsTee, is aTTeMPTiNG TO COLLeCT a deBT

aNd aNY iNfORMaTiON

OBTaiNed WiLL

Be Used fOR THaT PURPOse.

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TRUsTee’s saLeiN Re: Patricia JMcCarthy marriedChrist J McCarthy Trustee’s sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation secured by Deed of Trust executed by Patricia J McCarthy married Christ J McCarthy dated December 23, 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Barton County, Missouri as Document No. 2005-2399 the undersigned Successor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note will on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 4:55 PM), at the West Front Door of the Court House, City of Lamar, County of Barton, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Barton County, State of Missouri, to wit: ALL LOT 8, IN BLOCK 37 OF PARRY’S 3RD ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAMAR, BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURI, CONTAINING 0.26 ACRES, MORE OR LESS AND SUBJECT TO EASEMENTS OF RECORD AND ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 1100, AS AMENDED.

to satisfy said debt andcost.

MILLSAP & SINGER,P.C.,

Successor Trustee612 Spirit Drive

St. Louis, MO 63005(636) 537-0110

File No: 155349.111313.315029

FCNOTiCe

Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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iN THe 28TH JUdiCiaL CiRCUiT COURT,

BaRTON COUNTY, MissOURi

Judge or Division: JAMES R BICKEL, Case Number: 13B4-JU00032In the Interest of: D.T.S.LISA ABBOTT, Juvenile Officer, Plaintiff vs.DIONA VALDEZ-DOHLE, Mother andROBERT L SEASON, Father, Defendants

Notice Upon Order for service By Publication

Termination of Parental Rights

The State of Missouri to defendants, Dione Heather-Valdez-Dohle, mother,

and Robert Lee Seaton, father, of the above-named juvenile.

You are notified that an action has been commenced against you in the Circuit Court of Barton County, State of Missouri, at LAMAR, the object and general nature of which is the termination of your parental rights in and to the above-named juvenile.

You are further notified, pursuant to Section 211.462.2 RSMo., of your right to have counsel, and if you request counsel and are financially unable to employ counsel, counsel shall be appointed by the Court.

The names of all the parties to said action are stated above in the caption hereof and the name and address of the plaintiff is Brandi McInroy, Juvenile Officer, 100 W. Cherry, Suite #9, Nevada, MO 64772.

You are further notified that, unless you file an answer or other pleading or shall otherwise appear and defend against the aforesaid petition within forty-five (45) days after the Oct. 16, 2013 (date) judgment by default will be rendered against you.

Witness my hand and seal of the Circuit Court at 11:33 (time) on Oct. 8, 2013 (date).

s-Karen Hines, Clerk10-16,23,30,11-6-4tc

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURIPROBATE DIVISION

In the Estate of HELEN ELIZABETH GRIESHAMMER, Deceased, Estate No. 11B4-PR00025.NOTiCe Of fiLiNG Of

fiNaL seTTLeMeNT aNd PeTiTiON fOR

disTRiBUTiONTO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF HeLeN eLiZaBeTH GRiesHaMMeR, Deceased:

You are hereby notified that the undersigned Personal Representative will file a Final Settlement and Petition for determination of the persons who are the successors in interest to the personal/real property of the decedent and of the extent and character of their interest therein and for distribution of such property, in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri, on November 14, 2013, or as may be continued by the Court, and that any objections or exceptions to such Final Settlement or Petition or any item thereof must be in writing and filed within twenty days after the filing of such Final Settlement.

GEORGE D. NICHOLSNICHOLS & NICHOLS

206 West 10th StreetLamar, Missouri

(417) 682-6003s-MICHELLE LOU

BICKNELLPersonal Representative

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Announcements

alcoholics anony-mous meets every Sun-day, 5 p.m. and Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., in the base-ment of Lamar Memo-rial Hall, 1104 Broad-way. Big Book Study is the second Tuesday of each month. All meet-ings are nonsmoking.

Narcotics anonymous Meetings - Wednes-days, 7:30 p.m., 1104 Broadway, Memorial Hall Basement.

Lost & Found

Reward! Lost Cat – Big Old Gray Boy – had red collar with tag, has sei-zure condition. Missing since Friday, Aug. 23, 702 Gulf St., Lamar, Mo. Please call Carla Scott at 417-682-5255 or 417-214-6031.

Services Offered

House Leveling - floor joists, sill plates, rim joists replaced. Don't have a mess, call the best! 46-years in busi-ness. Larry's General Contracting, 417-623-

8105.

appliance Repair. ap-pliance parts. Miller’s Country Corner. 417-884-2684.Employment

drivers, 60,000+, CdL-A, $2500 sign on, 1 month exp. Same Day Pay! Free Health Ins, No CDL? Free training! On-line app @ www.trailin-er.com 800-769-3993.

substance abuse Counselor, full-time substance abuse coun-selor to provide indi-vidual and group coun-seling in the Joplin/

Lamar area. Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work or counseling with three years experience pro-viding substance abuse counseling required. Master’s degree or Sub-stance Abuse Certifi-cation preferred. Send resume to Human Re-sources, Ozark Center, P.O. Box 2526, Joplin, MO 64803. EOE M/F/V/H.

Miscellaneous For Sale

appliances: Mostly new. Some used. Also appliance parts. Miller’s Country Corner. 417-884-2684.

"Publisher's notice: all real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it il-legal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination be-cause of race, color, re-ligion, sex, handicap, familial status, or na-tional origin, or inten-tion to make any such preference limitation, or discrimination. We will not knowingly ac-cept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby in-formed that all dwell-ings advertised are available on an equal op-

portunity basis".

Mobile Homes for Rent

are You Ready To Move? We have 2 bed-room trailers and hous-es ready to rent. Two rental references a must. 682-2636.

Apartments

Vacancy - scottsdale Apartments - Senior Citizens Housing. Call 682-3589. Mo. TDD 1-800-735-2966. Equal Opportunity Hous-ing. Handicapped units available. Located at

17th and Lexington.

1 Bedroom apartment nicely furnished or un-furnished. Pool, rec room and laundry. Free cable/HBO, water and trash. Short leases avail-able. $200 security de-posit. No pets! In Ne-vada. Starting at $345. 417-667-2633.

sheldon apartments - Nice 1 bedroom apart-ments, furnished or un-furnished. All utilities paid. Starting at $370 per month. Call 417-667-2633.

Homes For Rent

House for Rent – 710 Grand. Very spacious 2 bedroom, attached ga-rage, central heat/air, re-frigerator. Available Oc-tober 13. $450 month, $400 deposit. R&R Rentals, Rosalee Potter, 682-5668.

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AreA NewsWeather Forecast

Wednesday, October 16, 2013Partly Cloudy

High: 59° Low: 42°Sunrise: 7:26 a.m. Sunset: 6:38 p.m.Moonrise: 5:16 p.m. Moonset: 4:58 a.m.UV Index: 5 (Moderate) Humidity: 66%Precipitation: 10% Cloud Coverage: 43%Moon Phase: Waxing GibbouseWind Speed: 11 Mph out of the Northwest

Thursday, October 17, 2013Partly Cloudy

High: 63° Low: 41°Sunrise: 7:27 a.m. Sunset: 6:37 p.m.Moonrise: 5:51 p.m. Moonset: 6:02 a.m.UV Index: 5 (Moderate) Humidity: 66%Precipitation: 10% Cloud Coverage: 12%Moon Phase: Waxing GibbouseWind Speed: 8 Mph out of the Southwest

Friday, October 18, 2013Partly Cloudy

High: 64° Low: 41°Sunrise: 7:28 a.m. Sunset: 6:35 p.m.Moonrise: 6:27 p.m. Moonset: 7:05 a.m.UV Index: 5 (Moderate) Humidity: 63%Precipitation: 10% Cloud Coverage: 47%Moon Phase: Waxing GibbousWind Speed: 8 Mph out of the West/Northwest

Saturday, October 19, 2013Sunny

High: 60° Low: 42°Sunrise: 7:29 a.m. Sunset: 6:34 p.m.Moonrise: 7:04 p.m. Moonset: 8:07 a.m.UV Index: 5 (Moderate) Humidity: 66%Precipitation: 0% Cloud Coverage: 12%Moon Phase: FullWind Speed: 9 Mph out of the Northwest

Sunday, October 20, 2013Sunny

High: 67° Low: 46°Sunrise: 7:30 a.m. Sunset: 6:33 p.m.Moonrise: 7:44 p.m. Moonset: 9:07 a.m.UV Index: 5 (Moderate) Humidity: 65%Precipitation: 0% Cloud Coverage: 1%Moon Phase: Waning GibbousWind Speed: 10 Mph out of the South/Southwest

Monday, October 21, 2013Mostly Sunny

High: 65° Low: 47°Sunrise: 7:31 a.m. Sunset: 6:31 p.m.Moonrise: 8:28 p.m. Moonset: 10:04 a.m.UV Index: 5 (Moderate) Humidity: 73%Precipitation: 0% Cloud Coverage: 11%Moon Phase: Waning GibbousWind Speed: 10 Mph out of the South

Tuesday, October 22, 2013Mostly Sunny

High: 63° Low: 44°Sunrise: 7:32 a.m. Sunset: 6:30 p.m.Moonrise: 9:14 p.m. Moonset: 10:58 a.m.UV Index: 5 (Moderate) Humidity: 72%Precipitation: 0% Cloud Coverage: 18%Moon Phase: Waning GibbousWind Speed: 8 Mph out of the East

Madhatterr Toys & Games is proud to join the Bar-ton County Chamber of Commerce.

Madhatterr Toys carries a full line of toys and games for kids of all ages, from birth to 99. They carry well known brands as Melissa and Doug, Mattel, Fisher Price and Playmobil, with a total of over 100 different brand lines in stock.

Owner James Horton is extremely proud of what the company has been able to accomplish in such a short time. Having launched as a full line toy store in June of this year, they have since expanded and hired seven full time employees.

"Lamar needed this," Horton says. "Every day we hear that from our customers; how much they love our lines and how glad they are that we are here for

them.""When I grew up in my family's dime store, I always

told Dad and Grandpa that I wanted to run the toy aisle," Horton says with a smile. "That was my child-hood dream. Who knew that I would one day turn the entire store into a toy aisle?"

Madhatterr Toys & Games is located on the west side of the square in Lamar, where the original Hor-ton's 5 & 10 was, though it now sports a new look. The interior has been remodeled to fit the new theme.

Childhood memories, or the perfect gift for any oc-casion, all with free lay-away available makes Mad-hatterr Toys & Games the must go destination for the upcoming holiday season.

Madhatterr Toys & Games joins Barton County Chamber of Commerce

Local Republican leader attends event to prepare for 2014 elections

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A local resident joined more than 1,275 other Republican women lead-ers from across the na-tion September 19-22, at the National Federation

of Republican Women’s 37th biennial convention, which focused on leader-ship training in prepara-tion for the 2014 midterm elections.

Linda Shomin, a Liberal

resident and the daughter of the late Bud and Wil-lie Essex, was chosen as one of the seven at-large alternate delegates to represent the Missouri Federation of Republi-can Women. Shomin is also a past president of the Missouri Congressio-nal District 4 Republican Women’s Club and a past president and current membership secretary of the Barton County Feder-ated Republican Women.

During the four-day event, which was one of the largest national gath-erings of Republicans this year, registrants partici-pated in a series of lead-ership training seminars in the areas of outreach, community, campaigns, fundraising and message development taught by nationally-recognized experts. They heard

from Republican lead-ers, elected officials and other notable guests in-cluding Senate Repub-lican Leader Mitch Mc-Connell (R-KY), former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, Rep. Renee Ellm-ers (R-NC), Republican National Committee Co-Chair Sharon Day and noted filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza.

Shomin said, “I was honored to be chosen. It was wonderful to see sev-eral friends again from different states across the country. The speak-ers were fantastic and in-spiring and offered many ideas to promote the Re-publican philosophy to aid in the upcoming 2014 election.”

Linda Shomin is pictured with noted filmmaker/author Dinesh D’Souza during the National Federation of Republican Women’s Club meeting held September 20-22, in Louisville, Ky.

Runners battle the elementsand set new school record

Lamar’s cross country teams traveled to East Newton High School on Saturday, Sept. 28, to compete in the biggest meet of the year so far. It was a great day for run-ning, but everyone knew that bad weather was on the way.

The middle school girl’s race started the day with 157 girls stepping up to the starting line of the 1.5 mile course. The team placed ninth with the fol-lowing runners; Hanna Lee 14th - 10:37, Abby Kluhsman 36th - 11:28, Jordan Lee 47th - 11:45, Lainey Thieman 93rd -12:33 and Gabi Miller 121s t- 13:39.

The middle school boy’s race had the most crowded course with 185 runners filtering into a 10 foot path. Lamar jumped out to a good start and had three athletes fin-ish in medal contention. Those finishing in the top 20 were Garrett Morey 6th - 8:57, Brenden Kel-ley 9th - 9:11 and Parker

King 19th - 9:25. Other runners were Alex Miller 66th - 10:25, Drew Bun-ton 81st - 10:37, Truman Kaderly 126th - 11:11 and Dakota Miller 144th - 11:49. The team placed third falling behind the much larger schools of Webb City and Nixa.

The planned middle school awards ceremony was cancelled as the skies were becoming grayer, allowing the varsity girls race to start early. Kaelyn Sturgell and Harley Hunt both had their best times of the year despite the fact that the rain started on the second lap of the race. Sturgell placed eighth with a 21:16 and Hunt 82nd with a 29:08.

After a downpour at the end of the girl’s race a light steady rain was falling when 137 var-sity boys took the start-ing line. Ryan Way of Republic claimed his second straight title at East Newton, knocking Lamar’s Kaden Over-street to second. Despite

the second place finish Overstreet ran a personal best of 16:35, breaking the school record set by Drew Buckner last Octo-ber of 16:39. Nicholas Ray placed fourth tying Buck-ner’s record and missing out on third by less than a second. Zane Hull fin-ished well within medal range, running a 17:10 for ninth place. Chase Moore placed 42nd with 18:55, Peyton Bailey 48th with 19:04, Jasper Mess-ner 53rd with 19:12 and Jesse Compton 66th with 19:37. The Tigers placed second out of 17 teams with 85 points, falling to a tough Webb City squad.

The junior varsity end-ed the rainy morning of running with two medal winners. Kevin Clements placed seventh with 20:22 and Kip Roland 10th with 20:32. Christian Mc-Carthy placed 28th with 22:08 and Tanner Darrow running in his first race of the year due to injuries ran a 30:14 for 52nd.

Lamar Career and Technical Center announces LCTC first quarter Stars

The staff at Lamar Ca-reer and Technical Center has announced the LCTC Stars for the first quarter. These students exemplify a strong work ethic, great attitude and cooperative spirit. Two students are chosen from each pro-gram.

The students are as fol-lows: Trent Morgan and Ethan Lawrence, Lamar, Agriculture; Cody Short, Greenfield, and Dalton

Cooper, Lamar, Auto Mechanics; Carlene Cor-riera and Morgan Ben-nett, Greenfield, Business; Nick Guerrero, Sheldon, and James Tabor, Jasper, Carpentry; Lincoln Kad-erly and Logan McArthur, Lamar, Drafting/Woods.

Also, Ricardo Grijalva, Jasper, and Tyler Allen, Lamar, English; Kailee Wallace, Liberal, and Ash-ton Kirkpatrick, Lamar, Graphic Design; Gladys

Rojo, Liberal, and Alicia Cole, Lamar, Health Oc-cupations; Ryan Angle-Graves, Stockton, and Caleb Luthi, Lamar, Ma-chine Tool; Katelyn Dun-sing and Emma Kremp, Lamar, Marketing; Micah Swanson, Sheldon, and Preston Seago, Lamar, Welding.

The instructors are ex-tremely proud of these students. Congratula-tions!

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