Month: August 2010

Iola High football players finished off their third practice in two days with dashes up the incline of the north dike at Riverside Park. Cooler temperatures and even a little rain greeted the Mustangs in…

The Allen County Animal Rescue Facility is open at last.And now, the hardest part of the journey begins.Running the shelter takes money, lots of it. ACARF’s goal is to keep adoptable animals until someone adopts…

The Register will support Secretary of State Chris Biggs for election to that office in November. Sec. Biggs has done a good job in the months since March when he was appointed to the position…

PETROLIA — This town of 120 residents is in Allen County but it’s more of an enclave of Neosho County, members of Thrive Allen County learned Monday evening. The town is a mile from the…

Teacher Linda Johnson said at the start of each new school year she feels the same excitement that she felt the first time she walked through the door of her classroom at Jefferson Elementary School.“This…

Minister shares experience of working with the poor Almost on a daily basis, Beth Lindsay Templeton learns from the down and out. The petite woman is unfazed by their predicaments, though they include drug addiction,…

Eleanor Imbusch Williams, 89, died Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott.She was born Aug. 28, 1920, on the family farm at Brazilton, to Martin and Nora (Boettjer) Imbusch. She grew up…

Margaret Ellen Myers, 89, of Rose Hill and formerly of Elsmore died Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 at her home.She was born July 13, 1921, near Humboldt, to Leslie and Fern (Dewey) Baker. She was a…

Charles W. “Chuck” Ulery Jr., 61, of Gas died Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.He was born July 28, 1949, in Pittsburg, to Charles W. and Patricia AnnRita (O’Donnell) Ulery Sr.…

On Jan. 4, 1896 Utah became a state and entered the union after many years of outright civil conflict over the issue of polygamy. This was only made possible by the fact that Utah’s Constitution…