Month: November 2015

Late on an afternoon 50 years ago I was tossing a football around with a couple of wife Beverly’s brothers. That evening we were married in Humboldt’s First Baptist Church. Today’s anniversary celebration contradicts many…

A week ago Saturday morning I felt guilty waking up to a beautiful day. It didn’t seem right I could go about life when across the world hundreds were mourning those killed the night before…

The Iola Area Ministerial Alliance will host a community Thanksgiving worship service on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 228 S. Kentucky St.Ed Flener, associate pastor at the United Methodist Churches of…

The Allen County Sheriff’s Department has fielded several calls involving car-deer accidents in recent days.Darwin Bennett, Iola, struck a deer Wednesday while southbound on U.S. 169, just east of Iola.Ruthana Culen, Redfield, was westbound on…

The ladies at Iola’s Senior Center are sweating the coming of cold weather.“We don’t have hardly any coats or boots for children,” said Helen Weide, who works as a volunteer at the center, 223 N.…

As of today, Jessica Quinhones, along with her mother and stepfather, Cindy and John Lucas, are the new owners of Around the Corner café, one of the most frequented businesses in downtown Iola.For more than…

Recycling has been characterized as being like remodeling an old house. The end result could very well be more expensive than starting anew.That has been the rap locally for many years. Finding an after-market and…

Glenda June Turner, 80, Iola, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, at her home.Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Highland Cemetery in Iola. Memorials are suggested to either the American Diabetes Association or…

Dona Jean Byfield Laymon was born in Neosho Falls on April 21, 1928, to Nellie Heslop Byfield and Wessie Byfield. She graduated from Neosho Falls High School with honors in 1946 and moved to Iola.…

Barbara Jean Gerdsen, 81, Rogers, Ark., formerly of LaHarpe, died Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 at Circle of Life in Bentonville, Ark. She was born Feb. 14, 1934, in Fort Scott, to Elden and Louise (Sharpeless)…