A charming representative from a troubled country

By RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

Since last August, La-mar has been the tempo-rary home of a charming and articulate citizen of the east European country of Ukraine. Anastasiya Pono-marenko came to Lamar through the highly com-petitive foreign exchange program operated through a cooperative agreement by the Ukrainian and U.S. governments known as the Future Leaders Exchange Program. Anastasiya prefers the acronym, FLEX. To be accepted into the program and chosen to go overseas, a student must be a good rep-resentative of her/his coun-try and be highly intelligent. This must be demonstrated in carefully written essays. Anastasiya clearly qualifies in both categories.

When she arrived in Lamar, Anastasiya immediately encoun-tered something that she associates with home. It was hot and humid, the same as in her home town of Mariupol, which is on the coast of the Sea of Azov, a shallow northeast extension of the Black Sea. Winters are cold there, much as last February was here in southwest Missouri.

Anastasiya makes her home with Chris and Rebecca Jones dur-ing her nine-month sojourn in the United States. The Joneses have prior experience in hosting exchange students, having done so last year.

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common senseBy MELODY METZGER

Lamar Democrat

It has been brought to our attention that certain area residents have been receiving calls from those claiming to be with the IRS, informing the caller that a legal suit has been brought against them. It has been reported that the phone number that shows on these calls is 301-685-1056.

The IRS will not call any-one over the phone and if anyone receives a call such as described above, they should let the caller know that they have contacted Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster's office. Then be sure to call the attorney general's office at 1-800-392-8222 and let them hear from you.

And the bottom line is there are literally hundreds of scams, so always err on the side of caution. If you have any doubt whatsoever, do not answer any ques-tions or give out any infor-mation. You won't be sorry.

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Above, a good crowd attended Orscheln's Farm & Home Easter egg hunt on Saturday morning, April 4. Over 1100 eggs were distributed among three age groups.

Photo courtesy Rebecca JonesA happy Anastasiya

Ponomarenko at the wedding of her American “brother,” Cory, in Kansas City’s Union Station, February 14, 2015.

see CHARMING, page 2A

BCMH Proposition 1 and Lamar’s mayoral race highlight election

By RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

It is not uncommon to see vot-er turnout for the April Munici-pal Elections at less than 25 per-cent. However, a hospital levy issue and an interesting may-oral race in Lamar brought out a significantly greater number. County Clerk Kristina Crock-

ett was all smiles after the votes were tallied because she had sensed the increase in voter in-terest quite accurately. She had predicted 36 percent of regis-tered voters would cast ballots, and she was within a fraction of being just two percent off a per-fect call. The final percentage see ELECTION, page 4A

Lamar Bank & Trust set to celebrate 90th anniversary

Lamar Bank & Trust Compa-ny will celebrate its 90th anni-versary on Friday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with cake and punch served in the lobby.

Lamar Bank & Trust Com-pany was incorporated in 1925. Goodrum Trust Company, the forerunner to Lamar Trust Company, had been closed a couple of weeks by banking regulators when 65 individu-als agreed to invest $50,000 for capital stock in a proposed new bank. The date was February 11, 1925. The Department of Finance of the State of Missouri then granted the investors au-

thority to become a corporate body under the name of Lamar Trust Company on March 5, 1925.

Lamar Trust Company opened just six weeks after the Goodrum Trust Company closed. The new bank would be located in the old Goodrum Trust Company building on the west side of the Lamar Square, at what is now Dot’s Fashions.

The original board of direc-tors were W.P. Creekmore, C.W. Remm, H.E. Fletcher, Edward Thiebaud, D.B. O’Neal, C. D. see ANNIVERSARY, page 2A

See more Easter fun on page 3A!

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2015

CLUB NOTE

“The president is merely the most important among a large number of

public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which

is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficieny in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested

service to the nation as a whole.”(Editorial in Kansas City Star, 1918)

SheldonBy DARLENE

SHERIDAN

On my recent trip to Joplin I have noticed the beautiful Bradford Pear Trees and many other beautiful flowering trees. There are many signs of spring’s arrival, with the flowers blooming and shrubbery greening.

Norman and Eleanor (McGuire) Ambrose will celebrate their 60th wed-ding anniversary on Sat-urday, April 18. Eleanor and her family are former Sheldon residents and Eleanor graduated from Sheldon High School. They would enjoy hearing from friends and their ad-dress is 1604 S. Lone Elm Rd., Olathe, KS 66061.

All three churches en-joyed the large attendance for worship services. Many families enjoyed the special day, Sunday, by having gatherings.

Those present at the La-Verne Leininger home on Easter Sunday were Marc, Lori, Logan and Cam-den Emery, Sun Prairie, Wisc.: Barry, Deanna, Braden and Blair Bickel, Columbia, Mo.; Brandon, Angela, Boyd and Brynn Leininger, Platte City; Gary, Lauryn and Glynn Leininger, DeSoto, Kan.;

Jillian Leininger, Spring-field; Greg and Diana Le-ininger, Jordan, Samantha and Makaylee Leininger, Nevada; Joel, Ashley and Jaden McKinney, Har-wood; Geoffrey, Jackie and Griffen Leininger, La-mar and Gene and Eileen Leininger, Erin Leininger and the hosts, LaVerne and Helen Leininger, Shel-don. Tom and Janice Lun-dberg, Wichita, Kan., were afternoon visitors.

The Sheldon Commu-nity Easter Sunrise Service was held at the Sheldon Baptist Church at 6 a.m. Rev. Jerod Lamb delivered the welcome and special music was provided by the Baptist church and the Christian church. Bro. Wayne Coble, Method-ist minister, brought the Easter message and Pas-tor Spencer Hahn gave the benediction. All enjoyed a delicious breakfast pro-vided by the Sheldon Bap-tist Church.

The next Community Betterment meeting will be held April 27, at 7 p.m., at the Donaldson Building. The Community Develop-ment Betterment Grant, that will assist property owners with the cost of demolishing vacant and dilapidated buildings, will be discussed. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

There are still “The Spirit of Sheldon” videos avail-

able at Sheldon City Hall and will be available at the Sheldon Alumni meeting on May 23.

The 2015 Alumni meet-ing will be held at the Shel-don School at 6:30 p.m., beginning with a meal costing $10 and followed by the meeting hosted by the class of 1965. A silent auction will be held and donations of items are requested. To make res-ervations please contact Darlene Sheridan at 417-884-2445.

For-get-me-notsBy GAIL LEAMING

Sorry readers, but I ran away from home last week. I drove down to pick up Dorothy Miller, who was sending her SOS’s for help and took her to Jackson to see Sharon Hyde Er-win in her mess. It seems the three of us are clean-ing and selling out things. Dorothy for her son, Sha-ron for her son and me for just my hoarding over the years. Dorothy says she just moves every five years and that saves her. I just up and left my carpenters to finish and they did a great job. Kamala checked in with them and Cesare took care of the animals

for me. A big thank you for them. I now have walls and floors back in. Just a new shower and a redo for a bathroom left, but that will be later. I am just enjoying being back in the living room. Kamala came over and helped mow the lawn this week.

I got back in time for the Masonic Widow Banquet and received the honor of Masonic Sweetheart, with the honor of being chosen to ride a dune buggy in the parade on May 30. Thank you for that, because it should be fun. I met a new widow, whose husband had passed in March at Greenfield. A Mrs. Rich-ardson, but can’t remem-ber her first name. One widow of 30 years and she received a gift for the lon-gest coming widow. For entertainment we were serenaded by the Veg-etable Soup group from Dadeville. A lot of fun for everyone that night. Boy Scout Troop No. 7 served the food and escorted the flag into the hall. Those boys were just great and so polite.

I got home and my daughter and grand-daughter were still work-ing in the front room. They told me that they hated to interrupt my nightlife. Boy, the room looks nice. While on my trip with Dorothy we got

to watch a couple of twist-ers near West Plains head-ed to Illinois. We decided to get off the road and look for a safe haven.We spent a lot of time look-ing at the places we use to see or stop when we drove 18 wheelers, but we also drove a lot of roads that we always had wanted to and you can’t take a truck including the ferry down by Branson.

I meant to print this be-fore Easter, so it is a little late this year. Did you know that the pine trees know when it is Easter? Two weeks before Easter, a little yellow shoot starts out and the week before it shoots out two more shoots that make crosses, so on Easter there are yel-low crosses on the ends of branches. My pine tree expert, George Denton L., told me that this happens to yellow pines and loblol-ly pines, but not long leaf pines. I will have to watch next year. I spent Easter at Lonnie and Dianna Grays home with Clea’s family, Summer’s family, Kamala’s family and Evelyn and Bob Gasper from Inde-pendence. We all got to view Kamala's painting in Dice's hallway. Very pretty. I had a good time at Red Oak 2 that weekend, but missed this week. I even missed Milford’s music because of the trip. Some-

times there just aren’t enough days in a week, are there? I must thank Austin Harshaw, Chance, Cesare, Kahl, Louis and Clea Kleeman, along with Kamala, Severn Poirot Jr. and Zach S. for helping to move my refrigerator. Now if Danny Jenkins will come and get it I can start redoing the sunroom. I hope he can find enough help. My group is glad to see it go. I even had to take down a railing to get it into the last room.

Maxine's Musings

By MAXINE MORIN

It is hard to believe that my Irish Potato that Betty G. and Donna W. planted for me on St. Patrick's Day has grown so much. I will need to find a tin can for the potato bugs that never miss finding potato plants each year. Oh yes! The can is to drop the bugs in as you pick them off by hand. My Dad always filled the can about a quarter full of coal oil (kerosene), which killed the bugs. We never had such a thing as rub-ber gloves. “Yuck”. We kids hated that job, but it was a matter of survival

LAMAR COUNTRY CLUB

LADIES ASSOCIATION

Dorothy Roberts was the hostess Tuesday, April 7

for a luncheon and Bridge. The Bridge winners were Dorothy Roberts, first and Ferne Roberts, second.

The hostess for April 14 is to be Sondra Riegel, with Betty Weston sched-uled to be the hostess on Tuesday, April 21.

Charming, continued from page 1A

When asked what sur-prised her about life in the United States the most, Anastasiya was quick to reply, the size of your cities. Ukraine has very few cities the size of Lamar, which is just 4,500. Ukraine is a very urbanized country; her home town of Mari-upol has a population of almost 500,000. Ukraine is somewhat smaller than the United States. Its area is slightly less than that of Alaska.

Something that has also surprised Anastasiya is the tendency of Americans to smile a lot. Even people you don’t know will smile, she says. In Ukraine, this never happens. Everyone appears stern. Maybe the tendency to smile a lot and wave at fellow driv-ers is typical of small town America.

Since Mariupol is locat-ed in southern and east-ern Ukraine, it is affected by the pro-Russian unrest that has been prevalent in that area since 2014. Anastasiya says it is not uncommon to see govern-ment tanks in the streets from time to time. It has also had a damaging effect on the country’s economy, and has forced prices to rise.

Anastasiya has been ac-tive in classes at the La-mar Career and Techni-cal Center, concentrating on marketing. On March 15-17, she was one of 10 students who traveled to Lake of the Ozarks to compete in the Missouri DECA State Career De-velopment Conference. DECA is an acronym that stands for Distributive Ed-ucation Clubs of America.

It prepares future leaders in the fields of marketing, finance, and related en-deavors.

The top six members of the Lamar team quali-fied for the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida, April 24-27. Only two of the six are going to Orlando, Anastasiya, who finished fourth, and Emily Kremp, who will become Missouri DECA District 10 vice-president. The re-maining four members of the team are not going to avoid a confliction with their senior prom. Anas-tasiya says she will have her senior prom when she returns to Mariupol. However, she will also have to pass a battery of tests to cover all that she missed during her year in the United States. Actu-ally, Anastasiya will have two graduations. She will participate in the Lamar High School graduation on Mothers’ Day, May 10, and then at Mariupol after she successfully completes the battery of required tests. Quite an undertak-ing for a 16-year-old. She is advanced two years be-yond where she normally would be in high school because of her level of achievement at her home high school in Mari-upol. Not the least in her achievements is speak-ing fluently in Ukrainian, Russian, and English.

Rebecca says that Anas-tasiya spends much of her time in her room study-ing. However, she does find time to spend in track practice, being a member of the girls track team. In the fall, she played num-

ber four in singles on the girls varsity tennis team, placed second in doubles in conference play, and third in singles in confer-ence play. She benefitted from having taken tennis lessons in Mariupol.

Does she have plans for college? You bet. She has applied for admission to the University of Oregon and been awarded a schol-arship of $9,000 each year for four years. However, Oregon’s tuition is $28,000 a year, so she will face a challenging task in raising the annual balances. She has also submitted appli-cations to York University in Toronto, Ontario and to the University of Bul-garia. Her parents are not destitute by any means. Her mother is a university professor, and her father is a supervisor in an indus-trial plant. However, their combined incomes may not be sufficient to handle such high education costs. Also, she has a brother back home, 10-year-old Nikita.

On May 13, Anastasiya will depart Lamar for her home in Ukraine, and the Joneses will find a sud-den emptiness in their home. Will she return to the United States? That is a virtual given. Will we see her in Lamar again? Probably. After all, it has been her home away from home for most of the past year.

Grant awarded to Barton County Library

Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander has announced that a grant in the amount of $6,610 has been received by the Barton County Li-brary, in order to pro-mote summer reading programs. Funds will be used for activities associated with the library's eight-week summer program that focuses on science and targeting both children and adults.

The Library Services and Technology Act, through the U.S. Insti-tute of Museum and Library Services, funds

the literacy and enrich-ment grants from the state office. The state of-fice distributed more than $1.1 million in federal grants to libraries in the state during the 2015 fis-cal year.

Goodrum, E.L. Moore, Cornelius “Casey” Snip and R.M. Wood. Casey Snip was elected presi-dent and D.B. O’Neal was named cashier of the new bank.

On February 7, 1940, the First National Bank in Lamar voluntarily liquidated and was ab-sorbed by Lamar Trust Company. Lamar Trust then moved into First National’s building, which is located in the middle of the west side of the square. Charles Edwards also joined the

bank from First National.Casey Snip continued as

president until his death in 1951. Charles Edwards was elected president, fol-lowed by Don O’Neal in 1955. Robert Wirts be-came president in 1968, Ray Little in 1990, Jim O’Neal in 1996, Danny Little in 2003, Thom-as J. Main in 2005 and Pat O’Neal in 2015. Pat O’Neal is grandson of one of the original investors of the bank in 1925, D.B. O’Neal. Jim O’Neal con-tinues to serve as chair-man of the board.

Lamar Trust Company moved to their present facility in 1970 at 1000 Broadway, which is lo-cated on the northeast corner of the square. The name was changed to La-mar Bank & Trust Com-pany in 1986. The bank building had a major ren-ovation in 1998. The bank has maintained its local ownership and manage-ment over its 90-year his-tory.

The staff invites every-one to stop by the bank on Friday, May 1.

Anniversary, continued from page 1A

see MAXINE, page 7A

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Area Easter egg hunts enjoyed by manyBy MELODY METZGER

Lamar Democrat

Easter weekend was rife with opportunities for area children to partake of good old-fashioned Easter egg hunts that were held in Lamar and sponsored by various or-ganizations.

The first hunt was held at 10 a.m. on Sat-urday morning, April 4, at Orscheln's Farm & Home, with a good size crowd attending. The air was a little crisp, but the sunshine made it enjoy-able as three age groups, 1-4, 5-8 and 9-12 were di-vided, in order to search for the 1100 Easter eggs that had been dispersed. Several of the eggs were

filled with candy, as well as three eggs in each group holding a ticket to redeem an Easter basket inside the store. There were also 16 eggs that had a certificate to be presented inside the store for a free bag of candy.

At 12 noon, the Lamar Elks Lodge 2800 held its annual egg hunt at the La-mar City Park. Although it was still somewhat chilly, there was an excel-lent turnout, with 5000 Easter eggs being hunted. The children were divid-ed into four age groups, 0-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12, with each group having 10 eggs containing a $10 certificate, which they re-turned for $10 cash. A to-tal of $400 was given out

equally between the four age groups.

Following the hunt, participants and their families were treated to hot dogs and pop, at the enclosed shelter house that displayed a banner stating, “Annual Lamar

Elks Easter Egg Hunt in Memory of John Mil-lirons”. John was a loyal member of the lodge and is definitely missed by many, myself included.

The weekend hunts concluded on a very chilly Easter Sunday,

April 5, 3 p.m., at the Eagles Club No. 4405 of Lamar. One thousand eggs were distributed for four different age groups, 0-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. Included in the eggs be-sides candy were two $25 gift cards for each group,

with some having a gold $1 coin. The two smaller age groups received cer-tificates for free stuffed animals, with approxi-mately 75 given away.

All in all it was a good weekend filled with hap-py children!

FRIENDS & FAMILY

Melissa Little/Lamar DemocratCrystal Smith, left, and McKinley Bishop, right,

are pictured with the Easter bunny that was present for the Lamar Eagles Club Easter egg hunt on Sunday, April 5.

Melissa Little/Lamar DemocratMany children participated in the Lamar Eagles Club Easter egg hunt, held on a chilly Easter

Sunday, April 5.

Melissa Little/Lamar DemocratElk Club members served hot dogs and pop at the Lamar City Park enclosed shelter house,

following their Easter egg hunt.

Melissa Little/Lamar DemocratRIght, the Lamar City Park was full of youngsters

hunting eggs during the Lamar Elks Lodge No. 2800 Easter egg hunt, held Saturday, April 4.

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was 33.88. An increase in

the levy of Bar-ton County Me-morial Hospital was approved by a margin that many did not anticipate. The final tally found 54 percent say-ing “yes” to an increase of 32.49 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation. The support of 61.5 percent from city voters provided the needed boost.

The mayor’s race in Lamar marked the first change in the of-fice in 15 years. Former council-man Kent Harris bested current councilman Tom Shields with 56.9 percent of the vote. Harris car-ried all four wards in the city. In the council part of the election, the only contested race was in the second ward where in-cumbent Mike Hull eas-ily defeated Jim Cooper with 77.6 percent. Incum-bent Judd Chesnut faced no opposition in the first ward. Bill Talbott was the unchallenged incumbent in the fourth ward, and newcomer Brian Griffith had no opposition in the third ward.

There were no contested offices in Lamar Heights. All incumbent candidates were returned to office, Jerry Marti as mayor, Bob Noel as first ward alder-man, and Debbie Little as second ward alderman.

Liberal had one alder-man contest. Incumbent John Nicolas defeated Tom Shaw in the second ward with 64.9 percent. Gary Whitson was unop-posed in the first ward. Voters turned down Proposition 2, which would have discontinued collecting local sales tax on titling of motor ve-hicles and other licensed equipment that were not purchased from a licensed Missouri dealer.

Mindenmines returned incumbent and unop-posed Jason Harris to another term as mayor. In the at-large board of al-dermen race, the two in-cumbents were returned to new two-year terms. Misty Short finished with 44.6 percent of the vote.

Jim Coleman received 30.7 percent, and Roger Vansel finished out of the running with 24.7 per-cent. Jimmy Morton was unopposed to complete the remainder of an unex-pired term.

The village of Milford had two unopposed can-didates for its board of

trustees, incumbents Ger-ald Peters and Jon De-ment.

Golden City had no contests. Lyle Brewer will serve another term as first ward alderman. Walt Nims will serve the remaining one year of an unexpired term in the first ward. Larry Parrill was

unopposed in the second ward, and Tyler Eddie was unopposed in the third ward.

Lockwood elected a new mayor as Larry Allen won 71.2 percent of the vote to defeat Wynette Wilkin-son. In the east ward, Krista Rader squeaked by with the nar-rowest of mar-gins, one vote, to defeat Homer Ellis, 40 to 39. Kenny Snider was unopposed in the west ward.

Greenfield had races in both of its wards. In the north ward, incum-bent Vicki Lol-lar easily bested Ann Hembree, winning 80.6 of

the vote. The south ward had a similar outcome. Incumbent Beth Wright defeated Kirk Main with 78.1 percent.

Jasper elected Frank Shumard as its mayor in a three way race, getting 49.8 percent of the vote. Jim Stewart and Bill Hul-

stine finished with lesser amounts. Charles Schli-chting took the east ward seat with 70 percent of the vote, and Mark Weng claimed the west ward garnering 62.1 percent. Voters in Sheldon chose John Kirby, Jr. with 87.5 percent of the vote to be its mayor. Four candidates vied for two seats on its at-large board of alder-men. Robert Moran with 35.8 percent and Nickie Danner with 32.3 percent attracted enough votes to claim the seats.

The Barton County Am-bulance District chose Paul Stebbins for its board in district 1 and incum-bent Leisa Blanchard in district 4.

Barton City Township elected Jimmy Dale Fast and Erric Linsteadt to its board, and Newport Township voted to con-tinue its current tax levy.

In school board elec-tions, this was a year for

filling two seats. In Lamar R-I, incumbent Randy Day and Bobby Bron-son emerged the winners among a field of five can-didates. Liberal R-II had no contest as Brian King and John Simpson were unopposed incumbents. Golden City R-III had three candidates, and vot-ers sent incumbents Brad Beerly and Travis Moore back to the board for new three-year terms. Lock-wood R-I had only two candidates, incumbent William Stefan and Rob-bie Patterson. Greenfield R-IV also had just two candidates, incumbents Dennis Wright and Ke-van Marshall. Jasper R-V fielded three candidates with incumbents Vic Cra-zybear and James Kad-erly emerging as winners. Sheldon R-VIII chose in-cumbent Michelle Claflin and Cody Claflin from among three candidates for its board of education.

FRIENDS & FAMILYMETZGER’S MUTTERINGS

By MELODY METZGERLamar Democrat

I have the indubitable pleasure of spending time with two year old

grandson Landon, from Saturday morning to Sunday evening. Seems Meghan, his momma, is going to have to re-turn to work at McCune

Brooks in a week, fol-lowing maternity leave, so she and son Jud are making a mini-excursion to Fayetteville for a get-away. Meghan's mom, who lives in Neosho, will be taking care of baby Cooper, while I have the honor of watching Land-on. As I've said before, I love all my grandsons, but I especially like them when they become “little people”. It is supposed to be a nice day on Sat-

urday, so chances are we will hang out at the park, as that is one of his favor-ite things to do.

About a month ago I had nine year old grand-son Kobyn, as well as Landon, for the day. Not being real sure how to keep them occu-pied, I had an entire day planned of various things we could do. Since we had to wait for Landon to wake up from his nap, it was early afternoon

and no one had eaten lunch so our first stop was Babe's in Webb City. I hadn't been to Babe's since there was one in La-mar and it was as good as I remembered. My mom loved fried mushrooms and every Saturday the three of us (mom, Jud and myself), as well as anyone else that wanted to join us, would head to Babe's for lunch.

Kobyn was great help with Landon, even sug-gesting what I should get him to eat and watch-ing him while I got our food ordered. Kobyn is a chicken strip fiend and it doesn't matter if it is a five star steak house, he orders chicken strips. As we got to the booth Landon decided he didn't need a highchair and Kobyn felt he would be able to watch him while in the booth. That lasted about five minutes be-fore Ko suggested we get a highchair. After every-one got settled in to eat Kobyn preceded to par-take of his chicken strip and as he bit into it, he made the strangest face and said, “Ga, this is real chicken!” Not sure what it is he's been eating, but evidently it wasn't “real” chicken...

Following lunch we proceeded to Cunning-

ham Park and it is ab-solutely spectacular. We had taken our balls and bats, and all my plans for the day flew away as neither boy seemed to want to leave, so the ma-jority of the afternoon was spent there. While in conversation Kobyn seemed quite smitten with the word, supercali-fragilisticexpialidocious and was not only sur-prised to know I knew the word, but was really amazed that there was a whole song that centered around it. Of course I had to sing it to him!

Following Cunning-ham Park we traveled over to Schifferdecker Park because of the availability of basketball courts and Kobyn did some serious practicing, while Landon gave it all he had, only missing the net by about six feet.

In one of our extreme-ly interesting discus-sions, Kobyn asked me why I had to work since I was the “boss” at the paper now. I will always remember that Doug would never, ever ask us to do anything that he wouldn't do himself, and to me that is the epitome of what a boss should be. Besides, I can't play all the time, although it would be tempting...

Letter to editorDear Editor:People in Lamar are

griping about the speed limit on 1st Street being raised from 30 mph to 40 mph until you get to the residential area, then it goes back to 30 mph. We live on Hagny. What is the speed limit on Hag-ny? It is supposed to be 30 mph. I have to wonder if it is 60 mph, 50 mph or 40 mph – people don't seem to know.

Instead of worry-ing about the 1st Street stretch, where there are no houses, they had bet-ter come over to Hagny between Hwy. 160 and the lake. The city re-ally needs to watch this area, because people

walk their dogs, kids ride their bicycles and people travel in battery oper-ated wheel chairs. Some of the drivers could not stop in time before they hurt someone. LPD, you really need to watch this area.

Thank you,Norma Davis

Lamar

Dear Editor:A big thank you to the

Lockwood R-1 School Board for reinstating the Family and Consumer Science Curriculum (FACS) and FCCLA in the high school for a year.

This is a beginning, but I hope you continue to

evaluate the program and see how important it is to teach these life skills to the students for several more years. If there are problems in the program, then consider different options instead of just eliminating the program. Keep your priorities straight for what is best for the student body.

I know the community will appreciate you keep-ing them informed on decisions you make about any of the programs in the future.

After reviewing the March 24 Lockwood R-1 School Board minutes I noticed three board members left after the ex-ecutive session. Is there

not harmony among the members?

When conducting business meetings us-ing parliamentary pro-cedure, the president cannot make motions or vote unless there is a tie, so that really only left three board mem-bers to dissolve the FACS program, pre-school program, upper math part time teach-ing contract and em-ploy teachers for next year. In my opinion decisions as important as these to the school system need more rep-resentation.

Carolyn CarrierLockwood Retired

FACS Teacher

Several gather at courthouse to witness election results

Melody Metzger/Lamar DemocratThere were several interested individuals lining the halls

at the Barton County Courthouse on Tuesday evening, April 7. As Mike Davis read off the various election race results, Dean Sullivan posted them on the board.

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St. Mary’s Catholic Church parishioners participate in Bishop’s Walk

On Saturday, March 21, members of Lamar’s St. Mary’s Catholic Church participated in a walk to raise money in support of Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri. A total of 85 parishioners

participated in the event, raising $905. Participants enjoyed excellent weather and a light lunch during the walk held at the Lamar City Park.

Located in Springfield, and motivated by the love

of Christ, Catholic Chari-ties of Southern Missouri seeks to improve the lives of the vulnerable by pro-viding quality, compas-sionate social services, which meet local needs.

This is the first year for

this event, which will now become a Diocese wide an-nual event to raise money for Catholic Charities. St. Mary’s parishioners were recently acknowledged for having the largest percentage of members participating.

AREA NEWS

Local room makeover published in international magazineA room makeover by inte-

rior decorator Jane Moyer, owner of Decorating Den In-teriors of Lamar, is featured in Envision, an international decorating ideas magazine published by CertaPro Paint-ers® in conjunction with The Sherwin-Williams Company.

“The magazine contains col-or and furnishing ideas for indoor and outdoor spaces, along with some maintenance tips,” says Moyer. “All paint colors shown are from the Sherwin-Williams® color col-lection and include the color reference number.” Envision is

available at www.sherwin-wil-liams.com/store.../carthage/mo/7323 or www.sherwin-williams.com/store.../joplin/mo/3168.

“My room is a fun family en-tertainment room with a me-dia, game and exercise area. The owner wanted a tone on

tone look in grays, with an accent of red. This took the room from a traditional style to a transitional style”, stated Moyer.

Decorating Den Interiors is North America’s leading in-home decorating service and largest home furnishings and

interior design franchise com-pany. Its design professionals, like Jane Moyer, offer custom window treatments, furniture, wall and floor coverings, ac-cessories and lighting from nearly 100 suppliers. Design consultations are complimen-tary.

Missouri FFA Convention to be held in Columbia April 16-17JEFFERSON CITY-FFA

members from across the state will meet in Colum-bia on April 16 - 17, at the 87th Missouri FFA Con-vention to honor fellow members for outstanding achievements, conduct association business, elect new officers and partici-pate in leadership work-shops.

Show-Me Opportunity, Discover Success is the theme for this year's an-nual convention, which is expected to attract more than 8,000 students and guests to the Hearnes Center on the University of Missouri campus.

According to Missouri FFA Executive Secretary Keith Dietzschold, the state association will pres-ent State FFA Degrees to 775 members who, as a result of their agricultural and leadership achieve-ments, have qualified for the state's highest FFA de-gree. Dietzschold also said Missouri has the largest number of American FFA

Degree recipients of any state - 464 Missouri FFA members received the American FFA Degree in 2014 during the national convention held in Lou-isville, Ky, in October. The Lamar Chapter will have three students receiving their State Degree: Caleb Luthi, Chad McKibben and Tony Morgan.

During the state con-vention, the State Star Farmer, the State Star in Agribusiness, the State Star in Placement and the State Star in Agriscience will be named. Tony Mor-gan has been selected to represent Area 9 as the State Star Farmer and will compete to win the State Star Farmer. In ad-dition, 634 FFA members will receive awards in 50 agricultural proficiency areas for development of their supervised agricul-tural experience program (SAE). The proficiency ar-eas are varied and include production, manage-ment and communica-

tions disciplines. In Mis-souri, SAEs during the 2013- 2014 school year generated over $47 mil-lion in student income. Tony Morgan and Trent Morgan will both be rep-resenting Lamar FFA with their proficiency areas of Diversified Livestock Pro-duction and Agricultural Mechanics, respectively.

FFA members also will be participating in a number of organization program areas includ-ing career development events such as agricul-tural mechanics, floricul-ture, livestock evaluation and speaking competi-tions. Lamar will have an agricultural sales team consisting of Karsen Hull, Kinley Lehman, Chad McKibben and Garrett Morey.

The Missouri FFA will be presenting awards to several adults and groups for their support of ag-ricultural education and FFA. This year 24 Hon-orary State FFA Degrees will be presented. An ad-ditional 16 honorary de-grees will be presented to the parents of the retiring state officers.

During the two-day event, State FFA President Cole Edwards, a mem-ber of the Salisbury FFA Chapter, will lead 676 delegates, two from each chapter, in official busi-ness sessions.

Five FFA chapters will be chartered during Thursday evening’s ses-sion. The new chapters are Greenville, Orchard Farm, Northland Career Center, Malden and Sax-ony Lutheran.

National FFA Secretary Victoria Maloch, from Emerson, Ark., will ad-dress FFA members and guests during the first general session Thursday

afternoon. Maloch was elected as a national of-ficer in October during national convention.

Maloch is majoring in agricultural business and pre-law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. After graduating from college, Maloch said she plans to combine her love of talking and poli-tics with her passion for agriculture by focusing on agricultural policy or agricultural lobbying, as well as legislation regard-ing hunger and food in-security. Maloch said she also is hoping someday to serve as an elected official.

"As a national officer I want to cultivate a pas-sion for our organization and show members they too can have an impact on others, as long as they are placing the focus on other people instead of them-selves," Maloch said.

The six-person national officer team, including Maloch, collectively will log more than 100,000 miles representing FFA to top leaders in business, government and educa-tion. National officers also lead numerous personal growth and leadership training sessions and pro-mote agricultural literacy.

Also during the first session Missouri Direc-tor of Agriculture Rich-ard Fordyce will address those assembled. Fordyce, a fourth-generation Mis-souri farmer from Betha-ny, was named director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture in Decem-ber 2013 by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. For more than 20 years Fordyce has held leadership roles in agri-culture on the local, state and national levels. From 2008 to 2013, he served as chairman of the Missouri State Soil & Water Dis-

tricts Commission.During Thursday eve-

ning’s session both Gov. Nixon and Missouri Commissioner of Educa-tion Margie Vandeven will address the conven-tion. Nixon is serving his second term as Missouri’s 55th governor and has worked to increase agri-cultural exports from the Show-Me State as well as to boost Missouri’s cat-tle industry. During the drought of 2012 he im-plemented an emergency water relief program to help both livestock and row crop farmers.

Vandeven was appoint-ed December 2014 by the Missouri Board of Edu-cation. During the last four years, as part of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Second-ary Education, Vandeven assisted with the planning and implementation of the Top 10 by 20 initia-

tive, which calls for Mis-souri to be one of the top 10 states for education by 2020.

During Friday evening’s final session the keynote address will be given by Kelly Barnes. Barnes was reared on a small family farm in eastern Oklaho-ma and his message cen-ters around the stories, life lessons and virtues he learned growing up.

Barnes said his goal and mission in life is simple: “Helping people get from where they are to where they want to be.”

The Missouri FFA Asso-ciation has 25,829 mem-bers, ranking fourth as a state in membership. FFA strives to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for pre-mier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural edu-cation.

Lamar Democrat/Richard CooperFourth District Congresswoman Vicky

Hartzler met with administration and staff of Barton County Memorial Hospital (BCMH) on the morning of April 6, following a guided tour of the facility hosted by CEO Wendy Duvall. Hartzler learned that the hospital now has 182 full time employees following a budgetary cutback from 225 in 2013. It was her first visit to BCMH.

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler visits BCMH

Whittle appointed to hospital boardLAMAR-The Barton County Commission has appointed Susan Whittle of Golden City to the Barton County

Memorial Hospital Board. She replaces Mike Buchanan, who has resigned his seat on the board. Whittle is the retired former superintendent of the Golden City School System.

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SCHOOL

Jaydon Withrow, son of Lisa Clabough, is the sixth grade Lamar Middle School Student of the Week. In his spare time Jaydon plays football. He has a cat named Gaspey and he likes to play with his brother.

Ashlyn Owensby, daughter of Blaine and Melisa Owensby, is the seventh grade Student of the Week at Lamar Middle School. Ashlyn enjoys playing basketball with her older brother Ryan. She likes to pet her cat Oreo when she's not fussy and also loves to listen to music while she sings along.

Michael Henderson, son of Jeff Henderson and Lisa Banks, is the eighth grade Lamar Middle School Student of the Week. Michael enjoys the outdoors and hanging out with his friends. In his free time he loves to do just about anything that involves activity. He also likes to party and do stunts with his friends.

Peckman receives PSU scholarship

PITTSBURG, Kan.-Kelsey Peckman, a se-nior Social Work major, has been awarded the Wayne and Dorothea B. Vonier Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic

semesters at Pittsburg State University.

Kelsey is the daughter of Mick and Robin Peck-man, Lamar, and is a graduate of Liberal High School.

Steeves awarded PSU scholarship

PITTSBURG, Kan.-Monica Katherine Steeves, a Jasper High School senior, has been awarded the Wayne and Dorothea B. Voni-er Scholarship and the Academic Achieve-ment Award to Pitts-

burg State University, for the 2014-15 academic semester(s).

Monica is the daugh-ter of Kenny and Sandy Steeves, Jasper, and plans to major in Business Fi-nance while at PSU.

Lamar High School student Carmen Miller finished as the third-highest individual scorer for the 2015 Spring Mind Games.

Miller is third highest individual scorer

Lamar Career and Technical Center announces fourth quarter LCTC Stars

The staff at Lamar Career and Technical Center is pleased to an-nounce the LCTC Stars for the fourth quarter. These students exemplify a strong work ethic, great attitude and cooperative spirit. Up to two students are chosen from each program.

The students are as follows: Agriculture – Karsen Hull and Chad McKibben, Lamar; Auto

Mechanics – Logan Mor-ford, Stockton and Kyle Ghumm, Jasper; Busi-ness – Ellie Lodestein and Kelli Sheat, Lamar; Carpentry – Trenton Heckadon, Sheldon and James White, Lamar; English – Ashley Bax-ter, Sheldon and Kimber Kirbey, Lamar; Graphic Design – Jasper Nelson, Golden City and Grace Keith, Lockwood.

Health Occupations –

Selina Dunlap, Golden City and Shelbie Gill, Jasper; Machine Tool – Ashley Baxter, Sheldon and Caleb Luthi, Lamar; Marketing – Landon Ma-berry, Lamar; Welding – Chayce Johnston, Lib-

eral and Micah Swanson, Sheldon; Woods – Cody Davis and Jack Brooks, Lamar.

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

LCTC students shine at Missouri SkillsUSA Competition

Four state champion-ships were recently won by students of the Lamar Career and Technical Center. These students were among 31 from LCTC and more than 2,500 persons statewide that recently participated in the Missouri SkillsU-SA Competition at State Technical College on March 26-28.

The contests were held in conjunction with Mis-souri SkillsUSA Lead-ership and Skills Con-ference, attended by students, teachers, rep-resentatives of business, industry, education and government. During their stay students participated as voting delegates for their chapters, elected state officers, conducted the business of the organi-zation, met with business and industry representa-tives and heard from of-ficials.

SkillsUSA is a nation-al organization serving trade, industrial, techni-cal and health occupa-

tions students in public high schools, career and technical centers and two year colleges. SkillsUSA has more than 250,000 students and professional members annually, or-ganized into more than 13,000 chapters in 50 states and three territorial associations (including Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands).

SkillsUSA is an ap-plied method for pre-paring America’s high performance workers in vocational-technical pro-grams. It provides qual-ity educational experi-ences for its members in leadership, teamwork, citizenship and character development. It builds self-confidence, work at-titudes and communica-tion skills. It emphasizes total quality at work: high ethical standards, supe-rior work skills, life-long education and pride in the dignity of work. Skill-sUSA also promotes un-derstanding of the free enterprise system and in-

volvement in community service activities. More than 1,000 trade associa-tions and labor unions ac-tively support SkillsUSA through financial aid, in-kind contributions and involvement of their peo-ple in SkillsUSA activities.

The following students participated and placed as follows: Advertising Design - Isabella Hagen, fourth; Advertising De-sign Technical Informa-tion - Josie Kaderly, first, Johnathan Schroeder, second and Kelsey Taff-ner, fourth; Automotive Service Technical Infor-mation - Nick Collier, sixth; Cabinet Making - Jack Brooks, sixth, Logan McArthur, seventh and Jessie Compton, 10th; Carpentry Technical In-formation - Thomas May-field, 10th; CNC Techni-cian - Caleb Luthi, first; Graphic Communication Technical Information - Avery Rosenthal, first and Kathy Pierce, second.

Nurse Assisting Techni-cal Information - Kimber

Kirbey, 14th; Photogra-phy - Kathy Pierce, 13th; Precision Machining Technical Information - Ashley Baxter, first, Caleb Luthi, third and Peyton Williams, ninth; Related Technical Math - Caleb Luthi, second; Vinyl Sign Making - team of Tanner Darrow, Josie Kaderly and Grace Keith, first; Web Design - Jordan Cox and Johnathan Schroeder, 13th; Welding Fabrica-tions - team of Tyler Dod-son, Chayce Johnston and Micah Swanson, fifth; Welding Technical In-formation - Kayla Loven, ninth.

Also competing were Michael McWilliams, Carpentry Technical In-formation; Britni Dun-can, Nurse Assisting Technical Information; team of Haven Clem-ons, Tori Conkle, Colton Divine, Isaac Oliphant, Avery Rosenthal, Jacob Shields and Tanner Dar-row, Quiz Bowl; Tanner Tummons, Welding Tech-nical Information.

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(mainly 'cause Dad said, “Do it” and we done it). At least we always had a nice patch of potatoes.

I hear there is a lot of nice “stuff ” being offered at the 10th Street Com-munity Farmers' Market on Saturdays at Moore Pa-vilion.

Great-grandson Brady Orahood was helping his dad, Tommy, rake and burn leaves last Saturday, April 4. It did not seem like there was any wind, but lo and behold some flames blew toward Brady.

His face and arm were burned. Brady was taken to a burn unit. His face is much better, but the arm is still wrapped.

Brady's birthday was last Tuesday, April 7. A birthday party was held Sunday, April 12, at Chicken Annie's. Ap-proximately 20 persons were present, consisting of family and his friends. Following a chicken din-ner, all enjoyed dessert of their choice or root beer or pineapple cupcakes. Brady opened birthday

gifts. He is the son of Tommy and Crystal Orahood, Lamar. I was unable to attend due to severe back pain, but sent my greetings to the party. “Happy Birthday” Brady.

Donna took me to see Dr. Ogden for shots in my knees. Well, first it was down to an x-ray for several pictures. I was having a time get-ting in some of the po-sitions with my legs. I said to the x-ray tech, “They tell me that I am in the 'Golden Years', but it feels more like 'Rusty Iron'”.

Fiber Arts Guild will meet Thursday, April 16, 9 a.m., at The Food Station. The meeting will follow breakfast.

May God be with our troops. Until next time...

Robertson named top 25 candidate for Division II Freshman of the Year

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Pittsburg State Univer-sity freshman pitcher Em-mie Robertson has been named one of the top 25 finalists for the Division II Freshman of the Year, the National Fastpitch Coach-es Association announced on Thursday, April 9.

Robertson leads the Go-rilla pitching staff with a 18-5 record, with one save. Some of her wins on the season include wins over nationally ranked Arkansas Tech and Em-poria State. She has also thrown four shutouts on the season. She is 10-1 in conference games only.

She has a 1.92 ERA, having given up only 39 earned runs in 142.0 in-nings pitched. She has struck out 151 batters, while walking only 37. She is holding opponents to a .204 batting average.

Robertson was recently named the MIAA Pitcher of the Week. She currently leads the MIAA in ERA, wins and opponent bat-ting average. She is second for strikeouts and strike-outs looking.

"I am very excited to be considered for this hon-or," Robertson said. "This

honor isn't only for me though. It also is about how hard Coach E (Head Coach Elizabeth Econo-mon) pushes me 24/7 and Coach Creger (Assistant Coach Aimee Creger) working with us everyday to get better. It is also for my teammates, especially the rest of the coaching staff and our catcher Ni-cole Nease, We have to work together everyday to make each other bet-ter. I wouldn't be consid-ered for this without all of them."

This is the inaugural year for the NFCA Divi-sion II Freshman of the Year award. The award is a collaboration between the NFCA and the Division II Head Coaches Com-mittee. The list of 25 ath-letes will be pared down to the top 10 finalists on Thursday, April 30. The top three finalists will be announced on Wednes-day, May 13, with the win-ner being announced on Tuesday, May 19.

The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) is the profession-al growth organization for fastpitch softball coaches for all competitive levels

of play. Founded in the early 1980s by collegiate softball coaches, today the organization also includes high school coaches, travel ball/club coaches and in-dividuals who support the sport. Founded by coach-es for coaches, the associa-tion is built on strong val-ues and continually instills within its members a deep sense of responsibility for developing programs that enrich the lives of all those involved.

In addition, the associa-tion provides education-al training, encourages sportsmanship and high standards of competition, promotes the sport both nationally and interna-tionally, identifies and pursues issues relevant to the fastpitch coaching profession and provides a forum to discuss those issues, honors excellence through awards programs for coaches and players and keeps members in-formed of current coach-ing techniques, equipment innovations and fastpitch news.

Robertson is a native of Lamar. Mo. She is the daughter of Bryan and Penny Robertson.

Former LHS athlete named MIAA Pitcher of the Week

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Pittsburg State Univer-sity (PSU) junior first baseman Alex Perez and freshman pitcher Emmie Robertson have swept the MIAA/AstroTurf Hitter and Pitcher of the Week honors, the league announced on Tuesday, April 7. 

Perez, a native of Tor-rance, Calif., led the Go-rillas with a .556 batting average over the team's six games against Lindenwood, Lin-coln and Missouri Southern. She also recorded an .889 slugging percent-age and a .619 on base percent-age. She had a hit in five of the six games on the week and reached base in all six. Her best game of the week came in the first game against Lin-coln. Perez went a perfect 4-for-4 in the game with two RBI, three runs scored and a home run. Monday night at Missouri Southern she added a 3-for-4 perfor-mance in the game. She had a perfect fielding per-centage on the week and in the first game of the doubleheader at South-ern helped to turn a triple play. 

Robertson, from La-mar, earned four of the five wins as the Goril-las went 5-1 on the week in six MIAA games. She made an appearance in five of the six games, toss-ing 25.0 of 38.0 innings the team played on the

week. Robertson earned wins over Lindenwood, Lincoln and two over Missouri Southern, in-cluding a shutout. Of the six runs she gave up on the week, only three were earned. She recorded 29 total strikeouts with no walks. She struck out 11 at Lindenwood in a 7-4 win. She

added a total of 12 strikeouts in the two games at Missouri South-ern, six in the seven in-nings of game one and six in the four innings of relief she pitched in game two. Of the 18 hits Rob-ertson gave up, only one was for extra bases, as she held opponents to a .191 batting average. Robert-son currently leads the MIAA with a 2.16 over-all ERA, a .211 opponent batting average and 15

wins. She is second in the league with 126 strikeouts on the sea-son, including 35 look-ing. 

Robertson is a 5'9” freshman and the daughter of Bryan and Penny Robertson. She plans to major in El-ementary Education while at PSU.

While playing at La-mar High School un-der Coach Tim Tim-

mons, she helped lead the Tigers to

back-to-back dis-trict titles and a sectional title as a senior. While in high school she was a two time Big Eight Player of the Year, as well as earning all-district honors for four years, all-region for three years and

all-state for two years. Robert-

son finished her high school senior

season with a 22-4 record, with 342 strike-outs, 19 walks and a 0.21 ERA. She finished her career with 1,013 strikeouts, fifth most all-time in Missouri. As a high school senior she also hit .471 with a .743 slugging percent-age.

Besides being a tal-ented athlete, she was also a member of the National Honor Soci-ety while at LHS.

The Gorillas are cur-rently first in the MIAA standings with a 14-2 league record. 

SCHOOL/SPORTS

Tigers down BulldogsThe Liberal Bulldogs

plated a run in the top of the first inning, but the Lamar Tigers would hold them scoreless the remainder of Friday's contest on their way to an 11-1 victory that has Thad Lundine's team sit-ting at 8-0 as they begin a stretch of games mostly made up of Big 8 Confer-ence foes.

Jacob Dermott dou-bled with one out in the first inning for the visit-

ing Bulldogs and later came around to score on a single by Colton Bun-ney. Dermott tossed two scoreless innings before the Tigers broke through against him in the third. Jed Stahl, who went 2-for-2 with a pair or walks and an RBI, singled. Senior pitcher Trenton Mooney helped his own cause with a two run double in the frame to give the Ti-gers a 4-1 lead. They plat-ed five runs in the fourth.

Tanner Phipps led off the home half of the fourth with a single and scored on Todd Mor-row's triple. Tripp Tuck-er's single plated Morrow and Tucker stole second

and scored on Stahl's double. Sam Timmons, who scored two runs and drove in two runs, had a double in the rally, as did Dylan Robertson who drove in three on the day.

All told, the Tigers racked up 12 hits off of Dermott and Levi Little-field.

Mooney threw the first two innings for Lamar, allowing the lone run. Phipps pitched the final three, yielding three hits and walking three. He fanned three.

Morrow finished the day 3-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI.

The Tigers are at Carl Junction Thursday.

Maxine, continued from page 2A

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Inches have been lost and muscles gained

Astra Ferris came to the Barton County Strength Club (BCSC), wanting to loose a few pounds and was look-ing to be healthier. After less than five months she has dropped pounds and lost over 20 inches all over her body.

Astra has truly inspired the owners of the club, as well as the people that are around her each and every day. She not only works hard at the Bar-ton County Chamber of Commerce, she also works just as hard at the gym.

When Astra started at BCSC she had a re-stricted range of motion. Her mobility wasn't great and she struggled at times with lifting weights. Through hard work and determina-tion not only has she improved her mobility and lost weight, but has gained muscle, making her able to move heavier weights. Astra kills each and every workout she does!

BCSC is so proud of Astra and all of her ac-complishments! She is a joy to be around and her bubbly personality and drive are contagious. The owners of the club definitely feel that Astra is truly awesome.

“She is such a great friend and we are so blessed to have her in our fitness family,” said co-owner Ashley Augusta, who owns Barton County Strength Club with her husband, Jeremy. They both agreed, “We can't wait to see Astra keep reaching and obtaining her goals and we are ex-cited to be a part of her journey!”

STRENGTH

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Members of the rural and urban communities of Barton County joined the Lamar Rota-ry Club on Tuesday, March 31, at the Lamar United Methodist Church Family Life Center. The purpose of the event was to cel-ebrate the annual Rural/Urban Day. Although many farmers were present; unfortunately the students from FFA were unable to attend due to participation in contest.

The plentiful luncheon was catered by Chicken Mary's, thanks to sponsors Mark and Donna Long, Bruce Belline, Daniel Funeral Home, Legacy Farm & Lawn, ComForcare and Bull Insurance.

Charles Curless introduced the guest speaker, Richard Fordyce. Fordyce is a fourth-generation Missouri farmer from Bethany, was was named Director of the Missouri De-partment of Agriculture in

December of 2013 by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. Fordyce's wife, Renee, was also present. Fordyce and his wife Renee grow soybeans and corn, as well as raise beef cattle on their fam-ily farm in Harrison County.

Fordyce noted that the part-nership between farmers and Rotary is very close. He men-tioned that there were record yields in Missouri last year for corn and soybeans and believes that this year will also have a bumper crop. He also stated that the beef cattle business was looking extremely good for the next several years.

Fordyce stated that Missouri ranked in the top 10 in every commodity that is grown in the state and that from an ag perspective, Missouri is hold-ing its own. He also spoke on the worldwide trade mission and his part in aiding with its growth. As an example he cited that while Spain is one of the biggest producers of pork, they do not produce the feed, so that has to be exported from else-

where. He also spoke on bio-technology. Fordyce pointed out to be more productive, one has to be sustainable.

He stated that agriculture is the number one industry in the state of Missouri, thanks to leadership. He pointed out that young people need to understand the concept of ag-riculture, in order to sustain its importance in our soci-ety. This is done through 4-H and FFA, as well as through young farmers that compete in various contests.

Fordyce completed his speech by stating, “What drives the industry are the people in agriculture that make it what it is”.

Longtime Barton County farmer, Keith Selvey, who has been staying with his daughter, was able to be at the luncheon and many were delighted to see him there. Keith is definitely the epitome of the successful farmer, hav-ing spent his life dedicated to farming.

Change in IRA rollover rule could lead to penalties

By CHRISTOPHER A. RUNION, CPA

If you’re planning to roll all or part of your IRA into a different IRA this year, you’ll only get one chance. Previously you could roll over each of your IRAs once every 12 months. Now you’re limited to a total of one

rollover per 12-month peri-od, regardless of how many IRAs you own. Spouses are considered separate indi-viduals for this purpose, so a rollover by one will not limit the other.

The IRS will ignore 2014 rollovers in determining the 2015 limit, as long as the IRA rolled over in 2015 is not one of those that was rolled over in the previous 12 months. As an example, say you have three IRAs. You rolled two of them over in June 2014. In 2015, you can roll the third IRA over, but not the other two.

What happens if you go over the limit? If you make a second rollover within the 12-month window, you’ll be taxed on the entire

Melody Metzger/Lamar DemocratA large crowd of Rotarians, as well as farmers, were present to enjoy the catered meal

by Chicken Mary’s.

Melody Metzger/Lamar DemocratDirector of the Missouri Department of Agriculture Richard Fordyce was present to

speak to those attending Rural/Urban Day, held Tuesday, March 31, at the Lamar United Methodist Church.

The Grind Coffee Shop, lo-cated inside the Barton County Strength Club in Lamar, opened for business on Friday, April 3, with a ribbon cutting held at noon by the Barton County Chamber of Commerce. Own-ers Ray and Lexy Varner serve a variety of delicious coffee drinks, frappes, smoothies and more.

The Varners, who have resid-ed in the area the last few years, noticed a lack of specialty drink options and hang out spots, so they decided to partner with the Barton County Strength Club to create exactly that!

The goal of The Grind Coffee Shop is to provide tasty bever-

ages, complete with a welcom-ing atmosphere to all. Couches are provided, as well as tables where patrons can play checkers and a chalkboard for children of all ages to doodle on. The relax-ing atmosphere also provides Christian music for its patrons.

The Varner's fervent prayer is that the income received from their coffee shop will help them towards their lifelong dream of building a Christian summer camp right here in Lamar.

Whether you come through their convenient drive-thru, or just come in to unwind and re-lax, they can't wait to meet you and provide you with a drink you'll love.

Rural and urban communities join together at Rotary event

The Grind Coffee Shop invites you to visit them

Owners Lexy and Ray Varner will greet you at their drive-thru at The Grind Coffee Shop. Of course walk-ins are always welcomed as well. The shop is located inside the Barton County Strength Club in Lamar.

Grief SupportGroup offered

A Grief Support Group is be-ing offered by Hospice Com-passus and Daniel Funeral Home of Lamar, to be held for four weeks on Monday eve-nings, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., April 7 and May 4, 11 and 18. The group will meet at the Lamar United Methodist Church, 9th and Poplar.

The goal of this four week ses-

sion is to provide a safe place where individuals can share common emotions and experi-ences with others who are go-ing through the process of grief since the death of a loved one.

For more information or to register contact Hospice Compassus at 417-682-3809 or Daniel Funeral Home, 417-682-5518.

see PENALTIES, page 2B

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Nitrogen should be applied before joint stage in wheatLAMAR-Wheat is near-

ing the joint stage or start-ing to joint in most area fields according to Jill Scheidt, agronomy spe-cialist with University of Missouri Extension. Scheidt scouted fields in Arcola and south of Min-denmines on April 8.

“Stem elongation is initi-ated at jointing and during this time wheat has an in-creased demand for nitro-gen. It is critical to apply nitrogen just before the joint stage so it is available for uptake by the plant. Nitrogen can be applied up to the second node or joint, but it is best to ap-ply nitrogen before this stage to avoid the risk of burning the leaves,” said Scheidt.

While scouting fields, five to seven greenbug aphids per linear foot were seen. Threshold lev-els are 300-500 per linear foot. Bird cherry oat aphid threshold levels are 12-15 per linear foot. Scheidt recommends applying 1.3 to 1.9oz/acre of Warrior or 3.2 to 4oz/acre of Mus-tang to control aphids at threshold levels.

Rust, most likely leaf

rust, was reported by a crop consultant in Jas-per County near baseline road; it was only found on one leaf and not seen since. “Rust typically occurs during periods of warm wet weather,” said Scheidt. To control rust, apply 6.5-8.2 oz/ ac Prosaro or 10-17 oz/ac Caramba as soon as symptoms are detected. Visit the Barton County Extension Crop Scouting

webpage for tips on iden-tifying types of rust.

Scheidt recommends controlling weeds in corn when less than two inches in height and diameter and pairing a residual her-bicide like Lumax or Zid-ua, with glyphosate for a burndown application. Consult the MU 2015 Pest Management Guide to see which herbicide best controls weeds present in

your fields. The weekly field scout-

ing report is sponsored by University of Missouri and Barton County Ex-tension. For more infor-mation on the scouting report, or to learn how to receive the information earlier by telephone, con-tact the Barton County Extension Center at (417) 682-3579.

AREA NEWS

Penalties, continued from page 1Bamount withdrawn plus an additional 10 percent if the early withdrawal penalty applies. You’ll also pay a six percent penalty on any amount over the $5,500 contri-bution limit ($6,500 if you’re over 50) that you put into the destination IRA. The six percent penalty will be reap-plied for each year the money remains in the account.

The change affects both traditional and Roth IRAs, which are lumped together in determining the limi-tation. The only ex-ceptions are (a) conver-sions from traditional

IRAs to Roth IRAs and (b) rollovers into IRAs from 401(k) accounts.

You can still make un-limited transfers among your IRAs by instructing your plan trustee to switch the funds directly. Trust-ee-to-trustee IRA trans-fers are not considered rollovers and the limita-tions don’t apply.

Rollover mistakes can create significant tax li-abilities.

The information con-tained in this column is of a general nature and should not be acted upon in your specific situation without further details and/or professional assis-tance.

Wilson Farms Greenhouse & Produce to observe customer appreciation day

Wilson Farms Green-house & Produce will hold its 8th Annual Cus-tomer Appreciation Day on Saturday, April 18. Free food will be served throughout the day, along with drawings for hang-ing baskets. There will also be 10 percent off the total plant purchase.

Wilson Farms Green-house & Produce features tomato and pepper plants,

cole crops, melons, cu-cumbers, squash, herbs, perennials, gerbera, pen-ta, spikes, geranium, be-gonias, impatiens, vinca, pansy, petunia, snaps and much more.

They offer a lot of new varieties and colors, from an expanded line of prov-en winners. Also avail-able is bulk garden seed, as well as seed potatoes, onion sets and plants,

potting soil, strawberry plants, asparagus and rhubarb.

Wilson Farms Green-house & Produce offers lean grass fed beef and has several varieties of beautiful hanging baskets and planters.

They are open Monday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Sun-days, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wil-son Farms Greenhouse

& Produce is owned by Mike and Tammy Wilson and is located five miles east of Milford, just off C Hwy. For information call 417-398-2505 or 417-682-1604.

10th St. Farmers' Market to celebrate Earth DayThe 10th Street Com-

munity Farmers’ Market will celebrate Earth Day on Saturday, April 25, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Moore Pavilion, 10th and Poplar in Lamar. This is the fourth annual Earth Day celebration. Besides the regular vendors that are there on Saturday, other vendors and orga-nizations may sign up for space by contacting Lendi Davis at 417-262-0245 or Lesa Queen at 417-540-2071. There is no charge for booth space on Satur-day, April 25, but the mar-ket will accept donated items for the silent auc-tion to help raise funds for operating expenses.

Events on April 25 will

include a talent show, demonstrations, artisans and crafters, traditional market vendors, chil-dren’s activities and a si-lent auction.

Already several vendors have been coming to the market with baked goods, jellies and plants, both vegetable garden and flower. Also on Saturday, April 4, one vendor had available tomatoes, new potatoes and green beans and grass fed beef. Early plants such as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and cold weather plants are available. They do well in the early cool spring weather. Most bedding and vegetable plants are from Wilson Greenhouse

at rural Jerico Springs. Mike and Tammy Wil-son are the owners of the greenhouse and re-ally have healthy plants. If you like rhubarb, this is the place to get nice large plants. Great hang-ing baskets for your deck or porch were also there Saturday.

Some of the things that sell well early of a morn-ing at the farmer’s market are the pastries. Lendi Davis had cinnamon rolls and soy rolls available at the April 4 market. Barb Carter sold out of all her pies and they really are great pies. Cinda Miller is usually at the market with her cinnamon rolls and homemade pies and

there is usually a line to get them, and she sells out early. Take a stroll to the Moore Pavilion and see what is being brought to the market.

Want to know more about was goes on at the Moore Pavilion, take time to visit the market on Saturday mornings. Later, when more gar-den produce is available, the market will be open on Wednesday. It is open now on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Usually someone will provide a biscuit and gravy break-fast and maybe a lunch. All breakfast and lunch proceeds from “Cooking for a Cause” go toward operating expenses.

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RECORDSBRIEFS

All briefs are also posted on the calender at www.lamardemocrat.com.

RICHLAND TOWNSHIP BOARD WILL MEET Thursday, April 16, 10 a.m., at the home of Dale Hu-ber, 694 SE 40th Lane.VFW POST 3691 AND LADIES AUXILIARY will meet Monday, April 27, 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.DON AND WANDA RODNEY WILL celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with an open house on Saturday, April 25, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Full Gos-pel Tabernacle, 601 Hagny, Lamar. The event will be hosted by their daughters.GOLDEN CITY R-3 WILL HOLD ITS kindergar-ten screening on Tuesday, April 28, at the Golden City Elementary School. Students must be five years old before August 1. To schedule an appointment or for more information call 417-537-4272. Appointments will last approximately 45 minutes.MT. CARMEL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION will meet Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m., at 694 SE 40th Lane.ORDER OF EASTERN STAR WILL HONOR past matrons and past patrons on Tuesday, April 21, at the Masonic Lodge. They will also be celebrating Mt. Hope Chapter’s 118th birthday. All are invited to at-tend. Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m., followed by a meet-ing at 7:30 p.m.THE RETIRED EDUCATORS OF THE BARTON County Area will hold its last meeting of the school year on Wednesday, May 6, at the Lamar First Chris-tian Church. The speaker for the meeting will be Beth Bazal from Truman Birthplace. Breakfast will be at 8:30 a.m., with the meeting to begin at 9 a.m. Re-member to bring your non-perishable items for Na-than’s Place.LIBRARY FRIENDS WILL HOLD A BOOK Sale now through April 15, at Lamar Memorial Hall.A GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP, OFFERED by Hos-pice Compassus and Daniel Funeral Home of Lamar will begin a new four week session on Monday nights, April 27 and May 4, 11 and 18, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Lamar United Methodist Church, 9th and Poplar. For information or to register call Hos-pice Compassus at 417-682-3809 or Daniel Funeral Home, 417-682-5518.THE AMERICAN RED CROSS WILL HOLD a blood drive on Monday, April 27, 12 noon to 6 p.m., at the First Baptist Church, 1301 E. 6th St., Lamar.COOKING WITH APPLES, PRESENTED by Mary Kuhn, will be presented free to the public on Wednesday, April 15, 3:30 p.m., at the Mary K. Finley Library in Lamar. Everyone who attends will receive a free cookbook and a free piece of her apple cake.FIBER ART GUILD WILL MEET THURSDAY, April 16, 9 a.m., at the Food Station in Lamar. Roll call will be answered with a spring memory from childhood.DINING TO DONATE, A MONTHLY event to support AOK, will be served Wednesday, April 15, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Nathan’s Place, 1005 Gulf St., La-mar. The April menu will include fried turkey, cheesy mashed potatoes, baked beans, garlic biscuit, choc-olate sheet cake and tea, lemonade or water for $6. Meals are available for dine in or carry out.BARTON COUNTY LIBRARY WILL HOLD training classes for Windows 8 Basics on Friday, April 17, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Trent Roby is the instructor. To sign-up visit the Lamar branch or call 417-682-5355.THE BARTON COUNTY SINGING CONVEN-TION will be held Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m., at the Iantha Methodist Church. This is a quarterly non-denominational fellowship and all are welcome to join. Participation with song or spoken specials is welcome, but not required.

MENUBARTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER

LUNCH MENU: April 20-24MONDAY- Sweet and

sour chicken, oriental vegetables, fried rice, egg roll, Mandarin or-anges, coffee/tea/milk.

TUESDAY- Taco salad with meat, beans, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes, pineapple, tostitos, frozen sherbet, coffee/tea/milk.

WEDNESDAY- Beef and noodles with mashed potatoes,

green beans, orange juice, wheat roll, snickerdoodle cookies, coffee/tea/milk.

THURSDAY- Open faced turkey with gravy, parslied potatoes, spin-ach, wheat bread, vanilla wafer pudding with ba-nanas, coffee/tea/milk.

FRIDAY- Hot dog with chili and cheese on bun, baked beans, french fries, apple juice, cantaloupe, coffee/tea/milk.

DEATHS & PAID MEMORIALS

DON COMPTONLAMAR-Services were

held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home for Don A. Compton, 87, Lamar, who died Monday, April 6, 2015, at Truman Healthcare Center, where he had been a resident for the past week. Burial was in Iantha Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Lamar Church of Christ or Bar-ton County Senior Cen-

ter, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfu-neralhome.net.

Survivors include two sons, Gary Compton and wife Patty, Carthage and Randy Compton and wife Donne, Rog-ers, Ark.; two daughters, Carol Compton Branum, Lamar, and Lori Stahl and fiance Zach McCul-ley, Lamar; three broth-ers, Jack Compton, Carl Compton and wife Mar-garet and Gene Compton, all of Lamar; eight grand-children, Stacy Maguire and husband Trevor, Kyle Compton, Julie Whyman and husband Dan, Jason Branum, Jed Stahl, Jena Stahl, Mackson McCul-ley and Hallie Compton; three step-grandchildren, Emily Athan and husband Nick, Andrea Jackson and Kelly King and husband

Adam; four great-grand-children, Lauren, Mat-thew and Miles Whyman and Jayden Maguire and a large extended family.

Mr. Compton was born July 27, 1927, in Spring-field, to Vernon and Elsie (Fuhr) Compton. After graduating from Central High School in Spring-field in 1945, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a Sea Bee in Guam. Returning home to Missouri, he met and fell in love with Hallie Olee Miles, who was working at the former Jones Drug Store on the Lamar Square. They were married June 19, 1948, making their home and rearing their four chil-dren in Barton County, where he farmed and worked for O'Sullivan Industries. The two cel-ebrated 57 years of mar-riage before she preceded him in death on Sept. 12, 2005.

Mr. Compton was an accomplished pianist, a talented artist, natural craftsman and a master at wood and rock carving, but the pastime that gave him the most pleasure was being a grandfather. He was an active mem-ber of Lamar Church of Christ.

SUE JONESLAMAR-Services were

held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lamar Family Minis-tries Center for Loretta “Sue” Jones, 75, Lamar, who died Sunday, April 5, 2015, at her home. Burial was in Collins Cemetery in Lockwood.

Arrangements were un-

der the direction of Dan-iel Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Sue Jones Family, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfu-neralhome.net.

Survivors include five daughters, Nelly Griffitt, Margret Jones and Bran-dy Jones, all of Lamar and Jenny Thomas and Jan-ice Guerrero, Greenfield; her stepchildren, Joyce Campbell, James Jones, Donald Jones and Mae Fisher, all of Mt. Vernon; an adopted daughter, Al-ice Wilkinson and a sis-ter, Francis Persinger.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Christy Melton; a brother, Thomas Wilkinson; her parents, Samuel and Lula Wilkinson and two step-children, Connie Daniel and Lile Jones.

Mrs. Jones was born March 16, 1940, at Green-field, to Samuel Marion and Lula Marie (Frye) Wilkinson. She was a homemaker and attended Lamar Family Ministries Center.

She married Clarence Jones on Aug. 8, 1981, at Mt. Vernon. He preceded her in death.

ETHEL MAE THROCKMORTON

NEWTON, Kan.-Ethel Mae (Myers) Throck-morton was born Dec. 24, 1917 and died March 28, 2015. The daughter of William and Maud Myers, she was born on Christmas Eve in Irwin, Mo., a beautiful Christ-mas present to her fam-ily. She contracted the famous bird flu in 1918. She surprised everyone and lived for almost a century. After graduation from Lamar (Mo.) High School, she married Fred Throckmorton and they were wed for 53 years un-til his death in 1989. The two lived in Kansas most

BIRTHRobbi Joli Borghardt

Scott and Rebekah Borghardt announce the birth of a daughter, Robbi Joli Borghardt, born at 4:09 a.m. on February 2, 2015. She weighed seven pounds and 9.9 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Big sisters Kerri, Gra-cie, Josie and Holli wel-comed her home.

Maternal grandpar-ents are Doug and Pam Sprouls, Lamar. Mater-

nal great-grandparents are Joan and Harlan Schick, Carterville and LaVern Sprouls, Iantha.

see DEATHS, page 4B

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RECORDS/AREA NEWS

LAMAR POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTThe following calls were

made by the Lamar Police Department during the month of March:

* Arrested March 8 in the 600 block of E. 17th St., while the officer was responding to an animal call, was Timothy Robert Harr, 38, Lamar. Harr was arrested on a Municipal Warrant that had been is-sued on a charge of failure to appear. Harr was taken to the Barton County Jail and when unable to post a bond was incarcerated. He also received a sum-mons for allowing his dog to run at large.

* Officers were dis-patched March 8 to the parking lot of Pete’s con-venience store located at 12th and Broadway, on the report of an as-sault that had taken place. When officers arrived they were told that an in-dividual had been sitting in his vehicle in front of

the business when anoth-er person, who he did not see approaching, hit him and left the scene.

* The Nevada Police Department notified the dispatcher on March 9 that they had contact with one Samuel Allen Peak, 33, Nevada. The City of Lamar had an active mu-nicipal warrant for Peak’s arrest on a charge of fail-ure to appear. The warrant was confirmed and Peak was arrested. Peak was not able to post a bond and was also being held on a Nevada charge, so he was incarcerated.

* While driving by the area of 7th and Walnut on Marcy 9, an officer saw a small black dog run up to a group of kids who were walking down the street and bit one of them. The dog was taken into custo-dy and the bite was found to be minor. The dog was taken to the pound for a

10 day quarantine, after which time it will have to be removed from the City of Lamar due to its unpro-voked attack on the child.

* A 10 year old male subject is to be referred to the juvenile authorities on March 10 for disorderly conduct.

* Officers were dis-patched March 10 to the area of 9th and Oak St., on the report of an intoxicat-ed male who would not leave the area. Contact was made with the subject and a decision to take him into custody was made. He was transported to the Barton Count Jail for a 12 hour protective hold.

* During an investiga-tion on March 10, into a previous assault, a state-ment was taken from an individual. They now claimed that they had made a false statement to the police about the inci-dent. A summons was is-

sued on a charge of filing a false police report.

* A report of wire fraud was taken March 11. The victim reported that when they filed their income tax they found that someone had already filed and re-ceived a refund. A case investigation into this matter will continue.

* Officers responded March 11 to the area of 6th and Truman St. on the report that a moped being ridden by two people had been struck by a vehicle and then left the scene. While officers were on the way to the scene they were notified that another citizen had witnessed the crash and had followed the vehicle and driver to a residence. Officers also went to the residence and made contact. After all the statements were taken an arrest was made on the individual in the ve-hicle. Arrested on charges

of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, failure to provide proof of insurance, driving while his license was under suspension/revocation and having a registra-tion violation was Steven Marc Dekker, 29, Lamar. Dekker was transported to the Barton County Jail and processed on the charges. In addition, the driver of the moped did not have a valid license to operate it and was issued a summons for the viola-tion.

* A report of a theft was taken March 12 at the Orscheln Farm and Home

of their married life.Mrs. Throckmorton

was kind, cheerful, gentle, strong and resilient. Gra-ciously she accepted what life offered and always looked forward. She was a wonderful friend, daugh-ter, wife, mother and grandmother, a gardener, consummate pie baker and an ardent Jayhawk basketball fan. Some fa-vorite memories of her are the stories she told of growing up in rural Missouri. She walked a mile to school at age five, learned to drive at age 12 and shared many stories of the Great Depression.

She was preceded in death by her parents, sis-ter Lorene, husband Fred and son Garry. She is sur-vived by a daughter, Linda (Mac) Gyllenhaal, Tucson and two grandchildren, Kirsten Bert, Tucson and Kyle Bert, Bozeman. She is also survived by her dear friend, Verna Clas-sen, of Newton.

The last years of her life were lived in Asbury Park in Newton and the family wishes to express grati-tude for their care of her. Burial was in the Iantha, Mo. cemetery. Donations in her memory may be made to Asbury Park, 200 SW 14th, Newton, Kan. 67114.

SANDRA K. WIMER

LAMAR-Graveside ser-vices were held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Fort Scott National Cemetery for Sandra K. Wimer, 69, La-mar, who died Saturday, April 4, 2015, at her son’s home in Joplin.

Arrangements were un-der the direction of Dan-iel Funeral Home.

Condolences may be

shared at www.danielfu-neralhome.net.

Survivors include four sons, David Wimer and Lee, Canyon Country, Calif., Jason Wimer and Nicole, Washington, D.C., Barry Wimer and Dani-elle, Joplin and Aaron Wimer and Seham, Kan-sas City, Mo.; a daughter, Katie Hines, Carthage; a brother, Vernon Harvey, Lamar; a sister, Nico-line Ekstrand, Lamar; 10 grandchildren, Matthew, Joshua, Mason, Jennifer, Addison, Emma, Lily, Caleb, Beau and Chanel and one great-grandson, Colton.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Lilly Harvey and a sister, Rosemary Cullum.

Mrs. Wimer was born May 16, 1945, at Long Beach, Calif., to Frank Henry and Lilly Rose (Larsen) Harvey. She graduated Long Beach Poly Technic High School and attended Long Beach City College.

She was a past member of the B & B Riders Club and Lamar Saddle Club and enjoyed working with Appaloosa horses. She loved tending to her garden and was quietly an amateur artist, working with painting and wood carving.

She married Larry Le-Roy Wimer on Feb. 15, 1964, at Long Beach, Ca-lif. He preceded her in death.

JESSIE TAYLORLAMAR-A memorial

service was held at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Sheldon Baptist Church for Jessie Leon Taylor, 59, Lamar, who died Thursday, April 9, 2015, at his home. Rev. Jerod Lamb officiated.

Burial will be at a later date.

Arrangements were un-der the direction of Dan-iel Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Tay-lor family.

Condolences may be shared online at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

He married Becky Bell Clark on July 13, 1984, at Lamar, and she sur-vives. Also surviving are two daughters, Mary Green and husband Brad, Springfield and Kathryn Hall and husband Patrick, Golden City; his stepfa-ther, Joseph L. Maggard, Lamar; a half-brother, Cecil and Kathy Taylor Sharp, Quenemo, Kan.; two half-sisters, Yvonne Haile and husband Bob-by, Lamar and Connie Bradford, Golden City and three grandchildren, Zack, Dallas and Terrin-ity Clark.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Cassandra Lynn Watts; a son, Do-navan “Big D” Taylor; a brother, Carlos Taylor and a brother-in-law, Larry Bradford.

Mr. Taylor was born March 3, 1956, in Kansas City, Mo., to Jessie W. and Mary (Leister) Taylor. He served in the U.S. Army and was honorably dis-charged as a Private E-1 October 20, 1981. He had worked for Sprouls Construction in Lamar, owned and operated T & M Body Shop & Garage in Iantha from 1992 until 2004 and retired from the Sheldon school system

where he was a custodian. He was a member of

Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) and Bar-ton County Eagles. He was a bike enthusiast and will be remembered by many as “Silver Stal-lion”. He was a talented singer and especially en-joyed karaoke with Butch Glasgow of Liberal.

JAMES CURTIS ALLEN

LAMAR-James Curtis Allen, age 92, passed away on April 10, 2015, at Mer-cy Hospital in Springfield, MO. His loving wife of 68 years, Juanita, preceded him in death November 5, 2012.

He was born June 7, 1922, in Winston, MO,

the son of Minor and Carrie Belle Allen. His father died when he was six years old, and Jim was thrust into manhood early in life by this unfor-tunate circumstance. He graduated from Chilli-cothe Business College and grew to become a very successful business man and civic leader in Lamar, Missouri, for nearly 60 years. In July, 2009, he and his wife moved to Springfield, Missouri and resided in independent, assisted, and skilled care facilities.

Jim was enlisted in the Navy during World War II and was a radio-man on the U.S.S. Bel-leau Wood aircraft car-rier. During his tenure in the war, he was exposed to great harm and tragic memories. His service to his country was a proud credit to his stature as a United States citizen. Jim met his “wife to be” while on leave in Kansas City, and was introduced to Juanita by his sister, Mary Francis (Allen) Key. They roller skated together and later were married at the Trinity United Methodist Church on Linwood Bou-levard. The church is still standing today.

After the war, Jim was employed by RPM, then Lawn Boy, in Lamar, Missouri, where he got his start in business and where he met many of his lifelong friends and asso-ciates.He and his friend and partner Kenny How-ard built the Blue Top Inn in Lamar, Missouri, and later sold the motel to fi-

nance the purchase of F. M. Thorpe Manufactur-ing. With Jim’s financial leadership and the part-nership’s wisdom, the new Thorco grew to become a vibrant asset to the City of Lamar, providing hun-dreds of jobs and gaining widespread respect in the business world.

Jim was a strong civic leader in Lamar and re-ceived countless awards, certificates, positions, and honors including membership in the Free-masonry, Boy Scout Sil-ver Beaver Award, Man of the Year, Lamar Rotarian President, and Paul Har-ris Fellow just to name a few. He was especially proud to serve on the Lamar Park Board. Jim was a dedicated mem-ber and supporter of the Lamar United Method-ist Church. As was clear in all of his words and deeds, Jim loved Lamar. He called Missouri “God’s Country” and considered Lamar his only home.

He is survived by five children: Daryl Allen, Oak Leaf, TX; Karen Allen, Lamar, MO; Dr. Marti Allen, Jonesboro, AR; Jimmie and his wife Nancy Allen, Overland Park, KS; and, Randy and his wife Nancy Allen, Springfield, MO. There are several grandchil-dren: Austin Allen, Los Angeles, CA; Gabrianne and her husband Nick Rickard, Olathe, KS; Ben-jamin Allen, Springfield, MO; and, Martha Allen, Springfield, MO. Nieces and nephews are Leslie and his wife Pat Key of Sherman, TX; and two great-granddaughters, Alba Allen, Lenexa, KS, and Imogen Rickard, Olathe, KS.

He was also preceded in death by his beloved sis-ter, Mary Francis Key.

Visitation was held at Daniel Funeral Home on Tuesday evening from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Ser-vices will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at the Lamar United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Lake Cemetery with full military honors. Memorials may be giv-en to the Lamar United Methodist Church.

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

Deaths, continued from page 3B

see POLICE, page 7B

Arvest Bank of Lockwood chosen for CD by Greenfield City Council

GREENFIELD-The Greenfield City Council meeting was called to order on March 3, by Mayor James Evans. Following the Pledge of Alle-giance, roll call was taken and those present were Jack Pugh, Vicki Lol-lar, Cathy Harrington, Kelly May-field, Beth Wright and Attorney Al-lan Rose and his wife Sherry.

The February 17 minutes were unanimously approved as read.

After discussion regarding the in-vestment of CDs for the city, Pugh made a motion, seconded by Lollar, and it was unanimously decided to invest with Arvest Bank in Lock-wood for a period of three years. Mayor Evans, Cathy Harrington and Mark Davis will be on the sig-nature card at the bank.

With no further business the meeting adjourned.

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LEGALSIN THE CIRCUIT

COURT OF BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURIPROBATE DIVISION

AT LAMARIN THE ESTATE OF:THOMAS WILSON MARTIN, Deceased.ESTATE NO 14B4-PR00054

SECOND AMENDEDNOTICE OF LETTERS

GRANTEDTo all persons interested

in the Estate of Thomas Wilson Martin decedent:

On the 29th day of October, 2014, Teresa Moore, Barton County Public Administrator was appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Wilson Martin, decedent, by the Probate Division of Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri. The business address of the Personal Representative is Teresa Moore, Barton County Public Administrator, Barton County Courthouse, Lamar, Missouri and the attorney is Richard M. Scott of 100 W. 10th, Lamar, MO 64759.

All creditors of the decedent are notified to file claims in Court within six months from the date of first publication of this notice or if a copy of this notice was mailed to, or served upon, such creditor by the personal representative, then within two months

from the date it was mailed or served, whichever is later, or be forever barred to the fullest extent permissible by

law. Such six-month period and such two-month period do not extend the limitation period that would bar claims one year after the decedent’s death, as provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or any other applicable limitation periods. Nothing in section 473.033 RSMo, shall be construed to bar any action against a decedent’s liability insurance carrier through a defendant ad litem pursuant to Section 537.021, RSMo.

Receipt of this notice by mail should not be construed by the recipient to indicate that the recipient necessarily has a beneficial interest in the estate. The nature and extent of any person’s interest, if any, can be determined from the files and records of this estate in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri.

Date of decedent’s death was October 4, 2013.

Date of first publication is April 1, 2015.

s-Janet B. MaupinClerk of the Probate

DivisionOf the Circuit Court of

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE

For default under the terms of the Deed of Trust executed by Evelyn L. Brooks, a single person, dated August 10, 2007, recorded on August 14, 2007 as Document No. 2007-1281, Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Barton County, Missouri, the undersigned Successor Trustee will on Thursday, May 7, 2015, at 12:00 PM at the West Front Door of the Barton County Courthouse, 1007 Broadway,

in Lamar, Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash:

The Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section Five (5), Township Thirty-Two (32), Range Thirty-Three (33), Barton County, Missouri, except that part heretofore conveyed for highway purposes,

to satisfy said debt and costs.Martin, Leigh, Laws &

Fritzlen, P.C.Successor TrusteeGregory D. Todd,

Assistant Secretary(816) 221-1430

www.mllfpc.com(Brooks, 6107.102, Publication Start: 04/15/2015 )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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COURT OF BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURI

ISENHOWER LUMBER COMPANY, INC.Plaintiff,v.REX MATTHEW GEBELIN, ANGELA MARIE REDMAN, TERRY KINNEY and CHRISTY KINNEY,Defendants.

Case No. 14B4-CV00310NOTICE OF

SHERIFF’S SALE INPARTITION

By virtue and authority of a certain INTERLOCUTORY JUDGMENT issued in the Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri, in the above cause on the 6th day of April, 2015, I shall, on May 20, 2015, at 1:00 p.m., between the hours of 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon and 5:00 o ‘clock in the afternoon of that day, at the West front door of the Barton County Courthouse, Lamar, Missouri, sell at public venue for cash to the highest bidder, the following described real estate:

THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER AND THE WEST HALF OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 32, RANGE 29, BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURI.

Sale to commence at 1:00 p.m.

s-L. MITCHELL SHAW, SHERIFF

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OF NAMEPublic Notice is hereby

given that on April 6, 2015, by an Order of the Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri, Cause No. 15B4-CV00107, the name of Austin James Lowman was changed to Austin James Trout.

Janet B. Maupin, Circuit Clerk

Barton County, MissouriBy Janet B. Maupin

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In re: Robert L. Medlin, and Margey E. Medlin (Deceased), husband and wife and the Heirs and Devisees at Law of Margey E. Medlin (Deceased)

TRUSTEE’S SALE--Default having been made in the payment of the promissory note described in and secured by a certain deed of trust executed by Robert L. Medlin, and Margey E. Medlin, husband and wife, dated January 26, 2007 and recorded February 6, 2007, as Document No. 2007-199, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the County of Barton, State of Missouri, the undersigned successor trustee at the request of the legal holder of said note, will on Thursday, May 7, 2015, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (At the specific time of 12:00 p.m.) at the West front door of the Barton County Courthouse, in the City of Lamar, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash, the following real estate described in said deed of trust and situated in the County of Barton, State of Missouri, to wit:

ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN BLOCK 3, FINK’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAMAR, COUNTY OF BARTON, STATE OF MISSOURI, BEING BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1, SAID BLOCK 3, THENCE SOUTH ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID BLOCK 3 A DISTANCE OF 95 FEET, THENCE WEST A DISTANCE OF 120 FEET, THENCE NORTH A DISTANCE OF 95 FEET, THENCE EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID BLOCK 3 A DISTANCE OF 120 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SUBJECT TO EASEMENTS OF RECORD WITH AN INGRESS EGRESS EASEMENT DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: ALL OF THE SOUTH 12 FEET OF THE NORTH 107 FEET OF THE EAST 240 FEET OF SAID LOT 1, BLOCK 3, FINK’S ADDITION.For the purpose of

satisfying said indebtedness and the cost of executing this trust.

Centre Trustee Corp., Successor Trustee

St. Louis, Missouriwww.centretrustee.com

Notice:Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 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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LEGALS

816 W. 12th, Westview CenterLamar, Missouri 64759

417-682-6543 • www.realtor.com

Connee Forrester realty, llC

CHARMING THREE Bdrm, 2 ba. Hard-woods in most rooms. KIT appliances stay. XL Utility rm. 2c attd garage, fenced back yard. Landscaped corner lot, north Lamar location.

E I E I O: Not a farm perhaps, but three rural acres on blacktop with some larger trees and 44' x 100" barn. Located near Iantha. Liberal school district. Endless pos-sibilities. Owner encourages offers.

OWNER ANNOUNCES SPECIAL PRICING, MONTH OF APRIL ONLY on 3-4 Bd, newer roof, CH/A, 5 car garage, 2 shop bldgs on 1 acre.

GOOD LOCATION INCLUDED: Two Bedroom, 1 spacious bath. Hi-Eff CH,CA. Updated Kitchen includes appliances. 18́ x 23́ deck overlooks large, shady fenced, yard. 1.5 car attached garage. Storage building with concrete floor.

COUNTRY CLOSE TO TOWN: Wonderful treed back yard included with this 2 Bdrm, 2 bath home on 1 acre close to Lamar. Spacious Kitchen, dining room and living room with fireplace. Plenty of hardwood floors. Breeze-way to 2c garage, workshop and storm shelter.

COMPLETE PACKAGE: 4-5 Bedrm, 2.5 bath. Crown molding, tile, hardwds. Firepl. Newer roof & Hi-Eff CH, CA. Full basemt. Screened porch, private patio and STORAGE, STORAGE, STORAGE. 2c attd gar PLUS 24’ x 42’ Shop. Great location.

EASY LIVIN: Two Bedroom, 1 bath home built 2000, Popular open split-bedroom floor plan. Sev-eral appliances included. Multiple out buildings including XL insulated shop, covered storage for multiple boy-toys, dog pen, good garden spot, fruit trees, mature shade trees, and so much more.

ERWIN QUALITY CONSTRUCTION: 2200+ sq ft -Three Bdrm, 2.5 bath, partial bsmt, heat pump, hardwired generator. Built-in library/collectables display. Floor plan flexible for 4th bedrm, business or in-law apartment. 3c attd garage plus 40’ x 90’ detd garage/shop. 2.1 acres.SOLD

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Store. It was reported that an employee helped an individual in a red 2000’s model Ford F-150 pick-up load up a roll of barb wire valued at $40. The subject did not come into the store to pay for the purchase and instead left the parking lot. The driv-er was described as being about 6’3” tall around 18 years of age. He had dark hair and at the time was wearing a cowboy hat and jeans.

* The Carthage Police Department notified La-mar on March 12 that they had contact with one Makayla Dawn Swinson, 25, Carthage. Swinson showed an active Lamar

Municipal Warrant issued on a charge of failure to appear. The warrant was confirmed and Swinson was not only taken into custody on the Lamar warrant, but she also had Carthage charges. A few days later she had cleared the Carthage charges and was transported back to Lamar where she posted a bond and was released.

* A one vehicle crash was investigated March 13 in the Walmart park-ing lot. According to a statement taken from the driver, this crash occurred as the car’s driver was en-tering the lot. She divert-ed her attention from the roadway and struck one

of the light standards. The only injury was a juvenile who had struck his head and scraped some skin off. Officers checked the child seat that the child was in and found that it was not properly installed.

* Officers were called March 13 to the 1200 block of E 10th St. on the report of a runaway eight year old male. A quick search of the area was done and the juve-nile was located. He will be referred to the juvenile office.

* An officer had stopped a vehicle on March 14 in the area of 17th and Grand on a traffic viola-tion. The driver got out of the car and asked why he was pulled over. He

kicked off his shoes and ran from the scene. The officer pursued, but was unable to locate him. Several days later contact was made with the indi-vidual that the officer had identified as the one that had run. He was arrested on other charges when he tried to run from this contact. Once in custody summonses for resisting a lawful detention, vio-lation of a stop sign and driving while his license was under suspension were issued. The individ-ual was Jared Trevor Co-field, 27, Lamar.

* Officer responded March 14 to a domestic disturbance in the 700 block of W. 8th St. Con-tact with the individual

was made and no arrests were made at the time of this call.

* An axe was found by a citizen on March 14 and turned into the police. It can be claimed on its identification at the police station.

* Officers were dis-patched March 15 to the 800 block of Poplar St. on the report that there was an out of control male there who was intoxicat-ed. When officers arrived they took the subject, Michael Paul Brown, 30, Lamar, into custody for a 12 hour protective hold. Once at the jail Brown was being restrained and spit on one of the officers and tried to bite another. He was charged with as-

sault on a police officer. He later posted a bond and was released to await a court hearing date.

* Officers responded March 15 to the 200 block of W. 5th St. on the re-port of a domestic as-sault. After taking state-ments officers searched for the suspect. He was found attempting to hide in a shed. With him were several pieces of property that belonged to the vic-tim of the assault. Arrest-ed on charges of domestic assault and for a burglary charge was Eldridge Dean Brown, 46, Lamar. Brown was taken to the Bar-ton County Jail where he was incarcerated to await the formal filing of state charges.

CLASSIFIEDS

CLASSIFIEDS Cards of Thanks

Words cannot even begin to express the ap-preciation we have for the outpouring of love and support our family has received since Wil-lie’s passing. Your many expressions of sympa-thy will always be remembered. May God bless each one of you. The family of Willie Ison

Thank you to our family and friends that made our 50th wedding anniversary something we’ll always remember.

Henry and Carolyn Taffner

Special Notices

Alcoholics Anony-mous meets every Sunday, 5 p.m., in the basement of Lamar Memorial Hall, 1104 Broadway. All meetings are nonsmoking.

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

Services Offered

Looking To Have Your House Cleaned? Call me

at 620-875-6043.

Lawn Mowing Season Is Approaching: Please call O'Neal Cutting Edge Lawn Care for All Your Lawn Care Needs: Free Estimates: Affordable Prices: Ful-ly Insured. Cell: 417-214-0256 or Home: 417-682-2909 After 7 Please. If no answer please leave message. Chris O'Neal Owner/Operator 1103 E 18th St., Lamar, MO 64759.

Garden Tilling & Mow-ing and Light Yard Work. Reasonable rates. Courteous service, La-mar area. 417-681-1309.

Professional, Residen-tial and Business Clean-ing. Spots open. Call 417-214-3172.

Employment

Drivers, 65,000+, CDL-A, $2500 sign on, Bonus Pay out in 4mo. 1 month exp., Same Day Pay! Free Health Ins, No CDL? We have Free training! www.trailiner.com 800-769-3993.

Drivers, Solo, 3 or 6 day runs, $44 cents per mi, Free Health Ins. Same Day Pay. 800-769-3993 for Details, on line app www.trailiner.com.

Drivers: Great Home Time. Excellent Pay Package & Paid Driv-er Benefits. Dry Van and Flatbed Divisions. You Choose. Refresh-ers Welcome. 800-234-5710.

Drivers: Company: Great Weekly Pay! Paid Health Insurance, Va-cation/Holidays! Own-

erOps: $1.03 All miles plus 100% FS. Paid tolls, scales & more @ Stan-dard Transportation Gets you home weekly: 1-888-992-4038 x 133.

Drivers: $70,000 to 80,000 per yr., Exp driv-ers, Free health insur-ance, 2500 sign on bo-nus (pays out in 4 mons) Home weekly, Same day pay 2016 Freightlin-er Cascadia, APU, in-vertors. Automatic and Standard Transmission. www/trailiner.com or 800-769-3993.

Drivers: CDL-A. PTT Hiring OTR Earn .40 cpm base then bonus! Hard running Solos/Teams FT/PT available. 866-312-7919.

Garage Sales

Garage Sale – Friday, April 17, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, April 18, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lots of large items. Microwave, paper shredder. Garages have been cleaned out. Clothes. 200 E. 11th –

Rain or Shine!

Huge Moving Sale – 213 SE 15th Rd. 2009 Kawasaki motorcycle, exercise equipment, home and Christmas décor, table and chairs, barstools. Lots of nice things for everyone. Fri-day, April 17, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, April 18, 7 a.m. to 12 noon.

Miscellaneous For Sale

Golf Cart For Sale – 2008-09 Club Car. Load-ed, lights, roof. Excellent shape, $3000. 417-537-8603.

Wood Dining Room ta-ble with extra leaf and six chairs for sale, $400. Bedroom suite with full size bed, mattress, box springs, matching chest and night stand, $250; older twin size metal bed with like new mat-tress and box springs, $100. 682-2519 after 5 p.m.

"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 for Rent

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 $365. 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

For Rent – 708 Grand. Large 1-bedroom du-plex. Central heat/air, refrigerator, stove. $325 month plus $275 depos-it. References. Call R&R Rentals, Rosalee Potter, 417-682-5668.

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