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County puts plans into motion

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Chuck Apt laid out plans Tuesday for a board to administer funds Allen County commissioners will earmark for economic development.

Initially, $200,000 to $250,000 is expected to be set aside from reserves.

Apt, an Iola attorney, stressed he would approach chairmanship of the boards — one to decide mechanics

Let’s celebrate Iola High School juniors Isaac Vink, top, and Ethan Tavarez swarm senior Coleson Wiggin Tuesday in Osawatomie after the team clinched a berth in next weekend’s state tournament. Full details of Iola’s thrilling Class 4A-II substate championship begin on Page B1. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

and a second to accept and decide requests for funding — as a citizen, not an attorney, which would preclude legal advice. Legal comments will be the venue of County Counselor Alan Weber.

Several people “have given me lists” of possible nominees for the boards, Apt said. Each board will have six members in addition to Apt. “I think having some younger people,” those looking to the future, “would be

Graduating preschooler Chloey Connes receives a congratulatory hug from her “school grandma,” Windsor Place resident Ethel Beckmon. In the background is resident Marion Wilson. A story about the preschool, located inside Windsor Place, is on page A4. Tuesday’s graduating class was Windsor’s seventh. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

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Humboldt set to celebrate HUMBOLDT — It’s not happenstance that Humboldt was named after Baron von Humboldt, a German explorer and naturalist. The town was founded in 1857 when German migrants from Hartford, Conn., arrived at the townsite on May 10 of that year.

Saturday, members of Humboldt Historical Preservation Alliance will throw a party to celebrate Humboldt’s 160th birthday.

Because Humboldt’s history is steeped in baseball, the day’s main events are two baseball games featuring vintage teams from Topeka and Wichita. Humboldt is the birthplace of Walter Johnson, one of the greatest of all major league baseball pitchers. Johnson was born north of town on a farmstead in the shadow of Humboldt Hill.

While not officially a part of the celebration, the Lions Club’s annual kids fishing contest will run from 8 to 10 a.m. at the large pond on Humboldt’s golf course.

A geocache contest will start at 9 a.m. at the older

good on the board to develop policies,” he said. Then, “the second with more experienced people to decide applications.” He will have recommendations for both groups for commissioners to review next Tuesday.

Apt stressed the economic development board’s purpose is to assess whether an application fit within the framework of what the county

Musical magic A large crowd flocked to the courthouse square Tuesday for the Iola Middle School band concert. At top, from left, Brett Wills, Nathan Stevens and Ryan Wools perform on the trumpet. At bottom left is Thomas Fleming and Jorja Murcko; at bottom right is Jessica Tidd. The concert was the final public performance under the instruction of Matt Kleopfer. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

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HUMBOLDT — This is part eight of a 14-part series following Nina Froggatte’s j o u r n e y through police training at the Kan- Nina Froggatte sas Law Enforcement Training Center, Hutchinson.

Although the official test is May 30, last week Nina Froggatte’s practice scores in using both a pistol and a shotgun were right on target.

“I did it really well so that made me happy,” she said.

From standing up with her arms extended outward to kneeling down, she had to shoot from varying distances. Excellence depended on both speed and accuracy. She discovered, to her surprise, a preference for shooting a shotgun over a handgun.

“I actually do better at 25 yards with my left hand and at 25 yards in general than I do at 15,” she said, attributing it to the greater time allowed to focus.

On Friday, she will study fingerprinting technique.

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Calendar

May 24-Fire Depart- Mary A. ment meeting, fire sta- Luedke tion, 7 p.m.

School calendar

Thursday-Last day of school; Friday-high school track regionals at Burlington, 3 p.m.

Meal site

Friday-fish patty, au gratin-potatoes, Mediterraen veggies, bread, apricots; Monday-Mr. Rib, baked beans, spinach salad, hamburger bun, peaches; May 24live music, Vision cards accepted; chili, coleslaw, crackers, cinnamon roll. Phone 620-853-3457 for meal reservations.

Christian Church

Christian Church

Scripture presented Sunday was John 14:1.

Guest speaker was Charles Towne with the sermon “God’s Cure for a Troubled Heart.”

Graduates honored Sunday were eighth-graders Ben Prasko and Straton McGhee; high-schoolers Jacob Riebel, Preston Utley, Callie McGhee and John Hartman; and Trevor Freelove, associate degree from Allen Community College.

Gifts were passed to all the mothers.

A prayer meeting is at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Tuesday’s smalls group are at 7 p.m., Gilliland’s and at 6:30 p.m. Randy Riebel’s.

May 27-Work Day at Hidden Haven. Contact Darren McGhee or Larry Wittmer if you can go.

Cowboy Church

Mothers in the congregation were honored during Sunday services.

Pastor Jon Petty spoke about the importance mothers have had.

Praise music and song were led by Cindy and Billy Beckman and Terri Louk.

Northcott Church

Announcements: May 25-Northcott Women of Faith, 6:30 p.m., Italian dinner; May 25-June 3-Ten days of constant prayer for the Global Day of Prayer; June 4-Global Day of Prayer.

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Church Sunday was Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16, Acts 7:55-60, 1 Peter 2:1-10, and John 14:1-14. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon.

This month’s United Methodist Church Women’s challenge is VBS supplies.

90th Birthday

A card shower has been requested for Roberta West whose 90th birthday is Thursday.

Her family will help her celebrate. Her address is: 11107 SW 500 Rd., Colony, KS. 66015.

Memorial Day service

The service is at 9 a.m., May 29, at Colony Cemetery.

Alumni

The 110th Colony/ Crest Alumni Dinner is May 27. Doors open at 5 p.m. for registration and visiting. The price is $18. Dinner is served at 6 p.m. and meeting follows. This year’s officers: President Marie Goodell Plinsky, class of 1966; Vice President Mary Beckmon Scovill, 1964; Secretary Thelma Sherwood Hisel, 1964; and Treasurer Ron Luedke, 1965.

Crest awards

Following are the scholarships and awards for this year’s Crest High School graduates, presented May 12:

Senior Academic Awards: Kansas Board of Regents Curriculum Completers - Laurel Godderz and Karlee Hammond; Kansas State Scholar – Laurel Godderz Scholarships: Allen Community College - Jordan Hendrix, Miranda Golden, Shelby Ramsey, Rimal (Nate) Berry; Chelsie Spain Memorial - Karlee Hammond; Throckmorton/Riser Foundation-Laurel Godderz, Karlee Hammond; Garnett VFW Auxiliary Scholarship - Laurel Godderz; Crest Education Association - Jordan Hendrix; Dale and Betty Lybarger Scholarship - Karlee Hammond; Crest Alumni Association/Earl Clemans, Jr.

Crest High School seniors Karlee Hammond and Jordan Hendrix were named recipients this year of $500 Earl R. Clemans Scholarships, courtesy of the Colony/Crest Alumni. Clemans taught a combined 39 years, first at Colony High School from 1941 to 1967, and then at Crest from 1967 to 1981. The scholarship was started by Kermit Hoffmeier, a former student of Clemans’, who cited his teacher’s influence. Hoffmeier ran Hoffmeier, Inc., Tulsa. PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHY CLEMANS

Memorial - Karlee Hammond, Jordan Hendrix; FFA/Beckman Ford - Miranda Golden; R.E. French Family Foundation - Laurel Godderz, Karlee Hammond; Doug Bruce Memorial Scholarship - Shelby Ramsey, Miranda Golden; Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative Scholarship - Rimal (Nate) Berry; Pieces and Patches Quilt Guild – Miranda Golden; Charles (Chuck) A. Miller Memorial Scholarship – Miranda Golden; Anderson County Hospital Auxiliary – Shelby Ramsey; Garnett BPW Scholarship – Laurel Godderz; University of Kansas Traditions Scholarship – Laurel Godderz; Washburn University Freshman Academic Scholarship – Karlee Hammond.

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Butch Trabuc’s resignation as transportation director was accepted at the May 8 Crest USD 479 Board of Education meeting. Hired were Austin Lee as assistant senior sponsor, Bailey Lee as senior sponsor, Casey Cook as head softball coach and Jessica Thompson as summer help.

Members agreed, 6-0, to purchase the Go Math curriculum for $12,997.89

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas attorney general's office has seized patient records from a closed nursing home after suing the owners.

The suit filed last week in Allen County stems from the closure of the Pinecrest Nursing Home in the southeast Kansas town of Humboldt.

The lawsuit alleges that there have been no efforts to secure or

properly dispose of the records, even though the building where they are stored has been burglarized and trespassed upon since it ceased to be occupied in 2011.

A court order authorized the seizure of the records. A hearing is scheduled for June 6.

Defendants in the suit include Georgia-based AltaCare Corporation.

The phone number for the company has been disconnected.

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Jerold Don Smart, Scipio, came to see his mother, Thelma Culler, Saturday and did several odd jobs for her for a Mother’s Day gift. On Mother’s Day, her son, Dr. James Smart, and Emily, Moran, took her out for dinner at the Community Diner.

Mark Luedke took his mother, Allene Luedke, out to dine for Mother’s Day. The families of Shirley McGhee met in Garnett Saturday evening.

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and 5-1 for the Journeys curriculum for $17,448.59, Travis Church opposed, and Jeff Strickler absent.

The sixth- and seventhgrade girls track team finished first in league, Principal Travis Hermreck said.

Four middle school students participated in the Fort School music festival on May 6.

Superintendent of Schools Chuck Mahon discussed the district’s state assessment data and gave an update on the KESA accreditation.

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Jackie L. “Jack” Steward, 81, Iola, passed away Monday, May 15, 2017, at his home.

Jack was born Jan. 4, 1936, in Iola to Charles and Suzan (Page) Steward. He graduated from Iola High School in 1954 and later enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving from 1958 to 1960.

He married Bonita "Bonnie" Jack Steward Martin on Dec. 10, 1960, in Iola.

Together they made their home in Iola, where he will long be remembered for his beautiful outdoor Christmas displays. As a boy he worked for the Iola Register, later working for Columbia Metal and several filling stations around Iola.

He and his wife owned and operated Bonnie's Corner Café. He was the last man standing at the IMP boat plant.

He is survived by his wife, Bonnie, of the home; children Tracy Steward, Iola, Deborah Sager, Iola, Jacqueline Woolery, Olathe, Teresa Weatherbie and husband Gene, rural LaHarpe, and Nancy Maley and husband Dale, rural Moran; grandsons Jacob, Bobby, Ethan and Nathan Maley, Cassidy and Dalton Weatherbie, Alec and Courtland Sager and Brock Woolery; three great-grandchildren; a sister, Suzie Clark and husband Porter, Independence; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Jack was preceded in death by his parents, sisters Daramis and Leah, brothers Wendell, Larry and Don, and a son-in-law, James Sager.

Services for Jack will be at 10 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Iola, with visitation beginning an hour prior. Burial will follow in the LaHarpe Cemetery. Contributions in his memory may be made to a charity of your choice.

Condolences for the family may be left at www. feuerbornfuneral.com.

Senate returns gun bill TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Senators on Tuesday voted to send back a bill that would allow public hospitals and nursing homes, community mental health centers, low-income health clinics and the University of Kansas Medical Center to ban guns in their facilities.

Under a law taking effect July 1, those health care

providers will have to either allow guns on the premises or secure building entrances using metal detectors and armed guards. The bill would allow the facilities to ban guns without paying for the added security.

Ways and Means Committee Chair Sen. Carolyn McGinn says the committee could work on the bill today.

Financial Focus What Does Conservative Mean to Older Investors?

Investing

If you’re a certain age, or getting close to it, you might hear something like this: “Now that you’re older, you need to invest more conservatively.” But what exactly does this mean?

For starters, it’s useful to understand that your investment preferences and needs will indeed change over time. When you’re first starting out in your career, and even for a long time afterward, you can afford to invest somewhat aggressively, in stocks and stock-based investments; because you have time to overcome the inevitable short-term market drops. At this stage of your life, your primary concern is growth – you want your portfolio to grow enough to provide you with the resources you'll need to meet your long-term goals, such as a comfortable retirement.

But when you finally do retire, and perhaps for a few years before that, your investment focus likely will have shifted from accumulation to preservation. And this certainly makes some sense. Even though you may spend two, or even three, decades in retirement, you actually have many shorter time frames for withdrawing money – that is, selling investments –from your retirement accounts, such as your 401(k) and IRA. In fact, you may be taking withdrawals every month – and you don’t want to be forced to sell investments when their price is down.

Consequently, you’ll want a portfolio that’s less susceptible to market downturns. This means that you may need to reduce the percentage of stocks in your investment mix and increase your holdings in investments that have less growth potential but offer greater stability of principal, such as bonds.

If you follow this formula, you will have become a more conservative investor. But this evolution – from aggressive to conservative – isn’t that simple, or at least it shouldn’t be. If, as mentioned above, you are retired for two or three decades, you will have to deal with inflation. And even at a relatively mild 3 percent annual inflation rate, your purchasing power will decline by about half in just 25 years. This is a real threat to retirees, who, unlike active employees, can’t count on increases in earned income to overcome increasing costs of living.

Given this reality, you will have to find your sources of rising income in your investment portfolio. One possibility: Dividend-paying stocks, some of which have increased their dividends for many years in a row. Still, like all stocks, these dividend payers can lose value from year to year, and they can also reduce, or even eliminate, dividends at any time. In other words, they aren’t risk-free – which brings us back to the question of how ““conservative” of an investor you can really afford to be when you’re retired.

In the final analysis, there’s no simple answer. On one hand, you probably shouldn’t be as aggressive an investor as you were when you were much younger and still working. On the other hand, if you were to primarily own certificates of deposit and U.S. Treasury securities, you might face the prospect of outliving your money. Ultimately, you’ll need to maintain a balanced portfolio that helps you control risk today while providing you with growth opportunities for tomorrow.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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Windsor Place: An experiment in learning

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

It’s not an uncommon feature of life in a nursing home — the resident who hunkers down in his room as solidly as a knot in a tree, who refuses to leave his chair, his TV, who retreats so deeply into himself that he’s virtually unreachable by the staff or other residents.

And not because of any neurological deficiency; perhaps out of a simple cussedness or loneliness or mental upset at where fate has deposited him.

This was John, a longtime resident at Windsor Place, Iola’s last remaining nursing home. One Windsor staffer remembers him as “very antisocial, maybe a little depressed. We just couldn’t get him to do much of anything.”

But then, seven years ago, John began, on his own, to leave his small unit, each day venturing eagerly down the hallway toward a brightly colored room, a room full of tables and tiny plastic chairs and posters on the wall, a roomful of noise, a room spilling over with 4-year-olds.

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remains one of the few nursing homes in the Midwest to take the fairly radical step of housing a preschool within its main building. Managed by USD 257, the state-grant funded “at-risk” preschool limits its enrollment to students whose family circumstances are marked by some perceived disadvantage — low income, single-parent household, teenage par-

their battery ran out; they died. And that it’s OK.” Wools explains a bit more about the program and then pauses on a thought: “There’s one resident, I think she’s been here the whole time, and she loves the kids!

Elaine. You should talk to Elaine.”

For seven years, Heather Wools, left, was the sole teacher at Windsor Place Pre-K. She just completed her final year. Resident Elaine Brown is a favorite “grandma.” ents, etc. These students attend the school for free.

On Tuesday, Windsor Place Pre-K graduated its seventh group of preschoolers. The students, 24 in all, gathered on the sunlit front lawn of the nursing home. They wore blue gowns and yellow stoles. They had to skip the hats due to high wind. A sparse collection of parents and friends of the graduates sat on the modest stack of bleachers set up for the occasion. The pupils’ “school grandparents” — the children’s name for the nursing home residents — sat, most in wheelchairs, in a line opposite the bleachers.

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the sole preschool teacher at Windsor since the inception of the program in 2010, has just completed her final year. She’ll be teaching kindergartners at McKinley Elementary come fall. “But I know that there are experiences I’ve had here that I could never have anywhere else.

Seeing the kids with the residents — sometimes it’s beautiful, sometimes it’s heartbreaking. This is an at-risk school, so some

of my kids are difficult kids. Some of them don’t ever really connect with me or they don’t make a bond with the other kids.

But,” said Wools, “they’ll have a grandparent that they immediately bond with. And that is bittersweet, because sometimes the age of our residents means that they’re not always around for the entire year. Still, it’s great to see when the kids are able to connect with someone, even if it’s only very temporary.”

In a school where children know to be careful around oxygen tanks and know not to crawl up onto wheelchairs, the subject of death intrudes in a way that it might not at a traditional preschool.

John, for example, the gruff old man whose private burdens were made lighter by his interactions with the children, died only last year. Wools adjusts her explanation of the complicated subject to the developmental readiness of each child. “If they’re not ready to grasp the idea, I just explain that grandpa was here because he needed help and now he doesn’t need help anymore, so he’s not

here now. Other times, we’ve had full anatomy lessons and talked about how your heart works and keeps your body alive, and I explain how your heart is like a battery and when our batteries get very, very old, they eventually die. We just explain that

“WOULD YOU believe that I’m 97?” asks Elaine Brown. Brown is a small woman with sharp hearing, a preternaturally soft voice, and a presence that signals a fantastic inner kindness. Asked what she makes of the many children loudly working away at their ABCs just down the hall, she smiles broadly. “I love them. I really do. ... Sometimes I read with them, sometimes I color with them. Just what-

ever they’re doing, I’ll do it with them. Today, of course, we sat out in the wind to watch them get their diplomas.”

Brown has six daughters of her own and was, during her prime, a schoolteacher, and so she’s no stranger to children. But the kids at Windsor Place, Brown explains, inject a new life, a new energy, into the nursing home that is hard to quantify.

But it is an energy which, during the summer — when the kids are at home, when the preschool is empty — suddenly vanishes, and the halls assume their former pallor. “It just becomes very quiet here again, and at that time,” said Brown, “I really do begin to miss them.”

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Playing loose with rules could put US out on the sidelines It won’t come as a surprise if, in his innocence, President Donald Trump shared classified information to Russian leaders on their visit to the White House last week.

We all have to rein in the urge to brag, name-drop, or share salacious gossip. In the world of politics, the power-hungry are especially vulnerable to overstepping such ethical boundaries.

Perhaps in his eagerness to impress his guests, the Russian foreign minister Sergey V. Lavrov and the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey I Kislyak, Mr. Trump got carried away and let slip that he was in the know of an Islamic State terrorist plot.

For us baby boomers who practiced “duck and cover” — a euphemism for nuclear bomb drills — in elementary school, our suspicion of the Soviets became so inculcated that it’s disconcerting to see our president cozy up to today’s Russians.

Monday evening, Gen. H.R. McMaster, national security advisor, refuted that Trump had done such a thing.

But on Tuesday morning, Trump himself contradicted McMaster, tweeting it was his prerogative as president to share secret intelligence.

Also on Monday Rex Til-

lerson, secretary of state, said Trump didn’t know the source of the highly sensitive information.

By Tuesday afternoon, Israel came forward saying it provided the For-YourEyes-Only information to Trump.

SO WHAT’S the big deal?

For starters, Russia and Iran are allies, while Iran and Israel are sworn enemies.

If Israel cannot trust the United States from keeping classified information from the Russians, then the U.S. could not only lose a valuable ally in the Middle East but also its services in the intelligence game. If sources feel they will not be protected, they will dry up.

Same song, second verse for Germany; third verse for the United Kingdom, fourth verse for Japan, and on and on.

On Friday, Trump departs for his first trip abroad as president. Israel and Saudi Arabia are on his agenda, as well as the Vatican and a meeting in Belgium with members of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that Trump once called “obsolete.”

It’s a sure thing Trump will try to appear as a breath of fresh air. Let’s just hope it’s not all hot.

— Susan Lynn

‘Strange fruit’ at KSU disturbing Lessons about one of the most powerful symbols of racial hatred are unfortunately necessary after the recent discovery of a hangman’s noose on the Kansas State University campus.

The noose was immediately removed, and the university’s president, Richard Myers, called the incident “intolerable.” But he also addressed reality, noting, “There may be some who do not understand the emotional impact of a knotted cord in the shape of a hangman’s noose.” Myers suggested people ask black students and faculty for their thoughts.

While it should never fall only to African-Americans on campus to do the educating, Myers was wise to recognize that some might be tempted to excuse the incident as a lame

Surprise! KS House moves to tax services The motto of the Kansas Legislature ought to be “A Day Late and a Dollar Short.”

Yes, it is too charitable.

If the state were only a dollar short, lawmakers likely could solve that problem with a mere two or three weeks of debate and finger pointing.

But, of course, the state is about a billion dollars short.

On Friday, the Legislature again proved that it often is many days late as well.

In case you missed it, the Kansas House — out of the blue — gave preliminary approval to a bill that would charge sales taxes on a small list of services. State law generally doesn’t charge a sales tax on services, so adding a sales tax is a relatively big deal.

Importantly, the same bill also would reduce the sales tax on groceries by a penny per every dollar spent, beginning in 2020. That part of the bill appears to be pretty popular. It passed the House on a vote of 117-3.

The measures may have some merits. Reducing the sales tax on food could certainly help many families across the state. The idea that a sales tax could be charged on a service also is a reasonable discussion to have, especially given the state’s budget

shortfall.

But in a sign of the times at the Kansas Statehouse, even when lawmakers have a reasonable idea they make sure to foul it up in some regard. In this case, this issue was timing. There was no advance warning that legislators were intending to debate a major change in state tax policy. Lawmakers were scheduled to discuss a rather mundane issue related to sales tax authority in Marion County. Then the amendments began to be added to that Marion County bill.

The list of service business that may be required to charge sales taxes is small.

Among them: towing firms, commercial cleaning services, pet day cares, detective and security services, ministorage services and collection agencies.

Lawmakers ought to take some pride in the principle of good government. These industries deserved more notice than they received about these potential changes. The Legislature has been in session since January. Lawmakers have done exceedingly little this legislative session.

If there are 117 members of the House that think the sales tax on groceries should be reduced, why couldn’t

that topic have received serious discussion much earlier in the session? As part of that discussion, lawmakers could have reviewed — had hearings even — on a list of services that could become subject to sales taxes. Proponents and opponents of the proposals would have had time to make their cases.

Granted, the legislative process will never be perfect.

Last-minute bills and ideas are going to emerge as a part of compromise and dealmaking. But too often, that is not why the Kansas Legislature acts as it does. It delays discussions and then rushes through them because there is a lack of political courage.

Political courage is the largest deficit Kansas faces. Lawmakers don’t want to go on the record before they have to, out of fear their positions will be used against them.

Think of the horror of having to defend your position.

While the timing is not perfect, lawmakers should have a serious discussion about trading the grocery sales tax for new sales taxes on a variety of services. It likely won’t fix the state’s budget deficit, but it could bring some needed fairness to the state’s tax system.

— Lawrence Journal-World

prank of a politically incorrect jokester.

People of all races have been lynched on American soil. Mark Twain called out the “mania” of such vigilante justice in his 1901 essay, “The United States of Lyncherdom.” But hangings were especially common in Southern states after the Civil War, used to assert white supremacy through intimidation. Often, these were macabre public executions. White families would attend picnic-style, posing for pictures with a corpse left hanging in a tree.

The bodies were left to rot.

Black businessmen who achieved too much success were targeted, as were those who had consensual relationships with white women. And people accused of a crime whose chance for a fair trial

was usurped by the murderous actions of angry citizens.

One of the last known public lynchings in the U.S. took place in 1942 in Sikeston, Mo. Cleo Wright, an AfricanAmerican, was accused of assaulting a white woman and attacking a police officer. A mob tied Wright to a car and dragged him through town. About 300 people then watched his body burn.

Billie Holiday’s recording of “Strange Fruit” recounted such lynchings: Southern trees bear strange fruit. Blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

This is the grisly message that was left on public display at K-State.

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Robert Talkington, David Clark and Kristen Clark have formed a partnership to practice law. The three will practice in the Talkington building, 20 N. Washington. Robert Chase, who had been in practice with Talkington, his father-in-law, is now director of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center in Humboldt.

Talkington has been practicing law in Iola, alone and in partnerships, since 1956. He also served as Allen County attorney, had a distinguished career in the Kansas Legislature and served on the Kansas Turnpike Authority Board.

He recently was appointed to the Kansas Board of Regents.

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Iola High School’s dress code, a source of complaint for several students last fall, has been changed. The updated dress code no longer prohibits students from coloring their hair, which was one of the primary complaints from students. *****

HUMBOLDT — Workers are remodeling a 1901 building on the corner of Bridge and 9th streets to make it into a restaurant and bed and breakfast. The building was the Bailey Hotel in its first life. It was most recently a furniture store. Paul Finney of Humboldt bought it with the intent of restoring it to its 1901 ambiance. He hopes to be open for business by October.

Today in history Today’s highlight in history: On May 17, 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its beginnings as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement. ***** In 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of

Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional. ***** In 1957, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his first national speech, titled “Give Us the Ballot,” during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. *****

In 1973, a special committee convened by the U.S. Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal. ***** Five years ago: Washington’s envoy to Israel, Dan Shapiro, told the Israel Bar Association the U.S. had plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.

In 1996, after nearly 32 years in business in downtown Iola, Jerry and Betty Skidmore began a closeout sale at their Skidmore Davis Paint Store. They sold the home decorating portion of the store to Charlie and Roberta Johnson, who reopened the store in February 1997 as Home Detail. As appears in the upcoming “Chronicles of Allen County.”

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County: Economic development Continued from A1

wants to accomplish, including whether a business plan projects success.

“I want to get this done as quickly as possible and hit the ground running,” Apt said.

His involvement stemmed from a presentation he made on the day commissioners agreed to support the G&W grocery with a $180,000 grant, after company officials said the construction bid for the store was $500,000 above what was budgeted. Iola Industries kicked in $170,000. Iola agreed to make utility extensions on its nickel.

Apt said then he thought such arrangements should be done within a framework, such as what will be put in place by the county economic development board, rather than in a reactionary fashion.

Commissioners took Apt’s comments to heart, and appointed him to chair the effort.

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FAWSON

asked commissioners to increase the county’s annual financial participation with Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center by $29,120, to a total of $149,115.

The center, which provides services in Allen and five other southeast Kansas counties, has lost more than $1 million in funding, mostly from cuts at the state level. That includes a 4 percent reduction in Medicaid reimbursement.

That has led to some programs being cut and reductions in staff, Fawson said. The center’s budget is slightly less than $8 million, which was overspent a bit last

Allen County Regional Hospital welcomes Terry Schwab, MD, Orthopedic Specialist

Street work on tap

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Two major thoroughfares in Humboldt will be milled and overlaid with about an inch and a half of asphalt.

Mitch Garner, director of Public Works, told commissioners Tuesday he had received two bids for the work. The lower bid was from Bettis Asphalt and Construction, Topeka, at $399,049.10.

Garner said he had sufficient funds in his budget for the project.

The decision was somewhat of an aboutface from a few months ago when the proposal on the county’s part was to overlay Ninth Street (old U.S. 169), and chip-and-seal Bridge Street, from

Ninth to the west city limit.

Maintenance of both streets are the county’s responsibility.

The county inherited Ninth Street when the state abandoned it with the U.S. 169 bypass; Bridge Street, the only access west across the Neosho River, is in the county’s secondary road system as a farm-to-market avenue.

Two inches of each street’s surface will be milled and overlaid soon, Garner said, without giving a specific date. He will discuss particulars of the project with Humboldt Administrator Cole Herder.

The county will have center-line striping done on Ninth Street.

Humboldt will paint parking spaces on both streets.

year, he added.

Of the center’s 3,800 clients in 2016, about 1,000 were from Allen County.

Commissioners said they would consider Fawson’s request during construction of the 2018 budget this summer.

In other business, commissioners: — Approved a bid of $18,099 from Don Diebolt to put a new roof on the Allen County Fair Association’s sheep barn in Riverside Park.

— Accepted a bid of $5,728.05 from Tholen’s Heating and Cooling to install a new heating and cooling system at the LaHarpe Senior Center, to replace one no longer functioning.

In both cases only one bid was received.

— Learned a new restaurant may become part of the Iola landscape. Bill McAdam, Moran, said he had signed a contract with an unidentified party that would lead to construction of a restaurant northwest of the highways 54 and 169 intersection. “I’ll tell you about it when I get the money,” McAdam said.

— Ron Boren, an Iolan with interest in powered parachutes, asked when a hangar at Allen County Airport damaged during a windstorm about two months ago would be repaired. Commissioners said they would focus on the concern.

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High School Baseball: Regional Semifinal - Iola 3, Prairie View 2; Regional Final - Iola 9, Osawatomie 6

The Iola Mustangs celebrate winning their 4A-II regional final over Osawatomie in Osawatomie on Tuesday night. The Mustangs beat the Trojans 9-6 after beating Prairie View 3-2 earlier in the day. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

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Mustangs fight through adversity to earn state tournament berth

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

OSAWATOMIE — At the end of last season, senior Ben Cooper and junior Ethan Tavarez figured to sit in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots in the Mustangs’ pitching rotation this season.

Everyone knew they were talented, but on one of the deepest pitching staffs in the state, they seemed destined for the bullpen.

On Tuesday, Cooper and Tavarez stepped to the forefront and pitched a shorthanded Mustang staff into the state tournament.

“It is huge going into state, because if you are going to do anything at state, you need at least three pitchers,” Iola coach Mark Percy said.

With ace Derek Bycroft limited because of arm soreness suffered

against Wellsville two weeks prior, Cooper, the team’s No. 2 pitcher all season, got the call for game one and Tavarez was earmarked for the championship game.

“We talked about it all year,” Percy said. “There will always be adversity, but the teams that can go on and do what it takes to win are the ones that are going to move on.”

Cooper did his part in the opener against Prairie View by pitching a complete game in the Mustangs’ 3-2 semifinal victory.

Cooper’s brilliance allowed Tavarez to take the bump in the championship game against host-school Osawatomie with the full complement of his bullpen to back him up.

Tavarez hasn’t pitched as often as Percy would have liked this season, simply because Bycroft and Cooper have been too good and have thrown a lot of complete games as

High School Softball: Parsons 3, Iola 2

the season churned along.

Tavarez was ready when his number was called.

The junior, known as ‘E.Z.,’ lived up to his nickname in the opening few frames.

Tavarez breezed through a 1-2-3 first inning. His offense was then able to get him a run in the second inning when junior Kane Rogers trotted home on a passed ball by Osawatomie’s Cody Hazlett.

Tavarez threw up a pair of zeros in the second and third innings as the score remained 1-0.

“They hit the ball some,” Tavarez said. “But I trust my defense and they did great.”

The Mustangs seemed poised to tack on an insurance run in the third inning when Bycroft led off with a double and advanced to third See MUSTANGS | Page B3

High School Baseball: St. Mary’s Colgan 10, Marmaton Valley 0

Wildcats’ season ends against Colgan

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola Jadyn Sigg connects on a home run in Tuesday’s 3-2 loss to Parsons. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Fillies fall in regionals

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

BURLINGTON — Their bats were silent for much of the first six innings Tuesday, but the Iola Fillies proved once again they weren’t going down without a fight.

Consecutive singles by Sierra Snavely and Kelsey Morrison had trimmed Parsons’ lead to 3-2, with Snavely representing the tying run at second base.

But Parsons’ Lindzi Pellock See FILLIES | Page B4

Iola freshman Calvin Delich smacks a two-run single in the Mustangs’ Class 4A-II substate championship Tuesday. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

For everything that went right for Marmaton Valley’s baseball team one day earlier — a 17-12 win over Yates Center — Tuesday’s result went in the polar opposite direction.

The first six PittsburgSt. Mary’s Colgan batters of Tuesday’s Class 2-1A Regional semifinal reached base and came around to score, paving the way for a 10-0 victory.

The loss ends Marmaton Valley’s season with a 7-12 mark.

“We looked like a different team at the plate than we did (Monday),” Wildcat

coach Derek Scharff said. “We hit the ball well against Yates Center. We just didn’t wake up today.”

Three straight Colgan singles, followed by a pair of walks and two passed balls staked Colgan to a 6-0 lead after the first inning.

“It seems like every year we play these guys, we have the ‘wow’ factor in the first inning,” Scharff said. “When you make them hit, and make them make plays, they’re like everybody else.”

Wildcat starting pitcher Lane Bahnsen settled down from there, even after allowing two unearned runs in the second on a pair of errors and See WILDCATS | Page B4

Marmaton Valley first baseman Isaac Heskett, left, attempts to field a throw at first base in front of Pittsburg-St. Mary’s Colgan baserunner Garrett VanBecelaere in the Wildcats’ 10-0 loss in the Class 2-1A. Regionals Tuesday. REGISTER/ RICHARD LUKEN

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Mustangs: Iola earns place in next week’s state tournament Continued from B1

base with no outs on a wild pitch.

Hazlett was able to pick Bycroft off at third however, on what was seen as a highly questionable call by many in attendance, who thought Bycroft made it back safely.

The Trojans tied the game up in the fourth inning with three consecutive walks to begin the inning followed by a single to deep center.

The blast seemed destined to score multiple runs, but Mustang junior center fielder Isaac Vink played the ball brilliantly off the wall and used his strong arm to hold each runner to just one base each.

With the bases loaded and no outs, Tavarez buckled down.

Cooper snagged a liner at short and Tavarez got a pair of strikeouts to strand all three runners and keep the game knotted at one.

After a scoreless fifth Iola freshman Calvin Delich, center, reacts after crossing the plate in front of inning, the Mustang bats Derek Bycroft, left, to give the Mustangs a 6-1 lead over Osawatomie in the sixth inning of the regional final in Osawatomie on Tuesday. Junior Ethan Tavarez (5) came alive in the sixth.

Tavarez got it going congratulates both his teammates. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA with a single, followed one out and Blake Ashby a Rogers walk and a loaded the bases back up 7-5.

An error allowed an- more drew a walk.

Vink single to load the for senior Coleson WigDelich came through gin, who drew a walk to other run and what had bases. been a six-run lead was again with an RBI single The Mustangs tried a extend the lead to 4-1. and Bycroft reached on Freshman Cal Leon- suddenly one. squeeze play with CooPercy couldn’t wait an error while Ashmore per, but the bunt wasn’t ard worked a six-pitch at executed and Tavarez bat into a two-run single, any longer. He had been scored to make it 9-6.

“Going into this year, I was hung out at third for building the lead to 6-1. trying to save Bycroft or By the end of the inning at least give him time to knew Calvin was a great the first out.

Cooper drew a walk the Mustangs had a 7-1 warm up in the bullpen hitter,” Bycroft said. “He to start a fresh inning, is a switch hitter which lead. to load the “I don’t but with state on the is valuable. He hits great bases back up with one He goes up think I could line, the Mustang skip- from both sides.”

Bycroft gave up a pair have been per turned to his ace. away. OsawatSeeing their ace on the of singles to start the more omie was there with confi- any at mound gave the team a bottom of the seventh able to get dence. That is big pumped as Osawatomie tried to mo- supreme confidence. a strikeout for a freshman that “I knew he was going mount a rally, but the m e n t , ” though and with state on the Delich, who to close it out as soon sophomore buckled just like that scored on as he stepped on the down with two strikethere were line. outs and a ground out L e o n a r d ’ s mound,” Tavarez said. two outs and — Coach Mark Bycroft delivered by to Ashmore at second hit, said. “It bases loaded Percy about was at that throwing one pitch and to punch Iola’s ticket to in a tie game Calvin Delich point that getting a fly out to Delich state. for Calvin “I’m thrilled,” Delich I think we in right field.

Delich.

“I was feeling good,” said. “I don’t think I’ve knew we had “I tried to Bycroft said of his work ever been this pumped it.” zone everyOsawatomie struck leading up to the game. for baseball.” thing out and just focus on me and the pitcher,” right back in the sixth “I was stretching a lot Delich said. “It felt like though, with a single to stay ready and I took SEMIFINALS While the championit was just me and him.” and two walks loading some Aleve to keep the pain down. It was hurt- ship was a high-scoring The freshman stroked the bases with one out.

Leonard came in to re- ing for a while, but I just affair, the semifinal was the second pitch for a kept throwing more and more of what the Mustwo-run single to give lieve Tavarez.

After allowing a single more. Going into today, I tangs had seen all seahis team a 3-1 lead.

“He goes up there with to score one, Leonard felt good. By game time, I son.

Cooper and Prairie confidence,” Percy said. struck out Hazlett for felt great.”

The Mustang offense View freshman Justin “That is big for a fresh- the second out.

A double by the next got back to work in the Scott battled to a 3-2 deciman with state on the batter cleared the bases, top of the seventh. sion with Cooper and his line.”

Cooper singled with Mustangs coming out on A walk to Bycroft tightening the score to top.

The Mustangs did all their scoring early with a two-out first-inning rally sparked by a Wiggin double and four consecutive singles by Leonard, Tavarez, Rogers and Vink leading to three runs.

From there, Cooper

took control.

“It was nice to know that I could go right at people and bring everything I had at them,” Cooper said. “I didn’t have to worry about giving up just one run.”

The senior threw a complete-game and allowed only single runs in the second and the third innings.

While the Mustang offense was quiet for the final six frames, Cooper seemed to get stronger as the game went on and finished with a three-hitter.

He finished the game with four consecutive no-hit innings.

“Whenever I do give up runs, I want to bounce back and make sure I don’t give up any more,” Cooper said. “I didn’t want to let my teammates down.”

While Cooper had plenty of superb numbers in the performance, the biggest for the Mustangs were 7 and 100.

The senior threw all seven innings and threw 100 pitches.

“I felt really good,” Cooper said. “I hate having to give the ball to someone else. I want to go out and finish what I start.”

Early in the year, that feat would have been impossible for Cooper, who was on a strict pitch count, but late in the year, Cooper has been going deeper into games.

“He has worked a ton to do that,” Percy said. “He has come a long way to be able to go the distance.”

On Tuesday, that stamina proved pivotal as Cooper saved the bullpen for the championship tilt when Leonard and Bycroft were needed to nail down the state appearance.

UP NEXT The Mustangs will prepare for the 4AII State Tournament that will run next Thursday and Friday at Soden’s Grove Field in Emporia.

“I’m proud of everyone,” Percy said.

“It is an exciting time.

When you play high school sports, getting to state is when it gets really exciting... That (Regional Champions) trophy sure looks nice.”

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Box Scores 4A-II REGIONAL SEMIFINAL Iola 3, Prairie View 2 Iola Player ab r h bi Calvin Delich 3 0 1 0 Derek Bycroft 3 0 0 0 Coleson Wiggin 3 1 1 0 Cal Leonard 3 1 1 0 Ethan Tavarez 3 1 1 1 Kane Rogers 3 0 2 1 Isaac Vink 3 0 1 1 Ben Cooper 3 0 0 0 Blake Ashmore 2 0 1 0 Prairie View Player ab r h bi Brock Heide 3 0 0 0 Justin Scott 2 0 0 0 B. Vandeventer 3 0 0 0 Jesse Henry 2 1 1 0 Joey Ewalt 2 0 1 1 Gavin Culler 3 0 0 0 Brandon Moore 3 0 0 0 Johnny Molina 3 0 0 0 Trey Clemens 2 1 1 0 Scoring Summary Prairie View 011 000 0 - 2 Iola 300 000 x - 3 Pitching Iola Player ip h r er bb so Cooper 7 3 2 2 4 6 Prairie View Player ip h r er bb so Scott 6 8 3 3 0 2 2B - Wiggin, Ashmore.

3B - Ewalt. SB - Delich, Vink, Scott, Culler 2, Clemens 2..

FINAL Iola 9, Osawatomie 6 Iola Player ab r h bi Calvin Delich 4 1 2 3 Derek Bycroft 4 1 2 1 Coleson Wiggin 2 0 0 1 Cal Leonard 4 0 1 2 Ethan Tavarez 4 0 1 0 Kane Rogers 3 2 1 0 Isaac Vink 4 1 2 0 Ben Cooper 1 2 1 0 Blake Ashmore 2 1 0 0 Osawatomie Player ab r h bi Stults 5 1 1 1 Hazlett 4 0 1 0 Kehl 4 1 1 3 Wiley 2 1 0 0 Kerigan 2 0 0 1 Bradley 3 0 1 0 Ballou 3 1 3 1 King 3 1 1 0 Hodges 3 1 0 0 Scoring Summary Iola 010 006 2 - 9 Osawatomie 000 105 0 - 6 Pitching Iola Player ip h r er bb so Tavarez 5.1 4 4 4 7 4 Leonard 0.1 2 2 2 1 0 Bycroft 1.1 2 0 0 0 2 Osawatomie Player ip h r er bb so Kerigan 5.1 6 5 5 8 0 Stults 0.1 2 2 2 2 1 Ballou 1.1 2 2 1 1 2 2B - Wiggin 2, Rogers, Kehl. SB - Bycroft, Cooper 2, Wiley. ERR - Cooper, Hazlett, Stults.

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Fillies: Sigg homers, but Iola drops heartbreaker in regionals Continued from B1

— who will play collegiately next year at Labette Community College — was able to end the jam.

She induced a ground ball to Iola’s Mia Aronson, who made solid contact but hit it straight at the Viking shortstop, who flipped the ball to second for the final out of the game.

Iola’s 3-2 defeat in the Class 4A-II Substate Softball Semifinal ends the Fillies’ season with a 10-11 mark. (Parsons fell, 6-3, to Burlington in the championship game, sending the Wildcats to the state playoffs next week.

“We came in a little bit nervous,” Iola head coach Chris Weide said.

“We had a few jitters. We knew what was riding on the game.”

A few uncharacteristic miscues in the top of the third staked Parsons to a 2-0 lead, without the benefit of a hit. The first two Parsons batters reached base on errors.

(Both also scored on the errors.)

A leadoff triple in the top of the fourth by

Iola sophomore Madisyn Holloway fields a ground ball and fires to first base in Tuesday’s 3-2 loss to Parsons in the Class 4A-II Substate Softball Playoffs. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN the Vikings’ Breanna Bedore — Aronson came up inches short on a spectacular diving catch attempt — led to the third Viking run.

Conversely, Pellock kept Iola off balance through the first four innings. She retired the first 12 Fillies batters, and didn’t allow a ball to be hit out of the infield until the fourth.

That changed in the bottom of the fifth, when Iola senior Jadyn Sigg worked a full count before blasting a leadoff home run over the center field fence to cut the gap to 3-1.

But Pellock settled down from there, retiring the next six Fillies batters.

Iola’s seventh-inning rally had fans of both

Continued from B1

Marmaton Valley freshman Lane Bahnsen pitches Tuesday in the Class 2-1A Substate Playoffs. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

a walk.

He retired eight of the next 10 Panther hitters, before an error and single in the bottom of the fifth led to a two-run throwing error.

The 10-0 spread ended the game at that point.

Colgan’s Tyler Brynds allowed only a first-inning single to the Wildcats’ Isaac Heskett in the five-inning shutout.

“We return pretty

Marmaton Valley, Yates Center, Humboldt have softball seasons end at regionals Three area softball teams saw their seasons cut short on Tuesday when they fell in their regional tournaments.

MARMATON VALLEY The Wildcats had experienced success as recently as last week against Oswego — the top seed in Pittsburg’s 1A regional — when they split with the Indians in Moran.

That success did not translate into Tuesday’s regional semifinal though as Oswego runruled the Wildcats, 15-3, in five innings.

Errors have been the primary nemesis for coach Craig Richey’s team all season and they were their undoing in their final game of the season as well with seven errors leading to 10 unearned runs.

Sophomore Karlie Stephens pitched for the Wildcats and allowed 16 hits for five earned runs in four innings.

Isabelle Bigelow led the team with two hits and Stephens, Trinitee Gutierrez, Makayla Brooks, Paige Becker and Clara Boyd each had one hit.

YATES CENTER The Yates Center softball team has been engaged in shootout after shootout in the closing weeks of the season and on Tuesday, the secondseeded Wildcats fell vic-

the gap to 3-2.

That led to Aronson’s ground ball, ending the game.

“She’s a great pitcher, but we’d seen her before,” Weide said of Pellock. “We just didn’t hit the ball well today.”

Snavely took the loss.

She surrendered five hits and one earned run with three strikeouts.

She was aided by

Wildcats: Lose

Iola’s regional track meet pushed up Friday’s regional track and field meet in Paola has been moved up to 11 a.m, with the possibility of rain looming.

The meet was originally scheduled for 3 p.m., and will determine who goes to the state meet the following weekend.

teams at the edge of their seats.

Gardner led off the frame with a single, but consecutive ground balls put a runner at first with two out. Snavely nudged a cue shot past the pitcher’s circle and beat the second basemen’s throw by an eyelash. Morrison ripped a ground ball through the left side for an RBI single, cutting

tim to third-seeded Flint Hills in another highscoring affair.

Flint Hills collected the 17-12 victory in the regional semifinals.

Wildcat senior Emily Proper pitched the first inning-plus and allowed seven runs on two hits with five walks.

Freshman Maddie Collins relieved Proper after the first two batters of the second inning.

Collins threw the final six innings and allowed six earned runs on eight

hits with five walks and six strikeouts.

Collins also led the Wildcats at the plate by going 4-for-5 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Junior Katelynn Jones and freshman Taylor Jacobs each added three hits for the Wildcats while Proper had two.

HUMBOLDT The top-seeded Humboldt Cubs played a pair of nail-biters on Tuesday in Humboldt.

They survived a scare in the semifinals when they entered the bottom

of the seventh tied with the Red Devils, but senior Makaylah McCall quickly ended it with a walk-off home run for the 8-7 victory.

The Cubs would not be able to escape another tough challenge in the championship game, however, as Central Heights won a 15-12 thriller in nine innings.

Complete statistics were not available at press time. For a full Cubs recap, check Thursday’s Register.

much everybody, so we have something to build on if they all come back,” Scharff said, noting the Wildcats have progressed from a one-win season in 2015, two wins in 2016 and seven in 2017.

some nifty outfield defense. Morrison twice snared line drives to right, while Sigg gunned down a Parsons baserunner in the top of the second.

“We have great defense, but you have to hit the ball as well,” Weide said.

Iola loses Sigg, Sydney Wade and Riley Murry to graduation.

“That’s what makes it tough,” Weide said.

“Losing the game is not a big deal, but when you lose three seniors, it is a big deal.

“Riley, Sydney and Jadyn have done a lot for our program,” he continued. “They helped us get to a team that should be contending. We didn’t play like it today, but through the season, and last season, they put us at a different spot than we were before. We’re going to miss those girls for their leadership, their attitude and how they play the game.

For those younger girls, those three seniors have set the stage we can build on. If we want to be good, we have to work hard all year.”

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Sister wants a plus-two to the wedding Dear Carolyn: I am getting married this July. My fiance and I at some point told my younger sister she would get a plus-one. She said she was going to bring her best friend from college, and I cautioned her at the time that she might want to wait in case she gets a serious boyfriend between then and the wedding.

Now my sister is in a serious relationship, and my parents are pressuring my fiance and me to allow her to bring both the boyfriend and her best friend, saying I might regret not inviting him if my sister and her boyfriend get married.

My parents and fiance already have a somewhat rocky relationship and this is threatening to make it worse. Am I wrong for standing firm and saying she needs to still bring just one? — C.

Answer: Probably, but not for the reason you might think.

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax

A guest with a plusone-plus-one is silly.

But, the idea that a sister qualifies as merely a guest is silly, too.

And the idea that you’d either disinvite the best friend or exclude the serious boyfriend just because you don’t, what, want one extra plate? is silly. Especially since your parents could cover the cost, given how invested they are.

Of course, for the best friend not to just say, “Hey, bring Boyfriend in my place, I totally understand,” is also silly.

Unless there are airfares involved, I suppose.

That I’m now four contingencies into an analysis of one extra guest to a wedding is making the college degree I earned to qualify for this job feel silly.

The thing about silly expectations and silly concessions and silly rule-following, though, is that it’s all so easy to fix. You add a guest, someone bows out, someone chips in extra — meaning, you figure it out and Drama stays in its dressing room oblivious to all the fuss.

Yet you’ve presented this as Drama. As something that isn’t silly and that you can’t just figure out — and that’s my problem with your “standing firm.” It should never have mushroomed into a standing-firm standoff kind of event.

So, why did it?

This: “My parents and fiance already have a somewhat rocky relationship and this is threatening to make it worse.”

Assuming my between-line reading skills are sufficiently sharp, your fiance is digging in, in part if not entirely based on resentment of your parents. Or sister.

Or both. And your par-

Humboldt: Celebrates Saturday Continued from A1

water tower, northeast corner of the downtown square.

Ceremonies, including a large birthday cake, will unfold at 11 a.m. at the bandstand in the square’s center. Raymond Red Corn, assistant chief of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, will speak about Native American influence on Humboldt. He will be accompanied by children in full dress costumes and a display of memorabilia.

After the downtown portion concludes, the ball players, in vintage uniforms, will ride to Walter Johnson Field in vintage vehicles.

Games will start at 1 p.m. Free hot-dogs and Cracker Jacks will be available for spectators. A petting zoo will be set near the ball field for youngsters to enjoy.

Tickets will be sold for $25 gift certificates for

redemption at Stacey Cakes or Opie’s restaurant.

HUMBOLDT also had a significant role in the Civil War. In 1861, soon after the war started, a gang of border thugs and Osage Indians, led by John Mathews, from Oswego, raided Humboldt. Being of Confederate persuasion, the gang seized several recently freed African-Americans. Retribution came swiftly, with local men and the Kansas 6th Cavalry hunting down the raiders and killing Mathews.

A force of 330 Confederate sympathizers returned to Humboldt in October and burned most of the town. Humboldt avoided further attacks, in large part because a contingent of Union soldiers was stationed there until war’s end.

In 1910, Humboldt’s population was listed at

2,548, and was estimated at 1,856 in 2015. The high point was 2,558 in 1930.

Until the advent of better paying jobs, mobility of the modern automobile and such retail giants as Walmart, Humboldt’s downtown was a busy place, particularly on Saturday nights when farmers streamed to town to shop.

The downtown area hit a low point until a couple of years ago when Joe and Jane Works, through B&W Trailer Hitches and Monarch Cement, at the behest of Walter Wulf Jr., saw fit to upgrade its infrastructure.

More recently the Workses have taken to remodeling and upgrading downtown stores and several businesses will open soon.

Saturday’s celebration will give folks an opportunity to see the “new look” of downtown Humboldt.

ents are pushing back hard.

Yes, no, close enough?

If so, then you need to stop treating this as a “My knucklehead sister invited her bestie!” problem and see it for what it is: a power struggle between your family of origin and family of choice. One that’s taken a turn for the petty.

A bigger problem still is that you’re not calling it what is: You’re neither agreeing with your fiance and telling your parents to back off — not with conviction — nor agreeing with your parents and telling your fiance to back off. Instead you’re peacekeeping — backing your fiance because it’s harder not to and asking me if that’s right.

It’s not, because “right” is about peace of mind: Consult your values and gut, do what those say, then take the heat for it.

Easier said than done, but easier done than dodged.

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