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Fierce winds fan Rockies wildfires CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Strong winds fanned two Rocky Mountain wildfires last week, prompting new evacuation orders as one spread toward communities outside Rocky Mountain National Park.

Cool autumn weather had been helping firefighters in their efforts to quell the Mullen Fire in southeastern Wyoming and northern Colorado, and the Cameron Peak Fire in northern Colorado. But gusts of 70 mph have complicated their efforts.

Forecasters expected dry air and strong wind to pose a challenge for fire-

Above, Iola High School’s marching band performs in the Farm City Days parade against the backdrop of a carnival. The annual fall festival carried on with extra precautions for the coronavirus pandemic. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

At left, Lennin and Atticus Herrera get excited watching the parade. Above, Andy Dunlap steers the Iola Kiwanis Club train down the parade route. At right, Chloe Foshag pets a pony at the petting zoo. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG AND VICKIE MOSS

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The abstract and the concrete Trevor Hoag Just Prairie The German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel once quipped that, contrary to popular opinion, the most concrete things in the world are heady, complex thoughts, whereas it’s everyday modes of thinking and speaking that are abstract, detached from reality for their lack of specificity and rigor.

Put another way, what seems like “common sense” is actually quite abstract given its vagueness, whereas artistic or philosophical speculation is concrete.

As I stood in the ruins of the abandoned cement plant at Concreto, an important early 20th-century labor center north of Gas City, I

The setting sun illuminates a pyramid-like structure at the Concreto cement plant. couldn’t get Hegel out of my head, wondering if the operation worked both ways.

That is, was there something about concrete and Concreto that was intensely philosophical? Did the place have the power to conjure deep and intricate thoughts

or memories?

CONCRETO was almost named “Madeline,” an homage to Iola Colborn’s fourth daughter. And in Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost See CONCRETO | Page A4

Trump supporters target Michigan governor at rally DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Sunday that President Donald Trump is inciting “domestic terrorism” following “lock her up” chants at his rally in the state the night before.

Whitmer told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the rhetoric is “incredibly disturbing” a little more than a week after authorities announced they had thwarted an alleged plot to kidnap the Democratic governor.

“The president is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism,” Whitmer said. “It is wrong. It’s got to end. It is dangerous, not just for

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Man upset with mask mandate threatened Wichita mayor WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A retired firefighter who was upset with Wichita's mask ordinance was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kidnap and kill the mayor of Kansas' largest city, authorities said.

Police said the 59-year-old suspect who was arrested Friday could face a charge of criminal threat, the Wichita Eagle reported.

Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple, a Democrat, said

At the intersection of 2300 and North Dakota, one can view the Concreto plant.

me and my family, but for public servants everywhere who are doing their jobs and trying to Whitmer protect their fellow Americans. People of good will on both sides of the aisle need to step up and call this out and bring the heat down."

At a rally in Muskegon Saturday evening, Trump urged supporters to push Whitmer to reopen the state following COVID-19 restrictions. When the crowd starting chanting “lock her up”

someone had read him text messages received by another city official that asked about the mayor's address and threatened his life.

“He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman — me and everyone who, something about tyranny,” Whipple said.

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fighters into the weekend.

The fierce burning is occurring much later in the year than usual. Mountain snows usually are significant enough to end fire season well before mid-October.

The latest evacuations in the path of the Cameron Peak Fire affected mainly recreational properties — including hundreds of mountain cabins — in and around the communities of Glen Haven and Drake east of Rocky Mountain National Park.

The fire continued spreading into remote northern RMNP and was bearing down on the Colorado State University Mountain Campus a few miles north of the park.

“We’re preparing to

do whatever is necessary in those areas,” fire operations trainee Tim Daly said in a briefing about the efforts to protect the campus and communities.

The main route to the park from the east, U.S. Highway 34, remained open but under a voluntary evacuation notice, meaning people who need extra time to leave their homes along the highway should consider doing so.

Mandatory evacuation zones for the first

time extended to the foothills just west of Fort Collins. The city of 168,000 people on the edge of the plains wasn’t considered at risk but residents awoke Wednesday to thick smoke and poor air quality alerts.

Fort Collins schools kept children indoors at recess and told parents that switching entirely to online teaching was an option if the smoke continued. Students already were being taught online part of the week due to the coronavirus pandemic.

At more than 210 square miles, the Cameron Peak Fire was less than 10 square miles from becoming the biggest in Colorado history. Firefighters fully contained the state’s biggest in history, the Pine Gulch Fire north of Grand Junction, on

Sept. 15.

The Cameron Peak Fire has damaged or destroyed 95 buildings, including 33 homes, while the Mullen Fire 25 miles to the north in Medicine Bow National Forest has destroyed or damaged 65 structures.

Both fires affected primarily recreational subdivisions and isolated cabins, not cities or towns.

Firefighters planned to focus on holding their ground against the 275-square mile Mullen Fire, which was 34% contained, despite the gusty winds, fire operations section chief John Wallace said in a live-streamed public briefing Wednesday.

“There’s a lot of blowing debris out there, a lot of ash blowing around. So the conditions are really nasty for us,” Wallace said.

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Trump added, “Lock ’em all up.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking on ABC's “This Week," said Trump's statements were “irresponsible” and accused him of injecting fear tactics.

Several Republican

and Trump campaign officials appeared on Sunday news shows to defend the president.

“He wasn’t doing anything, I don’t think, to provoke people to threaten this woman at all. He was having fun at a Trump rally, and, quite frankly, there are bigger issues

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MONDAY — LaHarpe PRIDE Committee meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.

TUESDAY — Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Townhouse West.

— Rotary Club, noon, Los Potrillos, 1303 N. State St. — TOPS No. KS 880 4:30 p.m. weigh in, 5 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

FRIDAY — Iola High School homecoming parade at 2:40 p.m. downtown, game at 7 p.m.

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military groups took part in plotting Whitmer's kidnapping, although some were charged under federal law and others under state law. Six men, led by Adam Fox of the Michigan III%ers, are charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap her. Eight others who are believed to be members or associates of a group called the Wolverine Watchmen are charged in state court with counts including providing material support for terrorist acts.

Some of the Wolverine Watchmen are accused of planning other violent crimes, such as storming the Michigan Capitol building and attacking law enforcement officers.

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than this right now for everyday Americans,” Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law and a senior campaign advisor, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Democrats have sought to tie Trump to the alleged plot against Whitmer, pointing to the president’s tweet earlier this year to “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” after Whitmer restricted personal movement and the economy in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Michigan — particularly the Detroit area — was hit hard early during the pandemic. Many of the limits have since been lifted.

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Prairie Dell 4-H club met COVID-style this month on Oct. 5 over Zoom. Officers were elected for the 2020-2021 year. They are: president, Luke Wicoff; vice president, Drake Weir; secretary, Henry Wicoff; treasurer, Riley Jay; reporter, Luke Wicoff; song leader and recreation, Lainey Church.

Council representatives will be Luke Wicoff and Riley Jay. The club voted to cover the $15 fee for enrolling in 4-H for all members who were not in the club last year. This fall will be

busy for club members. They will be doing several activities for 4-H week, including putting up posters at Lincoln Elementary. They will have a fall party at the Weirs’ house at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, and the club will have an entry in the Veterans Day Parade. Club members are encouraged to bring a canned good item to the November Fall Party to donate to the community pantry. They are also encouraged to attend the 4-H Achievement Banquet on Nov. 4 in Humboldt.

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Members Linda Johnson, Judy Arbeiter, Deborah Jackson and Cynthia Geisler met in Humboldt on Oct. 11 for the Cofachique Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Day Of Service no-sew lap blanket project. A total of 33 blankets were made by members. The blankets will be donated to veterans.

4-H: Square-B gets busy The Square-B 4-H Club started their Oct. 12 meeting with competitive volleyball and dodgeball games, along with food around the bonfire. A business meeting followed where 11 members answered rollcall with their extracurricular activities.

Elizabeth Lewis was a guest and future member. Katelyn Hicks led the club in singing Happy Birthday to Henry Kramer. Members voted to have a float in the Veterans Day parade.

Kelli Kramer installed the new officers for the coming year.

Each officer received a candy bar relevant to their office. Officers are: president, Mary Brown; vice president, Travis Wanker; secretary, Abigail Meiwes; treasurer, Carly Kramer; reporter, Levi Meiwes; song leader, Layla Newkirk; recreation, Maddy Wanker and Katelyn Hicks; parliamentarian, Drake Mathews; and historian, Henry Kramer.

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Recreation was bobbing for apples and parts Identification from the morgue. Members had to reach into a mystery box and guess what “body part” they felt. The meeting ended with a hayrack ride.

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Conservative judges can be activists, too Julie Doll

As the nation watches Republicans rush to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett to a seat on the Supreme A Kansas Court, it’s worth asking Contributor whether the hurried effort undermines the primary argument conservatives make to all citizens. about the courts.

High-minded talk about Put another way, it’s time meanings and to push back against those original who claim that liberal judg- the founders’ intentions is es are activists, while con- farce. It’s a fiction created to servative judges hold fast to disguise a political agenda what the law really says, and as principle.

Recent Supreme Court dewhat the nation’s founders intended when they wrote cisions involving Trump’s the Constitution in the tax returns highlight how freely conservatives put 1780s.

The very act of rushing their own political spin on through this nomination out the law.

As you might recall, both of partisan fear is a form of activism, undermining con- the U.S. House and a New servatives’ claims that they York prosecutor sought acdon’t want judges with polit- cess to Trump’s tax returns.

Trump fought the efforts, ical agendas.

Further, it’s presumptu- asking the courts to block ous for anyone on the right release of the information.

In July, in decisions writor the left to claim special insight into the founders’ in- ten by Chief Justice John Roberts, the high court tentions.

If you’ve read a bit of his- ruled the prosecutor in New tory, you know the founders York could continue his purwere not of a single mind. suit, but that Congress had In writing the Constitution, failed to show its need for they compromised in some the documents.

Four conservative justices places and blurred the lines opposed releasing the tax in others.

And, no, they didn’t agree returns to either Congress on just what the words in or the prosecutor. Their pothe document meant, which sition is not supported by is why before the ink had the text of the Constitution dried, critics demanded or the 1924 law that House committees amendments, used in their leading to the Bill of Rights.

Little in history sug- efforts.

Instead, And after gests the founders’ conservative the Constitution was aim was to issue a justices relied ratified and strict set of rules that on expansive officials elect- future generations i n t e r p r e t a tions of earlier ed, there was almost imme- would follow. Rather, court rulings. diate disagree- they created a frame- They also arment over work that would allow gued the pressuch things Americans to evolve, ident has special rights not as George Washington’s prosper and be part of articulated in any law. Jusclaims of ex- a democratic society. tice Clarence ecutive priviThomas went lege. so far as to Little in history suggests the founders’ claim the tax returns could aim was to issue a strict set be sought only as part of an of rules that future genera- impeachment proceeding.

There is scant evidence tions would follow. Rather they created a framework to argue that the founders that would allow Americans intended to place the presto evolve, prosper and be ident above the laws others part of a democratic society. must follow. There is, howevWell, that would allow er, ample evidence showing white, male residents to conservatives have proved prosper and be part of a de- as judicially active as liberals. mocracy.

And the rush to confirm The founders, if you remember, couldn’t even Barrett before the election agree to extend civil rights underscores the fact that to women, or basic human such activism is what the rights to Blacks and Native Republican Party seeks.

A native of Garden City, Americans.

It took generations of Julie Doll is a former jourmoral, economic and social nalist who has worked at progress — and many Su- newspapers in California, preme Court decisions — to Indiana and New York, as extend Constitutional rights well as across Kansas.

A look back in t me.

65 Years Ago October 1955

Construction of a new parsonage on the lots at the corner of Madison and Cottonwood streets has been approved by the congregation of First Methodist Church, the Rev. E.E. Tillotson said. It will be constructed of brick and stone and will have six rooms and an attached garage and utility room. ***** The Allen County Centennial Commission, Inc., created last year to put on the county’s successful Centennial celebration this summer, is now the Allen County Historical Society.

Action to that effect was taken last night at a meeting in the home of Spencer Gard, president of the Commission. Gard said it had always been the intention to convert the commission into a historical society, particularly if the celebration generated a profit which would give the historical society some capital as a start.

Ed Porter, finance chairman and Walter Wulf of Humboldt, treasurer, reported the Centennial Commission ended its mission with a balance of $4,180.32. So it was decided to move from one purpose to the next without an interim.

In merchant’s fight against virus, customer response his biggest worry

By C.J. JANOVY The Kansas Reflector

Bryan Williams saw danger on the horizon back in February.

Williams and his wife, Janice Keller-Williams, own Keller Feed and Wine Co. in downtown Cottonwood Falls, where they serve Southern Italian and soul food half a block from the historic Chase County Courthouse.

“I could see it was going to be weird,” Williams said of the pandemic. “I’m a hippy dippy liberal, which shouldn’t mean anything, but I took a different position than some: safety first.”

They shut down the buffet, Cottonwood Falls retailer and restaurateur Bryan Williams has closed the dining room and found the virus easier to handle than customer pushback to switched to carry-out just a wearing face masks. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE KANSAS REFLECTOR couple of weeks ahead of St. good. I had some really stress- when the poop really hit the Patrick’s Day. ful jobs for a long time. I’m 47 fan,” Williams said.

I was talking with Williams and feel like I’m 63. We just “Business just tanked. We for the same reason I recently wanted to truck along and do went from record numbers spoke with Heather Horton at all the fun things she did as a to nothing,” he said. “I had Toast in Pittsburg and Karla kid.” to call the sheriff a couple Fleming of Sweden Creme in Besides closing the dining times because (unmasked) Mankato: With restaurants room, he said, “We were buy- people would come in with among the industries heavi- ing Netflix rental codes and hats, stand in the middle of est hit by COVID-19, I’ve been giving them to people here to the restaurant and breathe in fact-checking convince them and out.” politicians who to stay home.”

Williams wasn’t intimidatsay their party He also had ed.

This restaurant is a is the only one several hun“I’m a large kid with an exlove letter to the com- dred DVDs and tremely booming voice,” he saving small businesses. munity. We just want Blu-Rays at said.

W i l l i a m s to be part of the com- home.

But he said the situation grew up in “My daughmade life difficult for Janice, small-town Mis- munity and do good. ter started a given that she was born and souri before gofree video rent- raised in Cottonwood Falls — Bryan Williams, ing to boarding al — people and makes every effort not to Keller Feed & Wine school and livCo., Cottonwood Falls could take them offend people. ing in a couple and bring them “It’s like this in every town of big cities on back or not, we now. I wouldn’t want to be at the East Coast. didn’t care,” he anyone’s Thanksgiving this He ended up in said. “It was a fun little proj- year — usually that’s a joke, Kansas City, working at Lid- ect for her.” but now it’s life or death,” Wilia’s Italian restaurant, ownA rush on supplies had liams said. ing a Mexican restaurant in emptied shelves at the Dollar Since then, he said, “we’ve Prairie Village and promot- General, so Williams started done a lot of scrapping trying ing the Kansas City T-Bones. buying flour, milk and what- to figure out what worked.”

It was in Kansas City where ever else people might need One day he had a crazy he met Janice, who had grown in bulk from restaurant sup- thought: “Smoked meats. up in Cottonwood Falls, and ply stores, turned Keller Feed We’ll drive it out to people. We the two vacationed there. and Wine’s dining room into a said, ‘Hey, we’ll go through “I started to fall in love with grocery store and made deliv- Topeka, Lawrence and Kanthis place and looking for a eries to people who couldn’t sas City.’ We sold as much in way to move here,” he said. get out. After spring break, one day as we normally sell in “We’d go up and down the when Gov. Laura Kelly closed a month. It was outrageous.” street and she’d say, ‘That’s schools for the rest of the A few weeks ago they rewhere the grocery store was. year, they started serving free opened the dining room with That’s where the dress shop lunches and dinners for kids limited seating and “over the was.’ ” in Chase County. top” antique doors between Their route involved a But other people kept com- tables. But Williams doubts couple of years in Emporia, ing to Cottonwood Falls, that’s really safe, and it’s not where Williams restored and particularly tourists from fun for him or his employran the Granada Theatre and places like Kansas City who ees, he said. They’ll probably Janice worked in fundraising, wanted easy keep the dining but they finally made it to Cot- getaways, and room open for tonwood Falls.

Williams earned the rest of the “When we moved here, headlines with I wouldn’t want to year, but that everything had closed,” Wil- his late-March be at anyone’s Thanks- won’t be their liams said. “Pizza Hut had Facebook plea emphasis. closed, the truck stop had for them to stay giving this year — usuNow he’s shut down.” ally that’s a joke, but working home. on Ad Astra Food and Drink, “Then it got now it’s life or death. getting a meat a cool gastro-pub in nearby silly,” Williams saw and grindStrong City, also had closed, said.

— Bryan Williams “People er with plans to though it would later re-open. started giving us add a butcher Keller Feed and Wine is in money — locals shop and sell a unique position, Williams would come in produce. said. Janice has a good job, and write ridiculous checks.

To scroll the restaurant’s and the restaurant’s building It turned into this really won- Facebook feed is to not only is paid off. derful thing.” get updates on the daily spe“This restaurant is a love Until mid-summer. cials but also to feel Williams letter to the community,” he “Then we started insisting trying to navigate the supply explained. “We just want to be everybody wear masks. That’s and demand, the rushes, the part of the community and do short-handedness, support

The Williamses’ restaurant, Keller Feed & Wine, Co., in Cottonwood Falls. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE KANSAS REFLECTOR

and exhaustion.

“Every day I’m coming in here and figuring out what’s next,” he said. “You have to be pliable and do what your community needs. I try to be nakedly honest with people: ‘Hey, everyone’s wearing masks.’”

“It’s hard,” he said. “I hope we don’t get to the point where we have to put a donkey on the front of all of our businesses and hair salons and restaurants so you know where to go. It feels like that some days.”

But Williams isn’t backing out.

“I’m neck deep,” he said.

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Concreto: Factory faced fires, explosions and other disasters Continued from A1

Time,” it’s a madeline cookie soaked with tea that prompts him to return to an intense investigation of childhood memories.

Concreto itself provokes memories of Allen County, launching one back to September 1903 when many people visited the little company town for the first time.

Many likely made the trip by way of the Iola Electric Railway, on a 10mile track that connected Bassett, Iola, Gas, LaHarpe, Melrose, Layonville and LaGrange.

Probably more than a few saw the cement plant as an opportunity for work, one worth the risk despite harsh conditions not yet softened by labor laws and years of intense struggles on the part of unions and workers.

Indeed, the Concreto factory was a dangerous place, fraught with fires, explosions, and other novel forms of disaster.

Even the grocery store in Concreto (the town) caught fire, and burned to the ground in 1904.

In 1906, a fire broke out in the “south Griffin mill room” and caused $2,000 in damages.

Near what we thought might be that same room, Addie Thompson, who lives with her husband Jerry on the hill above the plant, pointed out to me where a tree had grown up and begun to lift a long rusted beam into the air.

Addie’s a stay-athome mom to her son Thomas, and happens to be a Russian history buff as well as a reader of Trotsky.

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son was very upset about pretty much mask mandates and he said something about not being able to see his mother because of COVID restrictions on elderly homes,” he said.

Wichita police spokesman Charley Davidson said that no other local officials are believed to have been targeted.

The arrest comes more than a week after authorities said they thwarted a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Authorities allege members of two anti-government paramilitary groups took part in plotting in that case.

A maze of tunnels and various entrances and exits dot the old property of the cement plant at Concreto.

Were she not home-schooling, at the time the factory was in operation she could have sent little Thomas to one of the many surrounding districts, perhaps Melrose, Sadietown or Lake View.

Mowing through the ruins on a John Deere gator, I marveled in awe as we passed bricked archways and structures resembling the remains of an ancient temple, many of the spaces once sites of back-breaking exertion as well as demise.

In July 1910, an enormous blast ripped through the plant killing Merlin Boyd, a chemist from Iola, and severely injured four others.

It happened in the regulatory room when someone lit a match near where gas meters were being tested.

KA-WHOOSH!!

I wonder how many smiling teens and their parents know that when they pose for senior photos along the concrete walls, with their entire futures ahead of them?

SPEAKING of life and death, the mortality of the plant at Concreto

was recognized all-toosoon, and by 1910 the financial difficulties of the Portland Cement Company led to its closure.

Less than a year later, county commissioners ordered the area vacated to make room for agricultural pursuits.

It’s a result still being played out at the Concreto site today, where, on its north end, enormous structures are surrounded by round bales of crisp golden hay.

Stepping up the “stairs” of one tower until reaching a giddy height, I fought the haunting sense of vertigo as Addie shrunk on the ground below.

“It’s easy going up but harder coming down, huh?!” she exclaimed, as I gingerly tip-toed back down to solid earth.

Reaching the ground, the soil on which used to be two or three feet lower, I was reminded of how two years after the plant closed, another explosion rocked the end where we were standing and would’ve likely blown me to smithereens.

Apparently chemicals had remained in the lab-

oratory near the boiler room and engine room, and reduced the entire building’s contents to $40,000 in rubble.

Less than a year later, an equally ruinous fate befell the Kansas Portland Cement Company, when it was forced to declare bankruptcy.

AFTER Portland Cement was sold, the Concreto plant found new life as a smelter for various metals.

A new rush of hope and optimism shot through the community, but the dangers of the place still remained.

In 1916, when John Suggs and Bob Gillsepie were dismantling old parts of the cement works, an entire wall fell on both of them.

Suggs’ leg was broken and smashed to bits and he likewise suffered internal injuries.

Such brutal fates were not enough to keep workers away, howev-

er, especially not when wages were raised at the smelter to a whopping $2.40 for unskilled and $4.50 for skilled labor.

That’s $2.40 and $4.50 … a day.

Throughout the tour, I couldn’t help but dream them there, the workers swarming about the once-pristine structures like hive insects.

Their faces were dirty and their arms and legs ached, but they maintained a deep integrity and purpose, no matter how badly they might have been exploited.

Their ghosts still haunt the structures as well, not only the wreckage of the plant, but also the dam, pump house and pristine quarry nearby.

They shout and laugh and share delightfully dirty jokes, perhaps while leering and cat-calling the girls on the train or at the nearby Concreto hotel.

Their specters move

without hindrance, pressing through the native bluestem that’s returning to reclaim the fields that cradle the plant.

We take the brown grains in our hands and crumble them into the Sunday wind.

When the owls at Concreto call in the dusky evening, the men return their calls, and wish they were solid enough to hunt the white-tailed bucks that roam the fields — those that Addie and Jerry feed and protect from harm.

According to Hegel, these are men of abstraction, their speech coarse and amorphous, their manners uncultivated.

Yet with their hands they made something solid and unyielding, something truly concrete, exact and unbendingly specific.

And in that way, perhaps they, too, were philosophers.

Public notice (First published in The Iola Register Oct. 19, 2020) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Adoption of Vincent Anthony Lambert, minor male child, 20 AD NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR ADOPTION THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a PETITION FOR ADOPTION has been filed in the above Court

by Raymond J. Bonnett praying for an order of said Court that Petitioner be permitted and authorized to adopt the above named minor child as his own.

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Iola High School: Volleyball

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Monday, October 19, 2020

Iola High School: Football

Fillies go 2-1 at home tourney

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola High’s Becca Sprague goes up for a kill in a match Saturday against Girard. Sprague was a leading contributor for the Fillies, who went 2-1 on the day. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Humboldt: XC

As Iola High’s Fillies enter the final week of the regular season, head coach Amanda Strickler-Holman senses her team is peaking at the right time.

“Right now, we’re relying on our experience,” she said.

“We realize we’ve done it before, and we can do it again.

We’re not panicking. We’re holding our composure, and we’re believing in ourselves.

That’s the biggest thing, if we believe.”

The Fillies had their share of tense moments Saturday, ultimately prevailing on their home court over Girard and Wellsville in three sets, before falling to Labette County — one of the area’s top volleyball teams — in their final match of the day.

The 2-1 mark essentially give Iola second place in a mini-tournament. In any other year, Saturday’s action would have been in Garnett as part of the Anderson County Invitational.

However, COVID-19 conSee FILLIES | Page B4

Iola High’s Isaac Badders, right, bats down a pass intended for Girard High’s Mason Huebner Saturday. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Mustangs struggle

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

The friendly confines of Iola’s Riverside Park were anything but Saturday for Iola High’s Mustangs.

In their first home game since Sept. 11, the Mustangs saw visiting Frontenac lead 14-0 after one quarter and

34-0 at the break.

A 35-yard touchdown pass from Bradyn Cole to TJ Taylor with just under 4 minutes left on the clock was the Mustangs’ only opportunity to dent the scoreboard in a 48-7 defeat.

The loss drops Iola to 2-3 See MUSTANGS | Page B4

Humboldt: Football

Wilhite goes back to back

Wellsville de-claws Cubs in district matchup

FREDONIA — It’s two league titles in two years for Humboldt High’s Drew Wilhite.

The Cub junior cruised to victory Saturday in the Tri-Valley League Tournament, running the 5K course in 18 minutes, 10 seconds.

Sam Neeley also earned AllLeague designation by finishing sixth at 20:22. Neeley also set a personal best time in the process.

On the girls side, the Lady Cubs had four All-League runners, spearheaded by Lulu Melendez’s fourth-place finish at 24:41.

She was followed by Zoey Wilson in seventh (25:15), Melina Hess in eighth (25:21) and Leah Mueller in ninth (25:31).

Humboldt’s middle-schoolers also had a strong day on the course. Kenan Jones, eighth-grader, was the fastest middle-schooler in the 2-mile race, finishing with a personal-best 14:14. Tori Melendez took third and Anna Heisler fourth.

Layne Ellison finished sixth among the middle school boys.

Humboldt’s runners will

HUMBOLDT — There were some early glimmers of hope Friday that Humboldt High was still on an upswing.

The Cubs were back home, following a dramatic overtime victory at Jayhawk-Linn the week before.

But turnovers and defensive breakdowns proved costly in a 47-14 loss to visiting Wellsville.

The loss drops the Cubs to 4-3 on the season and 1-3 in Class 2A district play.

“It’s the same thing we’ve been preaching all year,” Humboldt head coach Logan Wyrick said.

“We’ve gotta tackle better, and we’ve gotta take care of the ball. People make football a very, very complicated game, but it’s not.

You’ve got to tackle and take care of the ball. We didn’t do those things tonight, and it cost us.”

After spotting the Eagles an early 7-0 lead, Humboldt came back quickly on its ensuing drive, with long runs by Drake Harrington and Trey Sommer.

However, the Cubs’ offense stalled in its tracks at midfield.

See WILHITE | Page B4

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Humboldt’s Trenton Heisler (82) collides with Dakota Slocum (14) near the goal line on a long pass attempt. Slocum corralled the ball, then zipped past Wellsville defenders Nash Money (4) and Ayden Kearney (7) for a touchdown. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Faced with fourth-and-12 at the Wellsville 37, Sommer lobbed a high-arcing spiral to the corner of the end zone, in the direction of receiver Trenton Heisler.

But Dakota Slocum, who was running a shorter route, thought the ball was still aimed at him. He and Heisler

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jumped and collided at the goal line, but Slocum was able to corral the ball in the process. He then stepped past a stunned Eagle defender for the touchdown. Sommer’s 2-point conversion gave the Cubs an 8-7 lead.

The lead didn’t last long.

The Eagles scored on a long

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Fillies: Go 2-1 in tourney Continued from B1

cerns prompted Anderson County officials to split the event in half, with Iola hosting a quadrangular event at IHS. The Fillies had their sights set on a clean sweep, battling backand-forth with Labette County in the finale, and leading 22-21 late in the set. But the Grizzlies scored three straight points to take the upper hand of what became a 25-23 win.

Labette County then cruised through the second set, 25-19.

“It’s not the ending we wanted,” Strickler-Holman said. “Labette’s a good team, and they’re probably the first team that found our holes.”

The Grizzlies then repeatedly exploited those weaknesses, she noted. “We didn’t give it to them. They earned it.”

Becca Sprague paced Iola with 12 kills and eight assists. Lauryn

Holloway followed with five kills and two blocks.

Veronica Agostini had four kills and 10 assists.

Hannah Gardner and Jenna Curry had six and three digs, respectively.

THE START of the competition had its share of thrills. Iola fended off Girard to win the first set, 2521, but missed out on chances for a sweep in the second set. Three times, the Fillies had the serve with an opportunity to close out the match, but couldn’t in a 28-26 loss.

Undaunted, Iola bounced back to a quick 8-2 lead in the third set and never looked back, winning 25-20.

Sprague had 15 points, 10 assists, eight digs and two blocks. Holloway had seven kills, three aces, six blocks and eight digs. Agostini had 12 assists and five kills.

Gardner and Curry each had nine digs. Curry

also had six aces. Ally Ellis had three digs and two blocks.

A COLD start hurt Iola against Wellsville, as the Fillies trailed 14-5 at one point.

They stormed back to make it close, but fell, 25-23. Still, Iola held momentum from there, winning the final two sets, 25-14 and 25-19.

Sprague and Agostini were the primary contributors. Sprague had 14 kills, seven assists and six digs. Agostini racked up 11 kills, 16 assists and eight digs.

Curry and Holloway had four and three kills, respectively. Holloway added eight digs, Gardner had nine digs, Chloe Sell had eight and Ellis had four.

IOLA wraps up the regular season Tuesday at Anderson County before hosting the Class 4A Substate Tournament on Saturday.

Cubs: Fall to Wellsville Continued from B1

dle on a 44-yard touchdown.

An Eagle interception on the Cubs’ next drive turned into a 9-yard scoring jaunt by Schnoor, to lead 26-8 at the break.

The Eagles kept up the pressure in the third quarter.

Nash Money scored on a 1-yard touchdown run, then Humboldt failed to field the ensuing kickoff.

The ball bounced on the turf once, then shot straight back to Wellsville’s Jacob Hunsaker.

Schnoor’s 10-yard scoring run followed, and the lead swelled to 40-8.

Wyatt Bird capped Wellsville’s scoring with a 6 yard touchdown in the opening minute of the fourth quarter.

Humboldt’s final score came late in the fourth, on the heels of an 11-play, 66-yard drive.

Sommer’s 3-yard touchdown came at the 2:33 mark of the game.

“We were right there early,” Wyrick said. “We each gotta find ways to grow up a little bit faster and keep battling.”

Slocum paced Humboldt with 78 yards on four receptions. Sommer hit 5 of 11 passes for 73 yards, while rushing for 41. Aden Kelley had 28 yards on six carries; Drake Harrington had 18 yards on a single carry.

The Eagles, who rushed for 223 yards in the contest, were led by Nash Money’s 106 yards on the ground. Dylan McCarty was 7 of 11 for 131 yards. David Signs had 89 yards on three re-

ceptions.

Humboldt travels to Osage City next Friday for the regular season finale.

Wellsville 13-13-14-7—47 Humboldt 8-0-0-6—14 First Quarter Wellsville — Schnoor 1 yd run (Seaman kick) Humboldt — Slocum 37 yd pass from Sommer (Sommer run) Wellsville — Signs 44 yd pass from McCarty (kick blocked) Second Quarter Wellsville — Lee 21 yd pass from McCarty (pass failed) Wellsville — Schnoor 9 yd run (Seaman kick) Third Quarter Wellsville — Money 1 yd run (Seaman kick) Wellsville — Schoor 10 yd run (Seaman kick) Fourth Quarter Wellsville — Bird 6 yd run (Seaman kick) Humboldt — Sommer 3 yd run (run failed)

Wilhite: TVL league champ Continued from B1

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Tri-Valley League Meet Varsity Boys (5K) 1. Drew Wilhite, 18:10 (PR) 6. Sam Neeley, 20:22 (season best) 15. Jackson McGowen, 21:54 20. Peyton Wallace, 22:50 (season best)

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Mustangs: Girard rolls Continued from B1

on the season and 0-2 in Class 3A district action.

“We’ve just gotta be better, gotta be more physical,” Iola head coach David Daugharthy said. “We’ve gotta execute. It’s hard to do that when you drop passes and miss tackles.

A steady rotation of Girard runners kept Iola at bay through the first two quarters.

Ethan Merrell scored twice for the Trojans in the first quarter.

The score was 20-0 before the Mustangs picked up their initial first down early in the second quarter, after Brett Willis put Iola in prime field position with a long kickoff return.

But an 8-yard loss on second down pushed Iola back to midfield, where the Mustangs turned the ball over on downs two plays later.

Subsequently, it took Girard two plays to score, with Luke Niggeman finding Mason Huebner on a 54yard touchdown pass at the 8:45 mark of the quarter.

Girard then put together its longest drive of the game, covering 75 yards on 10 plays, capped by a 5-yard touchdown run by Alex Coester.

Iola’s scoring drive came with the Mustangs trailing 48-0 midway through the fourth quarter.

Cole completed three straight passes

before his 35-yard scoring strike to Taylor for Taylor’s first touchdown of the season.

“There’s not a kid more deserving,” Daugharthy said of Taylor’s big play. “He’s a hard-working kid, who does everything you ask. He’s the type of kid to build a program around.”

The Mustangs will be back in action Friday at home against Burlington for Homecoming. It’s the first Friday evening contest for Iola — whose season has been upended with two games canceled, and two others pushed back because of COVID concerns — since Sept. 18.

“It’ll be good for us, with Homecoming,” Daugharthy said. “We look forward to that.”

Unofficially, Cole was 14 of 24 passing for 189 yards. Taylor had 61 yards on two receptions; Dake Sellman covered 46 yards on three catches. Trent Jones had 37 yards receiving and 10 yards rushing. Willis covered 25 yards on the ground.

A stable of Girard runners — seven players had carries — racked up 276 yards on the ground, led by Merrell’s 118 yards on 13 carries. Girard’s quarterbacks combined to hit 7 of 10 passes for 146 yards.

THE IOLA Football Alumni group honored Iolan Donna Houser in a pregame ceremony.

Houser’s late husband, Ray, was the head foot-

ball coach at IHS from 1966 to 1974.

Over the past several years, Donna has spearheaded efforts to upgrade the football stadium at Riverside Park.

“Once she starts something, she’s all in and committed to seeing the completion of the project,” Earl “Mackie” McIntosh told the crowd.

Since her involvement, Houser has seen a complete remodel of the locker rooms, new bleachers with back rests in the grandstands, improved drainage outside the stadium and now handicap-accessible restrooms.

McIntosh pointed to future projects at the stadium as well, such as upgrades to the press box.

McIntosh appealed to the crowd for more donations to continue the work.

Girard 14-20-7-7— 48 Iola 0-0-0-7— 7 First Quarter Frontenac — Merrell 7 yd run (Humble kick) Frontenac — Merrell 30 yd run (Humble kick) Second Quarter Frontenac — Niggemann 4 yd run (kick failed) Frontenac — Huebner 54 yd pass from Niggemann (Humble kick) Frontenac — Coester 5 yd run (Humble kick) Third Quarter Frontenac — Olivera 6 yd run (Humble kick) Fourth Quarter Frontenac — Huebner 18 yd pass from Lallemand (Humble kick) Iola — Taylor 35 yd pass from Cole (Sieh kick)

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