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Roving ReporterCOMMENTARY

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Years AgoBy Ella Buzzard &

Marilyn Schmitt

The Beginning of Knowledge

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Columbus Public Library

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Message from theSheriffBy David M. GrovesCherokee County Sheriff

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Church

25 Years AgoOctober 20 - 26, 1994

A former Catholic Church building in Weir has been remodeled and was dedicated as the city’s new public library and city hall. The ribbon cutters were Reverend Michael Akins-Banman, Andrew “Billy” Gowans, Rev. Daniel Mulvihill, Robert Brackney, George Thomp-son, Rev. Brian Eagan, Mayor Dennis Joe Belk and Eunice Bernardi.

Doug, Becky and Ja-cob Mogle, of Columbus, announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Breana Jo, born October 20, 1994 in Mt. Carmel Medical Center. Grandparents are Bob and Billie Bigando, of Scammon, and Jim and Shirley Mogle of Colum-bus.

Two fourth quarter touchdowns let the CUHS Titan freshman-sophomore football team close out their season with a come behind 14-6 win over the Baxter Springs Lions. Brent Perry scored the first Titan touch-down when he circled left end for a 55-yard scoring run. Josh Hale scooped up the loose ball and raced 77 yards for the second touch-down.

Columbus Unified School District students are celebrating Drug Free School Red Ribbon Week. Mayor W. E. Schaiff met with representatives of the six USD493 elementary schools and offered con-gratulations to the students for being recognized by the Regional Drug Pre-vention Center for the work they had done. The students are Craig Hale, Lacy Westervelt, Lacy Stover, Hilary Crain, Chel-sea Epler, Kandice Crain, Tommy McCormick, Chelsea Brumback, Jenny Wagner, Jade Fry, Jessica Mogle and Ryan Atkinson.

Members of the Co-lumbus Volunteer Fire Department added a new vehicle to their fleet of fire trucks. The 1937 Ameri-can Le France truck was donated to the local fire department by Dick and Laura Glasgow, owners of Glasgow Body and Frame, 516 North Pennsylvania Avenue. The donation was made with the under-standing that the local fire department would work to renovate the truck to its former glory.

Robert and Thelma

Latcham Rogers, of Co-lumbus, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary October 23. Hosting the celebration were their sons and daughters-in-law, Bob and Kandi Rogers and Bill and Sonja Rogers.

Jeanne Rudd, a 1983 Columbus Unified High School graduate, com-pleted her master’s degree in education at Wichita State University. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hill of Melrose.

50 Years AgoOctober 20 - 26, 1969

Jack Billhartz, Martin Shanks and Bob Lump-kin, members of Capt. Joe Carter Post No. 1372, Veterans of Foreign Wars, conducted a Lite-A-Bike Program at Park, Highland and Central Grade Schools.

David Collins Jr., Co-lumbus, purchased a ma-ture Milking Shorthand cow Don’s Roan Peggy 278839, from E. W. Robb of Pittsburg.

Those from Cherokee County attending the sev-enth annual Kansas Na-tional Farmers Organiza-tion Convention in Salina were Claude Lee, LeRoy Mock, Homer Rennie, Jack Crocker and LeRoy Bower.

Mr. and Mrs. Stan Schmidt, of Wichita, an-nounce the birth of a daugh-ter in St. Francis Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Russell King, of Columbus, are the ma-ternal grandparents.

Larry A. Dunn, of the SEK Area Vo-Tech School at Columbus, is a member of the newly formed NEO Craftsman’s Fair Commit-tee.

Delegates to the VFW District convention to be held at Chanute were named at a meeting of Capt. Joe Carter Post, no. 1372, VFW. Delegates are Mason Bass, Joe Riker, El-mer Christiansen, Martin Shanks, Reno Aldrighetti, Jack Billhartz, Carl Chris-tiansen Sr., Bill G. Finley, Bill Miller and Walt Olney. Chosen as alternate del-egates were Homer Ben-nett, Bob Lumpkin, George Henderson, David Hamil-ton, Bud O’Neal, Claude Shumake, Eddie Blunk, Walter Smittle, Gary Card and Jack Lyons.

The Columbus eighth grade team defeated Bax-ter Springs 30-0 on the Columbus High School football field. David Lipp filled in for Joel Over-man, who was out with a knee injury. Lipp scored three touchdowns. The last touchdown was made by Mike O’Malley in an 80-yard pass interception with David Lipp making good on the conversion.

The Columbus sev-enth graders lost their game to Baxter Springs 16-6. The first touchdown was made by Dave Ross up the middle for a 6-0 lead.

100 Years AgoOctober 20 – 26, 1919

L. C. Gillian of Bad-ger was caught in a cave-in at the Peacock mine across the river from Badger yes-terday. More than 50 min-ers from around the vicin-ity of Badger rushed to the site to dig frantically in hopes Gilliam is still alive in a pocket or blind drift.

He is employed as a watch-man at the mine and was accustomed to “gouge” an old cave caused by the set-tling of the ground for lead ore. Relief crews from Carl Junction and Galena rushed to the scene imme-diately after the alarm was given bringing ambulances and physicians. One of the ambulances and all the physicians remain with the workers.

Dr. J. F. Jameson and Will Taylor returned from Kansas City yesterday where they went to drive home a new Buick road-ster which Dr. Jameson re-cently purchased. The car is the latest 1920 model, equipped with every mod-ern device which could be used on an automobile. It has cord tires, six-cylinder engine and is as handsome a car as one could find. It is the first 1920 model car brought to Columbus.

John Spieth, aged 24 years, died of typhoid fever at his home two miles west of Hallowell Thursday eve-ning. He is survived by a wife and a six-month old daughter. Interment will be in McKee cemetery.

The case of the state against Everett Young who was charged with the mur-der of Alex Alexander in a gambling house at Blue Mound several months ago, was dismissed this week on a motion made by the county attorney.

After 100 miners worked frantically for 24 hours to remove several hundred tons of rock and dirt, in an effort to rescue L. G. Gillian who was be-lieved to have been en-tombed alive in a blind drift of the old Peacock mine by a cave-in, his body was found. It is believed he died instantly.

Nine automobiles, captured at different times while being used to trans-port booze through Chero-kee county, will be auc-tioned off by Sheriff Bob Frazier tomorrow after-noon on the north side of the courthouse. Most of the cars are in good con-dition and are expected to bring a good price.

Peacock mine caves in kills watchman

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an ex-ample for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12

Last Friday night at the Columbus Titans’ last reg-ular season home football game, an injury occurred. While that isn’t unusual, what happened after that was. A group of students initiated and led prayers for the injured player while he was being treated. The students’ actions touched many people that night and it got me thinking about hope for the future.

Every so often, I’ll see something on social media

from an adult which dispar-ages today’s youth. Usu-ally, the post spouts some-thing sentimental about “when we were kids,” and then compares today’s teens unfavorably to “our generation.” And while it is true that technology and other factors have perhaps had some negative conse-quences, I want everyone to know that this commu-nity has some absolutely wonderful young people, people who love God and

are willing to serve God. I’ve seen High School

and Jr. High kids do com-munity service and help people in need. I’ve seen them pray for others and lead worship. And I’ve seen them make a differ-ence in the lives of children and adults, proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ in Word and Deed.

Are all of our young people perfect? No. Does this generation have it’s own set of problems? Ab-solutely. However, I am convinced that God is at work in this generation, and that God will continue to work in our youth until the end of all things.

Attend the church of your choice this Sunday.

Players unite in prayer after injury

What does it mean to be “good?” Obviously, there is more to good be-havior than just not being bad. Is it really enough to just be a good person? Do-ing what seems right may be a good idea, but since each person’s concept of right and wrong varies, the results will be skewed (Proverbs 14:12).

There has to be a stan-dard; a way to measure what is truly acceptable. Jesus Christ states: “un-less you are converted and become as little children, you will not enter the king-dom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). This means, first of all, that only the innocent

are acceptable to God. Sec-ondly, it acknowledges that there are two conditions; saved and unsaved. Know-ing the difference, and how to correct the error, is a matter of life or death.

When people try to proclaim their own in-nocence, they only fool themselves; God knows what they are really like on the inside (Luke 16:15). Therefore, only God can

determine whether or not someone is “good.” The boundaries for acceptable behavior have been es-tablished by our Creator. When those limits are ex-ceeded, or avoided, sin oc-curs (1 John 3:4).

Only those who walk within God’s law can be considered clean (Psalm 119:1). By following all of our Father’s commands, we then have nothing of which to be ashamed (Psalm 119:6). Hearing and obeying the will of our Creator is the one way to be cleansed from the stain of sin (Psalm 119:9). It is good to be “good”, and even better, it is good to be “good” in God’s eyes.

Best to be good in God’s eyes

I’ve had the opportuni-ty to visit with some of you who recently received let-ters from the Kansas Sher-iffs’ Association, wanting to make sure the letter was not part of a scam.

Because of the high number of phone scams victimizing citizens throughout the country, the Kansas Sheriff’s As-sociation stopped using a telemarketing campaign several years ago and opted instead, to utilize a direct mail campaign. And, be-cause your personal infor-mation is critically impor-tant, I, along with several other Sheriff’s, toured the facility of the company the association works with on direct mail campaign. It

was quite clear, right from the start, they have strict protocols in place to make sure any personal informa-tion is not compromised, which made me feel even more confident with the as-sociation’s decision.

Some of you have also asked if the associa-tion actually benefits our local Sheriff’s Office and I sincerely appreciate you reaching out to ask.

Early on in my ten-ure as your Sheriff, I rec-ognized how valuable the Sheriffs’ Association is, not only through the assistance provided to individual sheriffs, but also in work-ing to ensure and maintain the integrity of the Office of Sheriff in Kansas.

I currently have the privilege of serving as the Second Vice-President for the organization, which as I mentioned, now uses a mail campaign to seek support for its programs. Those programs include providing training to sher-

iff’s, deputies and correc-tional officers, working with our Senators and State Representatives in passing state legislation geared to-wards keeping Kansan’s safe, providing scholar-ships to Kansas students and providing financial as-sistance to the families of Kansas Law Enforcement Officers who are killed in the line of duty.

In addition, the Kan-sas Sheriffs’ Association partnered with the Kansas Bar Association in creating Kansas based legal docu-ments for all our citizens to create a Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney. The peace of mind having these important decisions made and documented is priceless to those families who find themselves in a tragic situation or navi-gating through a sudden health emergency. They can be accessed for free on our association website, www.kansassheriffs.org.

I again thank those for

reaching out to make sure these letters are not part of a scam, which I assure you they are not. I would also mention, the letters (which typically get sent twice a year) are the organizations only means of fundraising, so if you ever get a phone call from someone claim-ing to raise money on be-half of your local sheriff’s office, please hang up.

I thank all of you who choose to make a donation to the Kansas Sheriffs’ As-sociation and completely understand not everyone who receives a letter will be interested, or able to at the moment.

Either way, it remains truly an honor to serve as your Sheriff and work alongside skilled and dedi-cated men and women each and every day who con-tinue to strive to provide a high quality and profes-sional service to our com-munity.

God Bless,Sheriff David Groves

Kansas Association letters are not a scam

Kip NoelFree time when I get to play games.

Ally Walters I like Public Broadcast-ing (PBS) Kids Day.

Lucy ZahmMy favorite is Wild Kratz.