February 16, 2026
90TH BIRTHDAY CARD SHOWER – Goldie Thornton will celebrate her 90th birthday on Sunday, Oct. 2. Her family would love for all of her friends and family to send her a birthday card to commemorate this big milestone. You may send a card to Goldie Thornton, 9020 East 750 Road, El Dorado Springs, MO 64744.
On a beautiful fall day on Sunday, Sept. 18, a good crowd of descendants of Erma Esta Davis Miller Boultinghouse gathered for their annual reunion in the El Dorado Springs Civic Center. Relatives came from Kansas City, KS, Girard, KS, Bolivar, Joplin, Carthage and the El Dorado Springs area. The good cooks carried in their
What Makes Us Sneeze Do you follow the daily pollen count reports? So do I but I will bet for different reasons. You are following to know how aggravated your allergies may be. I keep an eye on pollen reports to know whether my bees will have food to take back to their colonies before
by Helen Ellerman Jewell and Helen Ellerman and a friend, Rosie Taylor, had dinner at Cedar House Grill Sunday, Sept. 25. Church service was held at the Harwood Baptist Church Sunday, Sept. 25. Brother Jon Caudle Sr.’s sermon was taken from I Corinthians 2. Jewell and Helen Ellerman attended the Fourth Sunday community dinner at
TOPS Chapter 319 El Dorado Springs (Take Off pounds Sensibly) met in the Church Of Christ Sanctuary on Thursday, Sept. 22. Tickets have been printed for the Baked Potato Luncheon. This will be held on Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Community Center Banquet Room, 135 W. Spring St. We will serve from 11:00 am to
by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Morning message at the Rockville United Methodist Church was by Pastor Nick Van Dam entitled “Who at your Gate?” Join us for worship Sunday morning 9 a.m. Mt. Zion Home Bible study meets each Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Tom and Beverly Pelkey home to study the Bible.
After a relatively short and definitely productive and friendly meeting of the Cedar County Ambulance Board on Monday, Sept. 19, in the El Dorado Springs ambulance barn, one of the people who participated in the meeting commented outside the building that the meeting was fun, “people were laughing and joking.” Board members present for the
WE HAVE COME BACK – Vann Bighorse of the Osage Nation, director of the Wah-Zha-Zhi Cultural Center, stands on the WaKonTa Prairie north of El Dorado Springs at the opening of Prairie Days on Saturday, Sept. 17. He offered a prayer, spoken in Osage, asking for a blessing on the prairie and the day. Bighorse
Hungry for some fried squirrel? The city may have an extra one they don’t need. About 3 p.m. Tuesday the electricity here at the office suddenly went off. I called the Utility Department to tell them. Had to pull the number out of my memory bank because I couldn’t have seen the phone book while
JONES TO REPRESENT EL DORADO SPRINGS – Brianna Jones will represent our community as Miss El Dorado Springs at the 56th Annual Stockton Black Walnut Festival. The Queen contest begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, on the main stage in the park. Brianna, a 17 year-old high school senior, is the daughter of
