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Cleaning House Of all of the bee calls I had this year, this one in Licking was the most intriguing. It was an old house that needed to be demolished. Workers did not want to approach the two-story building until the current residents, a colony of honeybees, had been removed. When David Draker, Rolla, and

HOW SWEET IT IS – Johnny Joe Barger, El Dorado Springs, says he has only been gardening for 74 years. This year he put out 25 hills of sweet potatoes. He hasn’t dug the rest of them yet, but this one appeared to be the biggest. It had these two sweet taters in it –

By Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Moring message at the Rockville United Methodist Church was by Nicholas Van Dam was entitled “Life with no Seating Chart” from Luke14: 7-14. We invite you to join us at 9 a.m. Sunday morning for worship. Mt. Zion Home Bible study meets each Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the

by Helen Ellerman Jewell and Helen Ellerman and a friend, Rosie Taylor, attended the community supper at the First Baptist Church at El Dorado Springs Sunday evening, Aug. 28. The Schell City Fall Festival will be held on Friday evening, Sept. 9, and all day and night Saturday, Sept. 10 This is an annual event.

On Friday, Sept. 2, Mo-Kan Squares will sponsor a dance with Jay Wright calling. The dance will be held in the Home Ec building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds, Nevada, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Admission is $5 per adult dancer and $3 per youth dancer. All area dancers and interested persons are invited to

The annual Burrus-Coale-Conner-James family reunion and basket dinner will be held after church on Sunday, Sept. 11, in the El Dorado Springs Lions Club, 1109 S Jackson.

R-II Board to put no increase bond on ballot During its Thursday, Aug. 18, meeting, the Dorado Springs School Board voted to put $5.6 million bond issue on the Nov. ballot with no increase in the current 54¢ levy. The ballot language the board approved is: Shall the El Dorado Springs R-2 School District, Cedar

I had fun at the Cedar Bowl mostly by hasseling Chad Boyle who was filming for Stockton. I told him that since he is the county assessor he should pull equally for both teams. – Do you remember that Davis gave Kimball some dwarf hampsters and the first two were mean? He switched those for

Someone who bought a Lucky for Life ticket for the Aug. 21, 2016, drawing in El Dorado Springs has won $25,000 a year for life. One ticket sold at S & B Liquors, 3320 East Hwy. 54, matched all five white-ball numbers drawn last night to win the game’s second-level prize. The winning numbers are: