Volume 126, Number 37 Thursday, September 12, 2013 16 Pages, 70 Cents Plus Tax Per Copy

The Stevens CountyBoard of County Commis-sioners met in regular ses-sion Tuesday, September3, 2013 with all members,James Bell, Pat Hall andDave Bozone present. Alsopresent were County ClerkPam Bensel, County Coun-selor Robert Johnson andRoGlenda Coulter from TheHugoton Hermes. The fol-lowing is just an agenda forthe afternoon with a few ofthe unofficial highlights. Of-ficial minutes will be pub-lished at a later date.

The commissioners’agenda for Tuesday was:8:30 - Bills; 9:30 - TonyMartin and Pete Earles;10:00 - Brian Hemann withKDI - executive session;10:30 - Phil Escareno withBlack Hills in regard to the

number of houses in thenext five years in the PioneerAddition; 11:00 - TonyMcBride; 11:30 - DebScheibler with Kansas WorkForce One; and 12:00 -Lunch.

When this reporter ar-rived at 8:45 a.m., the com-missioners were finishingtalking with Neal Gillespie.

Bob Johnson brought inthe new District JudgeLinda Gilmore to meet thecommissioners. They allwelcomed her. She has alaw practice in Liberal andlives in Stevens County. Shehas been in practice for 18years and was appointed bythe governor to take KimSchroeder’s position.

Tony Martin from Roadand Bridge came in to reportfor his department. While

waiting for Pete Earles, Tonyand Pat told of their tour ofthe John Deere factory inDavenport, Ia. where thecounty’s new graders arebeing built. They both reallyenjoyed the tour and werevery impressed. Tony said itwas pretty amazing and notvery many get this opportu-nity. Tony had recentlytoured the Cat factory alsoso he was able to comparethe two while it was fresh inhis mind.

Pam informed the com-missioners they needed toappoint three SWKAAA(Southwest Kansas AreaAgency on Aging) represen-tatives from StevensCounty. She said RogerLynch volunteered. Motionwas made and passed to ap-point Roger to fill one of thepositions. Pam said KarenRich has been asked tocheck at the Senior Center.Mrs. Wagner might be askedif she is interested.

Tony was still waiting forPete. Tony said he has notheard of any problems withsprinklers on roadways. Buta lot of sprinklers are beingshut off now. They visitedabout four way stops beingadded in some places in thecounty. They talked aboutcell phone plans and mow-ing ditches. Tony told thecommissioners of someprojects Moscow Recreationhas asked them to do.

Commissioners and Tonywere discussing streets androads in the Pioneer Addi-tion and went ahead andasked Phil Escareno aboutthe gas lines. Commission-ers asked if they would beputting gas lines in thestreets. He said mostly downthe alleys. He expects it tobe happening within thenext month. Tony said theywould appreciate that sothey can get started on thestreets.

Sheriff Ted Heaton camein to report for the Law En-forcement Center.

Pete Earles came in.Commissioners expressedtheir concern of the billsthey were receiving. Theyasked if everything had to beinspected. He said yes theCity wants full time inspec-tion as part of the project.Last month it came to 147hours. Commissionersasked Pete how the projectwas coming along. He said itwas very slow getting in the

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Hugoton Elementary’s hallways were packed with parents andstudents Monday night for this year’s open house.

Counselor Robert Johnson introduces newlyappointed District Judge Linda Gilmore toCommissioners Pat Hall, hidden behind Bob,

Dave Bozone, James Bell and County ClerkPam Bensel. Judge Gilmore was appointed bythe governor to fill Kim Schroeder’s position.

The meeting of theboard for the StevensCounty Hospital and Pio-neer Manor was called toorder Monday, September9, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. inthe Community Room ofthe hospital. Present wereboard members WarrenWillis, Joyce Baughman,Milton Gillespie, PattyLahey, Keith Rome andDean Van Horn. KirkHeger was absent. Alsopresent were Chief Finan-cial Officer Dave Piper,Clinic Director Stacy Hel-get, Health InformationDirector Marilyn Crane,Director of Nursing DawnMaas, Dr. Samer Al-Hashmi “Dr. Sam” andHermes reporter WilmaBartel.

The agenda for the dayand the minutes of the lastmeeting were approvedunanimously.

As Human ResourcesDirector Robin Medinawas not present, the boardreviewed her written re-port about personnel andcurrent job openings.

Dr. Sam presented themedical staff report. Hesaid the Emergency Roomand Out Patient had beenvery busy the last month,due in part to injuries atthe Abengoa constructionsite west of Hugoton.

The nursing report wasgiven by Director of Nurs-ing Dawn Maas. Shetalked about the

Alzheimer’s seminar givenin August at MemorialHall and said the speakerhad been very good butshe was somewhat disap-pointed in the attendance.

Stacy Helget gave theclinic report. She saidnumbers had been up inAugust, mostly due toschool and sports physi-cals and reported theonset of allergy seasonwas also responsible forthe increase in numbers.

Board Chairman War-ren Willis said he had noissues to present as thechairman other than ascheduling conflict whichmade it necessary tochange the date of the Oc-tober board meeting. Mo-

tion was made and ap-proved unanimously tomove the date of the Octo-ber meeting to Tuesday,October 1. The meetingwill be at Pioneer Manorconference room.

There was no updatefrom Pioneer Manor.

The financial report wasgiven by Chief FinancialOfficer Dave Piper. He re-ported total expendituresfor this year are higherthan last year. Utilities atPioneer Manor are signifi-cantly higher than previ-ous years and repairs andmaintenance costs for Pio-neer Manor have beenhigher than expected for anew building. He said

Hugoton Elementary’s fifth grade science instructor Kim Hegerlooks on as a fifth grade student demonstrates his weighingskills during Monday night’s open house.

Raising awarenessabout the critical impor-tance of on-farm safety,Governor Sam Brownbackproclaimed September asFarm Safety Month inKansas and the week ofSeptember 15 through 21,as Kansas Farm Safetyand Health Week.

The Kansas Depart-ment of Agriculture workswith all stakeholders inthe industry, includingfarmers and ranchers,Kansas 4-H, Kansas FFA,agricultural educators,Kansas agricultural or-ganizations and otherstate agencies, to reducethe risk of injury on the

farm, to reinforce the im-portance of taking neces-sary precautions whileworking on the farm, andto protect public healthand safety through out-reach and educational ini-tiatives as well as throughresponsible regulatoryoversight.

“Kansas has a rich her-itage and history deeplyrooted in agriculture thatcontinues today as agri-culture is the largest eco-nomic driver, employerand industry in Kansas,”said Secretary of Agricul-ture Dale Rodman. “Agri-culture touches everyKansan every day, and it

is our duty to raise aware-ness to keep our state’sfarm and ranch familiessafe. These hard-workingmen and women and theirchildren work each day toprovide a safe, abundantfood supply for consumersaround the world.”

The theme for NationalFarm Safety and HealthWeek is ‘working togetherfor safety in agriculture.’KDA will be actively pro-moting Farm Safetythroughout September.Please visit KDA’s socialmedia pages - Facebook,Twitter, Pinterest and In-stagram - to follow farmsafety posts and tips.

Hugoton City Council metin regular session Monday,September 9, 2013 at thecouncil meeting room. At-tending the meeting wereCity Inspector JoshuaGrubbs, Outside UtilitiesSupervisor Paul Nordyke,Electrical System SupervisorGary Rowden, City ClerkThomas G. Hicks, MayorJack E. Rowden and coun-cilmen Dean Banker, MikeEshbaugh, Dan Corpening,Shannon Crawford and TronStegman. Also present wereMark Kerbow, Carla Ker-bow, Greg Gill, EcoDevo’sNeal Gillespie, City EngineerPete Earles, City AttorneyWayne R. Tate, Police ChiefCourtney Leslie, SylviaRomo, KDI’s Matt Green andHugoton Hermes reporterRuthie Winget.

Mark and Carla Kerbow,who reside at 900 S. Madi-

son, informed the city coun-cil about the sewer backupthat happened in their base-ment September 2, 2013.The city’s main was blocked,causing damage to carpetand drywall. Their insur-ance would not pay for thedamage since no blockagehad occurred in their lines.The Kerbows were in-structed by the council toget a total cost estimate forclean-up and damages.

The city recommendsevery house with a base-ment should have a back-flow preventer. Tom Hicksstated the city’s insurancewill not pay for this damagesince the city was not negli-gent. The city had inspectedthis line August 9, 2013since this line sometimeshas problems. They clean itonce a year even though theinsurance recommends

cleaning the lines only onceevery three years.

Pete Earles brought in sixbids for the new sewer la-goon and a new aerator.Sporer Land Development ofOakley turned in the low bidfor both items to be$1,906,329.60. Sporer hadinstalled the previous lagoonand had no problems. Thecouncil passed the motion toaccept the low bid.

Sylvia Romo complainedto the council she had a se-rious dispute with a city em-ployee who took advantageof her by brokering one ofher trailer spaces to a con-struction worker. Shewanted his supervisor to notsend this employee to herproperty for any city electri-cal projects as she did notwant him to be on her prop-erty again.

Neal Gillespie stopped by

to give the council more in-formation about the RuralHousing Incentive District.RHID captures 100 percentof the incremental real prop-erty taxes created by a hous-ing development project tobe applied to improvementssuch as special assess-ments. Gillespie will returnwith further information.

The council approved Or-dinance No. 802 which is aStandard Traffic Ordinancefor the City of Hugoton.They also approved Ordi-nance No. 803 which is aUniform Public OffenseCode for the City of Hugo-ton.

Tom Hicks reported thegood news that sales tax col-lections were up so far thisyear.

Tom informed the councilPioneer Electric has pre-sented the city with a bill for

$131,011.76. The amountis the $.003 per kWh to bebilled above the tariff rate,starting with the June 2012billing under the new con-tract. A breakdown in com-munication betweenSunflower and Pioneer re-sulted in the billing omis-sion. The city attorney willcontact Pioneer’s legal coun-sel about the matter.

Gary Rowden recom-mended the city accept theproposal from FairbanksMorse in the amount of$225,352 for the installationof catalytic converters onunits #4 and #5 at the southpower plant. The city coun-cil approved the moton toauthorize the expenditurefrom Electric DistributionSystem Upgrade funds.

The council went into ex-ecutive session. Afterward,the meeting adjourned.

Council approves bid for new sewer lagoon and aerator

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Stevens County Commissioners meet

Governor proclaims September as Farm Safety Month

Hospital discusses financial issues

Thursday, September 122-4 p.m. Stevens County Hospital

Radiology DepartmentRibbon cutting at 3:10 p.m.

Pioneer Manor residentsplay Bingo at 2:00 p.m.Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fri-days and Saturdays. Com-munity members are invitedto volunteer or play a gamewith the residents!AL-ANON Family Groupmeets at 1405 CemeteryRoad Mondays and Thurs-days at 8:00 p.m. Call 620-544-2610 or 620-544-2854for more information.CELEBRATE LIFE everyMonday night 6:30-8:00p.m. at Assembly of God, 138S. Main in Hugoton. Park inthe back lot.HUGOTON LIONS CLUBmeets every Second andFourth Thursday of themonth at Memorial Hall at7:00 p.m. HUGOTON MASONICLODGE #406 AF&AM meetsevery second and fourth Tues-day of the month at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday nights

- Inside Out Kids at theHugoton Assembly of God,138 S. Main, beginning withdinner at 6:45 p.m. Programwill be from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.Rides are available by callingPastor Ben Coats at 620-428-1487 before 5:30 p.m.Wednesday evenings.- Moscow United Methodist

will host Kids Club, beginningSeptember 11 from 3:45 to4:45 p.m. Kids Club is avail-able for children ages Kinder-garten through fifth grade.For more information, con-tact the church at 620-598-2426.Friday nights

- Looking for something todo Friday nights? You are in-vited to come to Faith Com-munity Church at Sixth andMain for food, music and fel-lowship every Friday eveningbeginning at 6:00 p.m. Formore information, call Eunice

Lunceford at 620-649-7644or 620-428-5296.Temporary changes forStevens County Library- Stevens County Library willbe open from 9:00 a.m. to6:00 p.m. Mondays throughFridays, from 9:00 a.m. to5:00 p.m. Saturdays andclosed Sundays.September 12- Open House at Stevens

County Hospital to showcaseimprovements to the Radiol-ogy Department from 2:00 to4:00 p.m. with tours and re-freshments.- Hugoton Kiwanis will meet

at 6:30 p.m. at Ranchito Tex-Mex Cafe.- Hugoton Aglow will not

meet in September. They arelooking forward to SharonBennell coming in October.September 14- Sew All Day at the HugotonSenior Center, 624 S. Main.Call 620-544-2283 for moreinformation.- Hugoton High School vol-

leyball will host their hometournament beginning at9:00 a.m. - The Hugoton Senior Centerwill host a dance beginning at8:00 p.m. at 624 S. Main.Craig Stevens will play. September 15- Assembly of God will host

services at Pioneer Manor at3:00 p.m.September 16- No school for USD #217

students.- Stevens County Commis-

sioners will meet in the Com-missioners’ Room at theStevens County Courthouseat 8:30 a.m.- USD #210 Board of Educa-tion will meet at the HMS Li-brary at 6:30 p.m.September 17- Hugoton Area Chamber of

Commerce will host their

monthly luncheon at 12:00noon. Contact Ruth VanHorn at 620-544-4305 formore information.- Hugoton District Booster

Club meeting at 7:00 p.m.September 18- Early release for Hugoton

Early Childhood DevelopmentCenter, Elementary and Mid-dle Schools and LearningAcademy at 1:30 p.m. September 19- Camera Club will meet at

7:00 p.m. at the HugotonRecreation Commission, 211S. Madison.September 20- First National Bank will

sponsor the eleventh annualMoscow Wildcats TailgateParty at 5:30 p.m. There willbe hamburgers, chips andbottled water available for allWildcat fans!September 21- Stevens County Healthcarewill host their annual freehealth fair at the HugotonHigh School cafeteria from7:00 to 11:00 a.m. Pre-regis-ter at the hospital. There willbe free labs, giveaways andcommunity informationbooths.- Hugoton High and Middle

Schools’ cross country teamswill host their home race atForewinds Golf Course start-ing at 9:00 a.m.- Garden City Community

College will host a concealedcarry course for residents in-terested in a Kansas Con-cealed Carry handgun permitfrom 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. atthe John Collins VocationalBuilding. Pre-registration isavailable by contacting team-t@team-t.org or 620-276-9629.- Seward County CommunityCollege/Area TechnicalSchool will host silent andauctions to benefit scholar-

ships at the Seward CountyEvent Center at Liberal Fair-grounds. Refreshments willbe provided. Call 620-417-1652 for reservations. Fortickets, call 620-417-1131 orgo online toalumni.sccc.edu/events. Notickets will be sold at thedoor.September 22- Autumn begins!- Bethel Friends Church will

host evangelist Gary Wrightat 10:30 a.m. at Eleventh andJefferson in Hugoton.September 22-24- Bethel Friends Church will

host evangelist Gary Wrightat 7:00 p.m. at Eleventh andJefferson in Hugoton.September 24- Business Startup Seminar

in Room SW229 of the Stu-dent Activities Building at Se-ward County CommunityCollege/Area TechnicalSchool in Liberal. There is noregistration fee for the semi-nar, but pre-registration is re-quired. Contact the Chamberof Commerce for more infor-mation at 620-544-4305.September 26- Hugoton Kiwanis will meet

at 6:30 p.m. at Ranchito Tex-Mex Cafe.September 29- Moscow Baptist Hillbilly

Band will perform at PioneerManor at 3:00 p.m.October 1- Deadline to hand in appli-

cations for military serviceacademy nominations toCongressman Tim Huel-skamp’s office. Please contactthe Congressman’s office at620-665-6138 or visith t t p : / / h u e l s k a m p .house.gov/nominations.- National Night Out at the

Hugoton City Park. For moreinformation, contact theChamber at 620-544-4305.

Obituaries

HUGOTON POLICE REPORTHUGOTON POLICE REPORTBusiness Hours, Call 544-4959 After Hours, Call 544-2020

WHAT’S HAPPENIN’

The Hugoton Hermes Thursday, September 12, 2013 Page 2

Former Hugoton residentEric Lislie “Bubba” Knox,passed from this life Thursday,September 5, 2013 at hishome in Emporia. He was 21. Born August 11, 1992 inLiberal, he was the son of MikeKnox and Casey Rindels.

Eric grew up in Hugoton,graduated from Hugoton HighSchool in 2011 and was cur-rently a student at EmporiaState University. While in highschool Eric participated inwrestling and FBLA. He alsoplayed summer baseball. Ericenjoyed hunting and was in-terested in guns and knives. He leaves to mourn his

passing, his father Mike Knoxof Hugoton; mother CaseyKnox and step-father BobMangels of Ulysses; his sisterJami Knox of Birmingham,Iowa; step - grandparents Dar-rel and Pat Mangels of Ulysses;and his numerous aunts, un-cles and cousins. Eric is preceded in death byhis grandparents, Irvin “Irv”and Betty Rindels and Delbertand Bobbie Knox; and two un-cles, Delbert Leslie Knox Jr.,and Mike Rindels. Funeral services were at-tended Tuesday morning, Sep-tember 10, 2013 at the FirstChristian Church in Hugotonwith Pastor Heath Kelley offici-ating. Interment followed atthe Hugoton Cemetery underthe direction of Garnand Fu-neral Home of Hugoton. Memorial contributions maybe given to the Hugoton KidsClub Wrestling or AmericanDiabetes Association in care ofGarnand Funeral Home, 423 SMain, Hugoton, Ks 67951.

Eric “Bubba” Knox

Death has claimed the lifeof Donna J. Harsh. Mrs.Harsh passed from this lifeSaturday, September 7, 2013at Kansas City HospiceHouse.

She was born March 22,1927 in Cheyenne, Wy. toRobert Lee and EvelynSamuels.

Donna married DonaldEugene Harsh and lived inHugoton until widowed in1962. She then moved herchildren to Hays, where shefinished her education, andestablished herself as aworld-renowned figure in el-ementary education and chil-dren’s literature through herwork at Fort Hays State.

In addition to teachingand mentoring students aswell as many other youngpeople, Donna conductedchildren’s literature confer-ences and study tours allover the world for nearly 20years.

She was preceded in deathby her husband Donald Eu-gene; her parents; and her

sister and brother-in-law,Ruby Lea and Harold Jones.

She is survived by herchildren and their spouses,Steve and Barbara Harsh ofJamul, Ca., Linda and JohnSchukman of Leavenworthand Rebecca and Lee David-son of Topeka; as well as hergrandchildren, Annie Priceand Laura Harsh, ElizabethDaze and Abby Schukman,Holly Charlton and ParkerDavidson; and four great-grandchildren.

To leave a special messagefor the family please visitwww.PenwellGabelOlathe.com.

A memorial reception willtake place at a later date inHays. In lieu of flowers thefamily suggests contributionsto Fort Hays State UniversityFoundation, Donna HarshMemorial Fund at One TigerPlace PO Box 1060, Hays, Ks.67601, or you may give on-line at https://secure.fhsu .edu/ foundat i on/ .Please designate “DonnaHarsh” memorial.

Donna Harsh

Word has been received ofthe death of Judith IreneSchoenberger. Mrs. Schoen-berger, 65, passed away Sep-tember 5, 2013 at KiowaCounty Memorial Hospital inGreensburg.

Judy was born September18, 1947 in Goodland, thedaughter of Charles EdwardSherrod and the formerPauline Helen Dye.

She was a teacher and li-brarian and later served asDeputy Register of Deeds forKiowa County. Judy graduatedfrom Goodland High School in1965 and Fort Hays State Uni-versity in 1972. She had livedin Goodland, Oakley, Victoriaand Greensburg since 1972.

August 30, 1969, Judymarried Edward Schoenbergerin Goodland. He survives.

Other survivors include twodaughters, Heather Augustineand husband Shawn of Man-hattan and Rachel Ryan andhusband Brad of Hutchinson;

one brother, Lloyd Sherrodand wife Judy of Panhandle,Tx.; two sisters, Mary Leberand husband Gene of Phoenix,Az. and Loretta Stukey andhusband Mark of Admire; andher six grandchildren, Emilyand Cameron Augustine andClaire, Tommy, Xavier andMax Ryan.

Those preceding Mrs.Schoenberger in death wereher parents and brothersHoward and Cecil Sherrod.

The Mass of Christian Bur-ial was attended Monday after-noon, September 9, 2013 atthe Sacred Heart CatholicChurch in Pratt with Fr. FloydMcKinney officiating. Privatefamily inurnment followed inFairview Cemetery of Greens-burg.

The family requests memo-rials to the charity of thedonor's choice in care ofFleener Funeral Home, 514 S.Main St., Greensburg, Ks.67054.

Judith Schoenberger

Monday, September 2, 2013• Vehicle Unlock; 100 Block of South

Main; Citizen Assist; Officer Crane• Motorist Assist; Seventh and Wash-

ington; Public Service; OfficerCrane

• Civil; 500 Block of East Seventh;Public Service; Officer Crane

• Dog at Large; 900 Block of SouthJefferson; Officer Crane

• Vehicle Unlock; 100 Block of SouthMonroe; Citizen Assist; SergeantJohnson

• Gas Drive Off; 1000 Block of SouthWashington; Located Subject; Ser-geant Johnson

• Investigate Vehicle; 600 Block ofEast Eleventh; Spoke to Subjects;Sergeant Johnson

Tuesday, September 3, 2013• Car Complaint; 500 Block of West

Eleventh; Spoke to RP; OfficerCrane

• Vehicle Unlock; 1000 Block ofSouth Washington; Citizen Assist;Officer Crane

• Motorist Assist; 300 Block of EastSeventh; Public Service; OfficerCrane

• Hay Bales on Street; Eleventh andWashington; Traffic Control; OfficerCrane

• Possible Fight; 300 Block of Polk;Subject Left; Sergeant Johnson

• Theft; 400 Block of South Main;Took Report; Sergeant Johnson

• Public Service; Public Service; Ser-geant Johnson

Wednesday, September 4, 2013• Gas Drive Off; Subject Returned;

Officer Goetzinger• Civil Standby; 600 Block of East

Eleventh; Public Service; OfficerGoetzinger

• Dog at Large; 1100 Block of SouthMonroe; Unable to Locate; OfficerLamatsch

• Public Service; 200 Block of SouthMonroe; Public Service; OfficerLamatsch

Thursday, September 5, 2013• Damage to Vehicles; 700 Block of

South Main; Took Report; OfficerHagman

Friday, September 6, 2013• Vehicle Unlock; 1700 Block of

South Main; Citizen Assist; OfficerCrane

• Dog at Large; 400 Block of SouthJefferson; Dog Impounded; Ser-geant Johnson

Saturday, September 7, 2013• Traffic Control; Eleventh and Main;

Public Service; Officer Crane• Dog at Large; 200 Block of North

Jackson; Unable to Catch; OfficerCrane

• Vehicle Unlock; 600 Block of EastEleventh; Citizen Assist; OfficerCrane

• Civil Standby; 600 Block of WestEleventh; Public Service; OfficerCrane

• Vehicle Unlock; 100 Block of EastSixth; Citizen Assist; SergeantJohnson

• Non-Injury Accident; Eleventh andMain; Took Report; Sergeant John-son

• Vandalism to Mail Box; 100 Blockof West Eleventh; Took Report; Ser-geant Johnson

Sunday, September 8, 2013• Unwanted Person; 600 Block of

East Eleventh; Advised Subject toLeave; Officer Crane

• Stolen Items in Yard; 400 Block ofWest Sixth; Took Report; OfficerCrane

• Cat Bite; 1000 Block of SouthJackson; Took Report; Officer

Crane• Theft; 500 Block of South Polk;

Took Report; Officer Crane• Theft, Cemetery; Took Report; Offi-

cer Crane• Vehicle Unlock; 200 Block of Lin-

coln; Citizen Assist; Officer Crane• Found Bikes; 600 Block of South

Adams; Took Report; Officer Crane

In the September 5 Stevens County HistoryThere is a nice story written about me,written by Ruthie’s most talented hand;

it brings precious memories. You understand.I had received with sincerely great elation,

a really nice letter of special invitationto the Famous Poets Convention

But knew I could not afford to go and happened to mentionMy regrets to a good friend named Jackie Lewis

Her response, “Alta, you can’t miss an honor like this!”So she set about to remedy the situationand soon received widespread affirmationthat my sorry at not being able to attend

should come to an early, unmistakeable end.Shortly, many people began to come to my aid;

funds were given and plans for my trip to Orlando were madeMany in Stevens County gave, and others,

including my first grade teacher,Citizens State, old friends, new friends,

even my Nazarene Sunday School teacher.Some of my relatives sent money too,

from far off states, as soon as they knew what was happening and how God was blessing me with

such wonderful friendsThey agreed, wholeheartedly, that I should attend.

So I was off to Florida through the azure blue skies,to experience an adventure I never dreamed would materialize.

Wow! I dscovered I was the only one from Kansas who was there!Among hundreds of people who came from everywhere!

To shorten this poem, I will relate one happening:a thing that, to me, had always been really terrifying.

Is a monster called an escalator,and I’d always avoided them like the plague before.

But this one I couldn’t get around,because there was no elevator that I found.

I stood at the bottom, agetting scareder by the minute,envisioning a fall and getting sucked down in it.

Finally a kind lady recognized my plightand undertook to teach me how to approach and get on right.

After a few tries, I actually conquered the thingand marveled at what peace a little knowledge can bring.

I think I should have gotten a medal for such a great accomplishment done,But - alas and alack, I didn’t get none.

Now I know this poem isn’t exactly what a poem should be,but for a “letter” to say what I want it to is hard to rhyme correctly.

So, I’ll sign off by saying to my Stevens County family“It’s been a long time, but thanks again, for showing me you

really cared about me!”

Alta Pettis

P.S. In a few weeks, God granting, I will be 85 years old andthis event was/is the highlight of my life.

Alta recalls Stevens County residents’ kindness five years ago

The death of Charles Eu-gene Ratledge, 78, has beenlearned. Mr. Ratledge passedaway Sunday, August 8, 2013at Stevens County Hospital inHugoton. The son of Jake Charles Ratledge and the former Beat-ice Grace Hoover, he was bornFebruary 9, 1935 in Timken. He and JoAnn (Tilford)Slemp Ratledge were marriedMay 3, 1981 in Guymon, Ok. Mr. Ratledge was a memberof the VFW of Hugoton. He came to Moscow in 1999from Garber, Ok. Survivors include his wifeJoAnn Ratledge of Moscow;

one daughter, Diona Hixon ofDecatur, Ar.; three step sons,Keith Slemp of Moscow, RoySlemp of Anchorage, Ak. andKevin Slemp and wife Misty ofMoscow; two brothers, Jim Ratledge and Birney Ratledge;three sisters, Thelma Blair,Wilma Grace Lindsey andDonna Slaughter; his elevengrandchildren; five greatgrandchildren; and manyother relatives and friends. He was preceded in death byhis parents; son Charles Foster Ratledge; three grand-children; one brother, Dale Ratledge; and three sisters,Margaret Smith, Velma Smith

and Wanda Smith. Funeral services were at-tended Wednesday afternoon,September 11, 2013 at theUnited Methodist Church inMoscow with Rev. Tim McCrary presiding. Burial fol-lowed in the Moscow Cemeteryunder the direction of Paul’sFuneral Home of Hugoton. A memorial has been estab-lished for United MethodistChurch. Memorials may bemailed to Paul’s FuneralHome, PO Box 236, Hugoton,Ks 67951.

Charles Ratledge

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You would not know it bythe mid-day temperatures, butwith the first official week offootball behind us, Fall has tobe just around the corner. Areminder to all businesses onMain Street, to put out thoseHugoton Eagle flags! Let’sshow the Eagles our supportas they get ready for their firsthome game against HolcombFriday, September 13.

There will be a Farmers’Market, weather permitting,Saturday mornings from nowthrough October from 8:00 to11:00 a.m. in the parking lotsouth of the China restaurant.Everyone is welcome to comebuy or sell homegrown andhomemade items. SEPTEMBER HAPPENINGS!MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

– Thursday, September 12,2:00-4:00 p.m. – Open Houseat the Stevens County Health-care’s Radiology Department.

They will be offering tours toshow off their amazing new im-provements and will serve re-freshments. That afternoon at3:00 p.m. there will be a pres-entation with Pioneer Electricand then a ribbon cutting fol-lowing at 3:10 p.m. We encour-age everyone to come out andsee how the hospital is workingto provide more modern facili-ties for our community. – Saturday, September 14, at8:00 p.m. - There will be adance at the Senior CitizensActivity Center. – Tuesday, September 17,12:00 noon – Monthly Cham-ber Luncheon will take place atMemorial Hall. Our speakerwill be Michael O’Kane with theKansas Small Business Devel-opment Center to share withus about the many resourcesavailable through KSBDC tohelp small business owners.Be sure to mark your calen-

dars to attend this luncheonand call or email the chamberoffice with your RSVP. – Saturday, September 21,7:00-11:00 a.m. – The AnnualFree Health Fair will be at theHugoton High School Cafete-ria, sponsored by StevensCounty Healthcare. Be sure topre-register at the hospital in-formation desk. Along withcommunity informationbooths, annual free lab drawswill be provided. Cash drawingfor pre-registered only. Also,you will need a stamped self-addressed envelope for results. – Tuesday, September 24, 6-9p.m. — Business Startup Sem-inar will be in Room SW229 ofthe Student Activities Buildingat Seward County CommunityCollege in Liberal. This semi-nar is presented by theKSBDC. There is no registra-tion fee for this seminar, butpreregistration is required in

order to prepare handout ma-terials. Contact the Chamberof Commerce at 620-544-4305for more details and registra-tion information.

The Chamber will be host-ing the Spook Parade October31 and the Grocery Grab inNovember. Watch for furtherdetails about both of theseChamber events.

Do you need an activity foryour party or special event?Think about renting CaptainParsons’s Pirate Putt Putt fromthe Chamber. The Chamberhas a nine-hole miniature golfcourse for rent. Call the Cham-ber Office for availability andrental fees.

Don’t know what to get thatcertain someone? Stop by theChamber Office and purchasea Chamber Gift Certificate.These certificates are re-deemable at most StevensCounty businesses. ShopHugoton First!

The Hugoton Area Chamberof Commerce is always takingmemberships. If you are inter-ested in becoming a member ofthe Chamber, please contactthe Chamber office! The Hugo-ton Area Chamber of Com-merce is here for you!

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Raymond has completed 300 books in the 1,000 Books BeforeKindergarten challenge at the Stevens County Library. Way togo Raymond!

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there were some problemswith the electronic medicalrecords software, which wasimpacting how some past-due accounts were being sentto collections. They have sub-mitted requests to the elec-tronic medical record vendorto fix the problems.

Piper was asked howmuch money the hospital re-ceived back from what it paidin for the bed tax. He saidoriginally it was thought anadditional stipend would be

received and they would turnout pretty well with the bedtax, but he has since learnedover the last year that,though they do get a portionback, the funds have notbeen as much as expected.The bed tax was enacted ap-proximately a year and a halfago and the board had beentold by senators and repre-sentatives it would not affectthe facilities very much, andmost of the money would bereceived back. That has not

happened. The tax paid bythe hospital amounts to ap-proximately $32,000 perquarter.

The ER call schedule waspresented and reviewed.

There being no old or newbusiness and no public com-ments, at 6:11 p.m. the boardvoted unanimously to enterexecutive session following ashort break.

The meeting adjourned.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFSTEVENS COUNTY, KANSAS

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFLOIS M. SULLIVAN, DECEASED,

CASE NO. 13-PR-28

NOTICE TO CREDITORSTHE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PER-SONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that onAugust 29, 2013, a Petition was filedin this Court by Loren K. Sullivan, anheir, legatee and devisee and the ex-ecutor named in the Last Will andTestament of Lois M. Sullivan, de-ceased, dated February 3, 1995, re-questing the Will filed with thePetition be admitted to probate and

record; Loren K. Sullivan be ap-pointed as Executor, without bond;and he be granted Letters Testamen-tary.

All creditors of the decedent arenotified to exhibit their demandsagainst the Estate within the latter offour months from the date of firstpublication of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or ifthe identity of the creditor is known orreasonably ascertainable, 30 daysafter actual notice was given as pro-vided by law, and if their demands arenot thus exhibited, they shall be for-ever barred.

Loren K. Sullivan, Petitioner

BROLLIER, WOLF & KUHARICBox 39, Hugoton, KS 67951(620) 544-8555Attorney for Petitioner

PUBLIC NOTICE

Hugoton CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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SOCIAL SECURITY NEWSBy Brandon Werth Social Security District Manager in Dodge City

The 4-H year has gone re-ally fast! The regular meetingof the Wrangler’s 4-H Clubwas called to order Monday,September 2, 2013 by actingpresident Nick Gold. Flagsalute and 4-H motto wereled by Nick Gold, Addy Goochand Catie Gooch. Acting Sec-retary Brooke Hinds led RollCall. Roll Call was, “What isyour favorite thing aboutschool?”

A thank-you letter wasread as a correspondence.Garrette Hinds gave the trea-surer’s report. Jacob Bellgave the reporter’s report.McKenzie Hinds gave the his-torian’s report. There was no4-H Council report. Carla

Kerbow gave the leader’s re-port. There was no unfin-ished business.

Under new business, theclub elected officers for the2013-2014 year. There wereno project talks. Recreationwas led by Conner Wells. Theclub played freeze tag.

Under announcements,club leader Carla Kerbow toldthe club there will NOT be anenrollment fair. There wereno more announcements.

There was a motion to ad-journ the meeting. The mo-tion was seconded. Themeeting was adjourned.

Submitted by Jacob Bell,Wrangler’s 4-H Club reporter.

Wrangler’s 4-H Clubelects officers for 2013-14

Hospital Board MeetingContinued from page 1

curb and gutter and somePlains guys had been called tocome help set up. The dirt workwas going horrible with equip-ment breakdowns and otherproblems for the first threemonths. Fifty percent of whatwas put down in the beginninghad to be replaced. He talked toPhil from Black Hills about put-ting in the gas lines. Tony saidhe knew Pete and himself donot agree but he thinks fourinches of asphalt is good butPete says it has to be six. Earlessaid for normal activity fourinches would work but with the

heavy construction planneddue to the building of homes,this would be needed. Tony saidthe city only requires four. Davesaid the guy paying the billwould make the decision. It willbe left up to Tony. Tony said hehates to have the roads open allduring the winter but it willprobably be spring before it canbe done. Pat asked if they haveto inspect McBride’s work. Hesaid they call when it needs tobe done. Commissioners alsotalked to Pete about bridges.Believe it or not, Hugoton has abridge. It is located on Wash-ington Street. This is currentlylisted as county and needs to betransferred to the city. Pete willget the legal description to Bobfor transfer.

Brian Hemann came in andthe commissioners moved intoexecutive session.

Phil and Mark from BlackHills Energy were next on theagenda. They came to talkabout Black Hills’ gas lines inthe Pioneer Addition. They saidthe way they were doing busi-ness has changed. They wantto be paid the $22,000 up front.This would be for lines to 24homes and would include the12 lots on the back side. If 36homes are not built within tenyears, some money would bereturned. Bob said the amountof gas used should be taken

into consideration. They alsotalked about right-of-way. TheBlack Hills’ representatives saidthat would call for negotiation.A draft of the contract withchanges for number of homesto volumes of gas will beemailed to Bob. Commissionersasked when this project can bestarted. They were told theycould start in about six weeksand be done in about a week.

Susan Schulte came in andrequested an executive sessionfor non-elected personnel.

Next on the Commissioners’agenda was Tony McBride. Hehad a request for money for thenew health center. Light fix-tures that had been priced areno longer available. It will costan additional $18,880 for thenew light fixtures. This wouldbe for 103 light fixtures andsome other miscellaneousitems. Tony reminded the com-missioners this is a very frus-trating job and they knew itwould be. Motion was madeand passed to pay for the lights.They also talked to Tony aboutthe landscape at PioneerManor.

The installing of the new airsystem for the courthouse is tobe started this week.

Commissioners started toadjourn as Ms. Scheibler didn’tshow up, but she came in at thelast minute. She explainedwhat they do at Kansas WorkForce One. They help local peo-ple find employment and em-ployers find qualifiedemployees. Nine area people areenrolled. It is federally fundedbut the county has to renewtheir contract every year. Mo-tion was passed to renew thecontract.

Meeting adjourned.Official Minutes

Commissioners MeetingAugust 19, 2013

The Board of County Com-missioners met in regular ses-sion with Jim Bell, Pat Hall andDave Bozone present. Alsopresent were County CounselorBob Johnson, County ClerkPam Bensel and Marie Austinfrom The Hugoton Hermes.Meeting was called to order,minutes read, county vouchersapproved and the clerk was in-structed to draw warrants onthe Treasurer chargeable to thevarious funds of the county forthe following amounts: General.. 58,896.32; Road & Bridge ..38,477.25; Building .. 2,632.38;Noxious Weed .. 4,151.42; Di-version .. 1,456.35; CommunityHealth .. 2,703.95; Fire Bequest.. 6,834.00; Reg of Deeds Tech.. 1,194.00; Employee’s P/RMisc W/H .. 72.36.

Gary Baker came in to ob-serve the meeting.

Motion was made andpassed to go into executive ses-sion for contract negotiation forten minutes with Bob Johnsonpresent. Meeting reconvened.No action taken.

Motion was made andpassed to go into executive ses-sion for non elected personnelfor 15 minutes with Bob John-son, Alesia Hinds, Chris Hinds,

Stacey Dillinger, Vicky Newlon,Jeff Newlon, Darin K Heger andMichelle Heger with the Fair As-sociation also present. Meetingreconvened with no actiontaken.

Tony Martin came in and ex-plained Murphy Tractor sent abill for repairs that should becovered under warranty. Hetalked to the service managerand Ron McFarlane says he willtake care of the situation. He re-ported they got the diesel fromthe pump at the Sheriff’s officeand used it to start making as-phalt for the streets in the Pio-neer Addition. McBrideConstruction will do the dirtwork and the Road and BridgeDepartment will lay the asphalt.Tony informed the commission-ers that the Road and BridgeDepartment will mow the lots inthe Pioneer Addition andStevens County IndustrialPark.

Commissioners discussedthe sprinklers spraying the dirtroads. Pat feels this is a safetyissue. Gary Baker suggestedcontacting Groundwater Man-agement of Garden City and al-lowing them to handle thesituation. Bob Johnson toldTony Martin to get the landlegal, road number andfarmer’s name and he wouldcontact the farmer andGroundwater Management byletter.

Pat asked Tony if he wouldput a “Dead End” or “No Outlet”sign on Road S and Road 16.Dave asked if he could put aroad sign on Road P and Road1 at the Morton County line.

Motion was made andpassed to go into executive ses-sion for non elected personnelfor 12 minutes with Bob John-son and Tony Martin present.Meeting reconvened, no actiontaken.

Aaron Cannon and CarolMeyer with Kansas Departmentof Commerce and Neal Gillespiecame in to discuss the RuralOpportunity Zone (ROZ) pro-gram which is a tax credit andstudent loan program. Motionwas made to pass Resolution2013-07 stating StevensCounty Commissioners Au-thorizing Participation in Stu-dent Loan Repayment Program.

Dave moved to go into exec-utive session for non electedpersonnel for ten minutes withBob Johnson and Neal Gillespiepresent. Pat seconded. Motioncarried. Meeting reconvenedwith no action taken.

Mahlon Tuttle, Gove CountyCommissioner and Sheila Elliscame in to discuss the LesserPrairie Chicken. They are ask-ing for the commissioners toadopt Resolution 2013-08 TheNatural Resource CoordinationPlan of the Kansas Natural Re-source Coalition and Resolution2013-09 The Lesser PrairieChicken Conservation, Man-agement and Study Plan. Mo-tion was made to join theKansas Natural Resource Coali-tion at a cost of $2,600.00.

By motion the board ad-journed.

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PRIMERO BAUTISTA IGLESIAHISPANO Congregación618 Main sur - Hugoton

620-370-1003Pastor Marcelino Auila

Servicio de la Iglesia11:00 a.m. - Domingo7:00 p.m. - Miércoles

SOVEREIGN REDEEMER CHURCHPastor - Eric Mason

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ST. HELEN CATHOLIC CHURCH1011 South Jefferson Street 544-2551

Sunday - 11:00 a.m. English Mass- 1:00 p.m. - Spanish Mass

TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH516 N.E. Avenue 544-2355Morning Worship - 9:00 a.m.

Fellowship/Refreshments - 10:00 a.m.Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Larry Bradford, Interim Pastor544-9492 or 598-2400

YOU ARE WELCOME!UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

828 S. Main Hugoton 544-8715Jo Mead, Pastor

Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.

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ROLLAEMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH

202 Monroe St. - Rolla, Ks. 67954Henry McGuire, Pastor 593-4693

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service - 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Evening, AWANA’s - 6:45 p.m.

ROLLA PENTECOSTALHOLINESS CHURCH

Corner of Third and Adams, RollaMarcus Light, Pastor

Church - 593-4626, Parsonage - 593-4796Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.

Worship - 11:00 a.m.Wednesday night meal - 6:00 p.m.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCHROLLA - RICHFIELD

593-4596 or 593-4781Sandy Ferguson, Pastor

Rolla Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.Youth Groups - 5:00 p.m.

Richfield Morning Worship - 9:15 a.m.Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

MOSCOWMOSCOW BAPTIST CHURCH598-2455 Church - 598-2400 Home

Rev. Larry Bradford, Pastor1 mile S. of Moscow, 1/2 mile E. of

Moscow/Hooker Rd.Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.Wednesday Bible Study - 7:00 p.m.

Team Kids (Wed.) - 3:30-5:00p.m. Sept.-MayMOSCOW UNITED

METHODIST598-2426

Tim McCrary, Pastor 598-2421Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Kid’s Club - Wednesday 3:30 p.m.

UMYF Jr. High - 6:00 p.m.UMYF Sr. High - 5:00 p.m.

FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH531 S. Main 544-7077Michael Taylor, Pastor

Monday Bible Q & A - 6:30 p.m.Wednesday Book Study- 6:30 p.m.

Friday Prayer - 8:00-10:00 p.m.Saturday Bible Study - 6:30 p.m.

Sunday Coffee & Fellowship - 10:00 a.m.Sunday Services - 10:30 a.m.

FAITH LUTHERANTenth and Adams 544-2092

Christopher M. Fincher, PastorMorning Worship - 9:00 a.m.Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

Bible Study, Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

600 S. Van Buren - 544-2715Pastor Heath Kelley

Sunday School - 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.Fellowship - 10:15 - 10:30 a.m.Worship Hour - 10:30 - 12:00Children's Church, 10:30 a.m.

Jr. High Youth Group, 6:30-7:30 p.m.Sr. High Youth Group, 7:45-9:00 p.m.

Information on small groups call 544-2715FIRST CHURCH OF GOD801 W. City Limits 544-2652

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.Evening Worship - 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday Evening Service - 7:00 p.m.Call 544-2652 for Church Bus

HUGOTON BAPTIST CHURCHEighth and Main 544-2210506 East Eighth - 544-2295Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.Wednesday Bible Study - 6:30 p.m.

LIGHTHOUSE FELLOWSHIP424 S. Jackson 544-4828

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.Sunday Church - 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday - 7:00 p.m.Pre-Service Prayer - half hour before service

LONE STAR FRIENDS CHURCH14 Miles East of Hugoton on Highway 51

Church 624-3784 Home 624-3104Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.

Contemporary Worship Celebration - 10:45 a.m.Jr. High & Sr. High Youth Group - Sunday 6:30 p.m.

Sunday Evening Fellowship - 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Evening Adult Study - 6:30 p.m.

Prayer Meeting Wednesday - 8:00 p.m.Christian Life Club (age 2 - 18) - 6:30 p.m.

MY FATHER’S HOUSEA Full Gospel Church207 East 6th - Hugoton

Pam Peachey, Pastor544-2436Services

Sundays 10:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.

AGAPE CHURCH OF HUGOTON

409 East Ninth, Hugoton453-2711

Pastor Bob RichSunday – 10:30 a.m.

ASAMBLEA DE DIOSLOS REDIMIDOS DEL REY

Martes 7:00 PMJueves 7:00 PM

Domingo 3:00 PM138 S. Main Hugoton

Pastores: Martinez620-544-7096

ASSEMBLY OF GODMain and Second Street

544-2773Ben Coats, Pastor

Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Sunday Evening - 6:00 p.m.

Service Wed. Night - 7:00 p.m.Celebrate Recovery -

Every Monday at 7:00 p.m.BETHEL FRIENDS CHURCH

11th & Jefferson - 544-8517Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

Morning Service - 10:30 a.m.Wednesday Evening Ministries - 6:30 p.m.

(Children, Youth, & Adult)

CHURCH OF CHRIST1045 S. Van Buren

544-2825Parsonage

1041 S. Van BurenWednesday - 7:00 p.m.

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.

Evening Service - 6:00 p.m.CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

OF LATTER DAY SAINTS520 E. First

544-2125Sacrament - 9:00 a.m.

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.Priesthood - 11:00 a.m.

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE500 S. Van Buren 544-2493

Pastor Dave PiperSunday School - 9:45 a.m.

Morning Worship - 10:45 a.m.Evening Services - 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study - 7:00 p.m.COWBOY CHURCH - HUGOTONSecond & Fourth Tuesday of every month

Stevens County Commercial Building at Fairgrounds 7:00 p.m.

FAITH CHAPEL CHURCHOF GOD IN CHRIST

Tenth and JeffersonLawrence Johnson, PastorSunday School - 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.Bible Band (Tuesday) - 6:00 p.m.

Home and Forn. Miss. (Friday) - 6:00 p.m.Youth - 6:00 p.m.

Bible Study - 7:00 p.m.

You are invited tocome worship withfamily and friends at Pioneer Manor

September 15Assembly of God

September 22Lighthouse Fellowship

September 29Hillbilly Band

Attend the church of

your choice

Jimmie and Wanda ShaddixSeptember 1963

Wanda and Jimmie ShaddixSeptember 2013

Wanda and Jimmie Shaddix will celebrate their goldenwedding anniversary Saturday, September 21. Their children and grandchildren invite family and friends tocome help them celebrate and share memories that day atan open house cake reception in the Moscow UnitedMethodist Church Fellowship Hall from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.They request no gifts, please. Wanda and Jimmie were married September 21, 1963in Hollis, Ok. and moved to Moscow in 1970.

They have three children: daughter Seresa and her hus-band Lacey Parton of La Crosse, son Jeremy Shaddix ofMoscow and son Justin Shaddix and his wife Kim of Gar-den City, and five grandchildren: Jessica (Parton) Wilimon and husband Charlie of Satanta, RebeccaParton of Wichita, Kelby Parton of La Crosse, Abbi Shaddixand Mason Shaddix, both of Garden City. Cards and best wishes may be sent to: Jim and WandaShaddix, PO Box 153, Moscow, Kansas, 67952.

Jimmie and Wanda to celebrate fifty years

FAN OF THE GAME—Dave Eckert isn’t bashful about show-ing support for his team, the KC Royals. He was selected “Fanof the Game” at the Coffman Stadium in Kansas City lastWednesday, September 4, and had his picture shown up on thejumbotron. Besides having his photo splashed across the bigscreen, he received a $50 gift card. Dave and Brenda were inKansas City with their daughter Angela Eckert Staten for a doctor visit.

CommissionersContinued from page 1

Thursday, September 18,2008

First Lieutenant Zane M.Hershey was among seven-teen graduating pilots out ofVance Air Force Base inEnid, Ok. Zane will now starttraining to fly an AC-17, oneof the largest and most pow-erful aircraft in the U.S. AirForce. Zane is the son ofMike and Valerie Hershey ofHugoton.Thursday, September 18,

2003Sue Omo has been an-

nounced as a Region I semi-finalist for the 2004 KansasTeacher of the Year Award.She is one of six semi-final-ists from Region I which cov-ers the first U.S.congressional district.

First Lieutenant SkylarGerrond is presently sta-tioned in Iraq. His wife,Julia, is still in Germanyteaching art to Kindergarten,first and second grade stu-dents.

Thursday, September 16,1993

Stevens County 4-H mem-ber Warren Willis placed firstin the 4-H Week and CropsIdentification Contest at theKansas State Fair inHutchinson. Warren wonthis same award three years

ago. Warren is the son ofMike and Kathy Willis ofHugoton.Thursday, September 15,

1983The Hugoton High School

twirling team were judged theOutstanding Five at Weather-ford, Ok. at a clinic they at-tended there. The teamconsists of Kim Mills, JulieKramer, Linda Grant, CrystalBryant and Shonya Almond.Thursday, September 20,

1973Shelley Perry and Dona

Matthews, both elementaryteachers in the Hugotonschools, have been selectedas Outstanding YoungWomen of America for 1973.They will appear in the an-nual biographical compila-tion OUTSTANDING YOUNGWOMEN OF AMERICA.These two are now being con-sidered for further state andnational awards.Thursday, September 12,

1963Joyce Gentzler, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. Kester Gent-zler, will be installed WorthyAdvisor of the Order of Rain-

bow for Girls September 15,1963 in the Masonic Hall.

Larry Shelton, USN, son ofMr. and Mrs. Merle Sheltonof Hugoton, departed Yoko-suka, Japan on a six monthcruise taking him to ports inJapan, the Phillippines andTaiwan.Thursday, September 17,

1953Betty Heger escaped injury

when a plane groundloopedduring a training flight land-ing at the Hugoton Airportearly Friday morning. Theplane was damaged in the ac-cident which occurred duringa routine training flight.

If any readers have pic-tures for the history pageof the Hermes, please bringthem in to Ruthie Wingetat The Hugoton Hermes.

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ORDINANCE NO. 803

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PUB-LIC OFFENSES WITHIN THE CORPO-RATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OFHUGOTON, KANSAS; INCORPORAT-ING BY REFERENCE THE “UNIFORMPUBLIC OFFENSE CODE FORKANSAS CITIES,” EDITION OF 2013WITH CERTAIN OMISSIONS,CHANGES AND ADDITIONS, AS DE-TAILED HEREIN; PRESCRIBING AD-DITIONAL REGULATIONS; ANDREPEALING THE “UNIFORM PUBLICOFFENSE CODE, 2012 EDITION,” IN-CORPORATED BY REFERENCEUNDER ORDINANCE NO. 796; ANDREPEALING ALL ORDINANCES ORPARTS OF ORDINANCE IN CONFLICTHEREWITH.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOV-ERNING BODY OF THE CITY OFHUGOTON, KANSAS:Section 1. INCORPORATING UNI-FORM PUBLIC OFFENSE CODE.There is hereby incorporated by refer-ence for the purpose of regulatingpublic offenses within the corporatelimits of the City of Hugoton, Kansas,that certain uniform public offensecode known as the “Uniform PublicOffense Code for Kansas Cities,” Edi-tion of 2013, prepared and publishedin book form by the League of KansasMunicipalities, Topeka, Kansas, saveand except such articles, sections,parts or portions as are hereinafteradded, omitted, deleted, modified orchanged. No fewer than one (1) copyof said Uniform Public Offense Codeshall be marked or stamped “Officialcopy as adopted by Ordinance No.803” with all sections or portionsthereof intended to be added, omittedor changed clearly marked to showany such additions, omissions, orchanges and to which shall be at-tached a copy of this ordinance, andfiled with the City Clerk to be open toinspection and available to the publicat all reasonable hours. The police de-partment, municipal judge and all ad-ministrative departments of the citycharged with enforcement of the ordi-nance shall be supplied, at the cost ofthe city such number of official copiesof the Uniform Public Offense Codesimilarly marked, as may be deemedexpedient.

Section 2. There are additional publicoffenses which have been added toprevious editions of the Uniform Pub-lic Offense Code adopted by the Cityof Hugoton. These additional offensesare detailed under Sections 11-102 to11-123, inclusive, of the Code of theCity of Hugoton, Kansas, 2011.

That the “Uniform Public OffenseCode for Kansas Cities, Edition of2012, is hereby supplemented, byadding Sections 11-102 to 11-123, in-clusive, of the Code of the City ofHugoton, Kansas, 2011, which sec-tions are hereby incorporated by ref-erence as though fully set forthherein, with the exception that refer-ences to specific section numbers ofprevious editions of the Uniform Pub-lic Offense Code are to be revised tocorrespond with the 2013 edition.

Section 3. Article 9 of the UniformPublic offense Code for Kansas Cities,Edition of 2012, as adopted and in-corporated by reference herein ishereby amended by adding the follow-ing section:

9.14 EAVESDROPPING-”WINDOWPEEPING”. (a) It shall be unlawful forany person to knowingly and withoutlawful authority enter into a privateplace with intent to observe the per-sonal conduct of any other person orpersons therein.

(b) A “private place” within themeaning of this section is a placewhere one may reasonably expect tobe safe from uninvited intrusion orsurveillance, but does not include aplace to which the public has lawfulaccess.

(c) Eavesdropping is a Class Bmisdemeanor.

SECTION 4. REPEAL. That the “Uni-form Public Offense Code, 2012 Edi-tion,” incorporated by reference underOrdinance No. 796 is hereby repealed;provided, however, that said “UniformPublic Offense Code, 2012 Edition,”shall remain in force and effect as tooffenses committed prior to the timethis ordinance shall take effect and allordinances, or parts of ordinances inconflict therewith, are hereby re-pealed.

SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. Thisordinance shall take effect and be inforce from and after its adoption andpublication in the Hugoton Hermesthe official city newspaper.

Passed and approved by the Gov-erning Body of the City of Hugoton,Kansas, this 9th day of September,2013.

(SEAL)

/s/ Jack E. RowdenJack E. Rowden, Mayor

ATTEST:

/s/ Thomas G. HicksThomas G. Hicks, City Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE

(First published in the Hugoton Her-mes, Thursday, September 12, 2013) 1t

ORDINANCE NO. 802

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAF-FIC WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIM-ITS OF THE CITY OF HUGOTON,KANSAS; INCORPORATING BY REF-ERENCE THE "STANDARD TRAFFICORDINANCE FOR KANSAS CITIES,"EDITION OF 2013; DEFINING TRAF-FIC INFRACTIONS AND TRAFFIC OF-FENSES; PROVIDING CERTAINPENALTIES; AND REPEALING ORDI-NANCE NO. 795, AND ALL ORDI-NANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOV-ERNING BODY OF THE CITY OFHUGOTON, KANSAS:

Section 1. INCORPORATING STAN-DARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE. Thereis hereby incorporated by referencefor the purpose of regulating trafficwithin the corporate limits of the Cityof Hugoton, Kansas, that certainstandard traffic ordinance known asthe "Standard Traffic Ordinance forKansas Cities," Edition of 2013, pre-pared and published in book form bythe League of Kansas Municipalities,Topeka, Kansas. No fewer than one (1)copy of said Standard Traffic Ordi-nance shall be marked or stamped"Official Copy as Adopted by Ordi-nance No. 802," and to which shall beattached a copy of this ordinance, andfiled with the City Clerk to be open toinspection and available to the publicat all reasonable hours. The police de-partment, municipal judge and all ad-ministrative departments of the citycharged with enforcement of the ordi-nance shall be supplied, at the cost ofthe city, such number of officialcopies of the Standard Traffic Ordi-nance similarly marked, as may bedeemed expedient.

Section 2 TRAFFIC INFRACTIONSAND TRAFFIC OFFENSES. (a) An or-dinance traffic infraction is a violationof any section of this ordinance thatprescribes or requires the same be-havior as that prescribed or required

by a statutory provision that is classi-fied as a traffic infraction in K.S.A.Supp. 8-2118.

(b) All traffic violations which areincluded within this ordinance,and which are not ordinance traf-fic infractions, as defined in sub-section (a) of this section, shall beconsidered traffic offenses.

Section 3. PENALTY FOR SCHED-ULED FINES. The fine for violation ofan ordinance traffic infraction or anyother traffic offense for which the mu-nicipal judge establishes a fine in afine schedule shall not be less than$10.00 nor more than $500.00, ex-cept for speeding which shall be notless than $10.00 nor more than$500.00. A person tried and convictedfor violation of an ordinance traffic in-fraction or other traffic offense forwhich a fine has been established ina schedule of fines shall pay a finefixed by the court not to exceed$500.00.

Section 4, REPEAL. Ordinance No.795. and all ordinances, or parts ofordinances in conflict herewith, arehereby repealed; provided, however,that said ordinance shall remain inforce and effect as to offenses commit-ted prior to the time this ordinanceshall take effect.

Section 5: EFFECTIVE DATE. This or-dinance shall take effect and be inforce from and after its adoption andpublication in the Hugoton Hermes,the official city newspaper.

Passed and approved by the Gov-erning Body of the City of Hugoton,Kansas, this 9th day of September,2013.

/s/ Jack E. RowdenJack E. Rowden, Mayor

(SEAL)

ATTEST:

/s/ Thomas G. HicksThomas G. Hicks, City Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE

Classmates of ‘53 are posed for their HugotonGrade School graduation in 1949. Back row:Bobby Hodges, Earl Johnson, Vernon Grogan,Ila Gressly, Don Crane, Ralph Bane, Don Starr,Bob McClure, Don Horton and FranklinBrechbuhler. Third row: Barbara White, BettyHarveston, Raymond Murdock, Frankie Pow-ell, Clinton Nordyke, Norman Paden, GaryAusbun, Pat Wells, Douglas Slagle and JohnSissel. Second row: Teacher Audrey Binns,Marilou Peachey, Barbara Anderson, Donald

Olinger, Glen Claggett, Virgil Johnson, BruceHall, Danny Workmen, Robert O’Dell, ShirleyLeeper, Phyllis Nordyke and Principal E.F.Timmons. First Row: Roger Parsons, DonnaRay Peachey, Bonnie Jo Dunlap, Judy Richard-son, Gayle Kenoyer, Jessie Lois Thompson,Joann Flower, Gayle Parsons, EvelynBetsworth and Phil Brubaker. Taken from theSeptember 18, 2003, issue of The Hugoton Her-mes when the class was preparing for their fifti-eth reunion.

Louese Sutton was expelled from schoolwhen she was five years old. She wasn’t a stu-dent though, because this was in 1926 beforethere was even a notion of kindergarten. Her fa-ther was the teacher of a country school not farfrom Tribbey, Ok., and Louese had been want-ing to go to school with him. Finally her fatherput her on the horse with him, then off they rodeto the country school nine miles away. At schoolshe would draw the attention of the studentsand get them to laugh. On the fifth day, her fa-ther had had enough, so he put her under hisdesk. When the students began laughing again,her father looked under the desk and sawLouese was lying down, peeking through thesmall space between the floor and the desk andwaving at the kids. That was the day she wasexpelled.

Louese was born in 1921, and her life is fullof interesting stories. Her earliest memory waswhen she was three years old. She remembersthat her expectant mother went into labor, soLouese’s older brother took Louese to stay withher grandmother. After a day or two, she re-turned home, saw her twin baby brothers, andcouldn’t figure out where those “little critters”came from and said, “I didn’t like them!” Her fa-ther explained to her that they were her littlebrothers and that when they got bigger, theywould play with her. So that satisfied her.

Her parents were loving, but also strict withLouese and her four siblings. They spent timewith their children like playing baseball, butwhen it came time to do chores, the childrenwere expected to help. They had all kinds ofstock — cows, horses and pigs. Louese’s job wasto go after the cows in the pasture and bringthem up the lane. They raised chickens and soldeggs at the hatchery. They fed the chickens andmilked the cows. It might be after dark beforethey finished the chores, but they knew thework had to be done.

Her mother and father had a love affair witheach other all their married lives. When her par-ents were dating, Louese’s maternal grandfatherdid not like Louese’s father and didn’t want thetwo to get married. They decided they were goingto get married anyway. The mail carrier that de-livered the rural mail was also the Justice of thePeace. So one day in 1913, Louese’s parentswent out by the road to stand by the mail box,and when the mail carrier came to deliver mail,he also officiated the marriage vows.

Louese graduated from high school when shewas sixteen and received a scholarship to Okla-homa Baptist University in Shawnee, Ok., buther dad wasn’t ready for her to go away toschool. He knew how boy-crazy she was and hewanted her to stay at home one year before shewent to college. Well, of course, during that yearshe did meet a man and he was fifteen yearsolder than she was. Well, she never did use herscholarship. She married in 1939 at the age of

seventeen, but she prefers to say that she wasalmost eighteen. Evidently it was a good deci-sion because they were married 56 years beforeher husband passed away. They had three chil-dren — two boys and a girl. Louese never hadthe inclination to work outside of the home andalways felt she was born to be a mother.

Her husband worked in the oil field from theage of fifteen until he was 71. The first place theylived after they got married was Wyoming. Theyalso lived all over the state of Kansas and finallywound up in Elkhart. Louese helped withBrownies and Girl Scouts for about eleven yearsand enjoyed working with the girls. All three ofher children graduated from Elkhart HighSchool. Her daughter married and stayed there.Very recently both of Louese’s sons have passedaway.

Louese moved to the Pioneer Manor a fewmonths ago from Shawnee, Ok. When she firstmoved to the Manor, she naturally felt sorry forherself because she had just moved from anapartment where she cooked and did what shepleased. She had previously given up driving. Inher mind she had to give up everything and feltcompletely under the control of other people. Itwas quite traumatic for her. Not being one tostay down for long, she has adjusted and at theage of 92, she appreciates each new day.

She keeps a journal in which she records herthoughts, and she read aloud from one page.“As I awoke this a.m. I said, ‘’Another day, whatdoes it hold for me? Happiness, sorrow, worry?’Then I realize who holds my life in His hands,and I then thought, ‘Why should I have worries?’”

Louese looked up from her journal and said,“Sometimes you wonder why. I know we’re notsupposed to question things that happen because there is a purpose somewhere. Some-times we don’t realize the purpose, but we keeplooking for it. I think I’m like everybody else inthat way.”

Louese Sutton knows there is a purpose somewhere.

History From The HermesCompiled by Ruthie Winget

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All children seven (7) yearsof age or younger or one withspecial needs relating tophysical and mental abilitywill, at all times, be attendedand adequately supervised bya responsible adult, babysit-ter, or mature adolescent six-teen (16) years of age or older.Children ages eight – 15should not be expected by aparent or guardian to super-vise younger siblings. Chil-dren eight (8) years of ageand older may use the libraryunattended providing properbehavior is maintained.

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The Eagles kicked off their2013 football season by trav-eling to Goodland Fridaynight. Hugoton received theball to start the game and forthe first half played a reallytough game. By the end of thesecond quarter the Eaglesled, 16 to 8. Goodland madesome big changes in the sec-ond half that shut the Eaglesdown. The Cowboys pulledahead and did not let up. Itwasn't until the last secondsof the game the Eagles wereable to score one last time.Hugoton took a loss for theopening game, 24 to 43.

Hugoton started the gamereceiving the football after thecoin toss went in favor of theCowboys. Goodland opted toreceive in the opening of thesecond half giving the Eaglesfirst chance to score.

Back deep for the openingkick, Wade Heger receivedthe kick and was soondowned at the 17 yard line. Aflag was called and the Eagleshad to start their drive fromten yards back. The Eaglespushed deep into Cowboy ter-ritory before having to give upthe ball. It was the Cowboys,however, that made the firsttouchdown of the game with4:26 on the clock. A two-point conversion was suc-cessful and Hugoton was nowdown by eight.

The Eagles worked theirway down field and by thestart of the second quarterthe Eagles were in scoringrange. Nic Fredrick startedthe team off by getting withinfour yards of the goal. Quar-terback Yates Sutton ran theball in for the Eagles’ firsttouchdown, followed by atwo-point conversion carriedin by Ross Davis.

The second was a toughquarter with both teams re-ceiving many penalties. Afterten minutes had ticked by inthe second quarter the Eaglesonce again made a touch-down giving them the lead.

Hugoton ran the ball in for asecond two-point conversiontaking the Eagles into thesecond half in the lead, 16 to8.

Goodland made some bigchanges in the second half,and Hugoton was not able toadjust. Goodland startedrunning the ball past theHugoton boys, and near theend of the final quarter theEagles were down 16 to 43.Hugoton had a little overthree minutes to score or gohome with only two touch-downs. Goodland kicked tothe Eagles and Ulises Armen-dariz took the ball down field.It looked as if the Hugotonteam was going to run out oftime before another touch-down could be made. Not giv-ing up, the Eagles cametogether one last time with 31seconds left in the game. TheEagles scored a final touch-down by Parker Titus. A passto Kellen Watkins scored athird two-point conversion,and the Eagles ended the bat-tle with a strong play.

A few interesting statsfrom Friday's game: RossDavis had 25 carries and ledthe team with 126 yardsrushing. Yates Sutton passedfor 56 yards and had a totalof 129 yards for the game.Bradley Campbell had ninetackles and Timmy Hallersacked Goodland’s quarter-back twice. Overall, Hugotonhad 21 first downs while theCowboys only had 12. TheEagles had more penaltiesagainst them with 12 flagsthrown while Goodland onlyhad seven. Hugoton lost 95yards overall from penaltiesand Goodland only had 42yards lost from flags.

The Eagles will be facingHolcomb this Friday night atthe Eagles’ home field. Gamestarts at 7:00 p.m. andshould be a great game towatch. Come out and supportthe home team while theweather is nice.

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Sports ScheduleThursday, September 12

Middle School Football atKenneth Henderson; 4:00p.m.Friday, September 13

High School Football Vvs. Holcomb at Home; 7:30p.m.Saturday, September 14

High School V/JV Tour-nament at Home; 9:00 a.m.

Cross Country V atWamego; 9:30 a.m.

Monday, September 16High School Girls Golf V

vs. Garden City at BuffaloDunes; 1:00 p.m.Tuesday, September 17

High School Girls GolfJV at Ulysses; 3:00 p.m.

Middle School CrossCountry Boys at LiberalSouth; 4:00 p.m.

Middle School Volleyball7A/7B & 8A/8B GuymonDuel at Guymon; 4:00 p.m.

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It was an all out effort to keep the ball in play at StantonCounty last Thursday. Ana Pena and Krisan Crawford divefor the ball while Estefani Armendariz readies to send theball back over the net.

Ross Davis ducks low as he makes his way toward the goalduring Friday’s game at Goodland, dragging a few Cowboysbehind him.

Yates Sutton side steps the Goodland Cowboy as he tries formore yardage Friday night at Goodland.

He’s open and headed toward the red zone! Mitchell Persingerwastes no time getting down field.

The cross country team isoff to a great start for the2013 season. Both teamscame home with first placetrophies after they competedat the Meade Invitational lastThursday. Most of the kidscame home with either ateam or individual medal.“Our girls’ team is much im-proved and could be the bestteam we have had in fouryears. I look for great thingsfrom our young ladies allyear,” said Coach Nick Ro-

driguez. The boys also look to do

well this year. “We are notgoing to be as strong as wewere the last two years but ifwe get some young guys tostep up and play some impor-tant roles than we could be ateam that gives people someconcerns. It will be all up tohow hard we work each andevery day on how we finishthe season. Hopefully we staycommitted to working hardand looking for great things

at the end of the season”added Rodriguez.ResultsGIRLS’ VARSITYTeam Place FirstKaty Heger 18:19 5Sarah Johnson 19:05 7Maria Martinez 19:30 9Mariana Shuck 19:55 15Katie Weaver 20:41 17Jackie Garcia 20:51 19Lauren Fox 20:56 20BOYS’ VARSITYTeam Place FirstIsaac Castro 18:31 2Luis Castro 18:32 3Reed Rome 19:48 7Zack Littell 20:13 15Kole Kahl 20:21 17Edgar Villa 21:20 22Takoda Eckert DNF

JV GIRLSAlexis Clair 26:10 6Mandy Mills 26:16 7Sadie Wood 26:16 8JV BOYSMiguel Martinez 21:30 2Victor Romo 21:36 3Edgar Avalos 21:46 4Alfonso Villa 22:00 5David Kurt 22:29 6Tucker Martin 22:51 7Garrett Hamlin 22:53 8Chance Ghumm 23:28 10Taylor Slocum 24:11 13Chalen Talbert 25:30 15Israel Montoya 25:38 16Armando Garcia 26:54 21Vicente Flores 29:17 25Adam Scott 29:36 26Joshue Gonzalez 29:54 27

For some, the beginning offall is heralded by leaveschanging colors, for othersit’s cooler temperatures andshorter days, but for huntersfall is marked by the start ofdeer season. In less than oneweek, hunters will take totree stands and blindsthroughout the state, bow inhand and powder hornpacked.

The 2013 muzzleloaderseason will begin September16 and run through Septem-ber 29. New this year,hunters are allowed to usemuzzleloading rifles, musketsand pistols, .40 caliber orlarger.

The 2013 archery seasonwill begin September 16 andrun through December 31.New this year, crossbows arelegal archery equipment forall archers. However, anyonewho hunts big game orturkeys with a crossbow

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Hunter orange, a hat andvest, must be worn by allhunters during the muzzle-loader season, and shootinghours are one-half hour be-fore sunrise to one-half hourafter sunset.

The next deer season willbe the new two-day Pre-rutWhitetail Antlerless Only sea-son from October 12 - 13,2013, followed by the RegularFirearm season December 4 -15, 2013.

To download an electronicversion of the 2013 KansasHunting & FurharvestingRegulations Summary, visitksoutdoors.com and click“Hunting / Hunting Regula-tions.” Printed copies can befound at local license vendorsand at any Kansas Depart-ment of Wildlife, Parks, andTourism regional office.

Deer season debut with archery and muzzleloader

Hunters are always encouraged to refer to the 2013 KansasHunting and Furharvesting Regulations Summary before hit-ting the field.

Eagles fall to Cowboys in season opener

Girls’ and boys’ cross country teams sweep Meade Invitational

Amy Scott drives the ball down field in the girls golf tournamentlast Thursday. Hugoton hosted the tournament.

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Watch out! Kelsey Hittle tosses the ball up for a wicked serve atStanton County. HHS ladies went 2-1 in their opening seasontournament.

Riley Sosa sets the ball up for Keely Hittle to kill during Thursday’s game at Stanton County.

The Lady Eagles traveledto Stanton County to opentheir 2013 volleyball season.The varsity went 2-1 for theday playing three teams onthe Johnson City court. Play-ing Stanton County first, theHugoton girls won after twosets, 25-10 and 25-17. Goingup against Ulysses in thenext game, Hugoton lost aftertwo sets, 20-25 and 12-25.The minor setback broughtthe team back out for a thirdgame against Sublette. Thefinal game against the LadyLarks was well played byboth teams, resulting in asecond victory for the Hugo-ton girls. Set one was won bythe Hugoton team, 26 to 24.After changing sides of thecourt the Lady Eagles went to

work to win the secondmatch. Both teams played ex-tremely well keeping thescore close. It was the LadyEagles who came out on topand claimed the victory 27 to25.

The Lady Eagles’ JV teamalso participated in their firstgames of the season at Stan-ton County. Hugoton wasonly able to win one out ofthe three games they played.After a long and hard foughtbattle the Lady Eagles’ JVsquad won their final gameagainst Sublette.

The eight grade volleyballB-Team won all four gamesand served 71% as a team atDodge City Tuesday, Septem-ber 3. The top three serverswere Lupe Lopez with 96%,Carmen Morin with 95% andSalma Avalos with 93%.Coach Tina Salmans said,“The girls played very well asa team and did a great jobgetting the ball back over thenet. Our goal for next game isto use three hits on our sideand try to ‘bump, set, spike’.I’m very proud of how thegirls played.”

After hard work and dedi-cation on the girls’ part, theteam took first place in thetournament at Ulysses Satur-day, September 7. Hugotonserved 81% as a team andthe top four servers wereFelecia Beard 100%, Salma

Avalos 100%, Carmen Morin100% and Lupe Lopez 92%.During tournament play, theLady Eagles played DodgeCity Comanche two games15-9 and 15-10; Goodland15-10 and 15-6. During fi-nals, Hugoton played HoraceGood 15-7 and 15-7 and forthe championship theyplayed Kenneth Henderson15-12 and 15-11.

Coach Tina Salmans said,“After our last games, we seta goal to ‘bump, set, spike’ ineach of our games. We prac-ticed passing all week and itpaid off. The girls were onfire and proved it with a firstplace finish in the tourna-ment. We worked hard as ateam and had fun! I’mpumped about the rest of theseason!”

“This was our first Leagueevent and we came out with a4-0 record!” said CoachBobbi Ferguson. Hugotonwent three sets with LiberalWest and Liberal South andbeat both Dodge City teamsin two sets at Dodge CityMiddle School Tuesday, Sep-tember 3.

“Serving was a problem forus all night and somethingwe will need to focus our at-tention on in the future”,continued Coach Ferguson.The team served only 75.7%for the night. As an A-Teamthe Lady Eagles need to serveabove 85-90% each match.

“The girls played very well to-gether and did a good job set-ting up the ball,” concludedCoach Ferguson.

The team record is 4-0. theSmack’em Award went toBrooklyn Harper and theFired Up Award to CaitlinLewis.

Brooklyn Harper was 56for 64 for 87% with 21 acesand three kills.

Laney Hoskinson was 27for 33 for 81% with five acesand three kills.

Dallie Hoskinson was 24for 30 for 80% with sevenaces and four kills.

The Ulysses Tournamentis a tough 14 team competi-tion. The eighth grade A-Team girls battled it out inpool play against Dodge City,Comanche and then Good-land Saturday. They then ad-vanced to semi-finals againstUlysses.

“We played them veryclose taking them to threesets. Our final game wasagainst Dodge City MiddleSchool for third place,” saidCoach Bobbi Ferguson.

“I feel like we had a verysuccessful day and the teamis really starting to look good.

We will need to focus on serv-ing and communication,”concluded Coach Ferguson.

Johanna Rawlins receivedthe Samck’em award with17/20 for 85%. She also hadfour aces, nine kills and oneblock.

Britta Beesley was ninefor nine for 100% and hadtwo aces.

Claire Lewis was six forseven for 85.7%.

Laney Hoskinson was 22for 24 for 91.7% and had fiveaces.

Total team serving was82.8%.

The early prairie chickenseason (Northwest and Eastunits), September 15 - Octo-ber 15, 2013, gives birdhunters a unique opportunityto walk up greater prairiechickens and work bird dogslong before traditional uplandbird seasons open. The earlyseason was established toprovide additional huntingopportunity for this tallgrassprairie icon and let huntersenjoy a true one-of-a-kindgrassland hunt.

The traditional prairiechicken season is November16-January 31, 2014 in theEast and Northwest units,and November 16-December31 in the Southwest Unit,and during this season, mostprairie chickens are taken bypass shooting. Hunters scoutfeed fields near large tracts ofnative prairie for feedingprairie chickens, and thentake up stations around feedfields well before sunrise. Asthe sun crests the horizon,prairie chickens will lift out ofthe prairies and fly to feed.Hunters lucky enough to bepositioned in just the rightspot may get shots. However,prairie chickens are strongfliers and challenging quarryfor expert wingshots. Prairie

chickens rarely flush withinshotgun range of walkinghunters during the regularseason.

During the early season,flocks of young birds aremore likely to hold for walk-ing hunters and pointingdogs. However, prairie chick-ens are truly birds of theprairie, and hunters will walkmany miles of grassland tofind birds. While it can seemlike finding a needle in ahaystack, the unique huntingopportunity, scenery andconnection to the prairiekeeps hunters coming back.

All prairie chicken huntersmust have a prairie chickenpermit in addition to a hunt-ing license. Permits may bepurchased wherever licensesare sold and online. Informa-tion provided by hunters atthe time of purchase will helpbiologists estimate prairiechicken harvest and huntingpressure.

During the early season,the daily bag limit for prairiechickens in the East andNorthwest zones is two, andthe possession limit is eight.For more information and amap of prairie chicken hunt-ing zones, go to www.ksoutdoors.com.

Early Prairie Chickenseason requires legwork

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Lady Eagles win two at Stanton County

Serve It Up

Lady Eagles!

HMS eighth grade “B” teamfaces several tough teams

Hugoton’s eighth grade “A” team, along with Coach Bobbi Fer-guson, take a minute to beam about their wins last Tuesday.Teamwork was a very important factor during the tournament.

Middle school volleyball winsthird at Ulysses tournament

Eighth grade “A” team wins fourat Dodge City tourney Tuesday

The Hugoton Hermes Thursday, September 12, 2013 Page 8

Planting Wheat into Dry Soils

Soils remain very dry inmany parts of westernKansas. Planting time is get-ting near in northwest Kansasand higher elevations in westcentral Kansas. If moistureconditions do not improve,producers in those areas basi-cally have three main options:Option A:

Dust it in at the normalseeding depth and normalplanting date — and hope forrain. This is probably the bestoption. The seed will remainviable in the soil until it getsenough moisture. Last season,some of the wheat seedplanted in October lay in thesoil until the following springwithout germinating.

Before planting, producersshould look at the long-termforecast and try to estimatehow long the dry conditionswill persist. If it looks likethere’s a good chance the dryweather will continue until atleast the back end of the opti-mum range of planting dates,producers should treat thefields as if they were plantinglater than the optimum time.Rather than cutting back onseeding rates and fertilizer tosave money on a lost cause,producers should increaseseeding rates, consider using afungicide seed treatment, andconsider using a starter fertil-izer. The idea is to make surethe wheat gets off to a goodstart and will have enoughheads to have good yield po-tential, assuming it will even-tually rain and the crop willemerge late. Wheat thatemerges in November almostalways has fewer fall tillersthan wheat that emerges inSeptember or October.

There are some risks to this

option. For one thing, a hardrain could crust over the soilor wash soil off planting ridgesand into the seed furrows, po-tentially causing emergenceproblems. Another factor isthe potential for wind erosionif the field lies unprotectedwith no ridges. Also, the wheatmay not come up until spring,in which case it may havebeen better not to plant thewheat at all and plant a springcrop instead. Probably theworst-case scenario for thisoption would be if a light rainoccurs and the seed gets justenough moisture to germinatebut not enough for theseedlings to emerge throughthe soil or to survive very longif dry conditions return. Thiscould result in a loss of thestand.Option B:

Use a hoe drill to plantdeeper-than-normal intomoisture now, if possible. Thisoption can work if the varietyto be planted has a longcoleoptile, the producer isusing a hoe drill, and there isgood moisture within reach.The advantage of this option isthat the crop should come upand make a stand during theoptimum time in the fall. Thiswould keep the soil from blow-ing. Also, the ridges created byhoe drills also help keep thesoil from blowing.

The main risk of this optionis poor emergence. Deep-planted wheat normally hasbelow-normal emergence, so ahigher seeding rate should beused. Any rain that occurs be-fore the seedlings haveemerged could add additionalsoil into the seed furrow, mak-ing it even harder for thecoleoptile to reach the soil sur-face. Any time you increasethe seeding depth, the

seedling will have to staywithin the soil just that muchlonger before emergingthrough the soil surface. De-layed emergence leads to morepotential for disease and pestproblems, and reduced tiller-ing potential late in the sea-son. It’s even possible that thewheat would get planted sodeep that it would germinatebut never emerge at all, espe-cially if the coleoptile length istoo short for the depth ofplanting. Generally speaking,it’s best to plant no deeperthan three inches with mostvarieties.Option C:

Wait for a rain, and thenplant. To overcome the risk ofcrusting or stand failure, pro-ducers may decide to waituntil it has rained and soilmoisture conditions are ade-quate before planting. Underthe right conditions, thiswould result in good stands,assuming the producer uses ahigh seeding rate and a starterfertilizer, if appropriate. If it re-mains dry well past the opti-mum range of planting dates,the producer would then havethe option of just keeping thewheat seed in the shed untilnext fall and planting springcrop next year instead.

The risk of this option isthat the weather may turnrainy and stay wet later thisfall, preventing the producerfrom planting the wheat at allwhile those who “dusted” theirwheat in have a good stand.There is also the risk of leavingthe soil unprotected from thewind through the winter untilthe spring crop is planted.Crop insurance considerationsand deadlines will play a rolein these decisions.

—Jim Shroyer, Crop Produc-tion Specialist

Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . 6.82Milo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.64Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.09Soybeans . . . . . . . . 13.55

Market ReportAt the Close Tuesday

Brought to you by:

Pate Agency, LPThe Crop Insurance Specialists

Office: 620-544-8068Cell: 620-544-6888Equal Opportunity Provider

Don Beesley,Agent

Corn producers prepare for the MonsantoCorn Plot Tour by resting under the shadefrom the 100° temperature Thursday, Septem-

ber 5. After the tour, they enjoyed a meal pre-pared by Oklahoma Smoke BBQ.

Emergency loans available from Farm Service Agency

Farmers gather for the Cotton Field DayThursday, September 5, at the Marcus Howefarm east of Moscow. This plot provides

information about ways to irrigate corn andcotton at the same time and with lower waterrates.

Joshua Morris, Stevens County Extension Agent A.N.R. jcmorris@ksu.edu office: 620-544-4359

Ag Wise

“Loans covering physicaland/or production losses arescheduled for repayment asrapidly as feasible, consistentwith the applicant’s reason-able ability to pay,” saidSchnittker. The current inter-est rate is 2.875% percent butis subject to monthly changesuntil the loan is approved.

FSA’s Farm Loan Programsstaff is committed to new andexisting customers, FSA cus-tomer goals and our ruralcommunities. FSA’s serviceextends beyond the typicalloan, offering FSA customersongoing consultation, adviceand creative ways to makeyour farm business thrive. Atthe Farm Service Agency, wewant to be your lender of firstopportunity to overcome theseadverse weather conditions

and rebuild your operation toget back on track. FSA’s loanstaff can refer customers toother public and commercialfinancing sources that canserve as a blend with FSA’sfarm loan programs.

FSA loans covering physi-cal losses may be used to re-place installations,equipment, livestock, orbuildings (including homes),lost through this disaster.

FSA loans covering produc-tion losses may be used tobuy feed, seed, fertilizer, live-stock, or to make paymentson real estate and chatteldebts. “Funds can also beused for other essential oper-ating and living expenses,”Schnittker said.

To be eligible for an emer-gency disaster loan, an appli-

cant must be operating a fam-ily size farm or ranch, must beunable to get credit elsewhere,and must have suffered aqualifying physical and/orproduction loss from the dis-aster.

Farmers who suffered atleast a 30 percent reduction toat least one cropping enter-prise, may have a qualifyingproduction loss. Emergencydisaster production loss loanscover 100 percent of qualify-ing losses.

Farmers and ranchers thatthink they may eligible shouldcontact the FSA County Officein Hugoton, Kansas or call620-544-8541 Ext. 1205 foradditional information andhow to apply. USDA is anequal opportunity employerand provider.

Eligible Date Designation Incidence Type of Disaster ApplicationCounties Code Period DeadlineSeward 04/08/2013 M4109 02-24-26, 2013 Severe Winter 12-09-2013

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Grant 08/21/2013 S3573 04-01-13 through Late Freeze 04-21-2014Haskell 05-10-13KearnyMortonSewardStantonStevensHamilton

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Flu Season is ApproachingDuring these beautiful early

fall days, the cold winter monthsfilled with coughs and coldsseem far away. Unfortunately,the daylight is shorter each dayand those cold winds will soonbe blowing. We often thinkcolds and flu are just part ofwinter. We should instead prac-tice ways now to keep colds and

flu out of our houses, if possible.For those over the age of 65

this is especially important. Ac-cording to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention(CDC), influenza is a majorcause of hospitalization, disabil-ity and even death for older peo-ple. Every year in the U.S.,about nine out of ten flu-relateddeaths occur in adults over 65.

Because the immune systemmay decline with age it is impor-tant for older people to get a flushot. It is one of three simplesteps you can take to fight theflu.

First, get a flu shot. A yearlyflu vaccine is the first and mostimportant step to protectingyourself against the flu. Yearlyvaccine is needed because theflu virus changes year to year;each year’s vaccine is made toprotect against the three mostcommon viruses for that year.The most serious complicationof flu is pneumonia, so, in addi-tion to age, people with chronichealth conditions, includingasthma, COPD, diabetes orheart disease, are at especiallyhigh risk.

This fall is the ideal time toget the 2013-2014 flu shot. Ittakes about two weeks after vac-cination for antibodies to de-velop in the body and provideprotection against the flu. The“seasonal flu season” in theUnited States can begin as earlyas October and last as late asMay. During this time, fluviruses are circulating in thepopulation. Getting an annualseasonal flu vaccine is the bestway to reduce the chances thatyou will get seasonal flu, andlessen the chance that you willspread it to others. When morepeople get vaccinated againstthe flu, less flu can spreadthrough that community.

People often ask if they canstill get the seasonal flu even ifthey get the vaccine. The an-swer is yes. The ability of flu vac-cine to protect a person depends

on two things: 1) the age andhealth status of the person get-ting vaccinated, and 2) the sim-ilarity or “match” between thevirus strains in the vaccine andthose circulating in the commu-nity. If the viruses in the vaccineand the influenza viruses circu-lating in the community areclosely matched, vaccine effec-tiveness is higher. If they are notclosely matched, vaccine effec-tiveness can be reduced. How-ever, it’s important to rememberthat even when the viruses arenot closely matched, the vaccinecan still protect many peopleand prevent flu-related compli-cations.

Second, stop the germs. Re-member, hand washing is thenumber one way to reduce thespread of germs!• Cover coughs and sneezeswith a tissue and toss it afteruse.• Wash your hands often withsoap and water. If soap andwater are not available, use analcohol-based hand sanitizer.• Avoid touching your eyes,nose and mouth.• Avoid close contact with sickpeople.• If you are sick with flu-like ill-ness, stay home for at least 24hours after your fever is gone(without the use of fever-reduc-ing medications).

Third, use flu antivirals if adoctor prescribes them. Pre-scription anitvirals such asTamiflu and Flumadine do notprevent or cure the flu. They aresometimes given to make the flumilder and possibly prevent se-rious complications. They workbest if used within 48 hours offirst symptoms (cough, sorethroat, fever, aches andstuffy/runny nose), but may begiven later if the person is verysick or is at high-risk of compli-cations. Antivirals are no sub-stitute for the flu vaccine.

It may only be the middle ofSeptember, but it is definitelytime to think about the flu andhow to protect yourself and fam-ily. And, as a side note, don’tforget to go to the StevensCounty Health Fair next week-end and learn other ways to pro-tect your health.

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Backyard Paradise

STEVENS COUNTYActivity Center - 544-2283Nutrition Center - 544-8041

~ Barbara Beeks ~

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www.BigAlChevroletCadillac.comBig AlALWAYS ASK FOR BIG AL!

Joe Self Chevrolet/CadillacJoe Self Chevrolet/Cadillac8801 E. Kellogg, Wichita, KS

316-706-6888

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Glassware-Antiques-Collectibles-Furniture- HouseholdLocation: Old Dekalb Corn Plant Ulysses, KS

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Private Chalen Talbert

Talbert graduatesfrom basic combattraining

American Legion National Convention concludes in Houston

Gas prices higher, but stillless than September 2012

Herschel and Joy West show their beautiful rockgarden in front of their home at 807 S. Jackson

Street. At right Joy also shows her glass bird bathmade out of interior light fixtures.

PVT Chalen Talbert gradu-ated from Basic Combat Train-ing, Charlie Company 3rdBattalion, 47th Infantry Au-gust 15, 2013 in Fort Benning,Ga.

Basic Combat Training is aten-week program, extremelyrigorous, demanding and aproven process transformingdedicated volunteers into pro-ficient soldiers.

PVT Talbert is the son ofRay and Bobbie Talbert ofHugoton. Tanner Talbert is hisproud brother. Grandparentsare Ray and Lita Talbert andJim and Lynne Fink of Hugo-ton, and great grandma LeonaFink is from Phillipsburg.

Family and friends attendedthe graduation ceremony inFort Benning. PVT Talbert waswelcomed home by manyfriends and family, includinghis HHS buddies and theirfamilies, Jim Langley and theDust Bowl Riders.

The 95th National Conven-tion of The American Legionrecently concluded in Hous-ton, Tx. All 50 U.S. states,Washington, D.C., Mexico,France, Puerto Rico and thePhilippines were represented.The American Legion has amembership of 2.4 million andwhen combined with TheAmerican Legion Auxiliary andThe Sons of The American Le-gion, approximately four mil-lion people make up TheAmerican Legion family.

Tom and Phyllis Gregg at-tended and were impressed bythe five Spirit of Service Awardrecipients. These awards arepresented yearly to individualsin each branch of the servicewho are actively committed to

volunteer community serviceduring their off-duty hours. Inaddition, the national winnersfor Law Enforcement Officerand Firefighter of the Yearwere announced.

Youth program winnerswere also recognized. Theseincluded American Legionbaseball player of the year,Eagle Scout of the year, BoysNation President, two Shoot-ing Sport Champions and Or-atorical contest winners. TheNational Oratorical winnerswere awarded scholarships of$14,000, $16,000 and$18,000 for third, second andfirst place respectively. In ad-dition, the five winners of theSamsung Scholarships wereannounced. The Samsung

Group, a South Korean busi-ness, gave The American Le-gion five million dollars in1996 to provide scholarshipsfor descendants of AmericanVeterans of the Korean War.Only the interest from thesemonies is used and to datethese scholarships have to-taled $4.66 million. EachSamsung scholarship recipi-ent received $20,000.

Information regardingthese awards and scholar-ships can be obtained throughyour local American Legionpost or online at www.legion.org.

Tom Gregg is past KansasState Commander 2008-2009,and a Life member of DexterD. Harbour Post # 79 Ulysses.

“Notes From Nancy”by Stevens County FACS Agent Nancy Honig

Good Monday morning! It’shot already! Surely we coulduse some cool-down.

All is going well here at theCenter. It seems like the num-bers are up right now. Wehope they can stay that way.

This Saturday is our “SewAll Day” day. If you like to sew,come join us. We have a goodtime and like to share ideasand whatever.

Saturday evening is ourregular dance night. The dancestarts at 8:00 p.m. CraigStevens will be here to play forus.

We are back to playingBridge two times a week. TheSnooker and Pool tables areavailable all day. There is al-ways Bingo Friday right afterlunch.

Have a great week!

MenuSep. 12.......................SpaghettiSep. 13................................FishSep. 16.......................Pot Roast

Sep. 17..........Baked Potato BarSep. 18.......................Meat LoafSep. 19..............Polish Sausage

.................................& Kraut

Activities ScheduleThursday, September 12Exercise....................10:30 a.m.Bridge.........................................Friday, September 13Exercise....................10:30 a.m.Bingo........................12:30 p.m.Saturday, September 14Sew All Day................................Cards .........................6:00 p.m.Dance.........................8:00 p.m.

with Craig StevensMonday, September 16Exercise....................10:30 a.m.Line Dance.................7:00 p.m.Tuesday, September 17Exercise....................10:30 a.m.Wednesday, September 18Exercise....................10:30 a.m.Paint...........................1:00 p.m.Thursday, September 19Exercise....................10:30 a.m.Bridge.........................................

Average retail gasolineprices in Kansas have risen 1.8cents per gallon in the pastweek, averaging $3.59 per gal-lon Sunday, according to Gas-Buddy's daily survey of 1,329gas outlets in Kansas. Thiscompares with the national av-erage that has fallen 2.3 centsper gallon in the last week to$3.59 per gallon, according togasoline price Web site Gas-Buddy.com.

Including the change in gasprices in Kansas during thepast week, prices Sunday were15.7 cents per gallon lowerthan the same day one yearago and are 10.4 cents per gal-lon higher than a month ago.The national average has notmoved during the last monthand stands 22.3 cents per gal-lon lower than this day oneyear ago.

"Gas price limbo has contin-ued for another week, with av-erage prices across the UnitedStates virtually the same as

they were a month ago," saidGasBuddy.com Senior Petro-leum Analyst Patrick DeHaan."Opening week for football cer-tainly brought more excite-ment than we've seen at thegas pump lately, but one thingis for sure — with gas pricesaveraging 22-cents per gallonlower than last year, there's alot of extra hot dogs and beerthat can be consumed insteadof being redirected into thetanks of American motorists.While the situation in Syriabears further monitoring, andhurricane season remains onthe radar, we've still seenprices continue to hold level. Infact, the cumulative yearly av-erage for a gallon of gas standsat $3.57 per gallon, comparedto one year ago when it was$3.62 per gallon, so while mo-torists feel this has been a badyear for gas prices, it hasn'tbeen as painful as 2012," De-Haan said.

Submitted by GasBuddy.com.

The Hugoton Hermes Thursday, September 12, 2013 Page 2B

Avoid an animal’shind legs and

approach larger animals at the

shoulder.

When visiting afarm, parents should

ensure that all access doors to

grain storage structures are

locked before lettingkids out of their

sight.

Never permitsmoking in barns

or near any flammable materials.

New hay shouldbe checked

frequently for possible heating.

Wear proper attire,including steel toedshoes. Kids should

always wear helmets when riding

animals.

Lock entrances tograin handlingareas to keep

bystanders andchildren out.

Keep all guardsand shields in

place on powerequipment.

Always turn equipment off,

lower hydraulicsand remove the

key before leavingequipmentunattended.

Avoid wearingloose-fitting clothes or

dangling itemswhen working

with machinery.

Steer clear of animals with newborns, no

matter how cuteand cuddly such

animals might appear.

Fuel should never be stored

inside a building.

Wear approvedhearing protection

when workingaround noisyequipment,

aeration fans, dryers, etc.

Inspect the equipment and

correct any hazards before

operating.

Run the blower toventilate the silo at

least 20 minutes before

entering.

Inspect your farm ona regular basis forhazards that can injure children

wandering on yourfarm.

Develop a schedule for conducting

routine safety checks around

the farm.

Check for powerlines before operating

equipment. Always stay at

least ten feet away from power lines.

KRAMERSEED

FARMS1114 S. Monroe

544-4330

Make sure that allhay is properly driedbefore putting it in

the barn.

A working farm is abusy place. Whilebeing careless iseasy and often

unintentional, doeverything you canto ensure that yourfarm is as safe as it

can be.

Keep kids away fromstallions, bulls, boars,

and rams, and emphasize the

importance of havingan accessible escape

route whenever working with animals.

Uncovered haystored outdoors

should be formedinto tight stacks

to resist penetration by

rain.

Avoid breathingharmful fumes or

vapors.Remove junk piles

and store raw materials safely.

104 E. 7th Hugoton, KS 67951

544-2949

Pate Agency, LPThe Crop Insurance Specialists

Office: 620-544-8068Cell: 620-544-6888Equal Opportunity Provider

Don Beesley,Agent

Northwest CottonGrowers

Co-op Gin

598-2008Moscow, KS

Grow With Us!

OWENSWELDING &

CUSTOMFABRICATION

1411 Industrial St428-2148

Elkhart Co-opEquity

ExchangeFeterita

Rolla Dermot

GLB SERVICES

217 1/2 N. Jackson544-2121

A respected leader in the grainindustry since 1979.

Hansen-Mueller Company1182 Road Q,

Hugoton, Kansas 67951(620) 428-6518

304 W. HighlandJohnson492-2126

SouthwestKansas Co-opFuel Service,

LLC

G+Ag,Inc.(620) 428-6086Createdto

Serve

(620) 544-TIRE (8473)Highway 51 East

Hugoton, KS 67951

Accepting Contracts onFall Corn Harvest

Steven Bagley, General Manager 620-544-4379 • Hugoton

Let somebodyknow where youwill be working

during the day, andcarry a cell phonefor emergencies.

HUGOTON TIRESHOP, INC.

24 Hrs. Road & Local Service620-544-7424 700 E. 11 St.

Hwy 51 Hugoton, KS

Take frequentbreaks in the

shade or in a coolenvironment

during the hottesttimes of the day.

Insurance AgencyKaren Yoder,

Agency Manager 600 S. Main • Hugoton

620-544-8908MEMBER FDIC

502 S. JacksonHugoton, Ks 67951

601 S. Jackson • Hugoton620-544-2975

CIRCLE HFARMS LLC

1242 Road 12544-2688

DILLCOFLUID

SERVICE INC.513 W. 4th St.

544-2929

601 S. Main620-544-4331

Serving Southwest KansasSince 1980

•Commercial & Residential • Concrete Contractors

• Curb & Guttering Our Speciality613 E. 11th, Hugoton

544-7146

B & TFarms

Bryne and Tina Sullins598-2304

Check with us foryour baling needs.

Triple H Farms LLC

620-544-4557 - OfficeHugoton

ROMEFARMS544-8991

Keith, Dave & SteveRome

The Hugoton Hermes Thursday, September 12, 2013 Page 3B

Mount and dismount on a

tractor’s left sideto avoid controls.

Have another person presentwhen loading orunloading hay or

equipment.

Only one personshould be allowed

to drive an ATV,with no

passengers.

Protect the safetyand prosperity of

your farm by making sure yourfarm animals are

contained in a secure area.

Always make yourpresence known before touching a farm animal.

Handle cattle withrespect and

awareness. Theyhave the strength

and speed to causeserious injury.

Make sure farm equipment is

properly hitchedto ensure stability.

Equip livestockpens with

emergency exits.

Label grain binsto warn of

entrapment hazards.

Wear protective equipment like

masks and goggles to

safeguard yourlungs and eyes.

Develop a “safety first”

attitude aroundharvesting equipment.

Never operate machinery

when you are fatigued,

stressed or highly medicated.

Always read andfollow

owner’s manualsand safety decals

on all equipment.

Outfit all farm buildings

with smoke detectors and

fire extinguishers.

Never allow morethan one rider on atractor at one time,

and never allowyoung children toride on tractors.

Keep childrenaway from

tractors andother farm machinery.

Remember toclearly labeland store all pesticides in

a lockable, well-lighted and well-ventilated area.

Wear appropriateclothing,including

protective footwear,masks and a hat for

sun protection.

Always inspect machinery

and complete any necessary repairsbefore operating.

ParamountService &

Supply Inc.835 E. 11th St.

544-4464

620-544-4920Commodity Hauling

Hugoton, Ks.

1026 S. Main 620-544-8011

HoskinsonWater Well

Service“Your Complete Do-mestic Well Service”

544-7978

Dale Noyes and Crew544-4488

BartlettGrain

Company,L.P.Moscow

598-2144

Jeff C. Ramsey, AgentDarrin Hewitt, Agent

613 S .Main, P.O. Box 610,Hugoton, KS 67951(620) 544-4303

Fax: (620) 544-4925

E Hwy 51, Hugoton(620)544-4351

Never allow extra riders on

machinery. No seat, no rider!

Never attempt tounplug

equipment whenpower is engaged.

Carry a fire extinguisher oneach piece of

powered equipment.

Remember todrive safely and watch

side roads forother vehicles.

Plan an escaperoute when

working aroundanimals in tight

areas.

Jordan AirInc.

Call Terryat 620-544-4361

K-C OilCompany

218 S. Main St.544-4660

BROWN-DUPREEOIL CO INC

2 locations in Hugoton:

1400 S Washington544-9010

428 S Main544-1352

Hugoton509 NW Ave. 620-544-2017 West Road 11620-544-8898

Moscow300 N. Road 20 620-598-2214 East Hwy 56620-598-2101

1520 W. 10th 544-8995

Warren andAmanda Willis

Hugoton620-544-4732

513 W. First StreetHugoton544-2195

Mike WillisSeed Sales

544-7333Fax • 544-8333

BULTMANINC.

110 E 6th St. Hugoton544-2620

528 S. Main StHugoton544-8820

JOHNSON LAW

OFFICERobert Johnson, Attorney at Law

Daniel Schowengerdt,Attorney at Law

118 W. Madison Avenue Iola, KS

620-365-3778

620-544-2189Hugoton, Kansas

620-544-7226

JONATHAN PEARCYIRR IGATION

510 W. Fifth Hugoton510 W. Fifth Hugoton

ContactJonathan 620-541-1049

Wi l l Cu l lum 620-453-0079Office 620-428-6333

Office620-544-4488

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RIGATION SERVICE CO. LLC

REINKE SALES & SERVICEService To All Brands928 East Eleventh Street

Hugoton, KS

838 E. 11th Hugoton

620-544-8522

Clifford & Paula Shuck620.428.6400

cpsoperating@gmail.com

“Supplying all yourcustom farming needs”

(785) 398-1400Kerry Hittle, Office Mgr.(620) 544-2600 office

WednesdaysStarting September 11,

Kids Club will meet atMoscow United MethodistChurch every Wednesdayfrom 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. unlessthere is no school on that day.For information call 598-2426.Thursday, ,September 12

Junior High Volleyball andFootball at Walsh at 4:00p.m. and 5:30 p.m.Friday, September 13

High School Football atSatanta at 7:00 p.m.Saturday, September 14

High School Volleyballtournament in Jetmore; 9:00

a.m.Monday, September 16

DVD Bible Study at theMoscow United MethodistChurch starting at 6:00 p.m.Contact Patty Lahey at 598-2290 for information.Tuesday, September 17

High School Volleyball;4:30 p.m. (Senior Night forVolleyball players)Friday, September 20

Homecoming paradesponsored by the MoscowBooster Club, starting at4:15 p.m. Call Kristy Brazealat 541-1602 for information.

High School Football vsDeerfield at home

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MOSCOW NEWSby Sara Cross

If anyone has any Moscow news toshare, please let

Sara Cross know. Send toscross7@live.com.

Even the Moscow Wildcat mascot wears a blue ribbon for sup-port and for awareness.

Cuylor Cross leads the Moscow football players Friday night inwearing blue for colon cancer awareness in honor of Cuylor's grandmother Cheryl Miller’s beginning fight withcolon cancer.

Many fans showed their support for Cheryl Miller by wearinga blue ribbon. The fans are being supportive and getting aware-ness for colon cancer out there.

These little cuties handed out the prizes won by different com-munity members and teachers at the teacher appreciation din-ner offered by the United Methodist women.

Little Emery Anderson ischeering on and supportingthe team during game day lastweek.

Citizens State Bank replaces Marque sign

Miller gets support

UMC will offerits first Kids ClubWednesday

Moscow homecoming parade is set

Head coach Shawn Anderson leads his juniorhigh team to their first victory Thursday night

against Rolla. Good job boys!

Solution to September 5, 2013 puzzle

Moscow Booster Clubwould like to announce thatthey will sponsor a homecom-ing parade Friday, September20 starting at 4:15 pm. Thisis an all school parade so anyperson wanting to enter topromote their school spiritplease contact Kristy Brazealby Tuesday, September 17 at620-541-1602. We encourageany student, faculty or fans

to participate. The BoosterClub will provide the candyfor the parade.

We encourage all entries tobe in good taste and sports-manship. Please join us insupporting our junior highand high school volleyball,football, cross country teamsand cheer squads in this cel-ebration of school spirit.

The community appreci-ates Citizens State Bank forreplacing the Moscow WildcatMarque sign on the highway.

Cheryl Miller appreciatesthe Moscow community andfootball players for showingtheir support for her by wear-ing blue Friday night at thehome football game.

Moscow United MethodistChurch will have its first KidsClub of the year Wednesday,September 11 from 3:45 p.m.to 4:45 p.m. It will be everyWednesday thereafter. Ifthere is no school for a par-ticular Wednesday, thenthere will be no Kids Club.

Kids Club is available forchildren ages K-5. For moreinformation, please contactthe church at 598-2426.

You are invited to a DVDBible Study beginning Mon-day, September 16 at 6:00p.m. It will be at the MoscowUnited Methodist Church.

There are no materials topurchase for this study. Formore information please con-tact Patty Lahey at 598-2290.

DVD Bible Study begins Monday

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Temple Reed, along with her husband of sixty years, Ron cele-brate their anniversary with a 1950s style shindig Saturdayevening. Here, their granddaughters model their 1950s “Barbiedoll” outfits.

Jessica Johns competes in the Quarter Horse Show Sunday atthe Kansas State Fair. Jessica took first in youth reining andsecond in Novice Horsemanship and open ranch pleasure. Sheand her family will go to Oklahoma City later this year for theAQHA open world show in ranch horse pleasure.

First graders Grace Baker, Tuckyr Russell,Aidan Allen, Sahra Kroeker, Tyne Ellis-Claassen, Brayden Stewart, Matthew Easter-

wood, Kylie Brummett and Ethan Glave dis-play their school supplies donated by RollaLions Club.

Jessica Johns competedin the Quarter Horse ShowSunday at the Kansas StateFair. She placed second inNovice Horsemanship andopen ranch pleasure, andfirst in youth reining. Sherode her seven year old mare,Smoke N Gin in these compe-titions.

Because she earned pointsat several shows throughoutthe summer, Jess qualifiedfor the AQHA open worldshow in ranch horse pleas-ure. She will be traveling toOklahoma City in Novemberfor this prestigious show. Al-though she also qualified forthe AQHA youth world andnovice world in reigning andcutting, and horsemanshipand reining, she and herfamily decided not to attendthat show.

The Rolla Lions Club pre-sented school supplies to allfirst grade students againthis year. The club serves thecommunity well, but is espe-cially generous with the stu-dents in USD #217. Inaddition to providing first

graders with their entire listof school supplies, they helppurchase glasses for stu-dents in need, give scholar-ships to graduating seniors,and support students whoneed assistance with specialeducational trips and ven-

tures.Club members presenting

the supplies to Miss Jarvis'sfirst grade class are: Presi-dent Cheryl Archuleta, PatFloyd, Leland Lehnert, MerlinStout, Ron Reed, Stuart Sut-ton and Jorge Pando.

Ron and Temple Reed cel-ebrated their sixtieth weddinganniversary Saturday nightwith scores of friends and rel-atives attending. Their 1950'stheme was fun for all atten-dees who sported the plasticcat-eye and “nerdy” blackeyeglasses throughout theevening.

Ron and Temple's childrenKathy Mackie and Mike andGreg Reed helped with thearrangements for theevening. Their granddaugh-ters donned gowns from the1950s and looked just likethe original Barbie dolls.Friends and former col-leagues drove from all overthe Midwest to enjoy the fes-tive affair with Ron and Tem-ple.

The Reeds taught for manyyears in Rolla High School.Ron taught social studies andserved as the school coun-selor, as well as coaching avariety of sports. Temple wasan English teacher and

coached forensics. Since theirretirement, Temple has di-rected productions of theMorton County TheaterGroup, and Ron has builthomes, play sets and hasdone everything else Templetold him to do. The Reedshave been outstanding com-munity members and greatfriends.

We congratulate them fortheir six decades of marriage!

The Rolla high footballteam defeated the Tyrone,Oklahoma Bobcats Fridaynight. It was an especiallysweet victory for the Piratessince Tyrone solidly defeatedRolla last year. Although thePirates lost a few key big menfrom last year's team, every-one filled in the gaps andplayed hard every play.

Coaches Jon Schnable, JeffBraun and Kent Milburnwere thrilled with the per-formance of the boys.

Rolla junior high's footballand volleyball teams openedtheir seasons against theMoscow Wildcats. The LadyPirates varsity and junior var-sity volleyball teams scoredvictories, but the footballteam fell to the Wildcats intheir season opener.

Saturday, the Lady Piratescompeted in the UlyssesTournament. They defeatedGuymon Middle School, butlost their next two games.They will be in action againstSouth Baca and Deerfieldnext week.

Reeds celebrate with 1950s party

Volleyball team wins over MJHS

RHS boysdefeatTyrone

Rolla Lions distribute supplies to first graders

Jessica impresses State Fair judges

At the age of 12 to 15, manyyoung women are experiencingthe body and life changes thataccompany adolescence. It canbe difficult to imagine thatbreasts that are just beginningto develop may contain cancer.But such is the reality for somegirls.

The majority of women whoreceive a breast cancer diagno-sis are over the age of 40. Ex-perts at Monroe Carell Jr.Hospital at Vanderbilt Univer-sity note that only five percentof breast cancer cases arefound in women under the ageof 40. However, the hospital re-cently treated a 14-year-old girlwho found a lump and learnedshe had a rare form of breastcancer called a phyllodestumor. In 2009, a 13-year-oldfrom Little Rock, Ar. found aquarter-sized lump in her rightbreast, while a 19-year-oldstudent at the College of NewJersey was diagnosed with

cancerous cells and underwenta bilateral mastectomy.

Though such cases arerare, it behooves teenage andadolescent girls to familiarizethemselves with the diseaseand be mindful of their breasthealth.

Some organizations haveincreased breast cancer mes-sages for young girls, and it isnot uncommon to find youngwomen participating in runsand fundraisers for breast can-cer research. Some organiza-tions even conduct breastcancer workshops to educateyoung women about breasthealth. Dorothy Paterson ofTexas, a former Girl Scoutleader who was diagnosed withbreast cancer herself, beganconducting workshops for GirlScouts in 2007. The idea isn'tto scare girls into believingthey have the disease, butrather to increase their aware-ness of changes in their bodies

that may or may not be nor-mal.

Some parents worry thateducating children aboutbreast cancer may cause themto worry unnecessarily, espe-cially considering a young girl'srisk of developing breast can-cer is so minimal. However,others see the importance inschooling girls early on abouta disease that is so common.Advocates of teaching younggirls about breast cancer oftennote that any effort to helpsave lives and promote healthis worthwhile.

Just as with older women,adolescents and teens shouldrealize that eating healthyfoods, exercising, avoiding al-cohol and tobacco, and main-taining annual physical examswith a doctor are key ways toreduce the risk for cancer.

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1) Classified ad rate is $.20 per word per insertion. The weekly minimum is $3.35. 2) Classified display advertising rate is $5.00 per column inch. 3) All cards of thanks are charged at the display rate. 4) All real estate advertising in this newspaperis subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, children, or national origin or an intention to make any suchpreference, limitation, or discrimination." This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on anequal opportunity basis.

HELP WANTED

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Remember:

Stevens County Healthcare has a position open at Pioneer Manorin the Dietary Department for a Homemaker. Hours include day andevening, some weekends and holidays. Need to have an understandingof basic food preparation, food safety and sanitation important for thisposition. Homemaker will be working in a household preparing break-fast to order as the residents arrive in the dining room and also prepar-ing salads, desserts, and breads for the lunch and supper meal. Stevens County Healthcare is looking for a team-oriented Radi-ographic Technologist to work PRN shifts. All eligible candidatesmust have a current Kansas Licensee, be a registered ARRT, and beable to perform routine diagnostic X-Rays and CT exams without su-pervision. Stevens County Hospital’s Long Term Care Unit is currentlysearching for a Full-time CNA to work the night shift at PioneerManor from 6 pm - 6 am. All interested candidates must have or beeligible for a Kansas CNA License. We offer a great benefit package andan incentive for CNA experience. Stevens County Hospital’s Long Term Care Unit is currentlysearching for a CNA to work the evening shift at Pioneer Manorfrom 6 - 9 pm. All interested candidates must have or be eligible for aKansas CNA License. We offer a great benefit package and an incentivefor CNA experience. Stevens County Healthcare is searching for Full-time RNs andLPNs to work at Pioneer Manor Nursing Home. These positions arefor the night shift (6 pm - 6 am). Interested candidates must be certifiedwith a Kansas license to be eligible for these positions. Stevens County Healthcare is searching for Full-time, Part-timeand PRN RNs or LPNs to work on the Med/Surg floor. These posi-tions are for night shift (7 pm-7 am). All candidates must have a KansasRN/LPN licensure to be eligible. We are also searching for PRN CNAsto work as needed. All candidates must have a Kansas CNA license tobe eligible. We offer outstanding benefits, competitive wages, sign onbonus of $2000 with one year contract for FT RNs/LPNs; $1000 withone year contract for PT RNs/LPNs; and mileage reimbursement to RNsor LPNs that live 15 miles or more outside of Stevens County.

Please contact Robyn Medina in Human Resources 620-544-8511 with any questions.

Applications can be picked up at the Information Desk located by the Medical Clinic.

CURRENT OPENINGS AT STEVENS COUNTY HOSPITAL,

MEDICAL CLINIC ANDPIONEER MANOR NURSING HOME

Seasonal Harvest OperatorsExperience preferred but not required.

Pay DOECall (620)544-8522

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Pacific Ag is currently seekinga full-time Ag Mechanic.Salary is based on experience.

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IMPERIAL SECURITY8 Officers Needed

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HELP WANTEDWorkers for feed lot and fence building

in the Ulysses area. Full time position. Call Brandon at 620-544-6345 or the office at 620-544-8300 (tfc34)

HELP WANTEDFARM WORKERS. Must have experience with JohnDeere equipment, AMS (Automated Driving) and centerpivot irrigation in Ulysses area. Also, workers in Guymon area for center pivot irrigation. Valid insurableDrivers License required. Full time positions.

Call Jason Schoenfelder at 903-249-2213 orOffice at 620-544-8300.

(tfc37)

HELP WANTEDPearcy Irrigation is

growing their service department and needs twoCenter Pivot Service Men.

Ag related experienceand/or strong mechanical

ability desired. Stop by our office at

510 W. 5th for an application or call

Jonathan at 620-541-1049.

(4c36)

APPRENTICE/ JOURNEYMAN LINEMANSouthern Pioneer Electric Company is seeking a highly moti-

vated individual for the position of Apprentice/JourneymanLineman. Must have a High School diploma or equivalent. On-the-job training will be provided and individual must acquire,within a reasonable time span, the skills and knowledge utilizedin the construction and maintenance of overhead and URD dis-tribution and transmission system and related activities. Success-ful applicant will be required to climb poles, use equipment, andmust successfully complete the Apprenticeship program. Inter-ested candidate must have excellent interpersonal communicationskills, a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail, be self-motivated, and enjoy public contact and ability to work with a va-riety of employees and consumers under differing circumstances.Working conditions include mostly outside work in all types ofweather with heavy lifting. May also require working some ir-regular hours including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Southern Pioneer Electric will reward the right person with acompetitive compensation and benefit package.

Finalist will be required to successfully pass a post-offer phys-ical examination and alcohol-drug test, and must possess or ob-tain a valid Kansas CDL. At time of employment, must residewithin 15 minutes of headquarters in Liberal KS.

For a complete copy of Position Outline or Job Specifications,contact Melissa Morales at Southern Pioneer Electric. Applicationor resumes may be mailed to Southern Pioneer Electric, ATT:Melissa Morales, Human Resources, PO Box 430, Ulysses, KS67880, hand-delivered to Pioneer Electric, 1850 W. Oklahoma,Ulysses, Kansas, and emailed to mmorales@pioneerelectric.coop.Deadline for submission of applications or resumes is September16, 2013. Southern Pioneer Electric is an E.O.E.

(2c36)

CIRCULATION CLERKThe Stevens County Library is looking for a dedicated,

energetic, public service oriented staff member to perform all circulation desk operations.

Position is 40 hours per week, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.Monday through Friday, occasional Saturdays.

Salary: based on qualificationsBenefits: Health Insurance, KPERS, Paid vacation after 12 months

Applications and a full job description are available at the Library.

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NOW HIRING FOR NIGHT SHIFTNIGHT SHIFT

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POSITION AVAILABLEHPEC SPECIAL ED PARAPROFESSIONAL

Working in Rolla SchoolsJob Title: Special Ed Paraprofessional

Term: 2013-2014 School YearSalary: Base Hourly Wage - $8.00 Placement on salary schedule

is based upon review of previous experience, in-service participation, and/or relevant college course work.

Deadline for Applications: Open until filledApplications can be picked up at USD 217 District Office,

204 Van Buren, Rolla, Ks. 67954 ordownloaded online: www.highplainsed.com. (Please return applications to Shelli Burrows)

For more information, call 620-593-4344 Fax: 620-593-4250

CURRENT OPENINGS AT ABENGOA BIOENERGYWe are recruiting for the following positions at our

first-of-its-kind facility in Hugoton:Plant Engineers; Microbiologist; Electrical Maintenance

Technicians; Plant Operators (Shift Workers). Applicants should have a good work ethic and the ability

to work closely within a team environment. Good payand great benefits with Health, Dental, Vision and

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Click “English” then “Employment” at the bottom of the page.

Then click “Job Location” to find the Hugoton positions.

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HELP WANTEDPlains Auto Parts

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TRANSPORT & BOBTAIL DRIVERS WANTED

for very progressive, family-oriented company.Benefit package includes uniforms, health insurance, paid vacation and sick leave. Competitive pay based on experience.Clean CDL required. Applicant must pass physical, drugscreen and back exam.

Apply in person at:Lathem Water ServiceHwy 25 S, Ulysses, KSOr call 620-356-3422 tfc

GRAIN CART DRIVER NEEDEDGrain cart driver needed for

full time harvest season. Competitive pay with potential of full time job placement.

Call CPS Operating for more information on how you can work in a progressive

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620-428-6400 or 620-544-5223(5c34)

USD 210 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYDistrict: Energetic individual to serve as

Secretary in the Central Office. Skills needed include organization, basic technology and basic of-fice skills. All candidates will be considered but applicants withprevious experience and/or bilingual are encouraged to apply.

Position open until filled.(tfc37)

ULYSSES WAREHOUSE OPERATORWarehouse operator is required for MIN-AD’s warehouseand transload facility in Ulysses. Warehouse operator will berequired to unload bulk hopper cars, inspect and load out trucks,maintain inventory records, prepare shipping documents (bill oflading, scale ticket, and conveyance form) and perform basicmaintenance. Ability to work independently and safely is essen-tial. Reporting will be to the Engineering Manager located in Win-nemucca, NV. This position will require close attention to qualityassurance and feed industry safety standards. Compensation willdepend on experience. An excellent benefit package is provided.

For application contact 888-848-8178.(2c37)

HELP WANTED: Housekeeper for B&B Motel. Call 620-544-2466. (4c37)

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Hugoton Hermes Deadline - Mondays 5:00 p.m.

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HOUSE FOR SALE: Largebrick home in Elkhart, 5292sq. ft., 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, 4car garage, $275,000. Call620-697-2235 or 620-518-1837.

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---------------FOR SALE: Three ChinaCabinets, 6’ tall, 40-46” wide.All like new. Three-piece En-tertainment Center with 30”television set. Like new. Call620-544-1710. (tfc35)

---------------FOR SALE: 1996 Jayco De-signer fifth wheel camper.36.5 feet long, 14 foot slide-out, garden tub and shower,3 burner stove with oven, re-frigerator with ice maker, 10gallon hot water. Call 620-544-1814. (4p34)

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FOR SALE: 8000 watt portercable generator for sale.Electric start. Call 620-417-3998. (2p37)

---------------FOR SALE: Computer deskwith bookcase, $75.00;Loveseat (makes into twinbed), $50.00; Berkline re-cliner moss green, $25.00;Humphries aluminumstorm door, $75.00; Insulatedduck overalls, size medium,$25.00. Call 620-544-2568.

(1c37)

---------------FOR SALE: Mattress androll of carpet. Call 620-544-7976. (1c37)

Call Selia Crawford at 544-2182If no answer, leave message

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SUPPORT GROUPS

FOR RENT: 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments. Furnished or un-furnished. Bills included, washer and dryer, and cable. Call544-2232. (tfc)

GARAGE SALES

WANTEDWANT TO PURCHASE:Minerals and other oil/gasinterests. Send details toP.O. Box 13557, Denver, Co.80201.

(150p49-12)

---------------WANTED: Offering $5 forrecently killed rattlesnakes.Minimum of 18” usable skinand rattler required. Will pos-sibly pick up in StevensCounty. Call 544-3039 andask for G.W.

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---------------WANT TO BUY: SilverCoins, Marbles, Oil Lamps,Old Tools, Pedal Toys, ToyTractors, Pre 1970 Toys, OldMusical Instruments AnyCondition, Hunting Knives,Pocket Knives, FishingLures. Call 620-360-0249.

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PREGNANT? NEED HELP?Call Birthright of GardenCity, 620-276-3605 or Birth-line of Liberal, 1404 N. West-ern, 620-626-6763. (tfc3)

ALCOHOLICS ANONY-MOUS will help you if yousincerely want to stop drink-ing. Call 544-8633. (tfc1)

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Project HopeOpen Tues & Thurs

8:30 - 11:30 a.m. 1030 S. Main (tfc37)

Pioneer ManorFamily Support Group3rd Tuesdays - 1:00 p.m.3rd Thursdays - 5:15 p.m. Chapel at Pioneer Manor

(tfc15)AL-Anon Family GroupMen & Women of alcoholic family &

friends meet at 1405 Cemetery Rd. Mon. & Thurs. 8 pm

544-2610 or 544-2854kansas-al-anon.org (tfc)

BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY

(620)544-7777UPERIOR 510 E. 3rd

OLUTIONS HugotonHOME REPAIR & LAWN CARE

Alan D. Higgins, Owner

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Great Deals ~ Easy Financing ~ Quality ServiceOffice: (620)544-7800

531 S. JacksonHugoton, Ks. 67951 (tfc6)

FDT ELECTRICFrankie Thomas, owner

Licensed & InsuredOver 30 years’ experience in

Residential & Commercial Wiring544-5915 or 544-7776

(tfc34)

(620)428-65181182 Road Q • Hugoton

(tfc12)

Small Engine RepairYour Snapper Dealer

OD’s SHOP

620-428-6063 113 S Main, Hugoton(tfc)

600 E. 11th

IN STOCK*Carpet *Tile

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Kelly Mace910 Van Buren

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1107 S. MonroeHUGOTON, KANSAS

The CLW Trust i s current ly se l l ing the home located at 1107 S . Monroe ,Hugoton, Kansas by pr ivate auct ion. The home contains approximate ly2,284 square feet on the main f loor and approximately 700 square feet in thebasement . The main f loor has 2 bedrooms, 2 baths , a formal l iv ingroom/dining area, a family room with a wood burning f ireplace and an at-tached one car garage. The basement is unfinished with a half bath. Bid-ding wi l l commence on September 9 , 2013 at 8:00 a .m. Bidding wi l lterminate on September 30, 2013, at 5:00 p.m. Please submit your bids toWayne R. Tate by cal l ing 620-544-2103. The home wil l be sold “as is” andwithout any warranties , express or implied. The Trust reserves the right toreject any and all offers, to extend the time for accepting bids and to furthernegotiate with any of the bidders. A copy of the proposed real estate con-tract can be obtained during regular off ice hours, from Wayne R. Tate, atTate & Kitzke, L.L.C. , 1024 S. Trindle, Hugoton, Kansas.

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---------------GARAGE SALE: Friday, September 13, 4:00-8:00 p.m., andSaturday, September 14, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon, 804 S. Jef-ferson, Furniture, Baby Stroller, Lots of Toys and Miscella-neous

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---------------HUGE GARAGE SALE: Saturday, September 14, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon, 200 Van Buren, Appliances, Some Furnitureand Miscellaneous

---------------GARAGE SALE: Saturday, September 14, 8:00 a.m. - 1:00p.m., 613 S. Van Buren, Clothes, Toys, TV and Much More.

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THE HUGOTON HERMES522 S. MAIN, HUGOTON, KS

If you thought you’d had arough summer, consider thewell-planned wanderings ofMonsieur Patrice Theberge ofQuebec City, Canada. Pack-ing his custom bicycle withprovisions including food, atent, an air mattress and astove among other things, heset out June 21 on his 2000+mile journey toward CostaRica!

Garnering the attention ofseveral Hugoton residents,Patrice’s bike carries all hecould need — save for a few“comforts of home” like awarm shower or a nice comfyLa-Z-Boy. Wednesday, Sep-tember 4, Patrice made hisway to Hugoton, where hevisited the Stevens County Li-brary to update his socialmedia accounts. The Hermescaught up with him in theSCL’s Computer Lab, wherehe decided to take a breakfrom updating his online blog

— www.patbike543. revolublog.com — to chat abouthis trip.

As he stepped out of theair conditioning, “It’s so coldin there compared to out herein the sun!” Patrice proceededto explain his complicatedschedule of stopping everyhour to stretch, and everythree hours to eat. Patricestated he attempts to travelapproximately 60 kilometers,or 38 miles, per day, travelingat about ten kilometers perhour. At this point, he isahead of schedule regardinghis route to Costa Rica. Whenasked, “Why Costa Rica?” heanswered he loves the peopleand the culture after his lastvisit two years ago.

When speaking withPatrice, you quickly learn heis a very likeable and friendlyguy, greeting nearly everyonehe comes across. He seemsused to the attention he gets

manipulating his slightly un-usual contraption acrossthousands of miles inCanada, the United Statesand soon Central America.

One thing is for certain:Patrice is a man who recog-nizes and counts his bless-ings. He praised the Web sitewarmshowers.org, an onlinecommunity of approximately36,000 long distance cyclistswho outline where fellow cy-clists can depend on a warmshower, a hot meal, or awarm bed. During his inter-view, two clean cut mission-aries — also visiting the SCL— overheard his inquiriesabout where he could pitchhis tent for the night. They of-fered the enormous grassycomfort of their church build-ing’s grounds. After thankingthem and posing for The Her-mes’ picture, Patrice and histwo new friends walked downto Hugoton’s Main Street,leaving this reporter with asmile and an interesting arti-cle for The Hermes.

You can follow Pat on hisjourney remotely by visitingwww.patbike543.revolublog.com or on Facebook. Remem-ber, French is Patrice’s firstlanguage so you’ll have totranslate, but the extra effortis worth it to vicariouslytravel through the UnitedStates into Central America!

The September meeting ofthe Beta Sigma Chapter ofDelta Kappa Gamma was inHugoton Monday, September9, 2013, at the Hugoton HighSchool Library.

Eudon Dutton, president,called the business meeting toorder at 7:00 p.m..

Eleven members answeredroll with "Organizational TipsFor Your Classroom". For De-votions, Alice Conner told of aletter from a mother whosedaughter was killed at theSandy Hook School. For WorldFellowship, Alice Conner askedeach member to give twenty-five cents if she left dishes un-done and twenty-five cents ifshe stuffs stuff in tubs. For KeyPolish, Retta Eiland told mem-bers the type of leaders they areby their lipstick (flat, pointed,lopsided). Janie Shelden readthe minutes of the April meet-

ing. Teresa Smith gave thetreasurer's report.

Delicious refreshments wereprovided by hostesses AnnetteSosa and Eileen Gillespie.Each member was given a clipand note pad to help them keeporganized.

Eudon Dutton showed aninteresting DVD entitled "GetOrganized with Cyndi Seidler"for the program. Each memberwas given a folder with ideas tohelp keep them organized.

Dot Leiker's name wasdrawn for a DKG apron. SueMeek's name was drawn for abook, Organize Now!, by Jen-nifer Ford Berry. Retta Eiland'sname was drawn for a letter/card organizer.

Members attending wereTracy Brecheisen, Alice Con-ner, Eudon Dutton, Retta Ei-land, Eileen Gillespie, WinnieHagenah, Dot Leiker, Sue

Meek, Janie Shelden, AnnetteSosa, and Teresa Smith.

The next Beta Sigma meet-ing will be October 7, 2013 atRolla.

Story submitted by SueMeek.

Electric cooperatives haveassisted Kansas in becoming aleading state in delivering eco-nomic development assistancethrough the use of USDARural Development Agency’sRural Economic DevelopmentLoan and Grant (REDLG) Pro-gram and the Cooperative’slocal relending program, theRevolving Loan Fund (RLF).Since 1998, these programshave assisted over 84 ruralKansas businesses, impactingover 2,151 jobs, and providingover 28 million in loans andgrants across the SunflowerState.

Pioneer Electric Cooperativeassisted Stevens County Hos-pital in utilizing the RLF pro-gram to finance the remodel ofthe outdated X-ray room andequipment. The funding alsowent towards purchasing aportable X-ray unit and updat-ing the mammogram systemto a Computed RadiographicDigital Program.

“These upgrades will enableus to become more efficient,precise and prompt in ourdaily diagnosis of routine diag-nostic procedures and mam-mogram procedures,” LindaStalcup, Stevens County Hos-pital CEO said. “We are plan-ning to add advanced painmanagement procedures withthe acquisition and use of theportable equipment.”

The RLF program provides

supplemental funding to eligi-ble rural projects through Pio-neer Electric Cooperative.Under the RLF program, Pio-neer Electric provides low-in-terest term loans to localbusinesses and individuals forprojects that will create or re-tain employment in ruralareas. The ultimate recipientsrepay the cooperative directly,who in turn re-loans monies toother eligible borrowers.

“The Board of Trustees ofPioneer Electric were excitedand did not hesitate whenStevens County Hospital ap-proached the Cooperative toseek funding to remodel andupdate its X-ray room andequipment,” Executive VP-As-sistant CEO Randy Magnisonsaid. “The Cooperative is com-mitted and it is important thatwhen possible, we assist thecritical care facilities in ourrural communities to retainstate-of-the-art services thatbenefit both our members andthe communities in which theylive.”

The remodel is located atthe Stevens County Hospital inHugoton.

Since the completion of theproject, Stevens County Hospi-tal hosted a come and go openhouse Thursday, September12. It consisted of buildingtours, refreshments and a rib-bon cutting.

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Museum Curator Gladys Renfro celebrated her birthday Sep-tember 5, 2013 with this beautiful bouquet of flowers. Sheteased that she is coming up thirty five years old.

Jean Randall brought in this prized photograph belonging toher mother Edna Carpenter to the Stevens County Gas and His-torical Museum. Left to right are family members Jill MariaRandall Tanking, Tony Stegman, Jan Randall Lunceford andJean Randall. The hair wreath in the center of the picture wasmade by Georgia Mae Chittenden out of crocheted family hairwrapped around fine wire.

Patrice Theberge takes a break from his travelsto pose for a picture for the Hermes and tocheck out his social media accounts in the

Stevens County Library’s Computer Lab.Check for his current location at www.patbike543.revolublog.com

Patrice Theberge stops in Hugoton on his way to Costa Rica

Open house at hospital

The Stevens County Gasand Historical Museum is lo-cated at 905 S. Adams. Youare invited to visit Mondays

through Fridays from 1:00 to5:00 p.m. and Saturdaysfrom 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

MUSEUM UPDATEfrom The Stevens County Gas & Historical Museum

Gladys Renfro and Beulah Carter

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