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Serving Macon County Since 1876Wednesday, October 10, 2012

STaY aLeRT dURIng haRVeSTThe Missouri State High-

way Patrol reminds drivers that this is the time of year when crops are harvested. Thus, drivers should expect heavier farm machinery traffic--especially on rural highways. Farming plays a vital role in Missouri’s economy, history, and iden-tity. Safety is important to drivers and farmers sharing the road!

“We encourage every-one, whether they live or will be traveling through a farming community, to stay alert and drive courte-ously,” said Colonel Ron Replogle, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. “Motorists should watch for farm implements on the roadway this time of year. Farmers need to be extra vigilant while on the roadway during the harvest season.”

There were a total of 231 Missouri traffic crashes in-volving farm equipment in 2011. In those crashes three drivers were killed and 17 were injured. In addition, 10 farm tractor passengers were injured.

The following are re-minders for safe travel dur-ing this busy time of year:

FOR MOTORISTS* Stay alert for slow

moving farm equipment.* When you come up be-

hind a tractor or other farm machinery, please slow down and be patient. Wait to pass until you have a clear view of the road ahead and there is no oncoming traffic. Never pass on a hill or curve.

* Collisions commonly occur when a motorist tries to pass a left-turning farm vehicle. A tractor that ap-pears to be pulling to the right side of the road to let motorists pass, instead

may be preparing to make a wide left turn. Watch the farmer’s hand and light sig-nals closely.

* Pay close attention to farm equipment entering and leaving the highway from side roads and drive-ways.

* Special attention must be paid when traveling at dawn or dusk when the sun makes it difficult for drivers to see.

FOR FARMERS* Make sure any farm

equipment being driven on Missouri roadways is prop-erly marked with lights and a “slow-moving vehicle” emblem.

* Drive as far to the right

as possible.* If traffic accumulates

behind you on a road where it is difficult to make a safe pass, you should pull off onto the side of the road in a level area, so the vehicles can pass.

* If possible, never trav-el on roadways at dawn or dusk when it is more diffi-cult for drivers of other ve-hicles to see.

* Like other motor ve-hicles, most modern farm tractors have seat belts.

Always use a seat belt when operating a tractor equipped with a roll-over protection structure.

* Often, all-terrain ve-hicles are used for agricul-tural purposes. ATVs being used for farming can only travel on highways during daylight hours and must be equipped with lights, a bicycle flag, and “slow-moving vehicle” emblem. The law requires anyone under the age of 18 to wear a safety helmet when op-erating an ATV; the Patrol, however, recommends all operators to wear a safety helmet regardless of age.

aLLYSOn gULSO named TOBUena VISTa dean’S LIST

Allyson Gulso from Macon,MO was named to Buena Vista Univer-sity’s Graduate & Professional Stud-ies Dean’s List for terms five and six. Students named to the Dean’s List must have a minimum grade point av-erage of 3.5 for the two terms, based on a 4.0 grade point system, and must have taken at least 12 hours of course-work.

Allyson attends the Ottumwa loca-tion of Buena Vista University Gradu-ate & Professional Studies.

haLLOWeen cOLORIng cOnTeST

The Home Press South Edition will be giving away 4 Halloween Baskets to the winners of the Halloween Col-oring contest for 2012.

Categories will be Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade & Third Grade

The contest is for any child in Ma-con and Shelby County

Instructions:Go to www.hpsouth.com and print

off the Halloween Coloring Page un-der the contest tab. Once you have completed your page, print your name, grade and school on the back. Have your page turned in to The Home Press at 111 N. Rollins St. Ma-con, MO 63552 on or before Noon on Monday, October 22, 2012. The winners will be notified on Tuesday, October 23rd to pick up their prize and have their photos taken for the Halloween issue of The Home Press!Don’t have internet? No problem, stop by our office downtown Macon and we will give you the coloring page. Employees and family of The Home Press may not participate in this contest.

Velocity Fastpitch 12u won first place in the USSSa September Smash Tournament in columbia, mO during the weekend of Sept 29th and 30th. Front row (left to right): Jillian King (macon), aleassa hruska (atlanta), Rachel Smith (monroe city), mary Bradley (Bevier), mckenzie West (monroe city). Second row (left to right): haylee petre (atlanta), Lauren Youngblood (monroe city), Summer Wood (Laplata), Bryn Wooldridge (Salisbury), and peyton milburn (ma-con). not pictured: Baileigh horne (macon). Third row (left to right: coaches- Shawn petre, Tabetha petre, and Jeff milburn . Velocity Fastpitch is based in the macon county area and offers teams for 10u, 12u, and 16u girls.

VeLOcITY TaKeS FIRST aT cOLUmBIa

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Send your guesses to:kathy@maconhomepress.com. Winner receives bragging rights and your name in next week’s Macon Home Press. If you have an old photo that you think

would stump your friends, send it to us!

The Josephine Gar-lock Morrow Tent #23 of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 met on September 25, 2012 at the Novinger Firehouse with 11 members.

President, Ruth Mas-ten and Chaplain, Janie Magers opened the meet-ing at 1:33 pm.

The Charter was draped, a candle was lit and a rose was placed on the Bible in memory of Joann Tharp. Many spoke of Joann’s activi-ties in the different orga-nizations that she was a part of.

Patriotic Instructor pro tem, Gale Shoush led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. The minutes of the May meeting was read by Secretary, Met-tie Davis and approved as read. The treasurer, Marilyn Freeman gave the treasury report from June through September. There was no communi-

cations or bills.Courtesy chairman,

Catherine Llewellyn reported sending a get well card to Gloria Win-kler and birthday cards to Ruth Walton, Mar-garet Mobley, Danette Miller, Elna Williams, Joanne Gaines, Susan Irick, Christine Ankeney, Ruth Masten, Catharine Llewellyn, Lea Rob-ertson, Martha Henry, Donna Lester, Janie Mag-ers and Gina Smith from June through Septem-ber. Jackalyn Koopman Jennifer Winkler and Donna Ayers during the month of May.

Six members attended the State Department Convention in June. It was reported that the si-lent auction basket was a big hit.

The new State Depart-ment President, Marilyn Freeman of the Tent #23 has not finalized her state project.

The 2013 convention

will be held at the Com-fort Inn in Macon on June 7-9. There was some dis-cussion on the conven-tion, more will be done after January 1.

More information was given on the “Day of Re-membrance” to be held on September 29, at Ma-con.

Elna Williams report-ed on the appreciation luncheon to be sponsored by the Mexico Veteran’s home in Mexico on Octo-ber 17th.

Mettie Davis read the sixth installment of “ Patriotic Pals, Tails of the Civil War “ which is told through the eyes of a dog.

The meeting was ad-journed at 2:33.

.Refreshments were served by hostesses, Janie Magers and Mettie Davis to: Ruth Mas-ten, Catharine Llewellyn, Becky Lang, Marilyn Freeman, Donna Ayers, Elna Williams, Aileen Burns, Betty Swisher and Gale Shoush.

The program was the tour of the Coal Miner’s Museum at Novinger.

LOCAL NEWS2A Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Macon Home Press • South Edition • hpsouth.com

Last week’s photo was of Julie Gray and Vickie Tamlin. Congratulations to Richelle Shoemaker for be-ing the first to guess.

This week’s photo is one of our Desert Storm Vet-erans. If you see him out and about be sure and say Thank You! Get us your guesses soon!

CIVIC CLub’S AppReCIATIon DInneR

A record crowd came to the Civic Club’s Apprecia-tion Dinner to enjoy a complete dinner with ham and beans, corn bread, relish, desserts and a vari-ety of drinks. Sixty guests registered with the door prize drawn at noon. Lonnie Hensley won the hand crafted pen donated by Leighton Reid. The october dinner is scheduled for october 25th, 2012 at the community building in the park.

Happy 90th to Jim DillonJim Dillon, a resident of bucklin since 1978, will turn 90 on octo-ber 16th. Family and friends will be observ-ing and celebrating his birthday with him. Jim is still very active and enjoys spending much of his time working in his garage restoring Crosely automobiles. please join his family in celebrating with him by sending your birth-day greetings to: Jim Dillon 602 Hickory St. bucklin, Mo 64631 it is a pleasure to wish this good neighbor a happy birthday.

Happy 89th to Jean Johnston Jean Johnston cel-ebrated her 89th birth-day recently at the Clar-ence Civic Club. Many family members and friends came to enjoy the fish fry and share the day with Jean.

Josephine Garlock Morrow holds its monthly meeting

  In July 2012, Christy Riekeberg, RN Director of Nursing at Loch Ha-ven was nominated as an inspiring leader in the Timberland PRO Renova Healthcare Appreciation Contest. She won the grand prize, which con-sisted of 14 pairs of Tim-berland PRO Renova professional shoes, water bottles, and lanyards for many of the staff, a $2000 value. Staff members were chosen by a random draw-ing to receive the pairs of shoes and other gifts.

Christy was inter-viewed by The Nerdy Nurse Blog. When asked what inspired her to go into nursing her response was, “Unlike a lot of nurs-es, in my family, we had no nurses. I was born and raised in a farming com-munity. When I gradu-ated from high school, the county nursing home was across the street from the school. Unsure of my career path, I decided to work there for the sum-mer. I spent that summer working night shift as a nursing assistant. Those residents had such an in-fluence on my life, by fall I realized I wanted to pur-

sue nursing. I attended the LPN program at the clos-est vocational technical school and went to work at the acute care hospital. I quickly realized that acute care was not my calling. I married and the oppor-tunity presented itself for me to attend the associate degree nursing program at the community col-lege. I graduated, applied to Loch Haven Nursing home as a graduate nurse and have been there 24 years. I have been the Di-rector of Nursing for four years.”

“During my nursing career, I have had the op-portunity to care for many of my family members during their last days. My grandmother was an inspi-ration to me growing up. She was a very spiritual lady and truly lived by the golden rule. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer and made the de-cision she could no lon-ger live alone, she chose to come to Loch Haven. I was able to give back to her during those final days...this was my gift to one of the ladies who truly inspired my life.”

Recipients of the awards: Standing (l-r) Amy Goosey, Carol White, b.J. Roberts, Terry brammer, Lea Apel. Sitting Christy Riekeberg. not pictured: Schela enyard, Rhonda Meyer, becky newberry, brittany Hancock, Charles Satterthwaite, patty Hasselbring, Crystal Smoot, Crystal Teel, paula Stout, and Angiee Gladhill.

Loch Haven Director Wins Timberland Appreciation Award

86 Pounds of Medications Taken Back

The Macon Police De-partment, in conjunction with the Macon Munici-pal Utilities and Macon Co PWSD #1, collected 86 pounds of unwanted medications during the National Prescription Drug Take Back Event this past Saturday . Our previous totals included April 2012 at 83 pounds and October 2011 at 42 pounds, bringing our overall total over 200 pounds already. During the event this past week-end, sites across the State of Missouri collected over 17,000 lbs. These medications have picked up by the DEA to be in-cinerated instead of land-ing in our toilets, landfills and eventually our water supply.

JP’s Hartung’s original store, JP’s Menswear, was opened in 1980.

Now, 32 years later, he owns and operates JP’s Tux, Tees & More in downtown Macon.

Since relocating in 2008, JP has been selling not only T-shirts, and rent-ing tuxedos, he has added a line of gourmet foods and cooking gadgets, in-

cluding Big Green Egg grills and accessories.

He also carries athletic shoes, Red Wing boots and Carhartt work-wear.

His wife, Marilyn runs the shirt shop located in the store.

When asked what made him decide to sell gourmet foods and cooking gad-gets, his reply was simple, “Because I like it!”

JP is very active in the community. He was the past secretary or current vice-president of the Li-on’s Club, the past presi-dent of the Optimist Club, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Association, and Long Branch Lake Association.

JP‘s interest include Classic cars and wood-working-when very little

spare time allows him to.Be sure and watch for

Hawg Father’s Coupon in next weeks edition!

The store, located at the corner of Vine and Rollins in downtown Macon, is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The store number is (660)385-4620.

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

UP CLOSENAME: JP’s Tux, Tees & MoreOWNER: JP and Marilyn Har-tungLOCATION: 101 Vine St., Macon,

MOPHONE: (660) 385-4620ITEMS: Tux, Tees, Gifts and more, all in one loca-tion

Wednesday, October 10, 2012Macon Home Press • South Edition • hpsouth.com

JP Hartung adds gifts & more on Vine St.

Gourmet food and gadgets take their place alongside clothing ‘because I like it,’ JP says

JP’s Tux, Tees & More

kEEPINg dOWNTOWN IN bLOOM

Leigh Simon, member of the Macon downtown Assoc. and Autumn Cunning-ham are making sure the downtown area stays in bloom!

The Friends of Nate Walker Committee is honored to announce that Nate Walker has been en-dorsed by the National Federation of Indepen-dent Business, Missouri leading small business association.

Brad Jones, NFIB/Missouri State director, said “Mr. Walker has received the support of NFIB Missouri because he has a clear under-standing of the needs of small business owners. Nate Walker believes in protecting their rights as well as fighting to keep unnecessary regulations

from adding to the bur-den of running a success-ful business.”

Former State Repre-sentative Bob and Mi-chele Behnen, and Ray and Judy Klinginsmith, held a reception for Nate Walker this past Thurs-day, September 27th. Jones was in attendance to honor longtime NFIB board member and Kirks-ville small business own-er, Harriet Beard with an award for her efforts in advocating for Missouri’s small business. “We ap-preciate Harriet’s hard work and many years of dedicated service,”

said Jones. Beard rep-resents her family busi-ness, Beard’s Decorating Center located downtown Kirksville.

Nate Walker Endorsed by NFIB

Pictured is Nate Walker, Harriet beard and brad Jones, NFIb/Missouri State director.

HARRIET bEARd AWARdEd

Remingtyn Bealmer, Sheridyn Bealmer, Rebec-ca Helton, Abagail Pierce, Jackie Rowe and Anne Thomas from Macon County were among 128 Missouri youth that par-ticipated in a clothing con-struction and consumerism contest during State 4-H

Fashion Review on Sep-tember 8 on the University of Missouri campus.

“This contest is de-signed to be fun, while helping youth enhance their skills and knowledge about sewing, garment se-lection, knitting and cro-cheting and the importance

of setting and achieving goals,” said Alison Cope-land, MU 4-H youth spe-cialist. “State 4-H Fashion Revue is also about expos-ing young people to the re-search, education and oth-er efforts MU is doing in these areas. We want them to see what they might be

able to do with their in-terests at a university like MU.”

The participants, rang-ing in ages 8-18, partici-pated in a local fashion revue competition either in their county or regional area that qualified them to participate in the state con-

tests. Jackie Rowe placed second in the senior divi-sion of clothes you buy, Sheridyn Bealmer placed second in the junior di-vision of clothes you buy and Rebecca Helton placed fourth in the senior division of general clothes you make.

Fashion Revue par-ticipants also gathered in the Memorial Union on the campus to learn about other topics such as public speaking and to participate in a service learning proj-ect that included making 35 weighted blankets for children with autism.

4-H members get a taste of college live during Fashion Review

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COMMENTARYCOMMENT

From the Editor’s Desk

What a week! Fri-day was the Macon High School Homecoming and we had a great turn out! Thank you everyone for all the compliments and visits! We still have a few “Tiger Paws” left so if you don’t have a sub-scription stop by our of-fice and get one! We had several calling to watch the parade on our web-site! We would love to hear your feedback!

How many times have you been somewhere and received the wrong change or was charged the wrong price for some-thing. Sometimes it may be just a few cents and you don’t notice it. I wit-nessed something today that really got me. As I was sitting in the McDon-ald’s drive thru, getting my daily tea, the cashier charged me wrong. The vehicle ahead of me or-dered about $16 worth of food and was charged for my drinks. They didn’t say a word, just paid and went on to get their food. They were even told and just drove off laughing. My question is this, is that small amount worth being judged for?

People don’t seem to have a conscience any-more. Where’s that little voice that used to keep you from doing some-thing so petty? I’ll get off my tangent, but it re-ally gets me and these two adults even had children in the back so will they be taught to think that’s ok?

Halloween is getting close! My daughter is out this evening picking

out costumes! I can’t wait to see what Brylie comes home with. Every year I have Brylie over to decorate pumpkins. I just loved the conversa-tion we had the other day when they were with me. Brylie said “Mom, I have to go to Nana’s house to carve my pumpkin”. I said I still have to buy one but I would get it soon. Her mom told her they could go home and carve hers at home that day, but Brylie quickly replied “I have “a” ideal, mom you go home and carve my pumpkin and I will go to Nana’s and carve one”. I had to laugh, I love the things she comes up with. Before long I will have 2 granddaughters able to talk so watch out mom-my!!!!!!

74 Days until Christ-mas!!!!! I know, some-one reminded me of that and I just had to pass it along. I used to be so good at being organized and prepared, but some-thing has happened to me this year! I know I can’t be getting older and slow-er so I don’t know what has happened!

Have a great week and keep warm! It is 48 de-grees out today! Don’t forget to register for our free website if you are a subscriber!

BY KATHY LIEBHARTEDITOR

kathy@maconhomepress.com

RECIPES

Everyone enjoys trying new recipes. You may find something new to add to your weekly menu. We love to hear from our readers! Please submit your favorite

recipe and we will publish it in one of our issues. Mail to Home Press South, PO Box 65, Bevier, MO 63532 Attn: Reader’s Kitchen

HOME PRESS SOUTH’S PICK OF THE PATCH

Wednesday, October 10, 2012The Macon Home Press • South Edition • hpsouth.com

FROM THE WORSHIP CENTER

Gal.5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you [Delayed, frustrated or hampered] that ye should not obey the truth?

We get no help with our secret struggles. The prophet, James, encour-ages us to confess our faults.

Jesus asked “What can I do for you?” before praying for the blind man. When we make our needs known we are admitting they are too big, too pain-ful, we need help if we are to be rid of them.

Ps.46:1 God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

God does not gos-sip; he can keep a secret. When I pray the prayer is brought to Jesus by the Holy Spirit, and Jesus who sits at the right hand of the Father makes in-tercession on my behalf. Your cry for help makes it to the Throne of God.

Our need is never to re-pulsive for God. He has answered needs in jails, hospitals, fox holes, and he has our answer. Jesus

has suffered in like man-ner as us. He is familiar with all our needs; he knows the pain, and the shame we bare.

The song, What a Friend We Have in Je-sus says, “Oh what need-less shame we bare, all because we do no carry everything to him in prayer”.

When the potter worked the lump of clay it got sticky and unruly. He didn’t throw the clay away. He made it over again. We are expected to turn our life over to the potter. The clay does not form anything; the clay submits to the potter, and he forms what he choos-es.

After twenty five years of addictions, without hope, and a total failure Jesus helped me on to the potter’s wheel and made me over. This happened when I shared my secret failures with Christ

Ron ThomasonPastor of The Worship Center

Why Did I Quit?

This week’s Home Press South’s Pick of the Patch goes to Diane Hicks of Macon! You can’t miss the Fall Colors driving by her home! The Home Press team will be on the lookout for those fall decorations so send us your address to make sure you’re not missed!

MOLTEN BUTTERSCOTCH CAKES

6 tsp. graham cracker crumbs

1 cup butterscotch chips (6oz)

2/3 cup butter

3 whole eggs

3 egg yolks

¾ cup packed brown sugar

½ cup flour

Heat oven to 450 degrees, spray bottoms and sides of 6 (6-ounce) custard cups with baking spray with flour.

Sprinkle 1 tsp. graham cracker crumbs onto bottom and around sides of each cup.In a 1-quart saucepan, melt butterscotch chips and butter over medium heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; cool slightly, about 5 minutes

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat whole eggs and egg yolks with wire whisk or egg beater until well blended. Beat in brown sugar. Beat in melted butterscotch mixture and flour until well blended.

Divide batter evenly among the custard cups. Place cups on cookie sheet with sides.

Bake 12-14 minutes or until sides are set and centers are still soft (tops will be puffed and cracked). Let stand 3 minutes.

Run small knife or metal spatula along sides of cakes to loosen. Immediately place individual dessert plate upside down over top of each cup; turn plate and cup over.

Remove cup. Serve warm.

SNICKERDOODLE BREAD

Makes 2, 9x5 loaves or 1, 10 inch tube cake pan

2 Tbs. ground cinnamon

6 Tbs. sugar

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 ½ tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt

½ cup butter, softened

1 ½ cups sugar

½ cup vegetable oil

3 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup Greek plain yogurt

Heat oven to 350 degrees, spray pan(s) with cooking spray.

In a small bowl, mix 5 teaspoons of the cin-namon and 6 Tablespoons sugar; set aside. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon; set aside.

In a large bowl, beat butter, 1 ½ cups sugar and the oil with electric mixer on medium speed until combined, about 1 minute. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and scraping side of bowl between additions. Beat in vanilla and yogurt. Add flour mixture; stir just until combined.

Pour one-sixth of batter into pan(s); sprinkle with one-sixth of the cinnamon-sugar. Repeat lay-ers twice.

Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick insert-ed in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan(s) to cooling racks. Cool com-pletely before slicing.

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5ACOMMUNITY NEWS

We have been in a season of weddings here at Heartland. In fact, we set a record last Saturday with two weddings on the same day. Miss Kelly Krzenski and Mr. Julian Vera exchanged vows in an outdoor ceremony held at the edge of the woods near our nature trail on Saturday afternoon.

Special guests for the event came all the way from Julian’s home in Co-lombia, South America. Julian came to the States to pursue higher educa-tion and has remained to serve at Heartland. He and Kelly both work in the administrative offices, and Julian also helps lead our Spanish-speaking church service on Friday nights.

Earlier on Saturday, Mr. And Mrs. Richard Heitman exchanged wed-ding vows in a small, family ceremony. This wedding took on extra significance because it was not the first time this couple had walked the aisle together. Mr. Heit-man, who now works as a youth instructor, came through the Heartland Men’s Recovery Program last year. As a result of the changes in his life, his marriage and his family are now being restored.

Heartland Headlines

by Kathy Nickerson CALLAO C8 NEWSCongratulations to Re-

becka Wriedt who has earned her BA in Soci-ology and Psychology through Ashford Univer-sity. September 28 will be her last day at Callao C8.

There is a new face at Callao C8. Katrina Mitch-ell joins our team as a school paraprofessional. She lives in Macon with her husband and 3 chil-dren. She attended Central Methodist University.

Callao C8 is offering a six session parenting pro-gram called Parenting the Love and Logic Way. This program will help parents learn to avoid power strug-gles, stay calm, enforce limits, and much more. It is designed to give parents practical skills that can be used immediately. The classes start October 16 and are free for residents of the school district. For those who live outside the school district , there will be a workbook fee of $10.

CHURCH NEWS The Cowboy Church

met Thursday evening, September 27th, at the 36 & 3 One Stop Cafe in Cal-lao. C. J. Carlson opened the meeting with prayer. Ginny Wright led the group in singing “The Old Rugged Cross”. Richard Castle brought the mes-sage from Ephesians 6: 10-19 entitled” Knowing

the Attributes of God”1: Gird your loins with

truth.2: Wear the Breastplate

of Righteousness3: Preach the good news

of Peace with God.4: Pray, carry the Shield

of Faith.5: Wear the Helmet of

Salvation,Hope. Richard closed the

meeting with prayer and led them in singing a hymn.

The church will meet again October 4th at 7:00 p.m.  CALLAO CHRISTIANCHURCH

Sunday September 30th began with Food & Fellow-ship from 8:15-8:45, fol-lowed by Sunday School classes for all ages at 9:00, Morning Worship at 10:00. Richard Castle opened the service with Welcome and Announcements and a Prayer. Prayer request cards were announced and Jim Franklin has the prayer for these. Bob Gress had the Communion Devotion , followed by serving the Lord’s Supper, which is done each Sunday morn-ing and evening. Jeff Stacy had a Scripture Reading before Ken Mantle’s mes-sage ,”A Life Dedicated To God , There Is None Nobler ! “ taken from Acts 27 : 23.

1: Dedicate yourself to God.

2: Consecrate yourself

to His service.3: Commune with Him,

always aware of His pres-ence.

4: Dedication, consecra-tion, and communion with God will give us useful, happy and victorious lives.

Our Communion ser-vice is open to all baptized believers. 1 Corinthians 11: 27-29.

Our nursery, wee church and children’s church of-fer a warm, caring and fun atmosphere and are well supervised. An usher can tell you where they are lo-cated.

This Sunday was a special day for the Church when following the wor-ship service a ground breaking ceremony was held for the new Family Life Center to be built just north of the church. a car-ry-in dinner followed.

As a congregation not part of any denomination we believe the Bible...( 2 Timothy 3: 16,17) is the

inspired word of God. Ev-ery person has worth as a creation of God, but that all have sinner and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3 : 23), Jesus Christ is the one and only Son of God who died for our sins and arose from the dead.

GOOD INTENTIONSCLUB

The Good Intentions Club held it’s monthly meeting Thursday, Sep-tember 20. Members present were: Lauretta Yutz, Melvina Blew, Mariam Farrington, Delia Morgan,Evelyn Dunham,Jayne Roberts and Louise Davis. The business meeting was called to order at 10:00 by President, Mariam Far-rington. Roll call was an-swered by naming your favorite grade in school. Minutes of the last meet-ing were read by Louise Davis, and were approved,

as well as the financial re-port by Lauretta.

A lap robe had been giv-en to Georgette Cross and a get well card was sent to Violet Watson. Dues were paid by two members. The Happy anniversary song was sung to Jayne Roberts who had her 67th anniver-sary in July when the club didn’t meet. The birthday song was sung to Melvina for her August birthday, when there was also no meeting. Louise’s August wedding anniversary was mentioned.

Louise gave a reading-titled “Dogs.” Delia gave the prayer before the break for lunch when some went to 36 & 3 One Stop Cafe. During lunch an unknown person left three sacks of double knit material for the club’s use. It was greatly ap-preciated. After lunch some of the ladies returned to work on lap robes. The next meeting will be October 4 at the Legion Building.

HAPPY BIRTHDAYJIM DILLON!

JONES’ TO IOWALarry and Thelma

Jones went to the home of their son, Charles, and his family where they at-tended a variety of sport-ing events involving the three grandsons. They were guests in the home of Charles and Doreen Jones in Ely, Iowa.

Thursday evening grandson Mitch played in an eighth grade football game and was TV news anchor in his class reading program.

Friday they attended the Prairie School home-coming parade and var-sity football game. Their grandson, Matthew fills the center position.

Saturday morning they attended a soccer game to cheer for grandson Na-than’s team. His team won the first game and tied in the second one. After the game Nathan had the hon-or of being nominated for All State Team as goalie.

Saturday afternoon off the Jones families went to Iowa City. They enjoyed watching the Iowa March-ing Band Competition. Grandson Matthew is a trombonist in the Prairie School marching band. The 185 member band took second place in the competition.

FINNEY’S ATTENDHOMECOMING

Jim and Peg Finney were in Maryville, Mo for Parent’s Day at NWSU. Their granddaughter, Jen-nifer Stark, is a member of the color guard that performs with the march-ing band. Jennifer is a sophomore at the col-lege. Others attending the game were Ed and Terri (Finney) Stark, Nicholas Stark and Broc Finney and Paige McCollum.

HELP

Do you have a good way to fix fried green to-matoes? A friend just north of town has a patch with loads of green toma-

toes. Her husband is ea-ger to try the fried green tomatoes that are so popu-lar in the south. My friend doesn’t have a recipe (nei-ther do I).

Do you have a recipe to share? Give me a call or email the address at the end of this column.

AIRPORT NEWSA call from Carrol

Switzer shed some light on the question about the Bucklin Airport. Carrol started by telling me how his dad, the late Armel Switzer, was encouraged by pilot Wade Cantwell to take a ride in his airplane. Armel was very suspi-cious but Wade was per-suasive.

Away they went and as Armel told the story, “I promised the good Lord if my feet ever touched the ground they would never leave it again”.

Mr. Switzer was true to his word and never flew again no matter what the pilot promised.

The flight took place at the Bucklin Airport locat-ed, Carrol believes, just south and west of town. The year was either 1927 or 1928. Thanks Carrol

for sharing this family story. (As soon as my next source of information can be reached more details will be given. Thanks to Lou for mentioning a good source, I am looking for him.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAYCARRIE PFEIFER

Carrie (Jenkins) Pfeifer celebrated her birthday on September 29th with fam-ily at a local café. Guests were David Jenkins, Linda Chester, Sandra, Rebekah, Aaron and Megan Sher-muly, Darla, Eden and Heath St. Dennis, Frances Jenkins, and Carrie’s chil-dren; Emily, Hannah and Colton Pfeifer.

WYANDOTTE ANNUAL MEETING

The annual business meeting of the Wyandotte Church and Cemetery was held Sunday afternoon, Sept. 23, 2012 at the Church.

Charles Hughes, Chair-man, conducted the meet-ing. There were 15 in at-tendance.

A bid was accepted from Michael Sattman to install a walk through gate half way between the

Church and the west end of the cemetery. This had been suggested by the late Bernice Hayes’ family for a use of the Bernice Hayes Memorial Fund in the Wyandotte Cemetery Treasury. The same of-ficers as last year were reelected. Leroy Miller, treasurer, reported the Memorial Sunday offer-ing was about half of the usual offering. However mowing expense has been less due to the dry weath-er.

Some sent an offering though they were unable to attend the Memorial Sunday Service.

Families represented at the annual meeting were Anderson, Coulson, Noah, Harper, Williams, Hayes, Ramsey, Hughes and Miller.

The next annual busi-ness meeting will be the 4th Sunday afternoon in September of 2013.

TAKE A LOOKPhillip and Karen Ar-

nold on Lathrop Street have a pink geranium on the west side of their porch that must have 30 or more perfect blooms. They have a lovely porch where they

can relax and watch the world go by. Tish Fox up on Poplar Street has her yard decorated with a nice variety of fall flowers and decorations. It causes you to slow the golf cart to a stop so you can take it all in.

The city park is a busy place with children in the little fort and all over the swings and playing in the round gravel. That will cause you to slow the cart down as well.

From one end of town to the other mums provide a colorful show. Check out the ones at Leighton and Deb Reid’s yard. Fall foli-age is reaching the peak in our trees and shrubs. It is a perfect time of year for a walk or a drive before the snow flies. It is coming you know!

Do you have an item for the Bucklin Bits? If so please call 660 695-3600, email dnoah112@gmail.com or feel free to come by our house with your news anytime. Every item is appreciated and just what it takes to make the news newsy.

Remember recipes for fried green tomato please, Doris Noah

by Doris Noah

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Obituary

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Obituary

Bill MathisBill Mathis, 60, of Bevier, MO, passed away

Tuesday, October 02, 2012, at Samaritan Hospital in Macon, MO.

Bill was born on December 16, 1951, in Ma-con, the son of Clifford and Majorie (Foust) Mathis. He graduated from Bevier High School in 1970. Bill was united in marriage to Rosalie Krawl on June 3, 1970, in Atlanta, MO. He en-joyed farming, collecting arrowheads, and spend-ing time with his grandchildren and his two dogs, Jake and Sam.

Bill is survived by his wife, Rosalie of the home; two children, Susan Fink and Chris Mathis and wife, Sarah all of Bevier; four grandsons, Josh, Zach, Lee and Seth and several nieces, nephews, and in-laws.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one infant sister.

Private graveside services were held at the Enon cemetery north of Bevier. The family sug-gests memorials be left to the Enon Cemetery.

Farrell J. FormentoFarrell J. Formento, 53, of Macon, MO, passed

away October 3, 2012, at Samaritan Hospital in Macon.

MO, the son of Frank John and Nola Beth (Still) Formento. He was united in marriage to Carolyn Wiggans in Marceline, MO, on Oc-tober 18, 1985. Farrell had owned and operated County Line Convenience Store in Marceline, MO, then the 4-F Hilltop Gas Station in New Cambria, MO, and most recently the Formento Trucking east of Macon. He enjoyed talking on his cell phone, hunting, raising whitetail deer and elk, fabricating, watching movies and especially spending time with his grandson. Farrell attend-ed the Open Arms Baptist Church in Macon.

He is survived by his wife, Carolyn of the home; by his parents, Frank and Nola Formento of Macon; one son, Brandon Formento and wife, Brittany, one daughter, Franchesca Jo Formento, all of Macon, one grandson, Braxton John For-mento; one sister, Caterina Formento of Topeka, KS, one brother-in-law, Ronnie Wiggans and wife, Sherry of Macon, his mother-in-law, Fran-ces Wiggans of Macon, one niece, Abra Dell of Holton, KS, and one great-niece, Emma Beth Wheeler.

Farrell was preceded in death by his grandpar-ents.

Funeral Services were held Sunday, October 7, 2012, at the Hutton and McElwain Funeral Home in Macon with Reverend Rich Wills officiating. Burial was in the St. Charles Cemetery in Bevier, MO. Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association, the Open Arms Baptist Church or the Alzheimer’s Association.

Roger ThompsonRoger Thompson, 91, of Macon, MO, died

Sunday, September 30, 2012, at Macon Health Care Center in Macon.

Roger was born on July 30, 1921, at LaPlata, MO, the son of Walter and Lu Creta (Nichols) Thompson. He married Darlene Hartsock on No-vember 24, 1943. Roger served his country in the U. S. Army from December, 1943, to April, 1946. Roger was retired from the Macon County R-1 School system. He was a deacon and member of First Baptist Church in Macon. He enjoyed mu-sic, singing, sports and especially time with fam-ily and friends. He was an avid Cardinal baseball fan.

He is survived by a daughter, Neoma Cooper and husband, Troy of Green Bay, WI and a son, Walt Thompson and wife, Suzy of Macon; three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and nu-merous nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by his wife and sister.Funeral services were held October 3, 2012 at

the First Baptist Church in Macon with Brother Jim Bolin officiating. Burial was in the LaPlata Cemetery. Memorial gifts can be made to the Choir Music Fund at First Baptist Church in Ma-con.

If you’ve been suffer-ing from a running nose, stuffy nose, watery eyes, sneezing, sore throat, coughing, low-grade fever, headache, body aches, fatigue, and chills it may be the common cold. The common cold is caused by numerous viruses. The well known viruses are the rhinovi-ruses and the coronavi-ruses.

Lately, there have been a lot of folks walking around with these symp-toms. There isn’t a cure for the common cold but you can make yourself or loved ones comfortable. Certainly, there are popu-lar over-the-counter med-ications such as decon-gestants, antihistamines, cough suppressants or expectorants and pain re-lievers that provide relief. Personally, I believe it’s very satisfying and nur-turing to make one’s own medicine.

Did you know that you can make your own herb-al cough drops? Simply enough with herbs like peppermint, spearmint, ginger, thyme, hore-hound, mullein, and fen-nel. The great thing about this is that you can mix and match your herbs. I simply use what I have on hand and growing in my garden. Spearmint, ginger and thyme are my herbal mix choices.

Simply steep a cup of dried herbs in three cups of water for about 30 minutes. Strain the mixture well. Next, add 3 ½ cups of brown sugar to your herbal tea. Cook over medium heat and bring the mixture to a boil.

You will want to stir the brown sugar herb mixture constantly. It’s done when your candy thermometer reads 290 to 300 degrees and it pulls apart in threads. Remove from heat and add some peppermint extract. Pep-permint contains men-

thol, which works as a decongestant, expecto-rant and helps thin mucus and cures a cough.

Spread your brown sugar herb mixture over a cookie sheet and let cool. You could pull like taffy and make little round drops too. After it has cooled break them apart and store using wax pa-per. These delicious little drops are great to make ahead of time in the fall and winter. They will keep up to eight weeks.

Let’s not forget to eat right when we have a cold. Fresh fruit and veg-etables contain vitamin C and boost your immunity.

Oysters, pork, crab, nuts, yogurt and milk contain zinc which will help reduce the intensity of cold symptoms. Al-ways drink plenty of wa-ter and clear soup broths. Remember alcohol does dehydrate you and should be avoided. On the other hand, there’s just some-thing about a whiskey hot toddy that is so soothing.

Some call it home-made cough syrup, I just know that it helps me feel and sleep better. I take a cup of hot chamomile tea; add 1 t of dark honey, a shot of whiskey and a slice of lemon. Of course this is for adults only. I only drink one of these in the evening before bed when I’m battling the common cold.

Some other foods that may help relieve your symptom are applesauce, oatmeal, whole grain toast, orange juice, and homemade chicken soup!

If your cold includes diarrhea and other diges-tive problems, add eggs, bananas, mashed pota-toes and cooked fruits to your diet.

If you’re taking oth-er medications or have other medical condi-tions always check with your doctor before try-ing any home remedies or herbs.

Simple Livingby Marjorie Baggos

Common Cold Comforts

Lane Blackford of the Easy Riders 4-H club, Macon, MO, compet-ed alongside 148 other youth from 47 counties at the State 4-H Public Speaking Contest on Sep-tember 22. Speakers ages 8-18 competed in one of five categories: prepared speaking, technology-assisted speaking, ex-temporaneous speaking, interpretation and public service announcement.

“Public speaking is a life skill that’s key to fu-ture success,” said Tracie Moore, Macon County 4-H Youth Development

Specialist “This contest takes those communica-tion skills learned in our county 4-H program and tests them on a larger stage, with some very stiff competition.” While competition is encour-aged, it’s actually a means to an end, said Bradd An-derson, state 4-H Youth Specialist, who coordi-nates the event. “Trophies can be great motivators,” said Anderson, “but the larger goal is youth de-velopment. It’s all about the communication skills they develop while striv-ing to win.”

Local youth compete at state 4-H public speaking contest

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Rolling Through The Years

Recently, two different families hosted a private birthday party at the Macon Skate Center. Tay-lor Wright, pictured, daughter of Kevin and Miki Wright, celebrated her 2nd birthday on wheels.A separate party during the same weekend was given for Mr. Clifford Timbrook of Clarence(also pictured). He and his family enjoyed skating for his 70th birthday. This goes to show roller skating is truly a family ac-tivity for all ages! The Macon Skate Center is open to the public every Friday and Saturday night from 6:30 to 10:30 pm and private parties may be booked by calling (660) 676-2339.

by Jean Ray

G.C. Continued work-ing on our little house and I would sit on a stump watching him and making sure he always had a glass of iced tea, for it was ex-tremely hot. One day I received a letter from my mum and I became home-sick for my family. I went into the woods to cry so that I would not be seen.

Life in the country was such a change from a city as big as Chicago and the environment went from noise with all of the traf-fic and diesel smell and hustle and bustle, to a serene atmosphere listen-ing to the wild life, frogs crickets and night sounds, all that I had never heard before.

Soon the house was finished and we were about to move in, but first we had to buy the essen-tials. Ray took me to a public auction where we purchased a refrigerator, stove, a table and four chairs and a set of dishes which was hard to get used to being glass and as soon as I could, I would buy others. Ray told me they were depression glass and would come in soap powder boxes free. Our total purchases came to around fifty dollars.

Ray had partitioned the building into three rooms, the bathroom, kitchen and living room. The partitions were made of knotty pine wood and had little shelves built in for pictures and deco-rations. Most all of our neighbors were without indoor plumbing, so no bathroom. Every day Ray would carry two five gal-lon buckets of water from his folks well and that had to last all day. That was for bathing, cooking and washing dishes etc. Our bathroom was another little wooden house with the half moon cut out, just like everyone else. We loved our new home and I cleaned it every day keeping it spic and span, which wasn’t hard to do.

One Sunday G. C’s cousins came to dinner at mom and dad Ray’s house, Rondo (aka) Jim Blue, Lora and Anne Len-

zini, Junior and Josephine Martie, daughters Kathy and Karolen and Ronnie and Raeanne Lenzini. I remember it being a very hot day and Raeanne asked me to go with her to the little house across the way the one with the half moon cut out of the door. It was a very hot day and a bit smelly and I was get-ting sick. Raeanne asked me what was wrong, and I told her I was going to have a baby, this was a big surprise to her be-cause I was wearing a sheath dress and was pret-ty slim even though I was half way there and we had not announced the news to our extended family at that time.

Many a Sunday we would visit with the Len-zini family and eat din-ner with them and Lora always had a crowd and it did not make any differ-ence how many showed up there was always plenty to eat .Lora was a great cook and her pies were the best. Along with the family there would be grandma Kitchen, Delbert Mary Jo and their chil-dren Debbie and Greg also present would be C.L Powers, Reva Hol-man who was going with Jim Lenzini at the time. We did enjoy those good times at the Lenzini home.

We spent lots of time visiting and playing cards with friends and neigh-bors. The favorite game, seem to be 4 point pitch and everyone knew how to play, men women and

children. All of the men like to hunt and G.C. and I would go to Peppa and John Lenzini’s. I would stay and visit with Peppa drinking coffee and eat-ing fried bread and cheese while G.C. and the Len-zini boys Leo, Jim, Ju-nior and Joe hunted. They would hunt for squirrel , frogs, quail, duck and oth-er wildlife to help furnish meat for the table. Other times we would visit Buck and Grace Gaines and their daughter Glo-ria who lived on the next farm south. The road to Lenzini ‘s and Gains was not graveled and when it rained we had a time driv-ing in deep muddy ruts to get to our destination, but we always made it. G.C. would gun the motor and we would inch along un-til we got there and it was

a wonder we did not tear the car up although I be-lieve the cars were made better and a lot heavier in those days, no plastic. After many years Gloria came to my home to visit . Saturday evenings we would go to Macon to do our weekly shopping and most of the time we would see a lot of our neighbors there and we would visit with them when they walked by our car. After we were done with our trading we would end up at Dutch’s drive in called the Frost Top a gathering place for the young and old, there we would buy a hamburger and a coke, what a treat!. Those were the good old days, life was simple and did not carry the stress we have today. To be Continued…

Life and Times of Jean Emily Clark Ray

Jean is shown on the family farm in 1961.