Stories from Wednesday, July 17, 2013

A full day of activities are planned for the second annual Purdy Festival on Saturday, July 20. Events will be held around the city parks and school campus. The festival will begin at 7:30 a.m. with two events. The first Angie Swadley Memorial 5K Run will begin from the parking lot west of the school baseball field, on the east side of the Purdy High School gymnasium. Registration for the run will start at 6:45 a.m...

Monett Post #91 and Cassville Post #118 American Legion baseball squads squared off Tuesday, July 16 at McDonald County, as American Legion District 15 opened first round tournament play. The contest marked the fifth time that the Barry County rivals played this summer, with each team winning two apiece prior to Tuesday's game. This matchup belonged to Monett as Post #91 rolled to a 23-6 win...

Beautiful handmade quilts will be among the prizes available at the annual Stones Prairie picnic at St. John's Lutheran Church on Friday, July 19. Tickets will be available for $1 each from the LWML bazaar table, where craft items, baked goods, bed runners, and both hand-quilted and tacked quilts will be offered...

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office participated in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over crackdown conducted July 3 through July 7. During the enforcement effort, officers issued traffic tickets for speeding and 41 warnings were issued for various other hazardous moving violations...

On June 18, members of the Lawrence County Board for the Developmentally Disabled approved several grant requests. Community Support Services requested nine Partnership for Hope waivers in the amount of $2,400 and one waiver in the amount of $3,000 for a total of $24,600 for the fiscal year ending in June 2014...

A Cassville teenager was hurt in a single vehicle crash on July 15 two miles north of Cassville. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Fredrick Chantell, 13, was driving west in a 1996 GMC Suburban on Farm Road 2150 when the vehicle left the roadway. Chantell overcorrected and the vehicle struck a fence, overturned and hit a tree...

First Baptist Church of Monett will host a Vacation Bible School from July 21 through July 25 on the theme, "Gotta Move, Keepin' in Step with the Spirit." Sessions will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m., concluding with a pool party at the Monett Area YMCA on July 28...

American Legion Post #91 in Monett will offer a spaghetti dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 18 at the Legion Home, 715 E. Broadway. Members of the Post, shown above, lined up for a previous dinner. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children.

EIGHTY YEARS AGO July 18, 1933 Approximately 20 of Monett's prettiest girls will participate in a bathing beauty revue at Neosho Orpheum Theatre, announced Oliver Williams, manager of the Gillioz Theatre. Within the next two weeks, the same number of Neosho's beautiful girls will appear at the Gillioz Theatre...

Janice Emma Meyer will celebrate her 80th birthday with an open house from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 21 in the basement at Trinity Lutheran School in Freistatt. Janice was born on July 19, 1933 in Atwood, Kan. and moved from a Fair Grove farm to a farm in the Monett area in 1947. She attended Trinity Lutheran School and graduated from Mt. Vernon High School in 1951...

Charity Reid, daughter of Steve and Tami Reid, of Purdy and Tom Hernandez, son of Tom and Charlene Hernandez, of Willow Springs, will be united in marriage on Aug. 10. Charity is a 2007 graduate of Purdy High School and a 2011 graduate of Missouri Southern State University with a bachelor's degree in sociology. She is currently an Americorps Reading Coach at Purdy Elementary...

One new DVD at the Pierce City Branch is Jack the Giant Slayer. Two new easy reader titles include: "Mia and the Girl with a Twirl" by Robin Farley; and "Flat Stanley Goes Camping" by Lori Houran. Adult fiction titles includes: "Sweet Salt Air" by Barbara Delin-sky; "Trains and Lovers" by Alexander McCall Smith; "Corrupt Prac-tices: a Parker Stern novel" by Robert Rot-stein; and "Island Girls" by Nancy Thayer...

Jackie Ray Michael, 73, of Harrison, Ark., formerly of Monett, joined his Lord and Savior in Heaven on Saturday, July 6, 2013 after a long battle with Parkinson Disease. Jack was born on Aug. 11, 1939 to the late Eugene and Margie (Lee) Michael. He was united in marriage to Leoma Shirley on Aug. 28, 1959. She preceded him in death on April 28, 1994. He was then united in marriage to Ada Chaffin and she survives...

Donna C. Jones, age 88, of Monett, Mo., formerly of Neosho, Mo., diedon Saturday, July 13, 2013 at Lacoba Homes in Monett. She was born on March 5, 1925 in Mulvane, Kan., the daughter of James Cleo Logan and Lucy Ellen (Jeffries) Logan. Donna was selected as the 1942 Ozark Smile Girl, a title befitting her always gracious smile. ...

Owners of Angus Branch Steakhouse, formerly Grant's Restaurant in Monett, have done more than change their colors and logo, Fred Grant and his daughter, Megan Golubski, have revamped the menu and made significant changes in what the eatery now offers customers...