Monday thru Friday
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 5th
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Monday, March 24, 2025
From the Bates County Clerk, Jami Page: Absentee voting schedules
Rich Hill lifts burn ban
Courtesy Rich Hill Fire Department
Obituary - Debra Sharon Metcalf
Debbie worked at the State Hospital for 30 years and retired, then found a new passion in education. She taught at Bronaugh and Main Street Academy and found her home teaching at Sheldon School where she retired in 2016. In retirement, she worked part-time at May’s Floral.
Debbie was very active in her community with the Ralph V. Bobbett VFW Auxiliary, Nevada Elks Lodge, Nevada Chapter 53 Eastern Star, Vernon County 4-H and 4-H Clover Kids, as well as many other organizations.
Debbie was a woman who wore many hats and that included wife, mother, teacher, confidante, but most importantly, friend. Debbie did not know a stranger and found or made a new friend everywhere she went. She will truly be missed by everyone whose life she ever touched.
Debbie is survived by her husband, Michael Metcalf; daughters and sons-in-law, Tansy and Jason Friar and Jenny and Shannon Gayman; grandchildren, Orin Friar, Calvin Friar, Sammie Davidson, Mikey Metcalf; a sister, Donna (Mike) Sheets; and two brothers, LaVerne Scotten and CD (JoAnn) Scotten. She was preceded in death by her parents, Clifford and Josephine Scotten; mother- and father-in-law, Ellen and Chuck Oliverson; and sisters, Jeannie Francis and Shirley McClasky.
Memorial services will be at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at Ferry Funeral Home, with Pastor Roger Beach officiating. Committal will follow at Newton Burial Park, Nevada. The family will receive friends from 5:00-7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 24, 2025, at Ferry Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Vernon County Youth Fair in c/o Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.
Bates County real estate transfers and marriage licenses
Robinson, David W. to Yoder, Samuel J Lt 4 Bl 5 Christian And Condee's Addn+
Lacy, Derek Lee to Lacy, Derek & Amy Trust 02-25-2025 Str 4-42-33
Crist, Nate Roy to Wyatt Cox Farms, LLC Str 27-41-32 //Se
Denayer, Jennifer S to Maples, Bailey A Lt 1 Bl 4 William's Second Addn
Simons, Patrick A. to Pool, Mark Allen II Lt 3 Bl 25 Butler, Original Town Of+
Norbury, Shane to Norbury, Kyle L Str 31-39-33
Curtis, Roxanna to Siswick, Noel Lt 3 Bl 106 Rich Hill, Original Town Of+
Jarred, Hunter to Jarred, Russell Lee Str 34-42-32 //Ne
Jarred, Hunter to Wainwright, Harrison Str 34-42-32 //Ne
Morriss, John W. to Foster, Trey D. Str 5-39-29
Vanhoecke, Christopher J to Duffield, David L Str 26-39-33 //Sw
Federal National Mortgage Assn to Wallace, Freyalise Str 34-42-33 //Nw
CM Property Management LLC to Bailey, Rayne Str 15-40-31 //Se+
Jarred, Russell Lee (Suc Trustee) to Jarred, Hunter Str 34-42-32 //Ne
Marriage license
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The Museum Minute: Worland is hoppin'
Courtesy of the Bates County Museum 802 Elks Drive, Butler Mo 64730 (660) 679-0134
Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of March 26
1875 The last day of school at Hickory Grove school is disrupted by drunken boys firing revolvers and making fools of themselves.
1895 An ad in the Rich Hill Mining Review newspaper "Pure unadulterated Rich Hill Whiskey, $2 per gallon".
1921 Census numbers released show the Worland area has nearly 2,000 living there.
1926 Bates Co Sheriff Bradley & deputies arrest 26 for not licensing their cars. Butler.
1933 Byron Lockard is accused of grabbing and frightening Miss Alta McLaughlin, in Passaic. He cursed her and threatened with a stove poker. She sues him for $5,000.
1944 Effective today, first class mail takes a 3 cent stamp. Post cards will cost 1 1/2 cents to send.
1971 The Montgomery Ward catalog store on the East side of the Butler square is having a special on truck & tractor tires, 10 to 4 today.
1991 The FM Thorpe (Thorco) manufacturing company moves into the former Keller building in Butler. It will employ 25 people to start.
1998 Former Bates County State Representative, Ralph Hedrick, dies at the age of 76. He was from Rich Hill.
What's Up by LeRoy Cook
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In last week’s column, we reported that Butler Airport would be closed to all traffic after March 24th, but a shift in the contractor’s schedule has delayed the start of reconstruction until March 31st. So, we’ve had an extra six days to prepare or evacuate. Plans are still to be closed for 25 days.
The strong March winds hit flyers hard this week, grounding all flights while rattling hangar doors and stiffening wind socks. There seemed to be one good day between storm passages, so one had to take advantage of the lull before battening down the hatches for another blow. ‘Wasn’t too bad,” was the comment heard on the semi-windy days.
Traffic came and went with the usual types showing up. We saw some Piper Archer trainers come in, one making night practice landings, and a lone Cessna 182 stopped by. A thirsty Beech Bonanza A36 dropped in Saturday, seeking fuel after a non-stop flight down from Minneapolis. He was disappointed to find not only a dry tank at Butler, but not even a pump (we’re still waiting for installation of a new one). The NOTAM warning was expired, since we had no airport manager to keep track. He was so low on fuel he didn’t dare go on down to Nevada, so we took up a collection of avgas from the local hangars to help him out of his dilemma.
We also had a call from a Kansas-side plane owner, hoping to buy 55 gallons of 100LL to refill his barrel, since Pleasanton airport no longer keeps avgas. Couldn’t help him out. Not much activity was seen this week around the local hangars. Burns Custom Spraying had its AirTractor agplane out, and there was some flight instruction activity at Sky4 LLC’s Cessna 150 nest.
Poor old Southwest Airlines can’t catch a break, trying to keep up its on-time arrival record. After the last-minute go-around a couple of weeks back, to avoid a corporate jet crossing the runway at Midway airport in Chicago, another Southwest crew attempted to take off from a parallel taxiway instead of the runway at Orlando last Thursday. An alert tower controller canceled the clearance, before they could complete the faux pas. It wasn’t too many years ago that a Southwest 737 landed at the little School of the Ozarks airport instead of Branson’s airline field, on a dark night.
In other national news, we see that the Montana state legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the use of ADS-B surveillance information from being used in the state for anything other than enhancing air traffic control and safety. This to counter FAA legal enforcement of penalties for pilot mistakes by only reconstructing the flight from ADS-B data, and collecting landing fees from plane owners by contractors recording movements using ADS-B. Ah, the pitfalls of unintended consequences from rushing to embrace technology.
In the last column, we asked if aircraft compasses pointed to the magnetic North Pole. Not really; what the compass does is align itself with the Earth’s lines of magnetic flux, which themselves point toward the poles. Of course, we don’t care, we just steer by the numbers on the compass’s card. For next time, what airline advertised its low “peanut fares” by passing out free packages of goobers to its passengers? You can send your answers to kochhaus1@gmail.com.
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