Club Notes

Stitch & Chatter Extension Club met March 10. Six members were present. Roll call was answered by 6 members. Theresa read a history of FCE. New Business, we talked about getting together and traveling to Montezuma to go to the Museum and then going to lunch. For April meeting since it landed on Thurs before Easter and most of our members couldn’t meet that evening. April 14 leaving Dodge City about 8:45 or 9:00.

Linda Kay Skinner

Linda Kay Skinner passed away on March 25, 2022 at Northgate Nursing Home in Flagstaff, Arizona. Linda was born on November 2, 1954 in Ness City, Kansas. Linda’s parents were Arthur Lee Burdett and Bernice Opal Burdett both from Ness City, Kansas.

Relic from Dodge City Flour Mill is finally identified

Not many people know what the six-ton wheel sitting on the east side of Wright Park actually is, or how it got there, since no plaque or storyboard has ever been created to answer these questions for passersby.

Community Concert members pay less, make more musical memories

The Dodge City Community Concert Association will be accepting new members for the 2022-2023 season from April 9 to May 14. This season the Dodge City Civic Center, 2110 1st Ave., will play host to the following acts: How Sweet It Is, a heart-warming tribute band to James Taylor; David Osborne, a pianist to the presidents, Las Vegas Bellagio regular and Steinway artist; Backtrack Vocals, a mixed 5-piece a cappella; and Copper Street Brass, a Twin Cities-based brass sextet.

DODGE CITY GLOBE

Volume 112 | No. 42 To subscribe: 620-471-8001 $1.25 Visit us on Facebook at @DodgeCityGlobe Correction The sculptors who made the Bat Masterson statue the city plans to unveil at the Home of Stone June 19 are Charles and Carson Norton.

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Old friend is too curious about birth mystery

Dear Amy: In the years following college, I had a close group of friends. As the years passed and our lives moved in different directions, our contact with each other gradually lessened, but we’d still keep in touch via Facebook, email, text, and the occasional dinner get-together.

Montezuma farmer wins national award in soybean yield contest

Montezuma farmer Robbie Yost was recently honored among the nation’s highest-producing soybean farmers of his region in the 2021 Asgrow National Yield Contest. Yost won the award with an impressive yield of 100.01 bushels per acre with Asgrow AG37X9 Brand.

Spearville baseball: Raiders best Lancers in both games

Spearville Lancers watched the game slip away early and couldn’t recover in an 8-2 loss to Ellis in game one and 5-0 in game two on Monday. In the first game Ellis took the lead on a single in the second inning. The Spearville Lancers struggled to put runs on the board and had a tough time defensively containing Ellis, giving up eight runs. In the second inning, Ellis got their offense started when Matt Ernst singled on a 0-2 count, scoring one run. Ellis scored three runs in the sixth inning. Tyson Jimenez earned the victory on the pitcher’s mound for Ellis. The lefty went six innings, allowing zero runs on one hit, striking out 11 and walking one. Ernst threw one inning in relief out of the bullpen. Logan Hubbell took the loss for Spearville. The pitcher surrendered five runs on four hits over five innings, striking out nine. Josiah Mettling, Hubbell, and Easton Shenk each collected one hit to lead Spearville.

KEEPING THE SANTA FE TRAIL ALIVE

Patty Winger, representing the Kansas Daughters of the American Revolution, presents Santa Fe Trail Association Dodge City/Ford Dodge/Cimarron Chapter President Bob Bunyan with a certificate for “Keeping the Santa Fe Trail Alive” Sunday, April 3 at the association’s chapter meeting at the Dodge House. “The DAR was one of the original organizations that promoted saving the history of the Santa Fe Trail,” Bunyan said.