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Fort Hays State University graduate student, Michael Saint, has earned his fourth national championship ring competing with the university's Shooting Club and Team. He is the son of Curtis and Annette Saint of rural Jewell. Saint, a 2014 graduate of Rock Hills High School, earned a bachelor's of science degree in business administration from Fort Hays State University in 2018. Currently he is in the university's master of business administration program. As a member of the FHSU Shotgun Club and...
Seventy-five years ago, forces from both the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy were involved in the fierce and bloody battle for Iwo Jima. The island was small, only 8.1 square miles in area. Equal in size to eight sections of land. Iwo Jima had three Japanese airfields, a principal reason for the decision to take the island. The battle was predicted to last only one week. Victory, however, required five weeks of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting in the Pacific Theater....
“Jewell – We’ve Got A Story To Tell”! This story is of the Saints who have gone marching through Jewell’s Sesquicentennial history. Nathan Carlyle Saint of Jewell is the sixth generation of the Saint family to farm in the Jewell area. Twenty-six-year old Saint is the son of Curtis and Annette Higgins Saint who have been farming west of Jewell since their wedding on Aug. 17, 1991. But it all began in 1871 with Nathan’s great-great-great grandparents, Nathan Albertson and Louisa Francis Daw...
More than 100 people attended the first event of Jewell's Sesquicentennial celebration. The historical home tour visited five homes and drove by other properties owned and lived in by people intertwined in Jewell's history. Butch and Annette Baxa Burks entertained in the Jewell Community Center as groups waited their turn to tour. The duo sang a variety of songs to an appreciative crowd. Chocolate fountains along with cheese and crackers were available. The first of the five homes to be toured...
After more than 31 years, Elaine Watson is retiring from her job as the City Clerk of Formoso. Her first day on the job was in October of 1988. The job was different those years ago! The biggest difference - paper. Everything was paper in 1988. Ledgers, reportsand minutes of meetings. Now, little is paper. During those 31 years, Watson has missed only two of the hundreds of City Council Meetings. But now, "it is just time" to retire. Not time to be completely retired. She will keep her morning j...
Jewell, 150 years old, is celebrating her Sesquicentennial during 2020. The first event of that year-long celebration is the Jewell Sesquicentennial Historical Home Tour to be held on Sunday. Participants should gather at the Jewell Community Center at 2 p.m. At the Community Center, tour members will find a variety of refreshments, meats, cheeses and chocolate fountains. Information about other Jewell Sesquicentennial events will be available and the Palmer Museum will be open. There will also...
National Freedom Day is not a national holiday but one of the many “observed” holidays in the United States. Holidays such as Ground Hog Day (Feb. 2) or Halloween (Oc. 31) are also “observed” holidays. National Freedom Day observes the signing of the resolution that banned slavery in the United States. The resolution was the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. It would set millions of slaves free. It was 155 years ago on Feb. 1, 1865, that President Abraham Lincoln signed the joint resolution of the United States House and Senate proposi...
For those who don't know, Omio was a Jewell County town located in Vicksburg and Grant townships. It centered around what is today the intersection of Omio Road (270 Road) and M Road about 3 miles south of Formoso. Though the town flourished during the 1880s, it is now relegated to brief mentions in historical books and the memories of a few. Omio was founded in May of 1877 as the town of Huron. Land records in the Jewell County Courthouse show the original townsite was purchased by two men name...
