Birds of a feather: Peg and Jules Glanzer are greeted by the Tabor College Bluejay after their arrival in late January. The official inauguration will be held at 7 p.m. May 9 at the college. Tabor College photo
On his first day as the new president of Tabor College, during an informal get-together with faculty and staff, Jules Glanzer pulled from his pocket a choir director’s pitch pipe and blew a note loudly enough for everyone to hear.
Like most Marion County farmers who started cutting wheat toward the end of last week, Cal Jost was making rapid progress Monday afternoon on this field a mile east of Hillsboro. Modern machines help speed the harvest along, but low bushel yields as the result of hard freezes in late spring has kept yields significantly lower than normal. “I’ve heard from five bushels (per acre) and there might have been some 30-bushel—but 15 to 20 has been about the average,” said Dick Tippin, grain coordinator at Cooperative Grain & Supply in Hillsboro. “Nobody’s bragging about anything.” He said the test weight has been averaging 55 pounds and the moisture has been fairly dry at 13. Tippin estimated that by Monday afternoon the harvest was already 25 to 30 percent complete.
U.S. Rep Jerry Moran will be the guest speaker at the third annual Fourth of July Eve celebration July 3 on the grounds of the historic William Schaeffler House at the corner of Grand and Jefferson streets.
The old-fashioned evening, which begins at 5:30 p.m.,
will include a visit from Uncle Sam, bands, soloists,
a parade and games for kids and a hot-dog and ice-cream meal.
Mike Harber waves from inside his personal sound stage—the rear of a bandwagon he drives for the Kelly Miller Circus of Hugo, Okla. The Hillsboro resident began a tour of the eastern United States in March and will continue it through October.
When most people think of the circus, they picture elephants and ringmasters and clowns and a maybe a few trapeze artists swinging through the air.
But if you stop to imagine the sounds of a circus, it’s only a matter of time until the steady, deep roll of drums starts to echo in your mind.
Enter Hillsboro resident Michael Harber, who, at age 54, temporarily left town to become music director for the Kelly Miller Circus.
A member of the event staff (wearing identifying vest) describes the plants and wildflowers that are native to the Flint Hills. In the background, a covered wagon filled with riders rolls along the trail near the top of the hill. Attenders of Symphony in the Flint Hills could choose from a variety of educational or entertaining presentations offered in an effort to raise awareness of Kansas’s natural treasure.
Could there be a more perfect ending to a June day in Kansas? The sun slipping slowly toward the horizon with increasingly fiery hues. Some 6,500 people, accompanied by the Kansas City Symphony, uniting voices for four stanzas “Home on the Range” in a concert hall unmatched in the world for its expanse and majesty.
Attorneys acting on behalf of a Unified School District 410 patron from rural Hillsboro have filed a lawsuit to prevent the sale of bonds that was approved by voters in the June 5 election.
The suit, filed on behalf of Raymond Brandt, contends that the district’s intention to become joint owners of property with Tabor College is not authorized by Kansas law.
The suit was filed Monday, June 4, in the Eighth Judicial District Court in an effort to get the district’s bond attorneys to call off the election, according to Brandt.
