Delphos News

"Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests" by Richard E. Wood During the spring of 2008 the world passed a critical milestone in its population trends.

A tractorcade from Delphos to the North Central Kansas Technical School in Beloit is planned Friday in memory of Lorn Gates, Wilfred Hare and Darrell Ringer.

“Growing Our Souls -- A Lenten Musical Journey”

Other menu items include hot dogs, relishes and pies. Carryout is available. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for children, and may be purchased from any Sunrise Mariner or at the door. via Salina Journal

“That would be 27-dollar wheat in today's terms”

' Deciding whether to sell a few hundred bushels of leftover wheat or save it to plant is an enjoyable quandary for Rooks County farmer Jerry McReynolds. via Chanute Tribune

Some Kansas hope to save a home that many consider an important piece of Kansas history. via KAKE-TV Wichita

“If you find (a song) that's really hard (to play), Mom picked it”

As Forty Fingers tapped out patriotic and holiday tunes on two pianos, the four ladies attached to them had a grand time. via Salina Journal

“That's the only story we have.”

A firearms mishap two years ago has yielded less-than-coveted recognition for a Saline County shooting victim, courtesy of the Darwin Awards. via Salina Journal

“She survived all sorts of disasters -- grasshoppers, blizzards, disease and flood”

She was nicknamed 'Lincoln's Little Correspondent' after she wrote at age 11 to urge candidate Abraham Lincoln to grow whiskers.

That would make him more handsome, the girl from Chautauqua County, N.Y., wrote, and ladies would encourage their husbands to vote for him.

Lincoln grew the whiskers -- and was elected president.

Now, it appears, Grace Bedell wrote Lincoln again in 1864, asking for help finding a job before she moved to Kansas.

Her plea apparently went unnoticed until this past March, when Karen Needles, an archivist researcher in Washington, D.C., came across a box of Lincoln's documents. Read more