Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, August 20, 2003 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Julia Milligan

Julia Kathleen Milligan, 67, of Emmet, died Monday, August 11, 2003, at her home. She was born October 24, 1935, in the Mt. View Community east of Cave City to Burrell and Alice (Lawrence) Crabtree. She was a homemaker and a member of Laneburg United Pent...

Vickie Miller

Vickie Marcell Miller, 54, of Prescott, passed away Sunday, August 10, 2003, at St. Joseph's hospital in Hot Springs. Vickie was born on July 12, 1949, in Prescott, the daughter of Willie Hamp and Catherine (Neal) Miller. She worked at Prescott Hardware f...

Ira Bowser

Mr. Ira J. Bowser, 58, of Prescott, died Friday, August 15, 2003, in Prescott. He was born December 31, 1944, in Tampa, Fla. to Wilford Joseph and Ellen McGrady Bowser. He was in maintenance at Firestone in Prescott. He was a Catholic, board member at the...

Lois Smith

Lois Joplin (Pet) (Peppie) Smith, 91, of Hot Springs formerly of Arkadelphia, died Sunday, August 17, 2003, at her home. She was born February 7, 1912, in Mena, the daughter of John and Ola Joplin. Mrs. Smith was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, De...

Depot Museum officially dedicated

Dedication ceremonies were held for the Depot Museum Thursday, Aug. 14. The event culminated the completion of roughly four years of work to renovate and remodel the museum's inside and outside  in time to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Danny Stewart, ...

Consolidation of four offices enters discussion of August Quorum Court meeting

Controversy reared its head at the Nevada County Quorum Court meeting with the topic of consolidation. Gary Lewis, justice of the peace, again brought up the idea of merging offices to reduce the cost of operating county government. He suggested combining...

Court discusses jail overcrowding, overtime once again

Overcrowding and overtime were two questions the Nevada County Quorum Court addressed at its August meeting. Nevada County Judge James Roy Brown told the court, in the Aug. 11 meeting, the county had no such problems to his knowledge. Justice of the Peace...