The Morris County Commissioner meeting was called to order on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. Commissioners David L. Fox, Jim Barber and Wayne Kohler were present. Bill Kassebaum, County Counselor, and Chelsey Schmidt, County Clerk, were present.
Local landowner and former resident Harv Haeker contacted the Council Grove Republican on Friday about the Downing Cemetery article we ran from an old 1895 Republican article. I had commented that the cemetery was inaccessible to the public without permission, as multiple people with historical knowledge have told me that the cemetery is public but access to it is not, without landowner permission.
In the first baseball game against Central Heights Thursday, Ace Monihen collected three hits in three at bats, as the Council Grove Braves defeated the Central Heights Vikings 10-0. The Braves got on the board in the first inning after Monihen doubled, scoring two runs.
Downing Cemetery, near Kelso, is inaccessible to the public without permission. Kelso is 6 miles northwest of Council Grove as the crow flies, and Downing Cemetery is less than a mile west of the Kelso Cemetery. On June 5, 1893, Siloma Downing deed the cemetery to Morris County.
Thursday night was a tale of two totally different softball teams and they both wore Council Grove on the front. In a classic diamond confrontation, Central Height’s Aracely Crump outdueled Council Grove High School’s Kaedyn Litke as the Lady Braves dropped a 2-0 decision.
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