Photos: Pet’ober Fest 
Pet’ober Fest, Oct. 14 at Caring Hands Humane Society. All photos by Michele Clark/Newton Kansan Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
October 2022
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Sports briefs
Three gymnasts compete at meet SHAWNEE MISSION — Three members of the Newton High School gymnastics team competed Thursday at the Shawnee Mission South All-Around… Login to continue reading Login…
Area prep football roundup
Class 3A, District 6 Hesston 43, Chapman 22 CHAPMAN – Hudson Ferralez passed for three touchdowns and Tyrone Taylor rushed for three touchdowns as the… Login to continue reading Login…
State tennis roundup
The Kansan Staff Railer netters 7th at state ANDOVER — The Newton High School girls’ tennis team ended the season with a seventh-place team finish… Login to continue reading Login…
Threshers stall in second half, falling to Avila
Eagles rally from 14 points down By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The ninth-ranked Bethel College football team had no. 24 Avila… Login to continue reading Login…
Turnovers hamper Warriors in upset bid
Peabody-Burns falls to unbeaten Waverly By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan PEABODY — A few too many turnovers was all the stood in the way of… Login to continue reading Login…
Railers down Campus for third straight win
Newton strikes early, quick to take control By Mark Schnabel Newton Kansan HAYSVILLE — The Newton High School football team gave up a lot of… Login to continue reading Login…
Railer soccer team survives challenge at Eisenhower
GODDARD — It a matter of survive and advance for the Newton High School boys’ soccer team in a 2-1 win over Goddard Eisenhower Thursday at Eisenhower Field. Newton seemed to dominate the first 20 minutes of each half, while Eisenhower kept the Railers on their heels in the second 20 minutes of each half.
Plains Folk: ‘Sweet Betsy’
Sooner or later, I suppose, someone is going to get wise to the hidden storyline of “Sweet Betsy from Pike” and demand the ballad be outlawed from the public schools. Generations of children have sung the story of the hardy traveling woman, Betsy, crossing the plains to California. The continental journey is the first obvious theme of the ballad. Children remain innocent of the second storyline, the love theme, of Sweet Betsy, which has a whiff of the illicit. To begin with, “Sweet Betsy” is a number from Put’s Golden Songster, first published in 1858. Details of the life of the author, Old Put, are sketchy, but he had crossed the plains in 1850 and made a career as an entertainer in California, where he would be buried in Greenwood. The audience for the song, however, is certain. “Sweet Betsy” is a music hall song. It was performed for entertainment in houses of amusement frequented by men in the roughand- ready goldfields.
NHS hall of famer passes away
Floyd E. “Skippy” Garnett, 84, the first Black basketball player to play for Newton High School, died Wednesday (October 12, 2022) at his home in Newton He was born on January 5, 1938 in Newton, the son of Harry and Edna Rose Dickinson Garnett. A lifelong resident of Newton, he graduated from Newton High School in 1956 where he played football, basketball and was on the track team. He later attended Bethel College where he played football. Born in 1938, Garnett graduated from high school in 1956. He graduated as a champion, and with national notoriety.