Weather permitting, one of the balloons scheduled to lift off during the Columbus Days Festival is Breaking Dawn. Piloted by Lori Hutchinson of Bonner Springs, Breaking Dawn is sponsored by Mercy Hospital Columbus.
Among the unique individuals produced in the early days of Cherokee County, none, perhaps, was more unique than Eugene F. Ware, homesteader, lawyer, government official, and talented poet. A Civil War veteran, he was entitled to a section of land which he took in what is now Ross Township in 1867 and broke the prairie with a large plow drawn by ox team. People said he often came to town in an oxdr…
