Blasts from the Past

DAR American History essay winners are: Tabitha Piburn, Grand Hartley, Tye Humphrey and Timbre Gardner. Good Citizen award winners are: Crystal Cook, Jacqueline Lee, Brandon Ray, Nicole May and Emily Gay.

Jamie Brinnen has been selected as the Northwest District essay winner in the Missouri State High School Activities Association Middle Level Sportsmanship Essay Contest. This year’s subject was “What Should Schools Do To Promote Sports?”

The 2004-05 Gallatin FFA Chapter Officer Team includes Katie Jarboe, Hattie Rains, Aaron Everly, Dillon Bird, Stefanie Dowell, Erin Croy, Amy Hudlemyer, Jonathan Arnold, Levi Alden, Matt Hostetler, Emily Gay and Jessica Fifer.

Feb. 22, 1995

Just a few paces south of Highway 6 near Muddy Creek east of Gallatin, workers are busy constructing a new water well for Gallatin. Drillers spent two days last week to reach the optimum depth of nearly 125 feet where a plentiful water source is available.

Gallatin High School senior Priscilla Warnes penned an agreement Tuesday to play softball next season for Culver-Stockton College in Canton. Priscilla is a two-time all-Grand River Conference pitcher.

Feb. 27, 1985

Three generations of nursing are represented by one Gallatin family. Mrs. Cynthia Alene Thomas started the string by becoming an LPN in 1955. Her son, Jim Pierce, has been an RN since 1975. Her granddaughter, Mrs. Cynthia Lorene (Lori) Kloepping, completed her nurse training as an LPN in 1983.

Three Daviess County students, Victor Marolf, Steven Huffman and Anita McNeely, have been nominated for the state’s first Missouri Scholars Academy to be held on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Gallatin small fry wrestlers winning medals at the Trenton Small Fry Wrestling Tournament were Zachery Johnson, Brant Burns, Charlie Ramsbottom, Jeff Taul, Brad Dougherty and C. J. Deppen.

Feb. 27, 1975

Mrs. Helen Franks, Inter-County Telephone employee, has accepted the post of Daviess County Fund Chairman for the Red Cross campaign in March.

Newly-elected board members of the Gallatin Chamber of Commerce are Tom Cobb, Frank Thompson, Wayne Culver and Hal Hamilton.

The Harold Gay family of rural Gallatin has been selected to receive the State Farm Management Recognition Award, sponsored by the University of Missouri Extension and the Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City.

Feb. 25, 1965

Improvement in crops and livestock has marked the progress in Balanced Farming for Mr. and Mrs. Dorris Grice, Gilman City, as they have been selected as district Balanced Farming award family by the University of Missouri Extension Division.

Feb. 24, 1955

Piloting the Reorganized School District R-5 through its infancy are Supt. Ren G. Foster, Vincent Runnels, Robert Paul, John Dickey, Marvin Blackburn, J. H. Bashford and Robert Allen Hill.

The Gallatin City Council Monday night approved an agreement with the Inter-County Telephone Company which provides for the joint participation of the city and the company in the use of poles. This move paves the way for early action on the installation of Gallatin’s new dial telephone system.

Feb. 22, 1945

Some months ago, the Ministerial Alliance, here, began their plans for a V-Day religious celebration. When Germany surrenders, union services will be held at the Christian Church. Should the surrender occur on Saturday, services will be held at 8 p.m. on Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott of near Jamesport have recently received two letters from their son, S/Sgt. Charles H. Scott, who has been a German prisoner since January 1944. Sgt. Scott, a gunner in the Army Air Corps, went down over enemy territory on his 14^th mission. He has been awarded the air medal, oak leaf cluster and all of his group were awarded a Presidential citation the day they were shot down.