Blast from the Past

BTC Bank will open a fifth facility to be located in Chillicothe, next door to Applebee’s in Chillicothe’s new retail development and shopping center.

The Simmons children, Grant, Chloe and Jett, opened a lemonade stand on Monday in front of their house at 1309 S. Prospect in Gallatin. The kids advertised with flyers at Casey’s, John’s, the doctor’s office and the courthouse. By noon they had served 23 customers.

A group of national FFA award winners, advisors and national staff, including Erin Croy of the Gallatin FFA Chapter, toured agriculture sites in Costa Rica this summer and compared the industry in Central America and the United States.

July 24, 1996

It’s unusual for any small town in Northwest Missouri to have two men working as troopers of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Gallatin not only has two favorite sons as patrolmen, but both are recent graduates of the same 71st Recruitment Class, and both are assigned to posts in Troop H. Trooper Michael S. Belshe, 24, has been assigned to Zone 3 in Albany. Trooper Scott A. Shipers, 22, has been assigned to Zone 3 in Bethany.

Gallatin’s Young Guns, 15-to-16 year old basketball team, captured third place in the St. Joseph festival competition and qualified for the Show-Me State Games in Columbia.  Team members are Matt Adkison, Bob Wiley, Daryn Gibson, Tray Whitt, Quentin Carroll, Brant Batson, Brian Robertson, Jon Culver, Rusty Heldenbrand and Derek Collins.

July 30, 1986

An open house at the old Daviess County jail facility in Gallatin will be held Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2-3. Members of the Daviess County Historical Society are sponsoring the event as a means to determine interest in restoring the building to some community use.

Ten Daviess County farms have been inducted into the Missouri Century Farms Club. Century farm owners are S. Wiley Foley, Edward Hockensmith, Jr., John K. and Harriett Leopard, Mary Alice and Dean C. McDonald, Roberta L. Eckelberry, Ivo Woodruff and Frank A. and M. Kay Woodruff, all of Gallatin; William F. and Sue Hill, Jamesport; Vernice McClung Bush, Pattonsburg; Ross L. Swofford, Columbia; Oliver Franklin Miller, Cameron; Charlene Hemry Potts, Lafayette, Calif.; and Robert B. Eastman and Paul W. Eastman, Pattonburg.

July 29, 1976

Unexpected illness is forcing the retirement of one of Gallatin’s longtime insurance agents, J. Russell Herbert. He will retire July 31 after 30 years of service.

The race for the U. S. Senate between Jerry Litton and Jim Symington is turning into an intense battle that will likely go right down to the wire. None of the state’s major daily newspapers have endorsed Litton, but he has a lion’s share of support from the state’s small city and weekly press.

July 28, 1966

Dudley Brandom has been relieved of his duties as city attorney effective July 31. Notification came Tuesday morning by letter from Mayor Robert Owings. No reason for the action was given, but presumably it was a result of Brandom’s assistance to the city council at Monday’s special meeting. This is the second city attorney fired by Owings, John Leopard being the first.

Private James Stephen Reed, son of Corbin and the late Dorothy Smith Reed, is now stationed with the Army at Fort Bliss, Texas, receiving training for the Nike Missile System. He is the grandson of Mrs. Eva Reed of Jameson.

July 26, 1956

Daviess County’s first Centennial since 1937 gets underway tonight at Coffey, where residents are preparing to entertain a crowd of several thousand persons for the four-day program commemorating the town’s 100th birthday.

The controversial matter of parking meters again has Gallatin merchants in a dither. The biggest source of worry to those opposing meters is fear that customers will not like them and will trade elsewhere.

July 25, 1946

A Wabash freight train crashed into the rear of a standing gravel car near the Sampsel gravel pits, just over the county line in Livingston County last Friday. About 60 hogs on their way to market were killed. The locomotive and about eight cars were derailed in the smashup.

Floyd S. Tuggle, president of the First National Bank and energetic opponent of the proposed Pattonsburg and Hickory reservoirs on the Grand River, told members of the Gallatin Rotary Club that this community must be alert to possible action by a congressional community which would permit construction of the reservoirs.