June 27, 2007
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Emily Michener, graduating senior from The Dance Company in Gallatin, was recently awarded a $500 scholarship from the Talent on Parade National Dance Company in Des Moines, Iowa. Emily plans to use her scholarship next fall and attend NWMSU.
Mariah Woods of the Pattonsburg FFA Chapter placed fourth in the intermediate division during the Missouri Public Speaking Academy held in Warrensburg. Her presentation on agribility helped her advance to the finals.
Jan Johnson, director of the Daviess County Library, will be facilitating one of the evening sessions at the 2007 State Library Summer Institute held in Columbia. Mrs. Johnson will facilitate a Small Libraries Seminar, focusing on networking with colleagues and discussing common small library concerns.
June 25, 1997
Philip Courter of Coffey, a 1997 graduate of North Daviess High School, has received a scholarship from the Personnel Club of Western Missouri Correctional Center. Philip plans to attend Missouri Western State College in the fall.
Major league baseball owners gave their consent to interleague play, in part, to test fan reactions to certain regional matchups during a time when league restructuring is the hottest topic in baseball. It is also an effort to draw fans back to the game after the disastrous strike of 1994.
Twenty-one visually impaired youth, ages eight to 16, participated in this year’s activities at Lake Viking Lions Club Kids Kamp. Special events included a trip to the Daviess County Library, a show by the Mic-O-Say Dancers and Gator Rivers of the Harlem Globetrotters, who came to play basketball with the kids.
July 1, 1987
Two postmasters in Daviess County retired from their duties this week. Clayton Grimes concluded a 22-year career as postmaster at Gallatin and Ermal Cameron finished 20 years as postmaster or acting postmaster at Pattonsburg.
Seaman Kevin Hughes, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hughes of Jameson, is proud to be aboard the Navy’s newest hospital ship, the USNS Mercy, currently on a five-month humanitarian mission to the Republic of the Philippines. Hughes works in the ship’s post office.
Inflating night crawlers with air has become the key for fishing success at Lake Viking. The procedure increases the worm’s flotation power, causing it to float at the top of the water.
June 29, 1977
Lots of concrete is being poured in Gallatin these days. A new sidewalk is being poured from the Bank of Gallatin, passing Hobo’s Tavern, Sears and the Brandom Law Offices, to the First National Bank on the corner.
The Gallatin High School varsity cheerleader squad won several honors last week at the NWMSU Cheerleading Camp at Maryville. Members of the squad are Gina Osborn, Valorie Hartpence, Lesa Fletcher, Susan Snyder, Willa Grisel, Sandra Critten and Carla Searcy.
Bill White of the White Construction Company, Maysville, had the lowest bid submitted for the construction of a 17-unit addition to the Rest Easy Apartment complex. The White bid was $209,310 and calls for the project to be completed in 170 working days.
June 29, 1967
The scale at Davis Drug through the years has given the news, good and bad, to a lot of Daviess County people.
Don Fetters of Gallatin is building a show piece at the main entrance to Valkyrie Valley, placing native stone in an attractive pattern on the sign base. Eventually the area between the two small towers will be filled with a replica of a Viking ship now under construction.
Martha Scott, who’ll portray Nettie Cleary in “The Subject Was Roses,” opening June 15 at the Honolulu Concert Hall, has come a long way from her family home in Jamesport. As a teenager, Miss Scott traveled to Broadway, with visions of starring on the Great White Way. She landed the leading role of Emily in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” which she also played in the movie version.
A state board of arbitration has decided in favor of petitioners who asked for a change of boundary that takes 12 ½ square miles from the Tri-County School District at Jamesport and places them in the Chillicothe district. The change will affect 17 pupils who attended school last year.
June 27, 1957
Gallatin merchants will help area residents observe the Fourth of July with special entertainment Wednesday and a full slate of softball games Thursday afternoon and evening. The KC Dons girls’ softball team, which formerly made Dockery Park their home field, will meet the Topeka team here for a doubleheader.
Glen Osborn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Osborn, recently spent a 30-day leave here. Osborn is serving with the Marine Corps and was stationed at Camp Pendleton for his basic training. He received a promotion to the rank of corporal and was transferred to 29 Palms, California, test area for rockets and missiles.
June 26, 1947
A coon dog field trial, sponsored by the Daviess County Coon Hunters Association, is scheduled for next Sunday at the Seth Macy farm, three miles east of Gallatin. The Coon Hunters Association, recently formed, is headed by Jewell Swofford as president and Mike Downey as vice president. Russell Herbert is secretary and Ike Swofford is treasurer.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Kansas boy who made the Nazis say “Amen,” is to be the next president of Columbia University when relieved as Army Chief of Staff, probably next year.
Six Gallatin High School vocational agriculture students who exhibited lambs at the Midwest Fat Lamb Show in Kansas City brought home $50 in awards, according to ag instructor R.P. McWilliams. Those exhibiting at the show were Clayton McBroom, Donald Ray, Jerry Carter, Charles Fuller, Bill Fuller and Tommy McWilliams.