Blast from the past

Chris Elbert has been appointed to the position of Gallatin R-5 High School Principal beginning next school year. Mr. Elbert began in Gallatin in 1998 as alternative classroom director, working with at-risk students. He was also athletic director and held various coaching assignments. He has been in the position of assistant principal for the last nine years.

Local athletes named to the HDC All-Conference Basketball Teams are Monica Wilson, Kyla Payne, Abbie Herrold, Blake Johnson and Taylor Eoff, Gilman City; Jaclyn Ray, North Daviess; Becca Bowland, Jeff Parton and Nick Roberts, Pattonsburg; Mallery Heldenbrand and Courtney Lang, Winston. Gilman City’s Tina Holt was named the girls’ Coach of the Year.

The Pattonsburg R-2 High School Academic Team won the HDC Tournament Championship last November and will participate in district competition on April 12. Team members are Rachel Hopkins, Becca Bowland, Alyssa Lambert, Kate Hangley, Travis Lowrey, Chase Conover and Katie Bell.

March 11, 1998

The Gallatin Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will honor Joseph R. Snyder with a reception on March 29, at the Daviess County Library Community Room. During the reception, the DAR’s highest honor, the Ellen Hardin Walworth Medal of Patriotism, will be bestowed on Mr. Snyder.

Two Daviess County students have earned distinction as William Jewell College Scholar Athletes. Sophomore cross country and track member Cindy Critten, daughter of Danny and Karen Critten of Gallatin, was named a Jewell Scholar Athlete. Freshman basketball and track member Michael Fischer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Fischer of Winston, was also named a Jewell Scholar Athlete.

Bulldog senior Bob Wiley knocked down a GHS record ten three-pointers in 19 attempts to lift his team to an 82-80 overtime victory over Mid-Buchanan in the district championship. Mid-Buchanan’s Matt Grove scored 46 points in a losing effort.

March 9, 1988

Voter turnout in Tuesday’s Presidential Primary was better than usual but less than expected. There were 1,434 votes cast, or roughly 27 percent of registered Daviess County voters. Daviess County chose Bob Dole on the Republican side and Dick Gephardt on the Democratic side.

Conrad Burns, a 1952 graduate of Gallatin High School, is currently campaigning for U.S. Senate in Montana. He is presently serving his first term as Yellowstone County Commissioner.

The North Harrison Shamrocks will take a 27-2 record and the HDC Conference banner to the Class 1A state basketball tournament finals in Springfield this weekend. The team is coached by Bill Gordon, a 1969 graduate of Gallatin R-5 High School and son of Wilma Gordon of Gallatin.

March 15, 1978

For the first time since the James Boys were operating in Daviess County, a train was stopped Monday by a band of men interested in its cargo. Picketers protesting farm prices halted a Rock Island freight at Lock Springs as it was headed toward Trenton from Kansas City. Once the train stopped, there were six to ten persons standing on each side of the train, many holding signs. They asked the engineer if the train carried any imported beef but he was unable to answer since the conductor is the only member of the crew with that information. The locomotive was pulling at least 80 empty grain cars.

Six Bulldogs were honored last week when voting for MVP by the boys’ and girls’ squads took place and the all-conference players were disclosed. Girls’ MVP was Kathy Smith, senior. Jerald Uthe and James Olney were named Co-MVPs. Olney, Mike Shuler and Eric Grywusiewicz received all-conference honors. Debbie Frost was named to the honorable mention list.

March 14, 1968

Raymond Ridlin, faced with moving his “Garden Valley” store as a result of the relocation of Highway 6 in the Gallatin area, has constructed a new building that proves Mr. Ridlin has been an enterprising merchant through the years, having started with the proverbial “hole in the wall.”

One of Gallatin’s newest businesses is a coin-operated car wash operated by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Robertson. The community now boasts two such operations, one in the north part of town and now this one at the south end.

March 13, 1958

Junior Hockensmith and Marvin Blackburn will unveil their new building here Monday with a Grand Opening celebration. The Grand Opening will herald the introduction of the new 1960 Case-O-Matic tractor line which the boys say “is the greatest engineering achievement in farm tractors in 25 years.”

Jesse Wilson, who farms 4 ½ miles west of Gallatin, discovered in a litter of 13 pigs last week a pig with two bodies, one head, five ears, eight legs, two tails and assorted appendages. Mr. Wilson said the animal was dead when he first noticed it.

The Board of Directors of the Bank of Coffey met in regular monthly session yesterday, at which time Carsley Salmon was elected president of the bank to fill the unexpired term of W.H. Fullington, who died last week.

March 11, 1948

The federal grant for Gallatin’s memorial airport west of town on Highway 6 was included in the Department of Commerce appropriation bill passed last week by the House of Representatives in Washington. Gallatin has voted an $8,000 bond issue which amount is matched by the state and the combined amount matched by the federal government, providing a $32,000 port.

The Growler pep squad banquet, high-ranking annual event on the Gallatin High School social calendar and dedicated to the heroes of the 1947-48 athletic season, was held last Friday evening at the school. Miss Lois Millikan, pep squad president and football queen, presided. The dinner was served by candlelight by the Band Boosters club. A quartet, composed of Shirley Galpin, Doris Sue Runnels, Charlotte Richardson and Jean Alexander, sang a number and led the group in the alma mater song. The occasion was formal and following the banquet a dance was held in the auditorium.