Blast from the past

Sunday will be historic for members of the Gallatin First Christian Church. You are invited to share in Unity Service, the first worship service to be held at 9:30 a.m. in the new sanctuary. The congregation is led by the Rev. Russell Hamilton.

Gallatin’s city water tower was inspected during the fall of 2007 and City Administrator Zac Johnson submitted the results of that inspection. The report stated that the old water tower needs to come down and the new water tower is in need of several repairs that add up to approximately $90,000.

Monica Wilson, standout basketball player on the Gilman City Hawks team, has signed a letter of intent to play basketball for North Central Missouri College in Trenton next year. Monica, daughter of Tim and Wendy Wilson, was Gilman City’s leading career scorer with 1,650 points.

April 15, 1998

Jim’s Small Engine Clinic is open at 201 W. Grand in the building formerly housing Stan’s Tire Service. Jim Hopkins and his wife, Esther, are partners in the new business, which specializes in small engine service and repair.

On Sunday, the optional dialing period for customers assigned to the 660 area code will end. Callers must use the 660 area code.

Josh Fitzmaurice, Gallatin, used a three-wood to sink his first ever hole-in-one last Saturday at the Green Hills Golf Course in Chillicothe. Josh’s hole-in-one came on the 325-yard, par 4, No. 8 hole. Witnesses to the event were Wayne and Jon Culver and Scott Crouse, all of Gallatin.

Gallatin R-5 senior Amy Woodruff this week received a double honor, having been named to the Missouri Academic All-State Team and declared a finalist for Missouri’s Miss Show-Me Basketball award. She is the daughter of Frank and Kay Woodruff of Gallatin.

April 20, 1988

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded the Rotary Jail Restoration Committee a 50/50 matching grant in the amount of $867 for use in seeking admission on the National Register of Historic Places. Wayne Culver presides over the Daviess County Historical Society and leads a restoration committee of three.

Eleven-year-old Paul Rogers bagged a 23.5 pound turkey yesterday in the Carb Orchard area. In Daviess County, opening day honors were shared by Dave Rogers, Jr., of Gallatin, and Steve Lyman of Kansas City. Both bagged 25-pound turkeys.

Craig Cummings captured the 147-pound championship and was also awarded the “Outstanding Boxer” trophy at the Golden Gloves Regional Tournament in Kansas City. Richard Slack won the Super Heavyweight Championship trophy. Both boxers are now eligible to advance to the National Golden Gloves Tournament in Omaha, Neb.

April 19, 1978

Scott Watson and Vera Dowell were winners in public speaking categories at recent FFA contests. Scott was district winner in public speaking and won second place in extemporaneous speaking. Vera was winner of the Area II creed speaking contest and received a silver ribbon in the same category at the district contest.

Sen. Tom Eagleton says he will introduce legislation in the Congress to name the Smithville dam and reservoir for the late Cong. Jerry Litton. Cong. Litton was a strong advocate for flood control since as a boy in the Lock Springs area, he many times waded and boated over Grand River bottomland to feed his cattle.

Barbara Mackintosh and Jim Macy, Gallatin R-5 senior band students, were selected by audition to participate in the Northwest All-District Concert Band. Barbara is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D.O. Macintosh, and Jim is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Macy.

April 18, 1968

Fire broke out early Saturday morning in the Richard Harlow garage in south Gallatin, burning it to the ground. The fire, believed to have been started by lightning, was spotted by Larry Vyrostek and Jim Crawford, who were driving by.

In the recent American History Essay contest, sponsored by the Gallatin Chapter DAR in the Daviess County schools, Robert B. Bird won first place in the state for the fifth grade. The subject for this year’s contest was “An American Inventor” and Robert chose to write about Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable gun parts.

Starting Thursday for one week at the Courter Theater, Rodger and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

April 17, 1958

Gallatin’s new milk plant is now operating. Trucks are now covering a wide area, with Gallatin as the hub, bringing in milk to the plant for the Kansas City market. The building is located in south Gallatin along highway 13.

Virginia McDonald of the McDonald Tea Room here has been informed by the State Research and Development Division that her tea room has been selected for inclusion in a new book on eating places of distinction in the United States. Over 100,000 copies of the volume will be printed for worldwide distribution.

Frank King, Jamesport, was recently proclaimed a corn growing champion at a banquet held at Excelsior Springs in honor of Northwest Missouri champions. His yield of 108.84 bushels per acre was the top yield in Daviess County in the 1957 National Selected Five Acre DeKalb contest.

April 15, 1948

There were fewer graduates, forty-seven in number, in the rural schools of Daviess County than in any year since E.C. McNitt became county superintendent. There were 68 graduates last year.

Two members of the Gallatin chapter, FFA, are to be advanced to the degree of “State Farmer” at the annual FFA convention in Columbia this weekend. The members are Clayton McBroom and Tommy McWilliams.

Civil Bend’s consolidated school may not have a high school next year, it was reported here this week. Civil Bend had only three high school students at the end of the school year after starting the term with twelve. The Civil Bend school is without transportation and students living near highway 69 find it more convenient to board the Pattonsburg school bus.