Blast from the past

Ed Miller with State Aerial Farm Statistics was traveling around the country last week selling reproductions from aerial photographs taken by his company about 30 years ago. He came across a vintage photo showing the original location of the authentic log house that is now sitting in the roadside park south of town. The log house was moved in 1991 by the Gallatin Lions Club. It came from land owned by Ted Miller located just south of the Nile Frost farm on DD Highway.

Terrill Wood, Levi Michener and Colton Selby attended American Legion Boys State in Warrensburg from June 13-20. The Gallatin Lions Club, Gallatin Rotary Club and Gallatin Men’s Club sponsored the young men and gave them the opportunity to attend.

July 7, 1999

Workmen on Monday used a crane to put a new 4,000 pound heating/air conditioning unit on its rooftop pad of the Gallatin High School building. The high school improvement project is expected to be finished before the start of the academic year.

Today’s local grain markets throughout Northwest Missouri post corn prices at $1.65 per bushel and soybeans at $3.65 per bushel. Nearly every other economic indicator in agriculture points to hard times.

July 5, 1989

Among the 155 high school juniors and seniors who attended the 27^th Annual Missouri Freedom Forum at the Missouri Military Academy campus in Mexico were Gallatin High School students Sarah Cragg, Jennifer Pendleton, Lara Taverna and Melinda Stewart.

Three Daviess County students performed in the Missouri Lions All-State Band recently at the International Lions Club Convention in Miami, FL. They were Melinda Stewart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stewart of Gallatin; Vickie King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne King of Jamesport; and Barbara Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Brown, also of Jamesport.

Craig Cummings won his first professional fight over an Israeli opponent by a third round TKO in a scheduled four-round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York last Thursday. The Gallatin native roughed up his opponent, giving the fighter from Israel a cut over his eye which prompted the referee to end the fight.

July 4, 1979

The south side of the business square in Gallatin brightened up this week when Elbert’s Department Store renovated its business front with new stone masonry. Oddly enough, the work began last Tuesday — 17 years to the day that the Elbert Hotel burned down on the north side of the square.

The United Methodist Church completed a project this week that has been in planning for over a year. The old church bell was installed above the new bulletin board Monday by Burl Hisle and Edgar Muller.

The Missouri State Fair in Sedalia will feature top-flight entertainment, Aug. 17-26, including Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Bill Anderson and the Charlie Daniels Band.

July 3, 1969

A small twister or straight line winds cut a path through sections of Daviess County Thursday night, resulting in heavy property damage, heavy damage to hundreds of trees and at least one injury. Mrs. Ava Pugh, who is in Missouri Methodist Hospital, was struck on the head by a limb and a board which struck her on the foot. She was shutting up her chickens at the time. One of the oddities of the storm was found in the yard of Mrs. Harold Beck of Jameson. The wind drove a large splinter of wood through the body of an unlucky bird.

Army Specialist 4 Charles E. Wortman, son of Mrs. Ruth E. Bradley, Gallatin, is a cannoneer in Battery C, 7^th Battalion of the 25^th Infantry Division’s 11^th Field Artillery serving near Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border.

July 2, 1959

The new Wabash depot here is much smaller and less ornate than the 85-year-old relic it replaces, but it is compact, neat and attractive and ample for today’s requirements. The old depot has been razed and workmen this week are demolishing the foundation.

Although the Salk vaccine has proven safe and effective, numbers of people have not bothered to take the polio shots. Of the 175 million people in this country, only 77 million have received even one shot. Four out of seven Americans have no better protection than if the vaccine had not been discovered.

July 7, 1949

Daviess County is 24 miles square, 33½ miles from southwest to northeast corner and 34½ miles from northwest to southeast corner. In the extreme southeast corner the Charles Hilt family resides and in the extreme northwest corner lives John A. Pittzenbarger and family. In the extreme southwest corner lives James McLaughlin and family, while in the distant northeast corner lives Miss Ethel Herrin. The exact center of our county is nearest the home of Jack Gibbons and family, Union Township.

Formal announcement was made this week of the impending sale of the Gallatin Truck & Tractor Co., International Harvester dealer for Daviess County, headed by R.H. (Russ) Trapnell and R.S. McClelland, Sr. The business is being offered for sale due to the illness of Russ Trapnell.

Friday and Saturday at the American Theatre in Jamesport, “Trail to Laredo,” with Charles Starett and Smiley Burnette. Wednesday and Thursday, “Stagecoach,” with John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine.