Blast from the past

Gallatin R-5 High School sent nine FBLA members to attend the National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, CA. Members who represented the local chapter were Wren Tolen, Phillip Arnold, Jamie Brinnen, Carly Boyd and Taylor Sheldon in Parliamentary Procedures; Courtney Ray in Business Calculations; Cameron King in Personal Finance; and Breanne Brammer in Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures. Kaddie Mott and Phillip Arnold received their America Award, the highest award given to any FBLA member.

Sierra Rainey, a senior at Gallatin High School, was among the 100 students selected for participation in the University of Missouri School of Medicine’s High School Mini Medical School. Sierra is the daughter of Renay Rainey of Gallatin and Jay Rainey of Jamesport. The program is designed to give high school seniors who are already interested in medical careers a one-week preview of medical school.

July 14, 1999

Deanna Lewis began her duties as the new administrator at the Daviess County Senior Citizens Center on July 12. Mrs. Lewis was born and raised at Conception Junction, where she graduated from Jefferson High School. Mrs. Lewis lives in Winston where her husband, Eric, is a social studies teacher and coach at Winston R-6 High School. They have a five-month-old son, Craig.

Local youth participating in the 1999 National Junior Shorthorn  Show were Casey Alden, Tyler Alden, Jalayne Alden, Jamie Tummons, Maggie Alden, Levi Alden, Jo Ann Tummons, Heather Adams and Julie White. Jo Ann was selected as Missouri Shorthorn Queen.

July 12, 1989

This weekend the members of the Daviess County Country Club officially unveiled the new nine-hole grass greens golf course with special ceremonies and open house on Sunday. The ceremony caps an $89,000 improvement project.

The emphasis on Adam-Ondi-Ahman these days is on the creation of a pristine wilderness area and the project manager, Don Calder, told Rotarians Tuesday at the tea room he is pleased he and his wife have been assigned a work mission close to a community as congenial and friendly as Gallatin.

July 11, 1979

The Treasury Department says “Happiness is a dollar that won’t blow away,” but Daviess County bankers predict a short life for the new Susan B. Anthony dollar coins now in use for general exchange. A total of $500 million new Anthony dollars were minted and available for release on July 2.

Two Gallatin R-5 alumni were among the 10 Northwest Missouri State University runners who set a new Missouri 24-hour relay record July 7 as a fundraiser for the Olympic Fund. Brothers Greg and Mark Frost, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Duane Frost, were a part of the group running 277 miles and 488 yards. The previous record was set in 1972 at 274 miles and 1,471 yards.

July 10, 1969

New officers and directors have taken the helm of the Gallatin Lions Club for the 1969-70 club year. They are: Gerald Blaine, president; Noble Young, Arnold Tolen, Robert Teegarden, J. Russell Herbert, Frank Thompson and Jewell Swofford, directors; Noble Young, Jerry Frost and Larry Richards, vice presidents; Jean Taylor, secretary; Raymond Wade, treasurer; Kenneth Kordes, Lion Tamer; and Covel Searcy, Tail Twister.

There was a water show at Lake Viking July 4 but it was a well kept secret and a relatively small crowd was on hand to witness it. The lake has now grown to about 250 acres.

July 8, 1959

The Alva Heldenbrand family was chosen by the County Extension Council to represent Daviess County at the 1959 Missouri State Fair. The Heldenbrands have three sons, Buddy, 16, Bill, 12, and Dale, 6. Their farm, located six miles south of Winston, consists of 160 acres.

Tuesday only, July 14 is Band Mothers Benefit Show at the Courter Theatre in Gallatin. Showing will be “By the Light of the Silvery Moon,” starring Doris Day and Gordon McRae.

July 14, 1949

Mrs. Virginia McDonald has received word from publisher Frank Glenn that her cookbook, “How I Cook It,” already has gone into its second printing, usually considered favorable for a book that has been in publication only a few weeks.

Representatives of the Missouri College of Agriculture this week began a survey of farms in the Grand River basin in this area to aid in determining the economic impact of the proposed Pattonsburg reservoir.

“Jesse James Was My Neighbor,” Homer Croy’s newest book, is stirring recollection throughout Northwest Missouri, where the James boys lived and in several instances plied their trade. Gallatin had a prominent part in the book because of the December 1869 bank robbery by the James boys. In that robbery, Capt. John Sheets was slain. Jesse James shot him cold-bloodedly in the belief that he was S.P. Cox, who had killed Bloody Bill Anderson.