Bygones 7-30-2025

By superadmin | July 30, 2025

75 Years Ago – 4-H Dress Revue – These girls are part of a group of 29 girls who modeled dresses they had made this year. For the county-wide 4-H Round-Up front row: Sue Tungate, Leonard, and Doris June Danner, Givan. Back row: Phyllis Miller and Anna Louise Turner, Leonard; Claudette and Clunette Wood, Marilyn Elwood, Kendall.

100 Years Ago

August 5, 1925

Sheldon Collier, Boyd LeFever, Tommy Wester, Eddie Hewitt, Elmer Powell and Latrell Smoot left Friday for the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Des Moines, Iowa. The boys will spend the month of August at the camp.

Last Saturday afternoon a return match between the Shelbyville and Leesburg croquet champions resulted in victory for Leesburg. The local club was successful in winning one out of four matches. Cressie Brockman and W. C. Hewitt again represented the Shelbyville team. In a previous meeting, Shelbyville defeated Leesburg three out of three.

The Hannibal Travelers defeated Shelbina on the latter’s grounds Sunday by a score of 18 to 4. The game was a play-off between the teams in the Tri-County League for first half honors. Both clubs had won eight games in the first half.

Within a very short time Shelby County will be on the fully accredited list of Missouri counties having 100 percent tubercular tested cattle. All counties on the accredited list are entitled to a bonus of 10 cents per hundred. At the present time, 2,010 cattle owners have had their cattle tested.

Miss Katharine Drain, who is on a tour of Europe, writes the Herald from Naples that she is having a wonderful trip and believes it will continue so. She said Europe is filled with Americans this summer. She will go to Switzerland next week.

Miss Dorothy Goe left last Thursday for Kansas City to visit her uncle, J. T. Baker and family.

Fine yields of oats are reported by the following: Henry Arnold had 14 acres which made 70 bushels per acre and John Werr 28 acres which made 57½ bushels per acre. William Claussen averaged 44 bushels on 43 acres and White Bros. report a 50-bushel average from 40 acres.

For Sale: Illinois Hog Mineral $4 per hundredweight, Liberty Laying Mash, $2.50 per hundredweight while it lasts at Farmer Elevator.

75 Years Ago

August 2, 1950

Bob Goe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Goe of Shelbyville, will receive a Bachelor of Science degree from the Business and Public Administration School at the University of Missouri Friday evening. Bob majored in economics.

Richard Maresh, Anabel, received a total of $40 as bounties for two wolves caught with steel traps in Shelby County recently.

An Aberdeen Angus steer owned by James Hall, Shelbina, was named Grand Champion of the Macon County Fair Thursday night. Mr. Hall received a loving cup in token of the award after a livestock parade in front of the grandstand.

Many local farmers and a great deal of farm machinery were at the farm of Ray Bentley, Saturday, July 29. The farmers were on hand to harvest Mr. Bentley’s wheat and oats since he has been in the hospital with a badly cut foot. He returned home yesterday from Samaritan hospital and is steadily improving. The days work was arranged by William Easdale, Roy Chinn and John Simpson.

Sgt. and Mrs. Harold Bringle and children of Sparta, Wis., visited Monday and Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Forest Copenhaver and son in Leonard.

Armour Star hams, shank portions, were priced at 55 cents per pound and picnic hams were 45 cents per pound at Kroger in Shelbina. Stock spray was 98 cents per gallon at Temple Stephens.

If you are going to be short on late summer pasture it is still not too late to sow sudan grass, says John Douglas, county agent. If applied now it will provide pasture in September or about six weeks after seeding. When the seed is broadcast or drilled solid use 20-25 pounds of seed per acre.

The 65th annual Shelby County Fair opened at Shelbina yesterday with a good crowd in attendance. The best girl rider under 12 years at the county fair was Ann Maddox of Macon. Best boy in that age bracket was Garry Nagel, Shelbina and best boy rider under 16 was Kenneth Wayne Moss, Perry.

50 Years Ago

July 30, 1975

The Shelby County Fair began Tuesday and will continue through Saturday August 2. Activities include cattle, swine, poultry, horse and rabbit shows, tractor pull, truck pull, demolition derby and a teen dance with music by “Daddy Warbuck.”

Kelvin Hawkins, a student at Bethel Grade School, won first place for Northeast Missouri with his Soil Conservation poster.

Mr. and Mrs. Galen Rutter, Leonard, wish to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Beverly, to Roger Keith Otto, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Otto, Leonard.

The Shelbyville 4-H members enrolled in Outdoorsmen enjoyed a fishing trip and wiener roast at Clyde Barrick’s pond near Bethel. Those present included Beth and Debbie Woods, Mark March, Neal and Linda Stockham, Larry Shively, Mike and Kerry Ratlift, Mr. Roy Lee (Buddy) Ratliff, and Mr. Bob Viles. Mr. Viles is the leader of the group.

Three hundred and thirty-eight head of Durocs sold in the National Congress Sale for a total of $243,990 to average $722 per head. This is the highest sale total ever for a breed type conference sale. Moore & Perry, Bethel, exhibited the reserve champion tested boar at the National Duroc Congress held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which sold for $1,800 to Danny Easterday, Eustice, Nebraska.

25 Years Ago

August 2, 2000

The Shelby County Senior Citizens Association along with other officials were on hand Wednesday, July 26 for a check presentation at the former C&R Supermarket. The check is to purchase and renovate the building to make it the new nutrition center. Steven Gerrish, of the USDA Rural Development office in Moberly presented the check for $249,000. In attendance was the center’s board of directors, Debra Sparks-Shelby County Coordinator, several staff members, Shelbina Mayor Bob Greening, 10th District Representative Robert Clayton, a representative from US Senator Kit Bond’s office, Shelby County Clerk Denice Mefford, Shelby County Treasurer Carol Simpson Burton and the architects for the project.

The North Shelby Raider Football Team had a guest speaker at football camp on Wednesday, July 26. Former South Shelby standout and current Baker University Assistant Football Coach Charlie Dieker talked to the Raiders. He talked about the importance of determination, setting high standards on and off the field, and the importance of knowing how to win. Diecker and his teammates knew how to win as South Shelby went 38-1-1 in his four years, including a state championship his junior year.

The Missouri Arts Council recently allocated $17,500.00 to Historic Bethel German Colony for Fiscal Year 2001. The funds are earmarked for maintaining and creating new festivals, administration costs, educational workshops, folk art demonstrations, and creating an educational environment for tourists as well as the local community.

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