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100 Years Ago

September 2, 1925

  Forty-five business and professional men of Kirksville on a good will tour of this section of the state, paid a brief visit to Shelbyville last Wednesday afternoon. A good crowd greeted the visitors. J. D. Buck, on behalf of Mayor Burk and the city, welcomed the “Trippers” as they styled themselves.

  Sheldon Collier, Boyd LeFevre, Tom Wester, Eddie Hewitt, Elmer Powell, and Latrell Smoot, who went to the Citizens’ Training Camp at Fort Des Moines, returned home last Saturday. The boys say they had a fine time.

  We are having typical Fair weather, hot, dry and dusty. The temperature gets very high during the day, but the nights are delightfully pleasant. It is fine weather for the maturing of the corn crop, it is said.

  The gasoline war which has been waging for the past week or more has forced prices down somewhat much to the delight of the consumer. Standard Oil reduced prices Monday to 18 cents in Chicago. Red Crown is selling here today at 20.2 cents, a reduction of two cents.

  We are adding to our list of subscribers this week the name of Mrs. Julius E. Price, Enid, Okla. Mrs. Price says in her letter: “We are Shelby County people and decided the best way to hear from there was to take the Herald.”

  Thomas E. Holliday of east of town won two first premiums with his saddle mare in the harness ring at the State Fair, and one second premium in the junior saddle class. There were sixteen entries.

  I have a good farm of 200 acres, 1½ miles of rock road, all in cultivation and grass except 8 acres of branch bottom. Fair house and barn, fences poor, price $25 per acre; $1,500 will handle it. Inquire W. J. Cotton, Shelbyville, Mo.

  The typhoid fever epidemic, which has been raging at LaGrange for the past few weeks, has claimed four victims. Only one death from typhoid fever has occurred this week and one new case is reported. The situation is considered improved, says the LaGrange Indicator. Every precaution is being taken to check the epidemic.

  The Hale School, south of town, is being redecorated and put in shape for the opening of school next Monday, September 7. Miss Gladys Collier will teach there again this year.

75 Years Ago

August 30, 1950

  Ervin and Tom Purdy and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Quigley, all of Shelbina, killed one wolf Saturday and one on Sunday northwest of Clarence. One was killed by dogs, the other was shot.

  Harold Holtshouser has discontinued his garage south of the courthouse square. The building will be used by the owner, Landys Tuggle, in connection with his lumber business.

  Buddy Ratliff of near here was the top winner in a label saving contest sponsored by the IGA company. Buddy saved 586 labels of IGA products and received a Schwinn bicycle. Other winners were Billy Rae Arment, ball glove; Garry Thomas, ball bat; Roy Lee Kiser, softball.

  Mrs. Tom Stone, Shelbyville, brought a tomato weighing two and one-quarter pounds into the Herald office Thursday morning.

  Bill Staggs of this city took a physical examination in St. Louis Friday preparatory to induction into the Armed services. A member of the reserves, he served in the Army Ground service in the European and Pacific theaters during World War II.

  The County Court awarded John Maddox of this city, a contract for the supply of coal to the Courthouse, P.M.A. office and County Shop, Monday. He submitted a bid of $8.50 per ton.

  Mr. and Mrs. Willard Stevenson and Joe Andy of near Emden are visiting relatives this week in Colorado Springs, Alamosa and Denver. Colo.

  Missouri’s importance as a supplier for Kroger Co. increased in recent years. Robert A Hughes, St. Louis branch, made purchases in Missouri last year amounting to $64 million. Other expenditures in the state included $730,000 for rental of stores and $571,000 in advertising in Missouri newspapers. Missouri residents received more than $10 million in wages and the company paid $1.8.

  The threshing machine was in the neighborhood last week and the week before and threshed for W. E. Parsons, and Tom and Ernest Hall, Sr.

  Mrs. Mabel Waite and Louis Waite stayed at the home of Pearl Hammond to care for things while they were on their trip to South Dakota.

50 Years Ago

August 27, 1975

  Super excitement is in store Thursday evening with the kickoff of the 87th Old Settlers Reunion in Shelbyville. The celebration will continue through Saturday, August 30th.

  A most welcome rain fell here yesterday measuring approximately 1 1/2 inches. The rain, however, about a month late, revived parched vegetation and will help the soybean crop and fall pastures.

  Mr. and Mrs. Gary White are the parents of a son born at 3:40 a.m., August 23 at Old Laughlin Hospital in Kirksville. He is their first child and weighed 6 lbs. 14 ozs. He has been named Christopher Don.

  The North Shelby Raiders, under new head football coach Roland Tackett, have been undergoing strenuous drills the past several weeks preparing for their season which opens at home next Friday, September 5th, with the Westran Hornets.

25 Years Ago

August 30, 2000

  The 2000 North Shelby Varsity Cheerleaders are Leslie May, Sarah Hawkins, Laura Beach, Cindy Weber, Krista McCoy; Shannon Bichsel, Ashley von Thun, Amber Stewart, and Cathleen Southers.

  Leonard — Jane Harder

  Things should now be well thawed as temperatures have climbed to near 100 degrees this past week.

  I have never fared well in competitions. In my attempt to help Willard go for the gold in the Super Farmer contest in Sedalia, I bombed out when I slipped on a raw egg while running as fast as on old fat woman could with her shirt full of raw eggs. I gracefully slid past Willard and whacked him on the head with the hard-boiled egg on the way down. We had the best time, but after they added on seconds for each broken egg (which I didn’t think was fair because I successfully hit him with the hard-boiled egg before I broke the others) we didn’t do so good. And since I was concentrating on trying to protect my nest of raw eggs, I landed pretty hard and ended up with a broken rib. We have this on a video, so I’m sure my grandkids will have a ball watching it someday.