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140 Years Ago

April 9, 1885

WED – John Triplett and Miss Florence Burch were married last Thursday. On the same day Edward Boltz and Miss Mary Sawyer were also married, Knox City items. George Lawrence and Miss Minnie Murray of Locust Hill were married one day last week and left Monday for their western home.

 

130 Years Ago

April 4, 1895

CITY – The city council Monday night declared the posts and hitching racks a nuisance and ordered them removed.

BURGALRY – The Millport Post Office was burglarized last Thursday night and $3 in copper cents was taken, also several cans of oysters and other articles.

NEW RIDES – Tut Stauder and Bert Beal each support a new bicycle.

BIRTH – Chris Gonnerman was seen standing on his head on top of his shop one morning last week. It’s a boy, Hurdland item.

 

120 Years Ago

April 6, 1905

LICENSED – Marriage licenses were issued March 31 to Earl W. Stewart and Amanda Simpson, and April 3 to Elwood W. Songer and Catherine E. McEvoy.

 

110 Years Ago

April 8, 1915

IN MEMORY – Ed Stith Roseberry, 74, died Friday, Hurdland item. William Cottey, a well-to-do farmer on Bee Ridge died Tuesday of heart disease.

 

100 Years Ago

April 9, 1925

BIRTHS – Mr. and Mrs. Claude Newkirk are parents of a 10 lb. son who arrived at their home last Thursday, Prairie View item.

A son, their first child, was born Saturday night to Mr. and Mrs. John Tungate, Jr.  A daughter was born the same night to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Waibel, Plevna item.  A daughter, Dorothy Jane, was born Friday to Mr. and Mrs. George (Marguerite McMahon) Fellers of Kansas City.

 

90 Years Ago

April 4, 1935

NEWS – The Sentinel of this date was printed on a deep-pink-colored paper as a feature edition, heralding the laying of the cornerstone of the Knox County Courthouse, which was scheduled for Saturday afternoon, April 6.

FIRE – The house in Edina of Harry Spencer, north of his residence was badly damaged by fire early this morning. It was occupied until yesterday by Charles F. Burkhart and his mother, Mrs. Fannie Burkhart, who moved to the John Flynn place in the east part of town.

WED – Miss Margaret Davis of Edina and Charles Funk of Hurdland were married Tuesday of last week at Kirksville.

 

80 Years Ago

April 5, 1945

IN SERVICE – Fifteen more Knox County men have been called for regular induction into the military services.

First Lt. Willis Griffith, 26, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Griffith of south of Novelty, died March 22, 1945, as a result of wounds.

WED – Miss Gertrude Cahalan and L.C. McBride were married by the Rev. Terence Mullins at the parochial residence Sunday morning.

Mrs. Cora Coffey of Edina and Pearl E. Ellis were married Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodwin by Rev. Earl S. Woodard of Burlington, Iowa.

 

70 Years Ago

April 7, 1955

CITY – Agreements were reached Monday evening at a meeting of the Edina City Council for the purchase of three pieces of property needed for the proposed new city reservoir. Sylvester Smith, on whose present property the dam is to be constructed, will receive $20,000, plus water rights, an underpass at the east end of the dam and pasture rights below the dam for 30.8 acres. The Hayes estate will receive $135 an acre for 40 acres and $100 an acre will be paid for 10 acres of the Kavanaugh property.

WED – Miss Margaret Phyllis Hines of near Leonard and Robert Leon Murray of Hurdland were married April 2, 1955, at the Christian Church parsonage in Shelbina by the Rev. J.L. Shoemaker.

Clarence Sykes of Hurdland and Mrs. Bernice Elmore of Gibbons were married Sunday afternoon by the Rev. Harold Johnson of La Plata at his home.

 

60 Years Ago

APRIL 8, 1965

WEATHER – We certainly have had miserable weather for most of last week. The yards and lots were beginning to get so you could get around and Friday night it started raining again and it rained most of the time until early Monday morning. The water was over the roads east of Raymond Kincaid. Tuesday morning the sun came out brightly and the grass has greened up, but it cleared off during the night and we keeping our fingers crossed, Plevna item.

HISTORY – About 120 people attended the first annual meeting of the Knox County Soil and Water District at Edina Elementary School held April 1, 1965. The board of supervisors reported on the accomplishments of the district since its organization last year.

The McSorley Lime & Rock Co., Inc., producers of high-grade limestone and road rock for the last 28 years has changed ownership effective April 1, 1995, with Richard B. Kelly and Larry Kelly, brothers purchasing the interest of Mrs. Frances M. McSorley of south of Edina. The large quarry is located a mile and a half southwest of Newark on ground leased from O.M. Johnston, Jr.

BIRTH – Mr. and Mrs. Kim Smith of Edina are the parents of a son, Michael Todd, born April 1, 1965, at Grim-Smith Hospital, Kirksville.

 

50 Years Ago

April 9, 1975

WEATHER – Winter seems loath to depart. It played a return engagement, though certainly not by request. Tuesday night and Wednesday of last week, when freezing rain turned to snow and the howling winds piled up drifts very like the late February blizzard, on a smaller scale. It has been such a long winter. Surely this is the last for this spring. But as we should be grateful we missed the tornadoes that struck some places, Antioch item.

BIRTHS – Mr. and Mrs. Danny Joe Primm of Macon are the parents of a son, Chad Daniel, born April 4, 1975, at Grim-Smith Hospital, Kirksville.  Mr. and Mrs. Larry Phillips of Tipton are the parents of a son, Travis Dean, born April 1, 1975, at Sedalia.

ENGAGED – The parents of Sherry Gilbert announced her engagement to Terry Lingenfelter. A May 3 wedding date set.

REIGNING – Brenda Richardson and Ron Sayres were chosen by the student body as Royalty of the Newera Dance held April 5. Dave Strickler, editor and co-editor of the yearbook served as master of ceremonies with music provided by Humour.

CHURCH SERVICES – There were 101 present for Easter services at Locust Hill for the program, dinner, and egg hunt.

Fourteen men and boys from the Novelty Christian Church attended the annual Men’s Banquet at the Moberly Training Center for Men. The meal prepared by the prisoners.

 

40 Years Ago

April 10, 1985

CONSTRUCTION – The new pool construction for the Knox County Swim Club took a big step Wednesday, April 3, when workers poured the concrete that forms the bottom of the structure. The overall project was stranded due to weather last October, and the hole that the pool is set in had to be rebuilt. Members of the private club hope that their new pool will open for swimming before June.

ELECTRIC RATES – Electricity rates for Union Electric customers in Knox County will be going up soon, although the increase ($444 million) is not what the company had originally asked the Missouri Public Service Commission for. The MPSC excluded approximately $384 million from Union Electric Company’s rate base due to mismanagement and cost overruns (inefficient, imprudent, unreasonable, or unexplained costs) at the Callaway Nuclear plant.

 

30 Years Ago

April 5, 1995

WEATHER – Winter doesn’t seem to be through with us yet. We hope all the flocks of geese that flew north early aren’t having too bad a time of it. The robins and other birds that had been flitting about the yard so merrily seem to have gone into hiding, Antioch item.

VANDALISM – The Citizens Bank of Edina will have to replace trees which were killed by a vandal or vandals last summer. The culprits used chemicals to kill the landscape work behind the bank.

BIRTH – Allan and Jackie Holland, Bonner Springs, Kansas, are the parents of a daughter, Allison Jacqueline, born March 27, 1995, at St. Joseph Hospital, in Kansas City, Missouri.

ENGAGED- The parents of Staci McQuitty announced the engagement and pending marriage to Scott Doss. A May 20, 1995, wedding planned at First Baptist Church, Shelbina.