March 19, 2025: TIMES PAST compiled by Sue Ann Jones
This photo, from the Amyx family collection, was probably taken around 1920. The details handed down by family members say that it depicts a Ford touring car and a Fordson tractor, both stuck in Lick Creek. Although we don’t know exactly what happened or who is pictured in the photograph, we can guess that the tractor came to rescue the stuck-in-the-creek touring car, only to get stuck itself. Whatever happened, the kids on the horses seemed to think it was all very interesting.
Ozark County News
March 17, 1887
W. P. Kelley has gone to Bakersfield as gauger at the still at that place, which is now in operation.
A bill has passed both houses of the legislature at Jefferson requiring executions to be conducted within an enclosure, such as to shut off public view. It seems that we are to have no more public hangings.
March 15, 1900
Deputy U.S. Marshal Joe Huffman came down from Springfield yesterday and arrested George Holland and John Tabor for “boot-legging” whisky. He left with his prisoners this morning. . . . The marshal captured two men this trip and lost a good horse. The animal fell dead on the road 3 miles north of town.
The Republican
March 22, 1906
Sharp items – The Sunday school at Mineral Point last Sunday failed to materialize.
John Rice was at Sharp Monday in the interest of Keet Rountree Dry Goods Co.
Ozark County Times
March 20, 1925
Sheriff Endicott and deputies and Prosecuting Attorney G. W. Rogers, on a tip that a still was being operated in a gulch a short distance from Rockbridge, started out Monday evening to find it. They found it about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning in a small ravine. . . .
The officers . . . secreted themselves in the brush and among the rocks close by until 9 o’clock Tuesday morning in expectation that the owners would come to go to work, but nobody came; they evidently had been warned of the coming of the officers and had removed the worm and other parts that they could handily carry away. . . . In one of the barrels of mash was found a drowned goat that, from appearances, had fallen into the barrel some days before.
March 17, 1955
The three patrols of Scout Troop 92 engaged in a simulated lost person or object search Tuesday evening. The Scouts rigged a parachute to which was attached a box. The chute and box were dropped by Clyde Rogers as he circled over Lilly Ridge community in his plane. Each patrol got a “fix” with compasses as the chute floated to earth. Following their compass courses, the three patrols converged on approximately the same spot, and the box and chute were found. . . .
Explorer Advisor [Marvin] Kirkpatrick and Scoutmaster {Dr. M. J.] Hoerman said they enjoyed the expedition as much as the Scouts and probably were just a little more leg weary the following morning.
March 20, 1985
At the monthly meeting of the Gainesville city council Thursday night, an ordinance regulating dogs running at large and abandonment of dogs was read for the third time and unanimously adopted. The ordinance . . . prohibits dogs running at large within the city limits. . . . The ordinance provides for impounding pens. . . . The city pound will be located on the Junior Burris property on Highway 181, and Burris, one of the city’s police officers, was given the added duties of poundmaster. The ordinance provides that a dog will be held for seven days, then if not claimed the dog will be put to sleep by humane methods.