TIMES PAST: 10-02-2024
Bakersfield School, pre-1914 fire An Oct. 2, 1914, item in this week's Times Past reports the fire that destroyed this stately Bakersfield school building, which an earlier, unidentified newspaper clipping had described as "the pride of the community." The building, which housed the first high school classes to be held in Bakersfield, burned just after the school year began. A few months after the wooden building burned, a concrete-block schoolhouse was constructed. That building, which opened in 1915, was destroyed by a tornado in June 1928. A bond issue to rebuild the school was brought to the voters 10 different times but failed to get the required two-thirds majority before the issue finally passed and a new school was built two years later. That building was replaced by the school that was eventually demolished in 2015 after Bakersfield voters approved a $1.9 million bond issue to build the district's current school building.
Ozark County News
Oct. 3, 1889
Joe Pumphrey, of Big North Fork, has moved his family to town to enjoy the benefits of the school here this winter – a wise act which others would do well to imitate.
Bakersfield Boomerang
Oct. 12, 1901
M. T. Parnell is building a new three-room residence on West Main Street.
For sale – Fine river bottom land, 300 acres, 125 in cultivation, 50 more of good tillable land. Balance to timber and pasture. Price $6 per acre. Walter H. Robinson
The Democrat
Oct. 26, 1904
Hon. John T. Moore, of Galena, the Republican nominee for Circuit Judge of this Judicial circuit, was in town last week shaking hands with the boys. Personally, we admire Judge Moore very much, but politically we think he is wrong, but we admit that this is the only thing we can allege against the Judge, and of course it is human to err.
Ozark County Times
Oct. 2, 1914
The Bakersfield High School building was destroyed by fire early last Friday morning. None of the contents of the building were saved. The fire started in the belfry and is believed to have been of incendiary origin. This is a very great loss to the people of Bakersfield and vicinity.
Oct. 4, 1934
An effort is being made to complete the purchase of Government cattle in Ozark county by Oct. 18. According to assistant Agent Hall, it is the intention of all connected with the Emergency Cattle Buying Program that every eligible person have the opportunity to see the cattle he desires before the actual buying date is closed.
Bakersfield News
Oct. 3, 1940
A holiday for the rural and urban schools of Missouri on Wednesday night, Oct. 16th, as an aid to registrations under the Selective Service Act, was proclaimed yesterday by Governor Loyd C. Stark. In his proclamation, the Governor pointed out that, since the registrants in Missouri are to register in voting precincts and since many of the precincts are in rural and city schools, the registrations would interfere with the normal procedure in these schools.
Ozark County Times
Oct. 7, 1954
Headline: Over 700 students receive immunizations at Clinic held here.
Brixey items – Several from here attended the cake supper and shower given at the Amyx house Saturday. The cake supper was in honor of their son, Cleon, who has just returned home from the Army, and the shower was given for Mr. and Mrs. Russell who were recently married.
Oct. 3, 1974
Chuck Farris of the Sentinel Wood Treating Company, Inc., at Ava, has leased the seven large charcoal kilns near the old Romance store along with 1,400 acres of timberland from Wilbert Mysers, who built the kilns but has not operated them for some 10 years. Myers now lives in the state of Texas. Cody Lambert will be operating the kilns, which will open next week, Farris said.
Oct. 5, 1994
Work has already started on the new Gainesville Elementary School building, which will be located just south of the old football field. . . . The school, which was approved by voters in August, will replace the current elementary school located in downtown Gainesville. Concerns were raised by local parents and school officials following an inspection of the current elementary school building in which the building was called unsafe and a fire trap.