Times Past 11/20/2024
This photo, from the Amyx family collection, was probably taken around 1920, and 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 what happened or who is pictured in the photograph, we can guess that the tractor came to rescue the flooded-out or stuck 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
Nov. 22, 1883
Out of some thirty births in Bridges township during the year, we have heard of but one girl, that of James Agee and his wife. About 18 years from now, Mr. Agee will have to keep two big bulldogs and a double-barreled shotgun in the house to protect the premises from invasion by a small army of twenty-nine young men.
The Democrat
Nov. 23, 1904
The Ladies Christian Temperance Union will meet with Mrs. Dr. Arnold the first Tuesday in Dec. 1904.
Haskins and Sanders will soon have their store building completed, which adds much to the appearance of the west side of the square. This will be the best building in Ozark county and one which the people should be proud of.
There will be at least 200 bales of cotton baled at Gainesville this year, which is quite an improvement over the last few years. Ozark county is coming to the front, and those who own land here should not fool it away.
Ozark County Times
Nov. 21, 1924
The new law putting a tax of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline and increasing motor vehicle registration 50 per cent, which was voted by the people on November 4, becomes effective January 1st. . . . The increases range between $3.50 a year for a Ford and $8.50 for a Pierce-Arrow.
Brixey items – M.A. Bushong, who got a foot smashed up in a hay baler, is improving.
Andy Smith's have returned from Arkansas, where they have been picking cotton.
Bakersfield News
Nov. 7, 1940
Sturkie items – Pat McLain has gone back to the State Hospital to take another treatment for T.B. Hopes are that he may improve very fast.
Bridges Creek items – Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Roberts are the proud parents of a ten and one-half pound boy.
Ozark County Times
Nov. 19, 1964
By the fifth day of the deer season hunters in Ozark county had bagged 500 deer and two bobcats with the successful nimrods ranging from grade school pupils to senior citizens and from women and the young and active to one who bagged his deer again this year from a wheelchair and another who was allowed to tag his buck after hitting it with an ambulance.
The bobcats were shot by Larry Bushong, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bushong of Gainesville, and James Gasnell of St. Louis.
Nov. 16, 1989
Staff Sergeant Walter Goode of Brixey and Sergeants Randy Vaught and Johnnie Nelson of Gainesville returned this week from participation in a 21-day military exercise in Cairo, Egypt, Operation Bright Star. The exercise was a joint military operation of the Egyptian and American armed forces. The three men are attached to the Arkansas National Guard's 224th Maintenance Co., headquarters in Mtn. Home, Ark.
Nov. 24, 2004
School officials decided Tuesday to dismiss the half-day of classes schedule for today [Wednesday] to give students an extra day away from school. "We are at about 86 percent attendance today (Tuesday) and I'm told there are several students in the nurses' offices in both schools," Gainesville Superintendent Bill Looney said. "We have reported cases of pink eye, flu and other illnesses. This extra day will give students five days to get healthier before we return next Monday."