Times Past from July 31, 2024
This photo of the employees of the Bank of Gainesville, now Century Bank of the Ozarks, is thought to have been taken in 1977 or 1978. Front row, from left: Lovice Wallace (in dark shirt, white skirt), unknown, Mary Ann Reynolds, Carol King, Dot Luna, Mary Lee Adamson, Diana Premer, Roy Jones. Back: Marsha Evans, Carma Rose, Treva Warrick, Linda Fast, Gwenda Driscoll, Judy Allen VanGillder, H. T. Harlin, Billye Harlin, Nancy Collins, Pat Funk, John Harlin and Mike Evans.
Ozark County News
Aug. 2, 1883
A. L. VanTrump wishes to inform the public that he is prepared to do all kinds of wagon work at his shop in Gainesville. All kinds of repairing a specialty. Charges reasonable. Will take farm produce or stock of any kind in exchange for work; satisfaction guaranteed.
July 28, 1904
We are informed that Hawk Walker and son Frank are now in the Indian Territory.
The Republican
Aug. 2, 1906
Ad. – Harry Ebrite, Editor of the Republican, in discussing corns the other day, said, "I had two corns on my feet that had bothered me for sixteen years. They were very painful, and I could hardly run the job press. I had to cut holes in my shoes and altogether they were a great nuisance. I spent fifteen cents for a bottle of Force's Corn Cure not long ago, and now they are entirely gone.”
Ozark County Times
Aug. 1, 1924
Urban Parker and Claude Boone, of this city, who went to Springfield Saturday afternoon and returned home Sunday, did not have all joy on their trip. On their way up, at Galloway, late Saturday evening in passing another car their front wheel hit the concrete head block of a culvert, damaging the car to the extent that considerable repairs had to be done on it. They left the car by the roadside and went on to Springfield. On returning to the car in the morning, they found that thieves had stolen the casings from three of the wheels, a robe, all the tools and everything of value from in the car, all worth about seventy-five dollars.
Aug. 2, 1929
Jenks Taylor was up from Oakland Saturday. He and others had been fishing in White River and caught some fish. To prove his assertion he pointed to the front of his car, where hung the head of a yellow catfish; it measured 11 inches across. The fish, when dragged from the water, measured four feet in length and weighed 49 pounds.
Aug. 3, 1944
Staff Sgt. Randall V. Loftis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Loftis of Gainesville, has recently been promoted from Sgt. to Staff Sgt. Vet, as he is known here, has been in the armed forces for seven years and is now stationed somewhere in the South Pacific. . . . He has been overseas 18 months.
Aug. 1, 1974
Dawt items (by correspondent Rose Ranck) – While the big fish aren't being caught so often from the Dawt bridge, they are still there. This is the first year the big fish have showed at Dawt. They were stocked in the lake five or six years ago. All conditions must be favorable for them to have attained such size.
Aug. 2, 1994
The 25 mph speed limit on Cedar Oak Drive in Gainesville will be enforced . . . according to Gainesville City officials. Gainesville Mayor Frank McClendon said the city has received several complaints from residents on Cedar Oak Drive about motorists speeding on that particular street. . . . The Mayor added that new signs have been posted to help remind motorists of the speed limit.