Times Past: Nov. 27, 2024
These undated photos of the Brixey store and post office on N Highway at Brixey accompany stories about the old Brixey community in the November edition of the Old Mill Run, the quarterly publication of the Ozark County Genealogical and Historical Society. The reminiscences were written by former Brixey resident Ronnie Parsons and by Crystal Martin Miller, granddaughter of Leslie and Bessie Bushong Naugle, shown standing at the store in the photo below. The Naugles owned the store from 1942 until their daughter, Joyce Naugle Smith Martin, took over in 1972. Other stories in the November issue describe the Murray store at Thornfield and a salute to Dora native and World War II veteran Windell Martin Cobb, who died Sept. 14 at age 98. Copies of the Old Mill Run are available for purchase at the Historium. To join OCGHS and receive the newsletter by mail, send $25 to P.O. Box 4, Gainesville, MO 65655.
Ozark County News
Nov. 29, 1894
A spelling match is being arranged for the [school] association, between a young champion of Dora and a fair speller from near Gainesville.
Nat Beach, our genial barber, wishes to announce that the person who "swiped" his basket last week will be liberally rewarded by returning the same to his shop, No. 1, High Street, south side.
Ozark County Times
Nov. 29, 1901
Thanksgiving has come and gone. Mr. Turkey who escaped the ax will now parade around with his usual pride.
Bakersfield News
Dec. 2, 1905
Ye editor and family ate turkey at the home of W. R. Kellett on Thanksgiving, and we ate too! A most excellent feast was prepared by our generous hostess. . . . It was the first square meal ye editor has had since last New Years, when a neighbor killed a hog and invited us over.
Ozark County Times
Dec. 4, 1914
Thursday morning of last week, six automobiles loaded with Gainesville folks . . . left here for the Thanksgiving Barbecue and Railroad Meeting at Mtn. Home. After a very pleasant run of about two hours, they were met, a mile out from Mtn. Home, by a committee of the Baxter County Commercial Club with their band in two automobiles. After exchange of greetings and music by the band the Gainesvillites were escorted on into and over the principal streets of the little city.
Dec. 7, 1923
Rockbridge items – F. B. Morris, wife and son N. B., ate Thanksgiving dinner with Mr. and Mrs. WM. Mahan.
Nottinghill items – We had some rain and snow on Thanksgiving Day. . . . Several attend the pie supper at Pond Hill on Thanksgiving.
Nov. 2, 1939
Roy Davis, farmer of near Udall, had one of his most valuable Jersey cows stolen from his pasture on Wednesday afternoon of last week. . . . He soon learned that two young men in a pickup truck hauling a cow had passed out of that neighborhood going north. He trailed the truck to Gainesville, where he reported the matter to the officers. They took up and trail and . . . overtook the truck, cow and the two occupants . . . a few miles north of Ash Grove, in Greene county. . . . [Sherman Simpson and Ewing Luna] were placed under arrest and placed in the jail at Ava. The cow was hauled back to the Davis farm in the same truck that had hauled her away.
Nov. 30, 1944
Ocie items – Well, the jingle bells of another National Thanksgiving are heard. Turkeys, pumpkins and woodpiles, like the old gray mare, are not what they used to be.
Nov. 28, 1974
Construction of Route 56 south of Gainesville is now complete and will be open next week, G. G. McKinney, district highway engineer, said. Motorists are asked to use caution when driving on the new section as signing and shouldering are still in progress.