TIMES PAST (Sept. 4, 2024) compiled by Sue Ann Jones
This photo of the Gainesville Livestock Auction is taken from an ad in a mid-1960s Bulldogger yearbook published by Gainesville High School. The advertisement said the sale barn, owned by T. D. Crawford, held sales every Wednesday. The building was located next to Lick Creek on the east side of Highway 160 in Gainesville, roughly across from what is now the MFA Oil building on Third Street. It closed in March 1971 after the state bought the land for right of way to build the current Highway 160. A Times article reported, as the building was being demolished, that its arena had seating for 250 buyers, and its stock pens could hold 1,500 head of cattle or livestock. The sale barn’s yearly total sale averaged 30,000 head, the article reported. The 1949 Times Past item below reports Ray Wallace's plans to build and operate the sale barn.
Ozark County News
Sept. 6, 1894
The melon season will soon be over, sorry to say. . . . This office, assisted by a few friends and kids and kiddesses, devoured a 31-pounder raised by Esq. Terry on his upland farm southeast of town, which was the largest watermelon on this market this year.
A horse-race in the southwest part of the county Saturday attracted quite a number of persons from this vicinity. The race was between a horse owned by Spurlock, of Douglas county, and a mare owned by Ellison, of Jasper township. It . . . was won by Spurlock.
Bakersfield Boomerang
Sept. 7, 1901
At four o'clock yesterday afternoon, while President McKinley was shaking hands with the visitors to the Buffalo Exposition, he was shot twice and dangerously wounded by a man who carried a Revolver in his right hand with a handkerchief around it and his arm in a sling. The would-be Assassin was quickly overpowered but would not give a reason for the act.
Ozark County Times
Sept. 5, 1924
Bernice Gilliland is carrying his arm in a sling as a result of having attempted to crank a stubborn Ford car at the showground last Friday evening after the show.
Levy Fletcher, who was being held in the county jail here on a larceny charge awaiting trial at the next term of circuit court and who broke jail on July 4th, was captured by Sheriff Rose Sunday night at his home near Pontiac and is again in jail here.
Just after dark last Thursday evening, Floyd Terry drove in from Lilly Ridge with his wife to have physicians set a bone in her right ankle which had been broken by a kick from a cow while milking that evening.
Sept. 1, 1949
Ray Wallace has purchased a tract of land from Mrs. Mary Bushong just south of Walker Lumber Co. on the south side of the highway and will put up a new sale barn. He will speed the work up. He said he would build and complete it in 40 days.
Sept. 12, 1974
One of the best programs in the ten-year history of the annual Hootin an Hollarin Hostess Pageant was presented Friday night at the Red Barn Theatre at Theodosia.
Sept. 7, 1989
Gainesville's First Baptist Church will celebrate its fortieth anniversary Sunday, September 10, with a "Homecoming.". . . Organized on September 9, 1949, the church grew from a nucleus of 30 charter members who met initially in the courtroom of the Ozark County courthouse.
The Library is open for business in its new home [its present location on Elm Street]. Many people gave $500 or more so we were able to buy this building. – Hilda Lincoln, president, Ozark County Library Board.
Sept. 1, 2004
[Joe] Scott's now 43-year-old scoring record has stood [at the University of Missouri]. . . .The game has added the 3-point line and shot clock, but no one has matched the 46 points the Poplar Bluff [and Ozark County native] attorney pumped in against Nebraska in 1961. (Editor's note: According to Mizzou's website, missouri.edu, Scott's record still stands.)