Times Past
The house was unpainted when this undated photo was taken. It’s believed the people in the photo are members of the John and Mary Conkin Harlin family, who owned the house “sometime after 1873,” according to Times archives. Perhaps some of the Harlins’ eight sons are some of those pictured.
The four photos accompanying this week's Times Past column show the grand old house that once stood where the Town & Country Supermarket is now. We don't know when the house was built, but a historical piece published in the Feb. 1, 1973, Times, says that "sometime after 1873," John W. and Mary...
This photo, from the collection of Patsy Trivitt, shows a float in the Hootin an Hollarin parade more than 50 years ago. The float was sponsored by Joan’s Cafe in the early 1970s and carried, from left, Kent Suter, Terry Akers Maddox, Trena Trivitt Uchtman, Jim Trivitt, Tammy Latham Johnson and Mike Richardson.
Ozark County Times
Sept. 13, 1912
Lutie – Edith Norton, the 17-year-old daughter of J. B. Norton of this place, committed suicide Thursday evening by drinking carbolic acid.
H. T. Owens, C. C. Hosman and E. F. Jones attended the colt show at Hammond Saturday.
Sept. 24, 1915
Oak Dale – Mr. Holt...
Hootin an Hollarin costumes: With Hootin an Hollarin coming up next week, we're sharing these two photos from previous festivals' costume contests. Mandy White anxiously awaits the announcement of contest winners alongside her sister, Dusty, left, and Tiffany, who is sitting on the lap of her great-grandfather, Al Dreckman (1894-1992). The girls, daughters of Darrell and Diane Dreckman White, are wearing dresses made by their grandmother, Jean Dreckman (1927-2005). The photo is undated, but the girls participated in the costume contest several years and won the small-group category in 1983.
Ozark County News
Sept. 13, 1883
Thirty-five dollars have been paid into the Treasury this week as fines for misdemeanors.
The Republican
Sept. 13, 1906
Testimonial ad. – Harry Ebrite, Editor of The Republican, in discussing corns the other day, said, “I had two corns on my feet that had bothered...
Ozark County News
Sept. 8, 1892
The death of Prof. W. F. Holland, who died at his residence in Gainesville Sept. 5, cast a mantle of gloom over our village from which it will not soon recover.
Prof. Holland was born in Marshall County, Ky,. in October 1852 and came to this county when quite young...
Orval Hosea and Jack Dillon, Two of the Four Hammond Bank Robber Suspects, Now Sought By Ozark County Sheriff
Reprinted from the July 27, 1933 edition of the Ozark County Times - A jail delivery here was discovered Friday morning as Sheriff Daniel went to the jail to feed the prisoners. The...
L. W. Brown Decapitated When Flying Wheel On Woodsaw Breaks
Reprinted from the April 19, 1934 edition of the Ozark County Times - L. W. Brown, 46 year old farmer of four miles west of Mountain Grove, met instant death last Wednesday morning about 10 o’clock, when the fly-wheel on a wood saw, with...
Restaurant and tourist cabins, Gainesville, circa 1950 These post card photos, probably from 1949 or 1950, show the restaurant and “tourist cabins” that operated on what is now County Road 806 west of the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office and directly across from the Ozark County Ambulance base. The business later included an automobile-service station. Its beginning and some of its owner history are described in the 1948 - 1962 items in this week’s Times Past, below. The cabins have been demolished, but the former restaurant is now a private home.
Ozark County News
Aug. 14, 1890
Ad. – I will remain one month at Bakersfield and am interested in treating Cancers, Ulcers &c. Give me a call. Dr. E. E. Taber
Aug. 29, 1895
G. M. Gordon is making preparations to erect a distillery on his ranch six miles West of town. A better site could not...
This old photo, believed to be a threshing operation near Dora, was shared with the Ozark County Historium several years ago by Geneva Collins Infield of Sepulpa, Oklahoma. Geneva’s father, the late Willie Otis Collins, grew up on a Dora-area farm that had been homesteaded by James Franklin Collins in the 1800s.
Ozark County News
July 19, 1883
The rattle of the thresher is now heard in different parts of the county.
John H. Beach had the misfortune on last Saturday to lose his mare. He had been working her to a thresher, and he thinks she got too warm and drank too much water, shortly after which she died...
This 1958 picture postcard, from the Ozark County Historium’s collection, shows the east side of the Gainesville square. The door of the Ford pickup parked in front of Lister Rexall Drugs bears the name of Joe’s Standard Service, an automobile service station owned by Joe L. Ebrite at Highways 160 and 5 north. In the background, on the southeast corner of the square, is the Ozark County Times building built in 1908 by longtime editor and owner Earle W. Ebrite (1866-1958). A later owner, E. K. Dunnegan, added the false two-story front and metal roof. The building burned on Feb. 14, 1963, when the business was owned by Fred and Ruby Robins. While they built a new structure to house the Times on the same site, the building that now houses the Times, they published the newspaper in the A. D. McDonald building (now the Historium) on the west side of the square.
Ozark County News
Aug. 16, 1883
A petition for a daily mail from West Plains to this place was circulated and numerously signed here this week.
Parties from this county, who attended the Springfield reunion, have all returned, and report the affair a grand success. Probably 15,000 visitors were in...
This photo from the late Ruby Robins’ collection, now housed at the Ozark County Historium, was taken on a Monday afternoon in July 1927, when the Springfield Chamber of Commerce brought its “nationally known” Boy Scout Band to Gainesville. The Ozark County Times reported that more than 2,000 people attended and that a Gainesville delegation headed up “Route No. 5” to escort the Springfield group into town. The caravan was led by Prosecuting Attorney Willard C. Boone and banker J. C. Harlin. Sheriff Walter Endicott also accompanied them.
Ozark County News
Aug. 9, 1883
Mr. James Agee has purchased of Dr. Cantrell, of St. Ledger, the famous Alsup horse Bob for a consideration of $250. Bob is the fastest quarter horse in this section, and we congratulate Mr. Agee on securing him on such reasonable figures.
Ozark County Times
Aug. 6...