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100 YEARS AGO – MARCH 11, 1926
The school board, after a long series of meetings, conferences with school authorities and personal examinations of other school plants, unanimously adopted a plan for the local grade and junior high school building last week and actual work started Monday morning of this week with a force of eight or ten men which will be increased as the work develops.
W.T. Ammon is busy this week making extensive repairs to the interior of the court house. The plastering has had little or no attention since the building was erected and it had little or no attention since the building was erected and it had become pretty badly dilapidated. Mr. Ammon is patching all the cracks and replacing the bare spots.
B.E. Nations of Patton has moved here and opened up a business in the rooms recently vacated by the Swan Shoe Repair Shop. He is operating a restaurant and grocery.
At the city council meeting Tuesday night a tentative offer of $60,000 was made to the city of municipal light plant. The offer was made by an electrical supply salesman who is thought to be acting for some utility company.
75 YEAS AGO – MARCH 8, 1951
(Photo-1) Two weeks ago Mrs. Leota Reagan took sixty of her art students to St. Louis to attend regional Scholastic Art Exhibit staged at Stix-Baer and Fuller Dept Store. Miss Ernestine Thurman, left, entered a charcoal drawing of the Catherine mines and Carolyn Ellis entered a formal dress design. Each girl received “Place Winner Certificates.”
Public school district mergers in Missouri under a 1948 consolidation act have reduced the number of districts from 8277 to 5850, a drop of 2427, Hubert Wheeler, State Commission of Education, announced last week.
(Photo-2) At last weekend’s Spring Field Trials. Harp Waldrip’s setter, “Duke of Dallas” won first place in the open all-age class. Waldrip of St. Louis is pictured showing his dog, his trophy on the ground in front of the dog. Alongside is Ferlyn Prather of Desloge, who was field marshal for the trials.
A committee of Madison County citizens is working in an attempt to secure county-wide coverage in the Rural Electrification Administration’s program. It was announced this week that 212 farm homes, schools and churches are without electric power and a new loan application, soon to be filled, will ask for power lines to every home in the county, providing the occupant is eligible and has made proper application.
50 YEARS AGO – MARCH 11, 1976
(Photo-3) New officers were recently installed at Marcus Lodge No. 110 A.F. & A.M. in Fredericktown. Pictured from the left, front row: Representing the Grand Lodge of Missouri, P. Vincent Kinkead; Jim Goldsberry, Mike Shetley, Worshipful Master, Tom Davis; Bob Sellards. Back row, left to right: Ivan San Socie, Bill Dubbs, Sherman Barrett Sr., Gene Moss, Sherman Barrett Jr. and Floyd LaPlante. Not available for this picture was Fred Munzert.
Jerry Sample and Chad Follis may not be neighbors in 1977, but in the future they will have something in common that few neighbors can boast of. At the present time, the two boys are neighbors on Watson St in Fredericktown. On Sunday, Feb. 29 they were born in Farmington, but at two different hospitals.
(Photo-4) Members of the Madison Memorial Hospital Auxiliary meet every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to work on various hospital projects including making gifts to sell at the hospital gift shop. Pictured are, seated: Evelyn Drisscol, Nell Lett, Leona Metcalf, Hazel Rickus, Dorothy Skaggs, Virginia Todd. Standing: Bernadette Schulte, Anne Grossman, Naomi Magee, Nancy Caldwell, Mary Aull, Hazel LaPlant, Jewel Hartle.
Mr. and Mrs. Dalbert Settle of Fredericktown wish to announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Cherilyn to Jerry Stephens. Stephens is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Stephens of Marquand. A March 20 wedding is being planned.
25 YEARS AGO – MARCH 14, 2001
(Photo-5) Fredericktown High School Senior Kyle Rogers was recognized recently for his actions following the R-I School bus accident, Tuesday, March 6. Pictured left to right are Chief of Police Keith DeSpain, FHS Senior Kyle Rogers and R-I Superintendent Jerry Kinder.
Five Cats made the Class 3A Southeast Missouri All-Region Teams. They are Dusty Merrill, Justin Hall, Jon Page, Megan Brown, Nickey Tucker. Hall and Brown were first team selections. Merrill, Page and Tucker were all honorable mentions.
(Photo-6) J.D. Cooper recently made the cover of the sports section and was on WBOY-TV for his high school basketball exploits. J.D. is the son of Rick and Vicki Cooper, and a 6-feet-5 Senior on the Elkins (West Virginia) High School Basketball team. He is also the grandson of Don and Martha Cooper of Fredericktown.
A science experiment using thistle seeds was created by the Fredericktown gifted education class. C.A.T.S. and was accepted by NASA to be part of the payload on the Discovery Space Shuttle. After a couple of delays, STS-102 was launched Thursday, March 8, from Cape Kennedy. Only 20 other classes across the nation had their experiments accepted for this flight.
