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90 Years ago, 16-year-old soldier from here dies in WWI
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90 Years Ago
December 10-13, 1918
Otis Webb was elected noble grand of the Monroe City Lodge No. 208, I.O.O.F. Other officers were: John Medcalf, vice grand; George E. Chipman, secretary; Harry Strean, treasurer; W.L. Green, trustee for three years.
Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Brownell, north of this city, received word from the War Department of the death of their son, Elmo Brownell, who was serving in France. He was the youngest soldier in service from this community, being only 16 years of age on February 21, 1918.
Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Mudd received word from the War Department that their son, Riley Francis Mudd, was wounded in action in France in September.
80 Years Ago
December 7-11, 1928
Miss Alpha Elzea, home demonstration agent for Desha County, Ark., returned home for the Christmas vacation. Miss Elzea was appointed to this work in June, when the United States Government established this work in Desha and Chico counties, which were the most devastated counties in that state from heavy floods.
Miss Louise Brooks, who graduated as a nurse from Missouri Baptist Hospital in June 1928, accepted a position as supervisor to the operating room in the Mississippi Baptist Sanitorium at Jackson, Miss.
The Bowling Green basketball girls won the championship title for Northeast Missouri in the Monroe City tourney, defeating the M.H.S. girls in the final game, 21-20. Clarence boys defeated New London for championship honors with the Monroe City boys winning third.
70 Years Ago
December 8, 1938
The Monroe City High School basketball tourney opened December 7 with 32 teams entered.
Mr. and Mrs. John Evan Jackson were parents of a son born December 3.
Honor students in Monroe City High School were announced by Supt. A.L. Crow as follows: Senior class, Betty Jean Turnbull, Doris Swearengen, Eugenia McGlasson, Nevadna Branch, Jacqueline Jayne, Robert Hawkins, Areleta Burditt, Zetta Craig, Jessie Day, Jack Greathouse; junior class, Frances Bell, Rheyma Tuley, Rosella Jeffries, Hulda Hedberg; sophomore class, Marjorie Dean, Thelma Jean Burditt, Nancy Pipkin; freshman class, Charlotte Ann Henderson, Martha Jean Straub.
Miss Maxine Eaton of Shelbina and Howard Thiehoff were married December 4 in Shelbina by the Rev. H.W. Eisenberg.
60 Years Ago
December 9, 1948
Corporal Wilfred Gordanier, serving with the U.S. Army of Occupation forces at Yokohama, Japan, returned to the United States by plane November 22, to the bedside of his mother, Mrs. Georgia Gordanier, who was critically ill.
Lieutenant Commander Fred C. Moyers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moyers, southeast of Monroe City, who had been attending school in Monterey, Calif., was assigned to a seaplane tender at Norfolk, Va. He was to leave for Guantanamo Bay in southeast Cuba, where Joe Christian, first class petty officer and son of Mrs. George McFarland was also stationed.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Wright were parents of a son born November 7 at Leonardtown, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Matteson of Columbia were parents of a son born November 28. He was named Gary Lee. A daughter, Claudia Ann, was born December 5 to Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Yates. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Elliott of Jeffersonville, Ind., were parents of a son, Gregory Joseph, born December 1.
50 Years Ago
December 4, 1958
Miss Jack-Lynn Ann Gillespie and James Moore Hampton were married November 29 in Holy Rosary Church.
Miss Lutrell Painter of rural Monroe City and John Brown of Springfield, Ill, were married in Springfield November 15.
Miss Alice Jo Harper, a Central College senior, was selected for “Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges.”
The entire family of Mr. and Mrs. Don Terrill was ill with mumps.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schluckebier celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary Thanksgiving Day. Mr. and Mrs. Lyell Landrum observed their 43rd wedding anniversary November 24.
New people: a daughter, Joanne Yvonne, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Danny Hill November 29. Lieutenant and Mrs. John H. McNally, formerly of Monroe City, stationed in Kiel, Germany, were parents of their sixth child and third daughter born December 2 in Germany.
The Bloodmobile program, with Paul Walker, chairman, needed 150 pints of blood in order to meet the Monroe City quota.
The 34th annual basketball tournament was to open Monday, December 8, with finals to be played Saturday night.
40 Years Ago
December 5, 1968
Santa Claus was to arrive in Monroe City for a visit with the children in his house located at the Tower Park near the Episcopal Church.
Miss Sylvia Robinson was chosen Sweetheart 1968-69 by the Sphinxmen of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity of the University of Missouri. Miss Robinson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.K. Robinson.
The 44th annual Monroe City Invitational Basketball tournament was to begin December 9-14. Schools participating included: Clark County, Knox County, North Shelby, Palmyra, South Shelby, Monroe City, Mark Twain, and Van-Far.
Births: a son, Micky Phillip, November 22 to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bodine; a daughter, Jennifer Jo, November 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ray.
30 Years Ago
November 30, 1978
Residents of Monroe City were without water for nine hours as a water main broke on Highway 36 in front of the B & K Foodliner. An estimated 300,000 gallons of water escaped from the two water towers as the hole popped in the eight inch iron water main.
Births: a daughter, Shannon Marie, November 8 to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Gallaher of Quincy; a son, Larry George, Jr., November 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Painter; a son, November 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Coons of California, Mo., he was named Michael Andrew; a son, Jeremy Glenn, November 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Eagan; and a son, November 20 to Mr. and Mrs. David Pfaff named David Shawn.
Tony Hays was elected president of the Monroe City Pork Producers. Other officers elected were Mike Chinn, vice president; Dick Whiston, secretary; John Loid Redman, treasurer; Chris Lehenbauer, membership chairman; Nick Hays, Joe Morris and Tony Hays, directors, Ron Dean, state director.
The Monroe City Panthers were seated third and the Pantherettes second in the Monroe City Tournament which as beginning December 4.
20 Years Ago
December 8, 1988
The Christmas Is Caring bake sale rose over $350 for needy families for Christmas.
Guy Pearson retired from the Monroe City Post Office after serving for over 25 years. He was hired as a temporary city carrier in 1963 and then was named as substitute rural carrier in 1966. In 1977 he was made a regular rural carrier until his retirement.
Rowdy’s TV and Electric, the Radio Shack franchise located at the Mark Twain Center celebrated their grand opening with a ribbon cutting by the Monroe City Chamber of Commerce.
Sims Jewelry was to celebrate their grand opening with an open house at their location at the Mark Twain Center.
10 Years Ago
December 8, 1998
Taken from the files of The Lake Gazette
The Hays Christmas Tree farm was to offer country hospitality with cookies and cocoa during the weekend.
Births: a son, Elijah Logan, December 4 to Casey and Jackie Minter.
Sean Davis, son of Jim and Lisa Story and Whitney Buckman, daughter of Danny Buckman and Angel Buckman, were winners in the send a birthday card to Mark Twain for his 163rd birthday.
Mrs. Adelene Phelps was featured as she displayed and told about her Santa dolls and figurine collection. She started collecting them more than 40 years ago when she and her husband were married.
Monroe City students collected 4,401 items for the Christmas Is Caring Program. Items were to be distributed to area individuals who were in need.
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History of gift-giving has its ups and downs
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Economic forecasters had predicted that the current economic crisis would not bode well for “Black Friday” sales.
Anyone with a television knows that is the day retailers hope to start turning a profit for the year with holiday gift sales. By Saturday the reports indicated that retail sales were up over last year’s, despite fears that the country is headed for another Great Depression.
The holiday shopping season began with a frenzy that left one Wal-Mart employee trampled to death and fist-fights in at least one Wal-Mart store closer to home. My daughter, one of those hearty souls who braved the crowds before daylight Friday, coupons and sales ads in hand, asked how a Christian holiday became so mean.
Historically speaking, the ancient Church did not celebrate Christmas as much as it observed it as a holy day. The tradition of giving gifts to loved ones became more popular as the middle ages ended and the modern era began. Most Christians recognize the presents the Three Kings brought to Jesus as the legacy for exchanging gifts; God gave his son to the world, and the Magi presented Him with gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Since that first exchange, modern man has woven a certain amount of guilt into the Christmas gift-giving process.
Charles Dickens was under financial duress when he wrote A Christmas Carol, first published on December 19, 1843. Its success helped Dickens pay off a debt while poor old Ebenezer Scrooge has been having nightmares about Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future for 165 years. Mr. Scrooge was a financier/money-changer who had devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He held anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season. In the course of a single terrifying night he experienced a profound redemption to become the epitome of all goodwill associated with Christmas.
In our country’s early history, Dutch settlers introduced St. Nicholas to the new world. Then in 1863 Thomas Nast, a popular political cartoonist, drew the bearded, plump gentleman in a red suit that today’s children recognize as Santa Claus for Harper’s Weekly magazine. With that image came the threat of stockings filled with lumps of coal for children who misbehaved and presents for those who had been good. That was, however, before the days when the North Pole was filled with limited quantities of name-brand merchandise. Back then, Santa’s work-force of resident elves was able to keep up with the demand and production had not yet been outsourced.
The American author O. Henry introduced the concept of great personal sacrifice to fulfill the gift-giving of Christmas with his short story “The Gift of the Magi” published in early 1900. Young Mrs. Della Dillingham, who was living in a furnished flat that cost $8 per week, found herself on Christmas Eve with just $1.78 scraped together from her grocery money to buy her husband James a gift that would represent her love. Knowing that his prize possession was a gold pocket watch, she hurried to sell her beautiful long hair so she could purchase a suitable chain for his watch. His wages had recently been cut from $30 a week to $20, the amount she received for her hair, and he was also without a suitable gift for Della. On the way home, he sold the watch to buy her an expensive set of jeweled combs for her now quite short hair.
In its Christmas 1875 issue, the St. Louis Globe Democrat said, “It almost seems a special ordinance that the year, before it rounds to a close, should brighten its parting by leaving behind it the pleasant memory of a festival like the one celebrated today. Of all our festivals it is the heartiest, its anticipations the most eager, its enjoyments the deepest, its results the most lasting. It is especially the children’s day. It has never had in its observance any taint of sectarianism, and the children who have insensibly drawn us into its observance, have taught us thereby only lessons of love and true religion. When we look back at the scant courtesy the day received in this country a quarter of a century ago, and contrast it with the general rejoicing of the present time, it gives us an additional reason for welcoming and celebrating Christmas.”
Over the next 100 plus years, however, the secular elements of Christmas gained strength. One current Atheist web site proclaims: Many Christians insist that Christmas is a Christian religious holiday which belongs exclusively to them. While there are many ways to celebrate Christmas in a Christian manner, the simple fact is that there are many important elements to popular Christmas celebrations which have nothing whatsoever to do with religion or Christianity. These secular elements of Christmas are at least as important as the religious ones. So if you want to celebrate Christmas, you can do so without religion.”
It continues, “The most secular aspect of the Christmas holidays is surely the most prominent one as well: the extensive commercialization that no one can entirely escape. Retailers start encouraging people to buy gifts, decorations, cards, and other associated items starting as early as Halloween and the pressure continues right through the after-Christmas sales. The money made from Christmas is too important to the economy for this to change or even to decrease.”
One group of parents recently complained about the amount of advertising that is directed specifically toward children. A spokesman for the parents said, “It’s cruel to dangle irresistible ads for toys and electronics in front of kids—encouraging them to nag for gifts that their parents can’t afford.”
Richard Gottlieb, a New York-based consultant to the toy industry claimed, in response, that it is good for children to encounter toy ads, even in cases where products later turn out to be disappointments, because for “very low stakes it teaches them how to navigate in our consumer culture.”
Gottlieb further stated that as for the economic pressures on parents, there “are families with much bigger issues on their plates right now than worrying about whether their child will be unhappy because they did not get a particular toy. Delivering disappointment goes with the job of parenting.”
And that, my brave daughter, is how Christmas became so mean. Where is Charles Dickens when we need him most? As Tiny Tim first said so many years ago, “God bless us, every one.” The History Lady would add, “Bless even Mr. Gottlieb. I’m pretty sure he’s related to Ebenezer Scrooge and didn’t get the memo to read the story.”
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NOTICE
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Pursuant to the Planning & Zoning regulations of Marion County, Missouri, notice is hereby given of a Public Hearing to be held
at the Courthouse in Palmyra, Missouri on Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. The Hearing is being held by the Marion County Planning & Zoning Commission at the request of Jerry Gingerich to consider his application to rezone a certain tract of land containing one (1) total acre more or less described below as follows:
The East One-Half (E-1/2) of the Northeast Quarter (NE-1/4) of Section Nine (9), Township Fifty-Six (56), Range EIght (8) in Marion County, Missouri.
The above landowner is requesting this land be rezoned from A-1 Agriculture to C-1 Commercial allowing him to use at this point for retail outlet of stoves and chimneys and related components and possibly adding plumbing supplies later. Also, part of the building is planned for making baked goods, etc. to sell on a part time basis.
Ruth Ann Wright, Secretary
Marion County Planning & Zoning
Publish dates: Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2008 and Wednesday, Dec 3, 2008
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ELECTION NOTICE
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The Monroe City R-I School District will accept Declarations of Candidacy for any person interested in running for a position on
the School Board in the April 7, 2009 election.
Persons interested may file at the school district’s superintendent’s office located at 401 Hwy 24/36 East, Monroe City, MO 63456.
Filing will begin on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. and will continue during the district’s regular business hours, which are
Monday –Friday from 8:00 – 4:00 p.m. The district’s offices will be closed Monday, December 22, 2008 through Friday, January 2,
2009, and therefore will not be accepting candidates filing on those dates. Filing will end on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
There are two (2) positions available with three-year terms.
The Outstanding Schools Act requires that all board members who are newly elected or appointed after August 28, 1993 must
complete 16 hours of orientation and training within their first 12 months of service.
Monroe City R-I Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer
December 3 and December 10, 2008
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ELECTION NOTICE
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Notice is hereby given to the qualified voters in the Monroe City Ambulance District that an election will be held on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, within said Ambulance District
for the purpose of electing the following directors who shall serve as members of the Board of Directors of said Ambulance District for a term of three years each:
ONE DIRECTOR FROM SUBDISTRICT 2 (that portion of the Monroe City Ambulance District that is outside of the city limits of Monroe City, Missouri and which is in Marion County).
ONE DIRECTOR FROM SUBDISTRICT 5 (that portion of the Monroe City Ambulance District that is inside of the city limits of Monroe City, Missouri and includes ward 2 & 3).
Candidates may file their declaration of candidacy beginning December 16, 2008. The Deadline is set at 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Candidates are to file with Suree Botkins, Secretary of the Board of Directors at 506 S E Border in Monroe City, Missouri.
R.S.Mo. 115.124 provides that when the number of filings is not greater than the number of directors to be elected, no election is held and candidates assume office as if elected.
December 3 and December 10, 2008
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