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90 years ago, Modern Woodmen elect officers
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90 Years Ago
December 24-31, 1918
New officers of the Monroe City camp of the Modern Woodmen of America, elected for the ensuing year, were: Layson Tuley, consul; D.E. Yowell, adviser, J.J. Brown, clerk; Orville W. Wilson, banker; Dr. J.N. Southern, camp physician, and D.J. Ryan trustee for three years.
The Court of Honor initiated a class of 12 members, including Mr. and Mrs. George Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Leake, Virginia VanMarter, Bessie Swartz, Mrs. Ben Seward, Manning Humphrey, Charles Tully, Ely Jett, Russell Yowell and Mrs. Emmett Yowell.
The wedding of Miss Ethel McNutt and James Umstattd took place December 28 at the home of the bride with the Rev. Burton T. Wharton of the Christian Church officiating. Miss Ethie Catherine Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Lewis, and Max Kramm of Chicago were married at the home of the bride’s parents by the Rev. Mr. Wharton on December 25.
80 Years Ago
December 21-25, 1928
The Rev. Edgar L. Knight, pastor of the Monroe City Christian Church, was a delegate to an evangelistic conference of 100 representative ministers from the five states of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa, held in Kansas City.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Benson were parents of a son born December 20. A son was born December 22 to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spalding. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Curless were parents of a son born December 23.
Mrs. Willie Ragland and Benjamin O. Waller were married in Shelbina December 22 by the Rev. W.P. Wynn, pastor of the Shelbina Methodist Church. The wedding of Miss Mildred Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Thomas, and Lewis Housman of Quincy took place December 22. Miss Helen Lutier and Clare Thomas were married December 23 in Hannibal by Judge Totsch.
70 Years Ago
December 22, 1938
Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Little of near Stoutsville announced the approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Mae Little, to Richard F. Asbury of Memphis, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Green celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary December 17.
College students spending the Christmas vacation with their parents included: Henderson Forsythe, Miss Jane White, Miss Mary Sue Hagan, Miss Opal Branch, Miss Carolyn Riechoff, Gilbert and Dawson Gentry, Joe Hardy, Paul Pat Tuley, Miss Elnora Kendrick, Maurice Ritter, Miss Mildred McGlothin, Miss Rosemary McAllister, J.B. Owen, Francis Wadsworth, Mark Harrison, Elmer Sharpe, Miss Blanche Yager, Miss Deana Handley, Miss Mary Cordelia Osbourne, Miss Kathryn Calvert, Miss Kathryn Whiston, Miss Floy McClintock, Orland Hays, Robert Nickerson, Claude Hoef, Frank Hagan and Miss Isabelle Lefever.
60 Years Ago
December 22, 1948
Miss Myrtle Cecelia Kendrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kendrick east of Monroe City and a graduate of Holy Rosary High School, was placed in charge of the new premature baby center in St. Mary Hospital in Quincy.
Mrs. Loren Francis Tewell was dismissed from the Missouri Tuberculosis Hospital at Mount Vernon, where she had been a patient for 30 months.
William Thomas Mayes, gunner’s mate first class, USN, was serving aboard the light cruiser USS Astoria, a unit of Task Force 38, which was serving an intensive training period in the Western Pacific and the China Sea area.
A total of 61,650 cards and letters were cancelled through the canceling machine at the Monroe City Post Office between December 15 and noon December 22.
SFC and Mrs. Max Bennett were parents of a son, William Rex, born December 16. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hagan of Omaha, Neb., were parents of a daughter, Clara Margaret Ann, born December 19. Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Shumake of St. Louis were parents of a son, Ronald Paul, born December 8. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson of this city were parents of a son, Richard Edwin, born December 8.
50 Years Ago
December 18, 1958
Miss Martha Strickler of Roseville, Ill., and Gilbert Utterback of Monroe City were married December 14 in Roseville.
Miss Linda Kay Jones and Manning Frederick Berry were married December 12.
Mrs. June Parsons and Victor Fry were married November 8 in Anchorage, Alaska.
New people: Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Elliott were parents of their 11th child, a daughter, Denise Geryann, born December 11. Mr. and Mrs. Lilburn Rubison were parents of a son Charles Lilburn born December 14. A daughter, Brenda Marie, was born December 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Hulse. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Hays and was named Donna Marie. Mr. and Mrs. James Hall, Jr. of Shelbina were parents of a daughter, Donna Kathleen, born December 13.
Michael Mayer was to be master of ceremonies at the Holy Rosary grade school Christmas program.
Mrs. Marilyn Henderson Robbins was to be guest organist at the Christmas Eve candlelight service at the Monroe City Christian Church.
James Wilson was selected as “student of the month” at Gem City Business School in Quincy.
Palmyra boys and Leonard girls captured first place in the 34th annual basketball tourney held in the Monroe City High School. Three of the eight trophies were presented to Monroe City teams with the Monroe City High school boys and Holy Rosary girls winning second in their division, and the Monroe City girls winning third.
St. Stephen’s High School band presented the annual concert December 17 with Mrs. W.B. Kern and Cabrina Smith accompanying the band.
40 Years Ago
December 19, 1968
Msgr. Edward Connolly was to celebrate his 60th year in the priesthood on December 20.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Roland observed their 60th wedding anniversary on December 13.
The Vandalia-Farber Indians and the North Shelby Raider girls took title honors at the 44th annual Monroe City Invitational basketball tournament. Second place went to Monroe City boys and Knox County girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Tyree was to spend New Year’s Eve in Athens, Greece, as part of an all expense paid vacation which he received for being on the outstanding Saladmaster franchise dealers in the United States.
30 Years Ago
December 14, 1978
The icy streets kept the attendance for the Mark Twain Men’s Chorale and Ladies’ Ensemble. Members from Monroe City included Ron Mayes, Connie Walker.
B. Montgomery, who registered at Spalding Pharmacy, was the winner of the $50 given away by the Monroe City Merchants in the second Christmas drawing. Diana Vaughn and Otis Betty each received $25. Ten dollar winners were N. Lincoln, Mrs. Emmett Schachtsiek, Mildred Wilson, R.W. Neuman, Sr., Phyllis Bichsel, Carolyn Fahy, Karen Seward, Mrs. Leo Kendrick and Mrs. Denzil Farrell.
Rep. D.R. “Ozzie” Osbourn purchased the first combined hunting and fishing license from Robey Building Supply.
Births: a son, Jeffrey Dawson, December 11 to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thomas; a son, Marcus Byers, November 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Tuley Elliott.
The Monroe City Panthers took third place and the Pantherettes took consolation in the 54th annual Monroe City Invitational Tournament. The Palmyra boys and South Shelby girls won first place.
20 Years Ago
December 22, 1988
Winners in the Businessmen’s Association Christmas lighting contest included first place: Paul Terrill, religious category and David Zerrer, non-religious; second place, Dennis Moss, religious and Richard Hodits, non-religious; third place, Jerry Botkins, religious and Mark Utterback, non-religious.
Students from Monroe City named to the National Dean’s List included Candy Blackford Hitt, School of the Ozarks; Phyllis Chitwood, Ruthie Critten, Cindy Gottman, Melissa Powell and Donna Shephard, Hannibal LaGrange College,; Michael G. Powell, University of Missouri-Columbia; and Martha M. Smith, Columbia College.
Mrs. Geraldine Watts celebrated her 92nd birthday at the home of her daughter and son-on-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Lehenbauer on December 12.
10 Years Ago
December 22, 1998
Taken from the files of The Lake Gazette
Phillip Potterfield and Jim Schnitzler were the first newcomers to file for first ward aldermen.
Births: twin daughters, Hannah Quinn and Grace Elizabeth, December 14 to Rich and Sarah Deien of Hannibal; a daughter, Michaela Elaine, December 18 to Trent and Consetta Gottman; a daughter, Halli, December 22 to Theresa and Earl Wayne Karr.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Dooley celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary December 4.
Aaron Crowe, son of Jane and Keith Crowe, was named as a first team defense-linebacker on the NCAA Division II Football All-American Team.
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An old fashioned Christmas dinner menu
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If you are fortunate enough to share Christmas dinner this year with a guest who remembers “the good old days” someone is sure to remember a dish grandma used to make for the traditional feast. In the warmth of nostalgia, the effort it took for grandma to get Christmas dinner on the table may seem less important than the memory of her kitchen alive with delicious smells and the bustle of preparation.
I can hear my mother, who loved to set an attractive dinner table with her best china, crystal and sterling silver dinnerware, say, “You slave all day in the kitchen and they eat it ‘soup to nuts’ in 20 minutes!” Until I studied her old cookbooks, I never fully appreciated that phrase. She had learned to cut a few corners, and a few courses, by the time I was old enough to enjoy her cooking.
For farm wives, a successful Christmas dinner began in the spring when the garden was plowed, the new crop of chickens, turkeys and geese hatched, and the hens started laying. Perishable food was canned or dried throughout the summer and stores of root vegetables were laid by in the cellar or sometimes straw-lined holes in the ground to keep them from freezing.
Holiday meals called for a few special foods that were “store-bought” but, before World War II, a homemaker’s grocery list would have consisted primarily of flour, sugar, salt, spices, nuts (other than those native to Missouri), candied fruit, citrus fruit, celery, oysters and coffee. The bulk of the feast was home-grown.
When the revised edition of “The Settlement Cook Book” was published in 1936, the American kitchen was beginning to modernize. Refrigerators were replacing ice boxes in some homes and new cook stoves had innovative features to make life easier for the homemaker. The author, Mrs. Simon Kander, included directions for storing food, maintaining a safe low temperature and properly cleaning both an iceless refrigerator and one with an ice chamber. She also gave directions for using a wood and coal fire, gas range, tanked gas, an oil stove and electric range. Each of them required a different method to light, clean and regulate the heat.
Nutritional information, menus and even calorie charts were sometimes included in grandma’s cookbooks, but none of her guests would have been watching their carbohydrate, saturated fat, cholesterol, salt or sugar intake. The recipes used lots of eggs, butter and thick cream, all staples from the family farm. They sound delicious but took a lot of planning and work!
Mrs. Kander’s suggested Christmas dinner menu was served with style as a formal seven-course meal. It began with an oyster cocktail and wafers. The second course was a clear soup and egg custard. Celery and salted nuts were available before the main course of roast goose with dressing, applesauce, glazed sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, baked squash, and Brussels sprouts with chestnuts. Those dishes were cleared and a grapefruit and Malaga grapes salad, in a grapefruit jelly ring with oil mayonnaise and whipped cream dressing, was presented before a dessert of plum pudding with hard sauce, marshmallow ice cream and mince pie. For those still in need of a tidbit to top off the meal, mixed nuts, raisins, fruit and candies were served before coffee.
Think about it! It must have taken Grandma days just to prepare the meal, not counting the time it took to plant and tend a garden, harvest the vegetables, care for the chickens, gather, candle and store eggs, milk the cow, separate the milk and cream, churn butter, and help butcher.
The porch or an unheated room would keep some of the dishes that were made ahead to warm up or served cold, but if the temperature dropped, the food could also freeze.
The salad ring, for instance, was made from unflavored gelatin, which required soaking, then was added to boiled sugar and fruit juices, and chilled. The oil mayonnaise dressing, which contained uncooked eggs, would probably be banned today by the FDA!
The whipped cream was hand whipped or whisked, unless the cook was fortunate enough to have electricity and a new fangled
beater.
Plum pudding alone required steaming for 4-8 hours, depending on the size of the mold. Filling for the mince pie would have been made when a beef was butchered, cooked for two hours, then canned far ahead of Christmas. The ice cream could have been churned by hand or merely frozen in trays if the family had a refrigerator. Nuts could be boiled and salted, then baked and stored in airtight tins.
If today’s cooks had to prepare the goose, or any other poultry, the way their grandmother’s did, the main event might be missing from the Christmas feast. Each homemaker probably had her own way to get the live fowl from the barnyard to the kitchen. Once all signs of life and feathers were gone, it was time to dress and stuff the bird. Cooks who purchased the Christmas fowl at a local meat market still apparently had to make the following preparations:
“Singe by holding the goose over a flame from gas, alcohol, or burning paper. Cut off the head, turn back the skin, and cut the neck off quite close; take out wind-pipe and crop, cutting off close to the body. Remove pin feathers with the point of a knife. Remove oil base from the tail.
If internal organs have not been removed, make an opening under one of the legs, or at the vent, and remove them carefully, leaving a strip of skin above the vent. The intestines, gizzard, heart and liver should all be removed together; care must be taken that the gall bladder, which lies under the liver, be not broken; it must be carefully cut away from the liver. The lungs and the kidneys lying in the hollows of the backbone must be carefully removed. Cut off tip of heart and cut open to extract any blood. Cut gizzard through to the inner coat, half way around, take off the outer coat and throw the inner bag away. The gizzard, heart and liver, constitute the giblets, and are prepared in numerous ways and may be used in making gravies and dressings for roasted poultry. Wash the giblets, put into cold water, heat quickly and cook until tender. The liver requires only a short time for cooking.
Scald feet with boiling water and pull off the skin. Place in soup kettle with giblets and other meats for soup. Clean the goose thoroughly inside and out. Stuff and truss for roasting.”
Even the final course, fresh coffee, required more effort than it does today. Mrs. Kander’s directions were: “Mix one cup freshly ground coffee, clean eggshell and a little cold water in a well aired coffee pot. Add 4 or 6 cups freshly boiling water and boil five minutes. Let stand where it will keep hot five to eight minutes. Add one-half cup cold water. Three egg shells will clear one cup of coffee grounds.”
According to Mom’s old adage, twenty minutes after the soup was served, the men retired to the smoking room for cigars and the women went to the kitchen to wash mounds of dishes.
If you would like to prepare an Old Fashioned Christmas dinner the way Grandma did, I would be happy to mail you a complete six page copy of the recipes, including one for lye soap made from fats not suitable for food. Simply send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Lake Gazette.
Personally, I believe I’ll pick up a ready-to-serve veggie platter with low-fat dip, oven-ready frozen turkey breast, a couple boxes of Stove-top, a can of candied yams, box of instant mashed potatoes, jar of gravy, a Mrs. Smith’s frozen mince-meat pie, and a can of Planter’s mixed nuts. If we use heavy-duty Styrofoam platters and plastic silverware, the kids can just take them to the trash and we can all get back to playing some of the new electronic games they got for Christmas.
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Local woman indicted on federal charges
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Monroe City resident Stephanie O’Bryan was indicted on federal bank fraud charges last week in connection with her previous employer, Northeast Independent Living Service of Hannibal.
U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said that O’Bryan had forged and deposited company checks drawn on Farmers & Merchants Bank and Perry State Bank into her personal bank accounts at Perry State Bank (now HNB).
O’Bryan, 39, was indicted by a federal grand jury on three felony counts of bank fraud. Hanaway’s office said that O’Bryan could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years and/or fines up to $1 million on each of the three counts. The indictment states that O’Bryan engaged in a scheme in which she forged signatures on checks payable to herself and others on the company’s bank account and deposited them into her account or cashed them between September 2003 and January 2007.
The indictment document specifically lists three checks for $700, $486.32 and $1,708.80 with endorsements by two different individuals, P.N. and M.M.
O’Bryan had been employed as executive director of NEILS and was succeeded in January 2007 by Polly Nicholson, who had been manager of the Monroe City Sheltered Workshop for many years. Calls to Johnson were not returned on Tuesday and her assistant declined to comment.
Hanaway’s office said that O’Bryan had been informed of the charges and was to turn herself into authorities Wednesday to be formally arraigned. Missouri court records show civil judgments against O’Bryan for Hannibal Regional Hospital, Gem City Accounts and the State of Missouri.
NEILS covers six counties in North East Missouri including Clark, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike, and Ralls counties. NEILS began in 1994 as a grassroots effort to educate the community about disability-related issues in Northeast Missouri. Today, the group provides numerous services for people with disabilities including information and referral services, training, advocacy, accessibility services, equipment loan and quality in-home care. One of the important goals of the group is to help people with disabilities who have been institutionalized make a transition back into the general community. The group also recently completed a playground project in Hannibal for children/families with disabilities.
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Intermet lays off again
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Monroe City’s Intermet plant laid off another group of employees last week in a spiraling downsizing since the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August.
Laid-off employees and remaining employees who asked not to be identified indicated layoffs of up to 70 people at the Monroe City and Palmyra plants, but the official corporate spokesman said that 36 workers were laid off only at the Monroe City plant.
Employees were told on Wednesday that they would not have jobs, but a small portion of the employees were recalled to work by Thursday morning, employees said. Corporate officials denied knowledge that some were laid off and recalled within the same week.
They also declined to give the current workforce numbers, which at its high was approximately 1,200 and has dwindled to less than 300 in the past year.
The Palmyra plant is scheduled for its normal two-week Christmas shutdown to begin Dec. 19. However the closing will be extended another two weeks this year to Jan. 12. Workers in the Monroe City plant have been told they would be off for three weeks during Christmas break instead of the usual two.
The Texas-based automotive supplier cited slumping automotive sales as the reason for the layoffs.
Gordon Cole, company spokesman, said that the company will continue to monitor the company’s needs and staff when asked if there would be additional layoffs.
Other Monroe City businesses also have reported work slowdowns. Dennis Spalding, human resources manager at Accu-Therm said that 21 of the company’s 102 employees had been temporarily laid off.
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Live nativity scene is Saturday
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The Monroe City Ministerial Alliance will sponsor their 18th annual Living Nativity Scene from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, at the Christian Church.
Gene Howes, coordinator of the event, said members of all local churches will portray Mary and Joseph, angels, wisemen and shepherds. Live animals are featured in the setting with Christmas music.
Participants include Makayla Johnson, Alex Wilson, Tegan Garner, Alison Wilson, Alesha Wilson, Duncan Johnston, Taylon Garner, Dylan Buckman, Chase Buckman, Chandler Mudd, Nicole and Todd Shoemate, Lennie, Ashley and Abbie Gottman, Gary Carr, Dennis Dexter, Mitch Lehenbauer, Tim and Toby Gottman, Garth Foree, Adrian Mehrer, D. Taylor, Sky Taylor, Sydney Sparrow, Teagan Sparrow, Danica Vaughn, Clayton Garrett, Emily Reagan, Tariq Garner, Lizzy Vaughn, Nathan Mehrer, Emmy Ely, Tony Ketsenburg, Heidi Denish, Jordan Woodall, Jackie Winegarner, Lisa Denish, Suzanne and Matt Maziarka, Jeanne Cheek, JoAnn and Jim Woodall, Maddy Potterfield, Christian Berry, Katy Hancock, Lindy Elliott, Kara Bichsel, Kristen Thorton, Kody Karr, Josh Berry, Jack Pangborn, Jeremy Whelan, Joe Chinn, Consetta and Trent Gottman, Julienne Graupman, Britney McNeal, Rakiyah Bassett, Trent Garner, Derek Graupman, Joanne, Trenton and Tyler Riggs, Diane Hendrix, Ronnie Mayes, Lisa Talton, Ashley and Jennifer Hendrix, Mike Washington, Ed Talton, Larry Washington, Amanda Cheely, Miriam Washington, E.E. Talton Jr.
Costume helpers are Donna Mayes, Kelly Zeiger, JoLynn Yates, Lennie Gottman, Mary McNeal, Debbie Howell, Terry Pfaff and Julie Wilson. Other assistants are Sue Mefford, Linda Wilkerson, Dorothy Damon, Beth Garner, Gigi Lehenbauer, David Pfaff, Steve Tonsor, Kay Howes, Jennifer Griffin, Glen, Julie and Alex Wilson.
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