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10 Years Ago
April 8, 2015
Shortly before 11am on Wednesday, April 1, the Clark County Rural Fire Department responded to a machine shed fire at the Norman Hines residence northwest of Luray. Billows of black smoke could be seen clearly from Kahoka as firefighters headed west. Efforts to fight the fire were hampered by gusty winds, dry conditions, and the availability of water. Fire crews eventually set up a pump line from a nearby pond.
Nancy Uhlmeyer has retired after 35 years in nursing at the Clark County Health Department.
Deaths: Loubelle Rose Drake Davis
20 Years Ago
April 13, 2005
Storm Sirens: The early warning storm sirens purchased by Kahoka/Clark County Chamber of Commerce were placed atop poles in this week. The electrical work will begin soon, and the sirens should be in service before severe weather season.
PTO Winner: Josh Brunk won the Dell Computer during the Black Hawk PTO Carnival.
4th Grade Assembly: civil war re-enactors Paula and Kevin Fox spoke to Black Hawk Elementary 4th graders on Tuesday, April 5. As part of the assembly, the students were allowed to wear Civil War period military and civilian style clothing. This is the 10th year that the couple has been invited to speak to the class about the Civil War.
FFA Trap: The Clark County FFA Trap Team took 3rd place at the State High School Trap Shoot in Linn Creek, Missouri on Saturday, April 9th. David Sherrill shot his way to 1st Team All State with a perfect 100 out of 100 score.
Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Allen – 50 years
Deaths: Frances L. Shacklett, Ernest Dean Phillips, Eugene Poindexter, Jessie Ruth Dabold
30 Years Ago
April 12, 1995
The county-wide sales tax for the new safety center failed by one vote; commissioners are asking for a recount.
Mike Frazee was re-elected as president of the Clark County R-1 Board of Education.
Ann Edlen was chosen as International Co-Worker of the Year for the Women of the Moose.
Deaths: Elinor Malone West, Galeen Purchase Garcia, Jimmie Powell, Samuel Speer, Wayne Cline
40 Years Ago
April 10, 1985
la Bonham was elected Volunteer of the Year by the Clark County OATS Committee.
Voter turnout was light in the April 2nd municipal election, with 1,518 persons voting out of 5,280 registered voters.
Deaths: Una Ragan, Robert Watson, Doris Parrish Freitag Hester Dale
50 Years Ago
April 10, 1975
Glen Crockett, 65, is in serious condition, following a two-car accident near Taylor.
A Bluegrass benefit is scheduled for Bill Clark, featuring several prominent Bluegrass bands.
Deaths: Carrie Stark, Barbara Malone Kirchner, George John Day
60 Years Ago
April 9, 1965
Gary Davis, 20, of Wayland, an employee of Gabe Logsdon and Sons, had an eye burned by nitrogen-ammonia.
The extensive farm of the late Colonel Hiram Hiller north of Kahoka has been sold by the Hiller heirs to George and Vera Heinze.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wagner have sold their 463-acre farm, north of Kahoka to Mr. and Mrs. Junior Otte.
Anniversaries: Mr. and Mrs. J.H Maddox – 60 years; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Turtle – 50 years; Mr. and Mrs. Frenchie Howell – 43 years; Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Spees – 40 years; and Mrs. Howard Kirchner – 25 years
Deaths: Bryan Parrish, Joseph Ten Eyck, William Richey, Nellie Priebe
85 Years Ago
April 11, 1930
E.W. Lillard, on March 20, arrived at his 88th milestone along the road of life.
Esmond Cahill, 17, of Farmington received a fracture of his leg just below the hip, Monday night, when the Ford on which he was riding collided with a mule team in the middle of the Des Moines River Bridge. Cahill and five others were crowded into and on the running boards of a Ford Coupe, driven by Ernest Marshall.
Alexandria: Earl Fox lost one of his twin boys, two years old. He had been sick for some time… Three more of Arthur Downs’ boys are sick with typhoid fever… On last Friday night at Mrs. Frank Shaw’s, thieves drove their truck up near the chicken house door, tearing the door off and loaded 60 hens in the truck, and drove away. No one was home but the mother and the and they were afraid to interfere.
Athens: The weather man seems to be giving us something new to howl about this spring, not rain or mud, but dust. The air has been so full of it the past three or four days, it’s hard to believe we live in Missouri…
Whichever way the wind doth blow… Some heart is glad to have it so… Then blow it east or ‘blow it west… The wind that blows, that wind is best.
Deaths: Martha Broadwater, Richard Phillips
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