GOOD OLD DAYS PAGE 2 | GO GUIDE PAGE 4 | DEAR ABBY/COMICS PAGE 8 | CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 10 FREE DISTRIBUTION TO MORE THAN 8,000 LOCAL RESIDENTS THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017 THE MONETT TIMES VOLUME 4, ISSUE 22 MidweekMONETT SHOPPER Serving Barry and Lawrence County, Mo., since 1899 THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ Sons of the Confederacy work to preserve southern heritage - PAGE 3 Page 2 • Thursday, June 1, 2017 THE MONETT TIMES MIDWEEK BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS EIGHTY YEARS AGO School of Pharmacy at the Camp, to be held June June 4-10, 1937 University of Kansas. He 19-23, have exceed- • Mr. and Mrs. R.W. will be accompanied by his ed all previous records. Boy, owners of the C&A grandson, David Sheehan. Indications are that more Barbecue stand on South They plan to make the trip than 500 twirlers will be Main Street in Joplin, in three days. here for the event. More have leased Brown Gables SIXTY YEARS AGO than 400 attended in 1966. from Mr. and Mrs. Ed June 4-10, 1957 Salzer. They will operate • Hundreds visited FORTY YEARS AGO the cafe, service station the first night of the 27th June 4-11, 1977 and tourist cabins. A soda annual Monett Junior • The Lou Angel Karate fountain will be installed Chamber of Commerce Studio in Monett hosted in Brown Gables and they Carnival on June 5 at St. the Midwest Goju Karate will manufacture their Lawrence Catholic Church Championships on June own ice cream. They will between Cale and Dunn 11 at the E.E. Camp discontinue the sale of any at Eighth Street. Scores Gymnasium. Jim Copley except 3.2 beer. of children formed a long and Jim Jobe, instructors, • Charles E. Mansfield line throughout most of planned to host 25 karate on June 9 was the proud the evening to ride the schools in the four-state and surprised possessor new Ferris wheel which area for the event, giving of a plaque on which are was added to the colorful away 50 trophies. the words in gold letter- event this year. • In a busy session, ing: “Award, Charles E. • Production began the Monett City Council Mansfield voted the most on June 10 at the increased the monthly valuable citizen of Monett, new $100,000 Sarajo residential trash pick-up 1937, Monett Commercial Manufacturing Company charge from $2 to $3, Club.” Mr. Mansfield is plant in Pierce City. Work effective July 1. The new community minded and men this week moved salary schedule calls for takes up the duties in a equipment from the old increases ranging from matter of fact way, but manufacturing plant in nothing to approximate- with an efficiency that the Newman Building ly 8 percent for some A miniature church with furnishings was an attractive project of children in the pri- brings results. There is to the new structure on employees. mary department of the Monett First Presbyterian Church Vacation Bible School no question in the minds Commercial Street at the THIRTY YEARS AGO during the first week of June in 1957. The children finished the project on June 6 of Monett citizens that he east city limits. The com- with the Bible school picnic held on June 7 and the annual program scheduled for has well earned the honor. pany has agreed to pro- June 4-11, 1987 the Sunday School hour this weekend. Posing with their project, from left, were: vide a payroll of not less • Downtown Monett Bruce Stevens, Cindy Rauch, Gail Carpenter, Margaret Davidson and Diane Stanley. SEVENTY YEARS AGO has taken on a flow- June 4-10, 1947 than $150,000 annual- Back row: Jo Ann Brown, Mildred Maxwell, Ellen Reynaud, Sherill Maus and Margaret ly in Pierce City and not er garden atmosphere • Construction of the for the summer months Horn. File photo/The Monett Times Sizer Memorial addition less than $1,250,000 for a 10-year period. with walkways in front of TWENTY YEARS AGO Big Band favorites and a Owned Autos on Highway to the First Methodist nearly all businesses dec- June 4-10, 1997 selections from Broadway 37. The car was initially Church in Monett began FIFTY YEARS AGO orated with half whiskey shows featuring tenor referred to as Car 52. on June 9. The new part June 4-10, 1967 barrels containing bloom- • Following a search that took slightly over two years, Robert Mirshak. • Monett school board will be built on the west • State, national and ing flowers as a beautifi- members approved the side of the present build- district officers were cation project sponsored the First Presbyterian TEN EYARS AGO Church in Monett has a brick and color scheme ing and will extend from among the members of by the Monett Special June 4-10, 2007 for the new fifth and sixth permanent pastor. Rev. the west wall to the alley, the Veterans of Foreign Promotions Committee. • The new police car grade center. Construction, and from the sidewalk Wars attending the dis- Sharon Garrett and Sue Walter B. Hamer of Spirit seen recently cruising or deconstruction, will on the south side to the trict meeting at the Monett Sebastian were co-chair- Lake, Iowa, was confirmed the streets of Monett is begin on the old Career north, the width of the City Park Casino on June men of the project. as pastor of the church. a fully functional 1952 Center building behind the building plus eight feet. 4 hosted by the Monett • The Monett Lions Hamer will accept full Chevrolet, restored and E.E. Camp gym in July, as The structure will provide Tom Wolfe Memorial Club at its special Ladies duties on Sept. 1. donated to the Monett work begins converting the more classrooms for the Post No. 4207 and Ladies Night event presented • Around 300 people Police Department by J.R. 1966 facility into a modern church members. Auxiliary. Some 200 per- special recognition to gathered at Monett’s South Renfro of Jimmy’s Pre- classroom complex. • Logan D. McKee, sons attended the session, Mrs. Dee Stewart on June Park above the amphi- 70-year-old Monett drug- which included election 9 for her contribution the theater on June 8 for the gist, will leave on June 11 and installation of dis- past 30 years in helping second annual Pops in the ON THE COVER: In a group effort, from left, Jackson Lee by bicycle, for Lawrence, trict officers and Monett stage the annual little Park Concert by the Ozark Archie, 7, Caden Gange Archie, 9, Travis Archie and Wes Kan., where he will attend Auxiliary officers. Miss Personality Contest Festival Orchestra. Under Franklin scoop soil around the base of the headstone his class reunion, mark- • Registration for the in conjunction with the the direction of Dr. Amy marking the grave of Confederate soldier, Lt. Pleasant ing the 50th anniversary 14th annual American Monett Lions Queen Muchnick, the orches- Holloman Richmond, at Rock Prairie Cemetery near of his graduation from the Legion Baton Twirling Contest. tra played a medley of Halltown. Melonie Roberts/[email protected] THE MONETT TIMES MIDWEEK Thursday, June 1, 2017 • Page 3 The times, they are a-changin’ Sons of the Confederacy work to preserve southern heritage BY MELONIE ROBERTS [email protected] Travis Archie is working diligently to preserve the history and tradition of the Confederate south by placing headstones on the graves of soldiers who served in the Civil War. “Congressional Law identifies Confederate Veterans as American Civil War veterans, which entitled them or their widows to earn pensions and receive a headstone, courtesy of the United States Veteran’s Administration,” he said. Archie, who is the Commander of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans (SCV) Campbell’s Company Camp No. 2252, out of Greene County, serves on the graves registry team for the organization. It’s a natural fit. He has a family heritage of military heroes reaching back as far as Valley Forge. “George Washington Gibson was my Dozens of local residents turned out for a memorial ceremony honoring Lt. Pleasant Holloman Richmond, a native Lawrence great-great-great-grandfather,” Archie Countian, for his service during the Civil War, held Saturday, May 20, at Rock Prairie Cemetery near Halltown. Melonie Roberts/ said. “He was in Company C of the 27th [email protected] Arkansas Infantry. His grandfather was at Valley Forge. This is an American tradi- which included the expansion and devel- From left: Cory tion. This is our heritage. opment roads, harbors, canals, and other Dawson, Paul Lewis “I’ve been fascinated with the war infrastructure, but which the Southerners and Noah Larson, since a first grade field trip to Wilson’s felt were heavily weighted in favor of of the Turkey Creek Creek Battlefield in Springfield. As a kid, Northern interests. Fusilers out of Jasper I heard all the Lincoln stories, but as I The north then passed legislation County, served as the grew older, read and researched more imposing a tax or duty on imported goods color guard during the into the complexities of the Civil War, I that caused nearly everything purchased in the South to rise nearly half in price. memorial honoring learned that slavery was not what it was Lt. Pleasant Holloman all about. It was one element in a huge Southern farmers, who typically Richmond, a native number of issues, which were all part of shipped cotton to England and France the disagreement concerning the balance to be milled, received inexpensive goods, Lawrence Countian of power between the state and federal including clothing made from its own cot- and Confederate governments.