GOOD OLD DAYS PAGE 2 | GO GUIDE PAGE 4 | DEAR ABBY/COMICS PAGE 12 | CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 14 BARRY/LAWRENCE Midweek TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2019 A Special Publication for the Barry/Lawrence Area VOLUME 111, ISSUE 93 DECAL PROJECT BRINGS FAMILIES TOGETHER AFTER DEATHS Mother: ‘The feeling that comes from helping one another is what really counts’ - PAGE 3 Page 2 • Tuesday, February 12, 2019 BARRY/LAWRENCE MIDWEEK BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS EIGHTY YEARS AGO the little Cassville and Auction, held on KRMO Feb. 17-23, 1939 Exeter Railroad. The line, Feb. 15, sold more than • Monett lovers of good extending only 4.8 miles $1,600 worth of items music are delighted to between two towns, can’t to the highest bidder, have the opportunity of operate now because the announced Mike Garrett, hearing Leonard Stocker roadbed is too bad. After chairman. Appreciation of the Metropolitan Opera 52 years in operation, the was expressed to mer- Company in a concert company plans to ask per- chants for their donations, recital at the Monett High mission to quit altogether. to sponsoring groups, School auditorium on Feb. SIXTY YEARS AGO area residents and Jaycee members who were on 20. The singer is nephew Feb. 17-23, 1959 duty. of our follow townsman, • Nearly 100 volun- Will T. Stocker, and son of teer workers canvassed FORTY YEARS AGO Don Stocker, well known Monett residential dis- Feb. 17-23, 1979 bandmaster formerly of tricts on Feb. 22 seeking • Monett residents Monett and Pierce City. donations for the annual were treated to a musical Stocker worked backstage Heart Sunday campaign, feast fit for a king on Feb. at the Met as a curtain conducted by members 20 by the world renowned man and made his con- of Monett’s garden clubs. U.S. Navy Band with the cert debut in 1936. He has A project of the Monett elegant cuisine running recorded for Columbia Garden Council, 790 rep- the gamut of musical On Feb. 16, 1959, Monett’s National Guard rifle team competed against teams from Disques in Paris. resentatives of the eight tastes and served up to Joplin and Anderson in the battalion finals at the Monett Armory, located on Euclid • Rev. Oscar Pigg, who garden clubs participated, perfection by the versa- Street. The Monettans outscored the visiting marksmen to capture the 203rd AAA is conducting a meeting at in addition to the Master tile and personable musi- Battalion championship and followed up on Feb. 22 in the championships at Carthage the First Baptist Church, Gardeners’ Junior Garden cians. MHS band students for a berth in the state finals. Members of the Monett team, front row from left, were: spoke at the Monett Club. They raised $519.16. were also able to play. The Lawrence Schad, Willard Kleeman, Gilbert Doss and Oren Fritz. Back row: Gordon Kiwanis Club, interspers- • Visitors to St. Vincent’s Navy band also gave an Schad, Vernal Caldwell, Harold Neeley, Jack Davis and Don Isbell. File photo/The Monett Times ing his talk with jokes. He Hospital may now take afternoon matinee. in Monett installed the Dierker said the second opening of both a coffee said people of today have advantage of the new cof- • Just over seven weeks step will entail upgrading left it to the community to fee shop recently opened after it was gutted in an bed plate to the 300,000 shop and a youth center set our conditions, and are for their convenience in early morning fire, the pound extrusion press, the pipe size for the filtra- on that site. Bob Berger governed by fear rather the old wing of the hospi- Black Kettle Restaurant part of the firm’s $4 mil- tion system. is retiring as president of than by faith, which leads tal under the direction of at 10 E. Broadway lion expansion. The press, • Several hundred WinTech and Debbie is us to being victims of dic- the Hospital Auxiliary. A reopened on Feb. 20 to located in the 42,000 country music fans retiring from her teaching tatorship instead of faith comfortable snack room serve three meals a day. square foot addition at gathered at the Monett position with the Monett in God and Democracy. has been arranged, which The fire, which started on the northeast corner Wal-Mart on Feb. 17 to R-1 school district. Debbie “We are living in as day of is open from 10 a.m. to 4 New Year’s Eve, left only of the plant, now pro- get autographs from the has long had a dream of responsibility,” he said. p.m., a non-profit venture the concrete block walls duced 98 percent of the Kinleys, the popular coun- opening a coffee shop. SEVENTY YEARS AGO provided for comfort and remaining in the older plant extrusion needs in try music duo of twin sis- • Never in the histo- around 1,200 different ters Heather and Jennifer. ry of Monett High School Feb. 17-23, 1949 convenience. section. Firemen fought FIFTY YEARS AGO the blaze for nearly four shapes, according to Scott The Monett store won the sports has a team finished • Monett police are Beckwith, extrusion divi- visit by the Kinleys in a first or second in the state seeking a female driver hours in sub-zero tem- Feb. 17-23, 1969 sion manager. drawing held by Fruit of for four consecutive years. who hit one of the new peratures. • A World War II can- the Loom. Until now. On Feb. 21 the red, amber and green non has been secured to THIRTY YEARS AGO TWENTY YEARS AGO TEN YEARS AGO Monett Cubs wrestling light poles at the south- be used with the memorial Feb. 17-23, 1989 Feb. 17-23, 1999 team wrapped up another east corner of Central marker at the Monett City • Three Monett Cub • The Monett City Feb. 17-23, 2009 and Cleveland. She hit Park in memory of the vet- wrestlers brought home Council approved a major • Bob and Debbie incredible season by fin- it on Feb. 22 around 1 erans of all wars involving medals from the Class renovation on the munici- Berger have bought one ishing second in the state p.m., making a left turn the U.S. The cannon, a 75 1A-2A tournament in pal swimming pool on Feb. of downtown Monett’s in Class 2A. Monett was east onto Cleveland. She mm short nose mount- Columbia. Sophomore 17 that will include replac- best preserved first gen- the defending state cham- uprooted the light fix- ed on rubber tires, was Chet Nine placed fourth ing the original filters with eration buildings at 404 pions and had placed sec- ture, concrete base and secured by the American at 135 pounds. sophomore three new large sand fil- E. Broadway and have ond at state in 2006 and all, knocking it completely Legion through Senator Mike Anderson took sixth ters, handicapped acces- announced plans for the 2007. loose. Parts were ordered Stuart Symington. The at 160 pounds. Junior sibility, adding an accessi- to repair it. cannon will be dedicated Kenny Estes took sixth at ble restroom, a new build- ON THE COVER: A photo taken of Tyler Smith, just • The Missouri Public this summer. 152 pounds. Seven Cubs ing, a new roof over al the before a practice with Darin Lively. According to JoAnne Service Commission • The fifth annual qualified for state. buildings, a new retention Whisenhunt, Darin was one of the men who got Tyler granted a 90-day sus- Monett Junior Chamber • One year ago this wall and new electric ser- started in bronc riding, and they would often have practic- pension of operations for of Commerce Radio week, EFCO Corporation vice. Commissioner Jerry es together. Contributed photo BARRY/LAWRENCE MIDWEEK Tuesday, February 12, 2019 • Page 3 Decal project brings families together after deaths Mason received his use a photo of Lowe riding Mother: ‘The education at Exeter, grad- a bull to design and print feeling that uating in 2012. up decals. Growing up, Mason’s “His mom said that comes from passion was the sport of would be fine, and I rodeo. He spent count- made the decal,” she said. helping one less hours riding on a “I posted on my craft barrel hung in a tree in Facebook page Jessie another is what the backyard of his fam- Dawn Creations, that with really counts’ ily home. Mason started approval I will be mak- riding calves at the age of ing memorial decals for BY JORDAN PRIVETT 3. While the family was Mason. The decals are [email protected] feeding bottle calves, his 5-by-5 in size, white and The recent tragedy and dad would place him on $10 a piece. death of Mason Lowe has them and he got the big- “All of the proceeds will gripped a local commu- gest thrill. Little did they be donated to Mason’s nity as well as the rodeo know what it would turn family, and I had such a community, and as heart out to be. response from people.” breaking as the event is, it After the death of Smith said that within has brought two communi- Mason Lowe, Jessica a day, she had to post on ties and families together. Smith, a Cassville resident the page to say she would Mason Lee Lowe, 25, with a hobby for crafts, unfortunately have to tem- of Exeter, died Jan.15 at decided that she wanted porarily stop taking orders Denver Memorial Hospital to do something special for due to the volume of orders in Denver, Colo., from the Lowe family.