OLDn’NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTY

CORRECTION SECTION: First things, first. I mentioned in the last column that a father and son were Dr’s in Darksville. True, but Dr Robert Terrill is the father of Dr. Willard Terrill instead of the other way around. Mary Jones, mayor of Huntsville told me that Dr Robert Terrill’s wife was the daughter of John Hall. Charlie Gillespie of Renick says that John Hall’s middle name was Hancock. Mildred Terrill, whose article I quoted, is Mary Jones mother.

Your notes and calls are really helpful in correcting and ‘fine tuning’ our history of Randolph County. Please feel free to contact us about anything.

OPEN HOUSE for the HOLIDAYS — 10% OFF ON EVERYTHING EXCEPT GOBLETS
We are holding an open house at the History Center this Saturday from 10 AM to 3 PM. We’ll be having coffee and cookies and Santa may even show up. All of our displays will be open as well as our gift shop. The gift shop will be having a 10% off sale on everything that we sell such as Wabash and Norfolk Southern T-shirts, polo shirts, sweats and caps. We also have 4th Street Theater goblets, mugs, depot plates and many, many books. Old city directories will also be on sale.

CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS BUILDING?

No definite identification has been made for the picture of the Jim Bowles store-building picture. So far we have entries that identify it in as many as five different towns. It just goes to show that, store-buildings looked a lot alike wherever they were located. Let’s keep working on it. Who was Jim Bowles?

HISTORY OF MOBERLY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1946
Joyce Litchfield and her committee of Anna Belle Drown, Margaret Crutcher Brown and Genevieve White Summers brought the history of their Moberly High School class of 1946 to the History Center last week. What a wonderful donation and addition to our collection. The book is in notebook form and can be added to by other members of the class. The committee members are hoping that will stop by and look at the history and add anything that they may have that pertains to this class. Students attended elementary schools in eleven locations in Randolph County: Grimes, East Park, North Park, Sugar Creek, West Park, Southeast Park, Cairo, Immaculate Conception, Cottage Grove, Sisters of Loretta Academy and Central.