OLD’N NEWS From Around the County
COUNTY SPORTS PAGE
Transcribed from the HIGBEE NEWS by Kathy Bowlin
Thursday, 29 Sep 1927, Vol 41. No. 21. Page 1, Col. 2–PUBLIC SCHOOL
NEWS–Our volley ball teams this year are composed of the following members: Girls–Maggie Longdon, Eunice Reed, Ruth Eubanks, Lucille Blansett, Eunice Buckler, Genevieve McVay, Nancy Chism, Lois Buckler and Beulah Durnil. Boys–Emerson Hare, Joe Jones, James Cadmus, Edmund Kelso, Edgar Harris, Francis Randolph, C. T. Williams, Lester Jones and Wilbur Compton.
Thursday, 28 Apr 1927, Vol 40, No 51, Pg. 5 Col. 3
Higbee school boys and girls who attended the track meet at Moberly Tuesday did not get as far as many had hoped, but that the boys came home without any honors was expected, as they had not put in any practice on any of the events, one team, however, coming within two points of winning the horseshoe pitching contest. Miss Lois Buckler won first in throwing the basketball and baseball, Miss Eunice Buckler first in shot-put and Miss Nellie Sperry third in the 50-yard dash. Miss Eunice Buckler holds the county record for distance throwing of basketball while her sister, Miss Lois, holds the same record for throwing a baseball.
FAMILY HISTORY
A person named Pam is looking for the following information. Can you help? Let us know. “Looking for information on Clarence Brinkerhoff b. 1874 in Moberly. Sired twin daughters, May Frances Brinkerhoff and Ruth Beatrice Brinkerhoff b. Nov. 18, 1895. Who was the mother and what happened to the twins? Thanks in advance.” Pam
TRAVEL ADVISORY
The summer for family travel is coming. Kids will be watching videos and playing computer games. Some may still do the alphabet from signs on the road or count white horses or count states from license plates. There are few signs on interstates and you could go for a long time before netting a white horse. But all of them will surely miss the BURMA SHAVE signs, which passed from the scene after interstates came in to being.
Burma Shave was a shaving soap. Their advertising consisted of four small signs with one sentence on them spaced about 100 feet along the road plus a last sign that said ‘Burma Shave’. The first four signs became a verse. I’ll share a few. If you remember more, let me know.
Don’t lose your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your head is in it.
BURMA SHAVE
Drove too long
Driver snoozing
What happened next
Is not amusing
BURMA SHAVE
HISTORY CENTER UPDATE
A daughter-in-law, a granddaughter and three great grandchildren of Martha Thornburg (Carol Link, Tracy, Ashlyn, Alyssa, and Devin Curry from Colorado) visited the History Center recently. They were guests of Teresa Thornburg for the week. We set up a special display for them that pertained to the Thornburg family of Randolph County. Many of the items shown were given to us in 1994 by the late John Thornburg,. John was a bridge foreman with the Wabash Railroad for many years. Other items were from our vertical surname file collection.
Yes, the Fourth Street Theater still an ongoing project. The latest fund raiser is a numbered watercolor painted by Project Director, Carolee Hazlet. You may buy a signed print for $20.00 by calling her house. We have postcards with the same picture at the History Center.
The History Center purchased a new microfilm reader this winter. It has been installed and Ralph Gerhard is making frequent use of the machine in his research. They are open to any one to use. Two other “used” microfilm machines have been donated to us by the City Capital Corporation. These two will need to be modified before we can set them up for use.
The History Center at 223 N Clark has reopened after our usual closing for the winter. We close each year for two months to save on utilities, but even with the heat turned down the bill was still nearly $600 per month. That’s one of the reasons that raising money is one of our most important activities every year. We are looking forward to our next fund raiser – our annual ice cream social on Saturday, 26 June at the History Center in front of the mural from 1 to 3. Other activities will include a book signing at the History Center, an art exhibit sponsored by Carolee Hazlet and a barbeque contest sponsored by the Downtown Association The railroad museum will also be open that day.
And finally, this is the first column since December. You haven’t missed any. More are on the way.