Courtesy of the Bates County Museum 802 Elks Drive, Butler Mo 64730 (660) 679-0134
Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of August 14
1880 Plans are made for a new town of Howard to be in Howard township. The post office says no, there is already a Howard Mills in Missouri. The new name of Hume is chosen.
1899 Bates Co sheriff Mudd arrests W.M. Homer, of Foster, for deserting his family.
1900 A big four day fair opens, Butler.
1945 After the announcement that Japan had surrendered, ending WWII, hundreds gather for a huge bonfire and burn an effigy of Japanese leader TOJO. Butler.
1948 Wynes Brothers open a new store on the Southeast corner of the square. Butler.
1949 It’s a big sale at the Virgil Ward Electric Co in Amsterdam. New ranges are $115. A propane tank and 6 months worth of gas is $245.
1950 Ten years ago Amoret’s population was 328. Today it’s 255.
1972 Adrian football players are optimistic about their new football field. The new gymnasium took their old field.
1989 Work will begin next week on the new Hume high school. Voters approved a $510,000 bond in April to pay for it.
1990 Miami R-1 school officials aren’t amused about a pair of undershorts waving from the flag pole. The only lead in the case is a size 32 waist.
1993 In sweltering heat, the Rockville Festival still attracts a huge crowd. This year’s parade Marshal is Bernice Mott who help found Mott Meat Co in 1948.
