Appleton
City Rural Health Clinic and Ellett Memorial Hospital will sponsor a Community
Health Outreach June 10 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
They are offering free blood pressure and glucose checks in the
community rooms of Beech Street Apartments from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. and 3:00 –
4:00 p.m. at Hickory Court Apartments.
Please call 660-476-2111 with any questions.
Appleton City June Second Saturdays will be held on Main Street Saturday, June 12, 2021 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. There will also be a BBQ contest during this event. If you’re interested in competing, contact Katie Hearting at 660-492-3571. For more information, or if you are interested in being a vendor, please message them at https://www.facebook.com/Appleton-City-Second-Saturdays-2227394524191263
The monthly Men’s Fellowship Breakfast at the Appleton City Church of God will be 7:00 a.m. on Saturday June 12. All the men of the community are invited to join them for a time of great food and fellowship. Brent Bland will have a short devotional.
The Knights of Columbus will resume their monthly pancake and sausage breakfast at the Knight’s Hall in Montrose on Sunday, June 13 from 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Treat your family to a hot breakfast you don’t have to cook or clean up. A free will donation will be greatly appreciated
Five area churches are teaming together to present a community VBS on July 12-16 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. each evening. They invite all kids ages 3 years- 6th grade to join them on this "Journey with Jesus". Each church will host an evening: Trinity UMC - Monday, Rockville UMC - Tuesday, Church of God - Wednesday, River of Life - Thursday, Christian Church - Friday. Visit 3 different nights and you will be able to attend a pool party to end the week! Transportation will be available if needed. Contact Paige at 660-492-0985 for more info. You can register online at https://forms.gle/UaZUn4VKJqJTmwLr5
Trinity Lutheran Church will hold their annual Vacation Bible School July 5 and 6, 2021.
West Central Missouri Community Action Agency’s Senior Care found a way to encourage safe socialization during the midst of a pandemic. COVID-19 enhanced the isolation and loneliness that many seniors experience. Senior Care Pen Pals are matched with other seniors that have similar likes and hobbies. Writing kits are provided and include all the necessary items to become successful writing companions. Kits include stationery, note cards, all occasion greeting cards, ink pens, motivational quotes to share and postage stamps. If you are 65 and older and are interested in learning how to become a Senior Care Pen Pal, please contact Senior Care staff at 660-476-2185.
In conjunction with the Appleton City Sesquicentennial Celebration and also the congregation’s Sesquicentennial (+1), Trinity Lutheran Church will be sponsoring a quilt show at the church and inviting area quilters to participate. The Quilt Show will be Friday and Saturday, August 13-14 during the Sesquicentennial. Included in the show will be hand-quilted, machine-quilted, embroidered, appliquéd, and baby quilts, and wall hangings. If your quilt, either old or newer, has an interesting story with it, also plan on sharing that with the public. The show pre-registration begins now and ends June 30. At this time, 1 item can be registered per entry. After June 30, depending on responses, the registration may be opened up again to include more available spaces at the show. A $25 prize will be awarded in each category and a $50 “People’s Choice” Award. Call or text Kathy Rodick at 417-309-0471 with your name, address, phone number, and entry category, and a packet will be sent to be completed and brought with you to the show set-up on Thursday, August 12.
The Appleton City Public Library is seeking assistance with teachers for their Summer Reading Program. The program will take place on Tuesdays in June (June 15, 22, and 29) as well as Tuesday, July 6, from 11:00 a.m.-noon. The teacher would need to read a couple books with the children as well as assist them in completing a corresponding activity. All materials will be provided. If interested, please call the library at (660) 476-5513 during their normal business hours or e-mail acmolibrary@gmail.com
The Appleton City Fair/Sesquicentennial will be held Thursday-Sunday, August 12-15. Most previous events are in the planning and a tentative schedule will be released. A new carnival was able to be secured. The original carnival was cancelled due to the death of the owner. Start making your SQC outfits. One major change is the parade will be late Saturday afternoon.
Free private tennis lessons are offered to all current or former players and anyone who want to improve their technique or strategies or first time players. People of almost any age and skills can learn to play tennis. Lessons are held at the tennis courts at Donnohue-Dugan Park starting the week of May 24. Rackets and balls will be provided. To set up appointments for your private lessons or if you have questions, call Dennis Dunham at 476-2151 or 476-5514 or Tommy Payton at 816-863-6624. Open tennis is every day 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tennis is exercise that is fun!
Ellett Memorial Hospital Appleton City offers outpatient specialist services for June, 2021. Call 660-476-2111 for appointments: June 2-Upper GI, Colonoscopy-Dr. Namin, June 9– Upper GI, Colonoscopy-Dr. Vardakis, June 10 - Rheumatology, Dr. Tay, June 11 – Ortho-Dr. Gray, June 16- Upper GI – Colonoscopy-Dr. Namin, June 17 – Podiatry- Dr. Ciaramello, June 23 – Ortho-Dr. Gray, June 23 – Ophthalmology - Dr. Soni, June 24 - Rheumatology, Dr. Tay
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
June 10 EMH Community Health Outreach from 2:00 –
4:00 p.m. at Beech Street and Hickory Court Apartments
June
12 Men’s Fellowship Breakfast at the
Appleton City Church of God 7:00 a.m.
June
12 Appleton City June Second
Saturdays Main Street from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
June
13 The Knights of Columbus monthly
pancake and sausage breakfast at the Knight’s Hall in Montrose from 8:30 –
10:00 a.m.
June
14 Flag Day
Museum Minute Presents: This Week in History (According to Herrman’s Archives)
Early Days of June in the Year….
1874
– Neighbors are speculating as to the identities of 4 strangers at
J. T. Whinney’s for supper. Some think is might be some of the
James or Younger bunches.
1870
–
A large group of Butler boys, some sons of prominent people, are
arrested for profane and obscene talk and drunkenness on the Butler
square and after a night in the Marshal’s ‘hotel’, are fined
$8.43 each.
1895
– Joe Heck has moved his cigar factory to the East room of the Cook
building opposite the Talmage house on Park Avenue, Rich Hill.
1916
– Burn’s & Kohl’s Indoor Circus performs in Butler’s new
Photoplay Theatre, George Parrish, proprietor. Also they show five
reels of moving pictures.
1870
– It happened in Levy & Co store on the Butler Square.
Reverend Wm Kinney ties the knot of wedlock for a couple. The bride
is 15 and the groom looked middle-aged, dignified, and very happy.
1864
– Some of Bates County’s records that had been in Jefferson City,
during the War Between the States, are shipped to Johnstown, as the
provisional County Seat.
1903
– O. J. Radford resigns his position at the Cash Store in Butler to
go into the livery business in Hume.
1892
– Missouri Governor Francis appoints General J.O. Shelby, of
Elkhart Township, as Recorder of Deeds, an office vacated by the
death of S. W. Douglas. Shelby says any money, over expenses, will
go to the widow Douglas.
1853
– Benjamin Richardson’s ten horse portable mill, the first at
Papinville, is quite popular with area farmers.
1924
– A cache of stolen whiskey is found in a burial vault in the Oak
Hill Cemetery. Butler.
1917
– Miss Agnes Gassaway, an employee of the Commercial Bank of Hume,
becomes the first lady Notary Public in Bates County.
1922
– The Salem Baptist church, some 7 miles east of Passaic,
celebrates the 50th
anniversary with a special program and dinner on the grounds.
1879
– A drove of about 1700 sheep are herded through Butler on their
way West.
1890
– After delivering a prisoner to Jefferson City, after midnight,
Bates County Sheriff Glazebrook checks into the Madison Hotel, saying
he wanted to sleep late. About 10 am, a porter reports he smells gas
coming from the sheriff’s room. Entering, hotel officials and the
police find him unconscious from gas fumes. Despite medical efforts,
Glazebrook dies.
1854
–
Since opening his general store (between the north & south
branches of Double Branch Creek) earlier this year, W. B. Young has
had brisk trade, tobacco & whiskey his best sellers.
The Ohio Gas Station
By Don Arndt
On Main street of Frontier Village near the Museum sits an old metal structure gas station. About 1993 the Ohio, Missouri community donated an abandoned gas station that had been in their small village since the 1930’s. We were told these were prefab tin buildings that the Skelly Oil Company used all over the country. They could come in a set them up in a very short time and be in business.
A few pickup loads of members traveled to Ohio (between Lowery City and Appleton City) with two trailers and lots of tools. We took the building apart and loaded each sheet of metal and all the fasteners on our trailers and headed to Frontier Village. Along the way Don Hill was stopped by the Highway Patrol for some reason but no citation was written, then a few miles down the road Delbert Watt’s, load (We didn’t get them strapped down good enough) unloaded itself after the wind caught the tin sheets. Most of the sheets landed on the other side of the fence, so we had to re-load. Of course, some of that tin was bent badly from their windy ride out into the field. We made it the rest of the way without incident and unloaded all the pieces in a pile for construction the next week. The men then straightened out those sheets that had gotten bent. After we got it put together, many donations of memorabilia came in to “stock” the old station.
Many thanks to the Ohio community for their desire to have this great piece of history preserved and that it be done at Frontier Village.
