Bates County real estate transfers and marriage licenses

 Deems Inc to Charbonneau, Robert (Trustee) Str 27-40-31 //Nw

Skivers, James D. to Stevens, David E. Str 30-42-29 //Sw+

Hilbus, Dana to Tippie Properties, LLC Bl 8 Christian And Condee's Addn+

Back 2 Good LLC to Jenkins, Diana J. Lt 1 Bl 70 Rich Hill, Original Town Of+

Smith's Properties, LLC to Stump, Charles Lt 9 Bl 1 Scott's Addn+

Parker, A. Dorene to Parker, Dorene Trust 7-9-2025 Str 19-42-32+

Perkins, Sheldon Dean to Perkins, Sheldon Dean Lt 84 Gilham's Addn+

Mcelwain, Marcia Lea to Mcelwain, Marcia L. Trust 09-20-2005 Str 14-40-31+

Bailey, Steven J to Fritts, Andrew Str 8-39-31

Tenholder, Kenneth Lee to Peery, Alex Str 17-41-30 //Sw

Gilbert, James Daniel to Sheppard, Terra Str 5-39-31 //Se

Mcculley, Janice to Peterson, Clayton Str 34-41-32 //Ne

Hacker, Larry J to Thomas, Arthur Lt 1 Bl 52 Rich Hill, Original Town Of+

Thomas, Arthur to Hacker, Larry J.  Lt 11 Bl 5 Glasgo's Addn+

Jackson, Mary E to Engeman, Ryan J Lt 2 Bl 8 William's First, Ext. Of Addn

Bartimus, Gayl E to Bartimus, Gayl Ellen Trust 12-29-2009 Lt 506 Country South Ext. #5

Bell, Billy J to Palmetto Creek Lt 265 Adrian, Original Town Of+

Skocy, Gregory M to L Hardin Properties, LLC Bl 176 Town Company's Second Addn

Lowe, James E (Trustee) to Lowe Family Rental Properties Str 7-42-33 //Sw+

Schoor, Walter E Jr to Schoor, Walter E III Str 10-41-30 //Se

Schoor, Walter Jr to Lacer, Brad Str 10-41-30 //Se

Charbonneau, Robert (Trustee) to Bartimus, Gayl E (1/2 Interest) Str 27-40-31 //Nw

Charbonneau, Robert (Trustee) to Bartimus, Gayl E Lt 506 Country South Ext. #5

Evans, Gayle (Trustee) to Bartimus, Gayl E Lt 506 Country South Ext. #5

Nitsche Family Trust 6-10-2009 to Capehart, Dorthy E Str 15-40-31 //Se

Marriage license

Venter, Johannes Daniel and Kennedy, Kyleigh Marie

Lane, John Gordon Jr and Criswell, Krystal Leanne

Cunningham, Timothy Denton and Lemler, Taegen Elaine

The Museum Minute: Murder shocks community

Courtesy of the Bates County Museum 802 Elks Drive, Butler Mo 64730 (660) 679-0134

Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of September 3

1896 Many Bates countians stay up late to witness a lunar eclipse.

1913 The Adrian Street Fair begins a three day stand.

1915 There are now 93 homes and businesses with electricity in Hume.

1929 Mrs. Julia Smith is arrested by the Bates Co Sheriff for making illegal whiskey and home brew at her home near Foster.

1932 The Virginia community gives a farewell party to Dr. Lusk, who is moving to Butler.

1946 The city of Butler officially approves the plat of Gilbert Heights subdivision.

1950 The 3 day Butler Fair begins at the Bit & Bridle grounds on West street.

1954 The Damon Shannon family, of Merwin, appear on channel 5  television as "Farm Family of the Week".

1985 Gail Simpson is murdered at her home East of Amsterdam. Her 15 year old daughter is tried as an adult, serves time, then is retried and absolved by taking the Alford Plea. 

1988 The community of Worland celebrates their Centennial.

Recipe of the Week

 

Continued story about Papinville school

 This week the story will continue about Papinville School. I hope you will enjoy this story.

After Harmony Mission closed in 1836 Papinville School was the first school started in Bates County.

Every thing was going good until the Civil War.  After the war in 1868 a school was finally built. . 

In 1913 there were 38 students enrolled in the Papinville School. In the History of Bates County Missouri book, written in 1918 it gave some interesting facts that were passed by the state legislature and the Papinville school had to follow them. In 1901 the school library law was enacted. It required local school boards to provide school libraries. In 1913 a free text book law was passed. Each child was supplied textbooks without charge. During this year the student enrollment begin to get smaller. In 1949 the two story school was torn down.

The little one room school was used until 1952 with 10 students. Papinville School was closed and the students went to Prairie City School. School was held at Prairie City until 1957 then all students were bussed to Rich Hill. From 1952 to the mid 1970’s the little one room school was used for elections and township board meetings. After the big flood in 1986 a town meeting was held to discuss flood damage to area residents. This was the last time the little school was full of people.

In 1991 the association got together to decide if they wanted to get together and clean up the school and put it on for tours during the Bates County Sesquicentennial. At this time an interest was sparked to see if the association could take over ownership of the school. In April 1992 voters of Prairie Township voted yes to putting the school and school property into hands of the Papinville Historical and Cemetery Association. On July 28 of 1992 the deed was signed by the Prairie Township board members.

The Papinville school was used in the past to educate the students who lived in the area. The school now is used to educate the future as to what the past was like and to recall history of the past. Our hopes are that every person who comes to visit the Papinville School ”little room” will leave with a piece of history in their minds that they will never forget.

 Next week will be the story of Mission Branch School. There is a lot of history about these four school in the school history book. Teachers and students pictures and names, memory stories and much more. You may find a picture of your mom, dad, grandpa or grandma.  In the Papinville History book you will get the history from Harmony Mission, Civil War, building back Papinville, memory stories and much more. We are a little town with a lot of history. Bring your children out to learn some history about the area where they live that they may never hear in school. Put Sept 27 on your calendar for a afternoon of fun and good home cooked food. Until next week.    Submitted By Phyllis Stewart, Activity Director

What’s Up by LeRoy Cook

No Smoking Allowed 

An early fall gave pilots a boost over the Labor Day weekend. As I’ve always said, autumn is the only real reason to own an airplane; the rest of the year it’s either too cold and dark or too hot and miserable to get an airplane out. But the clear, crisp days of fall are the absolute best time to fly.

Observed air traffic were a Cessna Skylane, an ATD Skyhawk trainer, and a business jet flying the VOR-A practice instrument approach. Fallout observed from last weekend’s Commerative Air Force open house at New Century Airport were an AT-6 Texan WW-II trainer, rumbling along at 10,000 feet or so, and the CAF’s B-29 bomber giving us a dose of four R-3350 Wright radials at about 5,000 feet. They were heading southeast, no doubt repositioning for the next event.

In the news of the world, aviation-wise, the U.S. Navy has announced that it will no longer be necessary to land and take off on an aircraft carrier in order to earn one’s pilot wings of gold. The distinction of being a “tailhook Navy” pilot, compared to runway-using Air Force or Army aviators, is now an option. The excuse quoted in the press release is that not all Navy pilots are carrier-based, so if they are needed for such duty they’ll just ship them off to specialized carrier training, after they “earn their wings.” It just ain’t right.

Last Saturday, a United Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Phoenix didn’t get very far, diverting to land at Washington, D.C. after a passenger’s “electronic device” started smoking.  Smoking, of course, isn’t allowed on U.S. domestic flights, so the burning lithium battery object had to be secured in a flame-proof bag and removed from the aircraft after landing. Too bad they couldn’t have just chucked it overboard and saved all the trouble.

The Lord was evidently displeased with the debauchery and counterculture displayed at the Burning Man festival held in the Nevada desert last week. The temporary city was hit with thunderstorms and dust storms, grounding the 100 airplanes that had flown in to the makeshift runway on the lake bed. Two years ago it turned into a mud-a-thon from torrential rains, and there’s always blowing dust to contend with. Not that I’ve ever attended; just thinking, their crazy behavior out there should be reexamined. 

The Air Force is testing the use of unmanned Cessna Caravan airplanes, identical to the one used as a jump plane here at Butler’s SkyDive operation. The idea is to have the remotedly-piloted planes fly supplies and other stuff in overseas areas where maybe it’s too dangerous to use manned aircraft. An outfit called Reliable Robotics has been given a measly $17 million contract to demonstrate the worth of its systems.

The question of the week in last week’s column was about the age of the last-surviving World War fighter ace, who died earlier last month. Donald McPherson was 103 years old, a Navy pilot in the Pacific theater who shot down five Japanese airplanes. For next week, what’s the meaning of “vertical visibility” when given as part of an aviation weather report? You can send your answers to kochhaus1@gmail.com. 

There'll be more to do locally soon

 No longer will locals need to trek to Peculiar or points further to enjoy a golf driving range- a total of 18 tee boxes are being built between Frontier Village and the Adrian city lake that will make for the perfect family outing.

Mayor Matt Cunningham says the boxes will come with a special feature, turf that will accommodate a regular tee as opposed the rubber tube tee found on most ranges, giving a much more realistic feel to the overall experience.

As work continues daily, the project is expected to be completed in a few weeks and city administrator Ryan Wescote added that the anticipated popularity of the attraction will certainly add to the city's growing commerce initiative.

From the ashes: Adrian United Methodist Church to rebuild

 

Just before daybreak on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 a report was made of smoke coming from the Adrian United Methodist Church and it was hoped that it would be a small fire that could be quickly brought under control however, at the end of the day it turned out to be one of the largest structure fires in the city's history.

As fireman made entry into the sanctuary, they found a raging inferno and reinforcements from Butler, Amsterdam, Drexel, Central Cass, Harrisonville and Dolan West Dolan were summoned to help but the oldest part of the church was completely destroyed, leaving everyone in disbelief with the question of when can we rebuild?

That answer came recently much to the delight of everyone as Pastor Bridget Cashman announced that the church is excited to reveal what the new sanctuary will look like per an artist rendering shown at right. 

"We appreciate your continued prayers as we keep moving forward with creating a space that will help facilitate the mission that God has called us into in this season" she said. "We appreciate your continued prayers as we keep moving forward with creating a space that will help facilitate the mission that God has called us into in this season."

While more details are to be released soon, Cashman invites everyone to join them each Sunday at 10 am and feel free to "Come as you are and join our spiritual journey".

Harrisonville city-wide cleanup this weekend

The Harrisonville fall City-wide Clean Up is happening from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., this Saturday, September 6, at the GFL facility located at 22820 MO-291 Highway.

This event is open to all items EXCEPT: electronic waste, hazardous waste (oil, batteries, chemicals, paint, etc), tires and automotive parts, brush or fallen tree limbs, appliances with freon and bulk construction materials.

MORE INFO >> https://ci.harrisonville.mo.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1584