Billy's Genealogy Homepage

(Taken from the Buffalo Reflex)


Feb. 24, 1949

Chapman & Rea. Buffalo,
was advertising a Farmall Club
tractor with a lever to
raise and lower the plow.

Showing at the Buffalo Theater
was "Blondie's Reward,"
with Penny Singleton and
Arthur Lake.

Area deaths included 
Suan Nelson,
Sgt. Gordon Willams,
Mary Spencer,
E.S. Gaunt and Hugh Wilson.


Feb. 19, 1959

Lou Hoover, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L.T. Hoover, was
named to the Alpha Chi honor
society at the College of the Ozarks.

The Friends and Nieghbors
Club met to make cancer
bandages, voted to give the
polio fund and collected items
to give to a family whose home burned.

Area deaths included
Clarence Blecher,
Betty (Quisenberry) Davis,
Bertha Junkins,
William Floyd,
Evelyn Erwin,
Charley Johnson,
and Harry Walker.


Feb. 20, 1969

Buffalo High School student
took over the management
of KBFL, the school's
radio, Richard Domke was the
first senior manager.

F. William Kasmann,
governor of Missouri District
of Optimist International,
was the featured speaker at the
Optimist Club of Buffalo.

Showing at the Buffalo
Theater was "Hang 'em High,"
with Clint Eastwood.

Area deaths included
Charles Ribb,
Ella Bills,
Mark Andrews,
William Marshall,
James King,
Arch Cline,
Lisa Bailey
and
Pearl Crumley.


Feb. 22, 1979

Fair Grove senior Kerrie
Koester was crowned Fair
Grove Homecoming Queen.

Camp Fire Girls Sherry Pearson,
Kelly King, Devonna Nimmo,
Julie Turner and Denna Henderson
won campership at Camp Wakahni.

Area deaths included
Ralph Davison, Maude Moore,
Margaret Pyle, Raymond Hagen,
Leland Smith, Charlie Kidwell,
Lillian Nicholson, Roberty Murphy
and
Lester Southard.


Feb. 22, 1989

The Dallas County Commission
recieved confirmation
that Waste Management, Inc.,
would not pursue plans to construct
a sanitary landfill in
Dallas County.

Former Extension Agent
Roswell Wayne and his wife,
Frances, joined the Dallas
County Extension Council
members for its annual meeting.

Area deaths included
Esse (Junkins) Belshaw,
John Mallard,
James Fowler,
Charles Ellis Jr.,
Ruth (Nelson) Stodard
and
Mary Bryant.


Feb. 24, 1999

The Dallas County MFA
Cooperative Exchange store in
Buffalo opened it's doors as
MFA Farm & House.

Buffalo High School senior
Buck Shockley was crowned
Mr. Bison at the Lady Bison
homecoming game.
He was escorted by Randee Gilpin.

Area deaths included
Alfred Marker,
Leta Clark,
Dr. George Sturdevant,
James Howser,
Ruth Cunningham,
Raymond Reed,
George Lane
and
Thomas Johnson.

(Taken from the Buffalo Reflex)

July 29, 1948

Thieves broke into the
Dallas County Farmers
Exchange and stole $2,800
in cash and checks.

Croslin Motor Co. was
advertising Kaiser and Frazer
automoblies.

Showing at the Pix
Theater was 'Campus
Sleuth," with Freddie
Stewart and June Preisser.

Area deaths included
Elisha Quire.


July 24, 1958

Carl. T. Indermuehle was
named as postmaster of the
Buffalo Post Office.

Teddy Ben Scott, 17 year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Theo
G. Scott, passed his flight
test.

Showing at the Autoscope
Drive-In Theater was "Rock
Around the Clock," with Bill
Haley and his Comets, and Johnny
Johnston.

Area deaths included
Oscar Kelso, Gilbert Hatfield,
Lenora Norville, Esquire
Chapman, Otis Reser, George Booher,
Sida Havice, William Jackson,
Agnes (Johnston) Fowler,
James McCurray, Bret McQuerry,
Andy Little and George McCall.


July 25, 1968

The Windyville Post Office
was scheduled to shut down
with patrons being put on a
Plad Star Route out of the
Buffalo Post Office.

Jean Brooks and Myra
Bradley, Buffalo, were trying
to organize a club for senior
citzens.

Showing at the Autoscope
Drive-In Theater was "For a
Few Dollars More," with Clint
Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef.

Area deaths included
Chester Hanna, Sylvan
Collier, Neil Harris, Violina
(Breshears) Carter, Rose
(Brewster) Plummer, Emma
Bittner and Evan Zimmerman.


July 27, 1978

Buffalo Little Theater
presented Neil Simon's
Star Spangled Girl, with Janice
Evans, director.

Clara Davison was the
winner of a full-size quilt
given away by the Dallas
County Historical Society
during the Dallas County
Fair.

Showing at the Highway
65 Drive-In Theater was
"Fun with Dick and Jane,"
with George Segal and Jane
Fonda.

Area deaths included
Elma Moore,
Cecil Bernard,
Edith (Condren) Perryman
and Carl Patterson.


July 27, 1988

Lucy Pool, 92, Polk,
recieved the prize of the
oldest person at the
Louisburg Old Settlers
Reunion.  Jack Mashburn,
California, won the award for
traveling the farthest.

Aaron Ervin, Dan Roderick,
Shelia Geer, Tricia Finch
and Terri Greer of Half Way
FFA Chapter attend the
1988 Washington Conference
Program.

Showing at the Highway
65 Drive-In Theater was
"Big," with Tom Hanks.

Area deaths included
Lloyd Reed, Robert
Montgomery, Charles Wilson,
Viva (Creek) Brundridge,
Richard Overall, Marion Eggeman,
John Moore and Gertie (Allen) Ray.


July 29, 1998

Joanna Young, 15,
Louisburg, participated in
the Missouri All State Lions
Band at Disney World in
Florida.

Terry Kirk, Urbana,
claimed the checkered flag
and a trophy in the features
race at Nevada Speedway with
his modified race car.

Area deaths included
Patsy (Harmon) Nunn,
Katherine (Stone) Heater
and Fondera Jones.

(Taken from the Buffalo Reflex)

Sept. 23, 1948

Sandra Deer, 7 years-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Oren Deer of Buffalo, won
the Showmanship Award at
the National Golden Horse
Show in Springfield.

Croslin Motor Co.,
Buffalo, was selling the new
1949 Kaiser.

Showing at the Pix Theater
was "State of the
Union," with Spencer Tray
and Kathleen Hepburn.

Area deaths included
Finis Cyrus,
Mary (Strickland) Evans
and
Sarah (Jones) Coffman.


Sept. 18, 1958

Registration for Young
Homemakers classes on
home decoration began with
County Home Agent Mildred
Timken as instructor.

Senior class officers at
Tunas School were Don
McCall, president, James Allen,
vice president, and
June Swisher, secretary
and treasurer.

Showing at the Buffalo
Theater was Walt Disney's
"The Secret of Life."

Area deaths included
Emma Collins, James Branum
and Alpha (Day) Rush.


Sept. 19, 1968

The two highest awards
made at the club level by
Optimist International - the
Distinguished Presidents Award
and the Honor Club Award -
were given to
Buffalo's Dr. Richard Spillman.

Buffalo Kiwants Club
finished the new park shelter
at the Buffalo City Park.

Showing at the Buffalo
Theater was "The Sound of
Music," with Julie Andrews
and Christopher Plummer.

Area deaths included
Winnie Sturdeyant,
Fred Engle,
Etta (Yate) Cheek,
Else Howard,
George Lynch,
Wayne Ferrell,
James McCabe,
Ores Beck
and
Don Eagy.


Sept. 21, 1978

Federal Aviation
Administration officials gave
approval to Buffalo airport
variances with deletion of
portions of the airport and
expansion of the runway.

Pepper Davis Motor
Company was advertising
the Dodge Monaco, Dodge
Aspen and Dodge Diplomat.

Showing at the Highway 65
Drive-In Theater was
"Close Encounters of the
Third Kind," with richard
Dreyfuss.

Area deaths included
Elizabeth (Gibbs) Rush,
John Bartee,
May (Kieswretter) McCalin,
Maude Harrell,
Mary Beehler.
Hosea Cline,
Harley Bryant
and Grace Tedlock.

Sept. 21, 1988

The Buffalo Board of
Education adopted a plan to
begin serving breakfast at
the school.

L.D. Skinner, Buffalo,
caught two blue catfish - 51
pounds, 38 inches and
34 pounds, 31 inches - below
the Truman Lake Dam at Warsaw.

Area deaths included
Bewell (Richerson) Bardley
and Ruby Glass.


Sept. 23, 1998

Power Team, headquartered
in Dallas, Texas,
presented a program of
Christian Faith, family values
and a show of strength to
students at Buffalo High
School.

Members of the Missouri
Cowboy Poets Assocation
met for their quarterly
session at the home of
Richard and Laurel Dunlap,
Louisburg.

Area deaths included
Daniel Herrera Jr., Frankie
Charlton, Joyce (Gregory) Perkins,
Sharon (Emerick) DeCou, Lyal Weckner
and Flossie (Warner) Dean.

(Taken from the Buffalo Reflex)

Oct. 7, 1948

The Dalls County Singing
Convention was held at Liberty Church
with Nova Maddux as master of ceremonies.

County Home Enconomics
Club presidents spoke on
KWTO radio about thier activities
and achievements.
Inculded were Mrs. J.A. Nichols;
Charles Davis, Long Lang;
Mrs. Harry Graham, Buffalo;
and Ida Icenhower, Olive.

Showing at the Pix Theater
was "The Shanghai Chest,"
with Roland Winters.

Area deaths included
Steven Blevins, Gilliam Southard,
Francis Rice, Ida Eidson,
John Carrier and Eva Crowder.


Oct. 2, 1958

The Buffalo Telephone Company
was nearing completion
ofa $33,000 project in
bring dial phones to Cedar Ridge
and Windyville.

Clark's A.G. Food Market
was selling steak for 69 cents
a pound, a 2-pound box of
cheese for 59 cents and candy
bars three for 10 cents.

Showing at the Autoscope
Drive-In Theater was "Up In
Smoke," with Huntz Hall and
the Bowery Boys.

Area deaths included Lola
(Stanley) Flanagan, Riley
Fullerton, John Goodman, Zelma Mitchell,
Ruthie (Howard) Potter,
Luther Highfill, Grace (Lindsey) Ward,
Russel Grower and E.E. Meadows.


Oct. 3, 1968

Royalty at the Buffalo PTA
Carnival included Michelle
Brackley and Ed Crites, high
school, and Sandra Franklin
and Kim Shepherd, elementary.

Sp/4 Keith Gamel returned
from Vietnam after a year's
tour of duty.

Showing at the Buffalo
Theater was "The Green Berets,"
with John Wayne and David Jannsen.

Area deaths included Ira
Yates, Charles Cook, Zeta (Thomas)
Colbert, Mary Crawlford,
William Post, Eva Stogsdill,
George Miller and Lee Morgans.


Oct. 5, 1978

Marsha Montgomery,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billie
Montgomery, was appearing in
"J.B.," a Southwest Missouri
State University theater
production.


Oct. 5, 1988

A new bridge over a branch
of Dousinberry Creek
between routes V and B
opened to traffic.

Angie Peters, daughter of
Larry and Sandra Peters of Buffalo,
was crowned Buffalo
High School Football Festival
Queen.

Area deaths included Ann Slane,
Ray Glass, Emma Wood,
Charles Charlton and
Marion Pennel.


Oct. 7, 1998

Dallas County Sheriff's
Department officers arrested
a Springfield man in
connectin with what was
described by Sheriff Mel Parks as the
first seizure of a rolling meth 
lab in Dallas County.

Kenneth W. Polloc, 90,
founder of the Key Industries,
Inc., died in his Fort Scott,
Kan., home.

Area deaths included
Linda (Belt) Pope,
William Schneller,
and
Jewell (Marsh) Powell.

(taken from the Buffalo Reflex)

March 3, 1949

Dallas County had three
state blue ribbon winners in
the National 40H Contest:
Bert Routh Jr., poultry;
Junanita Davison, girls
leadership; and Melvin
Miller, better methods.

Junior and Elizabeth
Burd purchased the Slack
Brother's Service Station at
Maple and Franklin in
Buffalo.

Showing at the Buffalo
Theatre was "Train to
Alcatraz," with Donald Barry
and Janet Martin.

Area deaths included J.M.
Phillips, Sadie Maulin,
Sgt. Gordon Williams,
S.M. Hughs, Mary phillips
and May Bruner.


Feb. 26, 1959

Janice Franklin, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A.B.
Franklin, was elected to the
presidency of Pi Kappa
Sigma at Southwest Missouri
State College.

Mrs. George Mallard
reported her New Hampshire
Red hen had laid an egg
resembling a gourd.  The size
was average, but the small
end of the egg had an inch
long "handle."

Showing at the Buffalo
Theatre was "Onionhead,"
with Andy Griffth and
Felicia Farr.

Area deaths inculded Lula
(Parker) Bennett, Lee
Stockton, William Scofield,
Isabell (Drake) MacDonald,
Frank Rowe and Pearl
Rambo.


Feb. 27, 1969

Harold Montgomery, Oren
Meyers and D.C. Cran
provided music for the
valentine party given at
Chastains Nursing Home in
Buffalo.

Mr. and Mrs. Grover Smith
purchased the Valley
Drive Inn on 65 highway in
Louisburg.

Showing at the Buffalo
Theatre was "What's So Bad
About Feeling Good?" with
George Peppard and Mary
Tyler Moore.

Area deaths included
Raymond Clopp, Kirby
Strole, U.D. Walker, Maude
Young, Emma Hubbard,
Lawrence Cox, Dred
Henderson, Virgil Norman,
Francis Junkins, Arch Cline,
Birtie (Smart) Stalker, Pearl
(Nunn) Crumley, Irene
(Maples) Etherton, Walter
Brown and Kelly Brown.


March 1, 1979

Janet Bricker, a junior at
Skyline High School, was
installed as president of Area
8 FFA.

Jerry Scrivener, Lebanon,
died in an accident while
canoing on Niangua River
with friends.

Area deaths included
Carlene Roby, Jerry
Scrivener, Emily (Gladden)
Farmer and Margaret Pyle.


March 1, 1989

The Buffalo Park Board
officially designated the name
"Dallas County
Commnity Park" to the 28-
acre section of land
purchased from Southwest
Baptist University.

The Dallas County R-1
Board of Education awarded
a contract to demolish or
remove the teacher
apartments and utility
building.  The buildings were
reconstructed from barracks
at Fort Crowder in 1950's.

Area deaths included
Finis Sweaney, Mary Bryant,
Thelma (Wrinkle) Mabary,
Norman Nixon, Bessie
(Goforth) Gucker, Alma
Morrow, John Mallard,
Mabel (Nunn) Gower, Bessie
Andre, Ruth (Nelson)
Stoddard and Norman
Turner.


March 3, 1999

Just over 2,500 trout
anglers made the trek to
Bennett Spring State Park's
opening day of trout season.

Glady's Summers was
named Volunteer of the Year
for Polk and Dallas County
OATS.

Area deaths included
Virgil McPheeters,
Beulah (Powers) Hall,
Alfred Marker,
Josephine (Vaughan)
Robberson, Donna Willis,
Ishmael McDaniel, Harley
Reed, August Herzog, Edwin
Sharon and Mack Bradley.