Throwback Thursday-Sickness, Mae West and Tent Shows

 

Photo courtesy of Carol Sackett.

Courtesy of the Eddie Herrman Archives

1821-All but four persons at the Harmony Mission are debilitated, and the houses for the missionaries aren’t completed yet. They are still living on their boats.

1879-Mr. Silas Levy plans to add a 24 by 44 foot one story, brick addition to his present store.

1879-The new Vinton Postmaster is P. Willis

1886-The Rich Hill Lodge #40, Royal Tribe of Joseph is organized with 31 charter members.

1923-The largest crowd that ever attended a tent show in Butler, greeted the J Doug Morgan show last night with the big tent filled. Tonight the company presents: The Lone Star Ranch of Texas, with Morgan in the leading part.

1944-The Passaic School opens with the newly married Mary Vaughn Browning Rush, the teacher.

1944-A partially filled railroad car, from Oklahoma, stops in Butler and 918 onion bags filled with milkweed pods, are loaded and on their way to fill the “Mae West” life jackets. Those who have picked bags are: Rice Implement Co., 42 bags, Leo A. Freund, 46 bags, Eddie McGuire 56 bags, The Rose-Leonard 4-H Club, 306 bags, Amsterdam 4-H, 466 bags. The big crop from Bates County will go in later.

1999-The 8th annual Papinville Picnic goes on, rain or not. The new Papinville Museum building is dedicated, Paul Stangel, association president, Beverly Sullins, museum curator and Marjorie McGinnis, niece of Freeman Barrows, First county clerk of Bates Co.

Actors from the J. Doug Morgan Travelling Tent Show in costume. Photo courtesy of Carol Sackett.