6 June 2000 MO-Abstracts Read-Only List ================================= A wonderful reader, who prefers to remain annonymous, sent the following for your perusal. ================================= Source (for all including 'HEADLINES FROM THE PAST'): The Fulton Telegraph newspaper Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri 16 Aug 1934 The birthdays of Mrs. Harry Martin and son, Elmer Lee Martin of Steedman were observed Sunday with a family gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Martin. Quite a number were present and they spent a most enjoyable time. Dinner was served at noon, including ice cream and cake. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Martin and children, Mildred, Clara May, Elmer Lee and James Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Harve Martin and family, Walter, Frank, Margaret and Mary, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Martin, and family, Clifford, Walter Ray and Boyd Everett. Mr. and Mrs. James Salmons and family, Jessie May, Clark and J. R. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Winkelmann and family, Rudolph, James and Leroy, Bud Redden of Mokane and Bill Stewart of Fulton. MISS OLIVE MUIRPHY TO TEACH PORTLAND SCHOOL Miss Olive Murphy of New Bloomfield has been elected to teach the Portland school, which was the only one in rural Callaway that had not selected a teacher for this year. Miss Murphy will get $75 or $80 a month. The Portland school is one of the largest in Callaway county taught by one teacher. Miss murphy, a teach of experience, has been in charge of the Millersburg school the last five years. She succeeds Miss Oleta Ratekin of Fulton who is to teach in the Hereford high school this year. ADOPTED DAUGHTER WEDS HER FATHER Miss Burr of William Woods Speech Department in Unique Nuptials. Miss Osceola Burr of Fulton and Mr. Walter A. Burr of Washington, D. C., were married at Winslow, Arkansas, at 5:30 o'clock Monday evening. The wedding ceremony was performed by Dr. E. C. Cockrell, president of William Woods College, in the presence of his family and Miss Edna Furby, at the Cockrell cottage. Immediately after the ceremony the couple left for Washington, where they will make their home. The marriage came as a surprise to the friends of Miss Burr in Fulton. She and Miss Furby had gone to Winslow to spend the summer vacation, following the commencement exercise at William Woods College last June. They are both members of the faculty of the expression department of the college, Miss Burr having been the head of the department the past four years. The relationship of the newlyweds is rather unique. Mr. Burr is the father of the bride, also the brother-in=law. Osceola Burr was adopted by Mr. Burr and his wife, the latter an older sister of the adopted child. He was divorced from his first wife last spring. Mr.. Burr is now the head of the permanent Reemployment Bureau of the federal government with offices in Washington, D. C. He was given this promotion last year, having been the federal representative of the reconstruction and relief agencies in Missouri prior to that. His home was in Columbia. The many friends of Mrs. Burr will extend to her their best wishes for a happy wedded life. HEADLINES FROM THE PAST: AUGUST 6, 1904 A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huntington, August 1. Mr. Huntington was a member of the firm of Matt & Huntington, the sewerage contractors. AUGUST 07, 1919 At the business meeting of the Callaway County Association of Christian Churches held at Boydsville, the Rev. W. Garnet Alcorn, pastor of the Fulton church, was elected president. Other officers: Vice-president, C. W. McClellan, Fulton; secretary, T. A. Sampson, Boydsville; treasurer, Grover Thomas, Richland; members of the county board, Thomas Wise, Ham's Prairie; superintendent of women's work, Mrs. J. A. Brown?, Fulton. The convention unanimously endorsed the Missouri move to endow the colleges and missions for two million dollars and pledged their moral and financial support. The next meeting probably was to be held at Ham's Prairie. Joseph Taylor, is attorney of Detroit, Michigan, who was born and reared at Mokane, was back in the county for a visit after an absence of 26 years. He said there had been many changes in Fulton since he left. AUGUST 4. 1889 T. J. Boulware, 40 years old, died August 4 at the residence of his uncle, Hon. I. W. Boulware, in Fulton. He had been ill for some time with fever. Burial in the family burying ground. AUGST 6, 1889 W. A. Fisher returned from Marshall. He had the contract for the state work on the new college there.