125 years ago 1896 Fulton Gazette
J.H. Marion and W.C. Debo left a sample of fruit that grew on their farms four miles northwest of Fulton, at our office ad samples of the products of Callaway Fruit. They sent twelve plates of the following varieties to the Union Horticultural Society at Columbia: Huntsman Favortie, W.W. Pearmain, Willow Twig. Pennsylvania Red Streak, Wine Sap, Jenneting, Missouri Pippin, Jonathan, Keiffee Pear and Twelve Marion persimmons. Mr. J.H. Marion is one of the best posted men on fruit culture in the county and has a fine commercial orchard which he is improving each year. He will soon have plenty of excellent fruit to supply the local market. He has about a dozen fine persimmon trees which produce very fine fruit.
Col. Tom Watson showed his hospitality the other evening by treating a few of his friends to a most delicious 'possum supper. The "varmint" was most excellently prepared, being stuffed with oysters and surrounded by sweet potatoes. The accompaniments were very appropriate, being dodger corn bread, black coffee, celery and pickles. Col. Bug Herndon and Major Charles Patton occupied the places of honor at the tale and dispensed the viands and wines with the hands and mouths of expert epicures.
100 years ago 1921 Missouri Telegraph
The men who enjoy shooting over the traps have been enjoying themselves the past two weeks and some of them feel that they will soon be able to hit the clay birds as well as they did in former years when they were in practice. The following scores were made by Fulton men in the shoot Thursday afternoon: Out of 25-R.O. Baker 19, J.R. Tucker 20, P.A. Watson 20, Hanford Cole 21. Out of 50-Dr. A.R. Hammen, 32, J. Walker Frank 33, Herbert Schroers 40, Wheeler Zumwalt 42, Art Brigleb 43, G.T. Yancy 45.
The Fulton business men who so thoroughly enjoy camping and spending their nights in the open country included their wives in the party when they had a big supper at Bellamy Springs Tuesday night. A big feed was prepared and arrangements had been made for everyone not only to get plenty to eat but to have a good time. The following were present when mess was called: Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss Blattner, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. McClure and son, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Faris, Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Payne, Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Backer, J.L. and J.E. Maughs, Sidney Maughs, Roy Tucker, Howard Payne, R. O. Baker, Chas. J. Powell, Francis M. Roots. Miss Elizabeth Adams, Lynn Maughs, Miss Jean Masden of Kansas City.
75 years ago 1946 Missouri Telegraph
Among those from Fulton who were in St. Louis Tuesday for the seventh and final game of the world series, which the Cardinals won, were A.M. Kester, Barton Truitt, Ernest Dreps, George P. Johnston, W. Scott Fox and Dr. and Mrs. Franc L. McClure were the guests of Maj. Gen. Harry A. Vaughan, military aide to President Truman and a former Westminster College Student.
Several of the Fifty Fulton Students enrolled at the Lincoln University Laboratory High School in Jefferson City have been elected as class and organization officers. In the Freshman class, Quillard Elaine Dudley is president; Bobbie D. Kibby is assistant secretary; Woodrow Ellington is treasurer; and Wanna Dean Robinson is a representative to the Student Council. Etta Harris is secretary of the Sophomore class, and is also Student Council representative. Florence Dudley is secretary of the Junior class; and Epper Mitchell and Alice Clay are vice-president and secretary, respectively, of the Senior class. Billie Dean Richmond is a Senior representative on the Student Council. In the Home Economics Club Wanna Dean Robinson is president; Quillard E. Dudley is vice-president; Roxine A. Wiley is secretary; Vollan R. Kibby is song leader; and Mar Anna Britt is cheer leader.
50 years ago 1971 Fulton Daily Sun Gazette
Property owners near the new Highway 54 Bypass dropped a small bombshell on the Planning and Zoning Commission Monday night. Mrs.William Oliver and the A.M. Craghead heirs requested a zoning change on Gaylord Drive to enable them to build a Holiday Inn and a service Station there. This is the second location proposed for the hotel chain, the first being across from the Kleewood subdivision on Business 54. P&Z Chairman Ed Love and City Engineer Bernard Browning agreed to delay approval of the zoning change pending the State Highway Department granting an access road there.
25 years ago 1996 Fulton Sun
About 300 students at North Callaway Elementary School got the chance to learn more about the American Indian Culture Friday afternoon. Moberly resident and Native American expert Harold Carlson went to the school with a selection of Native American tools and clothing and gave a demonstration of Northern Cheyenne dances, as well as a tour of a teepee.
Williamsburg Elementary September Students of the Month. These students were selected based on their classroom performance and citizenship in the school. They were Ashley Harrison, fourth grade; Brittany Tuttle, third grade; Sheena Love, second grade; and Steven Govero, first grade; Richard Jarrell, eight grade; Daniel Walden, seventh grade; Jenna Semcoe, sixth grade; and Chase Cunfiff, grade and Josie Van Engelenhoven, kindergarten.