125 years, 1896 Fulton Gazette
Wanted Wood for Court House. 40 cords of four foot Wood, must be good dry oak or hickory. Wanted for fuel at Courthouse. Sealed bids should be handed to the County Clerk before Sept. 21,1896. Coal wanted. 500 bushels of good coal wanted for the Court House and Jail. Sealed bids should be handed to the County Clerk on or before September 21, 1896. W.H. Windsor, Sheriff.
Big frost Tuesday night and the delicious opossum and the succulent and sometimes puckering persimmons are now ready for the table, likewise the sweet potato and the rabbit. The pawpaw and winter grape will demand the attention of the small boy when not engaged in a baseball game. Mr. George H. Arnold and wife, of Readsville, visited relatives near Guthrie and spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. T. A. Bedsworth. Mr. Arnold reports that less wheat than usual had been sown in the Readsville bailiwick. The dry weather has prevented many from sowing as the ground could not be plowed.
100 years, 1921 Missouri Telegraph
Emmett Althiser was in a hurry to get his horse Friday morning and did not wait for the city marshal to report at his office to get the animal from the city lock-up. The horse had been put up by the police when found loose on the streets. Monday Althiser was fined $12 for his act and had to pay the fifty cents which is assessed for the horse being caught in the lock-up.
Sheriff Chas. J. Bishop and Prosecuting Attorney W. B. Whitlow were two spectators at Browns ford on the Fulton- Jefferson City road Friday morning, watching the run downstream. They had been to New Bloomfield with Ben Robinson, charged with felonious assault, to have his preliminary hearing but when they got there he waived the hearing and was brought back to Fulton. The men left Fulton at 8:15 on Bishop's Ford and had no trouble in crossing the creek. They left New Bloomfield at 10 o'clock and it had not rained there they were surprise to find the water too high to cross the creek. There were twelve or fifteen other cars waiting to cross but not daring to enter the water fearing they would be stranded in the creek. After two hours and the water had drop two feet, Bishop decided to try crossing and managed to make the north bank, the water running within an inch of his carburetor.
75 years, 1946 Missouri Telegraph
Six state weight lifting records were broken here Sunday as the Ozark and Missouri Valley districts of the AAU staged their first state weight lifting tournament since 1941. Donald Wickell, Fulton lifter and chairman of the committee on arrangements for this years' tournament, toppled one of the records and won the 148-pound championship. On his fourth try in the "snatch" class - each contestant is allowed three tries in tournament scoring and a fourth for an attempt at a record - he hoisted 192 pounds. The old recorded in this class was 190 pounds, held by Sam George of St. Louis.
Robert and Ruby Cameron, who last year rode a horse five miles each day to attend school, have lost their horse but that hasn't stopped them from getting an education - they're walking that distance five days a week now. The Cameron children-Robert is 14 and Ruby is 11 - live on the Bartley Lane, east of Fulton, and attend the St. Eunice school, a mile north of town on Highway 54 since their home is in the St. Eunice district. They pass within two blocks of the East school here in Fulton, but since they don't live in the Fulton district, they can't attend school here. Robert, who is in the eighth grade, and Ruby, who is in the sixth grade, said they were forced to sell their horse last year after it had stepped on a piece of glass and "picked up a bad limp."
50 years, 1971 Kingdom Daily News
Mrs. Victor Fairbanks, formerly of Fulton was in town over the weekend visiting her brothers and sisters, Troy Bradford, Udell Bradford, and Mrs. Tressie Kibby, and families. Ms. Fairbanks is presently the president of the Colorado Federation of Republican Women, the only Negro to hold that position in United States. She has just attended the White House conference on aging and says that "President Nixon is most anxious to know what the senior citizens are in need of and how the government can best serve their need and wants.
Fulton merchants are proposing a new parking lot in the downtown area. According to proponent O.T. Harris, the parking lot would be on Market Street from Sixth Street south to the back of the buildings facing fifth Street. The project will cost about $125,000 to $130,000. Another of the downtown merchants to come out in favor of the plan is J.C. Bishop of P.N. Hirsch. He says, "I am in favor of the plan. It has got to help the downtown area."
25 years, 1996 Sun Gazette
Seven-year-old Rachel Davis, of Fulton worked hard this summer planting watermelon mounds, and from her labor came an impressive crop of melons. The largest melon from her garden, weighing in at 85 pounds. The other four melons ranged from 40-45 pounds. Though this isn't a record breaking weight in melon sizes, University Extension Horticulture Specialist Ray Rothenberger said it's definitely an impressive size. He added that North Carolina holds the record for the largest melon grown at 197 pounds. Rachel, a first grader at McIntire Elementary School, daughter of Mary and Clark Davis.