1915 Rich Hill School Board

1915 Rich Hill School Board

Top Right -President-J.J. Hicks Top Left-Vice President (R.E. Hoover)
Middle Right-Secretary L.C.Stonebraker Middle Left-Treasurer J.R. McCulloch
Lower Right-F.H. Cheverton  Lower left-J.H. Cromwell

Story of Clinton R. Wolfe From the History of Bates County 1883

CLINTON R. WOLFE
was born in Montgomery County, Maryland, on the 10th day of March, 1846. His father, Josiah Wolfe, was a native of Maryland, and by occupation a farmer. His mother's maiden name was Anna L. Bell. She was born in the District of Columbia. In 1861 the family of Josiah Wolfe removed to Missouri, and settled in Johnson County, near Warrensburg, where Clinton was reared to manhood, and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1870. In 1872 he moved to Moniteau County, Missouri, and here gave his attention to the tobacco and grain business, until 1876. Coming to Bates County, he embarked in the drug trade at the old town of Rich Hill ; in the fall of 1880 he moved his stock of goods to the new town, where he continued business till June, 1882. Previous to his removal to this city he was elected a justice of the peace for Osage Township, and he has since continued to hold this position. He is also a notary public. In April, 1881, Mr. W. was elected mayor of the city, and still discharges the duties of his office in a highly commendable manner. He married Miss Eva Perry, a native of Montgomery County, Maryland, and a most estimable lady. Their family consists of three children : Harry W., Anna B. and Alta.

Dixie Glynn- Picture of Rich Hill Christian Church Choir of 1972.

 Rich Hill Christian Church Choir of 1972.

Left to right: Cliff Hauxwell, Herb McDaniel, Laura Colwell, Maurice West, Dixie Glynn, Eugene Watson, Dorthy Steuck, Walter Steele, Frances McDaniel, Hub Kienberger, Wilma Hedrick Carter, Erma Kienberger, Arletta Wilson, "Goody" Goodrich, Geane Hauxwell. Joe Tioni and Mayor Marvin Hurst are on either side of the communion table

From Dixie Glynn Facebook page

Rich Hill Wooden Indian

RICH HILL, NORTHRUP DRUGS

Don Lee Steuck Obit

Don Lee Steuck 

June 4,1934-June 25,2015

Donald Lee Steuck, 81, passed away June 25, 2015. Don was born June 4, 1934 in Rich Hill, MO, raised in Papinsville, son of the late Fritz and Katie (Doepel) Steuck. He married Kessie Joan Shelton in the state of Washington on July 13, 1957. Don was a veteran of the United States Navy. After the service, he drove a truck over the road. Later in life, he became City Marshal of Rich Hill for 13 years.

He is survived by 3 daughters: Renea (Jack) Westerhold, Metz, MO; Janie Tourtiliott, Nevada, MO; and Patricia (Tom) Pilcher, Rich Hill, MO.; 5 grandkids: Kessie Dawn (Justin) Heckadon, Jared Westerhold, Joshua (Kelsey) Westerhold, Tyler Gill, Kimberly Pilcher; 3 great granddaughters: Bailey, Brooke and Megan Heckadon; 1 great grandson, Marshall Westerhold; one sister, Elsie Klinksick, Papinsville, MO and one brother Junior (J.F.)(Dorthy) Steuck, Rich Hill, MO.

Don was preceded in death by his wife Kessie, 2 brothers, Robert and Walter Steuck, one sister, Lorene Kline.

Don participated in as many rodeos as he could. His favorite event was bull riding. He also enjoyed spending time with his family. He was a member of the American Legion.

Bill Perkey reflects-Remembering life along Highway 71

This article is from Rich Hill Mining Review June 12, 2015

Thanks to Mining Review for letting me post the article and thanks to Bill Perkey for writing it.

This week Bill Perkey takes us on a stroll down the memory lane of Old Highway 71 and the many businesses that once thrived there.
"I received so many positive comments about the previous article that I decided to write another," he says.
Perkey has many happy memories of Rich Hill and enjoys sharing them with others. "I must add a disclaimer, though. This was a long time ago. Several of these locations were separated by several years. My stories are just meant to be reminders of days gone by."
I have so many good memories Rich Hill when I was young that sharing them is a pleasure. With this writing I want to go back to when Old 71 Highway had many businesses.
Let's start at the south end. This was when it was two lane and busy all the time. On the west side of the highway was the 44 Club-a dance hall owned by the McKinley family. In its day, the 44 Club was quite a place. They sold beer and had live music and a large dance floor.
Saturday night was their big night and would often fill the building. It was usually full inside and a lot going on outside (like fights, etc.). At one time Mr. McKinley had a trap shoot out back which was well attended.
Across to the north was another smaller beer joint (dance hall) called the Boondocks. The Boondocks was run by Nile and Lottie Schofield.
Just north of this was. the Bedell's restaurant The Bedell's lived in half of the building, and the cafe area was in the other half. Then there was a small gas station run by the Maurice West family.
Next in-line was a small cafe. I believe the Goble family owned it. In the next block (which would be Park Avenue) was the Phillip 66 station. The station was a busy place and had two bays for repairs and several pumps outside. I think gas was about 18-cents per gallon.
Then there was the bus station. This was a favorite place where a friend and I would go and have a bowl of chili, a Double Cola, and put a quarter in the jukebox and get six songs to play.
Next was the new Dairy Drive Inn (which is now Swope's Drive In), I think it was built by Edwin' Fisher, Bill Christopher and Maynerd Miller. Across the street north was another Dairy Queen run by the Evans family, it opened some time later; but they originally started on the East side of 71 down south a couple of blocks then moved to this location.
 Next was the Trammell Service Station. It was always a busy place, as they did a lot of tire repair including the big truck tires. Also this was where the boys, who had town routes for delivering the Kansas City Star, got their papers.
A driver would drop the papers off and the boys would have to roll and tie them with a string, then fill their bicycle baskets with the papers, and deliver them to those who subscribed.
I had one of these routes and I remember the day I quit. It was a cold winter day with ice on the streets and I turned my bike over and fell in the ditch full of water (end of story).
  Then north of Trammell's was Kirby's Restaurant and across the street north was another restaurant, I think it was Telrows. Up the road was HoneyBee Johnson's bee farm and then the state high way maintenance office,  I might mention about  HoneyBee Johnson. He had a lot of bee hives and sold honey. He made his living doing this (as 71 It was a busy highway), he did a good business.
On his jars of honey was a picture of him with a bee hive beard. That's right, a swarm of bees is hanging off his chin. WOW!
Now, let's go across the highway to the east. Although it was not a business, the big red brick home of Ed and Jewell Link was the first building (we are now going back to the south on the east side of 71).
The next building was a liquor store. Across the 'road was the Starr station and cafe. This was a favorite place to eat. My mother worked there, as a waitress for a few years. I remember they had the jukebox that had the small boxes on the counter where you make your choice of music by pushing a set of numbers.
Next was the Sinclair Service Station. It also had 2 bays for service and repair. Across the street South was a small grocery store (I think it was run by Scott Bradley?)
That's the first place I tasted Grapette Soda. It was a grape flavored soda drink in a small glass bottle. You put a nickel in the slot of the pop machine and pull out your drink. (This later became a cafe owned by Dot Harp and others).
To the south of this was the Skelly Gas Station owned by Ben Ellis. In the next block was the George Ellis Auto Repair. He and his wife lived at the same place. This is where the businesses stopped which is just about where we started but on the opposite side of the highway. As you can imagine as time went by, things begin to change and so did the businesses.
As this is just from memory and includes several different years, I may have left some things out or added some that are not quite right, forgive me. But this is as I remember. Good reading to you and by the way, why not share some of your memories?

RHHS Alumni Banquet 2015

RHHS Alumni Banquet 2015
Theme -Remembering Our Teachers May 23, 2015

Larnel Martin

                                                              Bob Schyler

                              Roy Glenn Put in the Teachers Hall of Fame

Obituary - Ronald Thompson

Ronald Everett Thompson was born October 25, 1942 in Rich Hill, MO, the son of Everett and Ida Mae (Henderson) Thompson. He passed away May 12, 2015 at St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, MO.
After graduation, Ron worked for Bob Tracy in Frame & Glass here in Rich Hill. He then took a job with Chester McKinley running his lumber yard as a bookkeeper and yard & office worker. During this time, he married Mary King, July 7, 1962. He also worked for Dixon Palmer at R. J. Hurley Lumber Co. and at this time, his daughter was born on June 11, 1966. In 1969, he went to work at Mid Continent Mfg. Co. and in 1973 went to work at 3M Co. Nevada, MO in press dept. operator jobs, as press-laminating and help start up new extruder in plant and made first produce that was made on it. During this time he was asked to be on Emergency Squad and worked his way up through the ranks as fire fighter and was asked to go to 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota for fire training and to Texas A & M for more training. Soon after returning, he attended fire fighting instruction class at University of Missouri at Columbia, receiving instructor's certification and then taught fire fighter classes for two years, certifying 52 people at 3M at Nevada. And coming up in rank to serve as chief for about 10 years out of 18 and still help out at Rich Hill Fire Dept. Ron retired from 3M after 29 years not missing a day.
Ron attended First Baptist Church in Rich Hill and served as Board Member and Deacon.

Ron is survived by his wife, Mary of the home, daughter. Julie & husband David Yarick, grandchildren, Cody & Mackenzie; sisters. Lila Zellmer & (Davie Klinksick), Diane & (Jerry) Isaacson and Uncle Clyde Hawks, nieces, nephews, cousins & friends.

 He was preceded in death by his parents & grandparents.

 

Ron's greatest joy was his family and having the finest grand kids in the world. He will be missed greatly.

Picture of Fire Page 8 Wagon Wheels July 26 1979

Date of Picture unknow 

Old High School

1888

1938

Got this Picture from  Ronnie Thompson not sure what year

Fire at 4th and Walnut year unknown

Rich Hill makes CDL Life

Swopes makes CDL LIfe

From CDL

If your route takes you across 71 south, through Missouri, and you’re looking for a place to grab a bite to eat, you’ve got to stop at Swope’s, in Rich Hill, Missouri.

Swope’s is located at the intersection of 71 south and 49, just an hour and a half south of Kansas City.

The gas station across the street from Swope’s offers truck parking!

Swope’s has been a mom and pop, family-owned restaurant since 1978.

Swope’s is most famous for their Susie Qs, but they offer an expansive menu, from hand-pressed hamburgers, to hand-mixed shakes, and their food is AMAZING.

Tell them CDLLife sent you!

The Rich Hill Grade School.

This is a picture of the Rich Hill grade school before all the add on's