1912 Rich Hill Boys Basketball

Out of the 1912Rich Hill Yearbook

Boys Basketball Team -Harry Williams (top Left) W.L.Coonrod-Coach(Top center)Fred Yarrick(top Right)Robbin Wright(center Left)James Wheatley(Center- Center)Leo Engles (left Center)Ernest Long(lower left)Hendrick Cheverton(lower right)

Rich Hill Caboose MP 13689

MP 13665-13714 (50 cars)

• Assigned UP Class CA-32
• Built in October 1976 by International Car Corp. (Lot 2325).
• Bay window; 41 feet, 7-3/4 inches over coupler pulling faces; 52,700 pounds light weight.

MP 13689

12 Apr 1989

Removed from service on 25 July 1986 at Sedalia, Mo. Donated to City of Rich Hill, Mo., April 1989.

These pictures came from Train web http://www.trainweb.org/screamingeagle/caboose3.html

The Nevada Daily Mail - Aug 23, 1960

Essay Winner

Don Droz 16, and his mother ,Mrs. Glenn Droz of Rich Hill,have just returned from Trenton, N.J. where they spent a week as guests of the Trenton chamber of Commerce.Don was awarded the trip as winner of a national essay contest entitled "Why I would like to visit historic Trenton" They were guest guests at leading restaurants, a hotel, visited places of business, made a tour of the city and on a boat cruise during the week.Don tops his class scholastically, is a Letterman in Football at Rich Hill High School and represented the junior class at boys state.He has been interested in writing for some time, having worked as a paperboy, learned to operate a Linotype and eventually served as a reporter for the paper .His father Glenn Droz ia a rural mail carrier.Don experts to attend the University of Missouri, after his Senior year at Rich Hill .

Rich Hill Today by George B. Dowell August 1,1930

Tonight's blog is on former Mayor George Benjamin Dowell.George was mayor at the 50 year celebration and it appears that he worked very hard to make the celebration a great event. I found this article where he was concerned about Rich Hill of today and its future.

From the Bates County Republican August 1,1930

Without imaginative boosting it can truthfully be said that Rich Hill is growing,in spite of the inertia of conditions.The low ebb in Rich Hill History was in 1925.At that time a check showed over sixty empty houses in town,five empty business houses and a depression in every way.If Rich Hill's census had been taken at that time it would have looked very bad.

But then came Highway No.71.This may have hurt some towns but was the beginning of the new growth to Rich Hill.

Until No. 71 was built the towns in this part of the state had coal yards which shipped in Illinois coal by that strange freight rate which gave it an advantage. Now when anybody in these towns wants coal he calls his truck driver who comes to the Rich Hill Mines to get it.A check made last winter showed that a 100 diggers were busy supplying this business.The town filled up and growth began.

More coal shafts were sunk.More are now contemplated.For that reason it is no exaggeration when it is claimed that the coal industry is growing,and Rich Hill is the one Town between here and Kansas City with a real pay roll during the winter when most towns are without any.

Then about that time the school added Vocational Agriculture,Domestic Science,Teachers Training, Business Course and whether you not-football. All or these together have been swelling the non-resident attendance until each September it becomes a problem

Constable Queen, Shot in Rich Hill

Queen, Sam
Constable Queen, who was shot by a bandit at Rich Hill the early part of last week, died at his home in Hume last Friday morning. It is too bad that men should died in the performance of duty. -- Died at his Home in Hume Nov. 28 1913 in Hume Missouri.The Adrian Journal, December 4r, 1913, Page 4 column 2, Death

After the shooting shooting of Constable Queen at Rich Hill and tho offering of rewards by the Missouri Pacific railway company .

The Nevada Daily Mail says that it was Nov.of 1913 that Constable Queen was shoot in Rich Hill.The daily says that John Shead and Dale Jones were charged with desperate crimes committed in Kansas city.Constable Queen of Hume arrested Jones and Shead and took them to Rich Hill where he boarded the evening Missouri Pacific Train for Kansas City.Before the Train started the officer was attacked and shot and his prisoner's escaped Jones and Shead were charged with killing the constable and Shead was convicted at Butler but Dale Jones broke jail later escaped.(Jan.12,1914)Nevada daily Mail

Coal Oil in 1883

The Missouri Oil Fields

ST.LOUIS, Aug.9.--The discoveries of coaloil in Bates and Vernon Counties in this State are attracting considerable attention from Eastern operators.Today W.W. Gilmore a Pennsylvania oil Man, who has just returned from a visit to Rich Hill and vicinity, said that the surface indications in both Bates and Vernon Counties are the best he ever saw.The oil lands about Rich Hill had all been taken up, but in prospecting in Vernon County, near Carbon Center, he found the finest indications seen anywhere in the County. The Oil can be found in paying quantities.He met a farmer there who sank a tub into his land at night and found it filled in the morning with oil almost as thick as that which is sold as lubricant for 50 cents a gallon.The Oil is essentially petroleum.Mr. Gilmore said that he leased 1,700 acres of land,and was on the way to Pittsburgh to get the necessary machinery.Dumon +Foote are now sinking their second Well,and within 10 days,Mr. Gilmore said,there will probably be six more wells.The Machinery for five wells is now on the way from Pittsburgh.There is great excitement all through the oil region,which is full Pennsylvania speculators, who are leading all the land they can get hold of.

The principal companies are Wright & Co. Scott & CO. Collins & Hardeson ,and M.S. Cowles & Co.

Speaking of the quality of the oil. Mr. Gilmore Said it is not richer than Pennsylvania Oil but is of good quality."The oil man are only leasing the land. Collins and Hardeson paid $5000 for an option lease of 320 acres for 18 months at $75 an acre.

Pictures from the Mining Review June 28,1973

Several businesses in the business district have undergone a face-lift recently,just in time for the Fourth.Hughs Insurance and Moreland's Cafe received a new coat of paint.
Larry's Barber shop was given a new look with red paint and new signs.The circle windows given an old-fashioned look to the shop.
Dan Zumbrunnen put new siding on the D&L Variety Store and did painting on both the Variety Store and the Fabric Shop.

Slim Gulick has been busy in the East Park cutting dead trees.This will help the appearance and also improve the safety of the Park.