1923 Rich Hill Year Book

Link to  the 1923 Rich Hill Year Book

RHHS Alumni Banquet 2013

Rich Hill Mining Review (July 28,1966)part2

Part 2

City Pays Off Bond Totaling $40,000
The City of Rich Hill this week paid off $40,000 in Electric light works revenue bonds.These bonds had 10 years to run until time to be retired.This now leaves a balance of $4,000 in electric lights revenue bonds which become due February 1, 1967.
With the payment of the bonds in February 1967,this will leave the electric light works department of the City of Rich Hill free of debt.
The payment of these revenue bonds in advance of the date due shows the efficient way the City Officials handle the business of the city.

Rich Hill Mining Review (July 28,1966)

Volume 86 Number 39

Standard Station Robbed of $70.00
Early Sunday afternoon thieves entered the office of the Standard Service Station on Highway 71 and Park avenue and made away with $70.00 from the desk drawer in the office.
Junior Hinton, owner and attendant at the station said he has no idea who thieves might be.He said for a time a car,1965 or 1966 Dodge,bearing a Kansas license, driven by a youth accompanied by another boy and some girls were parked near the station.He said he could not swear they took the money as he didn't see any of them enter the office.About a month ago thieves entered the station and took $323.00 in currency.
It is reported that the car load of young people were run away from Phillips Station across the highway from the Station across the highway from the Standard station by attendant after they were found rummaging through through a filing cabinet in the office. Les Carter,manager of the Phillips station was away at the time.

Old Town

This was found in a group of things, supposedly from "old Rich Hill ",north of the present townsite, during the early coal boom. After a new Rich Hill boomed, this area was known as Ovid,then Shobe until its demise. Located in the southeast corner of section 25, New Home township,it sprawled over into northern Osage township,before they both faded away. Basically this area was two miles north of Park Avenue, in the present Rich Hill.

Rich Hill History From the Wichita Newspaper Dec.1898

The Wichita Tribune December 24,1898
Killed in a Rich Hill Mill Collapse 
Rich Hill, Mo.Dec 21
A portion of the Rich Hill mill collapsed at 1 o'clock this morning.Homer Kimbrough a transfer man, was caught by timbers and crushed.The building was badly damaged.

Email on Droz and the USS Little Rock

I received this E-mail yesterday from the blog, the guys name is Tim Kavanaugh 

I served with Don Droz on the U.S.S. Little Rock CLG-4 (1967-68) before he went to Viet Nam. I was an enlisted man RD2 and he was an officer but I stood watches in Combat Information Center and on the bridge many times. He was a good officer. I remember him well. Unfortunately I did not know much about him. I left the Little Rock in 1968 and served on two destroyers on the east coast before returning home to Minnesota. I watched a program on a river patrol boat attack in Vietnam in 1969. I looked him up on the Little Rock crew roster, knowing he had been killed in Vietnam. Funny how those memories are so clear more than 40 years later.

Tim

http://www.hnsa.org/ships/littlerock.htm