Exeter--A Long Time Ago Exeter before the fire, but with a different and apparently later depot shown in the foreground. The Baptist Church steeple is readily identifiable in the background. Mrs. Hutchens friends have identified the last three buildings to the south as Wilhelm Barber Shop, the hotel, and Jack England's hardware. Mr. England was the father of Turkey England. A pump located east of the depot, about half way between the depot and the corner building, supplied water for anyone who want~d, needed and took the trouble to pump it. S.talrs on the corner provided access to the Opera House upstaIrs over the corner building. Mrs. Hutchens explains that the Opera House provided entertainment for the entire community. Saturday night was movie night, when everyone came. Other times through the week, a group of young people and adults would put on plays, comparing, Mrs. Hutchens relates, t? toda.y's Little Theaters, complete with costumes. Dr. Se~r~y s offIce was also upstairs. The downstairs of the b.uJldmg w~s occupied by Babe Roseberry's grocery store. Besld~s r~nnmg the grocery store, Mr. Roseberry played violin wh~le illS da~ghter played the organ at the Opera House upstaIrs .to prOVIde background music for silent movies on Saturday nIghts. ~h~ first house [right side of picture] after the business buJldmg was the Wilhelm house, and the next building was the Hogue family hotel. The building on the far left of the business section was the Bates Groc~ry, and the J.F. Pilant Drug Store was also located on that strIp. The picture is believed to have been taken from atop a grain elevator, located in what was commonly called "the commons." SOUTH BARRY COUNTY HOSPITAL Dismissed May 7: Ethel Foster, Purdy. Admitted May 8: Racine Woolaway, Cassville. Dismissed May 8: Sarah ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL Corbin, Cassville. Dismissed May 9: Virginia Admitted May 5' Tina Long Cassville. . , Shepherd, Golden. Born May 5: To Mr. and Admitted May 10: Robert Mrs. Jerry Miller Jenkins a Laney, Exeter; Edward Ball, daughter. ' 'Eagle Rock; Archie Dooley, Dismissed May 5: Clara Ex~ter .. Harrold, Cassville; Mrs. Gary DIsmIssed May 10: Racine W~la",:ay, Cassville. Lee and daughter, Exeter. Admitted May 6: Mary Dls.mlssed May 11: Myrtle Campbell, Purdy; Mrs. Clar- ~hedlec~, Exeter; Amandaence Fisher, Cassville; Rach- hne ~Itney. ael Mitts, Cassville; Mrs. .Admltted May 12: Edward Wayne Smithson Cassville Litton, Herculaneum, Mo. Born May 6: 'To Mr. ;nd Dismisse~ May 12: Rh~ Mrs. Donnie Antle, Washburn Hash, Jenkms; D~le Estern, .'1.~~ Ora Cline Sell'g, ulsmlsseo IVlay \): lYllcnt:ut:, Lanagan' '.' - ,. . Hudson, Exeter; Mrs. Don Admitted ~ay 13: Bill HIlburn, Cassville, Orndorff and son, Exeter. Admitted May 7: Marsha Bertalotto, Rocky Comfort; Harry Sewell, Eagle Rock; Eldon Tilford, Cassville; Everybody from Enrico ICharles Wooten, Exeter. Caruso to Alice Cooper has Dismissed May 7: Alta been recorded ... almost. Until Bush, Cassville; Mrs. Jerry Tom Johnson came along, Miller and daughter of Jen- Rana sylvatica not only didn't kins; Mrs. Wayne Smithson, have a Top Forty hit, he didn't Cassville. even have a recording conAdmitted May 8: Manuel tract. Griego, Purdy; Mrs. Fred Johnson, herpetologist for Lauderdale, Wheaton; Mrs. the Department of ConserWilbert Trent, Rocky Com- vation, recently recorded fort Rana sylvatica-the .wood Born May 8: To Mr. and frog, a member of the state's Mrs. Keith Brown, Exeter, a rare and endangered species daughter. club who had been thought not Dismissed May 8: Mrs. to exist in Missouri since 1911. Donnie Antle and son, WashBut the species was redisburn. covered last summer in eastAdmitted May 9: Mrs. ern Missouri and Johnson now Arthur Jones, Rocky Comfort; is looking for reports of other Mrs. Kermit Lovell, Cass- colonies of the tiny, reclusive ville; Vernon Pendergast, frog. Purdy. "We think this charming Born May 9: To Mr. and amphibian would be most Mrs. David Haddock, a son, likely in the counties near St Cassville. Louis," he says. "It's from 1% . Dismissed May"9: Mrs. Joe to 2% inches long, tan or pinkCrabtree, Exeter; Rachael ish tan with a distinct brown Mitts, Cassville; Ida Robbins, 'mask.' " Cassville. Johnson asks that people not Admitted May 10: Joseph collect the little frogs, but just Chambers, Cassville; Edith write him at the Department Hooper, Purdy; Mrs. Lewis of Conservation, P .O. Box 180, Jones, Rocky Comfort Jefferson City 65102, reporting Dismissed May 10: Marsha the location. Bertalotto, Rocky · Comfort; ', 'A photo would be very Mary Campbell, Purdy; Mrs. helpflll," he says. "The small Clarence Fisher, Cassville; Population we discovered last Charles Wooten, Exeter. summer was in a Warren Admitted May 11: Nadine County pond and we relocated Burch, Cassville; Loretta tadpoles from there to other Clayton, Purdy. ponds hoping that the frogs Dismissed May 11: Manuel can expand their range." Griego, Purdy; Mrs, David Johnson said wood frogs live Haddock and son, Cassville; in thick woods, in damp areas, Tina Long, Cassville; Vernon such as deep,. shaded ravines. Pendergast, Purdy; Mrs. The most likely counties Charles Riddle, Cassville. would be St. Charles, St Louis, Lincoln, Gasconade, Franklin and Jefferson. President Andrew Johnson For the record, no pun inhad been a tailor and sewed tended, Johnson got the first his own clothing when Missouri recording of the in , the W h i ~e '. ~ .? u,s,.e: ' ~opd, fr.o g's voice MarcqJ3:., Q

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looking out of the upper left hand window. The picture, along with the other two included on this page, were found recently by Grace Hutchens while she was visiting in California. She sent them to Mrs. Jessie Young with permission to reprint them. We are indebted to both Mrs. Hutchens and Mrs. Young for their research on the pictures. Anyone having additional information which would further date the pictures, or identify any of the people is asked to drop a line or a phone call to the Advertiser office, so that we may share the information with our history minded readers.

The first depot in Exeter is said to have been destroyed by fire. It was in service when Exeter was incorporated February 7, 1881.

W.A. Bashe was the Wells Fargo telegraph and express agent at that time. The family lived in quarters located on the second floor. W.A. Bashe was the father of the late Charley Bashe, former Barry County official. It is interesting to note the "small fry" clad in a long dress, typical of the times for both little boys and girls. Also to be seen, by scanning the picture closely, is a figure of a woman

Two of the main business buildings in Exeter's past belonged The gentleman pictured right has been identified as Mr. to Thomas Kersey's Hardware Store and T.E. McClure's Drug Kersey, owner of the hardware store. Note that there are no Store. The Kersey Hardware was established in 1887. The women on the street, and the men all look "dressed up," with hardware signs advertise Springfield wagons and a number of vests and most of them sporting ties. old ,ifQI! ,k~ttles are apparently for sale in front i)f the stor,e. '.' . . . .. ., .... -:..: . ,'. . " " "'. "'~' ~ .,~ ~ ~ ~ ~ • • •', ._

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