__Aug. 26, 1948__
• Forty-year-old ex-convict Edward Galisky and 18-year-old Connie Greenwood are arrested for being drunk in the streets. While being detained, Galisky admitted that they had stolen $140 from the Dr. Pepper Bottling Company.
Both men had worked for the company and said they snuck in through a side door and stole money from three drawers. Galisky has had many charges against him before such as larceny and burglary on two separate occasions, and had been absent without leave from the military five times during World War II. Greenwood, on the other hand, had a spotless record until now. Galinsky and Greenwood both were thrown into the county jail for larceny and burglary.
Aug. 26, 1923 and Aug. 26, 1973 — Not available
__Aug. 27, 1923__
• A large number of people visited the Broseley oil well the previous day and saw the round-the-clock drilling operations. H.E. Springer said he hopes to strike a good deposit of oil soon.
• The Butler County Fair announced it will give a $25 prize to the finest Holstein cow and another $25 to the finest Jersey cow at the fair in September.
• Ducks are already beginning to fly south for the winter time. It is unusual for northern ducks to be leaving so soon, and locals are warned winter may come sooner than they anticipate it. Wild rice, a duck’ s favorite food, had also seemed to mature very early this year, furthering suspicions of an early winter.
__Aug. 27, 1948__
• Six new Butler County Board of Education members were slated to be elected the next day, Aug. 28, under the provisions of a law passed by the previous legislature.
• Farmers across the nation are met with a storage crisis for their grain. The crops grew strong and healthy this year, and many farmers were not equipped with suitable storage. The Agriculture Department estimated the shortage of around 1,000,000 bushels. Farmers are likely to be hit with other losses this year like deterioration of grain, and a drop in market prices due to the surplus.
__Aug. 27, 1973__
• Results from the National Soft Drink Association show that Butler County LOVES soda pop. The entire population of Butler County has consumed 379 cans of pop per person annually. This amount is 10 more than the results drawn in 1970. Putting that number into dollars and cents would amount to $1,203,000 spent on soft drinks in Butler County alone.
__Aug. 28, 1923__
• Burrow Pointer, 37, of Bernie is being held in the Stoddard County jail on a murder charge in the death of his cousin, Warren Pointer, on Aug. 26.
• The Poplar Bluff Kiwanis Club met today and was informed by John Kendall, superintendent of the Missouri Pacific railroad that company president L.W. Baldwin would be visiting Poplar Bluff and the Kiwanis soon.
• Anna Chandler, 31, proclaims to young women to never get married young, especially if they want to be happy. Anna married and had a daughter at age 14, and her daughter who is 17 has become a mother as well. Chandler says a young woman tends to fall in love with falling in love, and has no means of knowing whether or not the man they married will become a successful business man, or a dead loss in her hands. Chandler suggests a good age for women to marry is at 25 years.
__Aug. 28, 1948__
• Neelyville High School will pre-register all students in grades 9-12 between 8:40 a.m. and noon on Aug. 30, said superintendent M.V. Smith. School buses will run their regular routes to bring students to and from school.
• Marion A. Cook, a 43-year-old farmer from Morley, is in critical condition at Sikeston General Hospital after he was injured that day when he attempted to replace a belt between a tractor and a hammer mill.
• Many Japanese women are ditching their traditional multi-colored bridal dresses for western white wedding dresses. A fashion show put on for the wives of the men in the 11th airborne division at Hokkaido showed traditional Japanese dresses and white western wedding dresses.
__Aug. 28, 1973__
• Dr. H. Tudor Westover, president of Three Rivers Community College, was hospitalized Monday night after suffering a heart attack. He was in satisfactory condition at Lucy Lee Hospital.
• Raymond Walls Jr. was hospitalized for treatment of smoke inhalation early today after Poplar Bluff firefighters rescued him from his burning home on 1502 Highland Drive. He was listed in satisfactory condition in the Doctors Hospital and suffered no burns.
• A recent strike at Canadian paper making mills and a major Canadian railroad strike has led to a mass shortage of newsprint paper. Over 65% of all newsprint used in America comes from Canada, and this shortage of paper has caused thousands of companies to drop features like comics, limit advertising, shorten articles, and even suspend some publications. The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper decided to use some paper they had stored from a previous holiday issue and started making two of four of their pages pink.