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Do You Remember? In what year did these items make news in Adair County?

This quiz is on the honor system. The Answer was Posted yesterday Sunday August 18, 2013, somewhere in CM Classifieds. Starting Monday, August 19, 2013, it's at the end of the article, but don't look until you've written the year down and are sure you're right. Give yourself an "A+" if you know with the first clue. An" A" if you know in 4. A "B" if you need 7 clues. A "C" if it takes 10. A "D" if you need 11-17; and if you still don't know, give yourself an "E" for Effort, join the Adair County Genealogical Society, buy Mike Watson's History Books and bone up for the next quiz. By the way, the giveaway clue has to be when Harry Lee Dohoney brought Ingram Gas to town. Everybody knows that, don't they? - CM


By Mike Watson, Adair County Historian

There are 17 clues from the Mystery Year, listed below:


  1. Fire severely damaged Columbia Tire and Re-cap on Campbellsville Street.

  2. Mrs. Mary Murrell Stevenson’s house, 306 Jamestown Street, near the Nazarene Church, was sold at auction.

  3. Eddie’s Community Store, on Fairground Street, a grocery operated by Eddie Hill.

  4. Flowers’ Texaco service station, 103 Burkesville Street.

  5. Harry Lee Dohoney’s Ingram service station, one half-mile from the city limits, highway 80 east. Selling Ingram gas.

  6. Cole’s Grocery, on Hudson Street.

  7. Columbia Elks Lodge #2219…bingo in the lodge hall over the water office.

  8. Dr. W.R. Murphy, optometrist, announced candidacy for Mayor for the November election. He ran on the Progressive Party ticket. City Council candidates were Ed. Williams, Ruth Richardson, Kenneth Hughes, J.C. Sexton, Charles Marshall, and Capt. J.T. Hayes.

  9. Samuel Kelsey announced candidacy for Mayor on the Citizens ticket. City Council candidates were Travis Scott, Bob Cheatham, Oval “Tim” Hardwick, Harold Phelps, Hudson Willis, and Elbert L. Wooten.

  10. Coy Rice, World War II veteran, announced candidacy for Mayor. City Council candidates were Edgar Troutman, Charles Sandusky, Raymond Lacy, Norman Coomer, Franklin Vance, and Bobby Caldwell.

  11. All Columbia telephone numbers changed. The new prefix is 384.

  12. Bank of Columbia officers were: John W. Flowers, cashier; Fred P. Hill, William. R. Flowers, and Ralph Hurt, directors.

  13. First National Bank officers were: James F. Montgomery, cashier; E.B. Barger, Walter Bowen, and J.L. Walker, directors.

  14. Remodeling started on the former IGA store, on the public square, to make the interior suitable for the Ben Franklin Variety Store.

  15. Auction advertisement for the complete line of super market fixtures of the former IGA story slated for July 14th. Dr. M.C. Loy is the new owner.

  16. The new Columbia post office will be constructed soon. It will be built on the site now occupied by Cotton’s Used Cars.

  17. The Croquet court was located on the fairgrounds near the pool.
- Mike Watson

ANSWER: The year was 1961.


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