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June 26, 1979 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the June 26, 1979 edition of the Adair County News. Topics included the gas crisis in Christine, A.L. Sinclair's cabbage crop, a bit of a building boom, the loss of a prize dairy cow at AnnBarLyn Farm, and the history of the Jamestown monument. --Pen By Ed Waggener Biggest event since the air disaster A.L. Sinclair says it was the biggest event in Christine since Ralph Collins had an airplane crash approaching Streeval Field years ago. It happened when the Chevron truck brought 500 gallons of gasoline to Olle McQueary's store. "We had gas lines as bad as any on TV," A.L., who lives across Highway 206 across from McQueary's store, said. Sinclair said that the highlight of the day was when three gentlemen with mule teams and wagons, who had been out driving for the fun of it, lined their vehicles up in the queue of thirsty cars. The big head at Christine A.L. is one enterprising man. He's promoted horticulture in Adair County as much as any other one person. He has a big crop of cabbage ready to harvest right now. There are 9,000 heads of cabbage in his fertile one-acre plot. Sinclair anticipates five cents a pound when he sells the cabbage in Monticello. He figures on a gross of $2250 for the acre, and counts on netting around $1500 on the crop. Not bad for a new Adair County crop. New bulldings Gas problem or no gas problem, there is plenty of construction activity on Jamestown Hill and out. Russell Road. The basement is poured for the new First National Bank building at the corner of Wright Drive and Russell Road. Further east on Russell Road, Wid and Mitch Harris have a new barber shop building underway. They will be moving to make way for a possible move by South Central Mortgage (The Bank of Peco), to the Harris Barber Shop building on Jamestown Street. South Central Mortgage is primarily owned by Columbia businessman Randall Pyles. The London, Kentucky, owners of the Sine Turner property on Jamestown Street now have the seven acres cleared of buildings and trees. Something must be going to happen there. They surely wouldn't be out there just playing with their bulldozers. A bad blow to dairy production This hasn't been the happiest June Dairy Month for the Paul Barry Joneses of AnnBarLyn Farm. Saturday, lightning struck and killed the Jones' best Holstein--possibly the best Holstein in Adair County. The cow's official name was "Feele Master Sugar." They called her "Sugar Cow." The Holstein was the only, to Jones' knowledge, Adair County Holstein which was ever judged "Excellent" by the National Holstein-Friesan Association. The cow was milking over 104 pounds per day. She would likely have reached 25,000 pounds per year and more. The history of the Jamestown monument Records of historical fact take strange twists when recounted by Monticello businessman John Lyons. For instance, if he were writing the about Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the Second Punic War, he very likely might have had the Carthaginian general and his troops mounted on snowmobiles. Still, to quibble over such small details denies one the privilege of hearing the colorful way it likely ought to have happened. One day I asked Lyons about how the Monticello doughboy came to be, and he told me: "It was like this," Lyons said. "A wino came to Monticello in 1935 driving one of those red Dodge pickups--the kind which had the split hoods which raised from the sides. You remember them, don't you?" I told him I did. "Well," Lyons said, "this wino had not one, but two doughboys on the bed of that pickup. He offered the city fathers of Monticello picking choice for $37. They gave him the money, in cash, and took the one you see on the Square today." (We were in Monticello at the time.) "Now," he continued, "everybody knows that the worst thing you can do to a wino is give him money. Why, he got in that old Dodge pickup truck and headed straight for Tennessee, to buy some booze. It was dry here, then, too. "The only problem was, the wino took a wrong turn and went across Wolf Creek Dam, and ended up, eventually, in Jamestown, KY. "Their city fathers demanded that he sell them the other doughboy. That is why, to this day, one can see the doughboys gracing the squares of Jamestown, the Capital of Russell County, and Monticello, the Capital of Wayne County." Lyons concluded, "And that wino has never been heard of again to this day." This story was posted on 2020-10-25 16:18:35
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