25 Years Ago This Week

The Little Theatre on the square opens its second production of the summer season, Caberet. It’s a love story built on the political upheaval of 1930s Berlin. Sally Bowles and Michael Hawes will star in the show.
Bethany school district hired two new teachers. Geri Atherton will teach language arts and art. The kindergarten enrollment is high so the board hired Amy Blank as a second teacher.
The Rev. John E. Sohm is returning to St. Columcille Parish in Sullivan and will also pastor at St. Isidore in Bethany. Sohm succeeds Father Joseph Simburger who began serving the Archdiocese for Military Services as a Navy chaplain.
Nellie Best, mother of Robert E. Best, passed away in her daughter’s home in Poplar Bluff, Mo. at the age of 83. She was a lifelong resident of Farmington Mo. She married Ellis John Best Aug 23,1930. He preceded her in death in 1947. She had three children, Robert of Sullivan, Edward of Martinez, California and Ann of Poplar Bluff, Mo.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.