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Chronology of Henry County - 1930's
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1930
- Census population: 22,931 for county. Clinton 5,744, Windsor 1,879, Deepwater 1,093, Montrose 531, Urich 507, Calhoun 501, Brownington 266, Blairstown 237, LaDue 175, Hartwell 116.
- Missouri Public Service opens a butane/air gas system at its Clinton plant. The old manufactured gas plant at 6th & Elm is shut down and later demolished. The land was retained for pole storage.
- Ninnescah Park cabin resort opened on Osage River. A number of Clintonians built cabins here.
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1931
- State Highway Patrol created.
- January 24: The Clinton National Bank fails, after heavy withdrawals.
- March: Big snow snarls traffic: 15 inches fell in 19 hours and high winds then blew the snow into massive drifts.
- October 19: Bagnell Dam completed, forming the Lake of the Ozarks. The backwater from the lake extended up the Osage almost to the southeastern corner of Henry County.
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1932
- January 23: The Peoples National Bank of Clinton fails.
- February: The Stebbins Hospital at Orchard and Ohio in Clinton is destroyed by fire.
- March: The Bank of Deepwater closed. Assets had been circa $119,000.
- April: Union State Bank opens in Clinton, in the former Peoples National Bank building, at the northeast corner of the Square.
- October: Work is started on the improvement and paving of Highway 35 from Harrisonville to Clinton.
- November 23: The Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Bank closes after a major run.
- December 6: Montrose Savings Bank closed after a severe run on the bank.
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1933
- Highway 52 is completed from the Pettis County line through Windsor and Calhoun to Clinton, thence south jointly with Highway 13 to Deepwater, and west to Montrose and to the St,. Clair County line.
- State convention ratifies repeal of Prohibition.
- January: Montrose Savings Bank is reorganized. Depositors take 25% of their deposits in stock of the reorganized bank.
- March ?: All banks deemed sound are reopened. In Henry County the banks reopening included the Farmers Bank and Bank of Blairstown at Blairstown, the State Bank of Brownington at Brownington, the Citizens State Bank at Calhoun, Union State Bank at Clinton, the Farmers Bank of Deepwater at Deepwater, the Montrose Savings Bank at Montrose, the Bank of Urich at Urich, and the First National Bank and Citizens and Farmers Bank at Windsor.
- March 4: All banks in Missouri are closed.
- March 6: President Roosevelt closes all banks in the United States.
- June: Diamond Drug store moves into the bulding at the southeast corner of the Square in Clinton and a new soda fountain is installed here. (This building is now Breanna's.)
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1934
- The City of Clinton buys Artesian Park from H. P. Faris for $10,000.
- June: St. Ludger's Catholic Church at Germantown received a $3,000 payment from the U.S. government for damages done to the church during the Civil War, when federal troops were quartered in the church facilities.
- July: The Bank of Blairstown is closed. It had about $92,000 in assets.
- November: The City of Clinton leases the swimming pool in Artesian Park to the Clem Dickinson Post No. 14 of the American Legion, also a 5 acre tract on which the log cabin stands.
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1935
- May 28: The Frisco abandons service on the former "Leaky Roof" railroad, from Belton through Harrisonville to Clinton and from Tracy Junction south of Vista to Phenix, just north of Ash Grove. Thus ends one of the two railroads that ran from Kansas City to Springfield via Clinton.
- May: Dedication of new American Legion Swimming Pool in Artesian Park at Clinton.
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1936
- Henry County Free Library #2 opened to serve the black population of Clinton.
- February: Deepwater water tank completed, as part of WPA project to provide water and sewer services to Deepwater.
- September 17-18: Clinton celebrates its Centennial with parades and a pageant.
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1937
- April: WPA building new roads in Artesian Park at Clinton. A new entrance for Artesian Park is opened, from Rogers Street.
- July 1: Missouri conservation Commission created.
- August: Celebration of the completion of paving on Highway 35 from Harrisonville to Clinton.
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1938
- March 15: Clinton General Hospital opens as a 12-bed facility in the old H. P. Faris house at 516 East Jefferson Street, while the new 2 story and basement hospital building on 3rd Street between Franklin and Jefferson is constructed.
- March: The old Baird College building is to be torn down, with the materials salvaged and the land divided into lots.
- April 30: Community Clinic Hospital, operated by Drs. J. B. O'Neill and W. H. Ellet, opens in a new 2-story and basement brick building at 105 East Ohio Street, with 22 beds (26 in emergencies).
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1939
- 101 whole school districts in operation in Henry County, plus 6 fractional districts with schoolhouses in other counties. 212 teachers employed to teach 3,220 grade school and 1,235 high school students.
- Clinton Airport is opened, on land north of what is now Gaines Drive, across the MKT tracks from Highway 52.
- Courthouse renovated.
- February: Brinkerhoff - Faris Trust & Savings Bank pays final divedend on claims against it, becoming the only bank in Henry County to pay off 100% to the depositors. All told $218,000 paid out to depositors of bank.
- March: Dr. S.B. O'Neill purchases Dr. Ellett's interest in the Community Clinic Hospital. Dr. Ellett owned the hospital at Appleton City and returned there.
- June 13: Missouri legislature officially defines border of Henry County.
- June 17: The Henry County Library Board purchases the former W. H. McLane house at the northeast corner of 2nd & Ohio. 1st floor will be Club rooms, 2nd floor the Library and 2 reading rooms, and the 3rd floor the museum.
- June: New bath house completed for the American Legion Swimming Pool in Artesian Park.
- October: A&P opens a supermarket in Clinton, the first such to be opened by A&P in a town as small as Clinton.
- October: Clinton Flying School opens, northeast of Clinton on Highway 52. (Located next to present Highway Department facilities.)
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