Here’s a view from Scott Street in January 1964 showing construction of the six-classroom addition that became the west half of the South Building for what would be Monett High School and later the middle school. The east half of the South Building was already in use but not pictured. This photo is more interesting as it shows the 1906 high school building at left and the 1924 high school building at right. The addition cost $62,595 and was erected by Brown and Fertig. Monett Times photo
Jan. 21-27, 1944 • Newsweek Magazine’s Jan. 24 issue ran an article “Monett’s Mystic Maize,” on how the OPA set a price ceiling of $1.195…
