Weather and social notes from a Missouri county column
Stormy weather forecast accompanies a bustling community chronicle from Butler area. The item covers pie suppers at Mt Vernon schoolhouse, crop reports from Iowa, local sales and neighbors visiting, plus travel notes and farm trades. Notable names include C B Henderson, Mack Henderson, G W Armentrout, Kershners, Fritts, Bruner, and Col Lockridge with remarks on sales, turkeys, corn prices, and upcoming moves to North Missouri.
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Times
Sunny Jim
Mt. Vernon
Akin
Ira
Iowa
C. B. Henderson
Mack Henderson
Atchison County
Bates County
G. W. Armentrout
Literary
Concord
Col. Lockridge
Kershners
Fritts
Will Kershner
Guns Bruner
Nellie Bruner
Misa Anderson
Boyd Kershner
Missouri
John Stephens
John Barton
O. T. Fritts
Bill
Canada
Clint Burns
Newt
Spillman
Col
Ethel Good
Butler
Snow Sunday Visits Nearby Towns and Local Activities
A snow Sunday interrupted local life as residents reported chores and visits. Hogs were butchered, coal hauled from Donmeyer mine, and several residents made trips to Passaic Butler and Pleasanton. Letha Baird, a Butler High School student, stayed with her parents D P Baird over the weekend. Wade Ruddell, Webb Shelby, and others delivered cows and shopped, with multiple visits among O Dea Welch West and Shonk family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
W. W. Lollar
Passaic
L. D. Garber
Butler
Letha Baird
D. P. Baird
O. C. Welch
Webb Shelby
Donmeyer
Lora Shonk
Maggie Shonk
Pleasanton
Kansas
Grant Evans
Logan
Iowa
Wade Ruddell
J. H. O’dea
Ruby
Aileen
Lyman Hensley
Lucille West
Harvey Ruddell
Emery Lockard
Athol
0. C. Welch
Community notices and Christmas events on local page
Mrs. Charles Jenson visits at R P C Jenson home. Mr and Mrs Vane Walker welcome a boy born December 16, 1916. Mr and Mrs John Hedger Jr welcome a girl born December 16, 1916. Miss Trene Lusk visits Miss Smiths. Churches plan Christmas programs. League held by Miss Marie Jenson on the topic The condition to answered prayers. Ralph Corlett attends business school in Nevada. Edward Greenup returns from Warrensburg. W W Parks barn nearly finished. Womens Christian Temperance Union bazaar and oyster supper December 8. Central booth and suffrage booth decorated in Christmas colors. Japanese booth with tea service. Oyster supper underway. sale successful. N M Nestlerode's horse seen in Nyhart. Cliff Ehart and family visit Keeton's. John Phelps and granddaughter Thelma Richmond visit Frank Miller's. Walter Strein sells hogs at Butler. Toi Dunlap sells Lyman Sensley a calf. Mrs Gaston of Butler visits son George and wife at Keeton's. Maggie McCann visits Pattersons. Shooting match at Dost Thomas' December 23.
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Charles Jenson
R. P. C. Jenson
Vane Walker
John Hedger, Jr
Trene Lusk
Virginia M. BE
Greenupe
Grace Venable
Nellie Welliver
John Sedgwick
Colorado
Womens Christian Temperance Union
N. M. Nestlerode
Nyhart
Cliff Ehart
Mr. Keeton
John Phelps
Thelma Richmond
Frank Miller
Walter Strein
Butler
Toi Dunlap
Lyman Sensley
North New Home Social and Family Notes
Mrs. John Ehart and son Otis visited Friday afternoon at Beoritt Pick s. Ehart shipped rabbits to St. Louis Saturday. Quite a number attended preaching at New Hope Sunday. Jack Skaggs and family spent Sunday at John Phelps. Milt Reeves and wife visited Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Standfield north of Virginia.
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John Ehart
Otis
Beoritt Pick 'S
Bert ‘Linendoll
Ehart
St. Louis
New Hope
Jack Skaggs
John Phelps
Milt Reeves
Standfield
Virginia
Mt Carmel News Sees Quiet Christmas Preparations
Local notes report busy palms for holiday work, with Jess Fleming and Larris Wheatley cutting meat Monday. Mrs A L Porter and Ruth Lardinger on the sick list. Rev Wright to miss Mt Carmel service. D J Waldron set for Friday sale December 29. Enterprise school to host animal tree and entertainment December 21. all invited. Weather shows Xmas mood as ground turns white. UNCLE HENRY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jess Fleming
Larris Wheatley
A. L. Porter
Ruth Lardinger
Rev. Wright
Mt. Carmel
D. J. Waldron
Mr. Waldron
Enterprise School
Henry
Appleton City Visitors and Local Social Roundup
Appleton City area residents enjoyed a weekend of visits and social events. Families including Gilmore, Holt, Snodgrass, Wilsons, McCook, Keen, Randall, Moore, Evans, and others shared time at various homes and attended a box supper at Valley. The Oak Grove Improvement Club met with a debate on free textbooks in Missouri and education standards, and plans were made for a future discussion on educational decline.
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A. L. Gilmore
Appleton City
Wm. Holt
Reynard
W. R. Moore
Fred Snodgrass
Dell
Claud Wilson
C. C. Wilson
John McCook
E. J. Keen
C. Moore
Pilot Grove
Claud Quick
Ray Lawson
Din Bowman
C.H
C. A. Varns
W. J. George
Thomas Frost
Clarence Bowman
Oak Grove
Judge Stone Named for U S Circuit Judge Seat
Judge Kimbrough Stone of Kansas City son of Senator W J Stone has been nominated by President Wilson to the United States Circuit Judge post in the Eighth Circuit, to succeed Judge Elmer B Adams.
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Washington
Kimbrough Stone
Kansas City
W. J. Stone
Wilson
United States Circuit
Eighth Circuit
Elmer B. Adams
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