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°i iigettii5' I thatS ! their’ Sgi1jmH u^rl$§§$§; ®n tcwell.N^n lips ' teediBJUiagy. | wintc! they ThI enjoyed my visit with B. A. intoNeece who operates the Neece m®”ti withPhoto Service southwest of Spur-.shopgoon. Mr. Neece, whom I have'dios,talked with before, gave me some;isn’ttips on taking good pictures. He;dr®nhas been in the “picture business” amj actively since 1932. He is now Cros taking pictures into the third gen- gtan eration. The farm work is handled by his father, C. C. Neece. iy | He is 87 but takes care of the gar- Donden‘ _ sideve I stopped at the home of Jim pi{|] nt Bates farther west. Jim I remem- j . nt ber as the boy who used to come Shj: and hit fly balls and grounders to t •s us little fellows when we were wiJ1 v playing baseball at Round Prai- H ' rie. He now works at tho Four- h I State Biscuit Co. in Joplin. They _ have a daughter, Audrey, who is ^ three and one half. Jim’s brother, j Lee, is taking care of some cows! for him. farnI whicCharles Gipson works for BootsHodge Construction. He has lived QJeiat his present home only about cone month. He and his family left cuJtLubbock, Tex., two months ago: Qu:tthey stopped for a time In Fort JjSmith. The Gipsons have three dchildren, Chuck, three and a half, .—Suzanne, two, and Beth, fourmonths. Chuck and Suzanne are ^very talkative. Chuck showed me Ihis new train.'Don Scott began by listing a number of things that have been going wrong. The branch has gone dry, the pond is almost so, and the barn is in bad shape he said, but “the fish are biting, so things are not so bad.” Jim, who grad-uated from Neosho High School this spring, is working at the Royal Crown Bottling Co. Don Merlelives near Stapleton, and MaryCarol lives at Waynesville, Mo.Two - year - old John Warren ♦ claims a lot of attention in the J Glen Anderson home. He is the ▼ only child. Glen works for the * Joplin Special Road District. Heis a hunter and has fox hounds. As I was leaving, his brother, Em and his wife and grandson, camo for a visit.v _Leonard Hobart is COE direc- btor at Joplin Senior High School. FThursday he was working in Jop- 2 lin trying to get jobs and students 3 ready before school starts. This is 4 a job that must be done early. 5Aaron, his oldest ion, is working part-time this summer at Parkway h Pharmacy. Brian, Cynthia, and Doren make up the rest of the nfamily. \ \Robert Bates works at the Jop- flt; lin Stock Yards. He was working a at home during the rain on Thurs* b day morning. His farm is 80 acres; a he milks cows and sells milk to r Milnot. The Bates family has five p children, Jim, Lee. Bonnie, and Mike and Tommy who are home. C They also have six grandchildren. PWhile it was sprinkling intermit-tently I talked to Mrs. Frank llt;(Wbitwell who was shucking corn
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Neosho Daily News
Neosho, Missouri, US
Mon, Jul 15, 1963
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