St. Clair County Courier
St. Clair County, MO
11 November 1976

A Backward Glance

Osceola Sun 1886-
Roscoe Notes by Grandma June

Dr. Weinhg, our wide-awake druggist and proprietor of the City Drug store reports business is booming. He said he sold last Monday 45c for cash and six dollars worth on the tick.

Joe, the peddler, bought the Marquis and Breedon property on Main St. where he will open a store.

Collins Notes
We learn that a large hotel will be built in Collins. We say “let her come”, we need it.

We will say to Grandma June of Roscoe, that Collins is still here and just booming. We are not running our city on gas.

Pleasant Hill
Riley Culbertson has been enlarging his farm. Look out, girls, he means business.

William Piper is still down with matrimonial fever.

Osceola
The Scobey house is now open for business with excellent accommodations. News items in the Osceola Sun picked up from a Texas paper.

Editorial comment on the death of an editor’s wife. “Thus my wife died. No more will those loving hands pull off my boots and part my back hair as only a true wife can. Nor will those willing feet replenish the coal bucket or water pail. No more wills he arise amidst the tempestuous storms of winter and hie away to fix the fire without disturbing the slumbers of the man who doted on her so artlessly. I wanted to embalm her body but found I could embalm her memory cheaper.

Miss Allie Hancock gave a party for her cousin, Aggie Weidemeyer. Guests were May Linney, Ethel Meade, Maggie Woodall, Lena Simmons, Agatha Daniel, Lula Baldwin, Nannie Graham, Edith Ferguson, Lucy Allen, Anna Watkins, Burleigh Hicks, Daisy Cock and Allie Vance. Boys were Joe and Lowry Linney, Lay and Aubrey Wisher, Harry Nesbit, John Faurot. Ice cream, lemonade and cake were served. All went home at ten o’clock, reporting a good time.

St. Clair County Courier, 1956:

Dale Pasley, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Pasley, recently attended the American Royal as a member of both the livestock and the meat judging teams of the University of Missouri. Dale won first place in the national inter-collegiate beef grading contest against 47 other students representing universities and colleges throughout the United States. He will leave on Thanksgiving day for Chicago to judge at the International livestock exposition.

Congratulations, Dale. Osceola is proud to have a national winner as a native son.

Cleo Cauthon, Riley Winn and B.R. Roberts of Prairie Village, Kansas went to South Dakota pheasant hunting.

Sunderwirth’s Market advertised hamburger at 35c a pound and Littells were selling ham at 29c a pound. Knight’s store was selling sheets, two for $5.50.