Osceola Sun
11 March 1880

G.B. Park tells us the spirit of improvement is rife in the northern part of Butler township; Joab Moore makes the same report for Monegaw.

John Springer, of Appleton township, was naturalized this week, our circuit court granting him papers. Mr. Springer is a native of Prussia.

The Aid Society will meet tomorrow evening at the residence of Jos. P. Landers. An interesting programme has been arranged for the evening.

Wm. O. Mead is again in Osceola, and will immediately engage in the practice of law. We are glad to have Mead back among us.

The grand jury has ground out a large list of indictments against various individuals for various offenses during the past ten days.

Rev. C.H. Woolley will conduct services at the Brick Church next Sunday. Several persons will be baptized at that time.

Thomas M. Dozier, a former townsman, but now a leading merchant of Clinton, was in town Sunday.

Go to Bert barker’s barber shop for a first-class shave or fashionable haircut. Shop opposite the Bank.

Circuit court will meet at Stockton next Monday. Earnest will have a new trial at that time.

Will. Lilley is convalescent. He is able to sit up, but afflicted with rheumatism somewhat.

W.J. Stone has been secured to assist the prosecution of Parks and Pierce for killing Bohon.

Rev. Jno. H. Young has been holding a protracted meeting at the Stockman School House.

Tom Amrine last week sold his team of yellow horses to John R. Hopkins.

R.C. McBeth and J.L. Brooks were in town on business Monday night.

Wm. Galloway has bought the Hamblin farm, two miles east of town.

The Osceola township teacher’s institute will meet next Saturday.

Horse and Jack bills neatly and cheaply printed at The Sun office.

Flanders, who was shot last week by Kidd, is slowly improving.

Eld. John T. Metcalf, of Roscoe, was in town Friday.

Bates county as a valuation of $5,406,083.

O.H. Travers returned to Springfield Tuesday.

The grand jury was discharged Tuesday night by Judge Parkinson. Some fifteen indictments were found, during the time the jury was in session, as follows:
Wm. Gilbert, grand larceny.
Wm. Glibert, disturbing peace.
Wm. Gilbert, resisting officer.
E.W. Cooley, selling liquor without license, two counts.
D.B. Kidd, felonious assault.
D.K. Holly, selling liquor without license.

Bolivar Herald: We find in the Buffalo Register the following particulars concerning the arrest of the horse thief on Sentinel Prairie, reported last week: A horse thief, named Isaac Dilloney, stole a horse Monday morning, about eight o’clock, from James Silkey, living fifteen miles south east of this place. Parties started in pursuit and traced the thief to this place and were joined by Sheriff Burns and the pursuit continued, overtaking their man and stolen horse that evening on the Fort Scott road. Dilloney was brought back, waved preliminary examination, and went to jail to await his trial before the Circuit Court.
Dilloney lived several years with Mrs. Sims, on Salt Creek, five miles from Osceola.

The trial of Emery Edwards for shooting Isaac Lether in Butler township June 14th, 1879, the particulars of which were published at that time, was concluded before Judge Parkinson Tuesday evening. Up to the hour the Sun going to print yesterday afternoon the jury had failed to reach a verdict. Nesbit & Ferguson prosecuted, and John H. Lucas and W.P. Johnson, defended.

It is stated that Mrs. Ham, widow of Samuel C. Ham who was murdered in Cedar county last Summer, died last week. Mrs. Ham was the person who identified Earnest and Hopper as the murderers of her husband, and, save a small child, the only witness to the terrible deed. Her death removes the principal witness against Earnest whose case will be reheard next week.

The grand jury found an indictment against Daniel B. Kidd for felonious assault upon the person of Lyman Flanders. The court fixed Kidd’s bond at $2,500. His bondsmen are Daniel Dillman, Jas. McH. Ledbetter and Jos. P. Landes. The trial of the case will not occur this term of court.

A smoke house belonging to William Fletcher, living in Horse Shoe Bend, six miles below Osceola, was completely destroyed by fire on Monday of last week. The building contained about 800 pounds of bacon when burned. The flames caught from a fire used while butchering that day.

The examination of Frank M. Palmer, of Illinois, and Chas. E. Robson, of this place, for admission to the bar was began Tuesday night and concluded last evening. Messrs. Smith, Stratton and Stone were appointed by the Judge as committee on examination.

The Annual Conference of the Methodist Church will meet at Sedalia next Wednesday. John H. Lucas is the delegate from this place. There seems to be an universal sentiment in favor of Rev. C.H. Woolley’s return to this circuit for the third term.

If you have the rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous headache, partial paralysis, or are afflicted with sleeplessness, go to W.A. Daple’s and examine his Electro-Magnetic Hair and Flesh Brushes. It will also cause hair to grow luxuriantly on bald heads.

L.A. Lambert, Esq., of this city, is erecting a number of farm dwellings on his possessions in St. Clair county, near the M.K. & T. Railroad, and has sent out Joe Kelley and John Opel of this city to do the work.