Osceola Sun
Osceola, MO
8 July 1880

Osceola Lodge No. 6, I.O.O.F., convenes regularly every alternate Tuesday evening, at Masonic Hall. G.M. Pugh, N.G.; H.C. Stratten, Secretary.

Gem Lodge, No. 135, A.O.U.W., meets at Masonic hall, in Osceola, on the first and third Fridays in each month. Jacob Donovan, M.W.; O.Q. McNeil, Recorder.

Churches and S. Schools.
Services at the Presbyterian Church on the first and third Sabbaths of each month. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
M.E. Church – Services at the brick Church, on the second and fourth Sabbaths.
Methodist (South) – Hold services at the court house on the first Sabbath in each month.
Christian – Services at the court house on the third Sabbath in each month.
Union Sabbath School meets at the Brick Church every Sabbath at 9:12 o’clock A.M.

Post Office and Official Directories
Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Appleton City to Osceola, Arrive 3 P.M., depart 9 A.M. Daily except Sunday.
Clinton to Osceola, Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 3 P.M.; departs Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9 A.M.
Osceola to Bolivar Departs, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 6 P.M.; arrives Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 7 A.M.
Osceola to Oak P’l, via Quincy, Wheatland and Hermitage; Arrives and departs daily, except Sunday.
L.A. Mentzer, P.M.

Town Officials.
Board of Trustees – C.J. Harrison (chn.), .S. Stewart, Thomas Amrine, Jno. B. Ferguson, J.L. English.
Clerk - D.C. McNeil.
Attorney – Alfred Ryors.
Marshal – L. Barnes
Board of Education – Z. Lilley, Joseph B. Landers, Frank Daniel, Thos. Henley, Scott Nesbit, Wm. M. Cox.

County Officials
Representative – T.J. Younger
Sheriff – John P. Gordon
Treasurer – K.B. Wannscott
Collector – W.M. Lewellen
Assessor – Daniel Williams
Recorder of Deeds – W.U. Townsend
Surveyor – Ralph C. Bowles
Attorney – J.B. Jennings
Coroner – A.C. Marquis
Com’r Public Schools – F.H. Miller
Com’r of Deeds - Wade W. Shaffner
Circuit court holds its regular session the first Monday in March and September.
John D. Parkinson, Judge
James M. Pugh, Clerk
County court meets the first Monday in February, May, August and November.
Judges – Jno F. Tandy, J.W. Robinson & E.R. Moore
Jno. F. Tandy, Presiding Judge
Clerk – Wm. M. Cox
Probate court meets on the second Monday in February, May, August and November.
John P. Love, Judge
W.W. Shaffner, Clerk
John T. Harper, Public Administrator

State Officials.
John S. Phelps, Governor
Henry C. Brockmeyer, Lieut. Governor
Michael K. McGrath, Secretary of State
Jackson L. Smith, Attorney General
Thomas A. Holladay, Auditor
Elijah Gates, Treasurer
R.D. Shannon, Supt. Public Instruction
J.R. McHenry, Land Commissioner
Railroad Commissioners, N.M. Sevier
Supreme Court – Thos. A. Sherwood, Chief Justice, Warrick Hough, Elijah H. Norton, J.T. Henry, Wm. B. Napton.

Congressman, 6th Dist., Jas. R. Waddill.
Senator, 30th Dist., D.A. DeArmond

Teacher’s Examination.
Examinations for Teacher’s Certificates will be held at Osceola on the last Saturday of June, September, December and March.
At Appleton City on the First Saturday in each month.
No private examinations.
F.H. Miller, Co. Com.

Local and Miscellaneous.

Blackberries, dull at 10 cents.

November 2d is election day this year.

Henry county has a population of over 23,000.

Read Jacob Donovan’s notice to 15th and 16th Missouri Cavalry.

Wm. M. Lewellen shipped a lot of hogs to Appleton City Tuesday.

The Osage was higher this week than before since the spring of 1878.

Mrs. W.H. Stahl returned to her home in Clinton on Wednesday of last week.

The nominating convention in the 22d judicial district meets at Clinton today.

Mr. J.W. Petty, the popular Boonville tobacconist, was in town Tuesday.

W.W. Shaffner and wife, and John E. Cole and wife, were at Monegaw Springs Sunday.

Mr. Jas. W. Silsby delivered the oration at the Taberville celebration last Saturday.

Mrs. Emma Abbott, nee Hart, of Clinton, is visiting at the residence of Mrs. J.P. Landes.

Cattle are dying in some sections of Henry County from the effects of an unknown disease.

Legal matters crowd out several communications and review of History of Missouri this week.

Thos. M. Johnson departed yesterday morning for Boston, Mass. He will be absent several weeks.

Mr. John Walton and Miss Mattie Greenwell, of Butler township were married last Sunday.

St. Clair Johnson left Tuesday morning for Hickory County, where he will buy a drove of hogs.

Appleton City postponed its celebration until Tuesday, and had the weather for the entertainment.

The Misses Carrie Mentzer and Lillie Lucas attended the Sabbath school picnic near Lowry last Sunday.

Capt. James Vanbenthusen, formerly of this county but now of Bates, passed through town Monday morning.

We under stand that a row occurred down on Muddy last Saturday, but are without particulars of the affair.

Dr. W.E. Shelton and P.V. Springer, of Appleton City, were in town Monday attending the Democratic meeting.

Hon. John T. Metcalf, of this county, was the orator at the Masonic celebration at Schell City on St. John’s Day.

The Misses Annie and Emma Baldwin attended the Fourth of July celebration at Humansville last Saturday.

W.A. Daniels went to the Fourth at Appleton last Saturday, but he says it was ”not at home” on account of rain.

Now is the time for bargains. We’ll sell Children’s and Ladies shoes, of eastern manufacture, at cost and 10 per cent above cost, 60 days for cash. L. Conant

Mr. Charley Outhwaite, of Columbus, Ohio, bout formerly of this place, is here visiting relatives and friends. He expresses himself well pleased with Ohio, and considers himself a permanent fixture of that State.

Rev. F. Hunt, of Montrose, has been assigned to the Osceola circuit of the M.E. Church to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Rev. Chas. H. Wooley. The new pastor will preach at the brick Church next Sabbath, morning and evening.

The gentlemen from Indianapolis, Indiana, who have been here several days gathering the walnut logs, belonging to parties in the above named city, started out a huge raft last Sunday morning. Jim Perrin, one of the best riflemen on the Osage, accompanied them to the mouth of the river.

We notice the name of our old and esteemed friend, Thos. C. Davis, hoisted as editor of the Peirce City Record. Mr. Davis is one of the best informed men in the State; a caustic writer and a thorough Democrat. He will make things warm for the “unwashed” in Lawrence county during the campaign.

Rev. A. Heinlein, of Clinton, was in town last week, and occupied the pulpit at the Brick Church Thursday evening. Rev. Heinlein is editor of The Churchman, a neat 8 page paper presently established in Clinton and devoted as its name indicates, to religious matters. We hope that his journalistic enterprise may prove successful.

A shooting affray occurred a few days ago, near Crescent Hill, Bates county, in which Allen Blout was seriously wounded with buckshot and his two sons peppered with birdshot. The shooting was done by a man named W.S. Van Meter, and the difficulty grew out of Van Meter dogging some hogs belonging to Blout.

List of dead letters remaining in post office at Osceola, Mo., July 1st: Jane Johnson, McVeigh & Co., W.M. Miller, McL., Ill., Mac Miller, John Roberts, Indian Robinson, Jimmie Hearington, Wiley Hollon, A.C. Dotson, Samuel Try, Charles Campbell, Jennie Bickford, Geo. Boorckruf, Larkin Burrell, S.F. Bacus.
L.A. Mentzer, P.M.

The S.S. Picnic at Barnett School House.

The energetic and zealous Sabbath school workers of Butler township and this class of men and women is very large in that vicinity, have been engaged for several weeks in preparation for a celebration of the centennial anniversary of the establishment of Sunday Schools. Last Sabbath was the day selected, and a beautiful grove near John Barnett’s a mile and a half west of Lowry, chosen s the place. Notwithstanding the frequent heavy rains of several days previous and the threatening appearance of the heavens that morning, fully one thousand men, women and children had congregated in the grove by eleven o’clock. A very attractive programme had been prepared and was carried out under the direction of the valiant and well-known soldier in the cause of Christianity, Wm. Hook. The Misses Lawler, Barnett, and Williamson in turn presided at the organ and the choir, led by Rev. R.D. Lawler, rendered a number of excellent selections of sacred music. After brief preliminary exercises, appropriate remarks were made by Messrs. Taylor, Hook, Lawler, Wilkinson, and others and an interesting recitation by Mr. Delozier. Mr. Taylor’s address was replete with historical data relating the rise and progress of Sunday Schools, beginning with the inauguration of the system by Robert Raikes in 1780 or 1781 – authorities differ on the date in Gloucester, England, and tracing the institution down to the present time. We shall probably publish Mr. Taylor’s remarks entire next week.
At noon a recess was taken and a recess of the assembly quickly transformed the seats and stands into temporary tables, which were soon laden with all the substantial offerings of the season and palatable delicacies known to the accomplished cook of this day and age. Bro. Lawler then mounted a stand and made the pleasant announcement that all things were ready and invited everybody to participate at the feast. Unlike the wedding feast prepared in the days of Christ, there were none who refused the invitation, but all “fell to” with that hearty zeal peculiar to the possessors of good health and clear consciences.
The exercises were resumed after dinner, lasting until three o’clock. The assembly then departed.
The proceedings were characterized by excellent order, and the congregation paid the strictest attention to the speaking, etc.
The thanks of The Sun are especially due Messrs. Wilkinson, Hook and Kidd for courtesies extended its reporter.