Osceola Sun
Osceola, MO
19 September 1878

A vein of excellent coal has been discovered two miles south of Sedalia.

We are indebted to I.M. Woodall for a liberal supply of luscious pears.

Thad Gardiner has been quite sick for a number of days, but is now on the mend.

Franz Daniel has a new 12-pound boy. He – Franze, we mean – set ‘em up for the boys.

John Montgomery, attorney for the M.K. & T. railway, was in town last Tuesday.

John Lucas swept out his office last Monday morning. This is a very unusual occurrence.

“Billy” Hancock of Appleton was in town last Tuesday “shaking” with his many old friends.

The Lamar Independent says Hon. Chas. H. Morgan is an enthusiastic supporter of Maj. Waddill.

Our young friend Louis Reese of the Appleton Leader took in the county Republican convention.

Don’t fail to hear the Hon. Jas. R. Waddill, your next Congressman, at the court house next Thursday.

Hon. Samuel T. Glover has been invited to address the people of Vernon county during the fair in October.

Read H. Weber’s new advertisement. Mr. W. is an excellent boot and shoe maker,a nd should be liberally patronized.

The preliminary trial of Offat, Renick and Carroll, the alleged Concordia bank robbers, resulted in their discharge from arrest.

Col. Crittenden has evolved the most appropriate name for “absolute money” we have yet heard. He calls it “fizzle money”.

“Bill” Sheldon was chairman of the committee on resolutions of the county Republican convention. This accounts for the fact that the old Democratic county court was denounced and the Greenback outfit, by silence at least, commended.

We are pleased to notice that our old friend Jas. W. Osborn has been nominated for Representative by the Democrats of Cedar county. Mr. Osborn is one of the largest and most successful farmer in Cedar county, and being a practical and intelligent gentleman, will make a useful Representative.

We learn from the Vernon County Democrat that Dr. W.W. Moore, and old newspaper man, father of the editor, of the Wheatland Star, and a prominent Greenback speaker, died of a congestive chill at Lebeck, Cedar county, on the 6th instant, in the 66th year of his age. Deceased was well known to a number of the citizens in this county.

The Grand Jury indicted the following parties for being implicated in the abstraction of the tax books from the court house last winter, the charge being grand larceny: William Brunson, George Brunson, Joseph Higgins, William Lukenbill, H.L.M. Doyal, Shelt Orr. They were arraigned before the circuit court, and pleading not guilty, were bound over in the sums of $800 each. W.M. Cox was indicted for defeating the ends of justice, nad held to bail in the sum of $300.

From Appleton City.

Jas. Hodkins and Mrs. Dr. Witter are quite ill with the fever.

R.S. Emmons’ fine horse “Woodford Knox” is swinging around the circle and taking in all the Fairs. He is making a good record and capturing blue ribbons wherever shown.

Mrs. R.D. Robinson and her daughter Miss Susie, took the train Sunday morning for San Antonie, Texas, where they will in the future reside. The good wishes of our people go with them.

While Henry Livingston was attending the Bates county fair, last Saturday he was kicked by a vicious horse. The horse’s hooves struck him on the arm and hip, breaking the former. His injuries are painful but not dangerous.

Wyckoff, McCulley, Jim Forbes, Ed Mason, Geo. Clark and two others were elected delegates to the Republican county convention. Good men, all of ‘em; but they are “wasting their sweetness on the desert air” when they undertake to infuse Radicalism into enough voters to carry St. Clair county.

Last spring the Monegaw correspondent of The Sun began writing about Henry Ledbetter’s new barn and has kept it up ever since. In the last issue we are told the said barn is nearly complete. We are sorry it’s so; because when finished, that correspondent’s material will have been used up and we will hear from him no more forever.

E.B. Bunch, an old and highly respected citizen of Appleton township, met with an unexpected death one day lat week. He was at work in the field, at the time and some one near by observed him falling. The Coroner was notified and an inquest was held but we have been unable to learn the verdict of the Jury.

Last week’s Sun gave an account of the robbery of the Appleton post office. Since that time United States detectives have been here working up the case. How well they succeeded will appear hereafter. They arrested John Foster, a carpenter and S.W. Majors, deputy Constable and night watch, and charge these parties as the guilty ones.

From Monegaw Twp

A.A. Cleveland has removed his store from the Springs.

Miss Lelia Ledbetter has recovered from her late serious illness.

Ben Prier’s family have all been sick, but they are again about well.

Billy Lewellen made another trip to St. Louis last week with three car loads of cattle.

Daniel Dillmon and family left last Thursday morning for Iowa on a visit. They will be absent five or six weeks.

Bob Shoemaker says tally one more for him. It’s a boy, and weighed eleven pounds; father happy; mother and son doing well.

David Crawder and Miss Emma Davis were married last week. May theirs be a happy life.

We understand that John Reed, whose farm was to have been sold under a trust deed, has settled the matter and the ale will not take place at present.

Fred Shoemaker will leave for Iowa this week with the intention of making that State his future home. By and by he will come to the conclusion that there is no place like old St. Clair county, and will turn southward again.

A great many horses have been dying in this locality with some unknown disease. G.W. Short lost four; James Holland, three; James and John Allen, one each; and other persons have lost some and others sick.