St. Clair County Democrat
Osceola, Missouri
Thursday, 3 June 1937 - page four

Mrs. A. C. Clark Dies
Memorial day was an especially sad one this year for the relatives and friends of Mrs. Elva Cross Clark of Lowry City. Mrs. Clark had been seriously ill for the past two months. Her death which came at 12:30 Sunday was due to cancer. Funeral services were conducted in Lowry City Tuesday afternoon by Elder Hugh Speary of Clinton. Burial was held in the Cross family row at the Chiles graveyard near Harper. Complete obituary will follow next week.

COON CREEK:
Mary Thomas, Irene, Jane and Carolyn Boswell visited Thursday afternoon with LaVerna Mae Begeman.

Newton Stark was a caller in the W. R. Nance home Thursday afternoon.

Mrs. Rev. Boswell and children visited with Mrs. Russell Spore Friday afternoon.

V. W. Rathburn of Humansville was in this vicinity Thursday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Epperson spent a few days in Howell County visiting relatives. Mrs. Emma Epperson is expected to return home with them for a visit with relatives and friends here.

The Carpenter children have the whooping cough.

Miss Mary Thomas of Marshall returned home Sunday morning after a two weeks visit in the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boswell.

Russell Spore and Walter Boswell were in Weaubleau Saturday.

Mrs. Malla Eads, Russell Spore, Orville McCoy, Roy Boswell and family ate dinner in the Frank Boswell home Sunday.

Russell Spore made a business trip to Springfield Friday.

APPLETON CITY LOCALS:
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bowman spent Wednesday in Kansas City.

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Conrad and daughter Connie drove to Fort Scott, Kansas, Wednesday for a brief visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Less Herrman. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad returned the same evening but Connie remained for a longer visit with Harriet.

Little Miss Janice Lukenbill is spending the week in the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lukenbill, at Taberville.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Brownsberger of Boonville, arrived in Appleton City Wednesday morning, being called here by the sudden illness and death of Mr. Brownsberger's mother which occurred in Montrose.

Dr. J. P. Hinkle and wife of Arcadia, Kansas, came Wednesday to visit their sister, Mrs. Albert Brownsberger and to attend the funeral of Mrs. Brownsberger senior.

David Scroggs who has been attending college in Pittsburg, Kansas the past year returned to Appleton City Thursday and is now vacationing with home folks.

Mrs. Stewart Lincicum and little daughter, Patricia Ann of Osceola and Mrs. Joe Hill of Roscoe were in Appleton City Thursday visiting Mrs. Maggie Smith.

Miss Alice Dickson was hostess to the Sewing club at her home Wednesday evening.

Miss Helen Frances Brownsberger was called home from Kansas City Wednesday on account of the death of her grandmother.

Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Pratt returned Thursday evening from a very enjoyable visit with their daughter, Mrs. Clarence Longstreth [sic] in St. Louis.

Vacation School to Close Sunday
The Community Daily Vacation School will have their closing program at the Baptist Church Sunday night, June 6, at 8 o'clock. The school has been unusually successful and the teachers have done some remarkably good work.
The attendance this week has not been quite as high as it was last week but the attendance has been very regular on the part of most pupils. The average attendance for last week was 89 and the attendance this week up to Wednesday noon has averaged 86.
New pupils have entered in the last four days are Opal Houston, Howard Ginsburg, Robert Ginsburg, Dorothy Houston, Peggy Lee Grover.
The program Sunday night will consist of an exhibit of all the handwork done at the school and songs, recitations, memory work, dramatizations and other interesting things that the pupils have done during the school. Everyone is invited and the program is certain to be interesting.

A Day Well Spent
May 29, 1937 a party of interested citizens and friends of the deceased that are buried at the Dunkard cemetery south of Osceola, Missouri gathered for the purpose of cleaning the cemetery. While there they called a meeting. William Cripe was elected chairman of the meeting. A committee of four was elected - Jim Barter, Ben Rogers, Charley Wheeler, and Charley Baxter. Next in order the following officers were elected:
Ben Rogers, Vista, president;Charley Wheeler, Osceola, vice-president; Mrs. S. W. Gerster, Osceola, Sect. and Treas.
It was decided that a meeting at the courthouse would be called in the near future to make arrangements for the future care of the cemetery. Everyone interested is earnestly invited to attend.
Mrs. S. W. Gerster, Sect. and Treas.

Byron and Leo Morris
Byron Leslie Morris and Leo Aubrey Morris, sons of Isaac (Tobe) Morris were born in Detroit, Michigan and passed away at Monegaw Springs, Mo., May 24, 1937, at the ages of eleven years, twenty-eight days and seven years, eight months, and nineteen days respectively.
They were the two oldest boys of five children and were wading in the backwater of the Osage river in Monegaw Springs when they suddenly stepped off in the center of a ditch where the water was about nine feet deep.
They were in company with Bobby Malicote, a boy of seven years old who was sitting on the bank watching them. After seeing them come up and go down the third time he ran a short distance and gave the alarm and many were there within a few minutes. However Bobby was scared and did not return to the water to direct them to the place and the bodies were recovered within about forty-five minutes.
These boys were excellent boys and were loved by everyone. Mr. Feaster, a merchant at Monegaw Springs said, "'Those were the finest little boys that I ever saw."' They had lived at Monegaw but a short time having come here from Kansas City. The father had grown up around Monegaw Springs but had been away for many years.
The untimely passing of these boys is a great tragedy and perhaps touched more people than any death lately.
They leave to mourn their passing, a father, mother, one sister and two brothers, and a grandfather and grandmother in Detroit, Michigan and numerous friends.
Funeral services were conducted at Mount Zion Wednesday afternoon by the Reverend M. L. Smith. Burial was in the cemetery there under the direction of B. F. Goodrich of the Osceola Funeral Home.

Memorial Day Gathering
Memorial Day has come again and as has been the custom for the descendants of Sarah E. Lawler and Joseph L. Higgins to meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Horn at Collins, Mo., (Mrs. Horn being the last living daughter of the above family.) After meeting and having prayer by Mrs. Horn and Virgil Higgins, a fine dinner was enjoyed by all, in the shade. Then all went to the Allen cemetery (and other cemeteries) cleaning graves and fixing flowers in loving memory of those that are gone. This is an annual event and enjoyed by relatives who meet, besides honoring their dead. There were about 60 present: Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Horn; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Truitt and five children, William Truitt and daughter, Ethel; Mr. and Mrs. William Culbertson and daughter; Mr. Clifford, son and daughter; Mrs. And Mrs. Jesse Higgins, 2 daughters and 2 sons, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Higgins, son and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Higgins and 3 daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Higgins and daughter; Mrs. William Estesand, 2 daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Higgins and two children, and brother Clark, of Great Bend, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dean and 2 daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Lon Sink; Mr. Shepherd, Miss Bishop, Mrs. Virginia Caire.

Glen F. Toalson, Honored
According to word received here today Glen F. Toalson received the English diploma at Riverside Military academy at their graduation exercises at Gainesville, Georgia, May 31. Cadet Captain Toalson also received at commencement exercises the sabre awarded to the commander of the honor company for the year. Cadet Captain Toalson's unit, company "'D"', was rated first more than any other company at Riverside and the sabre was presented in recognition of his qualities of leadership. He also received three merit stripes during the year for outstanding performance of duty.