Voice of The People
Osceola, Missouri
10 February 1880

Local and Personal
A large amount of business was transacted last week by the County Court.

Alva Wyckoff and Judge Shefild of Appleton City were in town last Friday.

Prayer meeting for the young people at the church next Sunday at 3 o'clock.

Fillmore Sloss and James McManis of Johnson City called on us yesterday.

Mack Meridith and Miss. Jane Temple of Collins township were married last week.

Bro. Krom of the Courier has taken unto himself a Krom of happiness - a wife.

The order of Patrons of Husbandry is in a growing and prosperous condition in this county.

Time is money but health is happiness. If you have a bad cold or cough, use dr. Bull's cough Syrup. It will cure you. Price 25 cents.

A horse, belonging to Chris Woodall, we understand, was stolen from the residence of Hugh Doyle of Doyle township on last Sunday night.

We have had to forego printing the proceedings of the county court from the fact that nearly all our space is taken up by the Statement of County expenditures.

The annoyance occasioned by the continual crying of the baby, at once ceases when the cause is (as it should be) promptly removed by using Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price 25 cents per bottle.

Last Saturday night, John F. Tandy, Deputy and Lecturer of the Patrons of Husbandry for St. Clair county, organized a Grange with twenty members, at Brush Creek Schoolhouse. Wm. M. Cox was elected master, and J.R. Stile's secretary.

Geo. Masterson, of Monegaw township, and G.H. Martin of Henry county, passed through town last Friday with one hundred and eighty head of cattle that they had bought in "'Arkansaw"'. They bought them at extremely low figures.

Chesley Pierce, the murderer of Wm. Bohon, and for whose apprehension, a reward of one hundred dollars was offered by the county court, was arrested in Dallas county by marshal Scividge of this place, and was lodged in jail to await trial.

"'In God we trusted, in Kansas we 'busted',"' has been the disconsolate wail of the deluded emigrants who have gone to Kansas. If they had only come to Missouri where good arable land can be purchased cheap, this cry would never have been heard.

Uncle Billy Lukenbill says that he shot at a man not long since in the vicinity of his wheat granary, and that he thinks that the fellow had a sack of wheat on his horse and that some of the buckshot penetrated the sack. Says he found wheat scattered all the way from his house to Jeff Younger's.