This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spencer, Jay Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1659 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 10, 1907.--M.N. Spencer, of Red Oak, is in the city representing the foreign creditors of J. M. Ellicott. Mr. Spencer conducted a country store one mile east of where Randolph now is, in 1877. He was engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Red Oak for several years but is now retired. This office acknowledges a pleasant call. N.B.: Deer Creek post office had opened on April 7, 1871. When James W. Jay petitioned for a post postoffice on Deer Creek on February 20, 1871, he said it would be located in the southwest quarter of section 10 township 70 range 41 on the south bank of that creek, about one and one-eighth mile from the West Nishnabotna river....When Randolph was established in 1879, the postoffice was changed to that place. --W.F.