In a message dated 10/21/2003 3:55:21 PM Central Daylight Time, Lsnehring@aol.com writes: > I remember the time my aunt left an entire bag full of filled books on the > back bumper of her car Wow, what a bummer!

If someone had their office in the city and lived in Wellston, and they died in the city. I am assuming that Wellston was in the county, in 1963, where would I look for their will????? Thanks Pat Bowen McDevitt

Dear Jim, Go to the following website and pick a state. I don't know if all of the states have the same information online, but here in Michigan, you can go to "inmates" and put in a name and find out if they are incarcerated. http://www.searchsystems.net/ And, no, I was not looking for a relative in the prison system. I was looking under "licenses-veterinary" to see if my daughter's name showed up. Georgia Georgia Jims505@aol.com wrote: > I need to find someone who was incarcerated in a prison in one of the Western > states. I figure there are ten states out here where he could be if he hasn't > met his fate yet. > > I knew this feller when we were in our teens back in the fifties and he is a > chapter in the book with the McQuillens. Most of His family is gone except for > one older brother whose memory is not the best. George is a friend from out > of the Ozarks who dropped out of grade school and almost became a "Moving > Pitcher" star. He appeared in a John Wayne movie and one other, as hard as that may > be to believe. > > George ran a foul of the law in a town out here when he got into a quick draw > contest with the sheriff and shot him dead. The Question Is, "How Do I Find > George?"----Jim > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO

Jim: Start by looking at the Rootsweb Social Security Death Index and see if he has died. Then you can contact the department of corrections in each state (usually headquartered in the state capital) you are considering with full name and birthdate. Having place of birth and parental names will probably help too. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jims505@aol.com> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 5:13 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] Thinking Like A Hillbilly, Or The Skinny Dipper > I need to find someone who was incarcerated in a prison in one of the Western > states. I figure there are ten states out here where he could be if he hasn't > met his fate yet. > > I knew this feller when we were in our teens back in the fifties and he is a > chapter in the book with the McQuillens. Most of His family is gone except for > one older brother whose memory is not the best. George is a friend from out > of the Ozarks who dropped out of grade school and almost became a "Moving > Pitcher" star. He appeared in a John Wayne movie and one other, as hard as that may > be to believe. > > George ran a foul of the law in a town out here when he got into a quick draw > contest with the sheriff and shot him dead. The Question Is, "How Do I Find > George?"----Jim > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO > >

I need to find someone who was incarcerated in a prison in one of the Western states. I figure there are ten states out here where he could be if he hasn't met his fate yet. I knew this feller when we were in our teens back in the fifties and he is a chapter in the book with the McQuillens. Most of His family is gone except for one older brother whose memory is not the best. George is a friend from out of the Ozarks who dropped out of grade school and almost became a "Moving Pitcher" star. He appeared in a John Wayne movie and one other, as hard as that may be to believe. George ran a foul of the law in a town out here when he got into a quick draw contest with the sheriff and shot him dead. The Question Is, "How Do I Find George?"----Jim

My brother and i just had this discussion last weekend - i remember the books being worth $1.25 and later $2.50. They were worth more if you took the coupon value for merchandise as i recall than if you took the cash value. I remember the time my aunt left an entire bag full of filled books on the back bumper of her car ( remember when Chevys had bumpers you could do that with??) and drove off. She retraced her route umpteen times and i don't think she would have searched as hard for one of the nieces or nephews as she did that bag.... I recall she had $65 worth of stamps in it. This was in the late 50's - early 60's.

aw, a teeny baby grandaughter congrats :) sounds like your a nice 'papa' ALICE >*;*<...."Life might not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance"

Is anyone researching Orical (perhaps Oracle) TYLER, age 24, who married Ruth SPEARS, age 17, on 27 Oct 1910 in St. Louis? Ruth lived on 1521 N 15th St. and Orical lived on 830 Farrell St. Would anyone what part of town this was? Thanks, Sophie Fisher

Congradulations Bill, wait until the great grandchildren start coming along. Pat McDevitt ----- Original Message ----- From: <kimbuc4@juno.com> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 5:57 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] New Buchholz Descendent > Gotta tell someone: > > Have Great Grandbaby #6 > > ALYSON NICHOLE MYERS > At weigh in: 2 pounds 12 ounces born in Columbus Ohio last Thursday. > According to descriptions she has a head about the size of an apple. > Mother and baby doing fine, Aly will be in hospital for 5 - 10 weeks, she > was due Christmas day. Mom will be home Wednesday. > > Bill > > Surnames of Interest: BUCHHOLZ anywhere > -BECKMANN-CASSIDY-DeL0NJAY-DREES-MOSBACHER-NENTWIG-NEUTZLER-PONCOT-RENSIN > G-STAUDER-STIEFFERMANN > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > ______________________________

Thought this had been covered but.........Red was 1/10 cents and green, 5/10. There were zinc with a hole in the center and one without but not sure of their value. As a young lad, was not really sure why I had to pay a red token for the 10 cent comic book but was told that was for the Guvnner. Was not really sure who that might be and why I had to pay him to get my Superman comic. Then I started to look around any cash register for them for those others had left behind. Could usually find a bunch. When I tried to get another comic book, was told they were not really money and only could use them when I had real money. Sometimes they relented and let me have one for 11 reds. Bill Houdek bhoudek@swbell.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Stoltman" <stopan@optonline.net> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:44 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] Mils > List: > > Those of you old enough to remember mils -- (for the rest, they were plastic chips issued to pay the various 1/10 cent taxes of goods) > > Two of us have been discussing privately and here's the question(s) > > What denomination were: > Reds > Greens > > and > > were there any other colors? > > Thanks > > Gary Stoltman > Mercerville, NJ > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO >

I think red was .001 and green .005. My question is, "What were the colors of the two values of the paper mills that preceded the zinc ones?" Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks Please see http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/contents.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Stoltman" <stopan@optonline.net> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:44 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] Mils > List: > > Those of you old enough to remember mils -- (for the rest, they were plastic chips issued to pay the various 1/10 cent taxes of goods) > > Two of us have been discussing privately and here's the question(s) > > What denomination were: > Reds > Greens > > and > > were there any other colors? > > Thanks > > Gary Stoltman > Mercerville, NJ > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO > >

In a message dated 10/20/2003 1:54:37 PM Central Daylight Time, Dotetcher@aol.com writes: > Green Mills had a 5 on them and were worth .5 cents and Red mills had a 1 > and were worth .1 cents. Before the colored plastic mills they were made > out > of metal like zinc. and before the metal mills they were like the old milk > bottle caps I have both the red and the green plastic ones, as well as some of the metal ones, but don't remember the paper/cardboard ones. Lea in KCMO Researching - Ripper, VonderHaar, Cirtautas, Gerst, Blumfelder

I guess I'm too young to remember the "mils" as coin-like objects, though I remember the glass milk bottles fondly. What I often wondered, while dutifully sticking down Eagle stamps & S&H Green Stamps (which bore the notation "cash value X mils") is how many books of stamps it would take to get any real money. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

My grandfather had a coin collection (I don't know who has it now). He had quite a few mils made of white cardboard weight paper with the value printed on them. He also had a few metal mils. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Stoltman" <stopan@optonline.net> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] Mils > List: > > Those of you old enough to remember mils -- (for the rest, they were plastic chips issued to pay the various 1/10 cent taxes of goods) > > Two of us have been discussing privately and here's the question(s) > > What denomination were: > Reds > Greens > > and > > were there any other colors? > > Thanks > > Gary Stoltman > Mercerville, NJ > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO > >

Today a friend of mine, George who is a coordinator for a neighborhood organization called Forest Park South east, sent me a link that may be of interest to St Louis. This area is near Manchester and Kingshighway and covers a pretty big piece of real estate. Take a look to see what's happening at: http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/ This at one time was the old Laclede race course in 1875.----Jim

Welcome to the list ALYSON NICHOLE MYERS. I remember the Red mils being 1/10 and green being 5/10 cents. During the early 1940s my personal demon and I, my sister Sharon, became rather wealthy with our sidewalk carnivals. Everything cost one mil to nine mils and at the end of the day we had a fruit jar full of red and green mils with a few very ugly gray mils mixed in. I also remember that if you were careful you could bite the plastic mils and fold them exactly in half to fold them, then bite carefully again and fold them in half again. The gray metal mils tasted to rotten to do that trick. The demon was always mad at me when I did that because of the loss of revenue. When adding the total of mils to the deposit on soda bottles, we were very wealthy people.----Jim

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Tis GREAT for sharing good news!! One or six, each one is a head swelling event. We got our 5th & 6th eight & a half years ago, twins, and the smile has not left our faces nor will it. Thanks again for sharing. Bill Houdek ----- Original Message ----- From: <kimbuc4@juno.com> To: <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: [StL-Metro] New Buchholz Descendent > Gotta tell someone: > > Have Great Grandbaby #6 > > ALYSON NICHOLE MYERS > At weigh in: 2 pounds 12 ounces born in Columbus Ohio last Thursday. > According to descriptions she has a head about the size of an apple. > Mother and baby doing fine, Aly will be in hospital for 5 - 10 weeks, she > was due Christmas day. Mom will be home Wednesday. > > Bill > > Surnames of Interest: BUCHHOLZ anywhere > -BECKMANN-CASSIDY-DeL0NJAY-DREES-MOSBACHER-NENTWIG-NEUTZLER-PONCOT-RENSIN > G-STAUDER-STIEFFERMANN > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of the author. You can read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at http://rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html. >

Gotta tell someone: Have Great Grandbaby #6 ALYSON NICHOLE MYERS At weigh in: 2 pounds 12 ounces born in Columbus Ohio last Thursday. According to descriptions she has a head about the size of an apple. Mother and baby doing fine, Aly will be in hospital for 5 - 10 weeks, she was due Christmas day. Mom will be home Wednesday. Bill Surnames of Interest: BUCHHOLZ anywhere -BECKMANN-CASSIDY-DeL0NJAY-DREES-MOSBACHER-NENTWIG-NEUTZLER-PONCOT-RENSIN G-STAUDER-STIEFFERMANN ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Green Mills had a 5 on them and were worth .5 cents and Red mills had a 1 and were worth .1 cents. Before the colored plastic mills they were made out of metal like zinc. and before the metal mills they were like the old milk bottle caps. About the same size and made from cardboard. You could mistake them for bottle caps from a dairy. Lew