Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a most Blessed New Year. Maybe we all will find that clue that opens the flood gates. Kay Excerpts from Oct. 1906 issues of the Cedar County Republican COMMUNITY ITEMS Sexon News Oct. 4: Grandma Garrison is very sick with fever. Sexon looks very lonesome now for it isn’t a stopping place any more. Box Township Breezes Oct. 4: Some corn is dry enough to crib. And still the price of hogs goes up. We told you so. Potato digging now will be the order. We think there will be no over production of the tuber. Alder News Oct. 4: We are having some cool weather at present. Our school has commenced again. Oct. 18: I guess there will be an election after while, we see some of the candidates riding around. Oct. 25: Road work has started up in this part of the country. I suppose they want to get the roads worked in time for election so everybody can come. Cedar Hall Oct. 4: Road working is the order of the day. We have some more new boxes on our R.F.D. route. Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Boston returned from Greene County and reported the Street Fair was nice. Our sorghum mill in running at full blast. Lots of molasses at 30¢per gallon. (Note: sounds good to me, with a hot biscuit) Oct. 11: The saw mill will start to sawing soon on J.F. Boston’s place, J.S. Sharp is proprietor. The beef wagon is seen on the road often now. The farmers can have beef too as the cool weather is come again. Claude Oct. 18: The frost that fell on the night of the 9th, caused people to bustle to get their sweet potato tops cut off and their cane blades off, to keep them from splitting. The Shady Hill School was dismissed last Friday at noon on account of a yellow jacket stinging the teacher on the finger. Ivy Oct. 18: There was quite a crowd at Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Fletcher’s on Sunday the 14th, it being their 40th wedding anniversary. They all came with baskets and buckets and jars filled with good things to eat and all had a good time. Crisp Pickups Oct. 25: The young ladies of this place enjoyed a quilting at Miss Corda Crisp’s one day last week. All report a jolly good time. [Most of the rest is about the Stockton Street Fair, I am only including items where some one is named.] The Cane Hill Porcheron Horse Company’s stallion attracted much attention. E. D. Whitehorn’s stallion’s colts captured the draft colt prizes, R. L. Johnson’s black all purpose station is a beauty and won the first all-purpose premium. Dr. Brown did not enter his herd of registered Herefords for premiums, but exhibited them on the square the last day. ………S.J. Belton’s Duroc’s were good and he sold some during the fair. J.P. Hartley’s and A.B. Killingsworth’s Poland Chinas were first class and were greatly admired. Akard and Craig and E.G. Hoff exhibited some white hogs—all registered. The big white sow was Clover Blossom, owned by E.G. Hoff. This sow is 3 ½ years old and weighs 540 pounds. She has raised 50 pigs out of five litters. Akard and Craig’s Princess Irene, a gilt from Cleveland, Ohio, and their fine white board from Frost’s herd, were good ones. …………..The capon, exhibited by A.R. West of Caplinger Mills, was a feature in the poultry display which attracted much attention from everyone. …….J.M. Thompson, of South Madison, brought in some [corn] stalks which were from 17 to 20 feet tall by actual measurement. ………. A quilt containing 3,600 one-inch squares was one of the features of this department. This quilt was made by Mrs. Amos Kirkpatrick, and she worked on it at spare time for five years. E.L. Miller exhibited some pretty hand painted china and some burnt wood work. James Tedford, who was arrested in El Dorado Springs for selling beef on the street, was dismissed on day of trial. Ads include a Political meeting, with Hon. A.W. Maxwell of Moberly, Mo as speaker. Huber & Co’s advertises new stock of Dry Goods….the latest in dress patterns. ……..Peters Shoes………A new line of Hats and Capes for Men and Boys---Something very nice. Grocery Stock is kept to the highest standard. “The best market for eggs, chickens, etc.” Obituary for L.W. Tolbert, you will find it on the Cedar Co. web site at page 2 of “Archived Bios and obituaries”..