Cedar County Republican Excerpts taken from November 1905 issues Community Items JERICO SPRINGS Nov. 2: In response to so many inquiring when our wedding is to take place, we, the grooms of the affair, do hereby announce that the same will take place Wednesday evening, Nov. 1, 1905, at 7:00 o'clock at the M.E. church. Come one and all and see for yourself. Bert Swisher, Claud Fillpot We understand there is a big cattle man contemplating feeding a lot of cattle this winter on the Headley brothers place if he can buy corn at a reasonable price. FILLEY Nov. 2: Miss Zora Sullivan and her brother, Earl, have gone home. They were staying on Peckenpaughs' place while they were here. While we welcome Peckenpaughs with us again, we regret to lose Zora and Earl. George Preston's gray pony was found dead in the barn last Friday morning. Nov. 9: There was a dance at McCallister's last Saturday night. Owing to bad weather, there was a small attendance. Miss Grace Sallee, who is attending school in El Dorado Springs, spent Saturday and Sunday at home. She reports school is good and will probably stay all winter. Andy Montgomery, who lives near Hopewell Church, had been helping Mr. Hartley on his mill. He has had a good deal of experience with mills and says Mr. Hartley has a good one. WAGONER Nov. 2: The little snow that fell on the 28th....some of the young people engaged in playing snowball, which was quite early for that game. Quite a number of the young people attended the Teacher's Association at Stockton Saturday, and an enjoyable time was reported. TINGLEY Nov. 2: While in Jerico on Saturday last, the writer found the populace on the anxious seat of expectancy. C.W. Whitsett was in St. Louis on that day in response to a telegram from Mr. Long, the railroad promoter, asking him (Whitsett) to meet interested parties there on that date. It is not known that Jim Hudson has yet called a meeting to discuss the road question. It now looks as though some volunteer work will be needed on the road north of the store or vehicles will be mud bound. One of Maxwell's little girls has been ill of throat trouble, but was improving when last heard from. While there were some symptoms of diphtheria, the attending physician was not ready to pronounce it as such. MT. ENON No. 9: We are having some very tough roads in this part now The rain has thrown the damper on gathering corn for a while. We have been water bound again and had to do without mail for some time. After the rainy season, corn is turning out fine in this part. Sand Lap has got plenty of corn and some to spare, although we are having a tough time to gather it. There is a lot of selling out and leaving Cedar County. We are looking for a big coming back next fall. Some of the old Cedar County folks already have come back. Nov. 23: Frank Nickers has returned from Kansas where he has been working for some time. B. B. Vicker's folks, while digging potatoes on the 16th of this month, found a water melon on a vine which grew in the potato patch that was good and ripe and had not been frozen. It made all they could eat and was real good. How's that for November? BEAR CREEK Nov. 16: Revs. Keeton and Ross commenced a meeting at this place Sunday night. Blanch, the little daughter of J. A. fox had the misfortune of getting her collar bone broken while playing at school. CRISP No. 16: Health is good in our parts at present... Quite a number of our old friends and neighbors who have been in California for some time, have returned home. They say they are satisfied to stay with old Missouri. FOREST GROVE Nov. 16: A birthday dinner was given to Mrs. Ella Caldwell last week. There were 32 present. Jasper Summer has leased Levi Summer's farm for two years. CAPLINGER MILLS Nov. 16: J. O. Kennedy is still very poor. [Note: Surely they meant to say "poorly". Nov. 30: The Grimes and Tharp trail did not leave enough people in the country to do business Monday. F. H. Allen had a barn raising and quilting Monday. There must have been a hundred in all of men, women and children there and still there was some grub left. CLAUD Nov. 23: Mr. Simrell went to Sheldon last week to see his daughter, Mrs. Sterling Hickman, who has been sick. Logan Burchett is building a new barn. MT. GROVE Nov. 23: Willie Underwood has some fat hogs to sell. We notice that P.H. Curl has been improving his barn by giving it a new roof. R. H. Curl bought a cow and calf from Willie Underwood last week. The price paid was $40. Nov. 30: The young folks report a small crowd at Walter Frieze's part Tuesday night, but a nice time for those present. The Village of Cane Hill had a little excitement a few days again in which a man with two wives were the principals. The man was in Cane Hill with one wife trying to sell a fine horse when wife No. 1 followed him to Fair Play and telephoned to Cane Hill and Wife No. 2 answered and she telephoned to her husband who was at Bolivar and he drove to Fair Play and from there to Humansville and he joined wife No. 1 on the north-bound train and left with her. Wife No. 2 was lift penniless in Cane Hill. He married his second wife in western Kansas only a short time ago. [Note: this is not clear to me] RICH HILL Nov. 30: Mrs. Hornbeck started Monday to join per parents at Independence, Kan. Grandma Young is not better at this writing. [This article has one obituary which I will send in another e-mail.]