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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Blue Mound, Missouri never had a newspaper, but many articles about Blue Mound were published in the Chillicothe newspaper. And thanks to Jerry R. Stephens, Lori Olson and Mildred (Sue) Jones, Major Friends of Blue Mound, we now have access to many of those dating back to the early 1900s.

The articles were mostly in columns titled variously as “Blue Mound News”, “Blue Mound”, “Blue Mound Items”, “North Carroll”, etc.

Rather than posting the entire item, I converted each individual item into a tabular format (below) with four columns: Date (of article, not the event), Subject (main subject of the article), Names (if any in the article), and Comments (about the article if any).

In general I used the spellings in the newspaper article although some appeared to be misspelled. Parenthetical material is mine.

There are many skips chronologically and I will try to fill them in as more articles become available. There are a few undated items and put them at the end of the table.

If you desire more information about an entry (item), please contact me at info@bluemoundhistory.com and I will check the hard copy to see if more is available.

Newspaper Articles About Blue Mound
Date	Subject	Name(s)	Comments
08/08/1866	Robbery	Mr. Wolf	Robber got $200 hidden under bed
02/14/1873	Meeting	J. A. Lewis, Capt. John Collar, Dr. James Shields, E. F. Davis, and D. Jones	Preparing bylaws (for what?)
03/30/1886	Death	Mrs. John Carr (Georgie J.)	Rev. Richardson officiated. Burial in Burner Cemetery
10/09/1890	Golden Wedding	Mr. and Mrs. Jacob S. Burner, married in 1840	Mr. Jacob S. Burner married Miss Mary Eliza Cave
03/21/1890	Democratic Convention	Byrd Stagner, John Weir, George Hedrick, Gene Howes	Blue Mound Township delegates
04/12/1900	Court Case	Peter Condron	Contested assessment for taxes
07/24/1902	Arrested	John C. Mead was arrested by George Cranmer and posted $200 bond to appear before Judge Swarty	John drew a shotgun on George McAlear over a dispute about the discovery of a bee tree
10/13/1902	Broken leg	Ralph Baxter	Injury was extremely painful
03/13/1903	Hogs die	R.C. Zirkle	Lost 16 head of hogs when a straw stack blew over and smothered them
06/16/1903	Cemetery	Patrons of the Blue Mound Cemetery met and cleaned it up	They also paid for a new fence
06/16/1903	Oddity	R. C. Zirkle	Cow had 4 calves within one year
06/16/1903	Oddity	L. M. Haynes	Sow had 16 piglets
06/16/1903	Oddity	Mrs. Smith	Hatched 2 chickens from one egg
06/16/1903	Telephone	Telephone posts distributed from John Hoyts to Avalon	Line from Blue Mound to Dawn has fallen through
06/18/1903	Death of child	14 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Muck	Interment at Blue Mound Cemetery
07/03/1903	Marriage	Will Jenkins and Minnie McAlear	Married last Wednesday
08/07/1903	Ice cream social	Woodman Lodge	To host one next Friday night
08/07/1903	Birth	8 pound girl born to wife of Harlow Millay	Born Sunday morning
08/07/1903	Ice cream social	Miss Grace Millay	To celebrate her 15^th birthday last Saturday
08/07/1903	Visit	John Sullivan visited Hale friends
08/07/1903	Birth	Mrs. Rush Stagner had a 5 pound girl	Tuesday night
08/07/1903	Ice cream social	At Gibbs Chapel next Tuesday	To benefit the church
08/14/1903	Visit	Rush Stagner	Returned from South Dakota after a year
08/14/1903	Illness	Mrs. Arthur Knox	Has consumption and not expected to live
08/14/1903	Death	Mrs. Rush Stagner died August 1	Burial in Burner Cemetery
08/14/1903	Ice cream social	Woodman Lodge	Postponed due to rain
08/21/1903	Death of Jennie Stagner	Rush Stagner, E.D. and Ann Jones	An extensive obit, burial in the Blue Mound Cemetery
08/21/1903	Death	Thomas Powell died last Sunday	He had Bright’s disease
08/21/1903	Ball Game	Game of “picked up nine” between Blue Mound and Avalon	Avalon won 18 to 10
09/18/1903	Event	Mrs. Lucinda Parris	Moved into new home
09/18/1903	Visit	Mrs. Gilbert (Chillicothe) Mrs. M.E. Carlyle (Blue Mound)	Carlyle was the Niece of Gilbert
09/18/1903	Event	Hawley Johnson	Commenced winter term at Blue Mound School last Monday
09/18/1903	Birth	Mrs. John Perry	Baby girl born last Wednesday
09/18/1903	Illness	Irwin Knox	Daughter sick but improving
09/18/1903	Visit	Marvin Carlyle and Miss Irma Carlyle	Returned from south Missouri after visiting relatives
12/10/1903	Building	Peter Condron	Completed a large shed on his farm
12/10/1903	Visit	Ms Suzie McDanold visited parents	Ms McDanold is teaching school at McCleary
12/10/1903	Preaching	The Elder of the Hale Charge	Will preach at Gibbs Chapel
12/10/1903	Singing Group	G. H. Carr	Trying to organize a group at Condron School
12/10/1903	Death	James Gilbert	Buried in the Burner Cemetery
12/10/1903	Mail Protest		Calls for a protest because of poor service
12/10/1903	Delivery	E. D. Jones	To deliver a load of lumber to Frank Way’s Foundry
12/17/1903	Illness	H. G. Zirkle	On the sick list this week
12/17/1903	Building	John Hoyt, Jr., Mat McKerrow, Jacob Mead	Mat and Jacob help John build a new barn
12/17/1903	House	H.S. Millay	Stopped work on new house due to cold weather
12/17/1903	Livestock	D. W. Henry	Lost a cow last Friday night
12/17/1903	Rabbits	M. G. Carlyle	Bought nearly 300 rabbits last week
12/17/1903	Bullet lodged in head	Virgil Hurner, had a 32 caliber revolver that fell out of his pocket, discharged and hit him in the head	A doctor removed the bullet and all is well
12/17/1903	Building	Charles Warner	Building a new cow shed
12/17/1903	Illness	W. W. Warner	Been on sick list but is better now
12/17/1903	Singing School	G. H. Carr	Trying to organize a singing school at Condron
07/25/1906	Shot	Ernie Hall shot by Leo Stuck	Recovery deemed doubtful
08/02/1906	Death	Ernie Hall shot by Leo Stuck	A hayfield argument that turned deadly
08/21/1906	Church	Reverend F. W. Gilbert (Son of James and Madeline Gilbert)	Preached at Lilly Grove Church
02/26/1907	Visit	Joe Haynes and John Sullivan	Went to Chillicothe
02/26/1907	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. Perry Cain visit G. H. Carr family
02/26/1907	Delivery	G. H. Carr	Delivers a load of hogs to Dawn
02/26/1907	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. John Perry visit Joe Haynes and wife
02/26/1907	Visit	Rolla Bucher visits Holly Carr
02/26/1907	Visit	Carrie and Vernie Hoyt visit Johnny Hoyt and wife
02/26/1907	Visit	George McAlear and family visits Marvin Carlyle and family
02/26/1907	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. Ora Stagner visits Robert Knox and family
02/26/1907	Visit	Miss Rosa Paris visited Minnie Carr
02/26/1907	Illness	Mr. Sanford	Been sick for some time, still very low
08/10/1907	Incident	Oral Smith	Face badly swollen from spider bite
08/10/1907	Visit	Mrs. Moda McAlear and children visited relatives and friends
08/10/1907	Visit	Edgar Carr and Wife visited friends in Chillicothe
08/10/1907	Visit	Inez Carlyle came home from a week’s visit with Grandparents
08/10/1907	Visit	John Brown and Wife visited T. J. Perry
08/10/1907	Visit	Joe Haynes and Wife visited T. J. Perry
08/10/1907	Visit	William Higgins, Wife and Daughter visited the Carlyles
08/10/1907	Visit	Mrs. Alva Busibarger (sp?) and Cora Snaro (sp?) Visited their parents Mr. and Mrs. John Mead
08/10/1907	Wedding	Robert Knox departed for Son George’s wedding in Nebraska
10/30/1907	New Church	Church of Christ one-fourth mile east of Blue Mound	Composed of former members of Mount Hope who did not want to use an organ in worship
12/04/1907	Visit	Mrs. John Good; Elba Good	Visited relatives at Blue Mound
12/04/1907	Meetings	Rev. S. D. Jones of Hale	Blue Mound Church
12/04/1907	Visit	Edgar Carr	Dawn, MO
12/04/1907	Visit	Mr. & Mrs. Suth of Coloma	Visited Mr. & Mrs. Jo. Haynes
12/04/1907	Started to school	Harold Dice & George Mead	Chillicothe Normal
12/04/1907	Visit	Mrs. Charlie Paris & daughter May of Hale	Visited relatives
12/04/1907	Visit	Miss Nina Gilbert	Visited Miss Minnie Carr
12/04/1907	Visit	Mr. & Mrs. Perry Cain	Visited G. H. Carr
12/04/1907	Husking corn	Farmers	Finished recently
02/21/1908	Store sold	Marvin Carlyle sold his interest to Dan Barnes	Store now owned by Lewis and Barnes
02/21/1908	Business	Charley Thompson did business in Chillicothe
02/21/1908	Illness	Miss Lucy Collins is on sick list
02/21/1908	Illness	Miss Barbara McColough (sp?)	Recovering from pneumonia
02/21/1908	Visit	Miss Roxie Sanford of St. Louis	Visited her ill parents
02/21/1908	Departure	Buford McCollough	Left for Sioux City to resume his work
02/21/1908	Visit	Mrs. Jane Colliver and Mrs. Farabee of Tina	Visited Mrs. Sanford
02/21/1908	Visit	Lee Knox visited in Chillicothe
02/21/1908	Visit	Roy Brown of Chillicothe visited relatives
02/21/1908	Return	Tipp Goff	Came back from a four month stay in Sycamore , Kansas
02/21/1908	Funeral	Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Carlyle	Funeral of Jay Higgins
02/21/1908	Illness	Mr. and Mrs. Steve Alebrich	Recovering from pneumonia
02/21/1908	Illness	Mr. Sanford growing weaker. Wife is improving
03/01/1908	Death	Charles V. Sanford	Died at age 75. (I have his obituary)
03/11/1908	Visit	Joe Haynes	Went to Chillicothe
03/11/1908	Departure	Jim Brown	Left for Oklahoma
03/11/1908	Visit	Mr. & Mrs. John Hoyt	Visited T. J. Perry
03/11/1908	Visit	Mr. & Mrs. Jos. Haynes	Visited Orville Lenhart and wife
03/11/1908	Preaching	Rev. Gray of Hale	Preached at the Church of Christ
03/11/1908	Birth	Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Carr	Baby boy
03/11/1908	Visit	Miss Anna Jennings	Spent Sunday with Elva Knox
04/15/1908	Preaching	Reverend Edwards of Breckenridge will preach	The fourth Sunday at the new church (Church of Christ?)
04/15/1908	Business	Joe Haynes and John Sullivan	Went to Chillicothe
04/15/1908	Visit	Misses Lillie and Callie Wooden	Visited Rosa Paris
04/15/1908	Departure	Roy Wilson of Nebraska left after visiting relatives
04/15/1908	Visit	Mr and Mrs. Edgar Carr	Visited Joe Haynes
04/15/1908	Visit	Miss Nettie Haynes	Visited Mrs. Dan Barnes
04/15/1908	Visit	Dr. T. G. Phelps	Attended church
04/15/1908	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. Charles Warner	Visited John Warner and family
04/15/1908	Business	Mr. and Mrs. Pink Knox	Went to Chillicothe
05/07/1908	Rain		Two day rain helpful to pastures and meadows
05/07/1908	Visit	Elmer Haynes	Visited Elmer Zirkle of Tina
05/07/1908	Business	John Goff and Wife	Went to Dawn
05/07/1908	Visit	Miller Sweeney family and J. K. Sweeney	Visited Jacob Mead
05/07/1908	Visit	Mary McCullough and Rettie McAlear	Visited Mrs. Sara Goff
05/07/1908	Return	Ben Jones and Daughter, Miss Cora	Spent winter in Colorado
05/07/1908	Visit	Joseph Knox and Wife of Oregon, formerly of Blue Mound	Has lived in Colorado for past 25 years
05/07/1908	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wooden	Visited at the Mounds
05/07/1908	Illness	Mrs. Hattie Hooker	Confined to bed
05/08/1908	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan visit Joe Haynes family
05/08/1908	Business	Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith	Went to Chillicothe
05/08/1908	Visit	Mr and Mrs. George Goff visited Herbert Elsas family
05/08/1908	Business	Joe Haynes	Took hogs to Chillicothe
05/08/1908	Visit	Mrs. Aggie Knox visited Mrs. M. P. Knox
05/08/1908	Visit	Mrs. Gilbert and Daughter Nina of Coloma visited Mr. and Mrs. Perry Cain
05/08/1908	Preaching	Reverend S. D. Jones of Hale	Service at Church of Christ
05/08/1908	Visit	Mrs. Robert Knox visited Mrs. Edgar Carr
05/08/1908	Visit	Elmer and Everett Haynes visit relatives in Tina
05/08/1908	Business	George McAlear	To Chillicothe
05/08/1908	Visit	Mearl (sp?) Moon visited Floyd Sullivan
05/08/1908	Visit	Miss Mary McCullough visited Leone Keinbeck
05/08/1908	Visit	Oliver Perry and Wilford Sullivan visited H. G. Carr and Family	In Chillicothe
05/15/1908	Death	William Coldiron	Drowned in Shoal Creek, dynamite used to raise body. It was unsuccessful
06/02/1908	Business	Dan and Lewis Barnes	Went to Chillicothe
06/02/1908	Visit	Ms Rose Brown of Hale	With Blue Mound relatives
06/02/1908	Visit	Mrs. George Goff	At Atlanta
06/02/1908	Visit	Mrs. Mary McCullough went to Hale	For a week’s visit with friends
06/02/1908	Illness	Grandma Stagner of Kansas	Mother of Bird Stagner
06/02/1908	Business	John Barnes and Bud Haynes	In Chillicothe
06/02/1908	Visit	George McAlear family	With Lite Stagner family near Hale
06/02/1908	Business	B. H. Carr and Joe Haynes	Went to Hale
06/02/1908	Visit	John Brown family	With M. J. McKerrow
06/02/1908	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. Joe Haynes	With John Sullivan and Wife
06/02/1908	Visit	Jacob Collins of Hale	In Blue Mound
06/02/1908	Visit	Roscoe Haynes of Avalon	In Blue Mound
06/02/1908	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Carr of Chillicothe	In Blue Mound
06/02/1908	Preaching	Rev. Jones of Hale	Church of Christ?
07/10/1908	Business	Joe Haynes and G. H. Carr	To Chillicothe
07/10/1908	Visit	Mr. and Mrs. Lee Knox and Pink Knox visited Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle
07/10/1908	4^th of July		Most farmers in cornfield
07/10/1908	Illness	Mrs. G. H. Carr	Much better
07/10/1908	Visit	Mrs. Winnie Stagner visited Ora Stagner (Brother)
07/10/1908	Visit	Miss Rosa Paris and Miss Minnie Carr visited Mrs. Sullivan
07/10/1908	Illness	George Goff, Jr.
07/10/1908	4^th of July	Number of Blue Mound youth celebrated 4^th at Hale
10/07/1908	Ball Game	Swain School boys played the Blue Mound School boys	Blue Mound won 19 to 3
03/10/1909	Death	Mrs. Peter Condron	Buried at Burner Cemetery
03/10/1909	Illness	Miss Erma Cox	Pneumonia
03/10/1909	Return	Mr. and Mrs. Tom Austin	After extended visit with relative in Canada
03/10/1909	Birthday	G. Sanford	Turned 77
03/10/1909	Teacher	Miss Ella Case	Began spring term at Baxter School
03/10/1909	Visit	Rev Floyd Edwards	Miss Minnie Carr
03/10/1909	Visit	Miss Alma Leonard of Tina	Visited relatives
03/10/1909	School	Miss Carrie McCloughan	Attended Chillicothe High School
03/10/1909	Business	Bud Haynes	Took load of apples to Chillicothe
03/10/1909	Business	Charles Hoyt of Dawn	Recently purchased a store in Blue Mound
03/10/1909	Moving	Tom Plaster family	Moving to Roosevelt farm near Coloma
03/21/1912	Visit	Mrs. Elmer Haynes and baby	Mr. and Mrs. Kesier of Bedford
03/21/1912	Business	Lewis Mossbarger	Chillicothe
03/21/1912	Visit	Miss Mary McCullough	Home folks
03/21/1912	Illness	Mrs. Lewis Barnes	Recovery
03/21/1912	Visit	Mrs. Charley Haynes	With Brother
03/21/1912	Visit	Miss Grace Simmons	Miss Agnes Knox
03/21/1912	Moved	John Sloan and family	To a farm purchased south of the Mounds
03/21/1912	Visit	Mrs. Barbara McCullough	Ms. Rettie Mossbarger
03/21/1912	Business	John and Roy Brown	In Ludlow
04/25/1914	Injury	Charles Hoyt received fracture of right shoulder when thrown from buggy. Treated by Dr. Girdner	Horse was frightened by an auto when crossing railroad tracks at Elm Street
09/23/1914	Visit	Tom Sperry family	Tom Plaster and Wife
09/23/1914	Departure	Miss Mary Henry and Daughter	To Webster County
09/23/1914	Return	John Mead	From Iowa visit with Brother Nelson
09/23/1914	Business	John Jenkins	Buying sheep in Blue Mound
09/23/1914	Business	John Hoyt/Mat Mead	Shipped hogs to Kansas City
09/23/1914	Business	Lewis E. Mossbarger and Wife	To Chillicothe
09/23/1914	Moved	Lewis Robinson and family	To Chillicothe
09/23/1914	Business	Mr. and Mrs. Pink Knox and Miss Zelma Campbell	To Chillicothe
09/23/1914	Illness	Mrs. Frank Harbert	Neuralgia of the face
09/23/1914	Illness	Cleve McDaneld	Typhoid fever
06/24/1915	Celebration	Dan Barnes, Eli Lester, A. V. Smith plan a big picnic	A big picnic that will far outdo anything ever attempted in the county
06/29/1915	Celebration	A follow-up article about the big picnic to be held on the Dan Barnes farm	To be held on July 3rd
12/19/1917	Rabbit buyer	C. C. Hoyt deemed Champion Rabbit Buyer	Bought and sold 12,000 rabbits in one week at 16 and 2/3 cents each
02/24/1921	60^th Wedding Anniversary	Mr. and Mrs. Drury N. Morris	From the Hillsboro, Oregon Argus
04/10/1930	Death	Lewis E. Mossbarger	Buried in Blue Mound Cemetery
03/26/1931	Death	John Alexander	Had recently taken over the operation of the Blue Mound Central Office
??/??/1931	Medicine Show		Show on Friday and Saturday nights
09/02/1931	Death	Mrs. Fannie Knox	Buried in Blue Mound Cemetery
09/04/1931	Death	Mrs. M. P. (Fannie) Knox	Buried in Burner Cemetery
09/04/1931	Illness	Mrs. R. L. Knox	Stroke - moved to her Daughter’s (Mrs. Charley Mantzey) home
01/23/1933	Illness	Mrs. John (Mary E. Stagner) Perry	Felon on third finger of left hand
01/30/1933	Death	Mrs. John (Mary E. Stagner) Perry	Buried at Blue Mound Cemetery
02/13/1933	Visit	Mrs. And Mrs. Ora Stagner	Back from Colorado
12/07/1933	Death	Arthur E. Winfrey	Proprietor of Blue Mound store
10/22/1934