The sign was about 25 ft. high and it stood on the N.E. corner of Metcalf and 95th Street when Metcalf was known as 69 hy. It was an iron stucture like a wind mill, tappered to a big round painting of a Black Angus Read More …
Old Timers Memories part 7
Like I said dad needed all the help he could get on the ol’ Nicholson place; I remember he borrowed my uncle Ports Old 8N Ford tractor to put in a crop on some of the land SE of the barn and I helped him Read More …
Old Timers Memories part 6
Some time at the end of a hot summer around1948 on the Nicholson place I was fast asleep in bed with my brother J.D.on the old farm near Ash Grove Mo. (I was about 8 or 9 he was about 13). When Ol’ Major Read More …
Old Timers Memories part 5
Louis and Ava – The Early Years For Their Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary – July 6, 1995 by Julie Inman Louis ‘Red’ Inman was working for Lester Bolin in Battlefield, Missouri when he first laid eyes on Lester’s little sister, Ava. She was a shy young Read More …
Old Timers Memories part 4
The old farm house like I said stood just below the crest of a hill. Next to the house was a cellar were mom kept potatoes and some can fruit . West to the corner across a fence was the orchard south of the orchard Read More …