Source: St. Clair County Republican, Osceola, Missouri
Date: 2 December 1897
Submitter: Cheryl K. Bell

Rainey Dew Drops:
Last Friday night was the oldest of the season. Water froze in the watering
troughs three quarters of an inch thick.
The largest crowd ever assembled at Old Union was there last Sunday to pay
the last tribute of respect on earth to Mrs. Ida Thompson.
We are to have a Christmas tree in the West End and many of our young
people are already preparing for it in grand style. If the boom continues
it will be the grandest society event of the winter.
A box supper is one of the attractions our people are to enjoy on Thursday
night, December 9th, at the Union church near Jimmy Elliot's. Everybody is
invited. A good literary exercise is on the program.
Next Sunday is the regular day for preaching at the Valley church and the
pastor, Rev. A. Calhoun, has promised these people one of his best sermons
on that day; so come out, everybody, and bring the children.
Thanksgiving was duly and appropriately observed by many of our best
citizens. Our mayor and his better three fourths feasted and entertained
many of their friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hawkins did likewise, while John
Culbertson had a hog killing time and salted away his year's pork. Young
America put in the day hunting.

Died, On Saturday morning, November 27th, at her home near Cobb City, Mrs.
Ida, wife of William Thompson, and eldest daughter of William Farrar, aged
twenty-eight years and eleven weeks. Deceased was married to Mr. Thompson
on her twenty-eighth birthday and therefore was a bride of only eleven
weeks, the last four of which she was confined to her bed and sufferred all
that a mortal could, yet bearing up with all the christian fortitude of a
true follower of the meek and lowly and was conscious until death struck
her which was about fifteen hours before she passed over the dark river
into the unknown, and even during the last days of her suffering she would
at times burst forth in strains of almost angelic sweetness and sing
through one of the sweet songs of Zion, after which she would lie still and
suffer on and on until the death angel came. All that remained of the once
loveable and beautiful Ida was laid to rest in the cemetery at Old Union on
last Sunday amid a vast concourse of friends and relatives. Let us all so
live that our end may be like hers and we be wafted into the presence of
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords with the praises of Him who died for us
upon our lips.

Cathrine Cullings:
In a few days O. A. Hodges will begin work on his new residence.
On last Thursday Lawrence Bros. completed the comfortable residence of
Capt. Thos. Terry.
C. B. Ragan on last Thursday sold and delivered his spring calves to W. J.
Delozier at $12 per head.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Bishop visited their daughter, Mrs. Geo. Fields of
Talley's Bend, recently.
Emmett and Virgil Kelley moved a portion of their effects to their new
homes in Polk county last week.
J. F. Tucker of Vista will expound the scriptures for the King's Prairie
Baptist Chruch the ensuing year.
James Webb of Osceola was in this neighborhood a few days since looking
after some real estate which he recently purchased.
John H. McMullen is another of our good citizens who will soon leave old
St. Clair. He will take up his abode in Kansas City.
C. B. Ragan, our popular road overseer, will in future be enrolled among
the regular readers of this correspondance and the Republican.
The long talked of road from this place to Cross Roads school house is at
last a reality. This was brought about by our sturdy road overseer, C. B.
Ragan, last week. The road will be a great convenience to many people.
Ten dead dogs and one dozen deceased cats is the result of a mad dog
circulating in these parts recently. A dog belonging to W. D. Bridges of
this place showed unmistakeable signs of rabies and as soon as possible was
sent to its happy hunting ground, but not until it had bitten one person,
Miss Dora Pitts. The young lady was taken to the residence of J. P. Stoltz
of Hickory county where a madstone was applied to the wound. The stone
adhered several hours. Quite a number of animals were bitten also.

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