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wow, thanks for the info!

I was doing my shopping in Howard yesterday and wondered about  a place called "DEE'S" across from Cookson's.  Anyone know the story on it?  Is it always closed down??  Thanks!

Nov 28th was my First time EVER to try the whole 5am Walmart or Black Friday Shopping experience, and I got there right at 5am.    At my age, I got game.        I found tho the Wmart carts were aready all used, everyone I thought was pretty calm in the front section and Christmas section of the store in Indp.  (I saw too many sleepy little kids and they were "in the way" for that type of shopping, tho. ) 
There were no more parking spaces so I'd had to jump the curb and park out by the north retention pond, and found it totally ringed by like-minded shoppers 20mins later ----when I went out with a single prize: a $9 pink  vacuum.    I went into town and back 30mins later and it was all pure lines waiting to check out, but everyone in there seemed pretty Okay "waiting", all in all.   ~~~~  I heard an angry guy had clocked a woman back in Electronics over something called an "X Box",  but not how old   they were.

All in all, I had my little Black Friday experience, it was... interesting.  And no need to try THAT one again.

wow, THANKS for the memories.   only thing I do not miss about these northern monsters are them jumping out in front of my trucks, committing suicide.   been there done that up there too often!

[, I pledge I will donate 5 gals wall paint and 5 qts coordinating glaze, etc. and I will hire some youth for 10hrs as man power.]

little lamb,    perhaps this Winter some of us could come over and help in the Hist Soc building??       is there going to be drywall  ''soon''  ?   

when it is Time,  I pledge I will donate 5 gals wall paint and 5 qts coordinating glaze, etc.   and I will hire some youth for 10hrs as man power.  

if you and Ammie would like to see a super wall treatment at my home, that I am particularly fond of as "HISTORICAL looking", AND EASY TO DO,  maybe we could have a group of gals and a new wall party?   on even one section...........  once Ammie gets it laid out where what will be.

BIG HUGE Q=== did you get the Front Desk from the Longton Hotel before they razed it ? 

[How is Ammie doing with the Hist Soc in Longton?]

How is Ammie doing with the Hist Soc in Longton? 

... But I would like to help somehow.  I was ground floor in IL, from climbing over boxes of ancient books & plats along the hallways and a 2room office full of boxes of these older ladies' DAR research precariously and sometimes disastrously stacked higher than my head ....to a whole new building we donated-drywalled and painted and carpeted and shelved, and we filled those shelves and put in banquet tables and chairs and well, I am so proud looking back:  I was part of a very good thing for POSTERITY.  === and I was NOT born there, raised there, or went to school there.  I just bought an old school and lived there and wanted my "forgotten"  little township to have it's own history recorded.

Longton library already has clippings saved from old dryrotted nwspaers, and these are a goldmine of info. 

for example: never drink lemonade from a galvanized tin bucket.  it almost killed people at a party at the Edwards' famliy picnic in Upola in the 1930s.

I wish I could wave a magic wand for Ammie here,  I just know there are a LOT of local women {and men!}  who would LOVE to have a museum and research room in Longton.   I know I would, starting with a microfilm reader HERE and our own rolls of Longton newspapers on microfilm!!     Ammie has amassed a wonderful lot of TRUE museum piece antiques historically rich to this area.

POLK CO MO, hmm.. isn't that Cane Hill and Fair Play?!   or was that BOLIVAR??   anyway, somewhere there;  I don't have my files handy, but I was doing a lot of family in POLK CO MO.  see, SMALL WORLD.   

back in the mid1990s before the Internet.....  I traveled all over the USA to get to the courthouses and land deeds and indexes and sub-basements full of moldy damp leather ledgers and libraries and city directories etc.. and all those newspapers on microfilm I guess I just can't ever forget are the secret goldmines..

I love the early Colonial period: wives: Solace, Comfort, Mindwell, etc.

but I had the most bizarre experiences with first names in MO, they had SUCH a run of initials as ''names''  around Columbia ...      RG {Argie} OC {Ocie}, DC {Deecee} boys... XE {Exie, a girl} etc. ...... like the mothers liked the sound the initials made.    no one was left alive to explain WHY.      but every combo of ABCs you could sound off!!   at first  I thought it was just the census taker but no, that WAS their names on everything.   !!

I had to look up a NICHOLS family too, and I was astounded.  I was about to burn out the xerox machine in exasperation.   I told Paul he'd have to help with the NICHOLS cos I just ran out of DIMES. 

Well I am certainly glad to be here.   Last week someone told me that EK still had this forum site and I wondered... then, an email came anouncing the new EK community stuff.    Fate?  I know a few folks have felt I sure took a stick and stirred!!   my apologies!
Hmm, what else. I can read and write.   I enjoy reading what everyone else writes, how they think.   None of it offends me, we are FREE, that's why we CAN choose a red car or a blue car.   

I have been in genealogy and land research since 1989, east coast and east of the Mississippi and incl IA, MO & NE. .

  I think one of the saddest bizarre names I ever saw that has stuck with me, and I always wondered WHAT was behind it, in a MO county birth index was c1920s:

FORMICA DINETTE JOHNSON