6th grade graduation

small towns celebrate achievements....our daughter Katie graduated from 6th grade!

Princeton Train Wreck

http://http://www.rits.org/www/histories/73wreck/73wreck.html

Another Photo From The Mirror Archives

The photograph was taken of two deer who had their horns entangled during

a mating battle. Jim Palmer, Mercer Co. Conservation Agent then & now, is at right while a hunter and two friends, who found the deer, struggles to saw off one deer's horn to free them. In the end they were successful and both deer survived. This photograph and the story published with the pictures helped us get two visits from Jim Fisher who was a columnist for The Kansas City Star.

The Shoot Out Gang

a picture from The Mirror of one of the Calamity Jane shoot out gangs taken by Bob Lee Martin.

CRAPPY ROADS

my sister Lisa took these pictures on a visit to our parents farm on Route C, Mercer County, MO, just down past the PSF Denver Miller site. the road situation is ridiculous. the PSF lagoons are dangerously full from massive rainfall amounts, they got special overweight permits to haul waste water. and the highways are paying the price. they are crumbling. this is the only one I've seen...but I hear they are the same by Badger Wolf...by my father-in-laws...at Newtown...anywhere the trucks are running, the roads are falling apart.

Girl Scout Meeting on Grant Street

Donna Place Herdrich posted this in an album on Facebook, her sister Debi is in the picture....
Grant Street is of course in Princeton, MO...

Casteels & Hershberger, Princeton

It is believed that this picture was taken before the July 4,1911 fire, which was one of the most destructive blazes in the history of Princeton. The fire destroyed six full blocks of business houses and residences, including the entire north side of the Princeton square. In 1910, Dr. George Drury was listed as a dentist in Princeton (office on the left). John and William Casteel formed the Casteel Brothers Department Store in 1867. The merchantile was passed on in 1896, to two of John's sons, Orville and Herbert, a son-in-law, W.E. Hershberger, and his nephew, Edward R. Casteel. The store remained a family business until 1945, one of the oldest family owned businesses in Missouri. Today the building is owned by Chuck & Donna Herdrich and houses The Famous Store and the Missouri License Bureau (photo given from the archives of Coleman & Rosalie Hill, now in possession of the Mercer County Genealogical & Historical Society.)