Missouri
State Gazetteer and Business Directory of 1883-84
A
village in Union township, Monroe
County, 18 miles southwestern of Paris, the County seat, 10
east of Moberly, its most convenient shipping point and 5 miles
south of Evansville on the K.&T. division M.P. railway.
Shipments of cattle, hogs, corn & tobacco.
Land average $10 to $25 per acre.
Pop 350. Mail tri-weekly.
John
V. Eustace
Postmaster
Ball,
Robert
Painter
Bassett,
Martin
Groc.
Eustace,
John V.
Justice of Peace
Forrest,
I.F.
Physician
Hull,
S.T.
Blacksmith
Hunter,
Mrs.
Hotel Propr.
McNutt,
John
Physician
Magee,
John W.
Physician
Nave,
S.L.
Notary Public
Nave
& Stephens
Drugs
& Groc.
Philpot,
H.
Plasterer
Quisenberry,
J.B.
Physician
Quisenberry,
R.X.
Carpenter
Snell,
Mamie
Millinery
Stephens
& Noll
Dry Goods
Swinney,
J.H.
Drugs & Groc.
Thompson,
John
Carpenter
Van
Arsdale, W.C.
Wagon Maker
Evansville,
Formerly called Mill Grove, stage to Middle Grove 4 miles south.
Tri-weekly fare 25˘. Pop. 20.
J.
M. Peoples
Postmaster
Beardsley
& Ramsdell
Drugs
Hill,
J. A.
Coalminer
Middle
Grove was a “real little town” in those days.
Most of the people were “well-to-do” and every business
in the town thrived. Aunt
Jennie confessed. “In
fact, the very bread and butter that I’m living (on) now was made
in our Middle Grove store.” But
business graduates deserted the little town when the railroad and
railroad shops (in) Moberly drew the business.
They retired in Moberly a short time before her husband died.
(Excerpt from the History of Monroe County Families (Aunt
Jennie was (Temple) Stephens wife).
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