Beans - 1st navy beans planted in Noda co, makes $20-40 per acre. ND 05 Jul 1894

Beets & flax - Nodaway co famous for growing beets & flax. ND 22 Dec 1881

Corn - old corn 25 cts per bushel in Mvle. ND 14 Oct 1880

Corn - John Thompson has 50 bu corn this year. ND 24 Sep 1885

Corn - Hurbert Wagoner husked and cribed 122 bu & 60# of corn on 27 Oct. ND 05 Nov 1885

Corn - Fred Schenkel living 12 mi nw Mvle, has some corn that he thinks will make 65 bu to the acre. ND 22 Sep 1887

Corn - James McKillop had 5 acres that averaged 100 bu to acre and the other 150 acres averaged 80 bu. ND 02 Jan 1890

Corn - Daniel Albright sold 12000 bushels old corn for 50c per bu. ND 04 Dec 1890

Crop - about the various Nodaway crops and what they are worth. ND 14 Aug 1890

Crop averages - Northwest Mo averages on crops. ND 05 Dec 1889

Crop statistics - how much raised for humans, animals, etc. ND 08 Mar 1883

Crop yields averages - corn 22.5 bu, wheat 11.4 bu, oats 23.4 bu, rye 13 bu, barley 27.1 bu, buckwheat 14.9 bu, potatoes 72.2 bu, tobacco 68.7 pounds. ND 18 Jan 1894

Grain - wheat $1.10, rye 85 cts, old corn 50 cts, new corn 45 cts, oats 30 cts. ND 27 Oct 1881

Grain - Sam Hayworth threshed 16,384 bu of grain in 15 days. ND 12 Aug 1886

Pest - article about the menace web worms. ND 16 Jul 1885

Potatoes - many car loads of potatoes being shipped out of BJct. ND 26 Oct 1893

Rent - land rent in Noda co of 1893, $3.50 to $4 per acre. ND 01 Feb 1894

Thistle - white thistle spreading at alarming rate, not the Canada thistle which has already come. ND 27 Aug 1885: canada thistle law, negligence to let them grow, section 7420 of the law. ND 30 Jun 1887: Canadian thistle problem. ND 07 May 1896

Tobacco - Jas Trotter has planted 11 acres of tobacco near Barnard. ND 24 Sep 1885

Cattle - shorthorn cow sale, descriptions and amounts. ND 19 Apr 1883

Cattle - shorthorn cattle herd, see Lycurgus Miller. ND 14 Aug 1884

Cattle - quarantine in Noda co. ND 07 Oct 1886

Cattle - J.H. Caldwell has done some dehorning of cattle; a new idea. ND 17 Nov 1887

Cattle - short horn cattle sale, describes cattle and prices. ND 25 Jun 1885, ND 29 May 1890

Cattle - list of how many cattle and hogs in feed lots around Elmo. ND 19 Oct 1893

Hogs - much hog cholera during 1885-6 (this is not in any one issue, just throughout)

Hogs - price of hogs in 1889, see Geo W. Swinford. ND 21 Mar 1889

Horses - have the strangles; see O. Vanderhoof. ND 26 Apr 1883

Horses - Martin L. Carden's counted all the horses, mules, and colts they saw driving to town (10 mi) and found 325 head. ND 04 Dec 1890

Sheep - first Cotswold sheep brought into the county by Rezin Smith. ND 28 Jun 1888

Coyote - a large coyote type wolf was killed at Henry Alexander's farm south of Mvle. ND 28 Jan 1897

Deer - Mr Manley killed a 350 lb deer; very rare at that time. ND 15 Dec 1898

Deer - somebody killed a deer nr Skid; sent the head to be mounted because it might be the "last deer ever shot in Nodaway co." ND 08 Dec 1892

Fox - large red fox captured in pasture of Charlie Carr. ND 15 Jan 1891

Game laws - ND 30 Jul 1885, ND 04 Nov 1886

Hunting seasons - prairie chickens 15 Aug to 01 Feb; pheasants 15 Oct to 01 Feb; woodcock 01 Jul to 10 Jan; wild turkey 15 Sep to 01 Mar; deer 01 Sep to 15 Jan. ND 31 Aug 1882

Lynx - a large lynx killed near the Harmony church. ND 11 Dec 1890

Rabbit - a jack rabbit sighted in Noda co. ND 19 Dec 1895

Snake - killed by Joshua Short. ND 01 Sep 1881

Snake - white rattle snake; see J.H. Pistole. ND 01 Sep 1881

Snakes - girl killed by horned snake; tells what they put on a rattlesnake bite. ND 08 Aug 1872

Snakes - 15 rattlesnakes killed by Wilson Purcell. ND 01 Aug 1878

Turkey - 3 wild turkeys killed by D.B. Clawson of Barn. ND 16 Nov 1876

Turkey - 15 wild turkeys killed by Alexander Thompson. ND 22 Dec 1881

Wolf - prairie wolf caught, ND 23 Mar 1876

Wolf - gray wolves captured in Wash twp. ND 05 Mar 1885

Wolf - 7 wolves caught by Saml Ick and Wm Hubbard in WC twp. ND 07 May 1885

Wolf - Frank O'Riley saw 2 large wolves close to his house in the daytime. ND 12 Feb 1891

Wolf - J.M. Evans says the wolves are so numerous that they're carrying off chickens. ND 05 Mar 1891

Wolf - bounty $3 apiece, see Wm Stagers. ND 28 Apr 1892

Wolf - no bounty on wolf scalps this year. ND 03 Oct 1895

Wolf hunt - a big wolf hunt: well organized, no guns, lots of people, in Union twp. ND 24 Dec 1891: big wolf chase set for 27 Jan, 8 mi sw Mvle at 10 am. ND 22 Jan 1891

assessment - of real and personal property in Noda co. ND 17 Feb 1881

assessment - list of personal assessment. ND 25 Sep 1884, ND 13 Nov 1884, ND 16 Oct 1884, ND 27 Nov 1884, ND 11 Dec 1884, ND 18 Dec 1884, ND 25 Dec 1884, ND 01 Jan 1885, ND 08 Jan 1885, ND 22 Jan 1885

assessment - of merchants. ND 23 Oct 1884

Atch twp personal assessments - ND 11 Oct 1883

Grant twp personal assessments - ND 29 Nov 1883

Green twp personal assessments - ND 11 Oct 1883

Hughes twp personal assessments - ND 10 Jan 1884, ND 25 Jan 1883

Inde twp personal assessments - ND 29 Nov 1883

Jackson twp personal and merchant assessments - ND 18 Oct 1883

Linc twp personal assessments - ND 27 Dec 1883

Noda twp personal assessments - ND 11 Oct 1883

Polk twp & Mvle personal assessments - ND 20 Dec 1883

WC twp personal assessments - ND 17 Jan 1884

Wash twp personal assessments - ND 11 Oct 1883

Noda co - has 24 persons in asylum in StJo; 2 at Fulton. ND 05 Jul 1888: 37 patients in StJo #2 from Noda co. ND 07 Sep 1893

Noda co - patient's cost for last 6 mos in StJo #2 was $3163.65. ND 18 Jan 1894

Noda co - has 50 patients in StJo #2. ND 19 May 1898

Bridge - flooring on Nodaway River bridge nr Graham cost $96; see Phillip Maurer, road overseer. ND 04 Apr 1878

Bridge - across Nodaway river at Braddyville cost $6500. ND 10 Nov 1881

Bridge - Cattle being driven across 102 wooden river bridge near Arkoe and it fell in. ND 12 May 1887

Bridge - east of Pick fell in with Wilderman's cattle on it. ND 07 Jun 1888

Bridge - south of Parnell fell in; 2 teams on it at the time. ND 23 Aug 1894

Bridges - List of existing bridges in county. ND 25 Dec 1879

Iron bridge - nr C.E. Carr's almost finished. ND 13 Dec 1888

Iron Bridges - now have 4 in county, gives locations. ND 06 Jun 1889

Iron bridges - over Honey Creek and Platte nr Rwood being built. ND 31 Oct 1889

Bones - usual number of loads of bones coming through from Kansas. People go gather up buffalo bones and sell to sugar refineries for fertilizer purposes; horn for umbrella worth $30. ND 16 Nov 1876

Brooms - Pleas Bolin has made 3000 brooms since Oct. ND 04 Mar 1897

Buggies - list of all kinds of buggies sold and who bought them. ND 24 May 1883

Buggies - "For fine funeral turnois, go to Ford & Lomax's Brick Barn, Main Street." ND 19 Nov 1885

Business - list of all subscribers to the Harvest Home fund, essentially a list of most business'. ND 28 Jul 1892

Crayon - portrait ad. ND 14 Jan 1897

Ice - George Cooper has bought the ice of R. Deschauer's pond. ND 03 Dec 1891

Mill - about the Lanning's Mill on Platte River. ND 27 Dec 1871:

Mill - on lands of Anderson Orsler estate bought by Jno Gottbretch, see Probate Court. ND 12 May 1881

Mill - in an article about a storm, tells that the Bridgewater mill was built in 1845. ND 22 Jun 1893

Mill - grist mill on the Nodaway south of Braddyville torn down & will convert Braddyville Mills into a roller mill. ND 22 Jan 1891

Mill - NOVELTY PLANING MILL ready for work; plans to do all kinds of wood work, making water tanks, building boards, etc. ND 13 Dec 1888

Mill - The well-known Lanning Mill, which was built 45yr ago and rebuilt 20yrs ago, by the late I.A. Lanning, has passed from the estate into the hands of Mathias Michaels, of Worth co, who intends to remodel and manage the same. ND 07 Aug 1890, ND 14 Aug 1890

Sorphum - G.W. Cloyd made 3000 gal this yr. ND 21 Oct 1897

Wagon - a wagon made by Joseph Foust in Ohio 47yrs ago for Jesse Walker still being used. ND 18 Feb 1897: see Joseph Foust

Washers - "Sunbeam" clothes washers sold in Jack twp by James Perkins. ND 03 Apr 1890

A law, section 6577 Revised Statues of 1879, says all cemeteries, graveyards, shall have an official plat of lot owners, etc. ND 08 Apr 1886

Barn - cem list (listed individually herein). ND 03 Mar 1898

Barn - new cem nr Barn will be surveyed by W.G. Oliver. ND 07 Apr 1892

Burials - see Cora James buried in her grfather's orchard. ND 29 Apr 1886

Cain - all persons that are interested in the Cain cemetery, 6 mi west of Mvle, and especially those who have friends or relatives buried there, are requested to meet at said cemetery on the morning of June 23, 1893, and come prepared with implements to work with such as: spades, grubbing hoes, sythes, pitch forks, rakes, axes, etc. It might be well to fetch a lunch also. By order of the board of trustees. ND 15 Jun 1893: other cleaning days. ND 09 Jul 1896, ND 22 Jun 1899

Clermont - cem list (listed individually herein). ND 10 Feb 1898

County farm - burials in Upper White Cloud Items a note about the 3 graves at the poor house. ND 09 May 1878: there is an enclosed cemetery there with 5 graves. ND 22 May 1879: county farm burials see C.O. Couch. ND 24 Feb 1898

Cox burials - see letter from Fred Snyder. ND 06 Oct 1881

Elmo - new cemetery to be surveyed. ND 04 Feb 1892: Elmo deputy surveyor laid off the lots for the Odd Fellows cemetery in Elmo Thursday. ND 25 Feb 1892

Glendale - cem, 8 mi north of Mvle. ND 06 Jan 1887: see John Gray

Graves - cem at Glfd, list of burials (listed individually herein). ND 24 Feb 1898

Grundy - grave yard, see Samuel Grundy

Long Branch - cem incorporation. ND 27 Jun 1895

Marion - is name of new Odd Fellows cem south of town. ND 01 Apr 1880

Maryville - has new cem, does not name. ND 20 Nov 1869

Maryville - the title to the land of the old cem in the se part of Mvle, never been vested in the city of Mvle. The county court has under advisement deeding it to the city, which they will probably do if they decide they have the right to do so. The question is whether the ground was dedicated for cem purposes. It is said it was not. If the city gets the title will have the remains removed and possibly a park made on the ground. ND 22 Jun 1882

Miriam - articles of incorporation for new Odd Fellow cem. ND 17 Jun 1880: List original lot buyers. ND 20 May 1880

Miriam - cem vault being built by WC Lodge #92 I.O.O.F.; 14x18'; front is pressed brick and stone. ND 10 Sep 1891

Miriam - cem to make a complete record of burials, names, dates, causes of death, locations of graves, etc. ND 13 Apr 1893

Miriam - cem list (listed individually herein). ND 08 Jul 1897

Morgan - cem cleaned up and fenced in WC twp. ND 03 Apr 1884

Morgan - cem to be cleaned, on the W.D. Bell farm. ND 31 Jul 1884

Oak Hill - Ordinance No. 232 against any kind of damage to the Oak Hill cem. ND 08 Jul 1886

Oak Hill - cem getting picket fence in front. ND 23 Sep 1886

Oak Hill - cem cleaning, talks about the school at Council Corner. The Oak Hill at Mvle? ND 16 Apr 1891

Oak Hill - cem; says a child buried there Thurs. ND 30 Apr 1891

Oak Hill - lots cost $8 for full or $4.25 for half, see C.H. Gillam. ND 04 Jun 1891

Oak Hill - has nice picket fence in front of the church and around the grave yard. ND 20 Aug 1891

Oak Hill - north half of cem to be platted. ND 08 Jun 1893

Oak Hill - 56 blocks added to the cem. ND 25 Oct 1894

Oak Hill - cem list (listed individually herein). ND 17 Jun 1897

Odd Fellows - decorate graves of their members in (BJct?) cem. Burl Lodge #404 members: J.G. Kerr, L.D. Moore, C.E. Dyche; members of Patience Rebekah Lodge #11 are Mrs M.A. Bryant, Mrs Hattie Sprague, Mrs L.D. Moore, and Mrs Wm Herriff. Members of the order at large buried here: Abraham Wheeler, John H. Davis, Wm A. Jones, and James M. White. Members buried other places: Robert A. Neighbors at Osage Mission, Ks, W.P. Summers at Lamar, Mo, W.A. Barrett at Grant City, Mo, Mrs J.S. Wood at Dawson. ND 30 Jun 1898

Old City - cem list of the tombstones. Comments that some graves are only marked with wooden crosses or headboards and perhaps many unmarked and entirely lost with several tombstones broken down. (stones listed individually herein) ND 30 Sep 1886

Orrsburgh's - first burial in the new cem at the church site was Mrs Wm Bloomfield. ND 11 Jul 1889

Pleasant Grove - cem fenced. ND 27 Nov 1884

Potter's field - grave, see Rhoda Herndon

Quit - has new cemetery. ND 04 May 1899

Rodgers, H.M., started a cem, in Skidmore Items; first person buried there was Pat Maloy. ND 05 Jul 1883

Skid - cem lots now on sale. ND 09 Mar 1893

StMary's - new Cath cem; in obit of Peter Schroeder. ND 19 Feb 1885

Sweet Home - cem is in bad condition and they will meet to clean it up 21 Mar. ND 19 Mar 1896

Swinford - We are requested to state that persons in the vicinity of Swinford cem are urged to be present at the cem on Monday, August 14, for the purpose of clearing the weeds and brush off the cem and putting it in better condition. We learn the above from G.A. Smith. ND 10 Aug 1893

Wadley - cem will be cleared and cleaned 30 Aug. ND 24 Aug 1899

Ware - grave yard to be fenced, near Jehu Ware's, 4 mi ne Mvle. ND 12 Aug 1875: fencing graveyard nr Jehu Ware in Polk twp. ND 21 Aug 1879

Wethermon - cem list. ND 24 Feb 1898

Xenia - cem cleaning. ND 12 Nov 1891

Bloomfield - Church dedication, 4 mi north of Mvle, 28 Jul 1889. ND 25 Jul 1889

Christian - church corner stone laid. ND 03 Aug 1893

Church directory - begins. ND 15 Aug 1895

Methodism - ND 25 Mar 1880

Methodist - will build a new church in Mozingo Valley. ND 17 Sep 1891

Methodist Church - in Green twp to be dedicated. ND 08 Jan 1885

Methodist Church - at Mt Ayr new. (Mt Ayr is an area east and south of Mvle). ND 26 Apr 1888

Methodist ministers - where they are moving. ND 05 Apr 1888, ND 14 Feb 1889

Myrtle Tree - to have new church. ND 24 Jan 1889: building Myrtle Tree Methodist Church. ND 13 Oct 1892: new Myrtle Tree Meth Ch nearly done, waiting for the seats to come. ND 22 Dec 1892: Myrtle Tree Church dedicated. ND 23 Feb 1893

New Hope Church - just opened. ND 31 Jan 1884

North Grove - Barnard Sentinel says folks are collecting money for new church at North Grove. ND 02 Jan 1890

Pleasant Hill Church - burned during night. ND 14 Apr 1892

Shell Grove Church - was moved to Wilcox. ND 04 Apr 1895

Swinford - new church near Swinford cem in Grant twp almost completed. ND 19 May 1887

White Cloud Bapt Ch - will be built by Andy House for $1406.50. ND 27 May 1886

Convent - a "Sisters" house to be built nr Clyde. ND 05 May 1881

Convent - nr Clyde nearly completed; see Nick Lahr. ND 23 Sep 1886

Convent - incorporation papers drawn for Sisters of Benedictine Convent at Ccpt. ND 19 May 1887, ND 21 Jul 1887

County farm - describes the farm. ND 14 Nov 1878

County farm - article by F.M. Martin, M.D., about the deplorable conditions of the county farm. ND 21 Feb 1895

County farm - needs new buildings. ND 07 Nov 1895

County farm inmates - 6 inmates at poor farm. ND 08 Dec 1881: has 24 inmates. ND 23 Feb 1888: has 15 inmates at present. ND 07 Jan 1892: 15 inmates at county farm presently. ND 29 Dec 1892: 15 boarders at the county farm. ND 12 Oct 1893: 22 inmates at poor farm currently. ND 28 Dec 1893: 15 inmates currently at poor farm. ND 27 Sep 1894: has 26 inmates. ND 12 Mar 1896

County farm report - what it raises, etc. ND 11 Mar 1897

Ages - of court officials given. ND 25 Jan 1894

Building - about it's run-down condition. ND 10 Feb 1881

Building - condition of, built in 1854. ND 24 Feb 1881

Building - new courthouse to be built. ND 10 Mar 1881

Building - abt courthouse and jail. ND 17 Mar 1881

Building - contract awarded for the new courthouse. ND 12 May 1881, ND 19 May 1881, ND 02 Jun 1881

Building - new courthouse contractor's bond etc. ND 15 Dec 1881

Building - courthouse. ND 22 Jun 1882, ND 08 Mar 1883

Circuit court - proceedings of the first court. ND 21 Apr 1887

Clock - need $800-1000 to put a clock on the courthouse. ND 17 May 1894: more details. ND 28 Jun 1894, ND 23 Aug 1894

Clock - set to going on Christmas afternoon. ND 27 Dec 1894

Cornorstone - synopsis of Mvle's history to be put in the corner stone of the new court house. ND 01 Jun 1882

Cornorstone - details. ND 15 Jun 1882, ND 06 Jul 1882

County clerk - salary $1500 per year. ND 23 Mar 1882

County court - about the first court. ND 25 May 1899

County officials - listing begins in newspaper. ND 15 Aug 1895

County recorder - salary $1500 per year. ND 23 Mar 1882

Financial expenditures - of county for preceding year. ND 28 Feb 1878, ND 09 Mar 1882, ND 21 Feb 1889, ND 23 Feb 1899

Key - to original courthouse door, 4", in possession of John Stephenson. ND 27 Oct 1898

Marriage license - after 24 Jun 1881 must be obtained from the circuit court to lawfully get married. ND 02 Jun 1881

Marriage license - in 1890 totalled 290. ND 08 Jan 1891

Marriage license - in 1893 totalled 274. ND 04 Jan 1894

Poor fund - listed. ND 17 May 1877

Horse stealing - what to do about it. ND 21 Jun 1871, ND 14 Jun 1871, ND 07 Aug 1873: Lots of articles in 1872-1873.

James, Jesse gang - see Clarence Hite. ND 22 Mar 1883

Stillwell murders - see Emma Stillwell.

Talbott murder - see Talbott family.

Tanzy - who killed the Ames family in Noda co 12 yrs ago; someone has dug up his bones for purposes unknown. ND 21 Apr 1887

Artifacts - petrified wood article. ND 12 Sep 1889

County History - National Historical Co plans to write a county history. ND 08 Sep 1881, ND 22 Sep 1881, ND 06 Oct 1881

County Plat Book - The 1893 Nodaway Co, Mo Plat Book published. ND 26 Oct 1893

Early history - first settlement in spring of 1839 nr Graham, see Isaac Hogan. ND 29 Mar 1894

Early history - written by Wade H. Davis on an excursion trip he made to northwest Mo in fall of 1839. ND 18 Jan 1871

Early history - in 1851, Hiram Davis lived on place known as the "16 mile house" where his first wife died in 1861. ND 03 Jun 1880

Heirloom - Henry Peery has an old-fashioned leather saddle bag that is over a hundred yrs old. In Clermt News. ND 07 Dec 1899

Honey Creek - Stream of Honey Creek got it's name because some early settlers of Svnh would come there to get honey. One tree broke into water and had so much honey in it that after that they referred to it as Honey Creek. ND 17 Jun 1897

Hughes - twp history. ND 01 Jun 1876

Indians - some Pottawattamie Indians went thru town Saturday. ND 25 Nov 1897

Jackson - twp history. ND 31 May 1877, ND 08 Feb 1883, ND 22 Feb 1883

Jefferson - twp history. ND 30 May 1878

Legend - of Roland Grove's gold pot. ND 14 Apr 1898

Lost and found: 5 franc French coin found c Tom Blackman's farm. ND 06 Jun 1895

Lincoln - twp history. ND 06 Jan 1876

Log cabin - N.A. Kavanaugh describes his first log cabin in Noda co. ND 26 Apr 1883

Noda Co History. ND 22 Apr 1875, ND 05 Aug 1875, ND 05 Jul 1877, ND 20 Feb 1879, ND 17 Jul 1879, ND 25 Sep 1879, ND 22 Dec 1881, ND 07 Feb 1884, ND 08 May 1884

Noda Co History reprinted from an article in the StJo Gazette. ND 28 May 1896

Nodaway - meaning of word Nodaway; Sac & Fox word Ni-di-wah means "hearsay" and Nishnabottany means, "place where we make our canoes." ND 25 Feb 1886

Pioneers - Thos Vaughn talks abt using honey for grease on wagon wheels when they came west. ND 03 Sep 1885

Platte Purchase Text - ND 24 Jan 1878

River - surveyed the 102 River with thoughts of straighten it. ND 09 Feb 1899, ND 06 Apr 1899, ND 26 Oct 1899, ND 28 Dec 1899

Water witching - ND 25 Jul 1872