So today I bring you another interesting gem from J.K. Ross (Old Matt) who wrote his weekly newspaper column for the Taney County Republican newspaper.

As most of you know, I'm one of those collectors of "Shepherd" items too. A number of our employees here at The Shepherd of the Hills Adventure Park (where Wright gathered his ideas for the book) all have impressive collections as well.

The managers started up the machinery to show the board how everything would work, and the test was entirely satisfactory to everyone on the board and highly appreciated by the spectators.

Charles Douglas Mahnkey was born near Forsyth on June 18, 1902. He told us a little bit about rural school life and how he became a school teacher for the South Bee Creek School in 1920.

While a teenager, she took on a weekly newspaper column in the Taney County Republican as the Kirbyville correspondent.

I was always curious who this couple was, and as I read through entire Republican papers page by page, I learned "Sam T" was the correspondent at Taneyville.

In 1929 Satherley joined the American Record Corporation and was with them when Columbia Records purchased ARC in 1938.

Freeland felt the newspaper should be viewed as a record of the people it served, as well as a chronicle, a history book; it also should entertain and inform.

Reuben Kirkham's store and post office quickly became popular with the railroad workers who were building the line into Arkansas just yards from his business.

The wagon route crossing this place was well defined thanks to the ferry. One route went to Kirbyville. Another went west to Cedar Valley along Long Creek.

Eve without question would become the most popular member of the family! You saw her on such popular TV shows as “The Virginian,” “Big Valley,” “Lassie,” or from her most remembered series, the “Brady Bunch,” where at eleven years of age in 1969 she was cast as the middle sister Jan Brady.

What is "That Printer of Udell's" really about? Well, it follows the character Dick Falkner, who was orphaned and homeless, and how he escaped poverty and an abusive alcoholic father.

Paramount used the song again in 1941 in a production starring Hopalong Cassidy.

Apparently, a lot of last-minute details were arranged so that Uncle Ike could attend the event.

I was honored to perform vocal duties along with lead guitar and mandolin onstage with Kemp and his family for nearly seven years, dating back to summer 2005.

On the trip back to Missouri, Johnnie had stopped the wagon for the night and took the mules to a nearby creek for water, leaving little Gertie and the family dog in the wagon. Suddenly he heard the dog barking and rushed back to the wagon to find two Indians about to steal Gertie. The dog is what had saved her.