Family and local history for Skidmore and northwest Missouri.
From the Skidmore News (Skidmore, Missouri), December 1, 1921, page 1: Birthday Dinner.A family dinner was enjoyed Sunday at the J. I. Jones home, the occasion being in remembrance of Mrs. Jones’ birthday, which had occurred on Friday, November 25…. Read moreHappy Birthday, Frances Cox Jones
From the Skidmore News (Skidmore, Missouri), September 29, 1921, page 1: Birthday Surprise. Mrs. Mary Howard was very pleasantly surprised last Friday when her children and her sister came in at the noon hour with well-filled baskets to help her… Read moreBirthday Surprise for Mary Virginia Settles Howard, 1921
Our hats are off to Mrs. Delilah Colvin. From the Skidmore News, September 22, 1921, page 1: Celebrated 104th Birthday. Five generations were present to do honor to Mrs. Delilah Colvin of Elmo, one of the county’s pioneer settlers, on… Read moreDelilah Fulk Colvin’s 104th Birthday
From the Skidmore News (Skidmore, Missouri), September 1, 1921, page 1: Birthday Surprise. Nineteen relatives and neighbors gathered at the Stultz home in the east part of town Monday, with well filled baskets and freezers of ice cream to help… Read moreBirthday Surprise for Lora Stultz, 1921
From the June 23, 1921 Skidmore News (Skidmore, Missouri), page 1: Birthday Party.Miss Mildred Cox celebrated her 3rd birthday at the home of her cousin, Phyllis Reynolds, Tuesday, June 21, by inviting some of her little friends to spend the… Read moreHappy Birthday, Mildred Cox
The Skidmore New Era (Skidmore, Missouri) often printed columns of news items sent in from the surrounding area. We have some festive news from the August 31, 1911 edition on page 8: Eureka Items. Miss Nona Snell commenced her second… Read moreVernie Hester’s Birthday, and other Eureka Items
From the July 22, 1920 Skidmore News, page 1: Dilts Anniversary Sunday, July 18th, 1920, was a notable day in the experience of Gaylord Dilts. He was 49 that day. On his return home from church he found the entire… Read moreBread to Feed the Five Thousand: Gaylord Dilts’ Birthday Party
Pearl Hays celebrates his 50th birthday with friends near Skidmore, Missouri in 1925.
From the April 3, 1913 Skidmore New Era (Skidmore, Missouri), page 5: Celebrated 72nd Birthday. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Montgomery and two youngest children went to Oregon Friday to celebrate the seventy-second birthday of Mr. Montgomery’s mother. The birthday… Read moreFrancis White Montgomery celebrates
Miss Lottie Wright’s friends help her celebrate her fifteenth birthday in Skidmore, Missouri in 1907.