Family and local history for Skidmore and northwest Missouri.
Meal planning can be difficult, especially when you have to catch your own dinner. We bring you the following culinary news from the May 11, 1900 Skidmore Standard: Hunting Feast. Three of our local sportsmen, John Ashbrook, Michael Freece and… Read moreGame on the Menu
Another perspective on life at Camp Alger, printed in the Skidmore Standard, August 12, 1898, page 1: Another Letter Camp Alger, VA. – August 7, 1898 Editor Standard: Camp life is a pleasant one, and a soldier’s is a little… Read moreLetters Home: Michael Freece, Camp Alger
Skidmore sent a number of its sons and brothers to serve in the summer of 1898. Some of them became reporters, of a kind, and sent letters home to be published in the local paper. Freeman Wood of the 4th… Read moreLetters Home: Freeman Wood
Skidmore and other communities in Nodaway County had sent their brothers, sons, fathers, uncles, and neighbors to fight for their country. The Skidmore Standard often printed letters from the soldier boys. Some wrote directly to the paper, as Michael Freece… Read moreLetters Home: Michael Freece