Family and local history for Skidmore and northwest Missouri.
J. W. Weddle & Son kept up with the times, and that included advertising in their local newspaper. The Skidmore New Era profiled them in its January 9, 1913 edition: The Weddle Paint Shop. There are few towns the size of… Read moreWeddle Paint Shop, 1913
The Skidmore News kept up its practice of publishing letters from the area’s soldier boys. It must have been startling to the paper’s readers to learn that Tobe Weddle was ice bound in Russia while they were feeling the July… Read moreLetters Home: Tobe Weddle, Ice Bound