During a recent drunk-driving crackdown from May 2-13, Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies made three drunk driving arrests.

(Union, MO) –  Franklin County Sheriff’s Office will be joining with statewide law enforcement May 20- June 2 for an aggressive “Click It or Ticket” mobilization to crack down on Missouri’s seat belt violations.

Carl Otten, principal of Immanuel Lutheran School in Rosebud, spent Monday sitting on the school’s roof.

Otten had told his students that if they surpassed 1,000 points in the school’s Reading Counts program he would spend a day on top of the building. The program got underway Jan. 13 and by May 10, the students had accumulated 1,075 points and are still reading. 

Robert Edmonson stands with one of the planes he flew in World War II for the U.S. Army.Robert A. “Bob” Edmonson died April 25. His full obituary can be seen on page five of this newspaper. He was the owner/editor of the Gerald Journal newspaper for many years.

The Journal began printing in at least 1915 and its presses went silent in the 1960s. The Journal’s offices were on the southern side of Highway 50, just east of Main Street. The steps leading up the front door provided a shady spot for town kids to sit and cool off from the summer heat. The tapping of Edmonson’s typewriter could be heard outside rousing the curiosity of the idle youngsters.