Papinville Picnic Set for September 27th

The Papinville Picnic is in the planning stage and the date is set Sept 27 starting at 1:00 p.m. There will be some new events this year so save the date. The present school building will be 130 years old this year. They would like to have as many students that attended Prairie City, Mission Branch, Seelinger and Papinville to come to the celebration. If any of your grandparents, mothers, fathers, sisters or brothers attended these schools, come celebrate and learn the history of education.

They have had the Papinville History and School History books reprinted. If you would like to know more of the history about your family you may find it in these books. There are school pictures, teachers names who taught at the schools and stories past students have written. In the school history book, it begins with Harmony Mission, plotting Papinville and stories written by people that lived or had lived in Papinville.

This week the story is about the start of education in Bates County. Harmony Mission, in 1821, had the first school that the missionaries built to teach the Osage Indians and the mission children. The stories will be published in the Mid America News Review or you can listen to it on the KMOE Radio Station.

Courtesy Phyllis Stewart