montgomery, john a.

Name variants

John A. Montgomery

Record count

145

Sources

life_events

Places seen

Bloomfield; Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Charleston; Columbus; Decatur; Dexter; Dexter, MO; Dexter, Mo.; Doniphan; Essex

First event date

1911-02-22

Last event date

1942-03-26

Timeline — 145 events

• undated Mrs. John A. Montgomery of Walnut Lane Farm, Dexter, wanted a capable girl for general house work, no washing, good wages, permanent place
• undated RADIO ADDRESS delivered by John A. Montgomery, Dexter, Mo., over WOS, Jefferson City, April 13 — a booster history of Southeast Missouri's swamp-to-farmland drainage, naming the eight counties of Cape Girardeau, Butler, Stoddard, Scott, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and Dunklin
• undated Mesdames E. C. Mohrstadt and John A. Montgomery were in Doniphan last week in attendance on the Presbyterian meeting there; they returned Thursday
• undated In a Feb. 18 letter, Dexter Co-operative Shipping Association manager John A. Montgomery reports a $19.89 refund check after the $1 1924 membership deduction, $800 in refunds brought back from St. Louis to farmer shippers, and urges continued patronage through the Producers Livestock Commission Association
• undated John A. Montgomery was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Dexter Co-operative Shipping Association (bond $1,000)
• undated John A. Montgomery & Son, Walnut Lane Farm, advertise hay for sale
• undated John A. Montgomery & Son offer hay for sale at Walnut Lane Farm
• undated John A. Montgomery, republican candidate for prosecutor, addressed a crowd in the Pux Pux Parade here Monday; the paper notes the crowd blocked passage but took the address graciously
• undated Named on the Republican ticket for the November general election: John A. Montgomery for Representative (as printed)
• undated A couple of fancy Baby Beeves like those that brought $21.75 per hundred, from the farm of John A. Montgomery; raised on Walnut Lane Farm, Dexter, Missouri; sold on the St. Louis Market for the highest price ever paid for beeves, to the American Packing Company
• 1911-02-22 Of Decatur, Ill.; non-resident landowner (800 acres four miles southeast of Dexter) praised the Statesman in Feb. 15 letter
• 1911-11-08 Landowner who posted against hunting for the entire hunting season under the 30-cent notice
• 1911-11-08 Named among landowners in the same 30-cent hunting-season notice
• 1911-11-08 Name published under the hunting-season trespass notice; land owners could have their names under the notice for 30 cents for the entire hunting season
• 1913-11-05 Second premium, best half bushel Irish potatoes, in the fair awards list
• 1914-07-01 The big farmer-lawyer is here to-day with Mrs. Montgomery
• 1914-07-01 John A. Montgomery, the big farmer-lawyer, is in Dexter today with Mrs. Montgomery
• 1914-07-01 John A. Montgomery is in Dexter today with Mrs. Montgomery
• 1915-01-13 John A. Montgomery was fattening the finest bunch of cattle the informant had seen this season; 'That Decatur lawyer takes to the farm like a duck to water' and 'there's not a better farmer in the county than John A. Montgomery.'
• 1915-01-22 John A. Montgomery & Son, Walnut Lane Farm, R.F.D. No. 4, have more hay than needed for sale: clover, timothy and mixed, all good; phone 914 F 13 [date from clip_id]
• 1915-04-07 Offered for sale a seven-acre tract on the hill overlooking Dexter just one half mile north of city limits, an ideal site for a suburban home, fruit and chickens; inquire of John A. Montgomery, R. F. D. No. 4, telephone 914-F13
• 1915-04-07 John A. Montgomery, R. F. D. No. 4, telephone 914F13, offers for sale a seven-acre tract on the hill overlooking Dexter, half a mile north of the city limits, as a suburban home site for fruit and chickens
• 1915-04-14 John A. Montgomery, R. F. D. No. 4, advertised for sale a seven-acre tract on the hill overlooking Dexter, an ideal site for a suburban home with fruit and chickens
• 1915-04-14 Offers for sale a seven-acre tract on the hill overlooking Dexter, one-half mile north of city limits, as an ideal suburban home site for fruit and chickens
• 1915-12-03 John A. Montgomery returned today from a visit to his old home in Newark, Ohio [date from clip_id]
• 1916-01-28 Hay for sale - clover, timothy and mixed; Walnut Lane Farm, R. F. D. No. 4, phone 914 F 13
• 1916-02-11 Praised the recent farm school in Stoddard County as well worth while for the exchange of views among farmers
• 1916-02-11 Appointed a director of the Stoddard County Farmers Co-operative Association (also superintendent of publicity for its department in the Statesman) [date from clip_id]
• 1916-02-18 John A. Montgomery wanted a few bushels of medium yellow soy beans
• 1916-02-25 John A. Montgomery & Son, R. 4 Dexter, advertising early yellow seed oats, timothy, clover and alfalfa hay and pure-bred White Orpington cockerels at Walnut Lane Farm, plus a used P. & O. corn planter for sale. (Want Column)
• 1916-02-25 Living a few miles southeast of Dexter; bought a Ford touring car last summer and after a season's use says he never bought anything that gave him the service and satisfaction his Ford has given
• 1916-02-25 John A. Montgomery & Son, R. 4, Dexter, Mo., advertise for sale early yellow seed oats, timothy, clover and alfalfa hay, and pure bred White Orpington cockerels at Walnut Lane Farm
• 1916-02-25 John A. Montgomery & Son, Route 4, advertise for sale a P. & O. corn planter, used only three seasons and almost as good as new
• 1916-03-03 For sale: early yellow seed oats, timothy, clover and alfalfa hay, and pure bred White Orpington cockerels at Walnut Lane Farm; also a P. & O. corn planter used only three seasons; John A. Montgomery & Son, R. 4, Dexter, Mo [date from clip_id]
• 1916-03-17 John A. Montgomery & Son, Walnut Lane Farm, R. F. D. 4: early yellow oats for seed or feed at 50c per bushel; good hay at $12.00 per ton; a few head of fat Poland china sows bred to registered boar
• 1916-03-24 John A. Montgomery, Walnut Lake Farm, R. F. D. 4, offers early yellow oats at 50c per bu for seed or feed, good hay at $12.00 per ton at the barn, and five pure bred Poland China sows bred to a registered boar
• 1916-03-24 At 'Walnut Lake Farm,' R.F.D. 4, sells early yellow oats for seed or feed at 50c per bushel, good hay at $12.00 per ton at the barn, and five pure-bred Poland China sows bred to a registered boar
• 1916-04-28 For sale: a few pure bred Poland China boar pigs at ten dollars each, taken at once; John A. Montgomery, Walnut Lane Farm [date from clip_id]
• 1916-05-05 Offered choice registered Poland China boar pigs at ten dollars each, taken at once, by John A. Montgomery & Son, Walnut Lane Farm
• 1916-07-21 Atty. John A. Montgomery's address "An Ideal Young Man" at the park Sunday evening was heard by a large crowd; the only objection heard was that it was too brief
• 1917-02-02 Responded to the toast 'The Call to the Farm' at the Agricultural School closing dinner at the M. E. Church; keynote: 'The call to the farm is a call for brains.'
• 1917-03-30 Shipped 9 head of year-old high-bred Hereford steers to St. Louis on Monday; the bunch weighed 8,220 lbs. (average 913 lbs.), fed at Walnut Lane, now an up-to-date farm; Sam Williams offered $110 a head, calling them the finest bunch ever shipped from Dexter
• 1917-04-12 A flag raising was had at the country home of John A. Montgomery, southeast of Dexter, Tuesday afternoon, and also at Essex the same afternoon; sixty-foot poles erected; Ed. D. Crowe made a speech at each place; patriotic demonstrations brought out large and enthusiastic crowds
• 1920-02-13 Wrote a travel letter from California describing Pasadena, Los Angeles, San Diego, the missions and orange groves, published as 'Another Letter from California.'
• 1920-02-27 Arrived home Saturday evening from a two-months visit to relatives in San Diego, California
• 1920-02-27 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Montgomery arrived home Saturday evening from a two-months visit to relatives in San Diego, California
• 1920-04-23 John A. Montgomery, Dexter, is a contact for pooling wool
• 1920-06-11 President of the Wool Growers' Association of Stoddard County; the association made its first shipment of wool to the St. Louis market last Saturday, amounting to half a car load or more
• 1921-01-14 Proprietor of Walnut Lane Farm, in Stoddard County, Missouri; in an address before the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau said he would not trade one acre of Walnut Lane Farm for any three acres in California's Imperial Valley
• 1921-10-07 John A. Montgomery and D. C. Steele were in Sikeston Wednesday attending the meeting of the S. E. Mo. Missouri Agriculture Bureau directors
• 1921-10-28 Offers ten head of high-grade Hampshire ewes, bred to a registered Hampshire ram, at six cents per pound
• 1922-04-07 John A. Montgomery has been elected a Director of the First National bank of Dexter
• 1922-04-14 John A. Montgomery, master of Walnut Lane farm, was bit on the cheek while hauling hay last week and nearly had his hand drawn into the baler
• 1922-05-19 John A. Montgomery & Son of Walnut Lane Farm made a test of the Producers (Dexter Shipping Association) livestock-selling ability, shipping two car loads of live stock; item cut off at page bottom
• 1922-05-19 Elected a Stoddard County director of the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau
• 1923-01-12 John A. Montgomery wrote from Walnut Lane Farm, January 7, 1923, to the editor discussing the Ku Klux Klan in Dexter (in reply to a news item that Dexter had a large and growing Klan), enclosing a clipping from the Continent, a Presbyterian journal
• 1923-01-26 Wants a share-cropper for corn and cotton; see John A. Montgomery & Son at Walnut Lane Farm
• 1923-02-02 Wanted: share-cropper for corn and cotton. See John A. Montgomery & Son at Walnut Lane Farm
• 1923-02-23 John A. Montgomery, member of the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau, voiced criticisms of County Agent Sheets at the Farm Bureau annual meeting
• 1923-02-23 John A. Montgomery & Son of Walnut Lane Farm advertised hay for sale
• 1923-03-30 Wants a share-cropper for some of the best cotton land in the county; will furnish everything; see John A. Montgomery, Walnut Lane Farm, Dexter, Mo
• 1924-02-15 Southeast Missouri motion pictures were shown Tuesday evening at Weeks Theatre before 500 to 600 people, with a short talk by S. E. Mo. Farm Bureau president John A. Montgomery on the Farm Bureau's work and an appeal for more gins
• 1924-03-14 John A. Montgomery and Son advertise hay for sale at Walnut Lane Farm
• 1924-07-11 The Dexter Shipping Association shipped a car load of cattle containing some of John A. Montgomery's famous baby beeves; they have always topped the market and have made Stoddard county famous for fine stock
• 1924-07-18 Twenty white-faced calves raised and fed by John A. Montgomery & Son on Walnut Lane Farm, shipped by the Dexter Co-operative Shipping Association, sold in St. Louis for ten cents a pound — the highest price any yearlings have sold for since March
• 1924-09-19 Dexter observed Defense Day September 12 with school marches by Greenwood, Weaver, Tatum, Mrs. Stewart's, Mrs. Mary Johnson and Oak Grove schools and addresses in the Weeks Theatre by Hon. John A. Montgomery, Atty. Charles Liles and Rev. Frank DeBolt; the scheduled Sikeston-Dexter game was prevented by rain
• 1925-02-06 John A. Montgomery & Son have hay for sale at Walnut Lane Farm
• 1925-02-13 John A. Montgomery & Son offer hay for sale at Walnut Lane Farm
• 1925-03-06 John A. Montgomery, president of the S. E. Mo. Agri. Bureau, writes that the bureau lost its Union Station headquarters exhibit space and asks members for loyal financial support of an advertising campaign for Southeast Missouri farms
• 1925-04-03 In the shipment to the St. Louis market last Sunday were several baby beeves from Walnut Lane Farm; the Walnut Lane babies sold on the St. Louis market at $11.50 per hundred, one dollar above the top of the market; they were just 12 months old and averaged 765 pounds in St. Louis; they were bred, raised and fed by John A. Montgomery and Son and everything they ate was raised on Walnut Lane Farm in Stoddard County
• 1925-04-03 Wanted: capable girl for general house work, family of three, no washing, good wages, permanent place; Mrs. John A. Montgomery, Walnut Lane Farm, Dexter, Mo
• 1925-04-10 John A. Montgomery, of Dexter, president of the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau, will broadcast an address on Southeast Missouri over WOS, Jefferson City, Monday evening, April 13, at 8 o'clock; through the courtesy of Arthur T. Nelson, Commissioner of the State Marketing Bureau
• 1925-06-05 John A. Montgomery shipped a car load of cattle Wednesday, including two baby beeves, through the Dexter Co-operative Shipping Association; C. G. Junk, manager, also shipped a car of cattle and hogs mixed
• 1925-08-21 Fred E. McGhee, President of the Carter County Chamber of Commerce (Van Buren, Mo.), thanked John A. Montgomery of Dexter for a copy of the Dexter Statesman and an account of Big Spring State Park
• 1925-10-09 John A. Montgomery, master of Walnut Lane Farm, entertained his three brothers and three sisters in a family reunion this week, the first in seventeen years: Dr. E. E. Montgomery of Philadelphia, Thad L. Montgomery of Coshocton, Ohio, Mrs. James E. Bradford of Emporia, Kansas, Mrs. Ida M. Chase of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Ernest Johnson of Newark, O.; festivities run Wednesday to Sunday with one of his prize baby beeves
• 1925-10-16 For sale: registered Hereford bull three years old, good individual, price reasonable; John A. Montgomery & Son, Walnut Lane Farm, Dexter
• 1925-10-23 John A. Montgomery & Son, Walnut Lane Farm, Dexter, offered a registered Hereford bull three years old
• 1925-12-18 John A. Montgomery and son won grand championship at the Calf Club Show in St. Louis with their car of white faced babies, selling at $17.25 a hundred, the top price at the St. Louis market; their Walnut Lane Exhibit of ten March calves, four April and May calves and one June calf averaged 860 lbs. for the nine-month-olds
• 1925-12-18 John A. Montgomery received $1914.75 for his fifteen baby beeves shipped last week, an average of $127.65 each
• 1926-04-16 In Cape this week serving on the petit jury of the Federal Court
• 1926-04-16 Agriculture class visited his country home last week and saw his fine stock including sheep, hogs and cattle
• 1926-04-30 Accepted for the Dexter Kiwanis Club the silk flag presented by the Poplar Bluff club at the charter presentation
• 1926-05-14 It is rumored John A. Montgomery may be the republican candidate for Congress from this district; he said he had been approached by a number who asked him to announce, but had not done so
• 1926-05-21 Was called to Newark, Ohio, last week by the death of his sister Mrs. Ida M. Chase; returned Monday
• 1926-08-27 W. A. Reece of Bloomfield nominated John A. Montgomery for Republican candidate for Representative at the meeting in Bloomfield last week
• 1926-09-03 John A. Montgomery, proprietor of Walnut Lane Farm five miles southeast of Dexter, published a political announcement that he has accepted the nomination tendered by a unanimous vote of the Republican Central Committee and has entered actively into the race for Representative
• 1926-11-05 FOR SALE — A 4-hole I. H. C. corn sheller; can be operated by a Fordson tractor. JOHN A. MONTGOMERY & SON
• 1927-03-18 Principal speaker at the Dexter Kiwanis club, asked to speak on the relation of the town to the farmer; the club voted against holding a meeting at Poplar Bluff and heard a letter on a regional governor's visit
• 1927-04-29 Sweet clover pasture demonstration on the farm of Mr. John A. Montgomery near Dexter, where he pastured ten gilts and eight lambs; Ide P. Trotter, Extension Field Crops Specialist of the Missouri College of Agriculture, to lead a field meeting there Thursday, May 12, at 2:00 p.m
• 1927-12-09 John A. Montgomery shipped 22 head of baby beeves Wednesday through the Dexter Co-operative Shipping Association, ten weighing 1,000 lbs. or more, the lot balancing 17,000 lbs.; the association also shipped two cars of hogs and one mixed car of hogs and cattle
• 1927-12-30 John A. Montgomery and family entertained Rev. J. G. West and family and Mrs. J. C. West last Thursday
• 1928-03-16 At the county republican convention at Bloomfield last week, John A. Montgomery arose to object to the endorsement of the Coolidge administration
• 1928-05-18 E. A. Trowbridge, chairman of the Animal Husbandry Department at Columbia, Mo., wrote John A. Montgomery on May 15, 1928, endorsing Montgomery's letter in the May 11 Dexter Statesman on the farmer's condition
• 1928-09-07 John A. Montgomery and County Agent Wrinkle invite the county's farmers to a beef-cattle meeting next Monday afternoon, September 10th, at 2:30 p.m. at the Montgomery farm, 2 miles east of Dexter; Montgomery's cattle are raised and fattened at Walnut Lane Farm, and he is a Better Farmers' League member in the Missouri Ruralist farm contest (77 Missouri counties represented)
• 1928-09-14 John A. Montgomery reported his baby beeves brought 173c on the market; he was in town with his son, Dr. Thad Montgomery of Philadelphia
• 1928-09-28 John A. Montgomery of Walnut Lane Farm, near Dexter — described as a dirt farmer and former outstanding Republican — declares he will vote for Governor Smith for President
• 1928-10-26 The W. M. S. of the Presbyterian Church held an all-day meeting at the home of John A. Montgomery on Thursday, with the Young Ladies meeting with them
• 1928-11-02 Mesdames John A. Montgomery and Ed P. Crowe attended a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Charleston, Tuesday
• 1928-11-16 Posts notice that the undersigned will not allow hunting on their premises, and those who do are liable to prosecution and fine; names may be carried in the ad till Jan. 1 for 50c
• 1928-12-07 John A. Montgomery posted a no-hunting notice: 'This is to notify all that the undersigned will not allow hunting on their premises and those who do so, are liable to prosecution and fine.' (Anyone may have his name carried to this ad till Jan. 1 for 50c.)
• 1928-12-14 Named as an undersigned party to a 'No Hunting Allowed' notice: the undersigned will not allow hunting on their premises and those who do so are liable to prosecution and fine; additional names may be carried in the ad until January 1 for 50 cents
• 1929-02-15 Walnut Lane Farm near Dexter, operated by John A. Montgomery and his son Lewis, won a $100 sixth prize in the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce calf feeding contest (30 entries from Kansas and Missouri), and the second prize of $25 in the best producing contest
• 1929-05-31 John A. Montgomery & Son offer for sale a few bushels of choice re-cleaned Virginia soy beans, also inoculating material
• 1929-06-21 John A. Montgomery & Son of Walnut Lane farm near Dexter entered the beef production contest sponsored by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Missouri College of Agriculture, and Kansas State Agricultural College; 18 Hereford calves (about 3.5 months) weighed 5,000 lbs (avg 277.7 lbs), weighed June 15 by Montgomery and County Agent Wrinkle; $1,500 in prize money to be applied toward the purchase of registered bulls
• 1929-06-21 Shipped six calves to St. Louis: five baby beeves sold at $15.50 per cwt Wednesday, June 12 (the sixth at $14) through the Producers Live Stock Commission Association, the highest priced cattle of the year; a telegram had reported the record at $15.00 per hundred; five calves were sired by a registered Hereford bull, one by a grade black bull that brought only $14.00 per hundred
• 1929-07-26 John A. Montgomery, owner of Walnut Lane Farm, elected on Board of Directors of Producers Live Stock Commission Association; he succeeds C. B. Denman, who was called to Washington to serve on the Federal Farm Board. Announcement via letter from J. R. Fulkerson, President, National Stock Yards, Ill., July 23, 1929
• 1929-08-02 Local news: John A. Montgomery came in Monday morning and paid for another year of his subscription
• 1929-08-09 John A. Montgomery went to St. Louis, Tuesday, to attend a meeting of the Producers Live Stock Association, to which directorate he was recently elected
• 1929-08-30 John A. Montgomery, owner of Walnut Lane Farm and well-known stockman of Stoddard County, elected to the board of directors of the Producers Cooperative Live Stock Commission Company of the National Stock Yards, filling the unexpired term of C. B. Denman, who was made a member of the Federal Farm Board by President Hoover. Montgomery is a Michigan University Law School graduate, practiced law in Decatur, Ill., ten years before turning to farming; bought a large tract of land in Stoddard County fifteen years ago and converted 800 acres of lowland into Walnut Lane Farm; on June 12 won $15,500 for five baby beeves at the National Stock Yards and last year won fifth place in the Missouri-Kansas beef production contest (thirty entries); active farm leader, several years president of the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau, and a promoter of cooperative live stock shipping in Stoddard County
• 1929-12-06 Posted a no-hunting warning: will not allow hunting on their premises; trespassers liable to prosecution; warning runs till Dec. 31st; any landowner may have his name signed for 50c
• 1929-12-13 At the Chamber of Commerce regular meeting Dec 6 in the dining room of the Christian church, John A. Montgomery was called on for a speech on raising and marketing baby beeves; R. A. Sisler, secretary, read resolutions on the deaths of Emil C. Mohrstadt and Wiley H. Jenkins and the annual payroll report of $52,000
• 1929-12-13 Set a new record price for calves on the St. Louis market Tuesday, Dec 10: 15 February and March calves averaging 636 lbs. sold for $16.25 cwt., $1.75 above any other sale of the day; his son Lewis Montgomery accompanied the record shipment to the Producers, of which Montgomery is a director
• 1929-12-13 Last Monday, John A. Montgomery & Son of Walnut Lane Farm shipped 18 head of extra fine baby beeves, all white faced yearlings weighing about 650 pounds average; Mr. Lewis Montgomery accompanied them to the St. Louis market where they will, as usual, bring top prices
• 1929-12-13 John A. Montgomery posted a no-hunting notice on his premises; trespassers liable to prosecution; warning runs till Dec. 31st
• 1929-12-20 John A. Montgomery is named among the undersigned landowners in a 'No Hunting' notice: hunting and trespassing on their premises prohibited, violators liable to prosecution and fine
• 1929-12-27 Signed the NO HUNTING notice prohibiting hunting on his premises through December 31, 1929
• 1930-01-03 John A. Montgomery of Walnut Lane Farm, Stoddard County, was named one of ten Master Missouri Farmers of 1929 by the Better Farmers League; he farmed 770 acres, fed 18 Hereford steers, and netted $54.44 per head
• 1930-02-14 John A. Montgomery & Son offer a Jersey bull calf, sired by a registered male and from a cow that produces four hundred pounds of butter fat; price reasonable
• 1930-02-21 John A. Montgomery & Son won third place in the Beef Production contest, consisting of $100 in prize money toward the purchase of a pure bred Hereford bull; contest sponsored by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Kansas City Stock Yards Company, American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association, American Shorthorn Breeders' Association, Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association, Kansas State Agricultural College and Missouri College of Agriculture; to be held at Kansas City March 3-4-5
• 1930-03-28 John A. Montgomery is surely going to have some building done on his Walnut Lane Farm. We see his men hauling logs to the Langley mill near Frisco
• 1930-03-28 Last week, John A. Montgomery & Son, of Walnut Lane Farm, received a 14-months old Hereford male weighing 960 pounds. Raised by G. W. Scott, of Ray county. Lewis Montgomery bought it at the Hereford Roundup Sale in Kansas City. Mr. Montgomery paid $225
• 1930-04-25 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Montgomery of Dexter will leave in August for a trip through the Pacific Northwest and Canada on the 'Show You' tour, sponsored by the Missouri Ruralist of St. Louis
• 1930-06-13 The Kingshighway Chapter, D. A. R. will celebrate Flag Day this evening with a program at his residence, Walnut Lane Farm; Mrs. Crowe and the writer expect to attend
• 1930-06-20 John A. Montgomery was a visitor on the Darby farm Monday afternoon; he was looking after the wheat threshing business
• 1930-07-04 Hon. John A. Montgomery leaves tomorrow for Columbus, Ohio, to attend a meeting of the Institute of Co-operation as representative of the Co-operative Association of which he is one of the Board of Directors
• 1930-07-11 The June report of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association shows that John A. Montgomery, Dexter, with a herd of 8 Jerseys led the association from a production standpoint with an average of 662 pounds of milk and 37.8 pounds per cow
• 1930-07-25 Of Dexter; A member of a party of about 500 people taking a 5,000-mile vacation tour of the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies in August, sponsored by the Missouri Ruralist of St. Louis (the second annual Missouri 'Show You' tour), leaving Aug. 3; the party will visit the principal cities of the west with special entertainment in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Spokane, Portland, Vancouver and Winnipeg, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, and Banff and Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies; other Stoddard County people going are Mr. and Mrs. John A. Montgomery and Mr. Carl Conover of Dexter
• 1930-08-08 John A. Montgomery & Son of Walnut Lane Farm sold some of their Hereford baby beeves on Thursday, July 31, at $11.50 per cwt., a premium of $1.50 per cwt. over any other yearling sale that date and the highest price since the break of the market; a yearling Jersey steer from the dairy herd sold for $8.00 per cwt.; Montgomery is a director of the Producers Live Stock Commission
• 1930-08-29 John A. Montgomery of Dexter was elected secretary-treasurer of the Missouri Association of Master Farmers
• 1930-09-05 John A. Montgomery & Son, Dexter, ordered a 40-ton car of limestone shipped to Essex, Mo., at $1.60 per ton ($64.00 freight included); Mr. Montgomery expects to lime a 20-acre field this fall at 2 tons per acre and sow alfalfa in the spring
• 1930-09-05 John A. Montgomery was elected vice-president of the Farmers' Mutual Life Insurance Company
• 1930-10-31 Of Walnut Lane Farm; slated for eight addresses in Illinois next month on Production of Super-Baby Beeves and Co-operative Marketing
• 1930-11-07 John A. Montgomery, with 9 pure bred and grade Jerseys, was third with an average of 34.4 lbs. fat, 610 lbs. milk; his cow was a close second highest producer at 1311 lbs. milk testing 4.8%, 62.9 lbs. butter fat
• 1930-12-05 Elected a director of the National Order-buying Company (a Federal Farm Board set-up organization) to represent the St. Louis Producers' Livestock Commission Association, of which he is a member and an official
• 1930-12-05 Left yesterday for Higginsville, Mo., where he will address the County Farm Bureau today
• 1930-12-05 Presided as toastmaster at the Producers Live Stock Commission Association of St. Louis seventh annual Calf Club Show banquet at the Claridge Hotel, St. Louis, Tuesday evening, attended by three hundred 4-H boys and girls, their parents and leaders
• 1930-12-05 Fifth in the November association test with a grade and purebred herd of 9 Jerseys averaging 611 lbs. milk and 28 lbs. of butterfat; had the second highest individual cow in the association (the item also states she was the highest cow for the month of November - as printed)
• 1930-12-12 Left Wednesday afternoon for St. Louis, from which place he goes Saturday to 'Palmrya, Mo.,' to address a crowd of farmers
• 1931-01-23 A wire from the Master Farmers Banquet at St. Louis Friday to Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board: "...our efforts... are appreciated by the rank and file of the farmers of America." Signed for the banquet by John A. Montgomery, secretary Missouri Association of Master Farmers
• 1931-06-12 Attending the American Institute of Cooperation at Manhattan, Kansas, this week. Southeast Missouri represented by [?] Kies of Jackson, Mo., manager of a shipping association there
• 1931-07-03 Stoddard has prospect for bumper crops (P. B. American Republic, Dexter June 30): farming conditions never more favorable; wheat harvest in full swing with a record crop in both acres and yield; farmers not worrying about low price since yield will be more than double that of several years past; greatest fruit crop of all time — strawberries gave farmers considerable money, fruit trees too heavily laden, one woman removed more than 3,000 peaches from one tree; cotton and corn very promising; alfalfa done well — John A. Montgomery made the remark that a good stand of alfalfa was the nearest that a gold mine of anything grown in Stoddard county
• 1931-09-11 40 head shipped by the Dexter Cooperative sold at $6.90, topping the St. Louis hog market Thursday
• 1931-11-13 Mr. John A. Montgomery presided at the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation meeting held in the First Presbyterian Church here, Friday, November 6th, at 10 o'clock, with a nice crowd in attendance; speakers were R. W. Brown, President of the Farm Bureau Federation, Mr. Fuqua with the Producers Live Stock Association, Mrs. Redford on the responsibility of the women on the farm, and Mr. Frank Stoner on mortgage-lifter insurance and automobile insurance for the farmer
• 1942-02-05 John A. Montgomery, Chairman for Dexter (Books for the Soldier Boys).
• 1942-03-26 John A. Montgomery reviewed 'Land Below the Wind' for the Book Club at Mrs. Hardin Crowe's home Monday evening

Dates and spellings are preserved as found in the source records; contradictions are kept, not smoothed over. See the methodology for how this archive handles uncertainty.