The candidate supported by the brief resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in Jefferson City was elected to enforce the Volstead Act. While local involvement with the Klan dissipated in 1924, Louis Withaup and his Four Horsemen made raids for the next four years in Cole County and its neighbors.
World War II was a tragic period for St. Paul s Lutheran Church in Lohman, as the small congregation lost five young men in the conflict. But for congregation member William J. Jungmeyer, the heartache was multiplied since this period represented the continuation of the loss of loved ones that began years earlier with the death of his wife.
The Loesch family was for many decades associated with the Corinth School near the Zion community south of Jefferson City. In the fall of 1946, when Candace (Loesch) Stockton was looking forward to beginning her elementary education at the same one-room schoolhouse her father had attended years earlier, she discovered that consolidation of school districts would require her to go to classes at Harmony Grove School in southwest Jefferson City.
When Gene Snellen drives along South Teal Bottom Road near Henley and approaches his home along the Osage River, he is often reminded of points of historical interest and moments spent with his grandfather.
Coming of age in California, Missouri, a young Wilbur Harold Miller attended worship services and was confirmed in 1934 at St. Paul s Lutheran Church. His obituary states he was an active member of his congregation and "president of the Walther League, an organization of young people within the church."