Trenton Trust Company

from the Axsom Shoebox of Memories

my Axsom grandparents cancelled checks from 1959- 1960. this is a fascinating look into their daily lives, their expenditures. there are counter checks and account checks. Their account checks just have their names. "MR. OR MRS. ALFRED AXSOM" is above the signature line....no address. she signed her checks "Mrs. Alfred Axsom." this interested me. I have been blogging old grade cards. my great grandma Daisy signed her son's grade cards "Mrs. Daisy Axsom." my great grandma Amanda signed her daughter's grade cards "Mrs. Ross Shafer." so it seems to be a personal preference. I just sign my checks "Debbie Dailey" in my unreadable scrawl. No "Mrs.". No "Mrs. Kevin Dailey."

cancelled checks and a few other documents contained in a brown Trenton Trust Company envelope.

Lovell and Hull Service Station $10.00

L. & O. Sales Co. $39.05

Penneys $4.00

JCPenney Co. $5.08

cost of service charge for $.61.

Kings Food Center $5.00

Kings Food Center $5.00

Garnet S. Wismer (for Xmas merchandise) $7.29

Mart Drug $2.49

Dr. C.H. Cullers $30.00

Bernard Axsom $3.00

Bernard Axsom $5.00

Bernard Axsom $15.00

(these checks to my dad were cashed at Smith's Clothing, Kings Food Center, S.M. & Kress Co.)

Wayne Seymour, Collector $53.55

Ruth Greenwood, Coll. $7.84

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. $7.92

Persill's Grocery $5.00

Missouri Public Service $9.37

Hy- Vee $15.00

Western Auto $1.16

Service Oil Company $3.15

Brinser Station $4.11

Mercer County Abstract Company $4.75

King's Food Center $5.00

Penneys Store $20.00

Home Gas & Appliance $6.38

Professional School Photographers Ass'n $1.75

King's $5.00

Hy Vee $10.00

Spencer Hatchery $4.40

Bakyr's $7.09

Connell Hwd. Co. $4.52

Fair Drug Store $5.93

Hy-Vee Food Store $3.69

Hy-Vee $1.00

Browns Market $1.74

Jc. Penney Co. $15.00

Mo. Public Service Company $9.30

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. $7.45

there is a card...please sign this card and drop in mail, no postage required. Alfred Axsom Jan 29 1960 Receipt is acknowledged of statement of account for period Dec. 3 1959-Jan. 28 1960 together with cancelled checks. (please sign as name appears on account sheet.)

"Cost of Service" $1.13

State Farm Mutual $14.38

Hy-Vee Food Store $20.00

May 13, 1962 Internal Revenue Service Alfred E. & Mary P. Axsom, Rt. 1, Trenton, Mo. credit reported on Return $2611.70, corrected credit $2240.70. earnings from the business listed are not subject to self-employment tax. Payment on farm sold and interest will not qualify for self-employment coverage. This is only a notice about changes in the computation of income qualifying for self-employment coverage, it is neither a bill for additional tax nor a notice of additional refund.

Donald Crawford, Coll. $61.01

so they grocery shopped at Kings Food Center, Persill's Grocery, HyVee, Brown's Market. these all sound like grocery stores to me, anyways. I know lots of people had small groceries in their homes back in the day. I remember mom taking us to Crooks, I think it was. I remember a big meat dept. and wood floors.