Trice Newsom and Catherine Stone conducted their courtship in 1930 near
      the old fashioned thread case situated between the Trice Grocery Store and
      the Trice Department Store. Both attended college at Kansas State University.
      Both worked for Trice Mercantile Company; Trice in the grocery part, starting
      in 1922, Catherine in the office in 1930. Both were born in the Sharon Valley;
      Trice in Sharon and Catherine in the country east of Sharon. Trice and his
      parents, Herbert and Lora Trice Newsom, moved to Medicine Lodge when he was
      three years old. Catherine lived on the farm until she was ten, then into
      Sharon with her parents, Howard and Ethel Gibson Stone, and sister, Marguerite.
      The Stones had planned to retire in Medicine Lodge, so after the sudden death
      of her father, Catherine and her mother built and moved into the house at
      206 East Washington.
        The DIRTY 30's and the DEPRESSION hit and after four years of dating, Trice's
      pay was upped to $75.00. Plans for a wedding moved ahead, a simple service
      in the First Baptist Church as befitted Depression days, a train trip to
      Detroit, Michigan, watching our Ford V-8 come off the assembly line, on into
      Canada, to Niagara Falls, and back to St. Louis, watching the St. Louis
      Cardinals and the Cleveland Browns. All went well until the bride nearly
      fell from the car when the door accidently opened.
        Entertainment for dating couples during the Depression consisted of 25 cent
      movies, golf, hunting, hiking, and fishing.
        "BUT AIN'T LOVE WONDERFUL."
        In 1936 Trice and Catherine bought the men's store, calling it "Newsom's
      Store." Trice has been interested in various community projects: church,
      Masonic Lodge, Jaycees and the Chamber, tennis and golf. Cahterine's intersts
      have been church, director of church choirs, Sunday School classes, Monday
      Afternoon Club, BPW Club, PEO, OES, Chamber of Commerce.
        Then there were FIVE!!! A girl, Sue Ann; a girl, Kay Lyn; and a boy Bob.
      The children attended the same grade school and graduated from the same high 
      school as their father. All three were sports minded and musicians. Sue married
      Jerry Vance, children - Todd and Kayla - live in Monroe, Louisiana; Kay
      married Bob Wood, children - Angela and Jamie - live in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma;
      and Bob and son, Shane, live in Madison, Wisconsin.
        After Trice suffered a heart attack in 1962, the men's store was sold He
      later became associated with the school, driving a bus, and later was named
      Transportation Supervisor. After the last chick flew the coop, Catherine was
      employed at the Pratt radio station for eight years, then became the Manager
      of the Chamber of Commerce for five years.
        In August, 1978, both Newsoms took a new 'togetherness.' They became the
      new directors of the local Housing Authority, consisting of Indian Hills
      Lodge, Units A and B, and Indian Hills Plaza.
        "THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD TO LIVE, BARBER COUNTY, USA.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 346 
     Submitted by:  Catherine Stone Newsom. *Note - Trice Newsom died November
     26, 1979.