He is still there, March, 1920. One rural route was established in 1913 out east and north of Oshkosh ; on which the mail is carried daily.

In 1906 Col. Wisner of Bayard became interested enough in Oshkosh to come here and start a newspaper called the Oshkosh Herald. It was published by various owners in a small building on the east side of Main street until the building over by the depot was built in 1911.

In 1905 Fred Williams built a two story frame hotel on Main street. He soon sold it to J. C. McCoy of Lewellen. This hotel was run by Jim Caslin, and later by Leo Fox. It was while Jim Caslin was the landlord that Walter Bentz received the name "Polly," by which he went almost entirely afterward. He was very fond of crackers and was always calling for them, so Mrs. Caslin began calling him "Polly."

When Oshkosh was made a county seat in 1909 a company of Oshkosh men bought the hotel and rented the lower floor to the county for a court house, and they rent out the second story for a rooming house. The building is still used ; so any traveler can, for a dollar a night, have the unique experience of lodging in the upper story of the court house. At present this rooming house is managed by Mrs. S. E. Valentine, who took charge in 1914.

In 1905, LaSalle & Miles built and opened up a general store, half way between the hotel and Corner Store, and Dan Atchinson started the first drug store just north of them and called it the Oshkosh Drug Company. W. W. Bowers and Mr. "Dad" Potts bought this, carrying it on under the same name. It still goes by the same name, although it has changed hands a number of times ; L.