The church has a membership of 44 and a Sunday school with an attendance of 44. Hickory Grove is in this township. There is a building, but it is closed and services discontinued. Farming and stock raising is the principal industry in this township. The land is rich and grows everything most that can be grown in Missouri.
Every farmer is a stock raiser.
He has learned to drive his crops from the farm rather than haul them off. Cattle, hogs, sheep and goats are raised in great numbers. The Lexington branch of the Missouri Pacific railway touches section 24 in the extreme northeast corner of this township.