[2] About 1934 John and Mart Sheaffer bought up all of the Co-operative Association and became full owners of Panther Store.

On Saturday afternoons and on rainy days, the hitching racks filled up with teams as folks came for supplies.

They took orders for buggy, wagons, a variety of farm machinery, fencing materials, and furniture.

[3] For a short while, a post office resided inside Panther store, where mail was held until picked up.

Robert Bentall recalls having a regular pigeon-holed rack where he would hold mail for friends to pick up at his house.

[4] As an important gathering place, the blacksmith shop kept busy with shoeing horses, building hayrack and buggy wheels, and fixing just about anything that broke.

Then as roads improved, the population began traveling to the nearby towns of Adel and Redfield to obtain their much needed supplies.

[4] “My interest in Kennedy Station is personal, for my childhood years were spent on a farm overlooking the area,” remarked Hazel Whitney of Redfield, Iowa.

You have to remember Kennedy was a community without trucks, and you had to hitch up horses to wagons and haul the grain to market.

I can remember when we rode the train to the State Fair in Des Moines because we didn’t have cars.” Kennedy was a rural community and many memories touch upon that agricultural existence.