Editing Avilla, Missouri (section)

==Notable people==
'''Homer L. Hall'''<ref>High School Journalism by Homer L. Hall, Revised edition 2003, About the Author Introduction, {{ISBN|0-8239-3926-X}}.</ref> Award-winning American journalist, educator and widely published author of teaching and students' textbooks, including the critically acclaimed ''High School Journalism''. Inducted into the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association Hall of Fame and the [[National Scholastic Press Association|National Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame]], he grew up on a farm near Avilla, and graduated in the class of 1956 at [[Carthage Senior High School (Carthage, Missouri)|Carthage High School]].

'''James M. Craven'''<ref>The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men</ref> A state representative of Missouri in Avilla, Craven was born in [[Indiana]] in 1831 and became a livestock dealer in [[California]] and [[Oregon]] in the 1850s. He moved to Avilla and went into politics in 1866.

'''[[Walter Stemmons]]'''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barnett|first=James H.|url=http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20004:20071461|title=Six Speeches of Walter Stemmons: College and University Editor, 1918-1954, the University of Connecticut|publisher=The University of Connecticut|year=1971|location=Storrs, CT|hdl=11134/20004:20071461|access-date=August 11, 2020|via=Connecticut Digital Archive}}</ref> A professor of journalism and university publications editor-in-chief at the [[University of Connecticut]], Stemmons was born in Avilla in 1884.