In 1921 the only marked road through Humeston was called the Blue J. It was marked periodically by a blue "J" painted on a piece of tin and nailed to a telephone pole. The Blue J Trail started in Lineville and headed north to the Hutchinson Store located at Front and Broad Sts in Humeston. Today the Humeston Corner Antique Mercantile is located there (this is where much of the memorbilia of Humeston is located). The trail then turned east one block on Broad Street and north two blocks (Alva Eaton Street), then east and north out into the country and under neath the railroad bridge and through the country to Derby, eventually meeting the Blue Grass Road, which is now Highway 34. The only part of the Blue J Trail that is a marked road today is the first eight miles south of Humeston on Highway 65. By 1931 the dirt Blue J Trail from Humeston south seven miles became the first gravel road surface in the vicinity and by 1954 a paved highway from Lineville to Des Moines included parts of the Blue J Trail. A new guest house -- The Blue J Trail Guest House -- has been opened by Rick Vanderhoef, who also owns the Humeston Corner Antique Mercantile business. The guest house was originally built sometime in the 30's. It was a filing station for travelers on Highway 65. In the 40's - 50's a DX station was operated by Guy Moon and others. And in the 60's Marjorie Stanley had a beauty shop and her father Fred Foster had his insurance office. Then in the 70s it was made into living quarters for Mary Ellen Stanley. ** From Jeanette she writes: "I'm thinking the gas station was a DX in the 40s when we went to school. THEY GAVE AWAY comics of Dumbo the Elephant and we stopped on the way home from school to get ours. Gosh so many memories we have stashed away in our memory banks...".