The Pioneer Store - Protem, MO

05/30/2026

Mak & Squeeze Lemonade 🍋 is BACK!! She will be making fresh lemonade today from 11a-2pm. She has lots of new flavor options this year as well as a few signature drinks!

05/22/2026

05/04/2026

Phones for the store and post office are currently down.

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03/08/2026

New hours starting tomorrow! Happy Daylight Savings! Yay sunshine ☀️

03/03/2026

Great write up on the one and only Joan Bray.

Connections are what brings Joan Bray back to the Protem Post Office.

It might seen natural, given that connections are fundamentally a post office's work, but that mission goes deeper for Joan. It's connections with others that keep the 85-year-old still coming to the office six days a week. She's the only operator of the rural Taney County post office, one of a dwindling number still tucked inside rural general stores.

"I really like working with people and helping people, and that's why it's so special," she says of the small office where she gets to know everyone. "There's some new ones that's coming in, that's building or coming into the area, but they come in and visit with me. So you get to know everybody."

I got to visit with Mrs. Bray on my visit to Protem last week. Read the full story via a link in the comments…

02/28/2026

02/08/2026

Here is the final squares! Good luck! 🏈
($125/quarter)

02/06/2026

We will have Ribs tomorrow @ noon!

01/24/2026

We will be closing at 5 pm today.

01/19/2026