Barbecue joint draws tourism to small Mo. town

Monday, March 3, 2014

ASBURY, Mo. -- It's Saturday night in a town whose population wouldn't even fill a small elementary school most nights. But on this night, stand by either of the two city limit signs and you'll see a line of car headlights approaching on Missouri Highway 171, dotting the darkness as they pass farm fields to the north and the south of town.

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