Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-19
ALL OVER MISSOURI.

Wellington is boasting Of the fact that
there isn't a vacant dwelling house in the
town.
Rolla gives notice Of a sale of the electric
light franchise for that municipality at
auction on the 7th Of November.
This years coach of the Texas university
football team is Harry Robinson, who han
died the Missouri university boys in '93
and 81.
The grand wind-up Republican rally in
Bethany October 81 is expected to attract
crowd that will fall little If any below the
10000 mark.
An oleander tree, six years old. upon
which there is a seed pod six inches long.
is considered something of a curiosity in
Hamilton.
In the game the other day between the
university football team and that of Tarkio
college the score was q to in favor of
the Tigers.
A Howard county preacher bought dis.
tillery in Boone county last week. He does
not expect to run it, however, until after
Bryan is elected.
The Rolla District Medical Society has
been in existence long enough to be able
to announce its soon-to-be-held forty-sixth
semi-annual meeting.
The junior football team at the university
is arranging for games with a number Of
the best high school elevens in various
parts OF the state. among them that Of
Kansas City.
Bethany will decorate its homes and
business houses and publish daily paper
this week in honor of the meeting there
of the state convention OF the Missouri
w. C. T. U.
Not only the university but nearly all the
colleges and other educational institutions
in the state report greater attendance
and more favorable prospects this year
than ever before.
", W. Morgan. the well known business
man and Republican alderman of Kansas
City, is billed for a campaign tour down
in the Ozark country this week. opening in
Stotts City tomorrow night.
The management of the Rolla School OF
Mines has refused to receive two lots of
chemical supplies ordered from a st. Louis
firm because the invoices for the goods
were stamped payable in U. s. gold coin"
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Wren. a popular and
patriotic pair in Bethany, have just cele-
brated the eighteenth Interesting episode
that has occurred in their family during
their twenty-five years of welded happi-
ness.
Five apples. weighing pound each were
presented to the editor Of the Bethany
Republican the other day. with the assur-
ance that they were only fair samples Of
DavieSS county'S achievements in the fruit
line.
General Odon Guitar is to appear as de-
fendant in a Columbia Justices court Tues
day to answer to a charge Of having dis
turbed public meeting. The general is
probably the victim of some petty political
spite work.
The Weston Chronicle rises up in right
eous indignation and protests against the
the extent Of substituting campaign butt
tons for cash when the hat is passed in
church Sunday morning.
A political discussion between banker
and a preacher In Cameron the other day
ended in pulling Of the latter's whiskers
by the former. In the police court adjust
ment of the difficulty a contribution OF
$215 was required from the puller and one
of $3.50 from the pullee.
A Lexington paper says that town has
more street corner politicians than any
other Of its size in the state, and adds that
a peculiar feature in connection Herewith
is the fact that while they all know all
about running the government the ma
jority of them actually live on the charity
of their friends.
Colonel A. NJ. York, who gained national
notoriety as state senator in Kansas in
1873 through his connection with the alleged
attempt by Senator Pomeroy to bribe the
legislature to return himself for another
term to the United States senate, was in
Bethany last week on a business deal.
Colonel York is resident of Texas. but
has been practically dead to the world,'
politically. for q good many years.