Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
ALL OVER MISSOURI.

Columbia is to have $4,000 plant for
the manufacture of ice.
The fall term of school in many Of the
Missouri towns opens tomorrow.
Thirty-five worthy but misguided Car
thage women have organized Bryan
club. -,a1 -ra ss.=. .-.- a..
Trenton is taking on aristocratic airs.
Several of her citizens are indulging in
mild cases of hay fever.
Fall work at the state university begins
Tuesday morning, September s. promptly
at 9 o'clock. President Jesse announces
The biggest pear Of the season in Boone
county weighs twenty-five ounces and
measures thirteen inches in circumference.
A peach tree in an orchard near Nor
borne, from which a fine yield of fruit was
taken a few weeks ago, is now blossom
ing again.
The Democrats and Pops In Laclede
county have agreed to fuse on the county
offices, with the former, of course, getting
the long end of the string.
]. P. Withrow. who was for nearly fifty
years one Of Linn county's best citizens,
died few days ago in Florida. where he
has been making his home since 1891.
A law and order league has been organ
ized in Braymer, the special purpose Of
which will be to make life interesting for
the illegal liquor sellers in the vicinity.
Trenton's energetic church women have
begun making preparations for their big
annual public Thanksgiving dinner, which
they find of material assistance in main
tanning the parity between income and
outgo.
The Mckinley club that was organized
in the little town of Ash Grove a few
aterht hto lla1 {fe
first meeting. This Is but a sample of
what is going on in every community in
Missouri.
The National Society Of the Daughters
of the Revolution has recently presented
Mrs. Kate Robinson, Of Carthage, a hand
some gold spoon. Mrs. Robinson. who is
81 years old, is one of the 800 women now
living whose fathers fought in the revo-
lutionary war.
The proprietor of the Lebanon Repub-
lican, published, by the way, in "Silver
Dick' BANDS home town, is so rock
rooted in the faith that he offers to fur
nish his paper to anyone who wants 1t on
the proposition that the subscription Is
only to be paid after Mckinley shall have
been elected president.
The burning of an old stack Of flax
straw at midnight. Immediately after
w
ing rapidly away therefrom in a hack, has
aroused suspicious Of all sorts of CHASTITY
possibilities among the dwellers In the
Mount Carmel neighborhood, in Barton
county. where it occurred.
Hamilton goes on record with the asser-
ton that the ball game between the local
club and the Kansas City Blues Thurs
day. in which the score was to 4. was
the hottest ever played in the town, and
that the discovery by the professionals
that in the local team they had picked up
no sausage came to them as a genuine
surprise.
The Carthage Press says Colonel Benton,
who is running against Judge Burton for
congress down in that district, possesses
such peculiarities of pronunciation as
would secure him recognition on the floor
of the house at once as a character"
should the people there be short-sighted
enough to elect him. He talks Of "gin-
erals" "Dimecrats." etc.
Football talk has begun in Columbia
Patterson, the Yale coach for the uniyer-
sity team, will arrive this week. and train
ing will at once be inaugurated. Several
of the last years team that made the
Missouri Tigers respected the country
over as exponents Of football will not re-
turn. Thompson, Alice. Gibson, Brigham
and Pauley will not he on the team. Price,
elected captain for 1896, will probably not
be back. Charley Young will return and
assist in coaching for awhile. and might
take some further work in the electrical
engineering department Of the university.
Those Of the old team who will return
are Adam Hill, guard; McAlester, tackle;
George Evans. quarter: Tom Shawhan,
halfback; Dowdale and Sinnett. ends. Joe
and Will Hill will also be candidates for
vaIn he Rrof h-If
back Of the Warrensburg normal school.
will attend the university this year, as
will J. N. Smith, of Iowa, center on Wa
bash college last season.