Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-07
MISSOURI POINTS.

The primary election fight for the post
office in Steelv!lIe waXed so warm last
week that one of the candidates felt called
upon to publish a card in the local paper.
i'll which he not only denied any intention of
making his intended son-in-law his deputy,
i successful in getting the appointment, as
4 hated rival had charged, but announced
that he had filed a bond for 500 with the
county clerk, payable to the school fund
in case he should make such break.
a Sarcoxie preacher has taken charge
of a coal yard as a sort OF side line, and
presumably Will endeavor to keep his
partshioners as warm in this life as he
may have reason to believe some of them
will be in the next.
Experiments made in Boone county in
fattening Arkansas hogs are proving en-
t;rely satisfactory, the rail-spitters taking
on pork at the rate of two pounds day.
The University Athletic Association is
considerably in debt yet, the S1.50O realized
from the Thanksgiving football game with
Kansas not having been sufficient to pull
it entirely out Of the hole.
The Columbia man who claims to have
found out how to so inoculate the human
system as to render it disease-proof is said
10 nave NdcClndted some california Capl-
talists and made it take" to the extent
of 5000 for one-third interest in his dis
covery.
Speaking of the threat OF the Hon. Ben
Davis" Bland, of Missouri, to make things
uncomfortable for the sound money Demo-
Gratis in congress. the Chicago Tribune re-
marks that 'if this means that he intends
to agitate his jaw his scheme of revenge
will take effect on the whole country"
This intimaton to the sound money men,
bers of the faculty that it might not be i'm
prudent TO keep an eye out for another
job is from the Columbia Herald: We
still believe it should be a Missouri uni
versity with the accent on Missouri
It is believed along the projected line
that the contract will have been let and
the grading completed for the connecting
railroad link between Pattonsburg and
Trenton within the next sixty days, if the
weather is favorable for work.
The trading of St. Clair county mules for
Arkansas beef cattle is being worked up
into quite satisfactory business by some
enterprising Appleton City dealers.
An anti-saloon league has been organ
lied in Caldwell county, but the philan-
thropic purveyors of snake-bite remedy in
Hamilton and other towns there do not
yet complain of any falling off in the de-
mand for their goods.
Concordia probably numbers a greater
proportion of plain people among its
inhabitants than any other town of its size
in the state. At any rate, the assertion is
made by a Lafayette county paper that
not a single "colored' person resides in
Concordia.
A mistaken impression seems to have be-
come current as to the requirements for
entrance into the Soldiers home at St.
James, several persons having applied
there for admission apparently in the be-
lief that any old soldier is privileged to
locate himself there with no formalities
whatever. Such is not the case. One who
wishes to become an inmate must apply to
and receive the permission of the board
of managers, through its president. Henry
Fairbank, whose address is $50 North
Grand avenue, st. Louis.
The agricultural college at the state uni
versty is Offering two practical short
courses, one for the farmer and stock
breeder, the other for the hOrticulturist.
both beginning January 5, 1897. and con-
tinuing twelve weeks No tuition is
charged. These courses deal exclusively
with the practical phases of agriculture,
iairying and horticulture. and cover the
subjects of breeding. feeding and judging
live stock, butter and cheese making, crop
growing, veterinary science. manures aui
fertilizers. drainage, orchaTding, small
fruit growing market gardening. methods
of combating injurious insects and destruc--
i've diseases of the orchard and field crops
and training in carpentry and blacksmith
ing. Even experienced and successful
farmers and horticulturists will finl mary
things of great value to them in these
courses. This instruction, however is OF
incomparabIy greater value to the young
men just starting out. 1t will prove a
tremendous stimulus to every farm r in
Missouri who can avail himself of this in
struction.