Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-14
MISSOURI POINTS.

The Warrensburg baseball club. which
has been having rather hard luck recently,
is counting on easily retrieving its lost
laurels next week when 1t goes against
the Kansas City Blues.
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Reappointed Postmaster Frank Atkinson,
of st. Joe, whose first term reached from
Harrison to Mckinley, was so popular a
citizen of Lexington, where he resided a
number of years. that even the Intelli-
gercer. which has already actively begun
the campaign for the election Of Bryan In
1900. expresses delight at his success.
ses
Lexington's famed hospitality will be
tested this week by the 400 or more dele
gstes to the state Sunday school conven-
ticn. the opening meeting of which Is to
be held tonight. and the result is certain
t. be fiattering.
Aunt Sally Hall. of Kearney, celebrat-
ed her S7th birthday recently by spading
up the ground in her back yard and plant
ing a lot of corn and beans.
F. N. Dyer. Of DeKalb county. who Is a
member of the board of managers Of the
school for the blind, recently ran across
and promptly snapped up while in a sec
ond-hand book store in st. Louis. a geog-
rephy published in 17S5. containing maps
of only the thirteen original states. Mr..
Dyer values his find highly as a relic and
will cherish it in his library.
The sanitary officer was called out sever
al times the other day during the time
that "~carrion lily" was on exhibition In
Carthage by reputable citizens who didn't
understand the situation.
Colonel Harvey Bats. Of Carroll county,
is the owner OF the pony, San Domingo"
said to be the smallest horse in the United
States. The handsome little animal is 8
years old, a blood bay with beautiful name
and tail: is thirty-two inches high and
weighs only 145 pounds.
Insurance Commissioner Ed Orear put
the neat little wad of $500 into his inside
pocket the other day as his compensation
for having negotiated Galloway county's
$500 refunding bond deal.
Ccle county's industrious strawberry
vines are still actively engaged IN produc-
ing. and Jefferson CIty's shipments con-
tinue TO run from 80 to 400 cases a day.
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The annual convention Of the Missouri
Baptist Young Peoples Union opens In st.
Joseph tomorrow FOR q three days ses-
sion, with a probable attendance Of some
300 or more delegates.
49,
A Burlington Junction man has a large
field of alfalfa, the great fodder plant OF
the far West. and it is growing in a way
to indicate that It finds the soil of Noda-
way county most congenial.
The ingratitude OF some men is incom-
prehensible. Gus Leftwich, who was cor
daily given the glad hand when he went
10 Gallatin a short time ago to take charge
of the North Missourian. is already sus-
pected of having secretly connived at a
plot for the organization OF a new brass
band there.
One Of Andrew county's plutocrats Is
preparing to strike Savannah people dumb
with establishment and envy next week by
appearing on the streets with one OF the
new electric horseless carriages.
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A Sedalia youth who Is walking with a
crutch has succeeded In making some OF
his friends believe that his lameness was
caused by having liberated his foot in
stepping on the horns of a mammoth cat
fish while SEEMING for minnows.
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DR.. A. A. Jones, who was for eight years
at the head of Central Female college IT
Lexington, left there with his family last
week, having resigned in order TO accept
the presidency u d siulldT INSTITUTION az
Asheville, n. c.
There was a remarkable movement ir
corn IN Nodaway county last week. Johr
Colvin was the owner Of as promising q
forty-acre field of 1t on Tuesday as Tho
township contained. but between that tint
and Wednesday morning the wire-worms
cut-worms. moles and field mice literally
got away with every spear of 1t.
go
Along with other ~indisputable evidence
of prosperity ST. Joe reports the yield from
the local Pingree potato patches as likely
to be much greater than that of last year
There was a very large preponderance o
girl in the st. Joseph high school clasi
which graduated the other day. the lord