Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
POINTS.

IIJN EUIIUT WUIIdCk, OF JIG IIUIIIIIUdT
Journal, has been made city clerk in his
town.
Work has begun on the erection Of quite
an expensive Ferd Helm structure in Rich
Hill. 1t isn't an exedra, however; just a
wholesale beer depot.
Building is going on extensively there
and stock shipments have already begun
from Colonel Aliens new town of Mel
bourne on the o. X. extension.
Hot weather dullness is so severely felt
in Sedalia that even the local constable
has been compelled to lay off a couple Of
deputies until business picks up in the
fall"
joplin News: "Wanted-Red headed girls
to follow the white horse brigade in the
Bryan procession at Carthage on Thurs
day. For further particulars see small
bills"
Professors MarbUt and Yantis, of the
state university. are making a skiff tour
of the Marais des Cygnes and the Usage
rivers for purposes of geological investiga-
ton.
The wheat harvest which is in progress
in Pettis county this week promises less
than half the usual yield. many fields
averaging only from six to ten bushels an
acre.
Services in the opera house, with music
by a choir of 100 voices on the side as Il
special attraction, are in contemplation in
Sedalia as a means of reaching local SIN
ners who stay away from church in hot
weather.
Warden Stark is being most vigorously
dashed by one of his own party organs,
the Fayette Democrat-Banner, for having
re-established the whipping post in the
penitentiary.
Even the croakers will have to give up
and admit that IL 1t isn't perceptible now
it soon will be, in view of the fact that the
General Improvement Company was in
~corporated at Jefferson City the other day.
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The Springfield preachers and others who
lave started on a hot chase for the scalps
either of the lawbreakers or those in au-
thority who fail TO suppress them, have
organized a civic federation. with DR.. c. C.
Woods as president.
The prosperity wind waited a little straw
over into Chillicothe the other day in the
shape of a rs per cent increase in working
time for all the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST.
Paul employees there.
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If Jefferson City fails TO get into the
swim 1t will be owing to no lack of effort
on the part of Colonel Joe Cooper. the cap
itaTs representative athlete, who chal-
lenges any swimmer in the state to a con-
test for the championship.
a
Schrader, the fake healer" for whom
JEFF City had prepared a stuffed club re-
ception had he visited there in accordance
with the announced arrangement, went to
Iowa from st. Louis. and is said to be
creating a furore among the suckers there.
A Springfield wholesale house, presuma-
bly, with the p~hilanthropic purpose OF in
culcating ideas of frugality among the boys
taken into it's employ. starts them along on
the highway toward financial independence
at the encouraging compensation of $50 a
year.
There seems to be an almost universal
disposition on the part OF the smaller
towns throughout the state to return to
the old-fashioned, Declaration of indie
pendence, patriotic Grafton, basket dinner
in the grove style of Fourth of July cele-
bration this year.
Perry RAIDER, Of Charlton county, may
have the inside track for appointment by
the supreme court as it's official reporter.
but it might not be entirely easy to con-
vince either Frank Brown, OF Cole county;
Ed Mann. of Dade; Judge Fox, of Farm
ington; Major Dennis. of Cape Girardeau:
A NJ. Berry, Of st. Louis, or Judge Dorsey
Shackleford, of Cooper county, that he
isn't in the race until after the Judges have
announced their decision.
The "oldest inhabitant" among the forty
FIVE inmates of the Jasper county poor
house is a woman well along in years who
boasts of having been there nearly a quar-
tec of a century. One of the recipients OF
| the ~county's charity is a tall, handsome,
intelligent looking man, with snowy hair
and mustache, who was at one time a
member of the legislature in the state of
| Delaware. His name is W. c. Jump. He
is a sufferer from partial paralysis. An
other interesting inmate is a man named
Morgan who is past 30 years of age. He is
one of a set Of bankruptcies, born in North
Carolina, all four of whom lived and were
strong and hearty. Their father was in
the United States army at the time of the
remarkable increase in his family, but on
receipt Of the news he was given an hon.
orabie discharge and told to go home and
take care of his babies.
a Pr0Of of IMPROVEMENT.