Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-07
MISSOURI POINTS.

The Joplin police court knows its business
Among the 12i cases tried therein during
June there was but one acquittal.
$50
Walter Wheatley. a Carthage tenor sing
er, has been called to the choir OF one OF
the leading churches of Chicago on a trial
engagement.
Evangelist Saul is successfully using the
hades-like temperature this week as an
object lesson for the beneht of the ulre-
generate in Ashland.
A Joplin organization has succeeded to
the honors and uniforms dotted by the
Clinton musicians as the officially recog-
n;zed Second Regiment band.
Six arc and forty incandescent lights are
what Pennington is to get for the S14O0
which it is to pay the electric light com
Eany annually for the next ten years.
Lawson is, it is believed. the first Mis-
souri, town to officially quit the curfew law.
although there are man others in which
it has become practically a lead letter.
St. Joseph expects to contribute about
fifty of the four hundred Epworth
Leaguers who will constitute Missouri's
delegation to the convention in Toronto,
Canada. next week:
Captain Hornheck. formerly sheriff Of
Cooper county. will draw $5 a month inc
keep for himself and family during tie
next four years as steward and secretary
OF the Fulton deaf and dumb asylum.
$50
They say there are Populists in Monroe
City who declare they can discern the out
lines of the octopus in the shadow cast by
the new 5000 gallon storage tank recently
erected by the Standard Oil Company there.
The cost of caring for Livingston coun-
tvs insane people for the last six months
was 5000 greater thar for a similar term
ever before. And yet there are no signs
of q cessation of hostilities among the
Ckillicothe politicians.
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some of the gilded youth OF Joplin who
exploited their patriotism through the me
dunn Of giant powder are wondering where
they can dig up the $40 with which to pay
for the plate glass they broke.
Charles II. Gage. of Springfield. expects
to receive official notification shortly that
his piece of pie. in the shape of an appoint
nCnt as mine inspector, is ready for him.
NJ. Gage is distantIy related to the secre-
tary Of the treasury.
That the fodder instinct in Greene county
naturally leads toward the court house
was again illustrated the other day when
a stray blind horse in Springfield wan
dcred through the corridors and into Re
cCTder Dalrymple's office before being in
tercepted.
The women writers of St. joseph have
elected Mrs. E. S. Kercheval president and
Mrs. Laura Harnois corresponding secre-
tary Of their association. They will send
a delegate to the meeting of the National
Press Association at Nashville in October.
From the fact thai he visits Columbia
and other places away from home less fire.
quently than has been his custom the Her
figures it out that Lieutenant Colonel
d.. Gray. the battle SCARED bachelor
who edits the Sturgeon Leader. is saving
his money with a view to matrimony.
During a recent severe storm the 81
ninG struck a big tree on the premises of
Julius Rumpel. in Weston. and went into
the earth with such force as to plow up
the ground for many feet around. A relic
Of bysone days was unearthed. in the
Of an ancient Indian tomahawk.
Sin lectures in economic entomology are
to be a feature Of the course in the uni