Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-07-24
NEWS FROM MISSOURI,


organize q "Folk-for-Governor' club
at Liberty.
lege, ParkviIle, announces an offer
from DR.. u. X. Pearsons, of Chicago.
Of $4,000 on condition that $4,000 ad-
ditional be raised. DR.. Pearsons makes
this gift in memory Of the founder
and former president, the late DR..
John A. McAfee.
Arrangements are making for the
annual state reunion OF confederate
veterans to be held in Columbia, Sep
TENDER "a, 25 and &c. Gen. Odon
Guitar, who was in command of the
Ninth Missouri, federal troops, and one
of the strongest union men in Missouri,
has been invited to deliver the welcom-
ing address, which will be responded
to by ex-senator George G. Vest.
1t Is an assured fact that the project
ed electric line between Carthage and
Springfield will be built. The new road
will pass Nichols through the west
ern part of Greene county and run
through Lawrence county to Paris
Springs, thence to Mount Vernon and
through Stools City on to Carthage,
where it will connect with the South
west Missouri electric railway.
Two negroes, Sterling Johnson and
Henry Diggs, escaped from the Column
bia Jail the other night. Digs seems
to have been the leader and, although
he had a 1G-pound shackle on his foot,
managed to break it some way during
the day with the hammer he used on
the rock pile, so that he could finish
the work at night without detection.
After freeing himself from the shackle
a bar from the window was broken
and the escape made.
The agricultural college of the Uni.
versity of Missouri has published a
bulletin on chinch bugs. II advises
farmers to burn up old brush heaps
in the spring in which bugs are sure
to spend the winter; to spray the edges
OF cornfclds with a solution of kerO-
sene when the bugs are migrating;
to prepare dusty belts around the field
with deep bitches running The length
of them with an occasional post hole
into which the bugs will fall when
passing.
Prof. J. A. Ankey, professor Of free
hand drawing in Missouri university,
will leave about the LIST of August for
Paris, where he will study during next
year. His place in the department Of
free hand drawing will be taken by
Miss Alexandria NJ. Blumbcrg. Miss
Blumberg spent seven years in Paris
as a student in the Julian and Coio-
rossi schools and in the studio of NJ.
Courtois, and has exhibited in the
salons OF Paris and in Holland, Ger
many me France.
1t is probable that before another
year Boone county will contain sew
eral hundred acres more land than at
the present time. Several months ago
dikes we're constructed by the thrifty
railroad bottom on the Missouri river
in order to save their land from being
washed away. The bikes not only did
this, but they are changing the cur
rent OF the river so that a large guam
tity Of ole and Cooper county sol!
is being washed over to the Boone
county side of the river and Is being
added TO the Burlington railroad
bottom farms.
Thomas J. Mosteller, of Hazel Run.
st. Francois county, without doubt IL
the biggest man in Missouri. lie
weighs $50 pounds, having gained 40
Dounds in the last year. His father and
mother both were of ordinary size and
weight, his mother being rather
smaller than the average. Mr.. Mostcl-
Ter. therefore, is unable to explain his
unusual weight. He was large and
strong when young, but gained in
weight most after his 25th year. At
an ordinary meal he consumes five
pounds Of fresh meat and drinks two
gallons of water. A gallon OF water
is an ordinary drink for him. In his
younger lays he used liquor and tobac-
co in moderation. He still smokes,
but does not drink. He Is especially
fond Of meats and sweet things. He
Is a farmer. Although he Is not able
to do much work. he gets around by
means of a stout cane.
The University of Missouri Is making
greater efforts than ever before to Sc
cure a large attendance during the
winter session. The members OF the
board OF curators are thorough be-
levers in the efficiency OF printers
ink and have made a large %appropria-
ton for Advertising. A new officer has
beer added TO the university, who
looks after the advertising and sup
plies the country papers with news
notes of interest about the university.
Advertising contracts have been closed
with practically all the leading news
papers of the state. and the advertise