The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1905-03-16

SHORT MISSOURI ITEMS


son near Bland.
Mrs, Mary Kelly OF Mexico. the old.
est resident OF Audrain county. cole
brated her nlnty. fourth birthday last
week.
In telling OF a funeral a wardville
paper says. THE members Of the
family were delighted with the floral
offerings
The newspapers which announced
that the peach crop was killed are be-
ginning to hedge. Now they have Il
almost half killed.
The Fayette Democrat.Leader runs
the names OF its subscribers who pay
upon under the Paid the Printer
Heaven Bless Them"
"A. E. Taylor's iewelry store was
entered by burglars Wednesday night, "
says the wardsville News, and two
hams and a side OF bacon were stolen"
A Galloway county farmer says that
a flock OF 800 crows live on his place.
lie estimates that they have eaten
thirty bushels OF his corn 50 far this
year.
People who cannot get their obit.
uary printed in their home papers
should send il to Middletown Chips.
Chips prints obituary poems each
week.
Clinton. according to the Republi.
can is o 70 see a play the cast OF
which is "the greatest and most ex.
p%erienced a yer put together in
an American play
A man who lives In a johnson coun
y town stopped the local paper last
week. The editor had a piano con-
test" and a girl living next door TO the
man won the instrument.
The Globe tells OF an Atchison ma
who ven TO a Missouri lake with his
dog n morning recently to hunt
ducks. When he reached the lake he
found he'd forgotten his gun.
The editor Of the LaBelle Star saw
a man the other day wearing socks on
ais AeNAA9s AN 0aAA nc uAA MuAt q
mistake and put his mittens on his
feet and didn't have time to change.
Although Representative Stark OF
Pike county is said to have no; intro
duced a single bin into the legislature
during the session, he thinks he de-
serves some credit from the fact that
he has helped 10 kill a good many bad
bills.
The grounding tradition has been
shattered, at least over In Pike county.
A young man caught one Of these AMI.
mails ia n trap. although Il wa sup.
posed 90 be in is den. instead OF nos
ing around on the outside hunting
trouble.
Three water sononing plants are
TO be established on the Iron Moun-
ain railroad Ia Mlssouri-one at Web.
ster. one al De soto and one At Pied.
mont The water along this line Is
unusually hard and Is injurious to loco
motive boilers.
Miss Ruby Fullerton. who was ia.
dicted by a 81 Louis grand jury for
driving her automobile too fast. won
her case in the circuit court The
judge held that the automobile law
was unconstitutional. Miss Fullerton
Formerly lived At AtchisOn. KAs.
Representative Tyndall Of the four
teenth Missouri district is creating
something OF a sensation In Washing.
ton. il Is said. His home Is fourteen
miles from a railroad. and naturally
be Is not onto" city ways. When
someone suggested TO him that a silk
hat vas the most suitable h~eadgcar
for a Congressman he demurred. NE
wear a silk hat with my wife At home
making soapi Not much"
Ajax Fleming OF the Braymer Com.
et has this 10 say about newspaper
subscribers; Subscribers who are
valuable and appreciated are those
who pay regularly every year. The
man who gets behind two. three or
four years. is usually ~disgruntled when
pay time comes. aud finds Il hard to
pay. and frequently feels compelled to
stop taking the paper. Il h a bad idea
IN permit people to run" two and
three yeas.
A girl named orelup who lives At
Pllger. Neb. underwent an operation
for appendicitis al 80, Joseph recently.
When she returned home her father
announced In a PilgeF paper hat an
those who wiahar 20 see an appendix
would be accommodated II they would
call az his home. Il have the offend.
ing organ IN alcohol. be said. Since
tho announcement came out there
have been two appendix parties held
AZ his home.
The rooehiiy issued catalogue OF
the State university announces that a
professor OF Journalism" viii be ap.
pointed September !. 1906. The
chair OF Journalism. which was estab-
lshed years ago. has never been filled.
Ed brown OF ROoheport celebrated
his 18th birthday anniversary Febru.