The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1905-04-20

: SHORT MISSOURI ITEMS ]


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Slater Is bDastinr over me fact that
she u 70 have a new hiah school buiid
Ing. new water poweF plant and street
paving.
Governor Polk recently ~purchassd
a span % fine horses a. Mexico. He
paid $500 for the team. which IL soTrei
geidings.
M0nett II 10 nave q new high school
and the Star h~nnounc thar the
school board viii locate e ~ c~entraliy
as possible.
a highway and interurban electric
railroad bridge on the Winner piers a.
Kansas City ~ said 50 be . possibility
Of ihe near future.
Governor Folk II receiving lnnumer-
social. ~educaiioal and religious sources
-enongh. In fact, 10 keep several men
busy II all were accepted.
Twp hundred candidates from AdaiK.
Shelby and Macon counties were III
Quoted into the page rank. knlghts Of
Pythias. recently at Macon.
Solemn warnings from representa-
ives both Of the moral and the civil
law are being placed befor the erring
boys at lacking the churches while
services are on.
J. f. Crumbangh OF Columbia has
been appointed BY the Missouri
commissioners Of the Portland exposit-
ion, general superintendent Of TIE
Missouri exhibit.
e. D. Tingie. editor Of the Wellington
News, dropped dead last Saturday and
his demise is attributed TO heart
TROUBLE. Mr.. Tinrle was born In
Maryland. July 4. 1870.
BY the accidental explosion Of a
blast in q sewer ditch AZ Kansas City
Tuesday five workman we're injured
One Of the men, Bert Rector, died rs
a result OF his injuries.
Miss Eighty-One Turiey Of Mexico,
has closed her school at Benton City.
The reader Is left to guess whether
Miss Turley Is 81 years old or wheather
she was born in 1881.
William Dixon. II years Of age. was
arrested at Joplin on the charge Of
desertion from the United States army
at Fort Riley. Kan. Young Dixon was
taken TO Leavenworth.
81. Louis is contemplating the e
pendlture OF S~2.000.000 ia the on
%struchon. reconstruction and extension
Of public sewers and the purchase Of
land for such purposes.
About twenty-five or thirty man
ufaeturing plants at Kansas City, M
to be equipped with oil burning machin'
cry in the near future. This viii help
the home producers some.
Princeton is TO have a brickyard
and the people Of the town see a time
ahead when they won't have planks
flying up and hitting them as they
pass along the sidewalks
A Wardsyiile man ordered some
grape fruit from a st. Joseph fruit
dealer recently. When II was delivered
10 him he sent Il back saying the
aanted grape fruit, mol oranges
A Castieyfle editor Is provoked az
a fellow citizen. The editor prepared
n fine obituary for the man when be
was sick recently and even lad Il set
In type. Then the man got we'll.
An Usage society Of negro women
called The Daughters OF Peace. 'engas
ed In \ dispute owe something at a
meeting recently and the town
marshal had to quell the disturbance,
The Missouri state university is not
: ashamed OF the fact that IL was enRhl
ed 10 enter upon its career Ok useful
ness by a donation 81 5000 from Ed
ward Campiin. who could neither read
nor write.
The barn belonging to billiard
iRhodus. shout 2 miles south o. Lawson.
was struck by lightning Monday night
and burned 10 the ground. TWO horses
and one mule Rs well as a lot Of feed.
was consumed.
More men from Missouri passed the
January qualifying examination for the
Rhodes scholarship than from any
other state IN the Union. OF a total
nf sixty-seyen men who passed. slx are
from Missouri
Ex-volunleers In Butler have
organized the Guthrie camp OF United
Spanish-Americah War Veterans,
naming u In memory o. the late
Major q. y Guthrie Of the Sixth
Missouri infantry.
A Southwest Missouri paper came
out last week and announced that
poace had been declared and Japan
would pay Russia half q billion dollars
indemnity. How many did the editor
have the night beforeT
A gray eagle measuring eight feet
from ZIP "a tip. was shot the other day
near Egypt No. BY a man who was
aboard q train running n the rate 81
twenty-five miles per hOar. and while
the eagle was nyinE
Eidorado Springs Is making = strong
fight Tor the state noFmal school 10 Dc
located in Southwest Missouri. The
Commercial club OF that city has
secured the oution on twenty acres oi
land and offers a bonus % ai0.0oo
cash
Charles W leppor 81 n~rooknold
has been selected as the state u~niyersi.
q representative FOR the Rhodes rchol.
asShip 10 be awarded this sumter.