Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-03-02
Otems Of Interest.

Homer Porter, who lives near Lathrop,
killed his father with a shotgun because
he insisted on selling his farm against
the wishes Of his wife. The dead mans
brother killed his father in Kentucky for |
a similar reason.
A practicing attorney, keeping regular
Office hours, though 80 years old. Oldest
living graduate Of the Missouri State
University, and a member Of the class Of
46, are soine Of the distinctions very
modestly claimed by Luther r. Collier Of
Kansas City, says the Kansas City Star.
Homer Croy Of Maryville. who was
editor-in- chief Of the post. Dispatch
Junior" which the class in Journalism
at the Missouri State University prepar.
ell for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last
Sunday, has been the recipient this week
Of tender missives from young ladies
who would like to correspond with him,
some of them suggesting that they would
not be averse to matrimony.
The editor of the Nardin, Okla, Star
says he received a letter the other day
from a man who had taken the Star for
ten years without paying for II that lie
would be in February 2 and pay up. He
I says he may have started but fears he
saw his shadow.
"Can you gimme a bite, ma'am?"
said the ragged hobo. "I'm hungry
cnufhter eat a boss" ~ regret to say"
replied the kind lady, that we are just
out Of horses; but I'll call the dog"
Once a Kansas school teacher was
explaining TO a class in the first grade
the damage that had been done to fruit
trees by worms, and then told how the
English sparrows had been imported to
kill the worms, and that the sparrows
had increased so in numbers that they
had become as bad as had the worm,
Noticing that the boys were not very
attentive, she said to one of them:
Tommy, which do you think are the
worse, the worms or the sparrows?'
81 don't know" said Tommy, ~ never
had the s~parrows."
Iu tllV wv vi VI
who had improved a lot. When the lot
sale was held and the lots we're bringing
high prices and the bidding was spirited
the auctioneer raised his gavel over this
lot. Someone stepped forward and stat
ed TO the crowd that the lot belonged to
a widow aud that shs wanted TO bid.
She stepped up and bid $50, the appraised
I price OF the lot. No one would bid
against her and the lot was sold at that
price. 1t was worth twenty timee that.
Then someone said: Here is dollar to
help pay the twenty" Everybody chip
ped in and $50 was raised and donated to
the widow by the crowd. She pale for
her lot and had SO left.
The Missouri Kansas Herald, Minden
recently struck the key note in a column
editorial on tile mail order business,
1T is not cheap prices SO much as get
ting before the buying public the things
they will buy and pay for. While the
local merchants are bowling about the
success of the big Chicago houses they
are "eSisS''hS Tic opportunity tha'
made them possible and are starving the
printers. These big houses apend thou
sands of dollars every year in advertising
no in newspaper advertising, because
thh editors, as a unit stand by Their
home towns and refuse their business al
any price. Deiniteness is the key note
of advertising and the only way, in Oul
opinion, to do up the mail order house.
is to turn their own weapons upon them
The buying public would almost to
unit rather patronize the home mer
chants. 1t isn't a matter OF prejudice
hut lack Of enterprise on the part of onl
merchants