The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1915-09-24

Joseph tflp WITHOUT any AGC1OSute,
and We also note that Mrs. GoodhArt
sent him home several days before she
returned, which Just goes to show
Who IL "who" on Goody's ranch. En-,
Goodsp - ...g
j. b. Bsidgmon had his garage
wirej the first Of the week for cleo.
tric lights and now has an up.to date
garage and will handle oil kinds Of re.
pairs and oils for the automobile and
will also do repairing. An elegant
electric sign has been placed on the
front Of the building that Is sure
dandy.
With the permission OF the wealth.
or man, +. 4. Moore expects To SOW
wheat. Mr.. Moore has an oil.pull
day IS soon ~ the ground gets dry
will get on the good side OF the wealth.
er man and get that wheat In the
ground.
Dave Yount and wife and J. G.
Redmond and wife were IN St Joseph
several days last week attending the
big Stockers and Feeders show and
while there they visited the stock
yards and went through one OF the
packing plants. The ladies report
that the men only ran away from
them once while In the "City Worth
While" which Is . pretty good record
for the two gentlemen.
Ben Freeman and his two little
girls, Hazel and Edna, took quite sick
one evening last week Just after sup
per and II II thought they we're poi.
soned by something they had eaten
for their supper. Dr. Hogan was
called and pronounced II . case OF pto.
maine poisoning. and soon had his pa.
tients out OF danger. Little Hazel
WAS the worst OF the three and II took
quite . while to relieve her.
Joe Lauekemper ordered an axle
for his Overland car twice last week
and each tine received the wrong
size, so he took the morning train for
st Joseph, where he had one made
and returning on the evening train,
put the new axle In place and drove
the car home, and the strange part OF
the transaction WAS that ne had On
axle made In st. Joseph cheaper than
the iirm would sell him one.
L. W. Motley returned one day
last week from Brookings, Tex.
where he visited . few days with old
friends, and Paris, Tex., where lie
visited several days with his brother,
william, whom he had not seen for
thirty.nine years. Mr.. Motley says
their corn crop down there has been
gathered and they are now picking
their cotton, which promises TO be Q
fair crop. Mr. Notley's brother lives
In the city, having retired from the
farm several years ago.
County Assessor Perry W. Ram.
say, OF the New Point neighborhood,
WAS interviewing our citizens, one day
last week. Perry WAS winking one
eye toward where the sun should
have been shining In all his glory,
wearing the usual smile. Wonder II
that smile ever comes onS Any old
time that Perry don't get . list.of al
your property, tin wagons and oil,
even though they are four years old
with three wheels In the Junk pile,
we'll, II isn't Perry, that's oil.
Charley and Elmer Barker, the
trst OF the week, purchased through
krusor 4 Co . iirst class threshing
machine outfit. The separator and
engine are brand new; the separator
Il q New Racine and the engine Is q
twenty-five horse power oil'pull en-.
gine that will pull forty five horse.
power on the pulley. Barker Bros.
have about two hundred acres OF
wheat to thresh and expect 10 get
started the middle OF the week.
Thank you, Misses Arkansaw. for
the information about the toads and
we presume that our old friend Caps
conscience Is now clear since he has
confessed, We are informed that In
a trench forty feet long and four feet
wide, which had been dug out for the
fortescue school house foundation,
that there were so many toads In that
trench that they touched each other
and that when workmen began put.
ting In their concrete II was necessary
TO take a scoop shovel and throw them
out. Some toads'
dutch Bill' had the big grad.
Ing machine working on the road be-
tween here and Little Tark, last Mon.
day, pulling the dirt from the Side OF
the road TO the center and automobiles
were going through Monday evening
under their own power, This road
has been In very bad shape oil sum-
mer and has needed grading for some
time. We should liked TO have
had that new road machine try Its
luck on this road. A few Of our citi
zens went TO Mound City Monday to
see the new machine 1t work.
Another big rain OF about two
inches last Friday night that stopped
oil kinds OF work on the farm for sew.
eral days and put the hay men out OF
business again. Seems like when the
weather man gets his hands on those
water faucets he don't know when To
let loose. There was q washout on the
Nodaway Valley line between Clear.
mont and Burlington Junction end
another between Skidmore and Quilt.
man and the morning train from Cls'
rinda WAS detoured via the Ta!kic