The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1916-07-14

invention Of a sofa, which splits at
one minute past ten. one half carry
ing the girl upstairs to bed, and the
other taking the young man out at the
front door. Editor Morehcad. of the
Hopkins journal. says it won't work
in Hopkins. that the young folks are
always on the same end of the sofa,
and that ut 1901 both would be car
ried together, either upstairs or out
the front door.
The Republicans of Hopkins town
ship in Nodaway county are talking
of forming q Hughes and Fairbanks
club, each member to grow a full
beald a. evidence of his loyalty to
the hcwhiskered national candidates.
Stanbcrry soon will start work on
six miles Of sewers. Hopkins figures
itself better town than Stanberry.
and announces that sewer system
ana pavcd streets will be its nim IN
the near future.
Cloarmont voted unanimously for
the electric light franchise. permitting
the Maryv'llc company to build it,
tran .mission lines into that place.
The vote was SO for and none against.
Tic Fifth District State Normal at
MAJ willie has just been granted fol-
college rank by the conference Of col
leg presidents and state Supcrin-
tcndrnt Gass. This gives a four-year
cour.c in the Maryvillc Normal the
sane value as like period in the
State University.
Just one week after arriving from
Arkansas to visit his grandparents
ncar Albany. Nodra Mars, aged L.,
was drowned while bathing in Grand
River. by sad coincidence his only
brother was drowned at about the
sane age ut Little Rock, Arkansas.
-four years ago.
Grant City's churches have Joined
In taking arrangements for union
revival 10 begin July 90.
The body found in the river, nj
Noiaway. was finally identified at Sa-
vanuah. Friday. as that Of Miss RoNic
Groves. Of Wahoo. Nebraska. and her
drowning H. supposed To- have been
suicidal because Of dependency over
n love affair.
The Missionary Conference will
open al Tarkio. on Jolly q. Alrcad, :
delegates from as fnraway n Idaho
and Pennsylvania have engaged rooms
for their stay in Tarkio during the
conference.
In the recent true story contest
of the Chicago Herald. Prot. !. Val.
ancc lruwn. of Tarkio. wa- one Of tho
winners. with the story entitled "Tho
lCluvcn IIoof." published June 30. Ills
prize consists of n free trip to Glacier
National Park.
Since the final closing of IT, IN :,
saloon. Maryvillc reports no,iccabl,
lo- -"ning Of arrests. The city Jail has
been empty much Of the time sine,
Tie town really became dry early In
June.
The Tarkio Avalanche reports IN,
discovery Of a corrugated snake. TIL,
IWifc Of the foreman on the lIanni
ranch, near Tarkio. complained to Mr.
Hanna that something was stealing
her eggs. After n search over th,
premises, Mr.. Hanna found n bul
make OF immense size and it, CORFU
gated appearance led to an cxamina
tion which showed that Il just swal
lowed u eggs.
Charley Smith and Charley Wallac,
finished planting corn yesterday af'
tcrnoon. then decided to have q swim
One of them was smoxing and whcr
they wen, into the water he left hi,
pipe with the pile Of clothing. Whcr
they came out Of the water they foun,
that the pipe had gone right on smok
ing and had used all the clothing cx
cent one shoe. They wrapped them
selves In the storm robe from ,hcil
buggy and went to the nearest hous,
to borrow more adequate garb.--
Clcarmont News.
A Maysvillc woman. Mrs. T. u
Hobbs, has probably the record drov,
OF young turkeys for this part of III,
state. for she has 3G0 of them, oil do
ing nicely. She made q record hatcl
this spring with 75-cgg incubator
bringing Off - young turks at I
single hatch.
The first number of the Missouri
Writers Guild News, a new magazin,
devoted TO the interests of Missouri
writers and newspaper men contain
some news with reference to the sue
cess OF Northwest Missouri writer
~. Breckenridge Ellis, of platt sburp