The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-10
HAPPENINGS
of The sOeek
IN MISSOURI

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a majority of 116. Eight years ago
the wet majority was 500. The vote
in Weston was 1874 dry to 400 wet.
Twenty-three precincts outside of
Weston gave a dry majority of 100.
Drydale, a wet majority of Sc. Farley
went wet by &C majority. only eleven
casting their ballots against the sa.
looms. The employees of the Royal
Brewing Company, located at Weston,
voted solidly wet, this being respon.
sible for the large wet majority. Park.
Vile furnished a dry majority Of 122.
A tornado struck recently in Mont.
gomery county. Several buildings were
damaged, but no one was hurt. A
church was blown down at Jonesburg.
The rain will greatly benefit the crops.
Fred Schuchnect, SO years old, died
at his home near Bevier the other day.
He settled there more than forty-five
years Ago.. He leaves a widow and sew.
eral children.
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George H. OIendorf, IS year old,
a veteran Snowman of the old school,
is dead in Springfield. He had nan
aged theaters in st. Joseph and
Springfield, being until recently a
member of the Bell, Olendorf & Bal
lard Amusement Company, which con-
trolled sixteen airdomes.
These officers were elected at the
annual meeting of the Confederate
Home Association of Missouri at Hig-
g%insville: Frank Gaienne, st. Louis,
president; G. w. Landlord, Marshall,
vice president; ]. w. Halliburton,
Carthage, secretary; H. F. Campbell,
Higginsville, treasurer.
Posses in autos and afoot recently
secured the northern part of Jasper
county for a lone bandit who walked
into the Neck City bank, locked V.
Long, cashier, and L. Hegle, assistant
cashier, in the vault and escaped in
a motor a with 1850.
.
Capt. William Smith Baker, 81 years
old, who served in the Confederate
army, is dead in Sedalia. Captain
Baker had lived in that city since
1865. He was a grocer and was a di.
rector in one Of the banks.
Col. A. D. Endsley, prominent stock.
a and auctioneer Of Ray county,
died the other evening at his home
near Richmond. He was II years old
and was a native of Ray county.
Missouri postal clerks and carriers
concluded a two days convention al
Joplin after electing officers and Sc
lecting meeting places for next year
The clerks voted to meet next in Kan
a City and elected these officers
J, ]. Kean of Jefferson City, president
D. S. Bollinger of Cape Girardeau
vice president; Wilbur F. Horton o.
Kansas City, secretary; Frank Ben
nett Of Joplin, treasurer.
With not a gray hair in her head
and perfect possession Of all her men
tai faculties, Mrs. Sarah Douglass
held court at the home of her son
Charles s. Douglass, one mile east OF
Butler recently, and received congrat
ulations of many friends and relatives
on the occasion of her 91st birthday
]. G. Wallace, a lawyer and ex-Con,
federate veteran, a captain in Gen
Sterling Prices army, fell from a laS'
der in his garden at Keytesville re.
Gently and was killed.
While lowering a timber in the
Baldwin mine at Aurora, it fell TWEEN.
ty feet, striking William F. Black, a
miner, and crushed his skull. He
was so years old and had a wife and
two children.
st. Joseph's 166 saloons must close
every morning from l to 5 o'clock by
the terms of a city ordinance passed
by the council recently. Mayor Elliott
Marshall signed it at once. The sa-
looms now close from midnight Satur-
day to midnight Sunday. This will
still be in effect, and the dramshops
will be open from midnight to ]
o'clock every Monday morning.
Joseph B. Williams, 16 years old,
son of Mayor Henry Williams of Pa
cific, drowned recently while swim
ming in the Meramec river. Two com.
panions who tried to rescue him mar
rowly escaped death.
Mrs. James c Kelly, so years old,
who came to Lafayette county in 1851,
died recently. Her husband and Wal
ter Duncan OF Bloomfield, a brother,
survive.
Henry Bildridge, former city mar
shall of Centralia, was acquitted by
a jury in the Galloway county circuit
court of the charge of murder in con.
nection with the killing of DR.. ]. Q.
Cooper. The jury deliberated twelve
hours.
Thomas B. Rodgers, twenty-seven
years assistant adjutant general OF
the Department of Missouri, Grand
Army of the Republic, is dead in St
Louis. During the Civil war he was
lieutenant colonel of the l40th Penn