The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-12
HAPPEWINGS
OF TIE sOeek
IN o

or Tbe 6veeE
IN MISSOURI
Mrs. Anna Bittinger, widow Of Maj.
John L. Bittinger, for many years
prominent in public life in Missouri,
is dead at the home Of her sister, Mrs.
t. ]. Chew in st. Joseph. Mrs. Bit
finger was 81 years old and had lived
in st. Joseph almost continuously for
fifty years.
Harry McGinnis, % years old. OF
Columbus, Kan, is dead at. Joplin
from a broken neck. The injury was
sustained when McGinnis, who was
swimming in Shoal creek, dove from
a tree limb into three feet Of water,
despite the warning Of friends.
When Samuel Bryant, a negro pris-
oner, broke Jail at Platte City, a posse
went in pursuit. Bryant jumped into
the Platte river to swim across and
was drowned.
W. E. Larvelier was killed and D.
Westfield probably fatally injured
when a charge of dynamite they were
preparing to fire in the Yale mine
near Carthage exploded p~rematurely.
w. S. D. Lamont, rector of the
Holy Trinity Episcopal church at st.
Joseph, has resigned to accept a call
to st. Phillips church, in Trenton.
Much corr on the higher lands is
past help says the weekly weather
and crop bulletin issued at Columbia.
'On heavier soils and in the bottoms
It is somewhat more promising and
a heavy general rain will make a fair
crop"
Complete returns from the First
district of Missouri give Judge NJ. A.
Romjue, candidate for congress, a
lead of 473 over Senator Charles Car
ter of Kirksville.
The summer session of the Univer-
sity of Missouri has closed The en-
rollment this year reached 1874, two
hundred more than that of any pre-
vious year.
The prolonged drouth which pre-
walls over southern Missouri and
northern Arkansas is resulting in un-
precedented receipts of live poultry
at Springfield and the five large
packing concerns there are taxed to
handle the shipments. Farmers are
beginning to feel concern ove the
shortage of feed and are rushing their
poultry to market while the fowls are
fat.
The acreage of vacant government
land in Missouri is now the smallest
in the history of the state, according
to a report just completed by John
H. Bowen, register of the United
States land office at Springfield. There
are but 1872 acres subject to cash OF
homestead entry. Ozark county leads
with 211 acres and Shannon county
is second with 12S acres.
The will of Colonel w. H. Phelps,
filed for probate at Carthage, leaves
his entire estate, which is valued at
about 81. 900, 900, to the widow and the
three children, William H. Phelps,
Jr., Mrs. Florence Phelps-Roberts of
Omaha, Neb., and George Emmett
Phelps, the latter a child by his Sec
ond wife.
A complete new code of laws for
Missouri children is embodied in the
preliminary report of the Missouri
code commission, appointed by Gov
ernor Major in June, 1915. A final
report will be submitted to the next
legislature.
Oliver Holmes, so years old, former
postmaster at Blue Springs, is dead
at the home of his s~on-in-law, Charles
Middleton of Oak Grove.
Returns received show that Repre-
sentative c. w. Hamlin of the Sew
enth district has been nominated by
the Democrats. His majority over
Sam w. Major of Fayette was 12S.
Sigmund Brugger, 55 years old, was
killed and four others were injured,
two probably fatally, when a motor
car in which they were riding upset
northwest of Springfield.
Blaine Vawter, 80 years old, a coal
miner, was probably fatally injured
in mine &C of the Central Coal and
Coke Company at Bevier. He has a
wife and two small children.
Robbers broke into the ~postoffice
at Gait recently and stole ten cents
and the postmaster's watch. All other
money and stamps had been put in
the safe the night before.
Waiter T. Shoop, So years old,
Democratic presidential elector from
the Third Congressional District, vice.
president of the Missouri Retail Hard
ware Dealers" association and ex-
mayor of Richmond, is dead at his
home in Richmond.