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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-08-25
CHAUTAUQUA CLOSED
No Contract Made For Next
Season. Receipts Less than
Expenses. Fairly Good
Program

Chautauqua Company closed its
weeks engagement here. With
a few exceptions the numbers
were fairly good all thru and
some were unusually good, but
the main drawing features lack
ed pulling qualities and the
Con merclal Club got stuck as
usual and should for taking such
ventures.
We reviewed in last weeks
issue the program as rendered
until Thursday. Thursday after
noon the audience was disap.
pointed by the appearance of
Baer or some such name who
came to fill the place of C. C.
Jesse. Baer and his travelling
companion, Clayton H. Staples,
arrived Wednesday afternoon
and gave the passengers in the
street car sample of their wit
and humor. 1t was a fair sample
and their performances on the
stage were of the same variety
of high class Smart Aleck tom
foolery of the disgusting kind.
Staples has learned how to crayon
three or four tolerable pictures
but spoils his work by what he
evidently believes to be bright
remarks but which all his audi
ences must know to be vaporings
from a feeble mind. Baer has
nothing whatever to his credit,
and the pair completely disgusted
several young women passen-
gers on the car whose attention
the buns appeared to be most
desirous of attracting.
4 DR.. 7. Alex Cairns was well
received and his lecture highly
appreciated with the exception
of that part he devoted to wo-
men suffrage. DR.. Cairns is of
a pattern with apostles of DR..
Anna Howard Shaw and Carolina
Cecilia Gait, but outmeasures
the average lecturer when he
sticks to his proper mission.
The Quivira Quintette was
pretty punk, but punkest when
trying to sing. On their punkin
stalk instruments they perform
ed fairly well for amateurs, but
the plaintive wailings which they
produced under the title of songs
was little less than excrutiating
at times.
What the Commercial Club ex,
pected to pull out of the hole on
was DR.. Frederick Cooks story
of how he attained the pole, to-
gether with tie University Girls
Saturday afternoon and evening,
J but their hopes were sadly dis
appointed. DR.. Cooks fake
claims about having climbed Mt.
Mckinley and later discovering
the North Pole were too we'll
known to the general public to
: draw fifty cents from many
pockets to hear him repeat them.
DR.. Cooks book on the sub
J iect of the north pole excursion
: which now sells for so cents in
J stead of its first price of $500 is
much more interesting than his
lecture and the fact that the
price of the book dropped so far
may be explained when the rea-
son for his being on one of the
smallest chautauqua circuits in
stead of getting $4,000 for a
single lecture is understood.
The University Girls were not
the same as those at our neigh
boring city last year in feature,
, form or fiubdubbery except three
or four of them whose presence
was necessary to make the squad
preseutable at all. The clarinet
ist and trap drummer were the
only musicians in the bunch and
the 200 pound diva might have
sung a little if she had not tried
SO hard, but her herculean efforts
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-08-25
Salisbury Scribblings


Friday night, and for a time
was a very sick man, but soon
rallied and is now about normal
again.
During the storm Monday
night a large barn belonging to
John Finnell north of town was
destroyed by fire, supposed to
have been caused by a stroke
of lightning. Some insurance.
DR.. R. C. Sweeney returned
from a visit to Kansas City
Monday night accompanied by
his friend Dana Munsell.
Hon. U. S. Hall has been here
several days since our last in
the interest of his school, the
Pritchett Institute.
The death of Senator Wallace
caused profound regret here as
he had many friends in this part
of the county.
The gospel meetings started
at the Presbyterian church here
Sunday by Rev. C. F. McCurry,
did not draw we'll and were dis
continued.
Word comes from Perry, Okla.
of the death of Mrs. Rebecca
Redding, widow of the late John
W. Redding, one time merchant
here. Deceased was sister of
DR.. Perkinson deceased and was
highly esteemed. Remains
were buried at Enid Okla, be-
side those of her son, Paul,
The fellow who can pat in a
sewerage system issuing bonds
therefor, without increasing
taxes "one cent? (?) should
patent the idea, az he can sell to
every city in the land.
Judge Minter came over Mon
} day to visit his brother-in-law
w. C. Moredock who is seriously
ill.
Minter Moredock and wife of
st. Louis are here at the bedside
of the formers father.
Frank Wall whose wife died
some weeks ago will sell out and
perhaps go back to N. W. Mo.
whence he came.
All our sick folks except W.
C. Moredock are improving, and
he about holds his own.
E. B. Kellogg of the Courier
was over Tuesday hustling for
his paper and taking in the
sights.
John Bayne Of Hamden left
Wednesday for Colorado to avoid
hay fever, as the rag weed is
in bloom and the sneeze is on the
job.
Richd. Steighing is entertain.
ing his father and sister this
, week.
) Lon Perkins, printer, blew in
Wednesday to greet his old
friends.
Elmer Straub has a very sore
hand, and is taking extra pains
to avoid blood poison.
Mrs. Bud Simmons and Miss
, Minnie M. Phelps have under.
, gone operations for appendicitis
since our last. Both doing well.
Mrs. Roxie Fellows of Colum,
bia was here on business Wed
!. nesday.
| Our chautauqua begins Thurs
day of the week and continues
} seven days.
Mrs. H. L. Hayes and Miss
Ruth Ainsworth have returned
from extended visits to the west,
There is a new girl at the
, home of Henry Lobe.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-08-25
SENATOR WALLACE DEAD
Leading Physician and Surgeon
Stricken making Call
Brunswick Mourns

Wallace was making a profess
sional call a short distance from
his hotel, he became sick and
reaching the house, took a seat
and remarked about the Steep
ness of the steps and said that
he had eaten too heartily at sup
per. He began to feel worse
Immediately and asked Joe Tur-
ner at whose house he had call
ed, to make him a toddy.
Turner hastened to comply but
in a few moments DR.. Wallace
told him it was too late, that it
was all over. Physicians
were called Immediately, but
when the first one arrived he
saw at a glance that nothing
could be done to relieve the
stricken man and in about fifteen
minutes from the time of the at
tack on his heart, DR.. John S.
Wallace had passed into the il
limitable beyond.
John Snoddy Wallace was born
April 25 1S49 near Glasgow. His
father, John S. Wallace was born
in Kentucky in 1901, having set
tied near Glasgow at an early
date, and except for a trip with
the 49rs on which he started a
few hours after the birth of the
subject of this sketch, lived for
years on the old homestead. His
father died in 1851, leaving his
widow, and children, Mrs. Maria
Davis who died July | 1912, Mrs.
Margaret Fristoe of Cape Girar-
deau, Mo-, Mrs. Susan A. Head
of Palmyra, Mo-, Capt. Jas. c.
Wallace who died June 80 at this
city, DR.. Robert Bruce Wallace
who died in Union Neb. Sept. II
1901, Idress E. Wallace, who
died in 1876. A half sister, OF
John S. Wallace. Mrs. Perry s.
RAIDER of Jefferson City miss
Bennie Younger) and sisters
mentioned, are the only immedi-
ate surviving relatives.
DIR. Wallace spent the early
part of his life on the old home
stead, going to school at Pritch-
ett College where he completed
his education then taking up the
studay of medicine in the office
of DIR. |. P. Vaughn at Glasgow.
After about two years with DR..
Vaughn, DR.. Wallace went to
Ann Arbor Medical College,
took the course there and then
to Bellevue in New York where
he completed his medical and
surgical studies. In 1873 DR..
Wallace began the practice Of
medicine at Brunswick and with
the exception of a time in Den
yer and later in st. Louis amour.
ting to about six years, his en-.
tire professional life was spent
in this community and in the elec.
ton in 1914 was overwhelmingly
elected state senator. DR.. Wal.
lace was a Shriner, Knight Tenn.
plar and one of the most prom.
inent members of the Masonic
fraternity at Brunswick. He
was a past president of the med.
ical society and had the reputs.
ton of being one of the best
diagnosticians in the state. DR..
Wallace never married. the rea,
son for which if any. no one ever
knew, but q more popular. gal.
liant and woman-respecting man
it wouldbe hard to name. Among
young people. especially children
DR.. Wallace was always a favor
ite. Jovial, interested in their
joys and troubles when he knew
of them, he was loved by them
all and many the juvenile heart
which palpitated with deep sor-
row when his death was announ.
ced.
DR.. Wallace was pronounced
in his views and never uncertain
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27
Short Snatches From Everywhere.

The news Of the capture Of Villa did seem too good
to be true-San Francisco Chronicle
Dfversifcation is the word that has put the South
Plains on the map.-I4ubbock Crexas) Avalanche
1vbs+ woman admires most in is get-up
especially a crowded car-Salt Lake City Deseret
News.
Did the American pachsts Of Madison's time blush
when the English troops entered Washington--New
York Sun.
There is a blockade. it seems not only against
milk but against the milk Of human kindness also
New York World
Texas seems to be eager to deliver IN person the
sort Of messages villa and his bandits understand
Detroit Free Press
Still when you come think OF it, it isn't such a
great compliment to say Of woman that she mas an
open face."-Columbia Is c. State
The safest dish to call for in restaurant IS one
you know nothing about There then can be no dis
appofntrnents.-Albany On " Journal
The Favorte Sons appear to be taking themselves
almost as Seriously as they would II Of them had
a ghost OF a Observation-Disclosures u. HI Union
We will not believe that Villa has been captured
until have attested photosrapn OF ms Ee
body with the bullet holes in it-Phoenx Republican
Carranza has chosen Dolores Hidalgo as the new
Mexican capital It not the first time ne mas maze
capital Of sorrowfu1 Spanish gentlemen-NeW fork
Mail
LET ne pause long enough 20 prefer little advice
II YOU ever get to the point where you are able 10
make both ends meet splice the ends-Philaoelpnla
Inquirer
Servia's promise to have fresh army Of 100000
men, fully equipped. in the field in two months does
brighten the prospect OF peace IN the iIneoals
future-Los Angeles Tribune
The determination OF the British government to
tighten the blockade Of Germany is now credited to
the inspiration of Cob House great preliminary
triumph for super diplomaeyi-Fhiladelphl Fub4lc
Ledger
With all that has happened Mexico during the
past two years there has developed solid impress
sion that old Porfrio Diaz the most efficient
the Rio Grande il he was largely given TO
spanking with a heavy hand.-Provfdence Journal
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27

GSTN spite Of the great number of
visitors in the city we have not
yet received a report Of the
work Of a pickpocket. and I believe
this is due to the campaign waged
again these undesirables," said chief Of
police Don Johnson. For some weeks
past all Of the men on the force. detec-
tives and patrolmen alike, have been
working energetically to rid the city
OF this clan, and I think that we have
succeeded in a large measure If any
still remain at the race track in Jua-
rez-and I don't thing there is-they
VIII be arrested as soon as they cross
the river, as they are all well known
10 our men During the past week
seven arrests Of pickpockets have been
made. and in each case they have re-
ceived heavy suspended Jail sentences
diately."
It's worth while to make a trip to
II PasO to see JuareZ," said b c
James Each Of the cities have enough
attractions to entertain conventions at
the rate of one a week for the entire
year around Fl Paso. the superbly
modern city, with its wonderfully paved
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27
Jewish Relief Day

By proclamation of the president Thursday January
~ is set aside national occasion for the purpose
of concentrating popular interest upon the campaign
for relief Of Jews In Europe sufferers directly and in
directly from the war.
The appeal for aid has been given nation wide
publicity during the last few weeks. In many cities
great public meetings have been arranged In Others
there viii be public solicitation Of subscriptions and
contributions by other This appeal voiced by
the president Of the United States is unique. From
time to time, appeals have been made by the president
by other high officials for contributions through
the Red Cross for the relief of sufferers from fghfu
natural calamities in various countries, including
the vast problem of feeding Belgium called forth
such definite official declaration of Americas duty
from official source, as the perious situation Of
the Jews In Europe has actuated.
There said to be 100000 Jews, in the various
countries by the warning hosts, who de-
pendent outside help for their elemental support
food, clothing medical of the SICK the simplest
neeessaries for the conservation of human life.
Jews fighting in every army in Europe. Their
patriotic attachment to the countries they call home
has been In question. They do not shirk their
public duties and many of them rise to places of
leadership by sheer merit But IN of the countries
at war, the splendid sacrifices that the Jews have
made for their respective countries have received but
scant acknowledgment. Old prejudices, religious and
social result in Withholding from them what is their
due, and IN actual persecution.
FL Pasoans may well respond literally to this appeal
It is practically the Only time the Jewish people Of
FL Paso have asked for general support in relief measures
of any sort Last year the local Jewish colony raised
among its members, $1,000 for European relief,
without public appeal The problem is now so great
that the united support Of Americans OF every
children over there not to be condemned by millions
to unmerited death.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27

gasping for breath in the fierce June
sun Even a chilly word Will some
times cause a boom, which has spread
over several states. TO curl up and die
in single night.
The longest lived booms is the presi-
Dental boom. These prey upon the IA
Vorite sons of the various states and
may last as long as 20 years. requir
ing vast amount of fertilizing and
trimming in the meantime A prest-
Dental boom may be killed down to
the roots in half a dozen conventions.
only TO shoot blithely forth two years
later and bloom as if nothing had hap
pened.
Vice presidential booms are Of two
sorts-those started with a view to
interring some prominent man in the
vice presidency and those which at
tempt to hoist an unprominent man
into the same position. Chas. W Fair
banks and James S. Sherman were sue
cessfully entOmbed by the first method,
but il backfired in the case of T.
Roosevelt. By the latter method. So
cial and political debts can be paid and
II has now become the custom for a
newspaper to mention a man for the
vice presidency whenever he pays his
subscription two years in advance
Protected by The Adams Newspaper
Service.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27

and electrically lighted streets, and
Juarez. with its quaint adobe dwell
ings, the old bull ring and the historic
church furnish a striking contrast All
Of the cattlemeu certainly enjoyed
their trip to JuareZ, but Of course. Fl
PasO in their minds is the best little
city in the southwest"
Il don't see how it was possible TO
take a complete census OF Fl Paso in
the short time that the enumerators
took" said Judge W D. Howe While
the enumerators got me and my fam
lily there are many others who say
that they never saw the enumerators
al all II the men got these names
from whom did they get them and how
did they get them While it is too
early to express any opinion upon the
outcome 1 think it would have been
a good idea 10 have had the business
men donate their best workers for emu
meratOrs and to have made the issue
one Of local pride"
why Americans are willing to go
abroad and surrender their citizenship
is a puzzle to me-" said J. D. Ponder.
7 can understand how men and wOm-
en- would want TO travel and how ar
lists would want to make frequent trips
to Europe to come into close touch
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27

boys mother Squirrels. with their
warm fur coats. do not like 20 be in
a hot room. Leave him outside for a
while Perhaps you Will soon let him
go2" she asked the boy.
"Oh. not now. mother. I just caught
him I put the Christmas nuts in the
box trap and he went right in and was
caught It's his own fault
Perhaps he knew no better" said
the LADY. She looked kind. and Billie
hoped that when the boy went to bed
perhaps she would let him out OF the
trap
The boy went off TO make a bigger
cage and Billie was left in the trap,
which was a starch box. with hairpins
for wires down one side. Billie felt
so unhappy that he did not eat any
more porch nuts. though there were
many in the cage.
By this time. Uncle WiEgily Long
ears had found the house which Billie
had spoken Of as the one where he
found the queer nuts
7 wonder if I can see Billie boy?'
thought the rabbit gentleman 1T is
getting dark. but il ISwhistle he can.
perhaps. hear me-" Then the bunny
uncle whistled in a way Billie knew,
and Billie chartered hack:
'Oh. Uncle Wiggily, Save mel Pm
in a trap outside on the piazza where
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27

found the porch nuts. Hurry and gel
me outi'
Il will" promised the rabbit gentle
man The boy and girl were in the
house making the bigger cage for the
squirrel Mr. Longears leaped over the
porch railing. With his strong rheu-
matism crutch he pried. twisted and
bent apart the hairpin wires
Hurry up. Billet Squeeze outr'
called Uncle Wiggily, and the squirrel
boy did leaving behind the porch nuts
in the trap Then Uncle Wiggily and
Billie scampered and hoped across the
snow to the woods. where the hollow
tree house was. And so Uncle Wiggily
saved Billie from being put in a cage
TO stay
"Oh. deaTr' cried the boy. when he
went TO look at his trap. The squirrel
got outi"
Never mind, He is happier in the
woods than in the incest cage you
could make" said the mother. And
I guess Billie was.
And. If the rain drop doesn't fall in
to the bottle OF milk. and turn IL into
lemonade for the wax dolls party, I'll
tell YOU next about Johnnie BushytaiI
helping his mother.
Copyright, 1916. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27

to rescue Billie, the boy squirrel
And, Billie, as I told you in the story
before this one. was caughr in a trap
when he went TO gather .iic porch nuts.
Coming home from school one day he
had seen. some queer nuts on a porch.
Billie took some home with him. and
he called them porch nuts, as he did
not know the right names But they
were almonds. pecans, Brazil nuts and
English walnuts-very good. too. but
not such as our squirrels usually find in
our woods. call them Christmas nuts,
but porch nuts is good name, too.
Billie liked the poreh-nuts so much
that he went back a second time.
though Uncle Wiggily had told the
squirrel boy that no good could come
Of nuts left on the porch Of a house
were real people lived
But Billie Boy did not mind, and now
this third time after the nuts he was in
a trap. He went in an open box. to
gather up the porch-nuts, and the box
snapped shut.
Out on the porch came a boy and a
girl. Billie knew they were a boy and
girl because he had often seen them in
the park on the edge of the city, where
sometimes he went out Of his own
woods.
"Oh, we've caught SQUIRREL" cried
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27
Police Chase All Pickpockets Out of City
Time For Taking Federal Census Too Short

with artistic influences, but I think
there is just as much to satisfy the
pleasure and the normal side OF the
average American right in America
without having TO go abroad TO estab
Iish a permanent home. Perhaps when
America gives the same protection 10
its citizens abroad that other countries
do the Americans will not be so ready
10 surrender their citizenship"
arEI Paso sure delivers the goods
when il starts out to entertain Tisi-
tors" said II A Morgan. mayor OF
Wilcox, Ark 7 do not know as 1
have seen the like OF this welcome any
where else-of course, excepting ny
own home state and town"
Japan owes its modern development
to the last 50 years" said Mrs. A P
Averin Yet il has made such won
derful progress in absorbing the best
Of western civilization that il has now
more children in schools in proportion
to its population than We have in our
own country and two universities that
are each larger than any we possess
Its postal system and railroads are IN
excelied. Japan's art is as old as the
nation and its art has in the last half
century tremendously influenced the
art Of the rest Of the world"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27
Reading the Newspaper

It is funny to see the different ways of starting
to read The Herald. Almost everybody takes in the
headlines on the first page first and then dives into
the paper for some especial interest. For a bakers
dozen it is the editorial page; for others there's
and story and fun and life in the classified adver
tisements than any other part Of the paper; some
the only life worth reading about IS the society page
and others want the markets first thing. The letters
from Herald readers prove to be leading interest to
many-their discussion of local affairs is always read
and any discussion of outside world affairs is always
tied home folks in the letters and after ALL to
people the local and local thinking most in
teresting The funny pictures call some and the ad-
vertisements sometimes get first attention from women
Some people read the paper backwards and bottom
up and others very conscenously begin at the first
column of the first page and go through as orderly
as modern newspaper will allow. Some eisenhower
paper and leave it and others open and close it as
systematically as a book newspaper has to be all
things to all men, but has to have its conscience
while doing It.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-27
Bedti me Story For the Little Ones
wigiy Helps Billie"
VIZ 'lbIII 1--IF1 -1----S'
By HOWARD 8. GARIS.

said the bunny uncle. 7 told him not
to go after any more porch nuts. They
are not meant for squirrels to eat
though they are very good Nuts that
are found on porches are not like the
nuts that grow in our woods. Porch
nuts are put on piazzas by people who
live in houses 1 am afraid the porch
nuts Billie found were bait for a trap.
ana now he may be caught
"Oh, don't say that cried the nam
ma squirrel, sadly
4 must, because I fear it is true"
Uncle WiEgily answered "But don't
worry I'll go see if I can't get Billie
out Of the trap"
Then putting on his big fur over
coat and taking his red, white and blue
striped barber pole rheumatism crutch,
which Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. the
muskrat lady. had gnawed for him out
Of a constalk Uncle Wiggily set off