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The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
Produce

The EIgin butter market was un-
change on saturday Eggs are
steady 20 firm on IgEt rece pts The
poultry market failed 90 clean up on
hens last week bur uroilers are in
good demand and firm The potato
market is decidedly wabbiy and from
the way the east IL sending out Of
fers for future shipment. there IL
prospect for break In prices ia the
near future Strawberries may be
said o. he done 8 Few are still
straEglirE n. but arrivals arc very
uncertain and ~ doubtful value when
received Berries ~ other varieties
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
East RUFFAIO 1--WE STUCK

Fast BUFFALO. y Y. July ls-
CATTLE Receipts. 42oo. market ac-
tive. 1904 6c higher, prime steers
s. rs IA 1875. shipping steers. Sill n
- butcher grades. ssVte IS heif-
ers. tsQil2b; cows tiTin IS. bulls
s. Z 80 nLlch cows and sprlnEers
$50 . 1875 feeders. St5Ois2b. calves.
Receipts. i4NA. market. active and
steady; Gull % choice IS u rs 20
sheep and lambs Receipts 1000
market slow. T5c lower for lambs
sheep csc lower. choice lambs SIS -
q IS, Gull 20. fair. s9dlS.So, year
lngS. s9ni3.6o sheep $50 no -
Hogs Receipts. $500 market. slow
10 n use lower workers.. SIS M ) go
pigs si5 mixed SIS s. Ills 80
heavy. SiS.s0Gi6. roughs, sl850di4.
stars. ti225aleT
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
Livestock


DETROIT. Jnly I6-Cattle Good
rat cattle steady; other prospects
iow0r beet heavy steers 50 sea n 80
best handy weight butcher steers
s. dg.50. mixed steers and heifers
SSus handy light butchers. tf.50m
light butchers. t6d7 best cows. s. so
as butcher cows. $3.50 ~ {. Is, com
$500 best heavy bulls. s7.A0NS be-
logna bulls s675NT 25. stock bulls
S. "a 4. 30. feeders. SS4a stockers S.
a. mixers and snringers. $50 n 90
Veal calves Market steady, best
Grades 80 others. SSQl2
sheep and lambs 25l soc lower
best lambs. $3.50 fair lambs tl4I
IS. light 70 common lambs. tliHl2
ysarlings si21l3. fair 20 good sheep.
$50 $50. culls and common. t7US
Hogs Prospects pigs. tiss5 q
1850. mixed Grades. SIS Is a $50.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
NrM NoRK PRnnIcr M,nhr-r

NEW YORK. July rs Flour p-r
Pork stead mess &42s0df3 Lard
Firmer middl"west spot. tI00 90 fN
fgRar Raw. quiet rrnfrlf4EaI tr
test if $40 $50 muscovsdo ss-teat
s. 1f1 5.tfi. refined. quiet car .raf
s. crushed. tst5 powdered SIS n
3 20 granulsted. 3 50as co~ae pt-
80 on spot. ~ Tallow DgH
speclal city. isi1 nsy
$50. clover. 5cQti, Dressed poultry
Unsettled turkeys. 80 32r. chic
ems i90 2sc fowls. lsdZ5i4c. ducks
20 nc Live poultry Trregslar
geese. l5c ducks SO 22~ fowls. s1Ft
23c, turkeys. lsc. roosters. 49,
rhlcken broilers. asa 70c cheese
Quiet. state milk. common a. ane-
Gals. 20u2fizc. skins. common PA
special sal
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

The following nrms are privileged
to execute orders on the exchange:
w r Moss e. Co. Carlyle 4 Povah.;
Geo NJ West g. Co.. T.. f. Maccrons
& Co, II. W. Noble * Co. u. l. Sey-
mour 4 Co. w. 2. Mclaughlin. Mer-
rili. Lynch a Co.. W. A. Hsmlin s. Co.
Nm. A. Neer a Co. Sinclair & couls,
Wendell Mulkey & Co. VIM. IL Rose
A Co, F. X. Pelton A Co, Joel stock
nrd & Co, Bennett. Smith & Co. w.
u Reilly & Co, Matthew Finn. A. w
wallace 4 Co. Lewis @. GortOp. Bel.
den. " oodruff e Co., Besncr. Cramer
a Nuehl. Dodd, Martin & Co. O'sisra.
Ferries & Co.. webb. Lee z Go.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

are not at their best vet. but peaches
are improving. both a. 10 quality
ard quantity. the nrst SOLID car ~
ElbeTtas IN husheI baskets being on
The market this morning.
AppIes-Ncw S27s per bu
Bnn"us- 5000 shipping stock.
"a u Sc alb.
R-an.-Dried Llmss. nc 10.
Berries -Huctieherries, IS 50 per
bu. red raspb'rries - pts, 81 black
raspberrles s. per bu.
,anfornIs Fruits Cherries. s. 30 u
3 peaches. g. apricots. S2.75. plums.
S2-5 Per box
Dressed Gales - Fancy. country
dressed 2oF2tc. choice lSeise com
Fresh Vegetables -Radishes. soc
bers. hot house. $50 u .l carrots, S5c
dor caulifower. s. IS doz cabbage,
home grown. 1873 per bu4 tomatoes
s. per S-ha sket crate lettuce. zoe hu
home grown. si75 hu. dollhouse zoe
n1at0eE. 2-G 95c lh celery. - y &ac.
head lettuce. si25 per duz squash,
75c per basNct. home grown wax
beans $50 per bu green beans. -
Honey-Farcy white is3I7c; e1-
trscted. 30 iOc IN
Hsy--Detrol, shippers are paying
the following prices for haled haN 70
car lots. o b. Detro.t: No. / uuo-
thy. 81 5odIs. standard timothy
SIS 500l7 Hight m'Hed. i6.sHplI
No. timothy. Sl556rie 10 ! mixed
5Oas5 Ne. .aiX,'c. si0dl-. NJ.
l clover tfa.5 y ~. rye straw. tl0se
or. wheat spd oat straw. sssoVi'
per ton
Lemon.-ts 75Ns2s PER box.
Lines s. .0g IS per 100
Melons kyfords t2.I5; water
melons 40 a soc each
Nut.--wainuts 20 J2ic. ALMONDS.
1910 zoe; nlbeTts ls11lbc uranus
ls9e0e, pecAus. i5uIsc d. nu'
meats. tlb cartons, ALMONDS Que
wainuts. 55c. pecans soc 10 peanuts.
ros-tec fancy. &c; fum~p. lac ID
Oranges Nalencias ft5od5 per
box
onions -Tevas Berrhudas sl.75 per
case
Potatoes Southern white. 1915
hbl
Poultry Brothers 72q33c light
We ghts. 2sa 30c. No. Z hens. 20Q ~ e;
light weights. Ied 2Jc roosters -
1sc ducks. q y 22c. young ducks. Csc.
geese .ftc
JOBRISC PRICES
mad Goods --ApprsS 1913 PEI
gal; Lima beans. H.40eii6. corn.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK

CHICAGO. July lf-HoEs Re-
ceipts So 600. market slow and gen
orally steady. mixed and butchers
siS45 Gi5.S0 good heavy $3.50 n
1885 rough heavy. SlA2Su 10. IS
Light. t5Giss5 pigs sll .56it 80
Cattle Receipts o. 600 market
1890 COWS and hsifers. S515dilS0'
stockers and feeders x6.20 Uel0.
calves. 81 500lf so. sheen, Receipts
20 600. market slow % 20 Il soc lower.
native. $500 1870. western. s7.TS Il
-5Tl450
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
TOLEDO LIVE sroCK

d beral market steady heavies. tl5.So
Ni5sS mediums IS ~ IS so. york
ers s. 50 1870 good pigs. si450d
IS Calves steady sheep and
lambs steady
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

TTTTUI July Is IIUse-"W hraf-
Cash g. go fuiv g2r2 Septerr so r..
81 fs Germ Cash 81 IS Scgtern her.
ffG7 December. s. IT, oats Cash.
1888 fult TGc Septemher $50 r..
December Soc Rye Cash $40.
NIo~arserd cash. 81 50. pct0 her.
$3.50 December ft2t0 Alrike.
sf1 Tfmntnv Prime f7fT But
fcrs Hrfrk rroauerv. 79i7r. tub
rrnarrprF soc. Eggs Fresh cand
frd Efr r1urr selects. 7sc fIay 80
tn tnr fffTff 'Q 30 , timothy
rf ffar
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
NEW YORK CoT-ro< u.RkET


Detroit bank clearings for Monday
were s9.9i4.57S14 Total clearing
for 1917 20 date are 81 fS9.74g.0s ~
as against sl.0S0, 202.3342s FOR Tho
corresponding period IN 1915.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

The property OF the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad company
and its subsidiaries. which have been
under receivership the Rfst four
years. will be offered for sale AZ
Danville. H.. today by order OF the
federal court.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
VIEW roaK Bu1-rnR AND Eccs

NEW YORK. July is-Butter. DUH
and easier. receipts. s.2a7. creamery
Extra. 3S+c. 10. special market. 40 ~
30 a G.. state dairy tubS, 33aa9c imi-
alton creamery nrsts H5T35iSc
EgRf. Quiet. receipts 1926 nearby
Ancy. $50 Sse. fresh nrsts. ssn assc.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

within the next 'two months The
Pennsylvania railroad expects 20
have more than 200 women working
az train dispstchers. operators and
station agents al important stations
along is main line.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

Mrs Russell Sage. who has given
more money TO charitable and phu.
anthropic purposes than any other
woman IN America, will enter upon
her ninefieth year next september
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
CARRIER PIGEON, FIRST COUSIN
TO PEACE DOVE, is BIG WAR AID

Sending out carrier pigeons with
messages on the west front. Upper
picture shows a pigeon being re
leased. Lever shows French SOL
oiers attaching message TO pigeons
leg.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

ELGI$. ui. July Butter IS
tubs SOLID at 27ifc. ~ change from
|aef wrrk
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

or an the mounted soldiers in The
world the Cossacks ~ Russia are.
perhaps. the most famous.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

The Society OF Friends. whose re-
ligious belief forbids active partici-
patton In the war. proposes to do
its bit" by opening training camp
AT Haverford college today for the
volunteers who will comprise tho
frst reconstruction unit that will
be sent 10 France by the Friends
National Service committee.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

Printfrg-the plain neat kfnd-that
b vtght-Tincs Job Dept.-Hsin f5so
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

PrlntIna--the plain neat ktnd--thst
A.. rtxht--Tirpe- Job Dept WI" f'D.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17

are not at their best vet. but peaches
are improving. both as 10 quality
ard quantity the nrst solid car Of
Flbertas IN hushei baskets being on
The market this morning.
The Detroit times., 1917-07-17
New York Stocks

Quotations - HornhloNer a Weeks.
July is open High Low close
Atax Puhhrr 6T1e /S4i, 6Tia 90
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
FARMER "SKINNING"
CITY MAN ON OIL

Stories of the slippery city man
"skinning" his country cousin out Of
all his money in gold brick schemes
are moss-grown with age. Now the
countryman is turning the tables. The
oil craze is creating q rich harvest of
city suckers" l of the cOmmonest
stunts" the farmers are guilty of is
to keep the center acreage OF the
farm they lease for oil drilling and
make the lessor agree to sink a well
on the exempted holdings. If the
lessor brings in oil then the farmers
feels justified in drilling on the ex-
empted land. If not, the farmer has
saved the price of test well. No ex-
perienced oil lease man will fan for
this game. He will offer a fair price
for the whole farm and agree to give
the farmer Is royalty on all the oil.
But the green and excited rainbow
chasers" are doing it regularly, not
stopping to think that the farmer not
only gets his royalty on all they pro-
duce, but that they are making his
choice central land valuable by sink
ing a we'll without expense to him
right on the edge of it. "That game
is so old that the hair is worn Off"
said II. p. Wright. "In this excite
ment some one should speak a word
of caution. We are now starting on
an oil fever not unlike the gold fever
of past years. Now is the time for
business sense and caution to play a
big part. People should do nothing
silly under the influence of the mon
ey madness" There is a man who
leased a lot of Kansas land for a 90
day period, making the agreement
with each farmer to drill on his land
within that period. He will need 16
drilling rigs to complete that con-
tract. Even the big companies would
be hard pushed to get so many rigs
working in that time. The money
mad city man probably will lose all
he has invested because of his short
lease. The oil companies take 3-year
leases.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
AN APPEAL TO
FEED THE BIRDS

Thru the United States department
of agriculture, the bureau of biologi-
cal survey has issued an urgent ap-
peal to the people of the country to
feed the birds this winter. All birds
feed upon almost any kind of insect
during the warmer months of the
year andIbsome instances are known
to have saved trees. garden crops and
even farm fields from total destruc-
ton. In return for these services,
thousands of people all over the Unit
ed States have begun feeding the
feathered creatures thru the wintry
season when they are unable to fight
starvation effectively alone. Every
local bird that is kept from starving
when cold weather, snow and ice have
shut off his natural food supply, will
repay one by destroying thousands of
caterpillars. grubs, borers, beetles and
insects that prey upon flowers, vege-
tables. fruit, foliage or field crops.
Hence It is evident that feeding the
birds in winter is an inexpensive rec
reatiUn and also an excellent invest
ment, The department of agricul-
ture especially asks the country peo-
pie to take care Of the quail, / of the
most important game birds in the
United States. Quail render invalu-
able service to the farmer in protect
ing cultivated fields from the ravages
of potato beetles, wirewOrms, clover
wecvils, bollworms, cutworms, army
worms and other crop pests. These
bird suffer particularly from hard
winters, being almost constantly hous-
ed on the frozen ground and in the
snow and ice, but decreasing numbers
may be built up again with the feed
ing Of a little suet or cracked corn
and grain. City people are urged by
the department to supply food fire.
quently--a few scraps from the table,
or small quantities of bird seed--and
to provide shelter if possible, in which
the birds can feed comfortably during
sleet and snow storms. The depart
ment advises the feeding of suet or
other fat, pork rinds, bones, with
shreds of meat, cooked meats. meal
worms. cut-up apples, birdseed, buck
wheat, crackers, crumbs, Cocoanut
meat, cracked corn, broken dog bis
| cult, homp seed, millet, nut meats of
all kinds, rolled oats peppers, pop
corn, pumpkin or squash seeds raw
or boiled rice sunflOwer seeds and
wheat. Most Of these foods are mex
| pensivc and only a few moments time
would be required each day in scat
terins food for the starving birds.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
RUGGED TOO TIGHT;
AND BROKE A RIB

The story comes from a nearby
town that l man proved such an ar
dent hugger that ne broke a rib for
the huggee. The story goes that the
matron was in the back yard taking
down the clothes. Along came the
hugger and tried to kiss her nose.
Anyway. i'm the loving match the man
pressed too hard and the woman sus-
tained a cracked rib. The woman is
said to have had an X-ray picture
taken so she could make and exhibit
the results of the hugging in a case
she expected to bring in court. The
woman took the matter up before
County Attorney Archer and made all
her allegations, as above stated Mr..
Archer told her of the publicity that
would result and advised her to take
the matter under consideration and
determine whether she wanted to
bring a prosecution or let the matter
quiet down. Court action probably
will not be brought as nothing has
been heard from the complaining
witness for a week.-Hia watha World.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
MELODY MAKER
is SINGING ON


Dreaming, dreaming; sweetheart,
Of you | am dreaming. The man who
reached into the drift of melody and
gave to us that song is dreaming now
in the white walls of the receiving
hospital. Dreaming with his eyes fix
ed on some distant cloudland and the
patheti5 smile of q little child. Don't
you remember the summer nights of
the days that have gone when the
melody came drifting out in the hush
OF the twilight, stealing from white
fingers as they touched the waiting
keys in some shadowed parlor where
love was smiling-and dreaging p
Dreaming Of days when you loved
me best; Dreaming of hours that have
gone to rest. And the melody has
come across the silent waters when
the moon rose high and stars laugh
ed down to the sway of the waves,
and 1t has throbbed out across the
distant Bad Lands when some army
post band had gathered and the
troopers lay in the shadow of tho
barracks and thought of Her, thought
and smoked and let their minds go
drifting and-dreaming. Dreaming,
dreaming, Loves own sweet MESA ge
I'm bringing. The song has come
haltingly from battered old organs in
tiny homes in the countryside as the
girl bore lightly on the yellowed keys
and the boy smiled out across the
meadow lands and fields of clover,
and felt its magic steal into the ST.
lence, as soft and low as the call of
the sleepy birds in the distant woods.
Years have not changed The old
love remains Dreaming. And John
Daley, who found this wandering mel
ody and placed it before us, sits on
the edge of a little white cot in the
psychopathic ward and sings-sings
to the outcasts, the babblers, the de-
feated of John Barleycorn, the was
trels and ne'er-do- wells, the drunk
ards and dopes and the dying. Sings
i'm a voice of singular sweetness the
songs that he gave. He sang Sweet
heart Days" and the big room was
still as death and the nurses moved
on tiptoe, and even the mad Pole in
the little cellroom who had cursed
his Maker in tongues, was still. And
the big negro who had moaned from
the pains Of great burns about his
throat, ceased twisting and slept, and
the scrubwoman stood with her back
to the sun that poured into the room,
brush in her hand-a strange fig
ure, but somehow glorified in her
rapt silence. Sweetheart days, sweet
heart days, Sweetest of all are sweet
heart days. The chorus rose clear
and fair, and, OH what memories they
brought of the days when they had
been young and had dreamed or
whispered the words that filled the
bare, great room. Years may stray
fade away, Still in our hearts the
memories stay. And he sang it all
the way to the end, his head thrown
back, his hands Clasped, and in his
eyes only a tired spirit that would
not remember the days that had drift
ed by. The surgeons are holding him
there until arrangements can be
made to take him to some state in
stitutiOn, and they shake their heads
| sorrowfully. For in their opinion,
the man will never again be able to
give us music, or melody to whom
someone may set the words as they
have in the past. Days that are gone
are best of all; Who in this world can
not recall Sweetheart days
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
WORLD HAS MOVED
FORWARD VERY FAST

Peter Bishop, who died recently,
celebrated his 90th birthday last year.
Talking to a reporter, he said: when
was a young man. 4t every log-rOll-
ing or n house-raisiuc, or u husking,
there was liquor Go drink. And near
" always the men drank too much.
! hate the stuff ana / never used it,
] am glad | live in prohibition Kan
sas, where boys don't have a chance
10 learn TO drink. ! see only improve
ment in every way i'm the world since
my young days" How the world has
moved forward i'm these 80 years!
And what a blessed privilege II has
been TO live in them. In no other 90
years In the worlds history have men
seen such sure and r1pid advance in
human affairs. Not merely have bad
things like whisky been relegated, but
many good things have come. Men
live better, see more clearly into the
puzzling scheme of things think more
clearly and act with greater wisdom
than their fathers. The laboring man
today has luxurie5 which the kings
could not afford 80 years ago, What
a lot Of fine things Mr.. Bishop has
seem what a great adventure, watch
ing the world unfold, his life has been
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
FARMERS HAVE FIGHT;
BRINGS $4,000 SUIT

LEAVENWORTH, Kan.-James w.
Chambers has filed a suit in the dis
trlct court here to recover $4,000
damages from A. j. Higgins as the
result of a beating he says Higgins
gave him Dec. 22, 1916. Both are
wealthy farmers and live on adjoining
farms. They had dispute and on
meeting on the highway, west CT the
city, Higgins pounded Chambers, in
flicting permanent injuries, so Cham
bers alleges. He also says that as a
result of the blows on the head, in
flicted by Higgins, that he has since
been subject to epilepsy and that an
operation may have to be performed
on his skull.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
500 MILLIONS
SPENT FOR DOPE

1t is estimated that 500 million dol
lars are expended for drugs in this
country most of which are self-ad-
ministered. Into the delicately ad-
iustcd machinery of the human body
is yearly poured at least IS million
pounds Of drugs and chemicals, with
no real knowledge Of what the mess
is going to do to that machinery. We
have cold cures, headache cures, con-
sumption, cures, cancer Cures( liver
pills, kidney cures, spring tonics and
so on, and the best of them are
Shotgun prescriptions" or sort of
general conditioners, and the rest are
actually harmful
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
WAS IN HURRY
FOR HIS CHANGE

A young man, hatless and out OF
breath, dashed into the office of the
Fletcher Cowhead Insurance company
in the Grand Avenue Temple, Kansas
city, Saturday night. lie laid a 500
bill on the counter. Lets have
change for it," he gasped. The cash
Ter produced $50 bills, but that was
unsatisfactory. When a pile OF small
bills Uttered the counter he scOoped
them up and left, and it was not till
several minutes later, the cashier dis
covered that the young man had
walked away with small bills amount
ing to $3.50 in exchange for his 800.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
GOT A SUIT
ABLE REBUKE

Judge Gary, Of Chicago, while try
Ing a case, was disturbed by a man
who kept moving about In the rear
of tho court room, lifting chairs and
looking under things. young man."
Judge Gary called out, you are max
ing a good deal Of unnecessary noise.
What are you about7" "Your honor"
replied the noisy /, II have Just lost
my overcoat. and am trying to find
It," "Weli." said the Judge, people
often lose whole suits in here with
out making all that disturbance" -
Christian Herald.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
PAYS S124 A TON
FOR PRINT PAPER

Tho scarcity of printing pa
per, with prices that spell ruin,
are felt by all newspaper men.
None of the st. Joseph ncwspa-
per men have contracts for pa
per and all are paying prices
that make publishing u losing
business. In his address be-
fore the visiting printers Nom
day night. Louis r. GoIding,
publisher of the Ncws-Prcss, ad-
mittcd that every newspaper
was in distress and ne could see
no light ahead. Monday, The
journal loaned the Argus-Lcad-
CIR. at Sioux Falls, =. D., Is rolls
of print. IL was shipped in
special car and will cost the
publisher SG2i or SI25 u ton.
The normal price would hc less
than $40 a ton.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
WELCOMED THEIR
ERRING PASTOR

There was a near panic" In st.
Louis to shake the hand OF the ST.
Louis comeback" the Rev. William
Williamson, who after several times
falling sadly to break himself Of the
liquor habit, preached a sermon, de-
olarlng he had at last succeeded. A
few weeks ago he was found drunk,
and resigned his pastorate, and now
has gone back to preaching. But why
does a "backslider" always insist on
preaching to others and well behaved
people?
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
MISSOURI FENCE
POSTS TO so. DAKOTA

Missouri fence posts for his farm in
South Dakota comprised the shl l2ment
Henry Meyers made from Metz.
There were more than 1900 posts in
the lot, each measuring feet in
length and cut from hedge trees. The
posts were furnished by II. NJ. Hand
ly who received 1Sc for each post de-
livered at Metz. The freight rate
from Metz to destination in South
Dakota is 45c a hundred pounds.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
CATTLE HIGH IN
ARGENTINA, TOO

Frank McKim. of Tarkio, NO., re-
Gently received a newspaper from his
son, Charles, who is in BuenOs Aires
with the Swift Packing Co., which
gives a report of fancy cattle show
in that city. The paper, the Buenos
Aires Herald. states that the cham
pion steer brought $25,OO0. while 8
other steers, group winners, brought
$28, 900 each. Swift & Co. paid $249,-
TOO for 116 steers, and s24,7S0 for
333 wethers. Armour G. Co. paid
$61.6O0 for ia steers, $7,476 for 75
wethers and $11,17O for 1876 pigs.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
WESTERN RAIL
LINES ARE DRY

All railroads operating in and thru
the inter-mountain region are now on
the water wagon, as far as the sale
Of liquor in dining cars is concerned.
The last road to get aboard is the
Union Pacific, which makes the en-
tire region from Chicago and the
Mississippi river to the Utah and New
Mexico state lines dry from the rail-
road standpoint.
The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-02-03
WICHITA HAS
WAR VICTIM

william *. Webber. who fought in
the 2nd battle Of Ypres has returned
to his wife and children in Wichita,
a physical and almost mental wreck.
Webber left Wichita in 1915 to join
his regiment, with which he had
fought during the Boer war. He was
discharged because of disability, due
to shell shock, and is frequently seiz-
ed with trembling spells which last
for several minutes.