The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1917-01-20

II Ine PI00UCt OF Inc SclSS0IS, II
For the first time in fifty years
there was this year no military ball
at the governors mansion on the
night of January 1.
St. Francis hospital of Maryville
treated 735 patients during the year
1916, being an increase of 1872 over
1915, and the largest in its history.
Cameron is to continue as the home
of new Missouri Wesleyan College,
and work on the new building will
begin soon.
There are S42 automobiles in Holt
county. At a conservative estimate,
it is safe to place the average cost
at 1000 or tota. of $4,000.
Senator Sam b. Cook has been, by
an admirer, presented with pair Of
old-fashioned knit "galluses" such as
your grandfather used to wear. IL he
was a real Missourian.
In all other ways perfect lady"
a Clinton woman. according to the Re-
publican, has the habit of swearing
at her grocer.
There has been a change in the
management of that excellent paper,
the Liberty Advance, c. F. Ward retir-
ing and Prof. Chas. S. Storms taking
his place in the firm which is now
Murray & Storms.
Admitting 265 children to his movie
theatre for an admission fee of two
potatoes each, Albert Kuchs, Of
Maryville, was able to contribute six
bushels and one peck of potatoes to
the local welfare board.
The biggest advertisement of the pro-
ductivity of a country is to see the
reaping machine rotting in the field
and the motor car housed in the shed,
says the Liberty Advance.
1t cost John Davis. Of Galena, Mo.
his life to be released from the peni.
tentiary. Three months age he was
paroled to support his wife and nine
children. Last week his team ran
away and he was killed.
At Greenfield, drug clerk being
summoned to fill prescription late
at night, not only routed out burglars
but found they had made every pre-
paration to burn the store after rob-
bing it,
To date a Polo commission firm has
shipped eighteen thousand rabbits to
market. The News-Herald hasn't
time to figure out the number of men,
boys, dogs, guns or rounds of ammu.
notion necessary to bag so many cot
tontails.
The Northwest Missouri Oil and
Gas Development company with head.
quarters at Liberty has taken out ar.
ticles of incorporation and have al
ready began the taking of leases, pre-
paratory to making a test for oil and
gas in Clay county.
Two months ago John Black, aged
60, was reunited to his two sisters at
Ash Grove, after being unaware of
their whereabouts for sixty years.
Last week one of the sisters tried to
awaken him in the morning and
found him dead.
A ring made from a lump of topaz
as big as a lump of loaf sugar is the
unique possession of Adam Thompson,
Of Amity. The stone was found in the
7O's by Mr.. Thompsons uncle in
Australia and was given to the pres
ent owner in 1882.
The wolf hunt northwest of Liber-
ty, was participated in by about eight
hundred men last Saturday but not a
wolf or fox was seen at the round up.
A wolf was seen by some of the men
who assembled early on the south liue
but they were not close enough to
kill it.
Eugene Rhoades bought the farm he
sold last week in 1882 for the sum of
$4,000. He farmed 1t these thirty-five
years making good dividends from his
investment and now has sold the old