Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-04
HAPPENINGS
of fbe eOeek
IN MISSOURI

This was the decision of more than
seven hundred dry" advocates who
assembled in the court house after
three hours of parley with representa-
tives of the liquor interests had proven
of no avail. The liquor interests had
asked for a conference in an effort to
get together on the question and
avoid the election which has already
been ordered by the city council.
Robert Semple of Maplewood,
member of the American expedition
ary force in France, has been severe.
ly injured by the explosion of an old
German hand grenade, according to
letter from him received by his par
ents.
There was a heavy white frost in
the lowlands about Sedalia recently
The damage to gardeners and farmers
is considerable.
After long debate the grand lodge
of Missouri, A. F. and A. M, in ses-
SlOu dI Dl. lOulS duOpI6u q iCoOluIAoh
providing for the expulsion of any
Mason who signs a petition for a sa-
loon or gives bond for saloonkeeper.
DIR. w. A. Clark of Jefferson City was
unanimously elected grand master of
the grand lodge.
Judge John A. Hedge, 20 years old,
l.. ;r
Judge Hedge was recorder for eight
years, and has been justice of the
peace of Lexington township for four
years.
News of the death of Joshua Motter,
n ST. Joseph Who'll ssale drygoods mer-
chant, at Williamsport, Md, has been
received at his home. He was II
years old. Heart disease was the cause
of death.
After the first day of enrolment at
the University of Missouri there was
reported at the office of President A.
Ross Hill total falling off of $50 from
the total for the same time last year.
Roy Winfrey, farmer Of Buckner,
Jackson county, is raising a 25-acre
field of corn from which he expects to
derive as much profit from the cobs
as from the grain. 1t is the variety
from which cob pipes are made.
Federal authorities have caused the
arrest at st. Louis of William F. Web
meyer, IS years old, a plumber of
| Quincy ILL.,, charged with denouncing
the President and Threatening to in
| jure him. He had been under sur
veillance several weeks.
Mrs. Marion Thurman, % years old,
committed suicide at Moberly by jump
ing in front of a moving train. The
day before Mrs. Lucy Bernard, 25
years old, drowned herself and baby
when Mrs. Thurman quarrelel with
her. The Thurmans and Bernards
were neighbors.
Joseph H. Boshert, farmer living
in st. Charles county, reported to the
sheriff that while driving along the
road near his home, he found sack
road near his home, he found sack of
money lying on the road. Apparently
there was about $4,000 in currency and
coin in the bag. AS he was looking
into the sack, two men drove up and
said: THAT sack belongs to us. Here
is SO cents for finding it," Boshert
gave up the sack and took the so cents.
The sheriff thinks the sack of money
may have been dropped by the auto,
mobile bandits who raided Sullivan.
Owen Owen, 40 years old, city mar
shall of Lexington, died recently OF
heart disease. His widow and two
children survive.
An oil bomb invented by DR.. c. o
Davidson of Columbia has been &C
cepted by the United States govern
ment for use in Europe, according tC
word received at Columbia from
Speaker Champ Clark at Washington
The bomb will throw burning oil fol
more than one-Quarter of a mile. II
has been used already by the Italians
against the Austrians at Triest, ac
cording to it's inventor. Mr.. Davidson
says that each bomb of the type hC
has invented will cost about SIS.
The ante-bellum occupation of knit
ting was resumed at Carrollton wheI
a quaint S-room brick house, built sew
, enty-five years ago, was opened fol
, active work by the Carroll Count!
, Red Cross Chapter. The modernizeC
, house was the gift of Miss Lulu VIII
coxson. The chapter has member
ship of nearly twelve hundred.
Twenty women and girls went Il
work in the Chicago. Burlington 4
O.