The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1917-10-05
NORTHWEST MISSOURI.
The Most Important News Con.
dcnsed From the Leading
Papers.
(By A. A. tenrey.)

Wy 80 q" S'"Ns'
Just nine fat hogs brought VIII
O'Grady, farmer near Maryville, 4
check for $3.50, says the Democrat
Forum.
Because he lost patience and gave
q neighbours son the thrashing which
he seemed to deserve, Ravenwood
man received a severe reprimand in
Judge Dawson's court at Maryville
and was fined $50 and costs.
In criticising the barbecue ms n
method of defeating their soldier
boys 10 the task before them, Rev. G.
Emerson Miller, of the Maryville
Christian church, urged that hcreaf-
ter prayers bc employed instead of
beef in committing our loved ones TO
the work Of making the world safe
for democracy. "Thc time will come"
Mr.. Miller is quoted in the Tribune
as saying, "whcn they will lie bleed
ing on foreign battlefield. They
will remember then how their neigh.
bors and kinfolk dedicated them TO
their task. And they will say. NO
man cares for my SOUL" Mr.. Miller
quoted one conscript who said: 1T
Of n good time and no one cared about
us"
How anyone could steal AMI get
safely away with eight cases Of eggs
without leaving trail that even the
st. Joseph bloodhounds could pick up,
Il the problem battling the authori.
tics M Hopkins. The eggs. valued at
sS5, were stolen Sunday night from
The Frank Cox poul,ry house.
The new consolidated school district
n, Gaynor Is likely 20 use rented
quarters for many months as a re-
suit Of the election las, week when
fca,ed the $4,000 bond issue for a
b,gh school building by n vote OF IS
10 az, The opposition developed over
the choice Of a site.
-
The frs, Nodaway county man 20
see service in America AIR fleet in
France is Corn, A, Dean Bailey, whose
-
The fact TIM, she ran him OF the
place with a hoe this summer was
advanced by the husband Of n Noda-
way county woman as evidence that
she Ind nm unyoyernablc tempcr.
When neighbors youchcd for his We.
racity this man was granted n divorce
By Judge Dawson last week.
A small crop Of peaches u credited
Spickard, and OF jas. Lothian, Of Gait,
by the Trenton Times.
An informant OF the Princeton
ost, after travelling over all parts
II Mercer county, declares that the
,iggest crop Of corn raised In that
county for many years Is now nearing
iaturity.
Thirty-fve ratt,esnakes In one
,,ump--and the unionville Republi.
an guarantees the story true-werc
farm near Unionyille one day last
week. Three Of the snakes were old
ones and all Others had at least one
rattle each,
A most unusual thing has happen
ed nj Sedalia, The drys presented q
petition for n local option election and
we're surprised 10 receive from the
VETS n proposition Offering TO renew
their licenses in such terms that they
will automatically eSpirc June 1, 1915.
This is absolutely without precendent.
SAYS the U'nionyile Republican, and
the outcome will be watched with in
terest.
An unexpccted wrinkle in conserva-
,ha lars ~ frui, and ieljy so indus
tY;onsiv nrenared during the summer
hv the GOOD women az the town are
now hcing systematicaily stolen from
caves and cellars by unknown per
sons The treatment accorded drone
hs"s he the workers Of the hive may
bs bit Too drastic il the culprits