Mexico Missouri message., 1917-01-11
NINGS
of the eOeek
IN MISSOURI

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A special session of the Macon
County Bar, in honor Of Judge N. M.
Shelton, who has retired from the
bench of the Second Judicial Circuit,
was held recently. Maj. b. r. by
sart, the Oldest member of the bar.
acted as chairman and presented
Judge Shelton with gold watch from
the members Of the bar. He had COM
pleted eighteen years service on the
Dench. He retired voluntarily to prac-
| tice law at Macon.
T. p. Harrison and John Yates Of
Aux Vase recently sold 100 mules to
a st. Louis firm for $4,000. The sales
in Galloway county to date total 1900
head, for which approximately $685.
600 has been paid by st. Louis dealers.
Miss Emma King, SO years old, COM
mitted suicide at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Anna King, in Rich Hill
by jumping into a well holding thir-
teen feet of water. Miss King had
recently become Respondent.
Herman Muenstermann, IA years
old, was killed and his cousin, John
Muenstermann, Is, was wounded crit.
| ically, by the accidental discharge of
a shotgun in the hands of Fred d.
Behrens, Of st. Louis, uncle of John
Muenstermann. The accident &C.
Cured while the three were hunting
near Troy.
The budget Of the University of
Missouri for the next biennial period,
1918, has just been issued. The
board of curators will ask the legis.
lature for SS25,000 for the mainten-
ance Of the university the next two
years.
Announcement was made recently
that Verona had been selected as the
site for the Ozark state hatchery.
With the Verona site, the state fish
commission will have three hatcheries.
The other two are in st. Louis and st.
Joseph.
The Star motion picture show build
ing and one occupied by the United
Drug Company, on the east side Of
the public square, burned recently in
Butler at loss of $4,000.
Information has been received in
Sedalia of the death of Rev. F. H.
Brigham, former Methodist minister
there, at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
1t was announced at Sedalia recent
iy that Margaret Milton, 14-year-old
freshman in the high school, who
came to this country in May, 1912,
from Russia, her native country, has
won the prize for the best essay on
1.-The Harm of Liquor" in statewide
contest conducted recently by the Mis-
souri, Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
]. D. James, founder of Alma, Ark,
Is dead at his home in Joplin follow
ing paralytic stroke. He had lived
in Joplin twelve years and in that
time successfully operated several
mines. Grover James, former city at
torney of Joplin, and DIR. r. NJ. James,
coroner-elect of Jasper county, are
sons.
John Stohrer, a wealthy Benton
county farmer, died at Cole Camp the
other night. He was 7S years old and
came from Europe more than fifty
years ago.
Three months after his pardon by
Governor Major from a three years
term in the penitentiary in order that
he might return home to take care Of
his nine destitute children, John Davis
was dragged to death by a runaway
team ON his farm near Galena, Stone
county, recently.
John S. Bryan, Confederate veteran
and a former sheriff of Clinton
county, is dead at his home in Platts
burg. Following the Civil War, Bryan
settled on farm in Platte county.
Alexander Graves, 20 years old, al
ex-Confederate soldier, and brillian
attorney, is dead at his home in Lex
ington. He was born in Mississippi
left school to join the army at thu
age of Is and at the close of the wa
entered the University Of Virginia
from which he graduated in 1869. Al
ter leaving college he came to Lexing
ton, where he engaged in the practic,
of law until the time of his death
During the war he served under Gen
eral Forest.
Hazel Calcutt, young man Of Wal
rensburg, is dead, and Theodore Lay
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