The St. Joseph observer., 1917-08-04
News FROM ALL over
IMPERIAL MISSOURI
Interesting Happenings Which Have Taken Place
In the Greatest State in the Union
The Product of the Scissors the Pen and Very
Little Actual Labor

chose for his text, "Thy word IL q
lamp unto my feet and light unto
my parth." From the yellowed man
uscript ne gave the came sermon in
the First Baptist church, of which
he now is pastor emeritus.
While most people disavow belief
in superstitions, the Chillicothe Trib-
une says fuzzy thousand acres in
Livingston county were sowed to tur-
nips last Wednesday In harmony with
the ancient injunction. "On the 2Jth
of July SOW your turnips, wet or
dry"
A replevin suit to recover two
hounds has been filed by Virgil Gray
OF Maryville, original owner of the
dogs. Mr.. Gray saws he sold the dogs
on the installment plan and that the
purchaser sold one Of them and re.
fuses to pay for both.
Reports of the Expectations OF
wolves -.re hycOming more and more
frequent In the Ozarks and their des-
truction presents a serious problem to
sheep growers A full grown gray
wolf was killed Just outside the city
limits OF Rola last week.
Buttermilk is getting scarce in
decided it pays better to ship cream
than try to make butter. Shipments
Of cream from Shelhina average $50
gallons a day. In one day recently
one thousand gallons were shipped.
A commercial traveller handling a
line of horst remedies paid a visit to
Maysvllle the other day. To begin
with he was travelling in motor ear
and dil not succeed in finding q
horse in the town, although more
than twenty machines were parked
about the square.
All work and then some play is
mighty dangerous. At Harwood, Os-
car O'Fallon, a young man of 22, who
was soon TO have been married. end
ed up hard days work by work
out on base ball diamond. After
going home he died very suddenly OF
heart disease.
A bunch Of mere boys have been
township of johnson county, and the
evidence brought out that mere kids
were inoculated with the gambling
virus, and that some of the games
were pulled off in the High Point
Baptist church.
Few firms will not be seriously ham
pered for help by the first draft for
the national army and there is little
| intention of supplanting manual la
Dor of men with that of women, a
canvass OF 600 firms by the womens
committee Of the Missouri Council OF
Defense revealed.
/ Firt broke out at the stock barn on
/ the Maysville Fair grounds THURSDAY
evening and before anything could
he done to check the flames the barn
was consumed and nine horses were
burned to death. Some of the horses
We're high-br racing stock and rep
resented considerable value.
William Wilcox has on exhibition
at the Farmers Trust Company d
stalk of corn nine feet high that wa!
grown on the Stock place, three mile.
south OF Maryville. This stalk In!
seven small ears on It and is very IN,
along in growth in comparison tC
most OF the corn In the county.
a bay horse with a fondness fol
motor cars is owned by William Gus
! TN OF iIhTIlSOnNllie. IT lcIt on tn'
street, says the Leader the horse vii
move up close to a machine, and 4
that one Is taken away will immeli
ately transfer affection tc another
car, siding up TO It in a friendly man
ner.
Forty-five years ago, Friday, Jul!
0, 1917. Lee Glandon, station agen
for the x, c., c. & s. Railway Co. a
Rdymore, was in Pleasant Hill on hi
way TO naymore, and 10 the Job whicl
he has since held, through a variet.
of changes, and which, to all appear
pnaes, he bids fair to hold for man
a moon yet,
"A Whistling woman and croWln
hen would scare the devil out Of hi
den" Is a bit of doggeFei Henr
Rhorer of sarooxie learned when
child, He paid little attention TO
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