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The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The Montgomery court house and
two small frame buildings situated at
the old county seat at Danville were
burned to the ground, the fire start
ing in the top of the court house
building. supposedly from a defective
flue. The county records were saved
and, as the buildings were all frame
and inexpensive, the loss is not heavy.
There are really two county seats in
Montgomery county, due to a county
seat war of more than so years dur
derson, the Civil War guerilla, burn
ed the first one in 1894, when he
killed several citizens and burned the
town. The court house was burned
again in 1901. The courts are divided
and most of the county business and
court records are housed in a brick
court house in Montgomery City.
Il couldn't comprehend II; Al years
did not seem so long to me until I
came back home, and memory made
me live over the years, and then
found the changes in Rock Port. OF
all the men in Rock Port in 1876
only a few are left. They are Hon.
A. E. Wyatt, J. E. Spurlock, Homer
Blake, DR.. McMichael, Uncle John
Wright, George Deuser, AL. Colvin, ].
A. Newell, Alva Traub. Amongst the
lads who were little shavers, 1 can
only recall Tom Christian, Jos. Dur
fee, Burt Lane and w. A. Bischof.
And here again where one or two
have left to make homes in another
locality the majority are under the
Port to Linden. Every farm has
changed hands with the exception of
the Hamilton farm and the County
Home. In my own neighborhood the
old German colony, where there were
at least fifty that, on account of the
hardships they endured and their
loyalty to each other could be classed
as one family, only five remain-the
three Hartman brothers, Michael,
Martin and Henry, Captain George
Steck and Fritz Smith. And It won't
be many years before those that /
mention will be sleeping their last
sleep" says H. C. Schubert in the
Atchison County Mail.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Just as " carranza didn't have
enough at home to settle
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

something going on.-Richmond Mis-
sourian.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The boys who are still trapping
should know that the season for trap
ping In Missouri closed Feb. /. The
Times does not wish to see any OF
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Twenty-seven marriage licenses
were issued in Nodaway county dur
ing the month of January.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Originality is handsomely rewarded
IN Moberly, where young woman
has been awarded s. for suggesting
the name Ever Ready for new
soda grill.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Since last fall l5O car loads OF
stocker cattle have been purchased
from the Kansas City market by the
Rankin farms near Tarkio.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The Worth County Times was sold
first of the week by G. G. Haas to j.
Larmer Marshall, formerly with the
Grant City star.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

A mems clothier in Nevada is ad-
vertising "Dutchess Trousers" and
the fear grows that Mary Pickford
yet will be writing Endorsements for
chewing tobacco.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

DR.. Anderson d. Clark, a pioneer
citizen and physician of Ray county
died Friday at his home in the Knox
Vile country following an illness OF
some duration OF the infirmities Of
old age. His death occurred on his
ninetieth birthday.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

~. H. Moffitt declared in front of
witnesses" says the Prairie City cor
respondent of the Rockville Booster,
that his fountain pen froze and
burst in his vest pocket. Mr.. Moffitt
is well known here and stands well in
the community"
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The women of Belton are planning
a monument in honor of Carrie Ma
tion and cruel exchange suggests a
huge water tower.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Isn't Mrs. Henry Green, aged 81, of
Gentryville, the frolcsome gal? She
found French harp in her stocking
Christmas and plays ragtime on It as
dren.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

A negro hospital soon will be erect
cd in Springfield by the Frisco Rail-
road. Negroes are not treated in any
hospital in that city.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

At Fayette, where the Missouri
river is frozen over, the Advertiser
declares that this winter will 20 down
IA history as the first the Big Muddy
ever was Furded.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The words Fifty Years." spelled
in $40 gold pieces, totaling $1,000,
and outlined on his desk greeted Ed
ward S. Pierce when he arrived at his
office on the fiftieth anniversary of
his beginning service with the Samuel
Cupples Woodenware company, st.
Louis, OF which ne is now treasurer.
Mr.. Pierce is 73 years old.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

During Maryville's Pay-up Week,
set by the mayors proclamation for
Feb. 1924, checks "a inches long will
be used. They will be in one-dollar
denominations and every one accept
ing one will endorse 1t, thus making
a record Of the number of debts one
small check can pay.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

This Birth Control agitation is be-
ing looked upon coldly in Bates City,
where, according TO the Lafayette
County vital statistics, there were six
deaths and four births in 1916.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

A Maryville man bought a Noda-
way county farm the other day. In
scouting over his prospective pur-
chase he had noticed a little lake and
It didn't take him long to figure from
the books that by draining the lake
and planting the two acres of black
soil in potatoes he could make 400
times 2 times 2 dollars, ETC., ETC.. but
it was not until after the deal was
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

horses from the British station at
Lathrop. en- route to Newport News,
Va, was stopped at Lexington june
tion in obedience TO instructions re-
ceived from the general superinten-
dent of the Santa Fe railroad COM
pany by r. G. Powers, agent for that
road.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

j. NJ. Sheppard, 81, member OF
QuantrelTs band in the Civil war, is
dead at Nevada.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Howard Payne college at Fayette
will build a $4,000 addition to the
dormitory.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

After a lifetime o. observation the
Chicken Bristle correspondent Of the
Atch!son County Mail lays down the
rule. There never was q COW adver-
tised for sale that wasn't q good milk
er."
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

A soldiers life is a precarious one.
Arthur d. Smith, Carrollton, Com
pany II, Fourth Missouri Infantry,
set off for the border in high spirits
last June. Last week Miss Eddie
Belle Tnlman, daughter Of a Georgia
contractor at work in Laredo, mar
rled him.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

As a rule the correspondent who
writes TO the editor, as a visitor in
Washington, D. c., d!d recently to
the La Monte Record saying, Il am
going to burden your columns" etc,
does so.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Miss Ethel Corder, 20 years old
died at Monroe City. She is the third
member of the family to die within
a week. The others were her step
father, Charles Ketzenberg, and
grandmother. Mrs. James Harris. Her
mother is III with pneumonia.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

1t seems appropriate that Carl Jel-
ly of Monroe county should operate
a sugar camp.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Some communities give their fire
men three cheers and a vote Of
thanks, but the property owners and
merchants on the square at West
Plains who escaped loss from bad
fire Saturday invited the firemen to
a chicken dinner and smoker at the
Hotel Arcade.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Joseph II. Minter, 70 years old,
farmer living in the Oakland neigh
borhood south of Buckner, and Mrs.
Mary A. Land, Sc years old, widow
of independence, were married by
Justice George w. Clinton Thursday
at the courthouse in that city.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The Butler Democrat chronicles
the arrest Of two men at Rich Hill
on a charge Of flourishing concealed
weapons. Poorer feats Of legerle-
main than that have brought their
inventors fame.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The Booster is late this week for
the reason that we were unable to get
the office warm enough to run our
presses. At the time of writing we
have our mittens on and have just
discovered the office cat frozen to a
stove leg.-Rockville Booster.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

An Edna man bought a Ford car
and then found he couldn't run it for
the reason that his feet are too big.
The shoe Is about the size of an iron
ing board and when he goes to throw
on the clutch he operates all three
pedals and stops the car.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

1910 an acre is a good price for
land but this is what Ben Creeche
paid James King for the ten acre
tract north of the Eber Collins farm,
south of Hopkins. 1t is improved
and Ben buys it for his mother who
will move here from Easton. Kansas,
to make her home.-Hopkins Journal.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Robert Hook, who came to Noda-
way county in 1870, settling on a
farm miles west of Hopkins, where
he resided continuously until he NOV
ed to this city some 10 years ago,
passed peacefully away at his home
in the east part of town Tuesday
night, in his eightieth year, having
been gradually failing during the last
three months.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

We challenge ancient or modern
history to produce another instance
Of man moving his cellar as did
W. NJ. Hosteller, of Spickard, who
has had his cement cave hoisted on
Jacks, moved on rollers a quarter Of
a mile and buried in a new hole.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

A cake big enough 10 hold 81 cam
dies was baked by her daughter for
the birthday of Mrs, Lucinda Page,
of Higginsville. whose father hauled
the walnut logs TO build the first
house in Lexington,
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

The business section OF Amsterdam
burned Saturday night. The fire
broke out in the White grocery and,
famed by G. heavy wind, soon was be-
sond control. The city was without
fire protection and the loss totaled
$4,000.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

An Excelsior Springs theater an
nounces that it will give away to "the
lucky ticket holder" at a coming per-
formance a baby, mot a pig or ami
nal. but live baby of good parent
age" In the meantime it Is suggest
ed that Miss Ella Trindall, waitress
al the McGaugh Hotel, who won $3.50
in cash Monday night, has had her
share of the luck.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Dan Bradley, one of the best liked
men of Nishna neighborhood, was a
newsbuyer at our place last Monday,
says the Rock Pork Mail. Mr.. Brad
ley was feeling good over having just
completed a shipment OF seventy-two
tons of alfalfa hay for which he re-
ceiyed s13 a ton. His alfalfa paid
him $50 an acre this year, and be-
he cut.-Atchison County Mail.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Uncle David Adkins, a native son
OF Missouri died at the home of his
son, A. ]. Adkins, Saturday morning.
Uncle David was born in Jackson
county, July 21, 1881, and when only
nine years of age accompanied his
parents to Platte county, which was
practically a wilderness at that time,
the Adkins family being numbered
among the pioneers of this section of
the state.-Dearborn Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-17

Speaking Of closing the court house
after office hours, the Gallatin North
Missourian says that at that place
last week a couple of strangers took
advantage of the open courthouse and
stored some burglar tools and nitro
glycerine in the basement.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
VERY SPECIAL OYER.

From now until April I, we offer first class tailor made suits and over coats at outside prices. Some extra fine black and blue serge and wor- sted. Besides 300 of this season s latest patterns. All wool material, fit and workmanship guaranteed. Please bring us your cleaning, pressing and repairing.
 Yours to please.
 NOME TAILORING co. Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

LONDON, March 16-The indica- tions are that the revolution has now been completed with order be- ing prevalent throughout. A dis patch from Helsingfors shows that Finland has celebrated the revolu- tion by illuminations in the cities.
 The Times correspondent says that the military activity is almost indescribable. The control of the war situation is now absolutely in the hands of the Duma leaders and with the cooperation of the military chiefs the changes which have been established and reports show that the supplies at the front have com
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
GREAT GAINS WEST
 FRONT BY ENTENTE

PARIS, March 19.-The official Communique issued this afternoon says that on Tuesday or Wednesday, the work of the liberation of two entire French Departments, the Disc and the Aisne will be completed German control will then have been lost in any section of either one or the other.
 Today this work is almost com pleted, not more than one square mile being held in either one or the other and from these before the continued Entente attacks the
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

Daniels has directed the known navy yards to begin immediately on the construction of sixty sub marine chasers of high speed each to cost thirty thousand dollars. He has ordered also the construction of machinery for these boats and to deliver one boat to the govern ment every three days beginning sixty days from date.
 The government has also appealed to a hundred boat builders to con struct immediately two hundred more torpedo boats and submarine chaSerS
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

BERLIN, March 19.-By far the most successful raid ever made upon the British capital was pulled off on Monday morning before day. light, the bombing lasting for an hour and a half to the intense de- moralization of the inhabitants. Many bombs were successfully plant ed and fires were glowing all over the British capital before the Zep- pelins safely withdrew The loss to the Londoners must have been enormous. How many were killed is not known The attack was so
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

it practically meant the backing down of the companies, the latter recognizing the eight hour day for the present with moderate over time penalty.
 Severe critics of the settlement say that that is all the companies were holding out for, as they will gain more than they will lose in the total pay rolls by the reduction of the overtime allowance. It is point sd out that the eight hour day is not the days limitation of work, but the period of labor after which penal overtime will be arranged to
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
WAR IS REGARDED AS INEVITABLE
VIRTUAL STATE WAR
 U. s. AND GERMANY

WASHINGTON. D. C.. March 19.-- A virtual state of war exists between the United States and Germany as result of the ruthless sinking by German submarines of three Amer ican freighters. It is conceded in the most reliable official quarters that active hostilites are inevitable and that the first meeting of an armed American merchantmen with U boat will mark the opening of the actual war. The semi-official view is that the German destruction of the American vessels with the
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

NEW YORK, March 19.-The secret service men are now working on a sensational case which invOl- yes the postal authorities of this port and. beyond to a very serious extent.
 Today 26 mail bags addressed to Washington D. C., and for the Brit ish Embassy were found to have been rified of their contents. The thieves who made their footing in a hurry are believed to have been Teuton spies.
 The bags which were rified came from London, and contained state papers Of great importance to the British Embassy. The rifling was
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
BOBBY BURNT
 AT DREAM TONIGHT.

An extravagant Paramount feature will be the headliner tonigth featur- ing the eminent Broadway comedian MT. Edward Abeles, The picture combines laughte4 and tears and shows the man who can afford to play the game where millions are at stake. The plot is original and in- troduces an all star cast in what
 may be considered one of the best Comedy Dramas presented this win ter. A sequal to Brewsters Millions in four magnificent parts. To- morrow night J. Rufus Wallingford the the Master Touch. A new one.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

It is denied that the papers con- tained in the mail for the British Embassy here and the bags which were rif1ed of their contents of such were of any great importance. Positively they will be of no value to the Central Powers, and for that reason little concern is shown over their loss although there is consid- erable concern that such mails are not inviolate within the United States from TeutOn espionage
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

This information is conveyed in the second of two dispatches from Consul Frost of Queenstown. Frost reports that the captains boat was found at eleven o'clock and showed signs of hasty abandonment. The captains papers were found in a biscuit tin in a boat.
 Excitement is rife throughout the country and the President is preparing to take such executive ac- tion as will meet the emergency.
 Now fS the time tn Euhacrihe
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
SINKING SHIPS SPUR
 OFFICIALS TO ACTION

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.- The sinking of the American ships, homeward bound from the war zone has stirred considerable depart mental action.
 This afternoon President Wilson has authorized Secretary Daniels to use one hundred and fifteen mil lion dollars of the emergency ap- propriation bill. The bill was au- thorized in the closing hours of the last session for just such an emer- gency as the present.
 Under the bill authorized last ses- sion to speed up naval construction
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

be paid. It is easily to be figured that by prolonging the workday considerably within the sixteen hour legal limitation, the reduction of the total overtime paid will amount to much more saved to tho hour day prevailed with the old standard of penalized overtime rates of pay.
 However in the streess of the present international crisis, the brotherhoods dare not force the is- sue as they would be compelled to serve under martial law.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
R|FLED MAIL BAG IS
 MYSTERY CAUSES CONCERN

not detected until they were about to be transferred to the train. No trace of the rifiing was noted by the receiving clerk and the infer ence is that it was done locally on the. street transit.
 This indication of spy activity within the United States is a sub ject of immense concern to the state department.
 WACHINCTON n c Mn rnh 1 O
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
SUPREME COURT IS BADLY
 DIVIDED ADAMS0N DECISION

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.-- The Supreme Court of the United States stood divided five to four on Adamson bill being valid.
 The decision which is very tech Ical is practically against the Adamson bill ruling
 The failure to reach a closer agreement is commented. upon by the papers.
 NEW YORK, March 19.-No one fully knows the real nature of the compromise whereby the strike of the brotherhoods was called off, but
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1s.- The official statement is made that the United States government will through the Navy Departmen. sns :. commander certain munition facto- ries for refusings to meet the gov ernment desires in the matter of speeding up upon the departmental program. The announcement is also made that the names of such concerns as will not do this will be published to show their lack of pa- triotism.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

BERLIN, March 19.-Having mans withdrew from Bapaume. The losses of the Allies was gigantic entire regiments being anihilated in the advance upon the we'll mined German position from which our troops had retired
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

PETROGRAD, March 19.-The General Headquarters Staff, which remains practically the same since the revolution, announces little change in the situation along the Riga, Pinsk, Galician or Rumanian fronts although there is an active interchange of skirmishing.
 The same bulletin announces sub
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

BERLIN, March 19.-German air men dropped circulars telling of the revolt against the Tzar in Petrograd which was being withheld from the Russian troops. The Russians and Rumanians are building up strong position in anticipation of a strong German attack.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
TURKS WITHDRAW BEFORE
 ATTACKING SLAV FORCES

pletely transformed the hap hazard organization that existed one short week ago.
 The fate of the Tzar and his brothers as we'll as his family and followers is still sealed book. The names having been dropped from mention in the papers completely. RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP. Front St. 8 doors west of Alaska
 Bank. We do the best
 CLEANING
 PRESSING
 ALTERING &
 REPAIRING Ladies and Gentlemens Clothes. GIFT THE NEWS RIGHT. READ THE WORKER.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

PARIS, March 19.-Conservative military experts are very suspicious of the complete German retirement on the west front and are cautioning against too great a confidence.
 They are writing in the French papers that this withdrawal, exten- sive as it is, and although accompa- nied by big losses to the Germans
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

The United Press has made dili- gent effort to trace these reports down but cannot find them with any substantial basis.
 The situation in Berlin is care- fully followed by foreign corres- pondents and revolution Of any dimensions at all could not be ef- fectively censored without the entire elimination of all news service.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

in military supplies and in killed wounded and captured, may we'll be the outcome of studied design on the part of the Germans to sud- denly turn upon the Entente troops and by series of easily conceivable strategic coups envelop whole sec tions of the armies.
 Some of the most careful of the commentators on the tactics of the war share this view and urge the generals to beware of it.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

that he had paid them ten dollars apiece on each barrel of whiskey purchased. This testimony was not shaken in detail by the prosecutions cross examination although it is likely that tomorrow all of these will be again on the stand.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
HOLT'S CASH STORE.

Moved to Alaska Mer. ~Co. on ac- count of Extreme Heat.
 We can save you money on House or Compartment Furnishings. We fill orders, large or small. Largest Store North of Seattle.
 Tel. Main 96.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
RuM0RS RIFE APPEAR TO
 HAVE HAD h0 FOUNDATION

NEW YORK, March 19.-Repor ts were rife throughout the United States and Canada that a revolution had broken out in Berlin.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20
FOUR DETECTIVES DENY
 ALL BILLINCSLEY CHARGES

SEATTLE, March 19.-Today was general denial day in the famous Gill case. The four detectives who were incrimins ted by the convicted bootlegger were on the stand and each entered an absolute denial of the charge sworn to by Billingsley
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

stantial gains in Asia Minor where the Turks are withdrawing demo ralized before the Russians and the British.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

BERLIN, March 19.-Yesterday the German troops began their se- cond Verdun offensive is announced by the General Staff.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

possible loss of twenty-four Amer ican lives leaves no question but that the Kaiser forced this govern ment into a state of war. It will probably be found to have existed since the steamer Algonian was sunk last Wednesday.
 WASHINGTON, D. G., March 19.- It is feared that Captain Borum and nine missing seamen of the City of Memphis are now prisoners on board a submarine which sank his ship.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-20

Germans are rapidly retiring.
 The total territory thus regained approXimates five hundred and twenty square miles.