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

will build a $4,000 addition to the
dormitory.
1t seems appropriate that Carl Jel-
ly of Monroe county should operate
a sugar camp.
j. NJ. Sheppard, 81, a member of
Quantrelrs band in the Civil war, is
dead at Nevada.
Twenty-seven marriage licenses
were issued in Nodaway county dur
ing the month of January.
The crop killers have knocked the
wheat Of Northwest Missouri in the
head and have it ready for burial.
OF the 2,592 convicts in the state
penitentiary, 80 are college graduates,
while 3l2 can neither read nor write.
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 women of Belton are planning
a monument in honor of Carrie Ma
tion and a cruel exchange suggests a
huge water tower.
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.
Since last fall 15O car loads Of
stocker cattle have been purchased
from the Kansas City market by the
Rankin farms near Tarkio.
Originality is handsomely rewarded
IN Moberly, where a young woman
has been awarded s. for suggesting
the name Ever Ready for a new
soda grill.
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.
At Fayette, where the Missouri
river is frozen over, the Advertiser
declares that this winter will 90 down
IA history as the first the Big Muddy
ever was Forded.
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.
Isn't Mrs. Henry Green, aged 81, Of
Gentryville, the frolicsome gal? She
found a French harp in her stocking
Christmas and plays ragtime on 1t as
she cake walks with her grandchil-
dren.
After lifetime o. observation the
Chicken Bristle correspondent Of the
htch!son County Mail lays down the
rule. There never was q COW adver-
tised for sale that wasn't a good milk
er."
As a rule the correspondent who
writes 10 the editor as a visitor in
Washington, D. c., ala recently to
the La Monte Record saying, Il am
going to burden your columns" etc,
does so.
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.
A cake big enough 10 hold 81 can
dies was baked by her daughter for
the birthday of Mrs. Lucinda Page,
of Higginsvine, whose father hauled
the walnut logs TO build the first
house in Lexington.
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.
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. HeI
mother is III with pneumonia.
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
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