The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-01-13
HAPPEWIWGS
of fbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI

An ordinance passed by the Joplin
city council requires saloons to close
at 1880 o'clock at night and remain
closed until 6 o'clock in the morning.
Joplin saloons now open at 5 O'Clock
in the morning and close at / o'clock.
The Rev. T. G.. Poole, 7S years old,
died at Moberly the other night. He
entered the ministry in 1868 at High.
land, Kan.
A delegation of good roads leaders
from st. Louis held a conference the
other day with the good roads com.
mittee of the Kansas City Chamber
OF Commerce in an effort to have
Kansas City Join the Federated Roads
Association. The committee took
the proposal under advisement.
Arthur A. Hall, acting chancellor of
Washington university, has been ap.
pointed chancellor of the institution
to succeed David F. Houston, secre-
tary Of agriculture. Unverifed re.
ports that Houston had resigned from
the chancellorship reached st. Louis
several weeks ago.
A Missouri girl is custodian of the
most important secrets of the United
States senate Senator Stone of Mis-.
souri,, chairman of the senate com.
mittee on foreign affairs, has appoint
ed Miss Jessie L. Simpson of st. Louis
secretary of that committee.
E.. T. Major, brother of the retiring
governor, is no longer secretary of
the state fair board. He has been
succeeded by E. G. Bylander, who will
take up his duties on March l. Ma.
jor was reelected but resigned i'm.
meGiately.
Higginsville has awarded a contract
for a complete sanitary sewer system,
to the O'Neil Construction Company
of ~Leavenworth, Kan. The work is to
begin in twenty days.
William Martin, 16 years old, a ca.
Diet in the Missouri Military academy,
is dead in the Mexico hospital
from the effect of a bullet wound re.
ceiyed accidentally. Col. E. Y. Bur.
ton, president of the academy. said
Martin was cleaning a rifle in ODE.
dience with the commandments order
| and tho OIn urnu nailnnfn1lu die
charged.
George E. Nuns, Republican ex.
postmaster at Montgomery, who was
notified of his appointment as curator
of the state university, says he knows
nothing of any move looking to the
ousting of President A. Ross Hill, and
that his appointment by Governor Ma
jor came without any seeking or
planning on his part.
The good roads section of farmers
week voted recently to petition the
legislature to enact legislation that
will enable the state to take advan.
tage of the Federal Aid Road law. The
legislature is also asked to enact a
law to insure proper and continuous
maintenance OF state roads.
Raymond T. Bratton, % years old,
formerly a salesman for st. Louis and
Kansas City live stock concerns, was
found dead at the home of his par.
ents in North Galloway the other
morning.
J. W. Jones, q farmer living between
Montgomery and Beethoven, won a
motor a the other day and cashed
it for $500 before he returned to his
wife and four children to tell them
of his big strike. The prize, given by
the Montgomery merchants, brought
a large crowd to town. Jones' home
burned recently and there was a mort
gage IN his farm.
Robert Hughes, a resident of Cam
den, seven miles south of Richmond,
was killed while out hunting recently,
when climbing a fence the hammers
of his shotgun caught in the wires,
causing both barrels to explode, tear
ing off the left side of his face.
The new $4,000 high school build
ing at Fulton was formally opened
with a public reception. Hundreds Of
citizens visited the new building. Ses-
sions have been started in the new
school.
Despite the fact that his election
as judge of the Springfield court Of
appeals is being contested by John H.
Bradley of Kennett, who was the Dem,
ocratic nominee, Argus Cox took his
place on the appellate bench at Spring
field, succeeding Judge William B.
Robertson of Webb City.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed against Governor Major by Nat
H. Goldstein, circuit clerk of st. Louis.
The circuit clerk charges Governor
Major illegally withheld his commits.
sion.