The Laclede blade., 1917-11-16

uESuS WHO uI0u at DS"AIN AOSOAIAJb
were held at that place. He was a
pioneer of Carroll county. His wife
and fourteen children survive.
Clarence Kiel, 2O-year-old son of
Mayor Kiel Of st. Louis, has enlisted
as a private in the regular army. The
mayor accompanied his son to Jeffer-
son Barracks.
Dick Carter, who turned states evi-
dence at the trial of Claude Piersol,
convicted as one of the kidnapers of
Baby Lloyd Keet, has been released
from jail at Marshfield and has gone
to Illinois to live.
Forest fires are reported doing
heavy damage in the Interview drain
age basin southeast of Poplar Bluff.
The lack of rain for several weeks has
dried out leaves and shrubbery all
over that lowland section.
The Laclede Gas Company of st.
Louis is preparing to train women as
meter readers to replace men needed
for military and other war service.
Mrs. S. H. Woods, 58 years old, and
prominent in church work. is dead at
Fulton. She was born near Kansas
City and was a graduate of Campbell
college, Holton, Kan. Boys of her
Sunday school class acted as pail
bearers.
The motion for a new trial for
Claude ]. Piersol, sentenced to thirty
five years imprisonment for the kid
naping of Baby Lloyd Keet of Spring
field, was overruled in the circuit
court at Marshfield.
The police of Columbia found a
quantity of dynamite, dynamite cap
and several feet of fuse hidden under
block of granite in marble yard.
The explosives were wrapped in pill
low slip taken from hotel there.
Petitions asking a special election
to determine whether or not Mayor J.
J. Gideon and Commissioners Edwin
F. James and sWilliam A. Swinney
shall be recalled, are in circulation in
Springfield.
D. E. Lively, a farmer, 80 years old,
who lived eight miles northwest OF
Skidmore, accidentally shot and killed
himself the other afternoon while duck
hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Mcconnell OF
Hume celebrated their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary recently. They were
married October 81, 1867, in IrOquois
county, Illinois.
The Columbia coal dealers decided
recently to appeal to Wallace Cross
ley, state fuel administrator, for relief
from the coal famine. The dealers
say coal ordered from Illinois is con-
fiscated in ST. Louis and they are not
able to get miners for the local mines.
The state university has enough coal
stored to run month. Two girls col
leges have practically exhausted their
supply. All dealers are out of coal
i'm. Patterson of Marshall, veteran
printer and publisher. 81 years old,
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of
his wedding recently. He has been
an active member of l. o. o. F. for
sixty years and is the second oldest
member in the state. His wife, u
years old, has been city editor of the
Marshall Democrat News for thirty
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Essig Of Platts-
burg celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary recently. The celebration
took place in their home that is built
on the exact spot the pioneer log cabin
Of DR.. Noah Essig, a great grandfather.
was located.
The Springfield Traction Company
has announced an Increase In the
wages Of mOtormen and conductors
averaging two and One-fOurth cents
per hour.
he city Of Columbia has bought
fhiriy carloads Of coal and VII sen Il
10 fhe citizens of Columbia Who have
bssn unabls 20 obtail e fFOm local