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

and three buildings.
Alfred Anderson, a prosperous far
mer living southwest of Ravenwooa,
sold a hog to ]. b. Horton Tuesday,
that tipped the scales at go pounds,
receiving s11.40 per hundred for the
same, which amounted to s76.3S. Mr..
Horton says that he has probably
bought larger hogs, but never before
paid s76.3S for a single hog.
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 he is now treasurer
Mr.. Pierce is 73 years old.
Robert Hook, who came to Noda-
way county in 1870, settling on a
farm 2 miles west of Hopkins, where
he resided continuously until he NOV
ed to this city some 10 years ago,
passed peacefully away at his homo
in the east part of town Tuesday
night, in his eightieth year, having
been gradually failing during the last
three months
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 a live baby of good parent
oge." 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.
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-
| ceived S13 a ton. His alfalfa paid
him $50 an acre this year. and be-
sides he pastured hogs on the alfalfa
he cut.-Atchison County Mail.
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
practically a wilderness at that time,
the Adkins family being numbered
among the pioneers of this section of
the state.-Dearborn Democrat,
Captain Lewis b. Dougherty, in
discussing the item in last weeks pa
per in which DIR. Clark spoke Of the
thermometer registering 81 degrees
below zero. A years ago, Jan. 80, says
that he remembers the occasion well.
He says that the men in the bank
were all huddled around the stove
trying to keep warm, when Mr.. Bud
Nutter came in from the country and
asked what they meant. When told
how low the thermometer registered.
he Immediately began to freeze,-IAb-
erty Advance.
Two young boys from Fairfax went
north on Monday and not seeing any
thing to shoot, decided to play with
a mule. So they "sicked" the dogs
on the mule and chased it into a barn.
dogs frightened 1t so that 1t ran
! through a fence and into pole,
breaking a leg in two places. The
animal belonged to Charles Lither-
bLry and It was necessary to shoot IT.
And that explains why farmers would
rather the town boys amuse them
selves some other way.
THAT man can accomplish won
ders in Atchison county, with the ap-
pliance of energy and earnestness,
otherwise known as pep" was again
evidenced by Henry Boettner, whose
untimely death occurred Just when he
was planning things greater. Besides
his landed estate, which, we think, Is
worth 100000, he had $4,000 loan
ed out, and probably $4,000 or $780,
900 in personal property. He was
fifty-seven years old and his whole
life was passed in one neighborhood
in Atchison county, where he started
out as a farm hand"
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