The St. Joseph observer., 1917-02-24
news FROM ALL over
IMPERIAL MISSOURI
Interesting Happenings Which Have Taken Place
In the Greatest State in the Union
The Product of the Scissors, the Pen and Very
Little Actual Labor

A1ANAA~ ~ :
John Lukens, a mail carrier at ore
gon, broke his arm while cranking
an automobile.
The Tarkio city council have ar
ranged for the purchase of chemical
fire engine and apparatus.
Chillicothe is credited with immu-
nifty from tornadoes because Of being
located 'fn the forks of the river"
Guilford wants electric lights. The
town board has taken up the matter
with the Maryville company.
A Platte county canning factory Of
fers to contract 200 acres of tomatoes
at SO ton or 45 cents hundred
pounds.
Fines in Moberly's police court have
been added to the uplift in the II. C.
l. advance. The usual "s2 and costs"
has been raised to IS.
At a meeting of citizens Of Ferril-
view a few days since plans were ar
ranged tor a s2,5OO school building,
S1.050 Of the amount being subscribed
at the meeting.
In 4 meat stealing case at Warrens-
burg. a 6o-year-old negro negro con-
fsssed. and said a negro woman aged
20 tonned overalls and helped him in
his th.svery.
The Bowling Green Times killed
the p=a-h crop the other day. 1t
ought 20 be ashamed Of itself, com
u=uls the Louisiana Press-Journal.
A woman down in Carroll county
cot -h---g-u5-= hicks from forty
eggs set around her husband who
has 5aeu 5eItast with rheumatism.-
Polo Nsws-Hsrali.
We started home with a quarters
worth Of navy beans the other morn
ing and lost two Of them, leaving only
one to split four ways for dinner
Osborn Enterprise.
The Daniel Boone Tavern, Colum-
bias new hotel it is announced, will
be completed about May |. Now
should the town get a railroad it is
believed number Of the more hardy
travellers can be induced to go there.
Uncle Andy Welsh one Of the old
est negros of this section, now in his
Sjth year, came up from Forrest City
10 see some OF his people last Friday.
He is the son of Jesse Welsh, who
died here at the age Of lO2.-Holt
County Sentinel.
A. Bryan, OF Chillcothe, attempted
TO shoot a rabbit and blew his left
hand off, and the conviction deepens
that a Bryan and a gun have nothing
in common.
Town folks just get sore over moth
ing! A Warrensburg man is grumb-
ling because the country butter
brought him by a farmer, was found
to be mixed with a goodly proportion
OF mashed potatoes.
The old saying, "He don't know
beans" is verified, the Johnson Coun-
ty Democrat argues. Since beans
went 10 fifteen cents a pound we have
cut their acquaintance"
Fred Muesch's old family horse died
recently at the age of thirty-one
years, according to the California
Democrat which adds, This was one
of the oldest horses around here"
A Milan schoolmarm asked her pu-
pills to PROFOUND some riddles. and
the standard is authority for the
statement that she got this one: "Why
Is this schoolroom like a motor car?
Because everything depends on the
crank up in front"
County Clerk Rolla d. Pealer is
sued S23 licenses 70 hunters OF Cooper
county during the month Of January,
1917, against 3S6 for the same month
of last year. Up to February 9th of
the present year he issued q total of
s3s licenses
The treatment for the cigarette
habit at the Free Clinic Association
the Springfield Leader relates, con-
sists In painting the tonsils with silver
nitrate, whereafter cigarette smoke