The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03
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 a Very
Little Actual Labor

low cut dress.-Henry County Demo-
crat.
High cost living has even hit hui
manity, observes the California Her
aid, in noting that while we bought
the Filipinos at 81 a head, the resi-
dents of the Danish West Indies are
costing us $3.50 apiece.
Is there no limit to human infamy?
Thieves who had been baked in one
attempt to raid the hog yard of a
farmer near Hawkeye, Galloway
county, by the squeals of the animals,
came back with a bottle OF chloro-
form.
The fire which destroyed the home
of Robert McIlvain in northeastern
Clay county recently appears to have
been a greater catastrophe than first
reports indicated. j. C. Holt, the first
neighbor on the scene, had time to
save IedlneT Deu.
Up to February the secretary of
states office issued $3.50 auto Ii
censes for which fees to the amount
Of $2OO,O3O were received. This is
about one-half the number issued last
year. 1t is estimated that there will
be 10000 licenses issued during the
current year.
A public spirited Sarcoxie druggist
has supplied every pupil in the grade
schools there with tooth paste, but
the problem of inducing the boys to
apply it to their teeth is left to the
ingenuity of the already overworked
teachers.
L. w. Bigley experienced the won
derful feeling of selling load OF hogs
for more than $4,000 last week-in
fact the load netted him $2,104.43, on
the St. Joseph market. The hogs
were of Mr.. Bigley's own feeding.
There were 81 in the load, average
weight 26O lbs, at $12.25, quite a bit
below the top.-Fairfax Forum.
A Louisiana bank has added an
automobile bookkeeping machine so
canny that it refuses to work when a
depositor's account shows an over
draft. But so far no method for pre-
venting a woman from writing checks
as long as blanks remain in her book
has been devised.
| Troop trains returning from Texas
to Ohio that passed through Brook
/ field this week were placarded, "FrCm
He'll to Heaven" and From Texas
to Paradise a gross libel on the
sovereign state of Texas, which really
is as charming a place of abode as
| Siberia.
The Chillicothe Chamber OF Com
merce will ask that one Of the two
military training camps to be estab-
lished in Missouri this spring be To-
Gated there. Chillicothe is the Logical
site for one camp, it is pointed out,
General Pershing having been born
in Linn county.
]. X. Spsngler, of Elmo, was killed
Tuesday evening by having a load Of
hay turn over with him. Mr.. Spang-
Ter had gone out southwest of Elmo
in the afternoon for a load OF hay.
He was seen about o'clock loading
the hay, and about o'clock a man
passing along saw the load of hay
turned over and on going to it found
Mr.. Spangler lying unconscious some
little distance away.
The Marshall Democrat-News has a
delicate way of breaking death news
to its readers. zone of the profes-
sional engagements of p. NJ. Walker,
mortician, for Monday" says the
Democrat-New was the arrange
ment for the burial of the late Mrs
Blank, who died at the home Of her
nephew Sunday"
Forty-six coal oil stoves were hur-
riedly pressed into service at a MounG
City greenhouse recently when the
boiler of the heating plant got out o.
commission. Prompt action in light
ing the stoves saved the stock o.
flowers estimated at several THOUSAND
; dollars
, The league to enforce peace move
ment has progressed to the point il
l Scotland county where eighty-on'
farmers join in a warning to hunters
printed in the Memphis Democrat
I But the Peter Rabbit that stakes IL