Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
H4APPENING.S
of the eIeek
IN MISSOURI

at Fulton recently, III the form OF
barbecued sheep. Governor Gardner
was present in the afternoon and
spoke to a crowd of 1000 people on
American Patriotism"
Charles A. Robinson, acting mayor,
and c. S. Poole. jeweler, we're nomi-
mated in a primary election in Joplin
to make the race for mayor September
2S to succeed Hugh McIndoe, who was
recalled from office recently.
After they had bound and gagged the
railway telegraph operator and the
night telephone operator and his son
and left them in box car, four motor
bandits, who drove into Sullivan, fif-
ty-five miles southwest of st. Louis
at 4 o'clock the other morning and
robbed the Peoples Bank of 81, 400 and
the Frisco Railway station of $40.
The fifty-fifth automobile fatality
In st. Louis since January / occurred
when an automobile in which three
persons were riding overturned, kill
ing Miss Marie Raymond, one of the
occupants, and iniuring Gus Berlin,
who was with her, and the chauffeur.
Four automobile bandits, who had
held up several persons in st. Louis,
were halted by policeman and three
Of them surrendered. One escaped.
One of the men arrested said the
party had participated in four holdups.
Dean Walter Williams announced
recently that he had declined an in
vitation received some time ago from
an English committee to deliver q
series of lectures in England on Amer
lea in the War"
Robert Tracy, a veteran Missouri
and Kansas newspaper man, is dead
at st. Joseph. n years old. He was
brother of the late Capt. Frank
Tracy, who published the old st. JOS
eph Herald nearly half century ago.
President Wilson has established at
the University of Missouri an infantry
unit of the senior division of the re-
serve officers training corps, accord
ing to report Of the war department,
issued by General Bliss, acting chief
of staff, Upon completion of the ad-
vance work at the university, students
will be eligible for appointment in the
officers reserve corps and as provi-
Sional second lieutenants in the regu-
lar army. The cadets will be fur
addition to other equipment already
provided. Officers of the corps will
receive compensation of 50 a month.
AS a result of loss of men employees
by the army draft. the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy Railroad is advertis-
ing in the st. Joseph newspapers for
women to fill mems positions in the
| roundhouse and repair yards.
Private Archibald F. Reynolds, Com
pany T, First Infantry, was taken to
the state hospital for the insane at Ne
vada, violently deranged. The man
had shown no symptoms Of insanity
previously, his companions say, but
became unbalanced during the night.
Professor C. Hale, elected super
.ntendent for the Centralia public
schools for the ensuing year. has been
drafted for military service. He has
withdrawn his claim for exemption
and says he expects to go to war.
The Rev. &. J. Buck of Arlington,
Mimi, was arrested by Sheriff Tai
bott at MaYyiew and taken 10 Lexing-
ton. He is charged with speech
against the United States and favor
ing Germany in the war.
M. L. Golladay, head of the Holden
Home Telephone Company, was in
jured the other afternoon at his farm,
Hillcroft, north of town. While super.
intending the installation of a light
and water plant at the farm his left
leg was caught in the belt of a gaso.
line engine. Both bones of the ankle
were broken 30 badly that amputation
will be necessary.
Mystery surrounds the death OF
William w. Steely, 48 years old, oi
Ash Grove, whose body was discov
cred recently in Sinking creek, a hall
mile south of Everton. Steely had
drowned in ten inches of water.
One h~sdred and fifty thousand dol
lars has been earned by self-support
ing students of the Missouri univer
sity in the last eighteen years through
the help of the Y. M. c. A. employ
ment bureau.
A specitl election has been callet
in st. Clair county for October 8 t
pass upon the question of compromis
ing the old railroad bond indebted
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