Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-19
HAPPENINGS
of TIE ee'eek
IN MISSOURI

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A home defense regiment of 1900
men will be organized in st. Louis
under the direction of the police board
to take the place Of the Missouri Ma
tional Guard which leaves next month
for the federal cantonment. Philip b.
Fouke, treasurer of the police board,
will be commander A second regi- |
ment probably will be organized later.
The University of Missouri is will |
to do its full share in helping those |
who go from this country to fight on |
French soil get as much knowledge Of |
the French language as possible. |
While it would be fine thing for all
the Missouri guardsmen to get in
struction, if feasible plans could be
found for such a big task, President
A. Ross Hill believes that the more
important matter would be for the of.
ficers, who will assume command of
the troops to get instruction in the
use of French.
A Red Cross chapter has been Orga-
nized at Aux Vase as part of the Or
ganization in Galloway county. One
will be organized at New Bloomfield
soon.
Eight more deaths have resulted in
the southern part of Scott county from
enterocolitis, the disease which has
killed more than hundred persons in
Southeast Missouri Seven of the
deaths are at Sikeston and one at
Crowner.
Six new cases of ileocolitis have
been reported to the physicians in
Richmond. So far the only death
from the epidemic that has been re-
ported is that of a 4-year-old girl at
Henrietta, seven miles from Rich
mond.
The McCredie consolidated district
Of Galloway county voted for the
fourth time recently on a $1,000 bond
issue to erect two new buildings and
for the second successive time lacked
one vote of the necessary two-thirds
to pass the measure. Another cleo
ton will be called.
DR.. w. s. Woods, retired Kansas
City banker and several times a mil
lionaire, died recently at the Films
hotel in Excelsior Springs. He suf.
fered an attack of paralysis while at
the office of Craven & Moore, his Elk
celsior Springs lawyers, and was taken
! to the hotel.
Corn is making splendid growth
everywhere in Missouri, the weekly
weather and crop bulletin says. Fields
are clean and we'll cultivated.
Six cousins of the same surname
and all young farmers from the vicin-
ity of Pattonsburg have applied at the
ST.. Joseph recruiting station for en-
listment in the United States navy.
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| At a conference at Washington, D. c.,
between George w. Arnold, president,
and E. G. Bylander, secretary of the
food dictator, representatives of the
War and Navy Departments and the
Department of Justice, the govern
ment agreed not to take over the Mis-
souri, State Fair grounds for an avn
alton corps training camp until after
the closing of the state fair on Sep
TENDER 20, and also determined to
have the War and Navy Departments
and the Food Conservation Depart
ment make extensive demonstrations
at the state fair this fall.
Mrs. Frank Reynolds, 81 years old,
wife of a Burlington Railroad engi-
neer, plunged eighteen feet to the bot.
,oxn of ravine near Hannibal and
was killed. She was attempting to
cross a creek on a tree which had
fallen over it.
Arthur Warren, mail carrier between
Sycamore, Ozark county, and West
Plains, was instantly killed by light
ming during a storm recently. His
team also was killed.
The stockman, after July 1 and as
late as August 1, can put a portion
of his catch acreage in sorghum
Early Amber being mighty fine. This
is standard early maturing variety,
sowing fifty to a hundred pounds to
the acre for hay crop. There are
many other sorghums ranging from
amber to kafir, milo, feterita, and SUI
dan grass, of varying value on Mis-
souri, Soils This is no time to expert
ment, so it is unnecessary to discuss