The St. Joseph observer., 1917-11-10
News FROM ALL over
IMPERIAL MISSOURI
Interesting Happenings Which Have Taken Place
In the Greatest State irs the Union
The Product of the Scissors, the Pen and a Very
Little Actual Labor

counties, excepting 1871 acres, which
is located in Richardson county, Ne
braska.-Holt County Sentinel
Seized with a sudden tit OF insanity,
z. G. Lam, IS years old, hermit liv-
ing at Fifth and Marshal streets,
Charleston, SCI fire 10 his mattress
Monday, and leaped into the flames,
sustaining injuries from whi,h he
died about o'clock that morning.
safe and sane" is the revised YER
dict of friends of Sam White of La
faNette county who facetiously told
him he was crazy when he paid $3.50
some months ago for a black mare
mule. Mr. White exhibited the mule
at the ConcUrdia street fair, where he
won cash prize. then sold the ami
NAL for $500.
Roy Winfrey, farmer residing
near Buchner. has twenty-five acre
field of corn from which he expects
to derive as much profit from the
cobs as from the grain. n is the va
riety from which cob pipes are made
which now sell from 10 to ~ cents
apiece.
With his neck broken squarely, liz
tie Alvin Parsely of Puxico is at the
st. Francis hospital in Cape Girardeau.
receiving the care of physicians and
surgeons who wonder that he con-
,nIes to live. The child suffered a
blow from a falling pole at his home
October -.
Did you ever hear of rain start
ins fire"' asks the Fulton Telegraph.
The Telegraph then explains that the
destruction OF a large quantity of coal
at Mokane is blamed on the rains
contribution to spontaneous combus-
tion. More than 1000 carloads of
coal was threatened by the fire.
:. NJ. Bird, Of the firm of Anthony
a Bird, informs the Leader that they
they will have about eight hundred
acres in wheat this year. The field
down near Bigelow contains more
than four hundred acres and Mr.. Bird
thinks il will be the largest field of
wheat in Missouri.-Craig Leader.
DR. J. G. Maple, the oldest Baptist
minister of Missouri, died at his home
IN Cape GiraTdeau October 81, aged
f.4 years. lie was horn in Germany
and his fiI5t charge after entering
the ministry was ia the above city
On July S, 1871. he repeated his first
sermon, closing sixty years in the
ministry
John Rogers is exhibiting a dcliar
made in 1900. 1t is a ~ttie larger in
circumference than our dollars of to-
day, but not quite so thick. Around
the edge Of the dollar is lettered,
zone Hundred Cents in a dollar"
This dollar is perhaps worth more
than that today II investigated.-
Mound City journal.
IL
filed exemption papers because h: had
a wife and child to support. Eater
the district board received notice
from him asking that his exemption
request be cancelled as his wife and
child had both died and he wanted TO
60 to the front and help save his
country. His wish was compiled With.
OWING to the big corn crop and the
sea- city Of help it is possible for corn
cutters about Palmyra TO earn more
in week than farm hands formerly
earned in a month. The record so
far, according 10 the Spectator, 2
helu Dy negro VINO earned $40 In a
week cutting corn. Another corn cut
ter averaged 50 day for three days.
Alvin Chapman, former postmaster
AT Sendth, Dunkliu county, was tried
and convicted in federal court at cape
Hirardeau last week on a charge of
having failed or refused to account
for 1924 OF postoffice funds. He
was given a three-year prison sentence
and fine of $500, sentence to be
served in the federal prison at Leay-
enworth, Kansas.
Griffith Medus, a small boy OF
Memphis. may eventually become a