The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

ant Hill, who attended the State Med
teal Association at jefferson City, and
was assigned as a room mate with DIR.
b. Clark Hyde defendant in certain
celebrated murder trials in Kansas
City.
Looking for cheer on either hand,
the Carthage Press says that if the
rain hasn't killed all the cinch bugs
it has proved those pests to be water
in Southwest Missouri this spring to
drown all the whales there.
One hundred and nineteen mem
bers are said to attend the meetings
OF Burlington Junction's class in home
economies. This is believed to be a
record as the women OF most Mis-
souri, small towns are too busy keep
ing house to get up a class like that
Burn wood and win the war;"
urges a bulletin just issued by the
Missouri fuel administration. We
suspect we're doing our bit," COM
ments the Smileyville Express. I'VE
estimated that about 40 per cent of
our last sack of tobacco was pure
sawdust."
Fourteen years ago A. z. Filbeck
a young man left his home in Auro-
ra. Hearing nothing from him, his
mother gave him up as dead until
some days since she received a letter
written from her boy on mothers
day" He is in the aviation corps at
Waco, Texas.
Ethel Clayton, movie actress, was
an unwilling guest Of an Albany
hotel the other day when the car in
which she was travelling from New
York to Hollywood, Cal. broke down.
There were four or five persons in
the party" save the Ledger, fnclud-
ing a husband and a maid.'
Wonder how many owners OF six
cylinder cars around Polo are feeling
uncomfortable since this innocent
item appeared in the News: A man
with a big six-cylinder car who gives
only So 70 the Red Cross has a brass
lined, copper riveted conscience that
diamond drill couldn't make a dent
/ in.
Just as we were getting enthusias-
tic about the patriotism Of the Uni
versity Of Missouri girls who went to
Sarcoxie to help save the strawberry
crop, Victor Carpenter of the School
Of Journalism dropped in and let out
the secret that some OF the girls went
because they were excused for "ex-
ans"
At a farm labor congress held at
Carrollton Saturday OF last week un-
Defense, a schedule of wages as fol-
loves was voted: Wheat shockers
4Oc per hour, harvest laborers soc an
hour, machine threshing 6A C pei
bushel, crew and machine threshine
10 ~ a bushel.
Something which goes far to dem
onstrate the success Of the honor
system Of the state penitentiary oc.
Icured the other day when a negro
named Dick Phenix was released OF
his own promise to go to Quindaro
Kan, to attend the commencement
exercises where his daughter was &
graduate. He is a trusty at the rer
and no doubt was felt Of his return
A Johnson county farmer is prett!
confident that when men really are
needed in the harvest fields the tow
storekeepers and business men will
shut up shop and go to their aid
They can make wages that way" h,
pointed out, (which is more thar
they can make by keeping open thei
shops when nearly everyone else 4
busy in the fields"
VIII II. ZOrn OF West Plains
sending out notices that the eight
annual reunion and fish drive of tn
Old Timers Club will be on LAX
Taneycomo, June II to 22. The @
T. Club is a small but notable organ
ization. Its twenty members are sal
TO produce more pure fiction ever
, year than do the 175 members Of tn
Missouri Writer'S Guild.
! This telegram from Midco, tn
, town the Midcontinental Iron Com
f. pany has built for its employees
D gives an idea how thinly Carte
S county is populated and how man
acres Of opportunity are there; MidcC
newest town in the state, subscribe
E over $1,000 for Red Cross. This
9 over ten times its quota and twice tn