The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-02-15

other public eating places and cluta
serve bread or other bakery
products Of their own baking, togeth-
er with all firms, persons, corpora
lions and associations engaged in the
business Of importing or distributing
green coffee, are required to procure
a license to do bua mess, President
Wilson announced ia a proclamation
No Heat in Churches.
Sedalia, Mo.-The 30 Protestant
churches in this city held no services
Sunday, and, although services We're
held in the two Catholic churches. the
neat was not turned on.
Money Gone From Bank.
An inventory and report filed in the
reeordeE's office * @sytaa
liam II. o'Brlen, special state deputy
bank commissioner, who is winding up
the affairs OF the Valley Park bank.
shows that when he took charge he
did not find the S49,OS2.25 deposits
which the books showed should have
been on hand. In place OF the depos-
It's were notes, many of them unse-
cured, eyidenclAg loans made by tne
bank to persons in the Missouri Plate
Glass Co. group, which controlled the
bank as a subsidiary.
1t also has been disclosed that The
bank deceived the examiners by car
rying as assets deeds Of trust cover
ing pieces OF property which were in
Guided in the blanket deed covering
all of the property.
The report shows that unsecured
notes to the amount of $14.445 were
found. The largest amount loaned
within the organization was $7,1OO TO
the Missouri Plate Glass Co., which is
now in the hands OF a received.
Aurora.-Heart trouble caused the
sudden death of w P. O'Banion, plum
Der, while he was thawing out frozen
water pipes on East College street.
Sedalia-Clay, the %22-year-old son Of
Daniel Owens, Of Houstonia, died OF
pneumonia at Camp Doniphan. He was
a member Of an artillery supply com
pany.
Kirksyille.-Mrs. A. w. Deshn and
her daughter Mildred are %quarantined
at their home on West Illinois street,
me family physician having diagnosed
their illness as diphtheria.
Macon.-George Sofan was sen
fenced to Imprisonment for life for the
murder of Lou James prelkeid last
September.
lndependence.-Rev and Mrs. Thorn
as NJ. Cobb celebrated the dfthieth an
niversary OF their wedding at the home
Of Mrs. Robert Taubman Of Lexing-
ton, Mo, their eldest daughter. Pas
tor Cobb has been in the Methodist
ministry for more than half a century.
Clinton-The %roundhouse of the
Frisco Railroad at North Clinton was
badly damaged by a l~1O-gallon OF cyl.
inder oil. No one was injured.
Kansas City.-Three ordinances fol
the suppression OF vice were passed
by the city council
Centralia.-Mrs Henry Hunt, aget
n, is dead here. She resided her,
over 80 years.
Cape Girardeau Five children AIS
many grandchildren mourn the deau
= Of Mrs. Henrietta Vogelsang, whi
came here With her husband from
Germany in 1856.
State Fuel Administrator Wallsc.
Crossley is out in a letter advising th
people OF the state 10 buy their cou
} toc next winter as early as possible
as there is no telling what condition
may confront the peope Of the sear
by that time The coal supply OF TN
stale is estimated at 70 billion ton;
p Cape G~irardeau Fired. the lO-yeal
old son Of Mr. and Mrs. Frank 4
Wright OF Puxico, suceumbed 10 u
Iuries received in a coasting acciden
+ Poplar Bluff-rhe Poplar Blu
Trust Co. opened business in tc.ap.
rary quarters in the rooms OF the Rec
Jewesry Co. on Feb. II.
IS Columbla-Cecil Calvin. a scho
teacher OF Ashland, was married
y Miss Alma Tandy, daughter OF
Tandy. 1907 Broadway, a member OF
family Of Boone county pioneers.