The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-02-13
MISS URI NOTES.

MISSOURI NOTES.
/ Rep, Frank w. Wilkinson of Kan
sas City Thursday introduced Bill
making the crab apple blossom til,
official state flower Of Missouri.
! : W "a nrth ludg ON y I6=Yearsnld. sol
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Dudgeon, q
Duyal, caught a white wolf III hi
trap. The wolf showed fight, *
Worth returned next morning ane
shot him. ". III \. ss,s q II.
| Sixteen hundred hogs were burnec
to. death n fire in the hoghouse Of
Morris & Co., at the National Stock.
yards, East ST. Louis, at 6 o'clock
Wednesday night. The loss, esti-
mated at 10000, is fully covered by
insurance.
Harrisonville will have to wait
a while longer for her government
building. When the bids were
opened it was found that the con-
tractor with the lowest bid was
$4,000 above the appropriation, ac.,
cording to the Cass County Demo-
crat.
Kansas City is not the only town
on the map that can boast of a
preacher editor. According to the
Appleton City Journal, editor George
N. Harvey, Of the Rockville Review
in addition to his newspaper duties
is pastor of the M. f. church at
Rockville ta
A telegram announcing that the
35tl division would leave France
March 1, for home was received at
Aurora by Mrs. T. H. 10y. wife of
Colonel 10y of the 12oth machine
gun battalion of that division. The
message was from Lieutenant Perry
Of the battalion.
According to the Ell Dorado
Springs News that town is infested
~ a gang of bootleggers. thieves
md house burners. The news says
hat if something is not soon done
about it, the town will wake up some
morning and find some of the out
avs decorating tree limbs.
Mrs. Caroline Abbot Stanley, 62
ears old, author of Order No. H."
very celebrated war novel and
'ther stories that were popular died
everal days since at Fulton. Mo-, of
bronchial pneumonia at@the home of
friend there. Her girlhood was
pent at Pleasant Hill, where her re-
Mains were buried
A jury in the Clay County District
curt brought in verdict Of guilty
n the trial of Jesse Weagley,
harged with having slain Elizabeth I
weetheart. January 8, 1918. The
erdict was reached at the end of
of an hour and half
nd carried with it 2o-year penalty.
The Republican House of Repre-
entatives last week voted down a
esolution to compel the hordes of
Jerks to sign daily register to
how that they at least were on hand
Or duty. 1t is generally conceded
nat many clerks on the pay roll
ave performed no duties, many of
lem not even appearing in the city.
I. Fl. Herbst, prominent farmer
wing north of Shelbyville, recently
altered several boxes full OF ripe
from his vines. He also
rought to town in support of his
aims some fine new potatoes,
ring beans and other vegetables.
hat these things were produced
ithout the aid OF a hotbed in this
innate at this season of the year
the subject of much comment.
David Clifton Biggs of St. Louis,
easurer and director of the Inter
ltional Shoe Company, today was
ected governor Of the Eighth Fed
al Reserve District at meeting of
e directors of the Federal Reserve
ank of St. Louis. Mr.. Biggs sue
eds Rolla Wells, who resigned.
r. Biggs had many years expert
ice in banking before entering the
zoe business. He is 81 years old.
The worlds record price for pure
ed Poland China hogs was broken
nen l.. II. Glover, Grandview, sold
irty-seven sows for an average of
10, totaling $3o,266. The price was
higher than the former record, es-
blished last week when William E.
rain of Algona, Ia, sold forty-two
ad. One of the hogs, christened
airy Pickford, was sold to Sol
.onard. of st. Joseph, Mo-, for ST. y
Q. Another, called Anita Stewart, :