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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06
McAllister to Assist

Attorney General Frank W.
McAllister, of Paris, has received a
letter from Governor Gardner direc
ting him to assist the prosecuting
attorney of Barton County in the in
vestigation and prosecution of the
persons who participated in the
lynchine of Jay Lynch at Lamar,
last week
Lynch. who had pleaded guilty
to the murder of Sheriff John NJ.
Harlow of Barton County, and who
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
was taken from the court room by
I'd men and hanged In front of the
court house
Attorney General McAllister says
he will at once get in touch with
Prosecuting Attorney Timmonds of
Barton County. The Attorney Gen.
eral was not prepared to say who
he will send to. Lamar to help in
the investigation.
The letter from the Governor
directing the Attorney General to
assist in the prosecution, follows:
Under the provisions of the Re
vised Statutes of 1919, | hereby
direct that you assist the prosecut-
ing attorney of Barton County. Mo
in the investigation of the ynching
Of one Jay Lynch, convicted slayer
of John H. Harlow, Sheriff of Bar.
ton County and in the prosecution
of any parties charged with having
participated in said crime"
The Governor said there were no
new developments since he received
the letter from Prosecuting Attorney
Timmonds tfficislly informing him
of the lyncbiDg of the Sheriff's slay
er. A similar letter was sent to
the Attorney Gener;
Il do not think that the matter
should rest without a thorough in.
vestieation and prosecution" said
the Governor. and this prompted
me to ask the Attorney General tc
help in the investigation"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06
Victory for Monroe

The most interesting and exciting
ball game played on the home
grounds for several years was stag
ed last Sunday where the Clarksville
team met their Waterloo by score
of 7 to 4. What made the game
more interesting than usual was
the fact that the fans never knew
what to expect. Plenty of spectacular
grand stand plays were made, also
some rank errors and few bone"
plays pulled on both sides, all of
which kept the spectators up in
the air" most of the time. The visi-
tors started the gsme early, scoring
three runs in the first frame and
holding their lead until the seventh
when the home boys punched their
hits and run their score up to Z
They were assisted in this effort by
several errors by the visitors, all
which were costly. The rain Of
Saturday night made the grounds
heavy and accounted for most Of
the errors on Both sides.
The home team will 60 to Paris
Sunday and a week from that date
the Paris team will come to Monroe
for a return game Monroe is promis,
ed some good games this season il
patronage is sufficient to pay ex
penses. The attendance Sunday
did not quite pay out, but was nc
doubt caused BY weather conditions
the prospect of rain being good all
the afternoon.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06
Big Land Sale

W. S. Woodson and c. L. Hender-
son, through the realstate firm Of
Oreascher & Woodson, purchased
the Lou Boone farm one mile east
of Ely this week. This farm con-
sists of 241 acres and is considered
one of the best in Marion County.
1t had been owned by the Boone.
family for more than As years.
Consideration private.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06
When r. W. McCurdy, a travelin

When r. W. McCurdy, a travelling
man, awoke the other morning in a
sleeper of the M, X. & 7. Railroad
he discovered he was in the shape
of the beDighted Hindu of the olden
days. For clothes he was compel
ed to make his skin do-at least
temporarily. He was travelling to
Jefferson City, and the window OF
his sleeping compartment was open
and somewhere during the trip all
of his cloths disappeared. McCurdy
believes they were stolen by some
person while the train was stopping
at a station. and he was in the land
of nod, McCurdy had to send S
o. S. call to a Sedalia haberdashery
before he could continue his journey
1t is the first robbery of the kind
ever reported by railroad officials
and is just another confirmation
that robbers these days are getting
original in their methods.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06
The Road Question

On May 20 the voters of Monroe
City Special Road District by an
overwhelming majority voted to
bond the district in the amount of
$4,000, which together with Fed
eral and State aid money would be
sufficient to build that part of the
hard surface road between Monroe
City and Paris within the Monroe
City special road district. The state
highway commission at Jefferson
City last week promised the money
after all agreement had been reach
ed AS the matter now stands road
No. 10 this county will start at
Monroe City and run to Paris,
doubling back from Paris east to
the Rails county line over the
Perry road.
Last Saturday at a meeting held
at Paris the proposition of a county
bond issue of one million dollars for
road purposes was discussed. This
amount together with state and fed
eral aid, it was thought would give
Monroe County about 200 miles of
hard surface roads.
Wednesday a delegation of good
roads boosters came to Monroe City
to ask that the special district
bonds be Withdrawn and that the
district join with the county in the
million dollar issue, which PROPOSE
ton was not very favorably re-
ceived, as the promoters could not
give any assurance that Monroe
special district would get as much
road money under the new order as
is now assured.
Again. Monroe City had a haLd
fight getting the county court to
approve the Monroe to Paris road,
and the same thing might happen
again; as it would be ehtirely in the
hands Of the court to designate
which roads in county received at
tention.
We want all the good roads we
can possibly GET and are willing to
cooperate with the rest of the
county to get them. but the light Of
past events we will show good judg-
ment in holding on to what we have
until we are assured of getting at
least as much out of the new propsi-.
ton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

Gathering potato bugs by the
bushel is an interesting pastime for
patients of the Fulton State Hos
pital, who are in the stage demen-
tia. where they can be taken out fol-
exercise by the attendants. They
delight in the work, thinking il
great sport. Equipped with tin
Gems and sticks, they 60 down the
potato lows and soon have theiI
cans well filled with the bugs, On
one 49, acre patch of potatoes they
picked nine bushels of bugs in two
days. The bugs were cremated
in the poWer.house. DR.. Nj. o
Biegs, superintendent, says the
present brand of bugs are too large
to be killed with paris green and
cremation is the only way they can
be cotton rid Of.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06
senolng small cnicks by mail 4

Sending small chicks by mail is
becoming a common occurrence in
Missouri. Lancaster is one of the
towns where the process is carried
out on a large scale. Hundreds Of
of them 60 through during the
Matching seasons and scores of them
60 to distant points. Kinny Miller
established a new high record in
two days this week when he sent,
respectively, 6,5C0 and $500 chicks
by parcel post. He paid about
$4C0 in postage. Other chicken
faneiers have also sent large mum
bers, until the parcel post practical
ly doubled itself at the local Office.
Because of this increase, it has been
necessary to employ an additional
mail clerk. whose duty is to look
exclusively after the parcel post
business. Chicken men say ship
ping chickens by mail is a very
satisfactory method.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

r. &. Glssscock. one of the most
Pre- minent farmers in Rails county,
whose home was in the vicinity Of
Rensselaer,, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed last Friday af.
ternoon about $50 o'clock. His
death was witnessed by his wife
and sixteen year old daughter. He
was in his barn lot at the time and
they were in q yard close by.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

Rev. Charles P. Foreman, field
agent for Westminter College. has
just returned from a trip through
Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas and
during his travels found only two
high schools in which there were
more boys than girls in the senior
class. They were at St. Charles and
University City, in st. Louis County.
He also found that there were few
boys in the junior classes of the
high schools of the three States, not
more than six out of the IA schools
he visited having goodly number
of junior boys.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

The State press is still discussing
those Presbyterians, who at the St.
Louis meeting condemned the read
ing of Sunday newspapers. The
most.of the boys seem to think that
the people who condemn them also
read Sunday papers An interest
ing point in this connection, which.
does not seem to have been men-
toned, is that the good people who
object to Sunday newspapers will
read a Monday morning paper
which is got up and printed on
Sunday, while the most of the work
on a Sunday morning paper is done
Saturday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

The heavy rains of the past few
weeks are becoming serious and
farmers are more or less discour-
aged. If the rains stop within the
next few days and a dry June
should prevail everything would
take on a new aspect. About three
fourths of the corn has been plant
ed and much of that is now foul
with the weeds and grass. Oats
and wheat are promising. provided
the rains do not ruin them.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

Miss Mary Dirigo, who is attend
ing Gem City Business College in
Quincy spent the week end with
home folks here.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

Three Monroe City boys arrived
home Wednesday night from sever.
al months service overseas. They
are: Harry Wales, Tom Mont.
gomery and Harry Smith.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

Miss Vallie Utterback. court
stenserapher is in New London this
week where she is attending court,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

All over the State farmers are
bringing samples of blue gsoSs 70
town. 1t has grown rank this year
on account OF the cool weather and
abundance of rain, so that blue
grass five feet high is not uncom
mon. according to the newspapers,
all of which. after telling their blue
grass stories, remark that Missouri
and not Kentucky is the great blue
grass State. Well, maybe it is. but
calling it Kentucky blue grass al
ways was q misnomer aDyway.
Blue grass grows all the way across
the Northern States from New
England to the great plains. but up
north they think it is peculiarly a
grass of the country along Mason's
and Dixon's line, because blue grass
in the Northern States is known as
June grass. 1t is all the same
thing, howevei. and the botanists
call it poa pratensis. And. by the
way, just to cir a little more of our
school book knowledge about grass,
did the. reader ever notice that Ken
tucky blue grass is far from being
the bluest of grasses? According
to our eyes that distinction belongs
to Canada blue grass, which has no
more to do with Canada than Ken.
tucky blue grass has with Ken
tucky.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

l. o. Wilson was in Moberly Sun
day attending a meeting in the in
terest of the Centenary campaign.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06
Want Harvest Hands

A call for harvest hands to assist
the farmers Of Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Missouri Nebraska and
South and North Dakota in gather
ing and preparing for the market
their huge wheat crops was issued
Monday by Commissioner William
II. Lewis of the Missouri Bureau of
Labor Statistics, which department
is CO. operating with Assistant Di-
rector General A. L. Barkman, the
United States free employment
service, in supplying the needed
army of agricultural helpers.
1t is preferred that applications
be made through the cooperative
Office of the State and the United
States free employment service, 804
Grand avenue, Kansas City.
Missouri has planted 4.243,000
acres, as compared with 3.074,000
last year This State does not, as a
rule, require great deal of harvest
labor from outside sources, as the
farms are comparatively small and
men can be secured locally. How.
ever. there is usus allv an opportuni
~ to secure work for short periods
in the vicinity of Kansas City.
Kansas farmers are offering
sbocbers, bargemen, pitchers and
helpers around stock SO cents an
hour with board; stacAers, 60 cents
and board; men with teams 70 cents
and board and stock feed; cooks. $3
per day and board. Cutting will
commence in the southern counties
of the State June Is to June 20
Persons going to and returning
from the harvest fields must pay
their own transportation.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

The Perry Enterprise says:
Charles Long suffered the loss OF
sheep estimated to be of the value
of $500 Sunday night. He had a
flock of II ewes, II lambs and q
buck. Eight ewes were killed and
nine crippled, three or four Of which
it is thought will die. The buck was
badly crippled, three lambs killed,
and only six out of the balance
able to move around" Two dogs
did the work and when a man
reads items like that about dead
and tortured sheep slowly dying he
wants to shoot the first dog he sees
and perpetually prohibit the publ
cation of George Vests dog eulogy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-06-06

Miss Kate Redd went to Palmyra
Monday after a several days visit at
the home of A. s. Jayne and fam
lily. From there she will return to
her home in Memphis.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
D9pp1l5dn418
FishINo.

I TAKE my patent jointsd pole. when
cost me quite 4 hcfty roll. ana me
me 10 sylvan nook. infcsted ny
n babbllng brook. and there S't.
patient scout. and fish. and fsh, ana
fsh for trout. Oh my couipmsnts out
OF sight. In each detail exactly right.
Through WaItons stuff | often toll;
study IN the works OF Hoylc. TO see
just what ought to buy. what Kind
OF halt what sort OF fly. MY reel and
strikers and my line imported are. and
vastly fine. ] bought my rniment nc
n shop whore sporting vcstments ara
on top. And no ait and fish and fish
ard think OF what n prlhceiy dish well
have at home when ] return, with all
the troutlets IN the burn. But when at
ln't homeward 20 hnvo no specified
trout 10 show. have Crouch. tenn
Ter sore. my costly rig and nothing
more And meanwhile Johns0n's free
k,d lad goes toilIrg homeward TO his
dad all hurdcncd with n string of trout
thar weighs a ton, or thereabout. Hs
caught them with pole OF pine 10
which WAS tied cotton line, In
agony my voice ! M. and nsk you.
whittier do we drlft9 There. some
thing wronE with congress-. slrs, when
anything like this occurs.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
Fifteen Years Ago.

A bill for checking up the books OF
the city was presented at the coun-
Gil meeting last evening, In connec-
ton with the bills the city is charged
with thlr,y-,hree days of sps,enance
for Mr., Buckingham in one month
and ,hlrty-iive in another This bill
was referred to the claims commit
tee
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

The report OF Fire Chief NJ. II.
Kesler for the year ending July IS,
1904, shows a totf of sixteen men in
the department. nine good horses and
two condemned horses, one Babcock
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
H:isto1:YR
Bits -
One Hundred Years Ago Today.

One Hundred years AGO Ioday.
lsl9-John Playfair, celebrated
mathematician and physicist, died in
Edinburgh, Born in Scotland, March
10, l74S.
Seventy-five. Years Ago Today.
lS4I-Peel's Bank Charter act lin
I,ed the issue OF Bank Of England
notes to S0,0OQ000.
Fifty Years Ago Today.
S69-Serious disturbances resulted
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

The young lady across tho way says
the war taught us all lessons In thrift
and for her part she was careful 10
use up all her Scent postage stamps
before July | even though she had TO
write a lot OF unnecessary letters to
do II.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
Our Daily Birthday Party.

Rev, John J, Hennessy, Catholic
bishop OF Wichita, born in County
Cork, Ireland, Y years ago today.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

Okahona City should fall to fill M quota OF the fund for devastated
France The single days failed probably for lack of workers but
trbu,on. the entire raised This city has
record raising its funds and the fund for
properly under that head even though the treaty
signed
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

By has demonstrated that the liquor inter
Ss haven't modification lnnc The tendency is
10 make tn. liquor and the handwriting the wall for the
bcose barons $ in q bold firm hand.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

Bulgaria anxouy trying stir trouble in the Balkans but
Bulgaria that she lost this and Bulgarian demands
have been added TO the growing which don't anything
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

aerial truck, three combination hose
and ladder wagons. 1000 feet Of scrv.
iceablc hose and 1850 feet Of unre-
liable hose And two stations, known
as No, | or Central station at Is
South Broadway. and No , or May
wood station at 67 East Seventh
street
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

great deal said from time in favor of simplicity in
designers the bathing have close
that line OF argument.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
O1dSfo1:ies
hzN(eWT>4Pe
FOR Me IegNe N1se
Twenty Years Ago.

1t has been discovered that the
kine,oscope prize fight pictures now
showing in Kansas City are not gen.
uine Fi,l- -Jefiries pictures. 1t is be-
lieved that no views were taken OF
the fight.
The Storm and Coloord buildings
on the corner OF First and Broad
way are going up rapidly and will
soon be completed.
The closing exercises OF the instA
tu,e will be held on the evening OF
July n at the Baptist church. Pro-
lessor Murdaugh, president OF the ter
rtorial normal school at Edmond,
will deliver an address. The graduates
are Delie Osborn, Ollie Needham
Ellsworth Needham, Ethel Shaicr, Fl
della Meloy, Mae Donnelly, Willis
Stone and Ali'e Mann.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

Mukogee after extended
walking be However this poor
organize walking club, and plans mobilize the pedestrians
wait until the frost the pumpkin well Mr. Burleson
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
ANOTHER HAPPY THOUGHT.

II cheers us up bit 10 know
That school Is some six weeks awayj
Because we do not have to 60,
II cheers US up and makes us gay.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

The wife OF young medco refers to him a The
Doctor. he the only whereas the lodge
olutions he isn't
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

other painful performances vaudeville that
Jack Dempsey has the Back the
Jim ei play the leading role "Da Crockett"
worlds
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

in Spain from the governments call
for troops by conscription.
Twenty-Five Years Ago Today.
lso4-An anarchist who attempted
TO kill Premier Crispi Of Italy was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
July 10. l9lS-Honduras declared
war on Germany; Germans began
their retreat across the Marne United
States cruiser San Diego sunk by
mine. with a loss OF six lives.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

will contend that grade crossing helps make the wot
safe for democracy
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
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UNCONCERNED N

Now the statesmen enterprising
Are quite buSily devising
Regulations to deplee the private stock
OF the luShcrs who, oresighted,
Filled their CELLARS and delighted
Other appetites residing in the block.
Just TO have il in possession
VIII be deemed a grave transgresSion,
Should this new enforcement measure take effect,
While the one who has invested
Till his basement IS cOngeSted
Sees his dreams OF future moisture sadly wrecked.
In this somewhat arid region
There's a large and growing legion
Who regard this drastic measure unconccrned
Though there may have been season
When they too, had lost their reason
A, the thought OF losing that for which they yearned.
But the prohibition measures
Long since took their liquid treasures,
And experience has taught them TO forget
Hence they face the present furry
Unatrad, and leave the worry
To the who still possess a trace OF wet
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19

All games the National league postponed the other day
although there those who unwilling believe there
S that much precipitation,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-19
CONVINCING THE SENATORS.

PROSPECTS Of an early ratification the peace treaty improved when
Senator Colt republican from conference with President wilson
ready to admit that air the discussion had been %
acy explained him The discussion concerned the Shan'uns settle
mn which republican senators bewai m sad tate
of China the has with more violent opposition
b.en so frequently used to prove the covenant Yet in
b conference able opposition senator o the
justice and wisdom of the action OF the peace conference on m ~
point , Al,
President unateraby opposed to reservations In the
ratification the treaty. conferences that held with Io NC
Cp and Nelson possible bring majority OF the senate
to the support Despite their strong partisan eanng' major
iv of the senator's before they parsan ~ treaty
including the league nations, properly party issue " VIII
make that fight end including Borah who insists he would
still oppose the approved by majority OF m Voo
The nation would he approved submitted the opnop u
preuced who have Travelled through many cs 'u' w
sentiment OF the people
But there likelihood that will be submitted That suggestion
like Boh like earlier suggestion by certain paei'e mat
H,r.on of war be popular Either suggestion overiooS
The provision, constitution the United States document Tor wh
increased regard these unsettled days Inc ue
must be ratified America remains technically war WIN
Germany Ultimately treaty ratified and when President Wilson
asks that be he seeks merely to sengmeh
position standing the nations the world
The already abandoned the plan OF separate coh on u"
ea and at at senator has seen the o
crpon because Of the Chinese question oher pom" VIII
-,,.d Nv the presidents explanation Of closer contact with the
leaders the trainers Of the treaty he best qualified TO Judge
the merit of the pact the conflicting interests which influenced
the formulation thereof Despite partisan feeling the senate VIII hardy oe
TO a,er the world, greatest hope for permanent peace
Mo, Walton b,, won from the council
Of the bond amendments and secured from the
same ce an expression confidence the city commission Taxpayers
among the their votes for the bonds accordance WIN
this central labor body But something more than eon
n the needed support for those
which would the commission
opening extending widening and changing the channels OF
rams limits Such amendments give authority over properly
power increase the eys Indebtedness wh no single group
men should needed to effect pubic
improvement desired They dangerous and should de-
fead ..-