The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-02-06
MISSOURI NOTES

i MISSOURI NOTES
|, The Chambers of Commerce o
Nevada and Appleton City are work
ing on Mans looking to the estab
1ishment of milk condenserys il
their respective towns. III
Several important state cases SCI
for trial at the January term OF the
Ceaar county Circuit Court had tc
be postponed because the principal
Witnesses had the influenza.
The 3ooth anniversary of the land.
ing in Virginia of the first negroes &c
come to America was celebrated by
1880 negroes in monster pageant
in Convention Hall in Kansas City
last week.
David c. Biggs, director and treas.
urer of the International Shoe Co.
of St. Louis. has been selected as
governor of the Eighth Federal Re-
serve District, to succeed Rolla
Wells, resigned.
|. The county court Of Polk County,
Missouri, has been petitioned for 4
special election to bond the county
in the sum OF 500, 900 to build rock
roads. The court will likely act OF,
it next Saturday.
Chas. L. Durham, member OF
Kansas City's first council and con-
ductor of the first passenger train,
entering that city, died at the home
of his daughter at 1907 Walnut street
one day last week.
The worlds record. price for Po-
land China hogs was broken at the
Kansas City stockyards Thursday
when 81 sows sold for $50, 200 or ar
average of 1913. One Of the hogs
brought $1o5o and another $1,000.
At nine days auction sale of raw
furs which ended in St. Louis last
week the total sales amounted to
So, $4,000. The last day of the sale
100000 muskrats pelts were sold at
trifle over dollar apiece. a silver
fox skin brought $3.50.
The Ell Dorado News says that
Several indictments found by the last
grand jury were lost before the
January term OF the Cedar county
circuit court and threatens to get
"nlumh inal1isitiNe- unless some one
finds them.
A score or more persons were
hurt, six OF them severely, Friday.
when a combination freight and pas
senger train on the Chicago and AL
ton Railroad was wrecked near Full
ton. The smoker. in which the most
severely injured were hemmed i'll.
caught fire, but it was put out.
The Missouri State Senate has
adopted a resolution inviting Rev.
Burris Jenkins. editor of the kansas
City Rost to address the Missouri
assempl" upon subjects pertaining
to the American troops in the late
war. Rev. Jenkins has made TWO
is first handed
According to the Nevada Heral,.
Guv .Lindley Gist Of Vernon county.
is the roud possessor of ten living
grandparents. Resides the young
man can lay claim to belonging to
our very first families. On one side
of his family tree he traces his an
cestry back to Israel Putnam, and on
the other to the Campbells, ..l,o
came over in the Mayflower.
Some time ago when :o>nal:;.
man was asked by his local bank I,
pay a note that he owed he wrote =.
letter to the cashier in which he &C
cused the president OF the bank -!
being pro-German. The president q
the bank sued him Tor libel and when
the case was tried last week he came
so near proving his charge that the
Jury decided that no one vas
libelled.
The Kansas City Chamber OF Con-,
merce estimates the recent influenza
endemic, which caused the death %
1893 persons. cost the people 81
Kansas City nearly 8 million dollars.
The figure is arrived at by compul
iro that each life lost representa-, |
$4,000, and estimating the doct"r
pills and funeral expenses. Included
in the total is the loss Of business |
suffered b.. the merchants and places
of amusement.
Judge S. Evans, Dallas. No.
voluntarily surrendered to the Un,:
"a States Marshal at Kansas tu, |