The St. Joseph observer., 1919-10-18
NEWS FROM ALL over
Imperial MISSOURI
interesting Happenings Which Have Taken Place
L., The Greatest State in the Union
The PrOducs of the Scissors the Pen and Very
Little Actual Labor


be- able to cross the river for few
iays.-Skidmorc News.
The Macon Republican cannot
guarantee that every business man
viii be- made wealthy by advertising,
but says il never heard Of a merchant
who became wealthy without it,
Allen Brown. serving 15-ycar
sentence in the state prison for high
way robbery committed in Kansas
City in April 1915, was paroled by
Governor Gardner Wednesday on rec
ommondation Of Governor w. p. Hob
by and former Governor 7. NJ. Camp
bell, Of Texas.
one of the honored guests at the
reception which Laclede is planning
for its most famous native son-Gen-
oral Pcrshing-wil be Prof. c. a.
Smith, who was chairman of the
committce which examined the com
maudcr in chief Of the a. f. f. thirty
cisht years ago for appointment to
the West Point military academy.
That Missouri Is enjoying a great
wave OF prosperity is shown by fig
ures given out at the office of the
state bank commissioner Between
June rs, 1918, and August 2S, 1919,
there was an increase in deposits in
banking institutions operating under
the state laws Of S1OO.41O,O23.41, the
greatest percentage increase on rec
ord.
"Thoy" must bc some" molasscs
down Glasgow way. Missourian
now living in oklahoma writes back
to tho Glasgow Missourian: Il sup
pose they make molasscs out here,
but fear they are not the Glasgow
kind. Please ship me a can so ] can
stick up for Missouri"
We don't know where the jefferson
City Dcmocrat-Tribune gets its statis-
tics, but it is all worried. Says it
with more automobiles being made in
this country than either baby car
riaEes or whcelbarrows. there is
something radically wrong with the
American people.
Sergeant Z. i. Parker standing 6
feet gi2 inches, and who claimed to
have been the taUest soldier in
France, was making a show of himself
by exhibiting for admittance fee, at
the Cape Girardeau fair, when the
very properly stopped II,
on the ground that it was against the
law and against patriotism to use the
for personal profit
Another ozark hero reported killed
in action in the casually list of the
big world war has come back 20 his
old home 10 the great JOY Of his
mother at Mountain Grove. He is
Corporal Nern r. Crispin, who was
twice wounded, the first time being
reported killed in action. The second
time when German shell struck him
was on the morning Of the armistlce
Roy Eldrcdge, l6 years old. said 10
have been the youngest naval recruit
who served during the war, was fined
$3.50 10y United States District Judge
ArDa $. Van Valkonburgh in federal
court al Springfield Tuesday when he
pleaded guilty to sending letter
through the mail demanding $500
from Auton Kctter, a farmer Of Sulli-
van, on pain Of DEATH The court
assessed the light punishment because
OF Eldredge.s youth
William Wardlow, a negro Pullman
porter, attempted a criminal attack
on white woman passenger, twenty
seven years old, who was on her way
10 Dayton, Ohio, sunday night, as the
train was passing through the south
|crn part of Ray county, and Monday
Iafrornoou the negro was on his way
TO jefferson City 10 begin a thirty
year sentence imposed By the Carroll
county circuit court.
Rev. Daniel r. TOwner, widely
known evangelist, singer, hymn writ,
er is dead at Sedalia at the age Of 81
years. He vas former associate OF
Moody, the famous evangelist and ar
elder IN the Moody Church in Chi
.cago. A widow ana daughter. Iiy
ing IN Chicago, survive Dr Townei
had written moro than 1000 hymns
Up untll a year ago he was director
lin the Moody Institute
Colonel William p. Han, the wei
known Missouri circus man, has founC
a new use for elephants al his HON,
town Of Lancaster, Having a numbe
of these big brutes at his winter quar-
tcrS. he decided they might be a bi