The St. Joseph observer., 1920-05-08
NEWS FROM ALL over
IMPERIAL MISSOURI
Interesting Happenings Which Have Taken Place
In the Greatest State i'm the Union
The Product of the Scissors, the Pen and Very
Little Actual Labor

Snyder accepted during the four min
utes telephone conversation and left
Friday night for Oakland, where the
marriage will take place.
Mrs. Thomas Smith, an elderly
blind woman of Platte City, died last
week at the home OF her daughter,
Mrs. Walter Brightwell, the result of
burns. Sbe had the habit Of smoking
a pipe and while alone in the house,
her clothing caught fire, and when
aid reached her she was badly burn
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State Game and Fish Commissioner
Tim Birmingham will establish a state
fish hatchery at Sequiota Park, five
miles southwest of Springfield, within
the next few days. reports Mosby's
Missouri Message. when equipped,
the hatchery will cost probably
$25.OOO. The location is said to be
an ideal one for the propagation of
fish. Three varieties of fish will be
Matched, bass, crappie and perch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haines celebrated the
5Oth anniversary of their marriage
lHst week. MIR. Haines is "a years Of
age and his wife is rs. The wife was
born in the house in which they were
living at the time Of the celebration.
she has spend all her lfe in the same
luilding at Upton.
Recently maniac killed a Vestry-
man in a crowded New York church
and several Boonville mon are point
ing to that as an excuse for not at
tending divine services: they think it's
too risky. They say you are in dam
ser even if you are save '.-Boonville
Republican.
Fielding J. Rawlins, wealthy
Carroll county farmer, charged with
the murder Of Conrad Dieterding. a
Carrollton garage owner, last July,
TOR his relations with Rawlins young
wife was acquitted by jury inathe
Carroll circuit court. following a de-
liberation Of five hours.
Speaking of the overall fad. the
jefferson City Democrat-Trbune says
that some day grateful country may
erect a memorial to Phincas T. Bar
mum, not because he was the greatest
Snowman, but TO perpetuate his warn
ing that the American people liked to
he humbugged.
The Slater Rustler claims that the
largest hog ever butchcred in Saline
county was that killed 10y a farmer
near there. The animal weighed 1,035
pounds and measured in length 6 feet
and inches feet inches in girth,
and 3 feet inches high. Besides
making finS lot of meat, 125 pounds
CT sausage and AZ gallons Of lard
were produced.
The Slater Rustler tells tbs incident
OF the recent hail storm i'm Saline
the hardest, a flock of policans were
frightened from the water by steam
boat. As they flew across the bottom
the hail struck them In fun fury, fell
ing almost the entire flock. After the
hail had subsided, sevcnty-fivc dead
birds were found.
The date for the next state convcn-
ton of the Missouri department of
the American Legion has been set for
September 3rd and Attn, at Sedalia.
The chamber of commerce Of Sedalia
ias arranged to care for from 700 TO
1000 visitors Each post viii be en-
titled 10 one vote and an additional
vote for every 100 paid-up members.
Trom 200 TO 500 posts will be repre-
scnted at the state convention.
While the removal Of tonsils is not
generally believed to be at all a SER
luus operation, IL proved ldtaI IN Ne
vada the other day when DR.. Brown
az his office removed the tonsils from
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