The St. Joseph observer., 1920-02-14

$50, 900, anxious to marry honorable
gentlemen. Write Mrs. Warn, 2216h
Temple ST., Los Angeles, Cal-(Advt)
Z. L. Platt left Monday night for
Toledo, o. to attend q convention of
fixture men.
Mrs Magdalene Kost, wife OF the
late Rev. j. G.. Kost and mother of
Prof. p. w. Kost, died at the home of
her son s23 Main street Monday night
She was almost SO years Of age and
came TO this city in 1867.
There was an added squirt to che !
flu epidemic early in the week, but 1t
has now toned down and indications
are that the epidemic is decidedly on
the wane.
County superintendent of schools
Fred Il. Roach and a number of school
directors from the rural schools of
this county attended a meeting Of
school officers of the state. at Jeffer-
son City Friday and Saturday.
Roy Highfield who stole the Doug
las Candy Co.'S alcohol is now serv-
ing a sixty days sentence in the Troy
Jail. for assaulting Frank Peden of
that place last october.
At the meeting of the school board
Monday night, President Dolman had
society. which ended with honors
about evenly divided. The board will
meet again Feb. IS, at which time It
is said Supt. Mays will again be elect
ed.
A large number of business and pro-
fessional men met at the Commerce
Club Monday night, and made the
preliminary move to organize the st.
Joseph Athletic Club. Directors were
selected for the coming year and a
membership campaign will be inaug-
urated at once, .Hru--
Anna Pearl, wants a divorce from
Alex Ratliff and Lula from Arthur j
Anderson. indignities being alleged in
each case.
Mayor whitsell and a women's com.
mittee distributed $50 war medals to
soldiers at his office Tuesday. This
closes the local medal presentation
The anti-vaccine society on Thurs
day placed petitions in circulation
calling for the removal of city health
officer Delameter, claiming ne did
not enforce smallpox quarantine reg
ulations.
Charles l. Stafford and Z. C. Har.
riI paid fines of $40 each in polio,
court Thursday for motor speeding.
5 Information received here Thursday
e was to the effect that the body o.
= Timothy p. Fitzmaurice. a prominen
v farmer residing near Forest City, haC
that morning been found in his silo
in which he had smothered to death
The county court on Thursday re
ceived a proposition from the boar,
a of public works to take over the cit
= prisoners and lodge them in the coun
J. ty jail, which if done would do ava
with the workhouse.
e The police on Thursday inaugur At
: ed their campaign against those VIII
d have failed to take out their 192
= automobile licenses, and over a doze
arrests were made on that day. A
of those arrested are sent befor
= Squire Wilson, who when a plea {
p" guilty is made makes it S25 and trim
- mings. Among the arrests Thursda
10 was the driver Of a state grain il
spection car. The drive continued o
yesterday and over two dozen victim
were gathered in.
Earl Davis Of Des Moines was sh,
through the left lung at Ninth ar
" Robidoux shortly after midnight FIR
ne day. He is now at hospital suffe
ing from a dangerous wound. Day
claims that he shot himself, but Il
-, lpolice do not believe his story,
II. J. Myers was held up and robb,
of 500 by a man who wore a soldi
II, overcoat. The hold-up occurred
az Twelfth and Church streets, and q
hold-up artist had a woman with hi
who helped in the operation.
,r Roy Gunselman, a former clerk