The St. Joseph observer., 1920-04-24
NEWS FROM ALL over
IMPERIAL MISSOURI
Interesting Happenings Which Have Taken Place
In the Greatest State in the Union
The Product of the Scissors, the Pen and q Very
Little Actual Labor

John Evans, aged seventy-six, died
last week at Tracy after suffering sew
eral days with the hiccoughs.
jefferson City is preparing to put
down forty-five blocks Of paving this
summer.
John w. Day, s1-year-old Texas
farmer, last week married Mrs. Mar
garct Hibbard, 65, Of Kansas at Hous-
ton.
Nodaway county shows the highest
valuation in the valuing of land. ac-
cording to the state tax commission.
1t is $9S.99.
The beauty of the seed catalog,
points out the Lowry City Indepen-
dent, is that there are no pesky weeds
to pun.
The road bond issue in Greene
county was lost, even though the ma
iority by which it was defeated was
such a small one,
According to the Carthage Evening
Press, about $1,000 day is spent in
the Carthage district for gasoline and
motor car oil.
a large number Of men as usual
will feel that they can raise a garden
this year by instructinF their wives
where and how To plant and cultivate.
There VIII be, predicts the Fayette
Advertiser, enough candidates for gov
crnor to enable every voter in the
state to get his choice-at the prim-
ary.
Three women were entered as cam
didates for the school board at the
election in Paris All were defeated
and three men. the present members
We're reelected.
a total Of l,64O acres of Morgan
county land, notes the Sedalia Capital
in tracts from sixty 10 three hundred
acres were sold at public auction on
the courthouse square at Versailles by
the owner Of the land, +. II. Harri-
son.
Some folks say" gossips the Cor
der Journal, that We of Missouri
could build wall about our state,
and have all the necessaries OF life
and even the Injuries and never &c
outside the state. But who wants 10
do that?"
The commercial peach and straw
berry crop in the ozark region oi
Missouri and North Arkansas was moi
injured 10 any extent by the recent
cold weather, according to d. Z
Eicher, fruit specialist for the Frisco
system, who made a tour of inspec.
tion of the territory. -4
Among the oldest men in this sec.
tiOn OF Northwest Missouri is Jane,
Hcrndon, living east Of ParneH. anC
the father Of Judge o. O. Herndun o
the Worth county court. He is jus
recovering from severe spell of sick,
ness. He is in his ninety fourth yea
and he and the Judge came to Mis-
souri, in November, 1870, from In
diana.-Parnel Sentinel.
Since il has been reported that fiv'
barrels of whisky were stolen from
the home Of man who was attend
ing church, the Excelsior Spring
Daily Call raises the question whethe
| II is mans duty to go 10 church o
stay al home and keep watch owe
his whisky.
Three times the people Of Salin'
county have voted on the proposi,ior
10 issue bonds in the sum OF $1.SOO,
coo for hard surface roads ana oacl
+ time the proposition has lost. Tn
/ + ;,yette Advertiser announces tina
another election will be held soon I,
try out the issue again.
An unopened letter, pos,marke,
Mclva ana addressed TO a man livini
at Hollister, was picked up IN fiel,
eight miles north Of Hartville las
week, reports the Crane Chronicle. l
is believed that il was carried by III
tornado which destroyed the Tame
county village a few weeks ago.
| Bethel has probably the oldes
family of brothers in Northeast Mis-
lsourl, says the Shelby County Herald
ITney range in age from 10 to 81, an
one sister of Camp Point, H., is i