The St. Joseph observer., 1920-08-14

big Clothes" was arrested and will |
be tried according to Hoyle.--Henry |
County Democrat.
When well No. l on the Morrow
holdings near Carthage was shot re-
Gently water bubblcd from the hcle
instead Of the much sought oil. Capt.
talists who came from Minneapolis to
see the shooting of the we'll returned
home in disgust A few days ago the
water ceas,u flowing and oil is now
bubblins frcm the well. The Min
neapolis capitalists returned to Garth
age post-haste.
If Diogencs will hurry to Kansas
City ne may find the man he has
been looking for through all the ages,
For after Harve Dierking had lost
his pocket book ana money on q Kan
sas City street car, and returned to
his home in Lexington, counting it
gone, nc received it by registered mail
from a Kansas City man who wrote
that he had found it.
Mrs. w. w. Martin, bitter foe Of
United States Senator James \. Reed
and who took an active part in the
deliberations which ultimately barred
the statesman from the democratic
national convention at san Francisco,
was dcposcd as democratic commit
teewoman at Cape Girardcau Satur-
day.
According to reports from the or
rick potato district. Henry Dorton.
residing south of Orrick, had toe BAN
nor crop this year. Mr.. Do1on had
fifteen acres, in an old feed lot. which
yielded SO bushels to the acre He
sold early at SO per bushcl, the fifteen
acres bringing total OF $13,95O. The
average yield this year around Orricll
was from $50 to 175 bushels per
acre.
A barrel factory mas beecn stablish-
ed at Marionvine with the capacity
of 100000 barrels annual output. The
yearly payroll is $4,000. Before one
has a chance to ask the question the
Jackson Examiner explains that bar
rcls arc s;ill needed; there's the pork
barrel, grand old institution, and
the humble rain barrel that is still in
use, not 10 mention the flour, apple,
molasSns and pickle barrels.
In the six months which ended last
June 80, there were 364 warranty
transfers Of real estate in Holt coun-
", involving a total Of S4,4f3,366. 1t
was the most active six months in
real estate ever recorded here and
exceeded by $1,OO0.OGO the total for
| 1919, which was the heaviest annual
sales in the history Of the county.
| The average deal amounted to Sl2,-
| 209. The warranty transactions FOR
the first six months in 1919 were
$2,52O,7G7.-HoIt County Sentinel.
Two armed men held up the bank
! Of Caledonia at noon Wednesday. es-
Gaping with about s3,lOO in cash af-
ter locking l. p. Coshill, cashier, in
the vault, Coghill was alone when
the hold-up occurred and il was not
until after he succeeded In cffectinC
his release from the vault, by remov-
ing the lock with a screw driver. that
the authorities were notified. A posse
through the surrounding country.
W. {. lIall was 50 impressed by the
size Of the 27-inch bean that came
from the garden of his niece, Mrs.
Mary Bullard, who lived In Boone
county, that the man from the King
dom of Galloway stroned out to the
garden Of his hostess and measured
the beans on 75-foot row. he re-
ports to the Fulton Gazette that near
N every man measured from 27 10
30 inches and his guess is that the
pods will grow to a fun yard.
The dead bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs
Orville Allison, farmer and his wife
living in Boone county, between Ash
land and Wilton, were found by a
neighbor a few days ago. The sup
position is they had been dead eight
or 10 days. It is believed by the
sheriff that Mrs. Allison, who was 81
or 70 years old, poisoned her hus-
hand with jimpsen seed, and ther
committed suicide by the same meth,
cd. The bodies were lying in tn,
yard, 100 yards apart, Evidently M
trouble was had between them
! Chickens IN pens were dead--evident
ly starved TO death. Two horses hat
been correlled in a lot. One hai
broken olf the other Vyaa aim os