The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-04-06

NEWS OF THE STATE
| Esht safes were looted in one night
recently at Springfield.
| A 100000 sanatorium with forty rooms
is to be erected twelve miles from Spring
field.
The indications are that the Missouri
peach crop this year will be the biggest
in many years.
II was recently estimated that $3,OOO..
600 worth Of honey is marketed annually
by the beekeepers Of Missouri.
Fifteen children from orphanages at
New York City will arrive in West Plains
Friday in search Of permanent homes.
Missouri lost l,l36,670 Of her citizens
by migration and gained 81, ,37S from
other states, according to Census figures.
Missouri ranks sixth among the states
in value Of all farm properties, seventh
in value Of farms crops and ninth In the
value Of livestock products.
Union carpenters in St. Louis have
voted to reduce their wages, effective at
once, 10 per cent, from SIPS to SLIP IL
an hour.
The Poplar Bluff Board Of Education
has condemned the Benton School Of that
city as unsafe and asks for a bond issue
Of $4,000 for new building.
r. B. Eubank. 90, one Of Saline Coun-
ty's oldest citizens. died recently at his
home in Marshall. He owned more than
5000 acres of the county's best land.
A New York promoter is in Mexico
conferring with business men regarding
the construction Of an electric railroad to
connect with the Hannibal Short Line
road at Perry.
Voters Of the Platisburg Special Road
District will decide April Is on the issu-
ance Of $4,000 bonds to enable the dis
trict to take advantage Of offers Of state
and federal aid.
Three unmasked bandits entered a St.
Louis street car and took $500 cash and
81 600 negotiable securities from IT,
ycar-Old bank messenger. Thirty passen-
gers we're held a. bay with. pistols.
The Missouri and North Arkansas Rail
road is expected to be in operation again
by April Is. The road runs from Joplin
to Heiens, Ark. and is the only railroad
service available for vast territory.
Chief Of Detectives Hoagland of St.
Louis recognized an ex-conyict, on the
street Tuesday. whose picture he saw six.
teen years ago. He leaped from his
speeding automobile and arrested him.
Capt. A. Q. Fuchs. one Of the men who
helped clean up the Panama Canal Zone,
has been assigned by the United States
Public Health Service to help rid South
west Missouri Of the malaria bearing mos
quito.
Members of the association Of Motion
Picture Theaier Owners Of Missouri, who
opened their annual meeting yesterday in
ST. Louis, will take action on the use Of
their theaters for political campaign pur-
poses.
Mrs. W. H. Westrope Of Mexico has
discovered a new method Of Matching
eggs. By placing the eggs in the warm.
ing oven Of her stove, Mrs. Westrope
succeeded in Matching fourteen chicks
out Of fifteen eggs.
Some property damage was done and
persons residing along the Meramec River
near St. Louis suffered losses, small in
most instances, as result Of the stream
rising rapidly Tuesday and Overflowing
its hanks at several places.
Mrs. W. d. Van, Poplar Bluff woman
whose husband and son were recently SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for stealing
meat from storehouse, has appealed for
aid in securing funds to move to Jeffer.
son City to be with them.
In order to meet with the general
demand for attractiveness as well as
utility in manufacturing goods the
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce is
cooperating with the Kansas City Art
Institute in a campaign for ''art in in.
dustry."