The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-03-31
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| lish ers Of the Boone County Pioneer
at Boone, Ia, have purchased the
Trenton Evening Times and huye tax
en- charge of the plant. White and his
two sons will be connected with the
| paper, the senior member Of the firm
In the editorial department and the
sons In the mechanical department
The Missouri State Agricultural
! Council was organized here by repre-
sentatives from 10 Of the large organl-
cations. Its principal object is to weld
together all the organizations affecting
the agricultural classes In the state
and present solid body for all meas
ures calculated to promote harmony
and good results In the multiplicity of
organizations where the interests at
stake are mutual. If the organization
Rccomplishes what II has started out
to do, the most powerful agricultural
organization known in the history Of
the state has been affected.
Elias Roberts, the 19-year-old negro
who held up the officers Of the First
National Bank at Jefferson City, at
the point of a pistol, and stole $40, died
at St Mary's Hospital, that city, from
wounds inflicted by City Detective
John Buehrle. One shot passed
through his thigh and into his body. He
had only been out Of the State Reform
School at Boonville a few days. The
robbery took place after the bank had
closed. Emil Schott, cashier of the
bank and one Of the officers held up,
followed the negro and shot at him sew
eral times and probably inflicted one
of the wounds. The negro took refuge
In a lumber yard block from the bank
and was captured there 10 minutes
after the robbery.
"The Flying Squadron" the organi-
cation In favor of law enforcement,
civic righteousness and social and in
dustrial justice, will be in Fulton on
March 30, 80 and 81 for a series Of
meetings at the First Christian Church,
in which members Of all churches of
Fulton will participate. Men prom
inent in business and church lie of the
United States are booked to deliver
addresses and 1t is expected to be one
of the most important meetings held
In Fulton in several years.
Charges-o first-degree murder were
filed against Bob Stemmons, lawyer,
and Lavanous Jackson, alleged boot
logger, and Raymond Jackson, brother
of Lavanous Jackson, by Prosecuting
Attorney James A. Potter of Lawrence
County, in the court Of Justice George
Ryan, at Mount Vernon, as result Of
the fatal injuring of J. B. Tillman, a
Carthage and Lawrence County law
yer, in open court before Circuit Judge
G. L. Henson. Tillman died in hos
pital at Mount Vernon.
President John r. Kirk of the North
east State Teachers College, Kinks
vile, has announced the appropriation
for the erection of new buildings at
that college has been released by
Governor Hyde, and a meeting Of the
Board of Regents will be held in Kinks
vile April II to pass on the bids. One
of the buildings is large auditorium
and gymnasium, on which 100000 will
be spent, and the other is a demOnstra-
ton that will cost $87 900.
The State Public Service Commits
sion at Jefferson City has authorized
the st. Louis and San Francisco Rail-
road Company to issue 81, $4,000 Of
8 per cent prior lien bonds. These
bonds, with the exception of $521, 900
of notes for equipments, are issued In
lieu of the former issues of per cent
prior lien bonds which were not sold
and remain in the treasury Of the COM
pany.
United States Senator James A.
Reed, shortly after his arrival at st.
Louis from Hot Springs, Ark, in a
formal statement announced his can
didacy for the Democratic nomination
at the primaries next August, He is
completing his second 6-year term in
the Senate.
Jake investor, 81 years old, farmer
living near Dexter, was fined $50 at
Bloomfield for shooting John Fletcher,
neighbor, last November. Testimony
was that Fletcher put up one Of In
vester's straying hogs and that in the
course of the argument the shot was
fred.
Bryan Blythe, OF Centralla, commit
ted suicide at the Planters Hotel, Mcx-
leo, by drinking carbolic acid, A note
was left on his dresser addressed to
young woman Of Centralia.
Verde Barton, of Shannon County,
was fined $500 for manufacturing whis-
ky at Eminence. His father, NJ. e.
Barton, was fined 800 on similar
charge.
Dr. Austin Lee McRae, emeritus pro-
fessor Of physics and former director
of the Missouri School of Mines IN
Rolla, died at Rolla. He was 81 years
old.
Stephens Junior College for Women
at Columbia let contract for new
science hall, to be constructed this
spring at a cost of $79,s61. The Uni
versity of Missouri advertised for bids
on q new agricultural building, chem
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