The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-03-06

COLUMBIl
NEWS OF THE STATE
Kirksville Presbyterians will erect
new church building TO cost $4,000.
Kansas City has been selected for the
Sixteenth International Sunday School
Convention, June q to n.
The first snake story comes from Mel
sonville. where ninety we're killed the
other day in an unused well.
Coal miners in Southwest Missouri
saw no coal will be dug after March
81. Formal strike notices have been sent
out.
An International Peace Highway. to
pass through a portion Of Missouri and
Oklahoma, was planned last week at a
conference held at Dallas, Tex.
Mrs. Emily N. Blair, Democratic ma
tional committeewoman from Missouri.
has been appointed TO the national
headquarters staff by Chairman Hull.
The Trenton Commercial Club is in
yestigating the installation Of dehydra-
ton plant for the city. 1t is expected
to cost in the neighborhoOd Of $1,000.
Gas rates at Kirksville were reduced
last week from $l.90 to $l.80 a thous-
and cubic feet. A reduction Of 20 cents
a thousand feet was made last Septem.
Der.
A meeting was held at Poplar Bluff
Saturday to discuss plans for protecting
the Black River lands against flood and
to reclaim land that is not now till
able.
The stale fund for payment Of pen
sions to the blind will be exhausted aft
er March I. The appropriation Of $780,
600 was expected to be sufficient for two
years.
Contracts will be awarded this month
for new buildings at the State Hos
pital at Fulton TO cost 100000. and for
new building at the School for the
Deaf to cost $4,000.
Checks iotaling $3l.047.99 were paid
10 the Ray County collector last week
when the Atchison. Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad paid delinquent taxes for
1919, 1920 and 1921.
The City Employment Bureau Of St.
Louis has announced that the number
Of unemployed who registered for work
ending February Is. was al. Of this
number, l2l were former service men.
Mrs. Eva N. Daugherty Of Lathrop has
been appointed as deputy United States
marshal. with duties identical with those
Of men deputies. She is 26 years old
and is said to be a crack revolver shot.
Three hundred farmers Of Monroe
County at meeting last week fixed $50
an acre at reasonable cash value on
their land. A committee was named to
20 before the Tax Commission at JEFF.
ferson City.
Sheriff. JimmersOn, teamster, was con-
victed by a jury at New Madrid Of the
murder of DR.. J. L. ("Bull') Brannon.
former football star Of St. Louis Uni
versity, and has been sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Mrs. Herbert Tuggle, wife Of young
farmer Of Palmyra. was burned to death
when lightning struck their home at
$3.50 o'clock in the morning. The hus-
band was in the barn protecting stock
from the storm.
Homer Talbot of Dearborn was re-
Gently elected permanent secretary Of the
State Board Of Charities and Correc-
tions at a salary of $500 a year. Tai.
bot is a Missourian by birth and is
graduate of the Universities Of Wiscon.
sin and Kansas.
Mrs. Mary Ameria Won der Lippc was
granted a divorce at Cape Cirardcau
last week from her unnaturalized Ger
man husband, whom she married after
he posed as a member Of the nobility.
1t later developed that he had several
wives already. He escaped to Canada.
The Annual State Fair will be held
again in Sedalia this year, according TO
a unanimous decision reached by the
State Fair Board and the State Board
Of Agriculture at meeting in Jeffer-
son City. The date set for the fair this
year is August IL to 26. The Fair
Board is checking accounts to determine
its financial status. 1t is stipulated that
there is a deficit and there are no funds
to hold the fair this year. A complete
statement Of accounts is expected to be
ready soon.