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Hmu fntitmi 45TH YEAR. OREGON, MISSOURI, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1909. NUMBER 31. mwm SON. MOW. TUB. WED. I TtlU.l FttlT SAT. i la 1314 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 18 13 1415 16 17 18 19 aoaiaaas g4EH 2627 1282030 31 December in Local History. 8. 1841 Order made by the county court for the building of the first court house. 6. 1857 A daily mail between Han nibal and St. Joseph; Gen eral James Craig was con gressman. 1873 Petition filed for the digging of the Corning ditch first , of thejkind.in.the., county. V 11, 1877 The assessor reported Holt's population at 13,245. 7, 1870 Highland Presbyterian church established by Rev. Geo. Miller; Rev. G. A. Mc h Kinley given the charge; "N. F. Murray and Jno. M. Gates, elders. 10, 1880 The Glenn block in Mound Citj', was completed. 11, 1880 The Maitland Christian church was completed. 7, 1887 "William Alloway wasdrown- 5 ed in the Nodaway River. 1 8, 1887 The D. P. Snell barn at Mound City, 17 head of horses, vehicles, etc., burn ed. t), 1887 Holt County Press sold to a temneranee svndicate. and ; named Advocate: H. A. Grimes, editor. !), 1888 William Coburn, killed by v t reshing engine explosion, v at Madison, S. D. 10, 1892 The Kelso school house was completed. 8, 1S!'0 The I. L. Smirl store at j Corning, was robbed. J . 0, 1808 Fritz Schiermeister was killed by the cars at St. Jo- j seph. 8, 1002 C. P. Partram, Maitland, in- j jured by acetyline gas ex plosion. 7, 1003 -The CraigMirror established by Clara Dobyns. 10, -1005 Unknown man was killed by the cars at Forest City. The Sixty-First. Both houses of congress at noon Monday took up the work of the so called "long session,'' which may not adjourn until well into the summer. xiik ciiiiii; vu in ncasiun junu jg. turn's up. minutes. The house session too, was Then they begin to sav. -What's brief, both adjourning out of respect 1 the URe? and from thu in,iurv .to the memory of those members who ' What,s the use?- it is eusv l0 drift have died since the last session. Sena-; inlQ a spidt of 1)on-t care.- From tor Johnson, of North Dakota, died j 4,1)on.t eAre- tie movement down several weeks ago and his successor ward is rapid nistorv does nol record lias been chosen. The representatives j a faiIure upou the part of anv voung. who have died are David DeArmond, man wnQ admits that, nothing can of this state and F. R. Lassiter, of 1 beat workin, and saving. Every for- Virginia. jtune began in that wav. The time to The President was informed that,save ,s when times are good and the both houses of congress were ready , country pro5perous. That time is for business and awaited any message j nQW Exchange. which he might see tit to send. His j ---! response took the form of his first an nual message, the reading of which constituted the feature of Tuesday's business. We hope to review the message in our next issue. Miss Blanche Markland, a stu dent at Park College, is at home and will remain until after the holidays. 1 1 A Smooth Grafter. A smooth sharper seems to have visited King City lately. The Chron icle of that city says a man came to that town recently. He secured a team at the livery barn and went to the country, on the mission, asstated, that he was looking up rural route business, and especially the locating ,ot a -route from Ford City. He met some people two that we heard of and secured signatures for what they supposed was a petition for a rural route, but the smooth fellow, it seems, had underneath the supposed petition a blank check and carbon paper so that when the man wrote his name to the apparent petition he, at the same time, signed the check by means of the impression made by the carbon paper. Two checks, we are told, were thus secured for six dollars each, and when the .fellow returned with the team he went to the barn near train time and was in a hurry and the checks were cashed. It is said that i the man stayed in King City, Friday night. The case may be taken up by the :Postal authorities, andf if so, there will be a hot time for the fel low if he is caught, and Uncle Sam usually gets such fellows if he can get sufficient clue as to description and facts. The Chronicle has often and repeat edly warned neoDle to be careful in dealing with strangers. Truly author ized men seldom go out alone on such missions. Work Is the Thing. Young man, they may tell you about gold mines and stock companies, but there is nothing that beats work plain, old-fashioned work. You hear about the men who grow rich by speculation or by means of "patent rights," but you never hear of those who fail in those enterprises. Rarely does a man win by luck or accident. Thousands of young men think it is not worth while to try to get a start by saving a little money j every month, hence they fritter away 10 or 15 years expecting something to turn up, mysteriously tojbenefit their condition. They discover that noth- It was quite lively down at the stock yards, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Tuesday, Will Kneale shipped out a car load of cattle. Will Derr two cars of hogs and Charley Noland a car of hogs. On Wednesday Kneale sent out two cars of cattle, and Derr a car of hogs. They all went to tiie St. Joseph market. In the Long Ago. We were made glad by a visit, one day last week, from Rev. J. W. Caughlan, of the M. E. church, at Jlreckenridge, Mo.. who,with his wife, was here on a visit with their daugh ter, Mrs. G. W. Reavis. Glad, not only because we had an opportunity to talk over together our early days in St. Louis, but because it enables The Sentinel to tell its Methodist friends something additional about the early appointments of this church in our city. There is no record of the church affairs prior to 1864, but Brother Caughlin tells us tliat he was sent to this charge by the Missouri confer ence in 1850, his circuit.which he rode horseback, extended into Atchison, preaching at Burr Oak in that coun ty, and at Whig Valley, Hollister Mills, Richville, and other points in Holt, wherever he knew of Methodists abiding. Among his ardent helpers were the Evans', Templetons, Stevens', Da vidsons, Robinsons, the Pierces Jo- siah, Silas, Lorenzo and Charles; Geo. Lucas. Benj. Allen, Jacob Cronk, Bowrens, Reuben King, Adrian Hob- litzell, the Kreeks. Gemecker, Whit- mers, Judge Iddings and others. Some of these lived in what are now Forbes township and Nodaway township. They had no house of worship of their own, but occupied at times, the Presbyterian church and the court house. They owned an uncompleted parsonage: it had but two rooms, and during his year here, he built the flue, and succeeded in getting these rooms plastered. The house is now ccupitd by Edgar Thatcher, on the st reet west of the school house, and has some what grown since that time. In 1858 Rev. William Sellers preach ed to Methodists here over this cir cuit, he tells us. Trior to his coining here, he had a charge in Andrew county, and being a native of Ohio, and pronounced against slavery, he was mobbed and given a coat of tar and notified to leave which he did, coming to this charge. Prior to this, and in the winter of 1841, Rev. Edwin Perry preached Methodism, organizing a class at the home of Elias Davidson, two miles north of where Forbes is' now located. Many of those spoken of above, were earnest workers in the church, and these men and women, pioneers of the church, did much for the cause, and from them to their descendants has grown a powerful organization in our county. Following these came the Rev. Ed ward Rozell, who on June Oth, 1804, organized what is now known as the M. E. church of Oregon. During these 45 years, there have been 24 ministers in charge of the organization here. Mr. Caughlin is a typical Virgin ian: cordial, companionable, and with all that southern dignity; he was born in Buckingham county, in 1832, and for one 77 years old is a wonder fully well preserved man, both men tally ami physically. He came to St Louis when but a young man, and en tered the ministry in 185(5, and is now rounding out his 53d year's service in his Master's cause. He is also a veteran of the civil war, enlisting in St. Joseph, as a member of Pennick regiment, the 5th Missouri Cavalry. The Sentinel trusts that it may ever be well with Rev. Caughlin and his family. In this connection it might be well for us to give the roster of thosemin- isters of the M. E. church, who have labored here in the Master's cause: Edwin Perry 1841 William Sellers 1858 .1. W. Caughlin 1850 Edward Rozell 18(54-66 F. S. Biggs 1866-67 Samuel Huffman 1867-68 .1. L. Hat Held 1863-60 J. F. Liovle 1860-70 William Hanley 1S70-71 F.H.Graham 1871-72 S. W. Thornton 1S72-74 Oscar Williams 1874-75 W. L. Edmonds 1875-77 S. H. Enyeart 1877-70 Isaac Chivington 1S70-80 .lames Showalter 1880-81 Samuel Caruthers 1881-84 Charles Miller 1884-85 W. B. Christy 1885-87 J. R. Sasseen 1887-80 C. J. Warner 1880-01 C. II. John 1801-03 M. B. Smith 1803-96 Henry Crampton 1896-03 A. J. Brock 1903-0(i T. J. Enveart 1906-08 T. C. Taylor 1008- In the spring of 1842, Rev. E. M Marvin, afterwards an eminent Bishop of the 31. hi. cliurch, held services here, in the old original court house, then not quite completed, and which stood on the lot now occupied by the YanBuskirk-Proud store building. November Weather. Many of our exchanges have been claiming that November. 1000. was the warmest November ever exper ienced, and it may have been in some localities, but not here. It ranks, however, in second place at this sta tion. In 18(55, the mean at this place for the month was 47.05 degrees, the month for 1000, it was 40 degrees. The month just closed however was the warmest since that time, 1805; and but five times since 1855 has there been a hotter day; these were on the 4th, 180(5, 82 degrees. On the 1st, 1803, 76 degrees; on the 20th, 81 degrees, on the Kith, 1809, 80 degrees; on the 5th, 1009, 70 degrees. Beginning with 1000 the mean temperature for November has been Degrees. Degrees. 1900 41 1905 44 1901 43 1900 30 1902 45 1907 39 1903 38 1008 42 1004 40 1009 46 The coldest. November was in 1880, when the mean said 28.78; the coldest November day was on the 27th, 1887, when it was 01 degrees below zero. It has touched below zero in other years, 1856 on the 8th, -I: 1863 on the 28th, -3: 1872 on the 29th, -4; 1857 on the 23d, -1; on the 20th, 1871, it was -3; on the 29th, 1875, -4: 1898 on the 23d, -3; (- this sign preceding figure means below zero). The month just passed has been characterized by heavy rains, much cloudy and foggy weather, and it has greatly embarrassed the farmer in gathering his corn crop in fact hun dreds of fields have been so wet that they were impossible todrive in to.The normal rain fall for November is 1.(58 Inches, while for the month of 1000, it was 4.41 inches. This has never been exceeded here, the next heaviest fall was in 1002, when we had a 3.00 inches fall. The neavy rains north put the Nodaway out of its banks during the week of the 25th: com munication between Maitland and Graham was by boat; it was never out of its banks before in November. The November rain fall for the past 10 years has been: Date. 24 hour fall. .. .46... .. .60... .. .59... .. .46... .. .15... .. .60... .. .78... .. .05... .. .86... . .2.00. . . Monthly fall. 1.30 1.00 3.09 122 i 1000. 1001. 1902. 1903. 1004. 1005. 1000. 1007. 1!K)8. 1000. .20. .13. . 0. .12. .25. .20. .23. .13. 1.20 1.78 1.40 1.40 4.41 November usually brings some snow more or less, and the lightest were traces in 1861, 1865, 1883,1800.1803. 1804, 1805, 1800, 1808, 1003, 1004 and 1107; so it will be seen that snow has fallen here in November, 42 times out of the 54 years. The heaviest snow fall occurred here in 1857,. when 13 inches was measured. This year, 1!K)0. one-half inch was measured on the 22d. Thanksgiving day was a beautiful one, and was an ideal April day in temperature: maximum 13, minimum 37. On Saturday. 27th, an eclipse of the moon wa5 on from 12:12 a. m. 'till 2:14 :i. ni. The next one is promised on i May 23. 1010, at 11:00 p. m. At this station the extremes for November, r.xm, have been: Max. Min. .22 3 74 4 74 5 76 (5 73 11 70 15.. 16. . 17.. 18.. ) . . . .21 ....15 ....13 ...25 25Thanksgi v i ng03 25 37 Mean maximum. 46. Mean minimum. 36. Mean. 46 normal. 40. Rain fall for the month, 4.41 inches: normal 1.08 inches. Greatest fall in 24 hours. 2 inches on the 12-13. Snow fall, half inch Ion the 22d: trace of snow on the 23d. Heavy rains and snows prevailed throughout the Dakotas, Colorado. Nebraska. Kansas and parts of Okla homa. A heavy shock of earthquake was felt at Salinas, Cali., on the morning of the 22d. Meteoric showdrs were due on nights of the 13th and 14th, but failed to see them. the we Hogs Go to Highest Notch. There is nothing in it to cheer the hungry soul of the ultimate consumer, but hogs sold at a new record price on the St. Joseph market Monday of this week, December 6th, when the Hammond Packing Company paid $8.42- per 100 pounds for a car load of heavy porkers. The price is 2J cents above the top price paid in September last, and is the highest ever reached on that market for live hogs. The hogs getting the priee were raised and fed and shipped by ,K B. Stand ford, of Humboldt, Nub. The Nicaraguan Troubles. Affairs in Nicaragua seem to be rapidly coming to a head, and it is high time that they did. It is not agreeable to this country to have its citizens put to death in a foreign land in circumstances which cause a doubt of the justice of their fate. In the present case there is grave doubt, which conflicting and contradictory reports do not agree. It is possible that the two men in question were conspirators and revo lutionists against the Nicaraguan government. If so, this country could not object to their appropriate pun ishment. But even then we should have a right to expect their guilt to be proven to our satisfaction before sentence was executed and there would also arise the question whether they were not entitled to be treated not as felons but as prisoners of war. There is no disguising the fact, either, that the conduct of President Zelaya in the present troubles and for a long time past has not been such as should create a presumption in his favor. On the contrary, he has re peatedly and seriously compromised himself in the eyes of America and of the world. It is his own fault if the integrity of his motives and the equity of his acts are subject to sus picion. This government has no wish to in tervene m Nicaraguan affairs. But it does wish, and it intends to see to it, that American citizens in Nica ragua are protected in their rights, and in so doing it must recognize and deal with those whom it finds in power. Thus, if it finds the insur gents actually maintaining an effec tive blockade of a Nicaraguan port, it must respect tliat state of affairs, however unpleasant it may be to Mr. Zelaya. According to trust-worthy inforn.a- tion, scores of American citizens have been black mailed and thrown into prisons. Americans have been beaten like slaves of the olden time, and now in addition to all these savage viola tions of the rules of international law, official dispatches are said to" have been received by the state de partment constituting a crowning and intolerable insult to the nation. This 'country has devoted counsel; time, labor and money, to prompting the welfare of its Central American neighbors. It asks for its services no enumeration in kind. But it does expect,and it has a right to expect in return, better treatment than it has received from Nicaragua under the rule of Mr. Zelaya. Mr. Taft and his cabinet are very much inclined to war, and Nicarag ua's minister has been given his pass port, and politely told to "hike." With the arrival at Crinto this week of the cruiser Albany and the gunboat Yorktown, the United States will be in a position to take as ag gressive steps as any occasion may de maud. The Highest Ever. Wednesday of last week on the Chicago market, the highest price ever paid ifcr branded cattle was touched, in the history of the Chicago cattle t rade. $0.50 was paid for a load of fancv 1.572 pound steers from the feed lots of Foster Bros., of Earlham la. These steers were of Hereford blood, and bred on a Wyoming range and were bought on the Omaha market as feeders when they had an average weight of 850 pounds. This sale in the open market lays over the high figure of the former record year, 1882, by 20 c2iits per hundred weight The top in June that year, which has been referred to often as the highest sale of record in regular trade, was 50.30. On the following nay there were main loads of show eat tie sold, but these were not accounted in the regular transactions on the market, the selling of such being at auction, where competition to secure some of the fancy show cattle runs prices be yond regular market limits: as an ex ample: King Ellsworth, grand champion Angus bullock of the show, sells at $18 per hundred weight, his weight being 1,750 pounds. Grand champion car load of Short horn yearlings shown by Ogelsby & Keays, averaging 1,190 pounds, make 15 per hundredweight. Two other loads of Angus steers that gave the champions a close race sell at $14.50 and $14.95 per hundred weight. Prices of show cattle are highest in the main in the history of the trade. -Last year's champions stopped at $11. .John Abele, Eb. Wickham, of this place, and Burr Cass, of Forest City, left Tuesday for Lapara, Texas, on a prospecting trip. They went by wav of San Antonio. Alabama and Prohibition. The voters of Alabama, last week, voted on an amendment to make pro hibition a part of the fundamental" law of the state. They had previous ly, through their legislature, enacted a local option law under which several counties had prohibited the safe dts intoxicating liquors. The voters or the whole state, however, had never1 been called upon before to" vote .di rectly on the question, and the de-. cisive majority by which the amend ment was defeated plainly indicates that people of Alabama are unwilling, at this time to deny themselves the privilege of local option. . The voter of Alabama evidently believe that it is better to keep the liquor question to in their own hands. ' . " Under a constitutional amendment establishing prohibition the people of the state would merely have choice- of enforcing the law, or allowing itto become a dead letter. Under iocaF option they have choice between en forcing present law, or rejecting it al together. In the first instance, they would either obey or violate law; in the second, they merely exercise a privilege. This distinction between- constitutional prohibition and local option was so thoroughly explained- throughout the state that the people must be credited with having voted intelligently on the proposition before them. This is indicated by the de cisive majority against the amend ment which obtains not only in the- cities but in the suburban and land ing districts. The advocates of the amendment appeared to be perfectly willing to de prive themselves and others of alt choice in the matter. Its opponents among whom are many temperance people, influenced somewhat by the experience of other states, believed it better to delay constitutional amend ment until local option had been given a thorough trial. Of course, the latter voted with the liquor in terests, but the result cannot;be re garded as a victory for the saloon, as- it did not control more than a .third of the votes cast against the amend ment. There is prospect that, should" local option spread more Q generally over the state, a constitutional amend. ment may again be proposed and pos sibly adopted. Christmas Trees and Fires? Just a word Mr. Man. when the committee from the church comes trf you and asks you to do the Santa Claus stunt, because you seem sb'per- fectly fitted for the part, you'll do 'it' You well know that you are a good many kinds of -an idiot, and it- is-pos sible that you will cuss a little unde your breath. That is an American way of letting off steam that is asr soothing as it is immoral. But yov will do it. You will place a pillow i the proper place,, don rope yarn whiskers and cotton batting hair, and while your appearance may frighten horses on the street, or cause an auto to turn turtle, it will please the chil dren, and so it is worth while. When the joyous Yuletide touches the high spot, you will be found be fore a Christmas tree that is blazing with lights, and you will try to talffr basso and say "My dear children," and you will not even be vexed when half a dozen babies yell and a smart kid in the audience calls out, "That ain't Santa: it's my dad." All those tilings and more will; hap pen and you will be a good fellow be? cause you are a good fellow. Tell you, once a year a man must suffer for the cause. Now, then, be careful about tire. Say it over again. Be carefiif about fire. It is the easiest thing in the wforld to start a holecaust "with a Christmas tree. Lights are put upj by- inexpert ienced persons. Effect is often studied and safety seldom. Cotton burns like tinder, and a panic is easily started. What to do? Make yourself a com mittee of one sane, level-headed man to see that things are in propershape and then, no matter what happens, don't lose your wits. There has - not been a Christmas in a century witli out some tire tragedies. Make sure, this year that there is none in your, corner of the world. That is all Heed this modest piece of advice. Go get your clothes ready: be on time; ! cause no delay to the little ones. Death of John Marti. John Marti, one of Liberty town ship's old and highly respected citi zens, died at his home on Friday, No vember 20, lOOty aged 84 years.- He was a native of Switzerland and had been a resident of Holt county for. 30 years, and was a member of the. M.E. church. He leaves a wife, five children and 14 grand children. The funeral services, were conducted by. Rev. Steinel, of St. Joseph, the inter ment being in the Mount Hope cerao-' tery. Mrs.' Emmet Hodgin, of Cliica- o, and Mrs. Fenz, of Wisconsin aughters. attended the funeral. Mrs. Tanner, of California, was unable to attend.