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THE ST. JOSEFH OBSERVER, SATURDAY, FEUKUAKY n, 1319 W9M MWIW wa NEW twin"1 xt: ia rvmuirj wnmi.-m m i jii uum-juujww.uj.uu rrawrtwwi. FROM ALL OVER IMPERIAL Missouri I 1 I TwcmsjUM irftxuWwJt.ti'MriiTnrrrg 4rrsMru.iarmrvi,mnim vmm half century membership In this or ganisation. Tho presentation spci'dl was imulu by T. F. Freeman, nobli grand of tho DeKalb lodge. cnught, uml the Intrepid firemen first . THE CLAIMS OF IRELAND I ! tried to smother tho flumes with wot I - Interesting Happenings Which Have Taken Place In the Greatest State iit the Union The Product of the Scissors, the Pen and a Very Little Actual Labor "On Wednesday of last week a number of farmer In tho vicinity of Concordia met and organized tho Goiu'ordln Co-Oporatlvo Company," notes the Concordlan. "The company will handle food, food and llvo stock, Thero tire 127 shareholders, 200 shales of $25 each having been wold." If eggs ocntlnue to decline in price tho Macon Republican Is nulto hope ful we may yet have tin Easter. According to tho Nevada Herald, Guy Llndley dist of Vernon county is the proud possessor of ten lling grandparents. The trial of Jesse Weagley for tho murder of his sweetheart. Miss Eliza beth Clements, was held In Liberty last week and resulted in a verdict of 20 years in the pen for the defendant. Forty-six head of mules, sold at miction at Auxvnwo, averaged $318 apiece, which Is a record prico for that number being sold at auction in Callaway county. One span brought $760 and tho forty-six head brought $14,295. vllle will have to wait a while longer for that flno now government build ing. When the bids were opened it was found that tho contractor with tho lowest bid was $16,000 above tho appropriation. The Pleasant Hill Times tersely tolls about it tills way: " fast malo pig tried a race with tho Missouri Pacific fast mall near Warrenstmrg the other day. But plgglo was out of luck. Sausage." A big gray wolf, routing In tho weeds beside the road flvo miles north of Parle, jumped up ntld ran from children coining homo from Simzer school Thursdny. Ho seemed to be us badly frightened us tho children themselves. Ho had previously betn seen from tho windows of tho school building. Albert II. Houdrle, n young man of Carrollton, robbed tho ltoscnvrcen Jewelry store nt Seymour of a JIB (.old watch one day last week. Iloudrlo looked at tho watches, decided which on ho wanted and then took It by holding the clotk at bay nt the point of u gun. llo made Ills escape but was arrested at Powersvllle and now la in tho Wayne county Jail. blankets, nnd finding that that was not availing, formod lu military com pany formation and pelted tho sides: of the threatened building with snow balls until tbo flro wan out," relates tho Jonlln Globe. According to tho Excelsior Spring Standard, cual is to be mined w.tliln a mile of Kxoelslor Springs, nnd work on sinking the shaft will begin soon, It Is expected that coal can bo deliv ered by September 1. The shaft will bo sunk on tho JosFe Williams farm, where a 24-Inch vein of coal has been located, 200 feet below the surface. Thero aro COD patients at tho Colony of Feeble Minded at Marshall, ac cording to a recent report gotten out by tho board of managers. Dr. 11. 1'. O. Wilson, formerly or l'latto City, is In charge of this Institution and Is muklng good. James I'iMole, president of tho Farmers and Merchants Hunk of Hopkins, is one of tho oldest sub scribers of the Detnocrat-Foruin, hav ing taken tho paper when it was es tablished in 1SC3 and which was known then as-tho Nodaway Democrat. A Missouri bred turkey mlsed by Mrs. J esse T. MoMahan of Mack water, at tho recent Missouri Stock and Poultry show won first prlzo and sweepstakes over u previous first Tom ut Madison Square Garden, Now Yum. Aicoiding to the Springfield Leader n unique horseshoeing demonstration it, io be given at Bellgman Saturday. A horse Is to bo shod with silver, tho metal for tho shoes having coino fr-.m the silver mines now being do voiiKl near feSellgman, It te said. Tho Ilutler Times reports that when workmen commenced tearing down an old frame houso In Uutler that was built nt tho close of tho Clwt war, much of tho dimension lumber nnd sheathing was found to bo In as good condition as when put Into tho building. According to tho Springfield Lend er, an Ava canning concern has an nounced that it will pay Douglas county farmers a minimum prico of 70 cents per hundred pounds for to matoes this year. If a bonus Is de cided upon they will get this In ad dition to tho contract price. Frank Robbing butchered a hog this week that weighed 900 pounds. A Craig man who helped him with the job said the hog was so big that It took two men to lift its head. A man would havo a "fat" chance, stealing a ham from this porker and making off with it, what Frank? Craig Leader. As a general thing tho many wolf drives in Missouri have not been very successful this winter because of the 'nu of tho most destructive firos in tin 1 i i-t -t- of Linn county occurred ut lirouk field Sunday morning whon! wily ways of tho wolf, but tho Loxlng thc Francis building went up in ton Herald tells of one In that neigh smoUc, causing a loss of approxl- borhood which bagged six full grown niai'l $70,000. The building which wolves. Tho drlvo covered about six- was comparatively new had been erected at a cost of 130,000, and was Insured for $10,800. A Springfield woman sued lior Lus ty square miles. Willis Landls. near Victor, was un conscious many hours and seriously Injured, hoar Victor, Sunday, by an auto tire exploding. Ho had just fin ished pumping it up and was remov ing the Jack when the casing burstvd with a loud report. Tho concussion bruised his face ntid knocked him un conscious. Mrs. F. 15. Peobles, who runs n rooming house nt Kansas City, hid her diamonds, valued at near $2,000, lu a box or sawdust Thursday morning, then wont on an errand downtown. When she returned Into in the nftor noon tho sawdust still was in tho bo:;. Tho police are looking for tho dia mond thief. Tho Rosendulo correspondent In tho Savannah Reporter nays that tho local miller Is living high off prime catfish that ho did not have to trouble to ingle for. When his water wheel stopped not long ago, shutting off his power, ho Investigated nnd found the cause to bo u 20-pound catfish. . Tho Glasgow Mlssourlan notes that n new destroyer, soon to be completed, will be named Hopcr, In memory of Lieut. Com. Jesso Roper, a Glasgow boy. Ho was In command of tho Petrel In Manila Harbor In 1901 when a flro broke out near the magazine. Ho was nearly suffocated trying to control the fire, was brought up nnd revived, but, Insisted upon returning to rescue some of his men who were overcome. All the men were saved, but Commander Roper. Perhaps it is just us well that the horse and his near kin are passing on. The Missouri Cash Uook nctes that a bad runaway was caused re cently by tho flight of an airplane over Jackson, and adds: "Years ago the farmers were pestered to death with runaways when city men Invad ed country roads on those old high wheeled bicycles that were such a terror to horses; then traction "en gines took their turn, and then auto mobiles, and now " A Sedalla paper reports that some time ago a Sedalla .man was naked by his local bank to pay a note he owed. Ho wrote a letter to tho cashier ac cusing tho bank president of being pro-German, whereupon the bank piesldent sued him for libel. When tho enso was tried last week the man came so near proving his charge that tho Jury decided nobody had been libeled. Tho Grundy County Gazette reports a call recently from Uncle Lyman Shaw, 39 years old and stilt very ac tive, who Is ono of a pair of twins who aro probably tho oldest in the state. The twin, Hyman Shaw, Is as hale as Uncle Lyman, and tho broth era mako It a point to always spend a part of each year together. Mr. Shaw has beon a resident of Grundy county fifty-two years. Tho Knights of Columbus Pass Reso lutions AxUlng Hint the Irish People be (ilu'ii llcctignltloli. At tho last meeting of St. Joseph Council No. 671 of the Knights of Columbus held here, tho following resolutions were unanimously .adopted: "Whereas, America entered into tho world war to vindicate these great principles: A world made safe for democracy and the Inherent right of nations, big and little, to govern themselves; and "Whereas, America In her hour of extremity had no truer or more loyal friend than Ireland nnd no more valiant rind valuable defenders than those of Irish blood; and "Whereas, one of tho basic prin ciples enunciated by President Wil son as the basis of a Just peace Is that the people of all nations forming a separate and distinct race In any country have tho right of self-de termination In the creation of the !a Edward Mellenry, a Now Loudon soldier newly back from France, re lated a strange coincidence recently to tile Halls County Itecord. Ho said that one day on shipboard he saw a man he thought was a former ac quaintance of New London and shout ed to him: "Hello, Bill Thompkins," to which the man responded cordial ly, but showed he was puzzled. It then developed that ho was Hill Thompkins all right, but had never been In New London or seen Mellen ry before. He came from Pennsylvania. "Employees of tho Southwest Mis souri Railroad Company in Cartilage aro planning a co-operativo store to band for a divorce. Ho proved in i u0 owned entirely by the employees court that she said an lnsuranco agent jot tno company," reports the Joplin with whom sho went on a joy rldo to Globe. "Tho store will be located the James River had the "swetest no" tho company's offices and will kisses of any mnn she had ever kiss- be ready for operation about Muy 1." ed." Vur That settled it. She got the dl- The Cass County Democrat mourn fully admits that, after all, Harrison- Saturday night at n regular meet ing of tho DeKalb I. O. O. F. Lodge, Joseph r. Gaunt and Garrett W. Veach were each presented with a 50-year Jewel in remembrance of their rv;nuHntrMin)inmtaikut;rju:rJrUKLlHlli iiiiKbii.jiiMMiyimmuHUffiiHimimuresiwmii.Tns m miiimmmmummmtimi ESS? Etttg9s The new state capltol has been completed, according to the final re port of the state capltol commission board. The cost of tho building Itself was $3,501,671.24, the purchase of ad ditional ground took $190,937.34 and the cost of the furnishings was $201, 544.71. Almost $3,000,000 was ex pended on tho superstructure of the building. Architects' fees amounted to a little more than $200,000. The carpets and draperies cost about $50,-C00. Down In Fulton the other day the county officials were surprised to hear tho strains of well played violin music above tho rattle of a parsing flro clay wagon. Tho Gazette says that upon investigation they found ono Jack Coats, a negro teamster, driving with the lines between his knees, playing away right heartily on ills "fiddle," some real music. Ho explained that he had such a long haul that he always helped the time pasM pleasantly by fiddling. "An agreement was reached recent ly by tho four stockholders of the Rankin Farms Corporation whereby their fifteen thousand acres In this county near Fairfax were distributed to the four stockholders according to a division originally made before tho corporation was formed in 1907," re lates the Tarklo Avalanche. "At that tlmo the corporation took over the large land Interests of David Rankin and has conducted a very largo farm ing business since. It has farmed over twenty thousand acres of fine farming land In this county and was famous through the entire country for its large operations In corn rais ing and stock feeding." "If you should bo awakened In the still hours of the night by tho tooting of bells and the ringing of whistles, and see a little Henry Ford como puf fin' down the street with a llttlx red Hooten Nanny tied on behind, don't get executed," warns the Leeton Times, "it will be the Leeton Fire Depart ment for Leeton Is now the owner of a chemical fire-fighting machine. It occupies a stall at Shy's Garage, but we are unable to learn Just who the members of the department are." This need not worry the Times if the city will do as they used to do in Ulgglnsvllle keep a dollar trader glass near the apparatus as a prlzo for the man arriving first to bring it out. dniliiistering power within their t borders to the end that the power of government may conform to their Ideas of Justice and freedom, thereby preventing their subjection by gov ernments or peoples foreign to their race and Ideals; and 'Whereas, the representatives of the nations now sitting at the peace conference at Versailles have accept ed this axiomatic political truth as tho foundation stone of a Just and lasting peace; and "Whereas, the Irish people havo recently held their constituted as sembly in their ancient capltol, which assembly declared that the Irish peo ple, having the right of self-determination, therefore declared to the world that the power of governing them can only be exercised by their consnt; and "Whereas, said assembly appointed its duly accredited delegates to pre sent to the International Peace Con ference at Versailles tho claim of the Irish people to recognition in the league of nations; therefore be it "Resolved by St. Joseph Council No, 571, Knights of Columbus, that the representatives of tho people of the United States now assembled nt tho peace conference be, and hereby nre, urged to present to the said oon- ferenco the claim of the people of Ireland to their right of self-govern ment as expressed by the Irish p.o pie; and be It further "Resolved, That our United States Senators and member of Congress be requested to give their earnest sup port to the Gallagher resolution now pending in tho Senate of the-Untted States." . r r.JM.H..rMMn,LHHmnmn,m.ran,mif,i,ii,mmin"inn'1tim''T'r 1 lliai IlIIIMIlMiil "l&r " """ T H MANY EXAMINATIONS HELD The Tarklo Posioffioo the Host Plum of Those Sought for Wednesday. OI'I-.N DAILY hXlEPT SUNDAYS, FROM 11 A. M. UNTIL 7:30 P. M. Highest Quality of Food Homelike Cozy Surroundings Perfect Service and Sanitation Moderate Prices When in the city lunch and dine witli us. A. W. Retlig Grocery & Cafeteria Co. Sucieskor to g. H. Seventh mid lMmond In the Mexico intelligencer, W. W. Johnson is warning persons not to past through his pasture and asking , mothers to see that their children are I kept out. The reason Is tho presence there of a big buffalo bull which weighs about 1,750 pounds and which 'lie will keep in his park iu Moxico. He tecently obtained tho animal from government authorities in Yellowstone Park and Is expecting two buffalo cows boon from the same source to found a herd. Allen Grocery Co. Phono Main 2200 illlliil vii':;;:,:!: Get our free 1919 Catalog filled with bargains. liuy quality mer chandise direct from the manufac turer It wl'l save you money and Insure you satisfaction. We have the largest, best and most up-to-date lino of Harness and Saddlery In the middle west. Our Urge 2 G page Free Book also Includes thousands of other v&luablo arti cles of superior quality at lowest prices, sucn as Farm Implements. Wagons, Ruggles, Engines, Separators, Fencing, Roofing, Paints, Incu bators, Sewing Ma'-htnps, Washing Machines, Oil Cook Stoves, etc Write for Free Book now Satisfaction guaranttel. Dept. 202, - ANISER MERCANTILE CO. - U M n m-j.-". fit. Joseph, Mo. - "Some tlmo ago," relates the Fay ette Advcrtisor, "Thomas F. Faucett, living near Centralis, missed ono of his pigs. About forty days later he was cleaning up around the stable and found it fastened In between a gate and some lumber, still alive, though It had been exposed to all the cold and snow. It was very weak when rescued, but a few days' care and feeding put It back on Its feet and It is now In a fair way to bring Mr. Faucett a good pries If he cares to sell It." . i .i"?'t. "When the home of William Chit- wood, three miles out In the country, was destroyed by fire recently, after Vain efforts on the part of volunteer fire fighters to save It, the horn of A, J, Bobb, about fifty feet distant, According to the Springfield Leader, John I. Wilson, former sheriff of one of the White River counties, is the pearl king of White River whose profit this year on pearls Is $12,000 and that at a time when floods made pearl hunting difficult. Three years ago he made his first attempt at pearl fishing equipped with a wife, a flat bottom boat and a pair of tongs with ten foot handles with which he brought mussels up from the bed of tho stream. That year he Bold fifty tons of shell to button factories and found 120 pearls of varying size, weight and color. The finest of these he disposed of to foreign buyers for $3,680. His wife began a necklace with the smaller ones. The next year Wilson cleaned up about $7,000 and his wife added nearly two hundred very beautiful pearls to her string. This year, Wilson's success was the talk of tho whole river country for he sold $1,000 worth of shells and $9,000 worth of pearls in addition to one unusually fine gem that brought $2,700. Besides Mrs. Wilson got onough medium sized gems to com plete the necklace now va d at $6,000. Wilson's search was confined to the White River from Newport north Into Missouri. The local civil service board had a busy day Wednesday when u number of civil service examinations for var ious divisions of tho service were held. The Tarklo postoffice which pays a salary of $2,000 per year, was the juiciest plum and there were five strong contestants for tho place. Their papers were sent to Washington that night for examination. Those who took the examination were Thomas J. Davis, Charles E. Benham. Oeorgo F. Long, Walter A. MUller and Eva L. Marsh. Another examination held was that for cadets for the Annapolis Naval Academy, In which there wero three entries. This examination requires two full days. Another examination held was that for veterinarian and lay Inspector In the bureau of animal Industry, and there were a number who took the examination. On March Sth there will be a rural free delivery examination given for routes out of tho St. Joseph and Halls offices. PEUMe Vivacious and Delightful Styles A wonderful variety of dainty and clever new creations for spring all recently purchased from one of the best manufacturers iu New York who is an acknowledged "Dress Specialist." They are en ticingly made of all-wool men's wear serge, in navy blue the correct shade for spring. Sizes 16 to 44. Of course, you understand the price is "special." See them your choice Charges for Alterations. $15.00 -Just Another of Hirsch's Unusual Value Sales. Apparel Section kel Jtet4$w2ty&ix$$ M.mWr R.UIt M.r. Ann. Railroad and AutomoMIa Far.. R.b.tnL wmammmamMmmA E.VSWORT1I TO GET A SILMtE Ensworth Deaconess Hospital Is to corns In for a share of the national fund for hospitals, which will soon bo distributed. Thirty-eight hospitals In the United States will receive aid from tho centenary fund, and Kq. Joseph Is one of the number. The directors of the Institution propose to -build a now hospital here which shall cost In the neighborhood of $300,000. PSrSa, B'.'' --imwmmJy The old J. A, McDonald home at 206 East Colorado avenue, was almost completely destroyed by fire early Sunday mottling. A' Perhaps Don't Want Tlicro A great deal of excitement and worry Is being expended concerning getting Jobs for the boys when they come home. We trust that military training and service will have changed many of the boys and that they will apptcclate these efforts. But If tniuy are anything like they were before tho war, they won't want a Job. Platte County Landmark. Mrs. Francis Henry Hill has com pleted arangements whereby the Pavley-Oukralnsky Russian ballet and Little Symphony will appear at ths ludltorium April 2. lis Tone is Superior Hear the other phonographs first then you'll appreciate the superior qualities of THE BRUNSWICK method of tone reproduction. Ihe ilrunswick plays your favorite record at its best no matter what make. The new all-wood Tone Am plifier has set a new standard for phonographic reproduction. Let us give you a free trial in your home. Prices $52.50 to $1,500.00 Terms to Suit Schneitter Athletic Goods Co. 420 FELIX EHHSHBsP lHfHMH T ' Ship AU of Your Furs, Hides, Wool, Pelts, Etc., to Us Highest market prices at all times. We advise early ship ment. Write us for price list and tags. The St. Joseph Hide & Fur Co. ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI Thm Talaphanaai Main HIT. HI North S.cond Strtat JONAS I). EMERY, Manager. Mrs. Margaret Radford, who "has j forty-five years of age and was ths been dangerously 111 for a long time, wife of the lato C. D. RadforL Ths died Monday afternoon. She was funeral occurred Wednesday. .1 -" "W fm