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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
2
Russian forces push in Galicia taking two villages a height and 300 prisoners as Canadians advance near Lens and Cracow stores. An embargo extension covers coal and coke while labor unrest and draft cases unfold in the US. Premier Kerensky and King Alexander headline regional political moves abroad.
Regulations issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder outline how local boards prepare soldiers for the draft beginning September 1. Boards must provide clean lodging and meals, fix entrainment dates, inspect baggage, and inform draftees of their military status while stressing obedience to orders.
In Washington on August 10 pacifists gathered at the Capitol under the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace. They demanded Congress stay in session until the draft law is repealed and warned of impeaching President Wilson. Senators and representatives attended briefly in the Senate military committee room, then withdrew as speeches continued.
Amsterdam reports a major conference has been called by the Kaiser at grand headquarters. Chancellor Michaels has left Berlin to attend, joining military governmental and diplomatic leaders of the empire for a gathering described as one of the most imposing arrays since the war began.
Copenhagen reports a German court martial has tried several Polish Radical Left members for attempting to incite unrest and distribute pro Poland propaganda among the populace. The Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen Extrabladet provides details of the proceedings and charges.
Newport News reports by cable that the British steamer Argalla was destroyed by a German submarine. Forty American muleteers were aboard the vessel at the time of the sinking.
University of Missouri engineering expert Dean E. J. McCaustland details oiling earth roads. Proper asphaltic oil, drainage, crowning, harrowing, and rolling achieve dust control and mud prevention. cost runs about 300 dollars per mile.
Missouri expects about 230 million bushels of corn this year, 90 million more than last year, if current prospects hold. August 1 conditions show 86, down from a month earlier, with a state yield projected at 23 million bushels and 14.9 bushels per acre. Oats average 34.9 bushels on 1.116 million acres, totaling 39 million bushels, while wheat yields improve. Local prices run sixty cents per bushel and alfalfa hay plus silos gain emphasis for drought relief. Hog cholera outbreaks under control in herds totaling 34,225 pigs.
Bondholders propose settling the St. Clair county railroad bonds for about 14 percent of the total indebtedness. The current principal and interest total 4 395 000, with a compromise figure of 550 000. Attorneys would cancel 98 percent of bonds upon payment. 2 percent remain unlocated. Election planned for November to confirm the deal. Contempt actions against county judges await outcome of negotiations.
Voted 750 thousand dollars for roads. The road bond issue for percent million dollars in Scott County carried by a safe majority. It is proposed to build about two hundred thirty miles of hard roads with the money. Bonds will be voted soon in Mississippi County and New Madrid County has already voted money for roads which insures hard roads over the entire Southeast Missouri.
James W. Garrett of Moberly was convicted at Marshall of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Campbell at New Frankfort last January. The nephew of the deceased was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison.
Prof Abner Jones of the University of Missouri died at Columbia after kidney disease and appendicitis operations. He was 44 and formerly led Lancaster and Greenfield public schools and a ward school in Carthage.
An announcement states Dr. Harvey A. Jones, pastor of Bowman Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis, has been elected president of Marionville College in Marionville.
Announcement indicates there are no plans to establish an aviation school at the University of Missouri in connection with its School of Engineering.
Fire leveled the Glasgow Canning plant causing $16,000 in damages and threatening a vast ripe tomato crop. Authorities found tracks from two men leading to the Missouri River, fueling belief the blaze was incendiary and timed to ruin the harvest.
Patriotic exercises on the Springfield public square drew a throng of several thousand as citizens bid farewell to members of Company K and Truck Company No 1 Springfield units of the Second Missouri Infantry after a day of festivities.
Several hundred Missouri farmers report to the state board of agriculture and estimate the average wheat production cost at 9.98 dollars per acre. With this year’s average yield of fifteen bushels, the cost comes to about 0.67 dollars per bushel.
Mrs. George Hockey aged 55 died recently while in the office of a Rich Hill physician near Metz ten miles southwest of Rich Hill. She was the wife of a local farmer.
George W. Baily, chairman of the Linn County Council of National Defense, mobilizes home guard companies in Brookfield Bucklin Marceline Laclede and Linneus as national guards depart and draft nears. Bucklin leads with 122 members on first day.
Capt. F. H. Coester of the Fifth Infantry, Missouri National Guard, with St. Louis HQ, was found guilty of non military conduct for attempting to enlist by fraudulent means. He sought to enlist Fifth Regiment men whose serial numbers appeared first in the national army drawing. The court martial imposed a reprimand by the regimental commander.
Two Boone County youngsters perished near Columbia. Carrie Frances Forbis, 4, died after a horse blinded by pinkeye ran through a gate and struck her. Murray Jones, 11, drowned while swimming with four girls in Pierce Creek north of the area.
Ohio Governor James M. Cox visited Fort Benjamin Harrison and joined Major Darrow at the rifle range. After several shots missed, the pit man signaled a hit for Darrow, and Cox planned to relay to the pit man that the governor himself would aim to hit the bullseye on the next try.
A small town tale shows Mar a curious five year old eager to join the back salary party. She rummages the house and presents her worn dress to her mother, insisting it is useless yet suitable to take. The vignette reflects modest hardship and childlike resolve.
A fragment describes a woman asserting her voice in a verbal clash while a man doubts her. The exchange hints at gendered power and speech dynamics in a social setting.
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