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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
6
President Wilson proposed personal mediation through a representative to end hostilities in Armenia. The offer followed an invitation from Paul Hymans, head of the League of Nations council, transmitting a Geneva assembly resolution on Armenia dated November 22.
A contract proposes the state pay 60000 for 3030 acres to establish a park and game and fish preserve in Camden County funded from the park fund. Governor Gardner has not approved. Tim Birmingham forwarded the contract and Col Pope values grazing use at 20 per acre and the full tract at about 100000. The Haha Tonka Springs are not included, but Snyder estate heirs seek an option on 2130 acres for 240000 if the state buys the 3030-acre tract.
About 200 Southwest Missouri canning factories say they cannot operate profitably next year without better producer contracts. The 1920 Ozark crop tops 700 000 cases with one third unsold as market slumps. Packers propose selling at 85 cents for No 2 and 1 20 for No 8 less than packing cost to force price readjustment. another meeting is set for February 9 and 10 in Springfield.
Mrs Daisy McClaskey of Kirksville Missouri posted 25000 bail after a Milan preliminary hearing for the death of her husband Abner. She claims a burglar shot him in their home on November 15. Her 17 year old son Fred also faced the case and was released. The hearing drew a large crowd to the opera house.
W L English head of the Frisco Agriculturist and C B Michelson supervisor of farm marketing for the Frisco Railroad both of St Louis will speak at the 68th annual Missouri State Horticultural Society meeting in Springfield December 6 to 8. An apple exhibit features and the best specimens will join Farmers Week exhibit in Columbia January 17 to 21.
Warrensburg Missouri. Ralph Smith a farmer near Leeton was found dead with a gunshot wound in his left breast in a pasture near his home. Neighbors located him after he failed to return for meals while hunting squirrels. The body lay on his gun as his wife alerted others.
Fulton Mississippi Synodical College student body elects officers with Kathleen Page as president and Marjorie Sneed as vice president. Mildred Knox is secretary and treasurer while Elva Grimes leads as cheerleader with Mary Elizabeth Wilson as assistant. In Marshall Missouri Sherman P. Houston, former Missouri Live Stock Producers Association president, is mentioned as involved in a separate item.
Gov. Gardner announced Missouri voters approved the legislative bone-dry prohibition enforcement act with 481,886 in favor and 420,580 against. The act is now in force though the Legislature trimmed penalties and narrowed search and seizure provisions.
The defeat of Constitutional Amendment No. 5 means the Board of Education must yearly seek voter approval to raise school taxes to permanently fund teacher salaries. Previously taxes rose from 60 to 75 cents per $100 in 1919 to boost pay for 2,600 teachers, adding about $1.25 million for the 1920 1921 budget.
A mad dog bite in Truxton Missouri killed 8 year old Lawrence Colbert and left two adults in dangerous condition from hydrophobia. A third adult is believed infected as the outbreak is investigated. The boy died after being bitten by the dog and developing hydrophobia.
Clinton Missouri DAR members elected officers including Regent Mrs. Harry Finks First Vice Regent Miss Mabel Houdeshell Second Vice Regent Mrs. J M Blakemore Recording Secretary Miss Emma Dorman Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Lawrence Crodly Treasurer Mrs Albert J Swap Registrar Mrs J L Goss Historian Mrs T F Evans.
Miss Olive Douglas of Saskatchewan has been brought to Kirksville Hospital to be treated for a broken back sustained when she fell through a skylight at Prince Kert about a year ago. Three vertebrae were fractured including those connected to the ribs.
Lena Rice aged 94 died at her daughter J C Mispagel’s home in O Fallon. Widow of Peter Rice she is survived by daughters J C Mispagel of O Fallon and Mrs John T Adkins of Butte Montana and a son John P Rice of Pinstone Minnesota.
Mount Vernon Missouri reports the Mount Vernon Fruit Growers Association has organized with President A. B. King Vice President R. C. Sedwick Secretary W. E. Hickman and Treasurer Keith McCause. The group ordered 10 000 crates for next year.
Ripley County Chapter of the American Red Cross buys a building next to the city business district to serve as a community house and as a memorial to local soldiers who died in the war. In Marshall special session the county court installs Mrs. J W Keys to fill the late Sheriff Keys term. John Logson to assume duties January 1.
General Alvaro Obregon was inaugurated president of Mexico at midnight in a simple ceremony marking the fourth peaceful transfer of executive power in ninety nine years. Diplomatic officials and leaders from several countries attended as Obregon and Provisional President De La Huerta exchanged welcomes and brief congratulations.
Kansas City reports an extraordinary slump in cattle and hog prices last month despite a large drop in supplies. Five markets handled 418 000 fewer cattle than November last year, yet prices fell over a dollar per hundred pounds, with corn fed steers down as much as 3 dollars. Cattle overall $3 to $5 cheaper per hundred pounds than a year ago.
Iowa State College topped awards at the International Livestock Show with a grand champion barrow and four other swine titles. It earned thirteen blue ribbons along with red pink white and a yellow ribbon, while the Clay Robinson special awards favored Texas A and M with Prince Perfecto. Kansas State, Missouri, Iowa State, and Purdue followed.
Geneva Austria has been unanimously voted a member of the League of Nations by the commission for the admittance of new states. The assembly of the league is expected to ratify this action.
In Constantinople Turkish nationalists show growing hostility to Americans and to American relief efforts, reports Henry Riggs director for Near East relief at Kharput in a letter.
A reader from Leavenworth Kansas attributes their recovery to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription after suffering from a combination of diseases. After two bottles, the neighbor reported feeling well, and the claimant expresses high praise for the medicine.
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