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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
6
Theodore Gary, chairman of the Missouri Highway Commission, told North Missouri city representatives about a proposed cross state highway. He urged cooperation, said the commission would be open to suggestions, and noted a $60,000,000 plan for good roads in Missouri.
Jefferson City Missouri Governor Hyde commuted the death sentence of John Moore of Kansas City to life imprisonment. Moore had killed a police officer after firing on a saloon proprietor he said robbed him in a gambling dispute. Walter Colvin, a Kansas City attorney, represented Moore.
Carthage Missouri directors of the Southwest Missouri District Fair Association raise premiums in livestock and other departments for the next year to boost production and provide educational benefit.
Mine plant No. 2 of the Skelton Lead and Zinc Company near Picher Oklahoma was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated between $50,000 and $60,000. The mine, though inactive for months, was among the district's largest producers.
Warrensburg, Missouri, 25 year old Eilmer Mathews is jailed on a murder charge connected to a Grand Rapids Michigan case. Police wires indicate Mathews traveled to Warrensburg to visit his father.
Residents of Eminence Missouri have subscribed 10000 dollars in stock and formed a company to build an electric light plant. Continuous electric service will be maintained.
Walter Anderson twenty of Okmulgee Oklahoma accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver as his mother Mrs Minta Anderson visited Fulton Missouri authorities said no foul play suspected and the death is being investigated as an accidental shooting.
Marceline city council to receive bids for a sanitary sewer system and disposal plant to fulfill previously voted bonds. Gilman City names Henry Gannon as new school principal. Missouri Agricultural Society to hold 1922 Farmers Week meeting in Columbia during January.
Moberly Missouri industries report pursuit of bloodhounds from a firm in Roy New Mexico for purchase through H G Strumpfre. The notice notes a bid or procurement effort with named entities and location.
Constable A. M. Hampton and three deputies arrested L. L. Turner and Leroy Nicholson in Sedglin Missouri for alleged moonshining. The pair posted bonds of $500 each after the arrest.
Rich Hill Missouri pastor Rev. Leonard Hegraver of the First Reformed Church Prairie City graduates among Moody Bible Institute Chicago class of sixty six.
Roy Davis of Columbia Mo recently named United States Minister to Guatemala visited Jefferson City with his wife over the holidays. He awaits orders to depart for his post and began public life as a Lewis County schoolboy page. His career included a deputyship in the State Labor Department under Gov Hadley. His wife is daughter of the late Dr L N Enloe of Jefferson City.
Jefferson City Missouri lists candidates filed with Secretary of State for district delegates to the state constitutional convention. Democrats include J C Wilson Bethany from the fourth district John S Hamyes Buffalo from the nineteenth district Frank E Atwood Carrollton from the eighth district Frank H Farris Rolla from the twenty fourth district and E Hitt Stewart Kahokia from the twelfth district. Republican nominees include L M Henson Poplar Bluff from the twenty first district.
Sedalia Missouri reports G Bylander secretary of the State Fair Board said work will begin next month on fair grounds and total expenditure will reach about 238000 dollars before the twenty second annual fair opens in August. About 125000 dollars is planned for the grand stand 105000 dollars for the half mile track inside the mile track Sallee.
Ozark Missouri fruit growers near Ozark have organized the Christian County Fruit Growers Association electing G Pard Hays as president A M Little as vice president Robert Fulbright as secretary Charles W Walker as treasurer and trustees John W Wray Landon Garrison and W E Keltner.
Jefferson City State Finance Commissioner Hughes announced Bernard Herwitz an attorney from Kansas City appointed state Blue Sky supervisor. He succeeds Gus D Nations Jr who resigns and returns to St Louis to resume law practice. Horwitz will take charge of the blue sky department at once.
Maryville Missouri William T Van Cleve news editor of the Daily Democrat Forum has resigned to re enter the Columbia School of Journalism with one year remaining before graduation Marvin H Crawford of Independence Missouri will succeed him and has been connected with the Daily Examiner in that city
In Carthage Missouri the Juvenile Shoe Corporation won a circuit court suit brought by Mrs H W Putnam a stockholder who challenged officials handling fifty thousand dollars of the company profits as bonuses to officers and employees.
Gov. Hyde honors his first requisition seeking the return of Cyril Landayt of Big Corn County Montana. Landayt is jailed in Kansas City on charges of horse stealing and awaits extradition.
White River Power Company will extend its electric line to Mount Vernon. A local committee from Mount Vernon has been appointed to supervise the improvements.
Novinger Missouri report says T. 8S. Dear resigns as assistant cashier after fourteen years with the Novinger Bank and sells his stock. Ole Blackerby succeeds him as assistant cashier.
Sedalia Missouri reports 16 year old grocery clerk Harry William Woolery son of Mr and Mrs Woolery died from an accidental gunshot wound received while hunting rabbits December 18. He was shot by a companion.
Rolla Missouri F A Germann resigns as Phelps county clerk after fifteen years in office. He forwarded the letter to Governor Hyde. His term would have expired December 31 1922.
The Caldwell Bay Baptist Association Young People's Union gathered at the Richmond Baptist Church for its mid-winter tally.
The Hays-Hicker son Post of the American Legion in Wellsville Missouri has elected Commander Raymond Williams Vice Commander John H Reed Adjutant Paul Bransetter Treasurer R G Smith Chaplain 8 8 Cox Master-at-Arms C C Lewis
Gov Hyde names William B Haley of Bowling Green as Pike county circuit clerk replacing the late Walter P Moore in Jefferson City Missouri. Haley succeeds Moore and assumes duties in the Pike county court system.
Paris dispatch reports M Sarraut head of the French delegation at the arms talks declares France intends to fulfill its financial war commitments. He aims to quell American doubts about France while Lloyd George reportedly plans early talks with Briand to avert detachment.
President and Mrs. Harding welcomed about 6 500 guests at the first White House New Year reception in nine years. The long line stretched from Pennsylvania Avenue as the public entered at 2 pm. security barred cameras and officials greeted attendees in the oval blue room.
Union Pacific estimates show American people will save about a million dollars daily in 1922 from reduced freight and passenger rates and government tax abolition. The cuts, effective this week, will lower transport costs for farmers and raise the cost of living impact nationwide. Farmers gain by cheaper movement of corn wheat and farm products to market, aiding market access and prices.
In Shanghai a clash between Italian and American sailors escalated from a cafe brawl to a raid by about twenty Italians attacking isolated Americans. Two of five U S sailors were stabbed and seriously wounded as Italians armed with knives and revolvers hunted more victims. The Americans reportedly were unarmed.
A violent earthquake at 8 50 o clock rocked Chamberlain. chimneys toppled, dishes fell from shelves and windows shattered. No injuries were reported.
A Mrs. Raymond Blink and a young child were burned to death when their farm home near Canastota burned to the ground. A second child suffered severe burns in the blaze.
The piece argues that people see what their training prepares them to see. An American ornithologist learns from experience that different sparrows are easy to miss, while Patagonians excel as specialists at their own focus. It notes proofreaders notice reversed letters quickly, unlike others.
A film by Edgar Chance depicts a cuckoo laying eggs in meadow pipit nests. Viscount Grey praised the four year study and described it as a major contribution to bird knowledge. The cuckoo takes an egg, then the fledgling dominates the nest, forcing out rivals to claim all nourishment.
The United Steel Corporation of India Limited is formed with capital of twenty crores rupees by Bird & Company of Calcutta and Cammell Laird & Company. Plans call for works near iron coal and limestone deposits to produce 600000 to 700000 tons of pig iron and 450000 tons of finished steel per year.
A Los Angeles resident started a scheme selling ten postcard views for 25 cents. Recipients would address sign and return them with the mailing cost, creating the illusion they were visiting the city of angels and movie millionaires. The idea spread to other tourist centers including San Francisco New Orleans Miami and Palm Beach.
The Ford Kansas postmaster died recently and postal inspectors uncovered thousands of undelivered letters stored in old boxes. Some dated over fourteen years ago, many to widowed or deceased addressees. Matrons with families and married men received long forgotten epistles in the mass of mail.
Raymond C. Fox took his son to the station to see Notre Dame play Indiana and then to the Claypool hotel where fans of both teams gathered. Fox recalled telling his mother about about 100 in the lobby and that about eighty nine took off their hats for Indiana.
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