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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1915
Page
6
British and French forces engage in the Balkans as Bulga rian advances near Monastir threaten Serbian positions. Greek authorities warn Entente troops and Kitchener's Near East visit grows in importance while Russia slows German drives toward Riga.
British forces report capture of 280 yards of Turkish trenches at Krithi-Nullah and 1,000 yards east and west. rumors persist of Bulgarian advance into Monastir while Greece Bulgaria talks on future relations and sphere of influence with German backing.
Secretary Daniels said a serious situation has arisen in national defense. The plan under consideration would place government ownership or control of key battle ship components and facilities. He cited private plant bids that may be delayed for lack of prompt supplies as a cause and critiqued company attitudes.
In Cleveland on November 1 350 000 railroad men across the four brotherhoods plan a referendum for March 1 1916 demanding an eight hour day with ten hour pay. Eastern chairmen meet to formalize ratification by executive committees December 15 when ballots will be proposed.
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Boonville prepares for a December 3 local option election after a wet Moberly victory. Col T A Johnston and W Hall Trigg lead the dry petition with E F Jones directing the campaign from the Anti Saloon League. Saloons in Boonville number seven and the drys warn of dramshop dangers.
Fire devastates the Baptist church in Bowling Green along with the Christian church and county courthouse, leaving two congregations homeless. Prisoners in the Clay county jail attempted to blow the east wall with nitroglycerin but failed. Six prisoners remain in custody. leaders include Bob Clay alias George Brown and Ollie Mack tied to multiple holdups in nearby towns.
The city council has passed an ordinance to increase Springfield’s bonded indebtedness by 400000 dollars for building a municipal lighting plant. An election on the bond issue will be held on January 11.
Elroy E. Codding a prominent Missouri Republican and former Sedalia postmaster died at a football game between Sedalia High School and the Warrensburg Reserves in Sedalia.
Duke N Parry of Kansas City has been elected president of the pre journalists of the University of Missouri. The pre journalists comprise an organization of about 100 freshmen and sophomores pursuing journalism degrees.
William Moorehead, 75, was convicted of killing Roy Jenkins, a farmer, in Anniston on November 20, 1914. A Charleston jury sentenced him to forty years in the penitentiary.
The will of Charles Schifferdecker filed in Carthage allocates property worth about 100000 to John R Johnson, long time gardener and caretaker. It leaves 160 acres in Joplin to the city and the remaining estate, about 400000, to nieces and nephews.
James M Kemper of Kansas City leads the M A seniors as a student in the College of Arts and Rise to secre Kansas City.
A $30,000 fire ravaged a Holden store destroying the building and stock. The blaze damaged the eee store seiud located on Main Street, with investigators reviewing the scene for a cause.
James Sherman Botsford, 71, dies at his Kansas City home after a long career as attorney and US district attorney for Western Missouri. Appointed by President Grant, he served 1871 to 1877 and led whisky ring prosecutions. He sat with Missouri Supreme Court in banc in 1911 and wrote the decision on Sunday train service.
John B. Thomas banker of Willow Springs and Marion W. Rose of Rose & Daniels produce commission men were acquitted in the federal court at Kansas City on all counts of the indictment charging use of the mails to defraud.
The Missouri Dry, organ of the Missouri Dry Federation, appeared at Sedalia issued from Goodwin Publishing Company. Charles E. Stokes of Kansas City is editor and manager with H. P. Faris of Clinton as financial backer.
President Wright who had supervised the Missouri School for the Deaf at Fulton for ten years shot himself recently. He was 32 and was a known figure in Masonic circles.
Bevier constable and deputy sheriff William R. Reynolds, aged 68, died at his Bevier home. Reynolds served as a law officer there for twenty five years as a constable deputy sheriff and police officer.
Waneta Poncot, 17, took the 10 car sweepstakes prize and a $100 silver loving cup at the seventh annual Jasper county corn show in Carthage. Her sister Hattie Poncot, 15, won the junior sweepstakes prize a trip to the state corn show in Columbia the week of January 3.
Three hose companies fought a fire at Calvary cemetery in Southeast St. Joseph. The blaze scorched much of the grass and blackened numerous monuments and tombstones in the Catholic graveyard.
Abraham Sechrist, aged 85, long-time hostler in Kirksville and Brookfield, retired in St Joseph for fifteen years, Civil War veteran and 58-year Mason, native of Pennsylvania, passed away.
A motor car stolen from BE. R. Morrison in Kansas City was recovered but the thief broke away from pursuing men near Ontrose and remains at large. Authorities suspect the fugitive may be Dale Jones, who escaped from Butler jail on December 23, 1914, while awaiting trial for an accomplice charge.
An association to improve the National Trail proposes a sixteen mile highway between Brookfield and Mendon as one of the state’s best kept earth roads. The group formed at a Brookfield meeting of boosters.
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