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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1921
Page
2
The war dead include about 1 000 unidentified American soldiers in France, about 2 percent of U S free World War casualties. Pershing may select the unknown to return to the United States aboard the cruiser Olympia for burial on native soil.
Riga reports the Bolshevist foreign office claims it has verified information that on September 3 the French ambassador to War presented Poland and Romania with a note proposing they seize the famine to press maximum demands on Soviet Russia. It says France would back an ultimatum to Russia and aid a Polish war if refused, while Poland and Romania reportedly avoided full war. Poland sought German concessions in Upper Silesia to win German neutrality.
Secretary Davis noted that in 1914 seven million were unemployed, a larger share of breadwinners than now, while today 5,735,000 are jobless. He stressed 12 million still work and that 500 million dollars is available for public works bonds to be effectively used.
Washington announces a campaign ending September 3 recover ing about 12 million dollars in delinquent and miscellaneous taxes. 1,725 field collectors covered most major cities focusing on the luxury tax soft drinks theatre admittance and transportation. Blair calls results satisfactory with amended returns and few frauds found.
General Pershing travels aboard the steamship Parie bound for France to posthumously award a Congressional Medal of Honor to an unknown French soldier, a gesture authorized by Congress recently.
Governor Allen of Kansas traveled from Philadelphia to New York by air for a speaking engagement and slept through the entire flight, according to recent reports.
Springfield, Missouri article notes Andrea Carter of Elkland in Webster County shot his 65-year-old mother after awakening to a supposed chicken thief. He fired at the chicken house then in his room doorway, later realizing he had killed his mother.
Fulton banker T H Van Sant chairman of the educational work of group 5 of the Missouri Bankers Association, plans a series of ten talks on banking in district schools. He has arranged with Fulton bankers to give talks in Fulton public schools this year and dates will be set for New Bloomfield Auxvasse Mokane and Tebbetts schools.
Two freshmen suffered injuries during hazing at the opening of Poplar Bluff city schools. Victor Howard, 14, broke his wrist, while Alex Clemens, 15, sustained injuries thought to keep him from attending much of the term. Upperclassmen reportedly tossed them into the air and dropped them on the lawn.
More than 50 disabled World War soldiers are undergoing training in Springfield educational institutions. The number is expected to rise to about 100 when Drury College and Southwest State Teachers College open, under the Southern Missouri veterans' Bureau guidance.
Dr. F B Jones a veterinary inspector from the Bureau of Animal Industry at the University of Missouri is to test all Vernon county cattle for tuberculosis. After January 1 1922 it will be unlawful to sell any milk product not tested and cleared of tuberculosis.
The surveyed state highway from Birch Tree near the northern Oregon County border to Thomasville then to Alton and northeast to the Ripley County line near Johnson's Ferry has been approved by the division highway engineer and construction may begin this fall.
A sales pavilion will be built in Chillicothe Missouri this fall to host the Farm Show and subsequent livestock sales. Livestock and breeders associations nationwide will help finance the project and support future events and similar gatherings in the area.
The Elks' Lodge trustees award the addition contract to Simon Construction Company. The project to expand the present building will cost about $8,000.
Sedalia Missouri Mrs Mary Gerkon 52 died at her Florence home after a paralytic stroke two weeks after her husband died of heart failure.
The Columbia Theater has been leased by the Christian Church of Columbia to use as a Sunday School room for nine months beginning September 11.
Jefferson City Mo E G Bylander secretary of the State Fair Board said 328000 persons paid admission to the recent state centennial and state fair at Sedalia.
Rev. F. L. Ferkins of Wellsville Baptist Church has been called to lead Water Tower Baptist Church in St Louis, leaving Wellsville.
Sedalia Missouri reports an enrollment of 3,841 pupils in the public schools, a figure nearly identical to last year under Superintendent C. A. Greene.
Hamilton Mo S E Shultz of this city has been awarded the contract for erecting the new school building at Belton in Cass County.
Webb City hosts the annual district meeting of the Women s Relief Corps on September 20 with members from Carr Junction Carthage Joplin Webb City and Pierce City expected to attend.
Zane B. Parson of Pomona has been elected farm agent of Howell County Missouri and begun duties replacing J N Britt who resigned due to ill health.
Jefferson City Mo A ruling by the State Public Service Commission states it lacks authority to alter contract rates for telephone firms. The decision stems from Andrew County Mutual Telephone Company complaint over toll message rate hikes to St Joseph, urging continuation at 15 cents per message. The ruling, written by Commissioner Bean, was joined by Chairman Kurtz and Commissioners McIndoe and Simpson with Commissioner Flad dissenting.
In Jefferson City Missouri the state won an early point in antitrust suits against the St Louis Lumber Trade Exchange as the quo warranto proceeding began before Special Supreme Court Commissioner Dorsey W Shackelford. Attorney General Barrett argued the case with Merle C Otis stating the aim to revoke the Exchange charter and impose fines for violations of Missouri antitrust laws.
The National Bank of Commerce of St Louis and the Sturdivant Bank of Cape Girardeau jointly bought 175000 dollars of Drainage District 12 and 14 bonds in Scott county at par. The funds will be used without interest until drainage payments start in about a year.
In Laddonia Missouri, a severe fly plague disrupts farming with farmers quitting plowing. Reports say numerous horses and cows have died or been exhausted by flies, with one farmer noting flies ate the calf’s hide and hair before it was killed.
In Cape Girardeau Missouri three men were hospitalized after a dynamite blast at the silica pits of the Missouri Novaculite Company twenty miles north of the city. Frank Masters aged sixty suffered internal injuries and is not expected to live. Kirk Strickland a fifty year old man sustained a broken arm and a broken left leg while M H Gunner was only slightly hurt.
West Plains Chamber of Commerce launches a campaign to attract farmers within five miles to increase dairy cattle and boost supplies for the Ozark Mill Products Company.
Eolia Mo A F Lovem a land owner shot R J Oliver a road contractor after a dispute over road work. Oliver held a contract to grade a state road from Bowling Green to Eolia and Lovem refused access to his farm. Oliver was not seriously wounded.
Sedalia Missouri Grace Methodist Church marked its 52nd founding anniversary led by Pastor Rev. A. J. Ross. The observance highlighted the church’s long history and ongoing community service.
Grace M. Shepherd of the State Teachers College Columbia N Y has been chosen to head the new department of rural education at Northwest State Teachers College in Maryville according to President Vel W Lamkin.
Butler Mo F P Chiles sold his 1300 acre ranch near Drexel to W T Watson of Crissman Illinois. The deal included two hundred head of cattle and the total consideration was 200000 dollars.
Sworn report by Camville Jullien to the French academy describes intact Gallo Roman tombs in Martre de Vegre canton near Clermont Ferrand. A female body, preserved for 1800 years then dusted to dust by solar heat, accompanies coins vases baskets and garments along with a green box-tree.
A longhorn beetle named Eburia quadri geminate Say emerged from a grub that spent over forty years in a seasoned Mt. Pleasant Iowa book-case. H. E. Jaques of Iowa Wesleyan College studied the larva and notes the insect’s extraordinary lifespan, comparing with earlier findings of years between egg and emergence.
A Brooklyn Eagle opinion warns that seals near the English coast and elsewhere may be killed as protection wanes. It notes East African lions, Adda bush elephants, Pacific sea lions, and the north England wild cat heading toward extinction, predicting future drastic changes and the rise of domestication.
Mr Bibbles sits with a glacial manner as Mrs Bibbles questions his quiet act of moving his coffee away. He explains he does not want his morning drink to be chilled by her, prompting a tense domestic moment observed in the Birmingham Age-Herald.
A Pontiac Michigan post office clerk blushes when a sign reading Take home a kiss Its sure to please is spotted above her window The sign had been taken from a confectionery shop by a prankster and moved to the post office.
In a brief Scottish quip the Angler asks if public water makes fishing legal and the Inhabitant replies with a remark that it would be a miracle. The exchange caps a humorous note in Edinburgh Scotsman style.
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