Judgment to government on Indian's funds
Federal Judge Richard J Hopkins ruled that former Congressman Harold McGugin, his partner Walter S Keith, and Anna Laura Barnett fraudulently distributed Jackson Barnett's funds. The court voided transfers, awarded $137,500 plus 6 percent interest to the government, and barred fees for the lawyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kas
Richard J. Hopkins
Harold McGugin
Walter S. Keith
Anna Laura Barnett
Jackson Barnett
McGugin
Keith
Barnett
Anna Laura Lowe
Coffeyville
Neosho
Hopkins
Muskogee
Los Angeles
American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York Liberty
Bacone College
Murrow Indian
Judge Hopkins
Secretary of the Interior
Jury awards $500 in Pettis damage suit change of venue
A Pettis county jury awarded Junior Mason $500 in a damage suit against Harry H. Fuhrman and J. B. Price Mercantile Company over an August 21, 1936 automobile collision near Gilliam Missouri. Mason had sought $5,000 and testified he rode in a car involved in the crash with a Fuhrman driven vehicle and a Shoebley car. The suit had Benton county origins and was moved by change of venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pettis County
Junior Mason
Saline County
Harry H. Fuhrman
John Miller
Fuhrman
Price Company
Shoebley
Hazel Palmer
Sedalia
Robert D. Johnson
Marshall
Nick Cave
Columbia
E. W. Jones
Mr. Shoebley
John Z. Montgomery
Fuhrman and
The
D. H
Missouri UDC elects Mrs. Harry C. Reiner president
Mrs. Harry C. Reiner of St. Louis is elected to lead the Missouri division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy as its new president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry C. Reiner
St. Louis
Missouri
The
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Slaying Admitted in St Clair Missouri Case
Union Missouri November 29 Sergt W G Henderson said Wilbur Hemker admitted killing his former wife Opal Pickles last Saturday night in St Clair Mo. Hemker 28 was arrested near Luebbering after a farmhouse siege with Sheriff Giebler and state officers. Coroner Shaffer ruled homicide. Monk was lightly wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
W. G. Henderson
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Wilbur Hemker
St. Clair
Henderson
John Giebler
Franklin County
Hemker
Opal
Police Crusing Car Collides With Buick at Intersection
A Sedalia police V-8 Ford chasing a stolen truck collided with a 1927 Buick at Engineer avenue and Broadway Friday night. No serious injuries to the officers. Mrs Taylor and daughter suffered arm lacerations and a head bump. The stolen truck, a 1935 V-8 Ford from Sedalia Packing Co, was recovered nearby. no damage to the truck. Numerous local residents and families were noted in attendance or referenced in the surrounding events and notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedalia
Engineer Avenue
Broadway
Emmett O’brien
Lawrence Englund
W. F. Taylor
East Thirteenth Street
Martina Mae Taylor
Taylor
Bothwell
E. C. Snavely
Howard Street
H. J. Wells
Phil Russell Motor Co
Knob Noster Social News Highlights Thanksgiving Gatherings
Local residents hosted and attended numerous family meals and visits. Notables include Covey and Saults families at Thanksgiving, Merle Elliott funeral attendees from Knob Noster, birth of Roy Edward Zink Jr., and trips by Lay families to Kansas City and St. Paul visitors en route to San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Covey
Charles Saults
Jack
Bert
Dan Saults
Dudley Saults
Eula Patton
Otis Hume
Merle Elliott
Sedalia
Queen Spiess
Mary Park
L. G. John
Hon Beatty
T. E. Boyd
Ben Funk
W. T. Boyd
Margaret Hocker
Roy Lee Hughes
John Staubut
Will Zink, Jr
Roy Edward
Louis P. Lay
Josephine
Barbara
Kansas City
Rena Lay
Roscoe Lay
L. P. Lay
Rose Mary
Elizabeth Lay
Melvina McKibben
Merle Stevens
Walter Sibert
Forrest Kendrick
Miss Lois
Golden Neely
Liberty
D. H. Howerton
Sam Wenger
Russell Kendrick
Dorothy Mnre
Perry Gregory
C. E. Haun
Warrensburg
Walter J. Carr
Jean Frances
Patricia Cross
Kansas
Jimmie
Rolla School of Mines
Carr
James A. Koch
Kate
Marshall
Lewis Crawhardt
Constance
St. Paul
Minn
J. M. Kendrick
San Antonio
Texas
High honors in 4-H Club Congress take four youths
Four youths from Oklahoma Wisconsin Indiana and Oregon were named National Achievement Champions and National Leadership Champions at the 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. Bob Morford 18 Amarita Okla and Viola Neidfelft 17 Bangor Wis share the achievement title with Clifford L. Breeden 18 Lafayette Ind and Helen Michael 16 Eugene Ore as leadership champions. Each achievement champion receives a 200 scholarship and a silver service for eight bearing President Roosevelt’s name. Leadership champions receive 300 scholarships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Bob Morford
Amarita
Okla
Viola Neidfeldt
Bangor
Wis
Clifford L. Breeden
Lafayette
Ind
Helen Michael
Eugene
Ore
National Committee On
Boys and Girls Club
Roosevelt
Sedalia youths named in report
Andrew F. Anderson aged 21 and Wilma Violet Witt aged 18, both of Sedalia, are identified in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew F. Anderson
Wilma Violet Witt
Sedalia
Louisiana man named bank commissioner by governor
Commissioner R Waldo Holt of Louisiana Missouri was appointed a state bank commissioner by Governor Lloyd C Stark. Stark resides in Louisiana Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R Waldo Holt
Louisiana
Cov
Lloyd C. Stark
Birthday Dinner Gathers Schroeder Relatives in Syracuse
Relatives gathered at Mr and Mrs Arthur Schroeder home Sunday to help Mrs Schroeder celebrate her birthday. A bountiful noon dinner was served. Guests included Mr and Mrs Leonard Schroeder and two sons, Miss Carrie Page of Warsaw, Mr and Mrs E L Schroeder and family of Syracuse, Mrs Sophia Eldenburg, and Mr and Mrs Otto Eldenburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhauer
Frank Knipp
Kansas City
Benton Gochenour
Bothwell Hospital
Tom Porter
Don
Ira Thomas
Bunceton
Harold Burns
Muskogee
Okla
Leonard Roesler
Gussie Lee Johnsen
Imogene Putnam
Roy James Johansen
Warrensburg
Edward Pennington
Bolivar
Hattie Pennigton
F. H. Rasa
Earl Welpman
Florence
Elsie Burns
St. Louis
Syracuse
Syracuse Baptist Church
Ole Meyers
Parthenia Myers
Walker Burns
Mildred Carver
Claude Knowles
Sedalia
Otto
Dallisrose Carver
Bessie Carver
Alice Richey
Roger Roesler
Harold Stahl
Leonard Stahl
Frank Kennedy
Irene Turner
Huntsville
Mary Hubbard Keegii
Columbia
Nancy Jane Hubbard
Stephens College
Dorothy Ellen Reed
Jefferson City
Richard Hutchison
Kirksville
Dick Hutchison
M. T. Keevil
Keevil
George Hubbard
Douglas Hubbard
Hale
Versailles
Lou Reed
Mrs. Mariot
Caroline Schroeder
Arthur Schroeder
Sedalia Woman Takes Civil Service Post in Baltimore
Miss Gertrude Zing, a Sedalia resident for four years, left her county agent office job to join the Social Security office in Baltimore under civil service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedalia
Baltimore
Social Security
Civil Service
Bridge Damaged As Part Of Big Bluff Tumbles
Los Angeles reports a massive slide from Elysian Park's moving mountain. A 350 foot bluff fractured, blocking Riverside Drive and threatening the Dayton Avenue bridge. Geologists warn another slide is likely as rainy season nears. Estimated bridge damage around $200,000 with possible total loss on further slides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Elysian Park
Riverside Drive
Dayton Avenue
Los Angeles River
John P. Buwalda
California Institute of Technology
California
Glendale
Burbank
San Fernando
Figueroa Street
Death sentence for Mrs Hahn in Ohio poison case
In Cincinnati on November 27, Mrs Anna Marie Hahn was sentenced to die on March 10 for murder by poison. Judge Charles S Bell denied a new trial amid a defense appeal plan. Hahn cried and fainted, while the case centers on the poisoning of four elderly men, including Jacob Wagner, age 78. Her son Oscar and husband Philip Hahn were not present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Anna Marie Hahn
Charles S. Bell
W. T. Lindsey
Hiram C. Bolsinger
Ohio
Wide Temperature Swings Hit Sedalia Week
Sedalia captures a dramatic week with temperatures rising from four degrees above zero on Sunday the 21st to 60 degrees on Friday. Thanksgiving Day comparisons over five years show varied conditions from clear with 59 degrees in 1937 to precipitation and chill in earlier years, including 34 degrees in 1936 and 37 degrees in 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedalia
Charges of Stealing Fowls Filed in Marshall
Charges of stealing domestic fowl were filed in Marshall Saturday against Bill Beard Louis Kimbal Ace Guthrey and Joe Divans alias Joe Taylor. They face counts in Saline Cole and Cooper counties with sales in Jefferson City. Police questioned Kimbal and Beard over Moniteau County hen roost raids. Beard described a plan to steal chickens and split profits with Kimbal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Bill Beard
Louis Kimbal
Jefferson City
Ace Guthrey
Waverly
Joe Divans
Joe Taylor
G. Fred Martin
Saline County
Saline
Cole
Cooper
Highway Patrol
Kimbal
Beard
Moniteau County
Exciting Incident In Missouri History In First Act of Border War
Missouri history recounts the 1854 Kansas territorial delegate election as the peak of the border war. Readers learn of abolitionist and Missouri settler mobilization, the Platte County Protective Association, secret societies, and the chaotic November 29 voting in Kansas where Whitfield won amid widespread illegal ballots and armed Missourians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
State Historical Society of Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Kansas
Sea of Free States
Kansas Prairies
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Weston
Parkville
Platte County
Savanah
Andrew County
Buchanan
Boone
Marion
David R. Atchison
Col
Sam Young
Claiborne Fox Jackson
James M. Burns
B. F. Stringfellow
Self Protective Association
Platte
Andrew H. Reeder
Congress
J. W. Whitfield
Jackson County
John A. Wakefield
Mutual Settlers Association of
Kansas Territory
Robert P. Fleniken
Reeder
Whitfield
Lawrence
Arkansas
Texas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Champion-Striped Extension Club Holds All Day Meeting
The Champion striped College Home Economics Extension club met at Mrs. G A Cox s home with Mrs Agnes Atkinson assisting. A noon covered dish dinner served to 13 members four children and guests. Mrs Claire Montgomery Mrs Lowell Glaze Miss Doris Dabner Miss Ruth Alborn Mrs Maggie Goldsmith and Mrs A W Goldsmith attended. Overview of year s work adopted. food project leader Mrs John Thistlethwaite reported on year canning. Book review by Mrs Lowell Glaze on Rule of the Road discussed. Thanksgiving clippings and readings presented. Christmas party planned for December with gift exchange. October meeting elected officers led by Mrs S G Whiprecht president and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champion-Striped College Home Economics Extension Club
G. A. Cox
Agnes Atkinson
Claire Montgomery
Lowell Glaze
Doris Dabner
Ruth Albcorn
Maggie Goldsmith
A. W. Goldsmith
A. W. Goldsmith. During the Afternoon Meeting Mrs. Montgomery
John Thistlethwaite
Ann Byrd Payson
Harvey Fisher
G. E. Heck
Fred Corcers
Fisher
Lillian Field
S. G. Whiprecht
J. H. Edwards
M. O
Nose Fractured in Fight Near Here
A blood stained sedan with a sleeping man led Marshall police to Sedalia and Mexico, Mo. The man, L. R. Meades of Mexico, claimed his brother W. R. Meades was injured in a Sedalia fight the night before. Sedalia police confirmed, and the man was released. The injured man suffered a fractured nose and loss of blood during the drive to Slater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democrat News
Marshall
Indian Foothills Park
G. Fred Martin, Sr
Gene Durrett
Mexico
Sedalia
Slater
Calhoun Boy Wins Champion Steer at Expo
Calhoun Mo youth Howard Bradley took a lightweight Aberdeen Angus steer to win the divisional title in the international livestock exposition. The same steer finished third in open competition, eliminating its chances for the grand championship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Young Howard Bradley
Calhoun
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H. C. Reiner
ST. Clair, MO
Opal Pickles
Chase
Lois
Sam Willis
Charles Crowley
Stewart Crowley
Ina Jean
Shirley Lee
Harry Potts
Osborne Crowley
Near la Monte
J. Mont Kendrick
Mont
Milton
John T. Cheatham
Cheatham
Alpheus Boyd
Dorothy Mae Millikan
E. A. Sappington
Earl H. Sappington
Sappington
Dorothy Louise
W. V. Richeson
Everett Davis
Frank Faust
Ralph Minor
Paul Minor
South of Town
Ed Minor
North of
C. S. Reedy
N. B. Reedy
Cole Camp
Samuel W. Wenger
B. P. Michael
Louise Smith
Ernest Adams
Carrie Jenks
Mae Dawes
Olive Jenks
Central College
Fayette
Frank Jenks
Kenneth Wright
Wright
Concordia
Jenks
Doris
Maybelle Jenks
Kate Koch
T. E. Williams
Roy
Spencer
Mary E. Harness
Udall
Elmer E. Williams
Canon City
Colo
Georgia Tanger
Laura Douglas
Leeton
A. G. Hausm
Franks Jenks
E. C. Littlefield
Etta Johnstone
Howard Logan
David Logan
G. E. Stewart
Martha Littlejohn
Clarence Barton
Independence
James Allworth
Orine
Walter Richardson
Odessa
Ernest Stewart
Higginsville
Elmer E Williams
Jack Saults
Baptist Church
August Hartman
R. Waldo Holt
John Ellison
Wir. and
Mirs
Joan Ellison
J. D. Wands
East Fourth Street
W. M. Ellison
Gertrude Zing
Big Bluff
Mrs. Hahn
John O’brien
Mendes
Calhoun Boy
M' Laughlin
McLaughlin’s
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