The Neosho Daily News from Neosho, Missouri • Page 1

"You Can't Go Wrong in the Ozarks" NEOSHO DAILY DEMOCRAT VOLUME 23. NEOSHO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1927. NUMBER 238. COMING BACK TO MISSOURI We arc in receipt of a letter from our ofd C. A.

Kcef, who a 1 NEOSHO VS. JOPLIN The football game Friday, Nov. 4, at the Morse Park in this city be- few months ago went to California. tween the Ncosho and Joplin High He writes from Pasadena and says: School teams should draw a large "My dear friend, and what a bles-' crowd. In fact our people have not sing it is to have friends in New- been attending these football games ton county, Missouri.

My car starts'as they should, for money has been back to Neosho Oct. Look for us, and give our best wishes to all our friends." lost -on the last two games, receipts must pick up or the The boys STORM WHALEY TO BROAD- will not be able to go to Carthage for their game on Armistice Day. 'Arrange to attend the game Friday. CAST OVER KUOA It will be a good one and you will Storm 0. Whaley, Sulphur get your money's worth.

Springs, Treasurer of the Ozark Playgrounds Association, will broadcast an address over station KUOA, Fayetteville, on Monday, November 7, at 9:00 o'clock. Station KUOA has wave length of 296 meters. Mr. Whaley, who is a speaker of recognized prominence in Northwest Arkansas, has chosen as his subject, "The Ozarks and Opportunity." It is Mr. Whaley's intention to bring out the diversified possibilities of the Ozark Region, not only in horticultural and agriculaural lines, but because of the advantages afforded by reason of cultural and climate.

He says, "That the steady growth evidenced during the past few years, is largely a direct result of the effort made by the Ozark Playgrounds Association to sell not only the visitor the wealth and beauty this region, but in making the resident cognizant of Ozark possibilities." JAMES RIVER BRIDGE NEAR COMPLETION The new concrete highway bridge I across the James river at Galena, is jn-actically completed, and a dedication of it will be held on Sunday, November 20. Plans are being made to hold the biggest event ever held in Stone county. Committees have been appointed in charge of all details, and the program of interest has been arranged. SALES DAY, NOV. 14 Have Sales Day copy ready Friday and Saturday.

38-3t. Word was received yesterday from Paul Stader and the doctors say he is now improving undoubtedly get well. TWENTIETH SESSION REBEKAH ASSEMBLY The Twentieth Annual Session of the Rebekah Assembly, 47th District, will be held at the I. O. 0.

F. Hall of Neosho, Thursday, November 3, opening at 10:30 a. m. Sessions will be held ing. 38-2t.

in the afternoon and even- Blanche Bridges, N. G. MUM SHOW The Mum Show of the First Congregational church will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 8 and 9. Chicken pie supper Tuesday KEITH McCANSE COMING The Neosho Chapter of the Izaak Walton League is putting on a farmer-sportsmen luncheon at the Advertising club rooms Thursday evening, November 3rd, at which State Game and Fish Commissioner Keith McCanse is to be the principal speaker.

This meeting is to be in the nature of a get-together affair between the farmers and the members of the Izaak Walton league. The fact that interests of the farmer and the real, honest-to-goodness sportsman are identical in the matter of the preservation and propagation of game and fish will be stressed by Mr. McCanse and it is hoped it will bring about a better understanding between farmers and the Izaak Walton league so that both can work harmoniously together for the better conservation of the game and fish in this section of the country. An effort will be made to get a report from as many as possible of those who are in the propagation of pheasants. Contrary to the general belief, quite a start has been made in establishing the pheasant as a game bird in this vicinity.

About 750 eggs were distributed to the farmers of Newton county last spring, and while only a small proportion of these eggs produced mature birds i enough were matured to demonstrate that pheasants can be raised here and that their propagation on a large scale in Newton county is feasible. Every member LASTER REWARD TO EIGHT CLAIMANTS There are eight claimants to the reward for the arrest and conviction of the slayers of Jesse Laster, police chief of Joplin, who was killeci August 24, 1920, while driving wit! his family, not far from Joplin. Greece Webb and Linvell Boswell confessed to the- murder and are serving sentences in the Kansas state prison. Judge Bates in division one, of circuit court at Joplin, has decided that the Laster reward is to be prorated among the claimants who are: Jessie Friday, former sweetheart of Grecco Webb, who, with Linvel C. Boswell, confessed the murder, who claimed to have given information that led to Webb's confession; W.

H. Dixon and W. A. Box of Treece, who said they informed au- of the Neosho and will evenin 38-3t Attorney Chas. E.

Prettyman, and wife, leave tomorrow for Iowa Court. They will be gone until Sunday, stopping at Columbia to see their son, who is in Missouri State University. LEARN A NEW WORD EVERY DAY Today's new word: PAST MATRONS' CLUB The October meeting of the Pasl Matrons' Club was held last night as a party. The regular program of the club was held at five o'clock at the Masonic Temple and a delicious dinner was served at six o'clock with the Past Matrons as hostesses and their husbands as guests. Clever Hallowe'en stunts afforded much merriment, and the only regret was that other functions re- "DISPARAGE" Yesterday's word was "De- nouement" pronounced" "de-noo- mong" with on second syllable.

Defined as: (1) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catasthrope, especial- ly of a dreamer, romance and the like. (2) The solution of a mystery; issue; event. I quired attendance elsewhere before the fun had been exhausted. DON'T Grandmother" at the Neosho High School tonight. 38-lt.

Harold Welcher of this city derwent an operation for appendi- citis at the Sale hospital yesterday morning. His condition was ed as satisfactory today. Steel Gem Wood Heater Air-tight and will keep fire 48 hours. Over 1000 in use in the BRIGGS HARDWARE CO. THE STORE chapter of the Izaak Walton League is being asked to bring a farmer with him to this meeting, a meeting which is only preparatory to a much wider farmer-sportsmen meeting a little later.

Tickets to the meeting may be obtained of any member of the local chapter of the league. REPRESENTATIVES WANTED We pay salary and expenses for man and wife, men or women, to travel California, Florida or any 'state. See Sollars and wife at Hotel England. Hundreds of young folks were on the streets last night until a late hour engaged in Hallowe'en pranks and celebrating. No serious damage seems to have resulted although many petty annoyances were in evidence this morning, such as boxes, wood, piled in the streets, gates and porch swings gone, flat tires on cars and other similar things.

Anyway it is fortunate the occasion comes but once a year. If you have an aim in life you can't afford to waste any hating people. time in Even a professor of mathematics is seldom able to figure out a woman's age correctly. thorities that "Webb and another man killed Laster;" Edna Burnett Owens of Neosho, who said she assisted in obtaining information from Jessie Friday that led to Webb's confession Milt Woolsey and Wingy Richards of Kansas, who said they told authorities of conversations with Webb in tvhich he and "another fellow" killed Laster; Franjc Bradshaw, a Missouri penitentiary guard, who said he obtained a concession from Boswqll while the latter was a convict in the prison, and C. N.

McBee of Joplin, who said he captured Webb and Boswell at one of his resorts near Galena, after the two men had escaped from the Stone county jail early this year while they were awaiting trial on charges and sent to the Missouri penitentiary, where they admitted the Laster murder. No other claims were filed. The court said in granting the judgment that the claimants were entitled to the reward, since the prisoners had pleaded guilty to the charge, regardless of a question later raised as to whether the convicts' confessions were true. An additional $900 in rewards yet is to be apportioned. The $1,000 concerned in the suit decided yesterday was $300 offered by Jasper county, $300 by the city of Joplin and $400 from a subscription fund raised in Joplin.

The Joplin city fund and the $400 has been turned in for apportionment, it was stated. The county court has not as yet ordered a warrant drawn in payment of the reward offered by the county. The rewards not mentioned in the suit are $300 from the state of Missouri, $300 from the state of Kansas and $300 from Cherokee county, Kansas, where the murder occurred. FOOTBALL TO BE SHOWN AGAIN TONIGHT The pictures of the Missouri-Northwestern football game, which were shown at the Orpheum last night, will again be shown tonight. NEXT WEEK IS AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK American Education Week will be held from November 7 to November 13, inclusive.

The purpose of American Education Week is to acquaint the public with the actual work of the schools, with their ideals, their achievements, their needs. It is hoped that every parent will visit his child's school at least once during the week. The schools hope to benefit the entire life of the child and the whole life of society by working toward seven cardinal objectives, which have provided fitting subjects for newspaper and magazine articles. The seven objectives arc: 1. Sound Health.

2. Worthy home membership. 3. Mastery of tools, technics, and spirit of learning. 4.

Faithful citizenship. 5. Vocational effectiveness. G. Wise use of leisure.

7. Ethical character. It is earnestly hoped that American Education Week will be a time of deeper understanding on the part of the people of the role education las played, is playing, and must play the life of our great democracy. That nation is greatest that puts the child first statecraft, in in its thinking, its business, in in its its deals of conduct. The nation that has the highest regard for chilldr hood will lead all others in health, ntelligence.

morality, efficiency, and happiness. It will reach the greatest heights of national prosper- ty, both material and spiritual. The movus forward through its children. RULE OF CONDUCT AT CROSSINGS LAID DOWN Washington, Oct. rule of conduct for automobiles and others who cross railroad tracks was laid down today by the supreme court in a case appealed by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.

In setting aside a judgment in favor of the estate of Nathan Goodman, killed at Whitfield, Ohio, the court through Justice Holmes, declared that "when a man goes upon a railroad track he knows that he goes to a place where he will be killed if a train comes upon him before he is clear of the track. He knows he must stop for the train, not the train stop for him. "In such circumstances it seems to us that if a driver cannot be sure otherwise whether a train is dangerously near he must stop and get out of his vehicle, although obviously he will not often be required to do more than to stop and look. It seems to us that if he relies upon not hearing the train or any signal and takes no further precaution, he does so at his own risk." The court announced that it had laid down this rule of conduct for the control of all courts "once for all." LEAVING THE FOURTH OR FIFTH FOR CALIFORNIA. Can take man for driving half time.

Must bear own expense and be able to drive Buick. Call Gene Connaway, Anderson, Mo. Mrs. Dora Wilhelm has as her guest her daughter, Mrs. R.

L. Adam Vegetables never show up with splendor equal to the chromos in the seed catalogue. Mrs. Virgil Green entertained with a dinner Sunday, Oct. 30, the occasion being the 48th birthday anniversary of Mr.

Green. The dining room was attractively decorated with dahlias and Hallowe'en appointments. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. R.

B. Green, Mr. and Mrs. H. B.

Green and family of Neosho; Mr. and Mrs. I A. R. Green of Pittsburg, Kansas, of Sunmount, N.

Y. visit her sisters, Mrs. Route 2 and Mrs. B. of Stark City.

Mrs. She will also Fred Hill F. Petersc" Adam is a FLAPPER GRANDMOTHER GREETED BY LARGE AUDIENCE The opening night of the "Flapper the annual play produced under the auspices of the ladies of the First Congregational church of this city, was very successful. Miss Eleanor Crothers of the Wayne P. Sewell Lyceum and Producing of Atlanta, has been 1 in charge of the production, and has been congratulated on her work.

It's "no fair" to tell what the play is, for it will be repeated tonight. Suffice it to say that Nell Hall, Louise Roberts, Dorothy Mace, Dorothy Giltner, Coy Briggs, Junior Rogers, Arthur Shull, Wayne Slankard, Reese Allmanr Harry Lewis and Harley Wells, are in the cast, and all have been popular in other plays. Choruses of matrons, doorknobs, rag dolls, and debutantes are all interesting. It's only the man with more money than brains who has more friends than enemies. Registered Nurse, and is employed in the United States Veterans' Hospital at Sunmount.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Games and son, Jamie, motored to Berryville, Sunday, spending the day with relatives there. RAIN AND COLDER IS THE WEATHER FORECAST Be prepared for it.

We have a car of KANSAS DEEP SHAFT LUMP COAL on track. Phone us for Prompt Delivery. North Transfer Storage Co. Phone 171 316 East Spring St. Mr.

and Mrs. C. L. Kelley and family and Mrs. Helen Harris of Miami, Mr.

and 'Mrs. G. C. Green No man on earth can love his ancl daughter, Buelah Elizabeth, of neighbor as himself if he has a gar- Commerce, and 'Mr. and Mrs.

den and the aforesaid nc-ighbor le Green of Quapaw, Okla. chickens. Dr. L. A.

Kelly, Dehtist, who formerly practiced in Neosho, is now permanently located at Stella. 18-1 Quality Merchandise and Service For quality merchandise and service call phones 23 and 244 Smith's Gro. Never with a man enter into a whose wife partnership is the president of 11 woman's political club. A child man tomorrow. Only in photographs can you keep him, as he is today, for all time.

Bring the youngster in now. His picture will solve many af your gift problems. 8 weeks Until Christmas AYERS STUDIO PHONE 197 Photographs Tell the Story Wellesky This is a very attractive Enna JeHic Arch Support of whippet calf, a brown leather that is popular for with biege calf leather. Has a Goodyear welt sole and medium weight leath- er heel with rubber tap. he Price $5 McGintys.