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state Htotorint Sochi Ji GENTRY ANDREW OEKALb TRI-COUNTY NEWS WITH WHICH HAS BEEN MERGED THE UNION STAR HERALD THE BIGGEST CIRCULATION IN ITS TERRITORY BUY AT HOME READ THE ADS SAVE MONEY VOLUME X. KING CITY. GENTRY COUNTY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929. NUMBER 12. LAST RITES TUESDAY "Ml SED CHAUTAUQUA FINE BUT ATTENDANCE IS SMALL WILL REBUILD POWER LIKES IN KING CITY TEACHERS' MEETING AT ALBANY AUG.

27 28 Ha a Bottom Farm Now E. L. Culver, whose farm is at the west end of the State Highway No. 48 grading project, west of town, doesn't know yet whether he is going to be helped or hurt by the new road. His farm Uways, has been "high" where it is bordered by the highway, but the new highway grade Is several feet higher he has a young mountain to climb every time he drives out of his front gate.

But he thinks his farm will produce a lot more corn now. It looks like "bottom" land as he drives by on the highway. I i (( hp' tJ Mllenge Is Allowed Presidents and Clerks uf School Boards al Good Program Promised Mrs. Hazel B. Ott, director of rursl education at Eastern state teachers' college, Madison, S.

and Dr. R. S. Russell of the Missouri state board of health will be the principal speakers at the Gentry county teachers' plau meeting, to be held next and Wednesdav, Aug. 27 and 28, at Albany under the direction of Miss Reta Mitchell, county s.unerintendent of schools.

The program for Wednesda" is for both teachers and board members. All members, and especially clerks of school boards, are mged to attend the morning session weanesuay. me afternoon programs have been ar ranged so that those who wish to attend the I. O. O.

F. reunion, which will be in session at the same time, raav do so. Mileage is allowed all board presidents and clerks who attend. The services of Mrs. Ott have been secured through the co-operation it five county superintendents in this section of the state.

She formerly was director of rural education in the Missouri state department of education, and comes highly recommended. Dr. Russell is said to be one of the best speakers available to the state board of health, Tue following program has been an- nounced for the two days: Tuesday, Aug. 27 Morning 9:20 Registration of teachers. 9:30 Community singing, led by Mrs.

H. L. Crookshank. 9:45 Invocation Rev. R.

Page, pastor of the Baptist church. 9:50 Address Leslie Sopiervllla, county county. 10:30 Nelson, superintendent of Nodaway "Music Appreciation" Miss representative Uinn Com pany. 11:00 Address "By-products of Education" Mrs. Hazel Ott, director of rural education, Eastern State Teachers college, Madison, S.

Dak. Afternoon 1:00 Readings, 1:15 Business session Organization of extension classes; enrollment in State Teachers association. 1:45 Address "The Curriculum and the Child" Mrs. Hazel B. Ott.

Aug. 28 Morning 9:30 Invocation Rev. Frank Mapel, pastor Methodist church. 9:40 Address Miss Irene O'Brien, rural school supervisor. 10:10 Address Charles Myer, high school supervisor.

10:40 Address "Teaching Health al extension Afternoon 1:00 Roll call of teachers. 1:15 Round table discussion of plans for the year, led by county superintendent. 1:45 Demonstration work and distribution of supplies. Miss Mitchell has prepared a list teachers in the rural schools of Gentry county, showing the following schools in the King City community and their teachers: Beggs Loretta Patton Columbia Jessie Bennett Dewey Marie Troupe Ford City Mrs. Frances Boley Marsh.

Island City (Mrs. Thelma Evans Karr Frances Woods Maple Grove Marjorie Miller Millen Gladys Blessing Prairie Flower Irene Fry Shepherd Hazel Brown Sumner Tressie Clark Victory Cecil McClure C. W. MHcheni Dead C. W.

Mitchem, about 50 years old. a brother-in-law of Mrs. C. E. Potter of King City, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, after a prolonged illness of lung trouble, ac cording to word received by Mrs.

Pot- Habits" Dr. R. S. Russell, State Board of Health. 11:15 Address-f'Facing the Rural Situation" Paul B.

Naylor, agrlculaur- 72 Community Mourns I'assluir of Outstanding Citizen After 2-Weeks Illness Following Stroke King City buried one of her leading citizens Tuesday 72 years old and yet a leader in every sense of the word. The large attendance at thn last rites, filling the Presbyterian church to capacity, attested the high esteem in which James Millan was held throughout the community whos destinies he had helped to mould these fifty years. The Rev. James Froman of TrimbJ, conducted the funeral service, assisted by the Rev. F.

P. Brewster, pastor of the King City Presbyterian church. Dr. Charles A. Gage of Chicago, presiding as platform manager of the chautauqua here this, week and for many years a warm personal friend, read "The House by the Side of the Road" at the end of the funeral address.

Deane Smith of Hiawatha. baritone soloist, and Mrs. C. PetMjohn of King City contralto soloist, supplied the vocal music and Prof. G.

W. Tull played the recessional. Fred G. Howitt, Dr. D.

E. Black-lock, Dr. R. H. Hurst, H.

L. Yates, Robert Stanton and T. D. Stahlman were pallbearers, and George Ward, J. T.

Wagers, W. L. Cole. George Moran. H.

P. Long. J. F. McKenny.

C. Parsons and John Waltemath were honorary pallbearers. Mrs. A. C.

Parsons. Mrs. D. E. Blacklock, Mrs.

Robert Stanton. Mrs. L. C. Yates, Mrs.

R. H. Hurst and Mrs. Fred Howitt carried flowers. The Knights of Pythias lodge, of which Mr.

Millaa had long been an active member, wa represented by an honorary guard, and had charge of the formal burial service at the King City cemetery. The funeral service was timed late in the afternoon so that many who had attended the Chautauqua's afternoon session might be present at the rites. Died Sunday Nitrht Mr. Millan died at 11:15 oclock Sunday night at the Missouri Methodist hospital, St. Joseph, after an Illness resultant to an apoplectic stroke suffered two weeks before, on Sunday, Aug.

4. Loved ones had known for a week he could not survive. After a third stroke, last Friday. Mr. Millan had lain in a state of coma and complete paralysis.

He could not even, swallow, and was given food The end came peacefully and without a struggle, while all of his children were at his bedside. James Millan was born Oct. 23, 1856, in St. Louis, a son of James and Ann Miller Millen. His age at the time of his death was 72 years, 9 months, 21 days.

Orphaned at a tender age by the death of his father, he was brought westward in a covered wagon at the age of 13, with his step-father's family, settling on what now is the John Waltemath farm. lVt miles, northeast of King City. Three years later he returned to St Louis and became an apprentice in a largo machine shop. While in St. Loius he availed himself of an opportunity to attend night school, where he received the equivalent of the present-day business college education.

A Pioneer Merchant Here Returning to King City at the age of 21 he became engaged in the mercantile business at the time of the establishment of the well-known pioneer firm McCarthy Millan. Later he became associated with his brother, William Millan, in the Millan Bros. Merc. forerunner of the Millan Wagers, organzation still operating here, and later he was engaged in the hardware business here, styled Millan La nig ford. After the death of his step-father, Robert C.

Nelson, in the destructive tornado of 1SS1. Mr. Millan became owner of the Nelson homestead farm, which he operated many years, though living In town. In more recent years he became engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business, also serving as the northern representative of his son's Winter Garden firm of Crystal City. Texas, and a large-scale grower of and dealer in flowers, which latter occupation furnisn-ed him great pleasure in the last years of his life.

Mr. Millan was married May 17j 1 to Willie Ann Bowman, and to this, union three daughters and a son were born; Bertha. Katherine, Ruth and Robert. One daughter. Mrs.

Charles Busey, preceeded him in death in 1H1S. as did also his beloved companion in 1920. Since Mrs. Millan's death he had made his home nere with his daughter. Mrs.

O. M. Simmons. Also preceeding him in death wer his mother, his half-sister. Mrs.

Maggie A. Bowman of King City, and his half-brother, Robert C. Nelson of Boise. Idaho. He is survived by his brother, William Millan of King City; two daughters, Mrs.

Simmons of King City and Mrs. W. C. Hanly of Rock Port. the son.

William Robert Millan. Crystal City. Texas; four grandchildren, Richard Willie Ann Simmons. Jane Hanly and Betty Millan. and three nietes and four nephews: besides a wid'" circle of warm friends.

Helped Found hautauqua King C4ty perhaps has never boa-ted a citizen more widely and favorably known throughout his long, useful life, than Jim Millan. pioneered in the business activity of this community, he always was closely identified with the town's commercial progress. He always was relied upon as a leading booster for (Continued cu Page 2 company which presented two plays i Klng, Clty' were oclock Tuesday, and the Randall Plav com- th pleaMl pany which was here yesterday with Hill church, conduc ed by the Rev. N. "A Wise Old Owl" and "Mother's Mil- f.

and burial 1'roirnim This Year Has Never Been Excelled Many Big Features for Closing Days Though the attendance thus far has been sadly below par, King City's twenty-third annual Chautauqua, now In- session on the school campus, is bringing, to those who have availed themselves of the opportunlf to enjoy if. a wealth of entertainment, diversion and food for thought. It Is generally agreed that this year's program thus far is the equal if not better than any program In all the Chautauqua's twenty-three years, and several numbers have been outstandingly high-class. The remainder of the week vill bring additional treats such as only a home-managed community 'Chautauqua can supply. Those who miss it will have only themselves to jjblanie "It's here for you come and Ihe address on Sunday afternoon by Edward Tomllnson was one of the most interesting and instructive dis courses ever heard from Chautauqua platform here, it was "enerally agreed.

Mr. Tomlinson, formerly a newspaper correspondent, Is a student of international affairs, especially concerned with the economic value of the republics of South America to world trade. He quoted statistics that were almost astounding, and he explained how futile is the effort of the president's farm board to actually deliver "farm relief" when South America, on cheap land and with cheap labor, produces wheat in export quantities right along Its seaboard, whereas United States' wheat areas, are far inland, grown on comparatively high-priced land and at higa labor costs, and with high tran -porta-tion costs to export docks. He showed why the United States ranks second and third to South America in -wheat exports, cattle, sheep, minerals, and many other products. He knew his subject, and he got It )ver to his audience in a big way.

The Apollophone band is not what made Milwaukee famous. What it ma- have fallen short, however, was met than made up in the second day's music and entertainment by the Metropolitan Concert company, a mixed quartet which gave ireas from the classics in costume, and sandwiched In an occasional pleasing di- lrsUn of standard and semi-popular' numoers to round out a program which left little to be desired. Dr. David D. Vaughn, "pastor of the World church" gave a splendid lecture Afonda'- afternoon.

The week's largest crowds thus fai have been attracted by the two dra- matic companies the Seventh Heaven Tuesday night's and Thursday night's crowds looked like Chautauqua crowds. The Merrymakers gave two splendid musical concerts on Wednesday's program. This company is. composed of five peppy young girl instrumentalists and a reader. Julian B.

Arnold, noted traveler and author, presented an interesting travelogue Wednesday afternoon. Both motion pictures thus far have been exceptionally good, ranking above the usual run of chautauqua pictures. laurant Company, magicians. flTL P'JTam5 unci caiui, lu um UIIU young alike. The music tomorrow will be by the Elias Tamburitza Serenades, Charles Brandon Booth will lecture in the afternoon, and there will be a motion picture at night.

The last day, Sunday, promises many treats the Philharmonic Ensemble, Thomas B. McGregor, lecturer, and John B. Ratto, character impersonator. MY RLE STANLEY, BLUEGRASS QUEEN, SENT TO STATE FAIR Miss Myrle Stanley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

R. M. Stanley and "blue- Missouri state fair at Sedalia. She thora Worinaeriav with lamaa I went there Wednesday with James Spiking and family in their car, expecting to remain for the closing davs of the fair. She was crowned queen of the bluegrass realm at King City's annual Bluegrass festival early this i 3UW1UCI, aim luai lime ii.c mug City Commercial club, under whose auspices the annual festival is held, offered to pay her expenses to the state fair.

Men In Roberts Hurt in Accident Mervln Roberts of King Citv suffered a fractured left leg and other Injuries in an accident Tuesday neir Oak Grove, fortv miles southeast of Kansas City, according to word re- celved by relatives here. His wife and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.

Roberts have -gone to his bedside, and no details of the accident could be learned yesterday. He is employed by the state highway department and it is presumed the accident occured while on a road-building project. To Chllllcothe Business College Donald Turner and Coleman Pulley, of this year's K. C. H.

S. graduating class, enrolled this week for the complete business course in Chlllicoth, Business college, Chilllcothe, Mo. s. is no substitute tor NEWS. I i i Power Company to Mote All Poles Out of Street) and Install New Streetlight Circuit A $20,000 construction program, in which Its entire electric power distribution system in King City will be rebuilt and modernized, was announced this week by the Maryvllle Electric Light Power company.

The project is to be started within the next twenty or thirty days, and will be completed within the calendar year, according to T. H. McElroy, local superintendent. Two carloads of new poles arrived here yesterday morning for the job. A carload of wire and a carload of bolts and cross-arms already had been unloaded.

Ten new transform ers for the jtfb are on the wav here. This rebuilding program Is separ ate and apart from the new subs.ta tion soon to be erected here, and the rebuilding of the transmission line from Maryvllle. The company has closed its deal for the purchase of a lot for the new sub-station, and part of the materials are on the ground. The four-mile stretch of new trans mission line is complete from the NOW! Now is the time for the City of King City to do something about establishing a "white way" system of lighting for the uptown streets. The Power company is launching a construction project In King City whereby the entire power distribution system throughout the town will be rebuilt and modernized.

All unsightly wires will be moved from the streets. The general street lighting system is to be rebuilt. Now is the time, while the construction gang is on the jofb, and while new circuits are being laid out get an adequate lighting system for the uptown streets at the least expense. During the last ten fifteen seventeen years the merchants of the town have paid for the uptown street lighting. When one at a time the merchants have seen fit to discontinue their "white way" lights, the city has just simply the uptown streets go dark.

AspeciaTHght tax Was collected last spring, for gome reasoi or other, netting the city an additional $900 or so, and nobody Yet the town has grown darker and darker. The News has reason to believe the Maryvllle Electric Light Power company Is ready to listen to any reasonable proposition for financing a modern white way system, and would like to help get one Installed at this, time. And it's a sure thing the business interests of the town will do their bit, as they have willingly done in the past. Now is the time for the city council to do something suggest something do something! Now! William Bulla, home, four miles west of town to the city limits, and was "cut in" Wednesday afternoon. When the distribution lines are rebuilt, all poles and wires are to be removed from the streets, Mr.

McElroy state. New poles will be set in the alleys, and new entrances to all residences and business houses will be made from the rear. A new and improved circuit and new fixtures will be provided for the street intersection lights, so that they no longer will interfere with radio reception and telephone conversation. And of course when the poles, lines and transformers are removed from the uptown streets, the few remaining fixtures of King City's so-called "white way" will have to come down, too. BANBURYS IN CANADA AND DONT WANT TO COME HOME Air.

and Mrs. H. Danlbury and ter Miss Alyne, who have been vacationing on the Minnesota lakes, have gone on up into Canada, and there's no telling when they'll decide to come home, it seems. A letter from Miss Alyne reads, in part: "Papa has gained 8 pounds, Mamxrt 4 pounds; they sleep until it: jo, areak-fast at 10, do nothing but go to shows and do not want to come home; otherwise we are all about the some. Papa asks everyone on the street if the are from the Old Country and wha part and when they came over." Adolph Mayer Visits Here Adolph Mayer and son Jack of Paduoah, came Tuesday for a short visit at the home of his Mrs.

Matilda Mayer. iMayr and his family have been at Selfridge Field, Mt. Clements, while he had been in reserve flying corps training, and he came here for a few days while Mrs. Mayer and their dauhter remained at Garden Grove, Iowa, visiting relatives. They plan to drive home to Paducah this week-end.

Wendell Blemlng Visiting Here Wendell Blessing of Houston, Texas, le visiting here thU week at the home of his parent. Mr. and Mrs. George Blessing, and with other relatives and friends. He is in the life Insurance business at Houston.

MATTIE MILLER WAS MARRIED JUKE 29 AT STEELVILLE, MO. Former King it) Girl Wife of Highway Department Employe Mattie Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.

Miller 6f King City, and Harold Holliway of Jefferson City, an employe of the state highway department, were married June 29, 1929, at Steelville, according to Wednesday's Jefferson City Capital News, which stated that announcement had been made by the couple Tuesday. The bride visited her parents here several weeks ago, but not even her King City friends were let In on the secret. She was born and reared here, was educated in the King City schools, and made her home here when she was the wife of Ernest Ham-mack. She has made her home In Jefferson City the last two years or more, put nas a wine circle oi irienas nere who wisn ner a iuii measure oi prosperity aim Happiness The Jefferson City paper said: "Harold Holliway, popular employe of the state highway department, and Mattie Miller, well-known and attractive resident of the Capital City, yesterday announced their marriage which took place on June 29, 1929, at Steelville. Mo.

"Mrs. Holliway, who is a sster of Mrs. Jess O'Neal, has been a resident of this community for several years but was born and reared at King City, Mo. She has held a secretarial position for many months with W. H.

Young and company here and is well and favorably known throughout this section. She is a young lady of distinctive charm grace. "Mr. Holliway, who is a captain of the local guard unit, is a member of one of the oldest and best known families of this city and a young man of unusual ability and personality. "Their host of friends extend congratulations a.nd best wishes." SOUTH ROAD FINISHED.

WEST ROAD PROJECT GOING FAST Still Some Uncertainty ax to When No. 8 Will be Graveled A week of almost perfect road-bullding weather favored the workmen employed on the re-surfacing contract on the ten-mile stretch of highway connecting King City and Oak, and they finished up their job in less than a week. The half of the ten-mile stretch which is not paved with concrete was given a heavy coat of road oil, into which coarse sand or gravel was spread. The heavy oil binds the gravel into a very acceptable "top'' for the earthen road, and If heavy traffic does not break through it, as Is usually the case when road oil is used, it should make a good road for several months. There still seems to be some uncertainty as to when, If ever, the highway from Maysville through Oak and Clarksdale to the junction with No.

36, is to be graveled, though it has been stated several times that this work is to be done this summer. It is probable that the negotiations for a permanent right-of-way across I he creek bottom couthwest of Clarksdale has caused the delay. The big force of men working on No. 43 west of King City is pushing its work rapidly. The culvert gari'g is working less than a mile west of King City, with practically all the concrete work finished except on the two largest bridges the one near the Bunnell farm and the one near the Cook farm.

The big three-span bridge at Bunnell's requires the driving of piles deep into the earth, and heavy piers of concrete running down elth i to the piles or to bed rock. The grading crew has about a mile of its work almost finished, and is pushing rapidly eastward. Another construction crew is rebuilding the electric power line along the new highway, and making good headway. Farmers along, the four-mile project have been busy rebuilding fence to conform to he new right-of-way requirements. MILDRED BLESSING A WINNER AT STATE FAIR 4-H SHOW Mildred Blessing of the King City 4-H baby beef club won first place Tuesday In the open class at the Missouri State fair at Sedalia, according to a post-card to The News from L.

A. Saunders, county agricultural extentf slon agent. The place carried a cast' premium of $20, the card stated "4-H club boys and girls won total Mr. Saunders added. Mr.

and Mrs. George Frederick ano son Ralph arrived home Friday inl their car from San Luis Obispo, Calif, where thev had nnent the summer Their stay was cut short a tew days! A Ill- ter, Miss Ruth Frederick, and they did not get to return home via the "northern route" ae they had planned. They found Miss Ruth greatly Improved when they reached borne. James Millan. 72.

pioneer King City merchant and booster, whose passing is mourned by the entire community. MISS MAIMORIE TOWNSEND TO TEACH PHYSICAL EDUCATION Is Graduate of Battle Creek College and Springfield Normal Miss Marjorie Townsend of Auroia, has been employed to teach girl's physical education and hygiene in the King City high school during the term which opens Monday, Sept. 2, it was announced this week. This place was the only vacancy on the high school faculty, and there were several applicants. Miss Townsend is.

said to be exceptionally well qualified for the work, being a graduate of Battle Creek college, Battle Creek, where the physical education course is reputed to be the best in the United States. She has her B. S. degree from the Southwest state teachers' college, Springfield, Mo. She has taught in Battle Creek and also at Springfield, it is said, and was, a director at the Girl Scout camp at Nianga.

Mo. Supt. R. H. Watson reports high school registration almost completed, and that textbooks Jiave been ordered.

CHURCH FUNERAL WEDNESDAY 1 uiiu 1." Well-Known Pleasant Hill Woman Had 3 Sons In Army Service Funeral services for Mrs. John Tunks, 71. -who died Saturday Aug. 10, at her home nine mile? southeast was in the Butler cemetery, Mrs. Tunks' maiden name was Mary K.

Hedges. She was the daughter of Mr. and 'Mrs. P. D.

Hedges and was born Oct. 4, 1S57. in Illinois. She was married to John Tunks July 14. 1SS5.

and they were the parents, of seven children, two whom died in ih-fancy. She united with the Christian church at Berlin when she was 2i years old. in recent vears transferring her membership to the Pleasant Hill church, and remained in the faith and lived a true Christian life. Mrs. Tunks was a patriot of the highest order a war mother offer- service in the World war; all of whom.

however, returned safely to add comfort and good cheer to her last years. She is survived by her devoted husband, five sons. Ethol and Melvin of St. Joseph, and Mellie, Emofr and Earl, all of this community, nd one step-son, L. R.

Tunks, of near Also surviving are one brother. C. C. Hedges, of Texas; two sisters, Mrs. J.

M. Smith of Fort Morgan. and Mrs. Homer Crow of Mays-ville; five grandchildren and a host of friends and other relatives. LAWRENCE ANGLE INJURED WHEN BUS AND, TRUCK CRASH Lawrence Angle was painfully in e(j late Saturday afternoon asea sjignuy late sdLui'uav aiiernoon jured and his motor truck was dam- when a Bulck touring car.

operated by the Jefferson Highway Transpor tation company on the Minneapolis- Kansas City bus line, crashed into Angle's truck at a sharp corner northeast of Union Star on a detour on hM0' AngJe, t9h." en to the home of a relative in Union Star, where he received rr.edi- cal attention. The bus. badly reck-! ed, was towed to Union Star fcr re pairs. One passenger in the bus. a child, was slightly injured in the crash.

Angle's injuries consist of bruises and cuts. Stores 0en Saturday Afternoon Most of the King City stores will remain open tomorrow (Saturday and Saturday night. In all the twenty-three years of the King City Chautauqua all business houses have closed each afternoon of the annual session, but this year "the old order Practically all business houses have closed each day this week during the afternoon chautauqua session, opening again from 4 until 6 in the evening. But on Saturday the stores will be open all day. Mr.

and Mrs. C. V. Agee of Center-vllle. Iowa, visited here a short time Tuesday on their return home from St.

Joseph. ter Wednesday. He is survived by his grass queen of the Is repre-wife, who formerly was Miss Myrtle sentlng King Citv this week at the Handel of King City, and three chil- .1. dren, two of whom are grown. AN ABRIDGED EDITION This is Chautauqua week in King City and vacation week at the Tri-County News office.

It should not be necessary for us to make an apology for this "flimsy" issue, which admittedly is being published with the least possible effort. Our office and shop have been closed every afternoon this week. Our ad and job comnositor Is on vacation for the week, and our linotype operator has been working part time at the Chronicle office wbjle the Chronicle's regular oper- la on vacation. We could have made this issue regular size easily enough, ith lots of news and features and idvertising in it, but we wouldn't have had so much time to loaf and attend the chautauqua. Many of our country correspend-ents took the week off and didn't send In their news.

Some of the correspandence which was mailed in and net In type has been crowded out at the last minute because of our limited space. See you at Chautauqua. THE PUBLISHER 1 1.