The Centralia Courier from Centralia, Missouri • 1

The Centralia Courier VOLUME XLIV Entered at the Post Office, COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934 NUMBER 23 Barriers Are Effective Means of Chinch Bufc Menace EXAMINATIONTO BE OPEN Postmaster General Makes Request With Order of Filling Vacancy In Centralis Postoffice ASKS UNEMPLOYED TO REGISTER AS NEW PLAN STARTS DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HARRISBURG IS STILL MYSTERIOUS CENTRALIA COUNCIL RECEIVES REGULAR MONTHLY REPORTS COUNTY BAR SETS DOCKET FOR JUNE TERM OF COURT INFIRMARY IS READY Temporary Structure on County Farm Nearly Completed and Inmates Will Be Moved Back Fifteen men were working on the new temporary quarters for the Boone County Infirmary Monday. About twelve men worked on the building all day Sunday. Pre. siding Judge W. P.

Cunningham said that the court hopes to have the thirty-nine Inmates back on the farm, in the temporary quarters by today and not later than tomorrow The carpenters have completed the work of nailing the boxing onto the studding and the rafters and sheet, ing for the roof were fixed in place Monday night. Meanwhile the inmates are still living at two hotels in Columbia. Members of the County Court were visiting infirmaries in adjoining counties Tuesday in order to get ideas for the new institution for Boone County. The new building, which will be a fireproof structure built on the same site as the destroyed building, will be constructed as soon as the county can make the necessary oil must be renewed each afternoon, since it is the odor of oil that repells the bugs. An oil barrier is more ef fective if the bigs are forced to climb up to It, as when it is run along the rim of a furrow or on the crest of a ridge.

If the ground is too dry to plow a smooth furrow or to make a ridge, however, simply smooth a strip a foot wide with a hoe and run the line of oil along it, Fifty gallons of gas tar, costing 5 to 7 cents a gallon, will maintain 80 rods of barrier. Post holes may be dug tn the bottom of the furrow every 10 to 15 feet as traps, into which the bugs will fall and where they can be killed with a tamp or a little coal oil. An old pail, with a nail hole near the bottom plugged with a stick, may be used to spread a narrow line of oil. Where bugs are serious, a dust-furrow barrier should be made before they begin to move. In case of rain a drum of gas tar should be on hand to use if needed.

This can be used for other purposes on the farm in case it is not needed for barriers. Sources of barrier oi may be learned from the county agent Sr from the College of Agriculture. The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an open competitive examination at the request of the postmaster general and in accordance with an order of the president to fill the vacancy at Centralia. The office is of the second class and carries with it a salary of $2400 a year. The minimum age limit for the position of postmaster at an office of the second class has been changed so that applicants for such offices must have reached their twenty-third birthday on the date of receipt of applications.

Instead of their twenty-fifth birthday. To be eligible for the examination an applicant must be a citizen of the United States, must reside within the office delivery, and must have so resided for at least one year proceeding the date for the close of receipt of applications and must be in good physical condition. Both men and women are admitted. SMALL HOPE SEEN FOR DROUGHT END But O. R.

Rogers Believes Normal Weather May Yet Return Forecast for Boone County: Rather unsettled tonight and Friday, but with slight change for any rain; continued rather warm. Summary for the week ending June 7, 1924. Missouri farmers are now facing the worst outbreak of chinch bugs in 50 years, said Leonard Haseman of the College of Agriculture at the University in Columbia. The most practical and effective means of fighting the bug menace, at this time, he says, is by means of a barrier, either a dust-furrow or an oil-line barrier. An effective dust-barrier can be made by dragging an oil drum back and forth in a furrow or in two parallel furrows.

A gate post or small log may be used in place of the oil drum. Such a barrier can be thrown up between fields of com and infested small grain in an hour, and a boy on a horse, by keeping the log moving, can easily maintain an 80-rod barrier of this type as long as rains do not interfere. The furrow, or furrows, should be plowed and worked down before the bugs start to crawl. Where soil will pulverize, tihs barrier can be made practically 100 per cent effective. In case of rain, or where it Is preferred to use an oil barrier, a narrow line of gas tar or regular chinch bug barrier oil can be run along the rim of the furrow on the side next to the corn.

The line of 28 HONOR AWARDS AND PRIZES GIVEN Six Residents of County Are Among Student Recipients Of the twenty-eight awards and honor prizes presented this morning by Walter Williams, president of the University, to students at the ninety-second annual Commencement exercises held at Brewer Field House, six went to University students registered from Columbia. The list of awards and their recipients are as follows: Alpha Kappa Psi Medal, Leonard Eugene Thompson of St. Joseph; Missouri State Building and Loan Association Scholarships, Leonard Eugene Thompson of St. Joseph, James Lester Fidler of Keytesville, and John P. Miller of Kansas City; Eugene Field Scholarship in Journalism, Lester Silbemagel of Pine Ark-L Jay L.

Torrey.ScboiAK-shlp, Alice Jessica Pye of Des Moines, Iowa; Journalism Alumni Scholarship, Willard Irving Corlett of El Paso, Texas; Journalism Students Association Scholarship, Arthur P. Schulze of Cleveland, Special Distinction Award, Margaret Ann Wheeler of Columbia; The Oliver N. Ging-Rich Merit Award, James E. Peters of St. Louis, John W.

Jewell Scholarships; May Day Lo of Wailuku, Main Hawaii, H. Donald B. Thurman of El Paso, Texas; Oscar Thomas Gibbons of De Soto; John H. Fairweather of Reedley, Dorothy Jean Coleman of St. Louis.

The Rollins Scholarship in Medicine, Jeanne Hibbard of Columbia; School of Law Foundation Scholarship, Albert Cecil Howard, of Excelsior Springs; William Mack Prize, Alonzo S. Penniston of Norbome; Alexander Martin Prize, William Robert Collinson of Columbia; John D. Lawson Prize, William L. Nelson of Columbia; Phi Mu Alpha Scholarship in Music, Harold Kenneth Glenn of Columbia; Paulina Kuntze Award, Kathleen Fowler of Boonville; William B. Ittner Prize, William H.

Hillis of Columbia; Rollins Scholarship in Arts and Science. Lester Silbemagel of Pine Bluff and Dorothy Dolores Peterson of Kansas City; Judge Shepard Barclay Prize in Law, Charles Langston Bacon of Marshall; Delta Sigma Pi Key (B. P. Ben Ruben of Kansas City; Phi Chi Theta Key B. P.

Phyllis Smith, Searcy, Ark. MOTOR COMPANY OPENS Agents for Buick and Pontiae to Begin Business in Columbia Saturday With its personnel staff selected and remodeling work on its building location at 504 East Broadway in Columbia, nearing completion, the Apt Motor Company, agent for Buick and Pontiac automobiles and GMC trucks, will open its new establishment Saturday. The Apt Motor Company will be under the general managament of Elmer E. Apt, who Is president of the Apt Motor Corporation. Mr.

Apt has been connected with the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac sales company for ten years, having served in sales work, service promotion, and dealer development in Pennsylvania for a number of years, and since 1930 has been located in Kansas, Missouri, and other mid-western states. Other executives of the new auto firm are J. L. Allton, vice-president: and J-M. Allton, secretary-treasurer.

According to Mr. Apt, the motor company will have new and modern equipment throughout and will be in position to give patrons quick and efficient service. Oscar Meyers, formerly connected with the AUton Automobile Company, has been employed as service manager. Mr. Gross will be in charge of the business office, and George Lawhom will be in charge of the parts department Mr.

Apt announced today that five new Buick automobiles will be lent to citizens of Columbia next week without any obligation to the borrower. The detail of this offer will be given in the company's opening announcement, to appear later this week. Federal Agency in Columbia Wants Names by June 30 F. E. R.

lliSCONTINUED Putting Men Back to Work Is Aim After Direct Relief Ends Since all F. E. R. A. work has been discontinued in this county and other counties in Missouri, work Is now going forward at the Re-employment office in Columbia in an attempt to find work for everyone.

Each unemployed man or woman in the county should go to the office in Columbia and register for work. He must be prepared to give age, weight, height, reference from former employers, and a telephone number where he can be reached easily. The fiscal year begins July 1, so that this registration must be completed by June 30. Men who are qualified to operate machinery must be prepared to give the type of machine, the size, and other information about it. This information is necessary because qualification must come first in placing men through the National Re-employment Service and without this information the Service cannot place men and women for Jobs.

A veteran must bring his discharge with him when he goes to register; a union worker must bring bis paid-up Union card in order to show that he is a member of a local union and that he is eligible to be placed with union contractors. Persons who are employed at the present time, but who will be out of work in the hear future must wait until their employment ends before they will be allowed to register. Fanners employed at present In their crops must wait until their crops are harvested then come Into the office. The National Re-employment Service Is here to stay as long as there is unemployment In this country. Its work will bo to give -the job to the best man available for that job.

That la why it la necessary to fulfill the above requirements in registering. The F. E. R. A.

funds having been discontinued, this national service will endeavor to take their place, and it is believed that with the hearty co-operation of the unemployed, and other people in the county the federal aid will not be missed so drastically as it first appeared. W.H.KINKEAD, 77 YEARS OLD, DIES AT HIS HOME Left Fatherless by the Civil War, He Courageously Undertook Support of His Mother and Family W. H. Klnkead, 77 years old, died at his home on North Hickman Street in Centralia Tuesday morning after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were held at the Singleton Street Baptist Church in Centralia yesterday afternoon at 2:30 oclock by the Rev.

G. R. Timbrook, with burial in the Centralia Cemetery under the auspices of the Odd Fellows Lodge of which Mr. Ktnkead was a leading member. William Henry Klnkeid was born in Boone County, Missouri, June 13, 1856.

He was a son of Solomon Addison and Delltha Bryson Kinkead. The father engaged as a soldier In the Civil War when the son was a mere lad and his fate was never learned, and young William Henry was left to care for a widowed mother. He has been a resident of Centralia for many years and was known and liked by all. He is survived by his wife, who was formerly Miss Elizabeth Russell, one daughter and three sons, Mrs. Boyd McDaniel and S.

A. Klnkead and Maurice Klnkead of Centralia and Roy Kinkead of Astoria, 111. PRIZES UPF0R LAMB DAY Sturgeon Merchants Co-operate lo Make Event More opular by Offering Many Awards Sturgeon merchants. Joining together to make the ever-popular lamb-grading day an even more significant event for fanners, have offered a wide group of prizes to individual winners in the competition next Wednesday, June 13. According to an announcement by the Sturgeon Produce Company, the following will give prizes: First prize, best pen of lambs shown by one individual: Sturgeon Produce Company: second prize, (for second best pen) Sames Grocery, Illinois Oil Company, Rucker Cash Store; third prize, Branham Hatchery, Home Oil Company.

Best individual lamb, first prize: Sturgeon Bank, Sturgeon Elevator; second prize (for second best lamb) John Griffin, barber, and Omar D. Oray of the Sturgeon Leader: third prize. Barnes Grocery and the Sturgeon Tavern. Largest bunch of lambs entered: Sims Garage and Clyde Current Truck Company. Lambs brought from the greatest distance: Ritchie Hardware Store, and Wade Inn.

City Clerk Announces Automobile Licenses Issued LIGHTS TOTAL $1586.90 Treasury Shows Balance of $17,658.38 at End of Month Centralia city councllmen held their regular monthly meeting Monday night with Mayor H. L. Pruett and transacted routine business, allowed accounts and claims, and caused the following reports to be filed with the City Clerk Nina L. Rowland: The city clerk's report read that city automobile licenses issued last month came to 25, which brought $75; Hinton Gulick, cash payment on the sale of the Thomas KpHy property came to $50; S. M.

Pulis for seven loads of dirt, $1.75, The total was $126.75. Thirteen city licenses for May were Issued and turned over to the city collector, Mrs. Emma Garrard. The city collectors report was as follows; Real estate collections, $18935; personal property, poll tax, dog tax, merchants' licenses, $380; penalties, $952. Total, $621.63.

The city marshal reported that dogs removed came to 4, at a cost of $4 to the city, and the salary amounted to $60, the total being $64. The street commisisoners report was as follows: J. P. Johnsons salary, $60; S. M.

Pulis, one-half day mowing cemetery, Jones Motor Company, and the total, $70.60 The following is the report from the Water and Light Department Amount received from light, amount received from merchandise, amount received from current deposit, $55; amount received from water deposit, $12; amount received from domestic service deposit, $28 Total, $2252.50. Amount of the water used by customers, 918,779 gallons. Deposits In the water and light domestic service departments for the month amounted to $95. Treasurers report: Balance on at the close of business April 80, $17,05838. Receipts for the month of May, $3000.88, less 80 warrants paid amounting to $3558.49.

Balance on hand at close of business May 31, $17,100.77. 43 DEMOffiATIC CANDIDATES FEE -junta8 One Committeewoman to Be Added to Boone County Ticket Candidates for the Democratic primary totaled forty-three at 3 oclock this afternoon. Friday is the last day anyone may file, under an order sent out by Roy McKittrick. The Boone County ticket is full except for one committeewoman for Missouri Township. Following are the candidates: Circuit Clerk: Floyd Roberts.

Prosecuting Attorney: William Sapp, Edwin C. Orr. Probate Judge: George S. Star-rett. Recorder: J.

W. Robinson. Collector: Mrs. Esther Fish Woods; Grover Lanham. Representative: E.

C. Cllnkscales; O. E. Ward, Jr. County Clerk: R.

M. Morris; Ned Gibbs. Presiding Judge: W. P. Cunningham; Arch S.

Prather; William J. Ridgeway; Luke M. Hickam. Judge, Southern District: R. L.

Cook; Thad Bullard. Judge, Northern District: Robert Moore. Justice of the Peace: Columbia Township: John S. Bicknell; Harry T. Limerick; L.

W. Byars. Cedar Township: O. T. Scott.

Committeemen and committee-women: Perche Township: Mrs. Vincent Phelan, Mrs. C. C. Hazard Ellis Taylor.

Cedar Township: A. Martin, Mrs. Ellis A. Thomas. Centralia Township: Joe E.

Green, Kath-eryn Sames, Dale H. Hamilton. Bourbon Township: Mrs. Mansll Sims, S. St.

Clair. Missouri Township: F. L. Limerick. Columbia Township: John L.

Platt. Mrs. H. M. Hungate Rocky Fork Township: Mrs.

F. L. Faucett, V. G. Caldwell.

Constable: Columbia Township: E. J. (Barney) Ward. Bourbon Township: Duke Moynlhan. ROCHEPORT RESIDENT DIES W.

W. Scoble Has Been In Barnes Hospital In St. Louis W. W. Sooble of Rocheport died Sunday night at Barnes Hospital in St.

Louis where he had undergone an operation. He was born July 7, 1856. tn Rocheport and since 1909 has been in the undertaking business there. In addition to his widow, Scobie is survived by a daughter, Mrs. G.

C. Young: a brother, John, of St. Louis, and two granddaughters, Marie and Alice Louise Young. BIRTHS A son was born to Mr. and Mrs Clarence Harlson, May 28.

Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Jones of Harta-burg announce te birth of a son Mty 28. Arson Theory Advanced, But No Names Mentioned So Far FOUR BUILDINGS BURNED Hord Estate Is Heavy Loser Firemen Are Handicapped Origin of the fire which destroyed four buildings in Harisburg late Thursday night is still undetermined. The fire started in a vacant build' ing formerly used as a poultry house, belonging to the Rex Hord estate and was communicated to another building belonging to the Hord estate and in which Hord, many years before his death and until becoming ill, conducted a restaurant.

Two other buildings, a blacksmith shop and a garage, were also destroyed by the fire before it was subdued by Fayette and Columbia firemen, aided by a favorable wind. Harirsburg citizens carried water and protected as well as possible nearby buildings. For some time it was feared that a home located directly across the street would catch fire. No insurance was carried on the blacksmith shop owned by Charles Mead. A small amount of insurance was carried on the two buildings belonging to the Horc estate.

There was none on the garage. The two Hord buildings and the garage were being used for storage and there was considerable personal property of various sorts stored in them and it is probable that no insurance was carried on the stored articles. The building in which the garage was located was owned by Frank Beasley. Arthur Purcell, constable of Harrisburg 'and Charley Mead connect the Incident of the fire with the appearance of a man in one of the buildings a few minutes before the fire broke out. Mead saw the man run out the front door of the vacant poultry house to a car parked west of the building, enter the car in which another man was sitting, and drive off rapidly to the south.

Fifteen minutes afterward Mead discovered the- fire in the vacant building. The flames spread rapidly and within a half hour the four buildings were destroyed. CLAY LIGONDIES IN HIGHWAY CRASH Wife Injured as Passing Truck Forces Car Into Ditch Funeral services for Clay Ligon. 24 years old, killed In an automobile accident on Highway 40 yesterday, will be held at the Old Cedar Church, one mile north of Stephens at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Clay Ligon, 24 years old, of Stephens was killed and his wife injured in an accident on Highway 40, seven miles east of here, about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The accident occurred as Dawes Steps, of Slater, driving a Chevrolet truck owned by C. C. Malan of Giliam, attempted to pass Llgons car. Seeing another car coming he cut back on the highway striking Ligon's car and throwing it into the ditch. Ligon was thrown onto the highway, dying instantly.

Both vehicles were going west. Mrs. Allene Ligon was taken to Boone County Hospital where her injuries were reported as not serious. She suffered numerous bruises and lacerations about the bead. Coroner E.

G. Davis viewed the body and it was removed to the Parker Funeral Parlors. Ligons car, a 1927 Ford, was completely demolished. Charles F. Ligon, 811 North Eighth Street, is a brother of Clay Ligon.

Mrs. Clay Ligon left the Boone County Hospital this afternoon to stay with her brother-in-law until funeral arrangements are made. NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH Four Persons Nearly Drown as Car Goes Over Embankment Near Easley Four persons narrowly escaped death from drowning yesterday afternoon in the Missouri River when their car went off the road over 75-foot sloping embankment, one-half mile north of Easley. The occupants of the car, a Pon-tlao coupe, were Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Groom and Mrs. Cecil Jenkins and young daughter, all of whom live near Easley. They were driving into Easley on the narrow gravel road between the railroad tracks and the river when the right front wheel of the car slipped off the road causing the car to start down the embankment. The var turned over three times and plunged into the river. One of the doors was torn off as the car turned over and the occupants were able to get out of the car after It landed in the river.

All managed to get to shore safely. Mrs. Jenkins received scratches about the body but none of the other occupants was Injured. Sessions Are Expectec to Be Held About Three Weeks MITCHELL T0BE TRIED Rocheport Man Fined $20 on Charge of Resisting Officer Monday morning the members of the Boone County bar assembled with Judge Dinwiddie in his office and set the docket for the June term of Circuit Court. The docket was set for about three weeks.

All cases not definitely set for trial then were set for the first and second days of court when they will be re set. The June term convenes on t) Monday. June 18. The case of Walter Mitchell, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Charles Gentry, was set for trial on Thursday, June 21. Other cases set were: Geiger v.

Miller, et June 19; Vance Equitable Life Ins. June 20 Monday, June 25, will be divorce day; State v. John Herndon, Tuesday, June 26; Foster v. Hinman, June 27; Hulen v. Alton By.

June 28; State v. Frank Irvine, June 29; Hyde v. Cunningham, June 30: Snopes v. Barkwell, July Dade v. Lahar Construction July 7 Douglas v.

Crum. July 9. Judge Dinwiddie held a brief ses-Sion of the Circuit Court Saturday morning in which he fined Bay Patterson of Eocheport $20 on his plea of guilty to resisting an officer. Merton Niles was given a stay of execution until the first day of the next term of Circuit Court. Eobert White, a Negro boy, who has given the officers considerable trouble because of his delinquency, was given to his uncle, James Coleman, who lives in the river bottom.

Prosecuting Attorney Sapp said that the boy must stay on the farm and not come to town, otherwise he will be esnt to the reformatory. Judge A. W. Walker, special Judge of Fayette, has continued until June 14 the case of the New York Life Insurance Company vs. John Wright, George W.

Hullett, and Gertrude Wright, which was called yesterday 4 in Circuit Court and not completed, 'judge Walker, now holding his regular sessions In Fayette, cannot return to Columbia before June 14. Prosecuting Attorney W. H. Sapp filed information late Tuesday afternoon in the Circuit Court against Norblt Hulet, truck driver of St. Louis, who is charged with reckless driving on Eoute 40.

Hulet was picked up by highway patrolmen on May 28, and made bond for appearance on June 18. HOG MARKET STRONG TO 5C HIGHER TODAY But Cattle and Lambs Are Uncertain Shipments of Week Are Listed The East St. Louis livestock market today wa suncertain in cattle classes because of light offerings, strong to higher on light butcher hogs, and weak on most classes of sheep. The complete report follws: Hogs 10,500. Market opened strong to 5c higher on butchers around 210-260 pounds averages; spots UP 10c; lighter weights slow; a few deals steady to strong; sows 510c higher.

Top sales $3.603.65. Cattle 2500; calves 1200; market: Not enough steers here to make market; indications steady on mixed yearlings and heifers; vealers $4.50 4.75; beef cows $2.25 625; slaughter steers $5.508.25. Sheep 3500; market: No early sales; packers bidding lower on lambs, Spring lambs ewes $1 3.25. One carload of gTaded lambs and one carload of livestock were shipped from Eocheport through the Columbia Co-operative Livestock Shipping Association Monday. Bass and Bass led the graded lamb shipment with 30 lambs.

Others were: Denny Johnson, 9 lambs; Carl Price, lambs; J. B. Mead, 8 lambs; W. H. Semon, 7 lambs; Herbert Young, 10 lambs; George Semon, 7 lambs; Hill and Proctor, 13 lambs; Eddie Bice, 5 lambs; Frank Cook, 5 lambs; J.

W. Burch, 17 lambs; Lester Quls-enberry, 10 lambs; W. E. Cook, 7 lambs; N. A.

Hill. 21 lambs; W. Hartley, 12 lambs; Lee Settle, 16 lambs; Mrs. Lula Wyatt, 4 lambs Carl Gardner, 14 lambs; W. H.

Gardner, 17 lambs; John Gardner, 12 lambs; O. F. Schwerat, 5 lambs; Tom Hewett, 8 lambs; G. C. Broad-head, 11 lambs; T.

E. Wyatt, 4 lambs: Miller Hern, 7 lambs; Walter Johnson, 5 lambs; J. M. McQuitty, 23 lambs; John Bell, 8 lambs; Sam Bea, 10 lambs; and O. T.

Young, 7 lambs. In the livestock shipment from Rocheport R. J. Forbes led with a shipment of 2i hogs. The other shippers were: M.

B. Cook, 2 veals; R. J. Forbes, 2 veals; Alex Hunt, 2 veals; J. C.

Nolte, 1 veal; Harry Rude, 1 veal; W. B. Hartley, 3 veals; Eddie Rice, I veal; Delmar Coleman, 1 cow and 1 bull; William Hunt. 2 cows; A. E.

Coats, 2 heifers: G. L. Maddox, 2 heifers; Harry Brown, 3 hogs; James Hewett, 13 hogs; and J. C. York, 14 hogs.

In the shipment from Columbia on Tuesday there were also one carload of graded lambs and one of livestock. The top price at the East 8t. Louis market that day was $4.75 at top price with 2500 calves on the LAMBS WIN PRIZE Rocheport Grading Day Attracts 313 Animals for Shipment Walter Johnson won first prize with his pen of five lambs at the show Monday in Rocheport which was held in connection with the first grading day of the season for Boone and Howard counties. Second prize went to W. H.

Gardner; 3rd prize, J. M. McQuitty and Son; and 4th prize, O. T. Young.

Johnson also won first in the single lamb class. Other prizes awarded were: 2nd, O. T. Young; and 3rd, W. H.

Gardner. The prize awarded by the M. K. T. Railroad employes of Rocheport to the farmers shipping the greatest number of lambs was won by A.

J. and Mary D. Bass of Columbia, with a shipment of 30 lambs. Other prizes were offered by the following Rocheport firms: T. J.

Canole, Rocheport Bank, Leo Snell, Bysfield Store, and Hourigan Brothers. Of the 313 lambs graded for shipment, 11 were Blue or premium lambs" 216 were "Red or standard lambs, and 87 were selected to be sold without grade. The lambs were graded by Dan Miller 'and Wendell Holman, county agents of Howard and Boone. Discussing his method of lamb production, Johnson, the winner in both the pen and single classes, stated that his lambs were sired by a pure bred ram, that they were born Feb. 15, and that they had never had any grass, but had been kept In the barn all of the time and fed all the com and clover hay they would consume.

They also had a mineral mixture of equal parts of salt and fine limestone. The ewes were kept in the bam with the lambs at night and turned out in the pasture during the day. County Agent Holman announced additional lamb grading dates as fob lows: Columbia, Monday, June 11; Sturgeon, Wednesday, June 13; Halls, ville and Centralia, Monday, June 19- CENTRALIA OPENS NEW CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND Recreation Center la Sponsored by Three Civic Groups at City School Grounds A playground sponsored by the Board of Education of Centralia, the Commercial Club, and the Chamber of Commerce is now open to the children of Centralia. The playground is located at the school buildings and is under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs.

D. Knepper, teachers in the schools there. A tennis court has been constructed, and a wading pool is under con sideration. Various contests will be arranged for the evenings and the parents of the children are invited to attend them. The grounds will be open from 8 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in the evening.

market. The sheep receipts on Tuesday at the market reached $9.25 for top on blue marked lambs and $8.75 for red heads. There were 7500 lambs put on the market that day. The livestock shippers were: John Brewer, 1 steer; H. Durk, 1 steer; George Kyd, 1 cow; J.

C. McKenzie. 1 cow; Animal Husbandry 1 steer; J. W. Maxwell, 5 heifers; L.

A. Weaver, 3 head of stock; C. E. Wilhite, 1 heifer; Willie Grant, 1 calf; George Kyd, 1 calf; J. H.

H. Maxwell, 1 calf; E. T. Palmer, 1 calf; W. E.

Watson, 1 calf; and N. H. Shepard, 1 calf. The graded lamb shipment from Columbia Included the following shippers: Joe Martin, W. B.

Ballanger, O. C. Berry, 18; J. E. Durk, T.

H. Durk, R. L. Hawthorne, N. A.

Hill, J. B. Mead, O. Perigo, George Sims, W. H.

Thomas, John Brewer, 14; Animal Husbandry and E. T. Palmer, 9. Everette Jacobs led the hog shipment with 15 hogs. Other shippers were: R.

T. Coleman, 7 hogs; c. B. Hagans, 1 hog; J. W.

Maxwell, 1 hog; Mrs. J. R. Martin, 7 hogs; Woods and McKenzie. 12 hogs; C.

Nunn, 1 hog: Finis Perkins. 1 hog: I. Shlpe, 8 hogs: Ellas Smith, 7 hogs; and W. H. Voght, 1 hog.

BAN ON REDUCTION OF CROPS LIFTED U. S. to Permit Planting of Forage Grains on Contract Areas Drought-stricken Missouri farm ers may now plant feed crops on reduction areas. In a long-distance telephone call to Columbia yesterday evening, Dr. A.

G. Black, chief of the com-hog division of the A. A. A. at Washington informed J.

W. Burch that the government ban was lifted from land sections under contract. Mr. Burch state administrator of the crop con trol program in Missouri, was told that the emergency order applies to wheat, cotton and tobacco lands as well as corn. Farmers may now plant any feed crop on the contract lands hay, soy beans, or any forage crop they desire -and are also permitted crop planting1 wap summer on wheat stubble.

The new plans of the government will not affect payments to farmers on their original contracts, according to Prof. J. R. Fleetwood, of the University extension and State Club Agent. Farmers planting only the feed crops will be paid according to the original agreement.

There are no definite figures as to the number of acres in the Missouri reduction program but Prof. Fleetwood says that the Washington announcement concerns approximately 110.000 com-hog contract holders, as well as 16,000 wheat, 1000 tobacco and 900 cotton contracts. Fodder is the chief concern of the government because of its decrease during the drought. Prof. Fleetwood states that the com crop will not be impaired seriously if it receives a rain soon.

There is no actual shortage of feed crops but a scarcity is expected if the drought continues. After July 1, contract signers may plant corn or grain sorghum in excess of their total com areas but these crops must be used for fodder. The government will set the day for harvesting the fodder to prevent maturity. Release of the contracted acres is one of the steps taken by the administration as a drouth relief measure as it is realized farmers have need ol ail the feed crops possible in order to maintain their livestock throughout the coming winter. Many critics of the agricultural adjustment administration have stated in the past that the movement was too big to be adjusted to meet emergency situations and changing conditions.

Release of the contracted acres at this time when the drouth threatens to reduce all feed crops much below normal indicates that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration is in close touch with the needs of the farmer and is able to adjust the program to fit changing conditions. Contract signers will receive their pay for rent of the land and also have use of the land throughout the remainder of the season, according to Wendell Holman, county agent. W.S. BURNETT MARRIES MISS IRENE DAUGHERTY The Bride Is Daughter of Mr- and Mrs. Howard Daugherty of Halls-vtlle Wed In Columbia fwy mii twe W.

S. Burnett of Centralia and Miss Irene Daugherty of Hallsvllle were married in Columbia Sunday afternoon at the home of the Rev. Carl Agee who performed a ring ceremony. The attendants were the groom's sister. Miss Dulcle Burnett, and Dell Vanderpool, both of Centralia.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Daugherty of Halls-ville and a graduate of the 1933 class of the high school in that city. The groom la a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ara L. Burnett of Centralia. He attended the high school in Centralia and served as substitute rural mall carrier for his father for several years, and now is manager of the North Missouri Oil Company's station in Centralia. They will make their home In Centralia in the bungalow of Mrs. Edward Wilson on South Barr Street.

hottest ever known in Boone County; it averaged 14 degrees warmer than normal, the mean temperature being 83 degrees. This is 7 degrees warmer than the hottest time of the summer is There was nice shower in Columbia on the 2d, which extended eastward and southeastward several miles, but was of no benefit over most of the county. There has been further rainfall deficiency this week of 0.77 Inch, continuation of the drought, during which only about 33 per cent of the normal rainfall has been received. For the benefit of those who may be pessimistic over the present weather it may be stated that this part of Missouri has had very few really dry Junes; 1911 was the only year with less than one Inch, and there were only three others with less than two Inches rainfall. On the other hand, there have been 19 Junes with more than 5 Inches rainfall, and four with more than inches.

After this month is passed, however, we enter into a period of weather that is normally rather dry. We have a fair chance yet to catch up on the rainfall shortage. O. R. Rogers.

13 Men Prove That Friends in Need Are Real Friends Indeed Friends in need are what thirteen men from Dunbar community proved to be this week, when they plowed thirty acres of corn for Charles Vance, who is in the hospital in Mexico. As Vance is convalescing he can refrain from worrying about com fields and friendships, for both of them are taken care of. Not every community has such spirit of co-operation and neighborliness as Dunbar can brag about, though it is one that can be envied by many. The friends who performed this generous service for Vance are Burl Schultz, Victor Hulen, Jim Davenport, Owen Davenport, Curtis Davenport, John Curry, R. L.

Crump, Donald Wright, Ben Zickell, Carl Port-wood, Ivan Allen, Earl Rice, and Leslie Robinson. Have You Entered the New Contest? A new contest was announced by the Omar D. Gray Publications last week in which a prize of $5 is offered for the best letter about this newspaper. The rules are as follows: 1. Write a letter, addressed to the Omar D.

Gray Publications at Columbia, In which you tell why you like the paper of this group which you are taking. (This is, the Columbia Herald-States the Centralia Courier, or the Sturgeon Leader.) 2. Each letter must contain at least one suggestion which, in your estimation, would improve the newspapers as they now are. 3. Each letter submitted must be a valid and sincere study of this newspaper, obviously intended to be helpful and constructive.

4. Letters, to be eligible for the contest, must be mailed before midnight, July 15, 1934. 8. One prize, and that to be $5 in cash, will be awarded. The decision of the Judges will be final.

Write in today. That $5 may be yours for fifteen minutes work. 3.