The Centralia Courier from Centralia, Missouri • 1

'I The Centralia Courier VOL. XLIX Entered at the Post Office, COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931 NUMBER 18 J. L. EVANS KILLS SELF CHINCH BUGS THREATEN Where Boone Countys Aged Are Housed Sj As Omar D. Gray Sees It RULING ON SALARY LAW IS NOT MEANT FOR COUNTY JUDGES RAINS BRING RELIEF FROM HEAT WAVE TO BOONE COUNTY DEATHS ARE LISTED IN WORST JULY 4 IN YEARS WENT to Warrensburg, last Thursday aftsrnoon and was the guest one night in the beautiful home of former Lieutenant Governor Wallace Crossley and wife.

It is a charming place to visit. Crossley went to Warrensburg some years ago as a teacher of English in the Normal of that place. He fell in love with and married his present most sensible and ideal homemaker, Mrs. Crossley. Then he went into the newspaper game and is now the Principal owner of the daily and weekly paper at Warrensburg.

This newspaper is making money and be refuses to put a price on same. Of course this pains me because occasionally. I make some money selling newspapers and I am sure if I could get his property to sell I could find a buyer. I count myself always fortunate to get to spend a few hours with Wallace Crossley and his good wife. Wallace is thoroughly posted on Missouri politics.

On this last occasion I enjoyed talking to these people about their recent trip to the Holy Land. Crossleys mother, Mrs. Alberta Crossley. aged 0 years, and a native of Kentucky, still lives in Warrensburg. She moved to Boone County and lived on a farm four miles south of Centralia.

She was the daugnter of Elbert Givens. She has four sisters living, all of whom are her seniors. One of her sisters is Mrs. Elizabeth Wyatt formerly of Centralia, now living in California. She is the widow of J.

D. Wyatt. Another sister is Mrs. Caroline Baker of Cameron, Mo. A fourth sister is Mrs.

H. B. Bush of Liberty, Mo. Funny country. Uncle Sam will not allow fight pictures to be shown on the screen but permits two well-known talkers to tell every move in a prize fight at Cleveland, for an hour, where some forty thousand persons paid nearly $400,000 to see the fight.

Every fellow has his tastes. I do not like either prize fights or wrestling matches. I prefer baseball matches or swimming pools. WHEN I left Jefferson City on the Missouri Pacific railroad Thurs-dVv lternoon a gd rain was falling and crops look fine- When I arrived in JeIferson City Friday another rain came and 1 motored to Columbia in my car and was in a itorm most the afternoon Friday These two structures, situated on a 240-acre tract four miles north of Columbia, are home to more than fifty inmates of the Boone County Infirmary. The frame dwelling contains the Negro quarters, and is now antiquated and overcrowdeL The red brick building has been fitted with modern conveniences.

$30,000 Infirmary Built Up in County Over 40-Year Period 1 I Huntsville World War Veteran Commits Suicide Because of Poor Health John L. Evans of Huntsville, 45 years old, committed suicide Monday morning by shooting himself through the head with a target rifle. His body was found by a brother, Ollle Evans, lying near a table in the yard of his mother, Mrs. D. D.

Evans. Evans had been in poor health for the last eighteen months, and had returned only a few days from a veterans' hospital in the West. He waj a member of the Methodist church and of the Modem Woodmen of America. During the World War he served two years in the army, but did not go overseas. He is survived by his mother, a brother and four sisters.

CHILDRENS CLINIC IS HELD IN CLARK Health Examinations Are Sponsored by A. Twenty-one children between 4 and 7 years of age attended the free health clinics held in Clark last Thursday. The clinics were sponsored by the Clark Parent-Teachers Association. Children from the consolidated rural districts of Clark, Vernon, Edward, Chapel Grove and Fairview as well as any children from any of the other neighboring districts who wished to attend were there. 1 The examining physicians were Dr.

R. A. Woods and Dr. Hubbard of Clark. They were assisted by various committees formed from the association.

The children that attended the examinations were: Norma Walker, Doris Roberts, Kenneth Stickney, Billie Wayne Hulen, Ward Trues-dale, Paul Gentry, Bobbie Apple-man, Junior White, Delbert Hamilton, Katherine Murphy, Charlotte Robb, Delbert Bradley, Bobbie Roberts, Dorothy Jane Stockton, Noah Lee Butts, Roberta White, Jimmie Smith, Helen Harvey, Martha Stickney, and Garrett Carpenter. LOANS $200,000 TO FARMERS Centralia Agricultural Credit Corporation in Good Condition Through the Missouri Agricultural Credit Corporation at Centralia a total of almost $200,000 in loans was made to farmers during the first year of operation, according to a report issued by the corporation. At the close of the business year June 30, 1931, the credit corporation found that, through the Federal intermediate Credit Bank of St. Louis, it has rediscounted farmer notes for an aggregate of $189,935.77. This amount of money was secured from credit facilities not in existence before and draws money from the cities, spending it in the country.

Over and above the regular credit facilities of the rural banks, this extra credit was secured by the operation of the corporation. Money advanced by the credit corporation on farmer notes was used in paying other farm debts, for buying livestock to feed or to produce other livestock, for buying feed for livestock, for paying interest on land mortgages, for paying taxes and for general farm operations. None of the money so advanced can be used for any other than an agricultural purpose. CENTRALIA COUNCILMEN RECEIVE CITY REPORTS $4210.70 in Collections for June Received by Treasurer Total Balance Is $15,127.14 Total receipts for the city of Centralia during June, as reported by the city treasurer at the council meeting last Monday night, were $4210.70 as against expenditures amounting to $3809.14 The treasury balance for June 30 was $15,127.14. The receipts and expenditures were reported by the various committees and departments as follows: Street commissioner: J.

G. Gibson, salary, $60; S. M. Pulis for hauling on streets, $11; Thomas Lumber for oak lumber, $23.10. Total $94.10 City marshal: Fines collected, 1, dogs removed, 4, at a cost of $4 to the city; salary, $75.

Total $79. City collector: Real estate collections, personal property, merchants license, $120; penalties, $30. Total. $349.66. Water and light report: Amount received from water, amount received from light, amount received from meter rent, amount received from merchandise, amount received from labor, amount received from rent on fan, amount received from current deposit, $50; amount received from power deposit, $50; amount received from water deposit, $27.

Total, $3250.37. Amount of electricity used, 36,255 K. W.s, measured in money, $1633.29. Amount of water used by customers, 886,247 gallons. City clerk: 137 automobile licenses issued, Insurance refunds, 8.

M. Pulis, 1 load of dirt. 25 cents; William Patton, 4 loads of dirt, Missouri State Highway Department, office rent for month of May, Granville Meeks for 5 loads of dirt. $1.25. Total, $605.67.

Issued and turned over to the city collector, 11 city licenses for the month of June. Former Sturgeon Resident Dies Mrs. Tabitha Brown, who formerly lived in sturgeon, died at her home at Wellsville on Saturday. She had been in poor health for some time. She made her home with her daughter, Mr.

R. W. Vaughn at WellcviU. Wheat Escapes Serious Damage, But Corn Crop Is Menaced by Insect Pests A more serious prospective damage to growing corn by chinch bugs exists this year than has threatened for fifteen or twenty years, according to Dr. Leonard Hascman of the Missouri College of Agriculture.

The wheat crop escaped serious damage despite the presence of the first brood of chinch bugs which liv; in the grain and raise the second brood of bugs. The second brood is now attacking the corn. They are expected to do much damage to the crops in spite of the efforts of the farmers. Recent rains, however, helped the com resist the bugs. Drought favors the pests.

Twelve counties of the state organized and started work against the chinch bugs last fall by burning, but the rest of the state, including Boone County, did not begin work until three weeks ago when they were first discovered. The farmers then started to raise dust and chemical barriers. The bugs are found chiefly in Missouri in a strip across the state about the width of Kansas City to Joplin and St. Louis to Hannibal. Kansas and Illinois suffer more from the chinch bug than does Missouri.

Prof. Haseman has prepared a circular on the eradication and control of the chinch bug which is sent free to farmers upon application. HOG CALLERS TO COMPETE Contest Winner to Receive Radio Set at State Fair The best hog callers in the state of Missouri will be given the opportunity to meet each other and to compete against each other when the state hog calling contest opens at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, at a feature of the thirty-first annual Missouri State Fair. Besides winning the title of state champion hog caller, the winner of this contest will receive a radio set for his labor, according to an announcement by W.

D. Smith, secretary of the fair, following a conference with F. W. Jameson, public relations director of Montgomery Ward and Company, who will present the award. The contest is open to any resident of Missouri.

Entries should be filed early with the secretary of the fair. WHEAT HARVEST IN FINAL STAGES Crops of Many Farmers in County Already Marketed With the crops of many farmers already sold and cn the way to market, wheat harvesting in Boone County has entered the tinal stage. Threshing machines are running in several points. The crop of Glasscock and Anderson, amounting to 4000 bushels, expected to be one of the largest in the county, lias been sold to W. H.

Hays of Hays Hardware for 57 1-2 cents a bushel. Hays also purchased the 1000-bushel crop of Luther Hick-am. paying 52 cents a bushel. Estes and Reno have combined their wheat in the Missouri River bottoms near McBainc and shipped to St. Lotus.

The yield is about average. Tom Clark and John Sam Williamson, farmers in that vicinity, are also combining their wheat. Vic Redly on Ferche Crock, near the Gillaspie Bridge, finished threshing his crop Friday. He is slapping his wheat to St. Louis.

Threshing staited Tuesday oil the farm ot the Coats brothers in the same neighborhood. E. E. Willianrscn will also thresh his crop this week. Strawn and Sutton, near McBaine, expect a fair yield.

They will begin threshing this week. J. R. Martin of near Ashland will begin the threshing of his crop before the end of the week. RAIN SPOILS ELKS PARTY Storm Forces Postponement of Program to Sunday Nearly 3000 persons from all parts of the county attended the Elks' pi near Columbia Sunday night.

The storm which came suddenly Saturday night, when the big program was to hare been held, drove a large crowd away from the park and resulted in the postponement of tile party until Sunday night. Tlie attractions at the picnic were provided by tile McClellan Carnival Company. According to L. C. Smith, secretary of the committee in charge, tlie storm hurt attendance so much that very little prof was made by the Elks on the celebration.

Rucker Man Buried F.uneral services for Grover Fenton, 41, of Rucker, who died Saturday night. June 27, were lipid at 2 o'clock last Monday afternoon in the Mt. Pleasant Church west of Ruckei. Burial followed in the Mt Pleasant Cemetery. Mr.

Fenton was in the state hospital at Fulton when he died. He had been in ill health for several months. His body was taken to his heme west of Rucker by Clarence Felund. He is survived by his wife and daughters, Francis. Mary Alice, an infant daughter, and an adopted daughter.

W. H. Brrre.v, Retired Farmer, Dies William Henry Berre.v, a retired Audrain County farmer of the New Hope Church neighborhood, north of Sturgeon, died Monday after a five-month illness. Berrey was 76 years old and was born north of Mexico. He is survived by his wife and five eliiidrea.

1 7 I I 4 I (d I arrived within four miles of g(rrgeon. I was surprised to find fj.it Sturgeon had had no rain, warrensburg looks like a city of thousand, but Crossley tells me 'that it has not that many inhabitants. The Normal runs all year and some two thousand attend. This makes no dull seasons there. One of the present needs of Johnson County is to induce some moneyed men to put Pertle Springs on 'he map.

The natural advantages are Ij. re. All that is needed is money bind such an enterprise and the roper push. While at Warrensburg I visited the i weekly paper now being run by Mrs. C.

M. Paqua, Pauline Jaqua Talbert A. O. Talbert. These people are 'jjjing well with their business.

I Crossley about them and he highly of them. I asked the Supreme Court Decision Affects Only Prose-. cuting Attorneys NO REFUND NECESSARY Money Received Since Beginning in 1931 Is In-eluded in Action The decision of the State Supreme Court regarding the method of fixing the population of a county for purposes of determining the salary of county officers applies only to that of the prosecuting attorneys, and not to the county court or other county officials as was reported in last week's paper. The salaries of prosecuting attorneys and other county officials are fixed by the population of the county in question. According to the ruling of the court the prosecuting attorneys will be required to refund that part of their salaries received since Jan.

1, 1931, and which come under the provisions of the statute. The case which aroused the controversy was a suit brought by Lewis OConnor, prosecuting attorney of Marion County, and involved only the law as it refers to the prosecuting attorney. OConnor sought to the county court to pay his salary on the basis of an assumed population arrived at by multiplying the vote at the last presidential election by five. The section of the statute which and upon which the Court based refers to the prosecuting attorney its opinion is as follows: The number of inhabitants of any county shall, for the purpose of this action be ascertained by multiplying the whole number of votes cast at the last preceding presidential election by five, until after the population of such county shall have been ascertained by the next decennial census of the United States." CORN HAS HIGHEST ACREAGE IN COUNTY Oats Is Second and Wheat Third According to Farm Census According to the report given out by the Missouri Farm Census Compiled by E. A.

Logan of the United States Department of Agriculture and Jewell Mayes of the State Board of Agriculture, of the 143,723 cultivated acres in Boone County, 65,407 were planted in corn in 1930. The average yield per acre for the 1930 crop was, on account of the drought, only 10 bushels to the acre, a decline of 18 bushels per acre for the average for the last five years. Approximately 8978 acres of the county were planted in wheat while oats occupied 21,199 acres of the ground. Clover and timothy ranked high in acreage here with 31,218 while only 7153 acres were devoted to soybeans at the time of planting last year. There were 361 acres of rye, 383 acres of potatoes and 123 acres of tobacco in Boone County.

Alfalfa and other hays occupied more than 2500 acres, sweet clover covered nearly 700 acres while kafir corn had an acreage of 1573. Cowpeas had a total of more than 653 acres, according to the census. Orchards in Boone County ranked twenty-sixth in acreage in the state with 2163 acres. All other crops in Boone County covered only 560 acres leaving 184,271 acres non-cultivated. Only 11,121 acres of the land in this county which could be cultivated was allowed to remain idle.

Sunday School Party Given A Sunday school party was held Friday night at the home of Miss Pearl Wingert, north of Clark. Games and music furnished entertainment, after which refreshments were served. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Ruby Burton and two sons, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Flemings and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Truesdell, Anna Bell Cunningham, Mrs. R.

H. White, Francis Mc-Cellan, Margaret Barnes, Louise Franklin, Margaret Cottingham, Lucille Foley, Dorothy Crcse, Mary Schooling, Alliene Wheeirr, Pearl Wingert, Clarence Bartee, Leroy An-crom, Wayne Cottingham, Dallas Lewellen, Late Barnes, Charles Flemings, Carl Meyers, Jeff Shirley, Roger Forrest, Elmer Wingert, Charles and Jerome Forrest and Jeff Wingert. Ashland Couple Marry Manuel Dothage and Miss Alma McCarty of Ashland were married last Friday by Elder Lloyd Sapp. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Lathe McCarty, northwest of Ashland. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Dothage of the Nashville Church neighborhood. They were attended at the wedding by Miss Nerma McCarty, Miss Thelma Estes and Cervel McCarty.

Centralia Streets to Be Oiled The Centralia street department has received a carload of oil for use on the citys streets. Highway No. 22 through the city will be oiled first. The streets comprising the highway are Quinn and Switzler. The work will begin In a lew days.

304 More Persons Killed This Year Than in 1930 AUTOS ACCOUNT FOR 116 181 Drowned Missouri Records Shows 9 Holiday Dead Nearly 500 persons In the United States lost their lives from various causes having to do with the celebration of the 155th birthday of the nation last Saturday. This is the largest number of deaths in recent years reported on July 4. Automobile crashes, drownings, fireworks explosions and various other fatalities incidental to the celebration were responsible for the deaths of so many persons, reports from all over the country show. A total of 116 persons were killed in automobile accidents, while 181 more were drowned. Twenty-four died from heat and the airplanes contributed fourteen deaths to the record.

There were 304 more persons killed this year than in 1930 in celebration of the nation's birthday. Outstanding in the record of state-by-state report are the following: California, 16 killed in auto wrecks, 22 drowned at the beaches, 10 killed in various other ways; New York, 5 killed in auto accidents, 26 drowned. Missouri had four persons killed in auto accidents and five drowned. The number of deaths from fireworks this year was reported to be well under the average of other years. AGED BOONE COUNTIAN BURIED Funeral Services for Minor Ellis Held at Union Church Funeral sendees for one of Boone Countys oldest citizens.

Minor Ellis, 82 year old, who died June 29 in Fulton, were conducted by the Rev. Arlie Hunt of Centralia at the Union ChurCn near Riggs at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, July I. Burial was in adjoining cemetery. Mr. Ellis was born in Ohio April 19, 1849, and moved to Missouri in youth.

He was married to Miss Nancy B. Prather June 21, 1875. He is survived by his widow and four children. Mrs. Rhoda Duncan, Mrs.

Cora Shaw, Jessie and Minor Ellis, fifteen grandchildren: and seventeen great grandchildren. CENTRALIA WINS TWO GAMES Red Sox Beat Higher, 6 to 1, and Hallsville, 10 to 0 The Centralia Red Sox won two baseball games over the holiday week-end trimming the Kigbee Blues, 6 to 1, at Higbee Saturday, and then returned home to take the Hallsville club into camp by the one-sided score of 10 to 2 Sunday. In the Higbee game Esteppc allowed but five hits and struck out four men. In the Halls game Jones and McArtor pitched air-tight baseball. Jones allowed two hits in the first six innings and McArtor but one in the last three innings.

SHEEP DISEASES WILL BE STUDIED AT CLINIC Meeting to Be at Henderson Farm on Highway 40 at Midway Saturday Afternoon Sheep rakers of Bocne County will have an opportunity to study diseases of sheep and their cure at a sheen clinic to be held on the farm of P. H. and L. D. Henderson on Highway 40 at Midway Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Sheepman owning lambs that show symptoms of worms arc urged to bring them to the meeting. Dr. J. W. Connaway of the Missouri College of Agriculture who is in charge of the clinic will conduct post mortem examinations of unhealthy sheep and tell the symptoms by which ihe various sheep diseases can be identified.

The causes of cull market lambs will be discussed and a system of lock management that will practically eliminate late lambs will be demonstrated. Late lambs in Missouri are very apt to sell as culls unless they are carried until cool weather and then fattened. It is impossible to get the ewes bred early unless they are healthy and stomach worms, tape worms and lice are the parasites that must be controlled, according to Wendell Holman, County J. W. Burch of the College of Agriculture will discuss the value of good registered mutton rams, pastures and winter rations for the ewe flocks and the care and feeding of lambs.

Ashland Man Buried W. H. Sapp. 74. died at his home eight miles northwest of Ashland, aturday.

Funeral services were held for him at the Nashville Church. Sunday at 2:30 in the afternoon. The Rev. H. P.

Cheavens conducted the services. Burial was in the church ceme'ery. Mr. Sapp is survived by his wife and four sons. Willie Clyde.

Elbert and Gilbert Sapp, all of near Ashland. Dies in Tulsa, Okla. Mrs. Floyd Vandeventer. daughter of Mrs.

A. B. Lewis of Rocheport. died at her home In Tulsa. Tuesday.

June 30, following a long il'ness. Funeral service and burial were in Tulsa. Showers Over Week-end Were General Throughout State CHOPS MUCH BENEFITED More Water Necessary, However, if Progress Is to Continue Relief from the excessive heat of the last few weeks came to Boone County on the wings of a generous rain last week-end. The temperature, which had been hovering from 100 to 106, began to drop with the beginning of the rain on Friday and continued to fall until it reached the middle seevnties on Sunday and Monday. It showed a decline of approximately thirty-five degrees in the four days.

The rain was general over most of Missouri, although it was too light in some of the central and north-central counties, giving hardly any relief to Cooper, Audrain, Randolph, Macon, Linn and Livingston counties, according to the United States Department of Agriculture and Weather Bureau's weekly crop report. In Boone County it brought considerable relief to crops that had begun to show the strain of drought. Corn, which was beginning to twist and turn yellow, regained its dark green color. Some of it is waist high and in the tasseling stage. Wheat harvest was interfered with only slightly, most farmers having finished.

Late oats was damaged some, otherwise the crop is good. More rain is needed, however, to keep the crops progressing properly about one inch of water every ten days, it has been estimated, up until the middle of August. The tomato crop of the Ozarks was favored by the rain, and the fruit crop is looking well. IIUNTSDALE MAILCARRIER DEAD James Bacley Redmond Succumbs to Stroke of Paralysis Suffered Last Week Funeral services for James Bacley Rpdmond. 78 years old, of Hunts-dale, were held at the Huntsdale Baptist Church Friday afternoon at 2 oclock.

Burial was in the Memory ial park Cemetery in Columbia. Mr. Redmond, who had been a mail carrier in Boone County for sixteen years, suffered a paralytic stroke a week ago from which he did not recover. He is survived by his wife, Fannie: a daughter, Rena Johnson of Huntsdale; and a son, Robert also of Huntsdale. Joint Birthday Celebration Held A joint birthday celebration was held at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. S. J. Bryson in Centralia Sunday honoring Mr. Eryson.

who was 70 years old on Wednesday, July 1, and ins son, Floyd Bryson of Quincy, who will be 23 years old Friday, July 10. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Appleman of Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Bryson and family ar.d Mr. and Mrs. Walter Br son of west of Centralia, Rose Brockenfield and Mr. and Mrs. Audrey Bryson and family of Quincy, 111.

Mrs. Mamie Newman, 51, Dies Mamie Newman, 51 ears old, died at her home at Middle Grove Wednesday morning after a long illness. She is survived by her husband, a cl lighter. Mary Ruth Newman, and two brothers, Oscar and Ernest Hopper. all of Middle Grove Funeral seivic-s were held at the Christian Church by the Rev.

Willard Reavis of Clark. Burial was made the Oakland Cemetery at Moberly. Electrocuted In Ice Plant Virgil R. Graves, a Columbia taxi duver. was accidentally killed last week when he camp in contact with an exposed power line while watching an ice-cutting machine in the plant of the Columbia Ice and Storage Company.

He was discovered leaning against an iron rail with his arm on a high pewer line by an employee cf the plant. Seeks Collision Damages An automobile accident on Highway 3 near the Whitmore store at Hinton, resulted in the filing of a suit for 6100 damages by Ed Stephens against J. E. Croop in the Boone County Circuit Court. The accident occurred Feb.

6 whPn the automobiles owned by tlie two men collided. Columbia Woman Slashes Throat Mrs. A. J. Wagemann of Columbia was found dead in her home there on Friday with her throat slashed with a razor.

The coroner returned a verd.ct of suicide. Mrs. Wagemann has been in ill health for a number of years and was under the care of a nurse. White Sparrow 1 ound on Farm A white sparrow, a rare freak In bird liie. has been found on the farm of J.

M. Ketrhum two and one half miles east of Centralia. The bird has attracted considerable notice from neighbors. Many people have driven from Centralia to see it. Centralia Woman Struck by Car Mrs.

Ruey McMinn of Centralia sulfcrcd piiiniul body Injuries Saturday when knocked down and run over by a car driven by Buford Angell. entralian Suffer Sun Stroke John Burke ef Cm ralia suffered sun rcke MoivFv morning while he was painting a tin roof in Clark. during the year. In order to spare the other patients the melancholy sight of death, all cases of what may turn out to be fatal sickness are removed to the little room. Here they spend their last earthly hours as comfortably as care and attention can make it possible.

The average number of inmates, both white and Negro, is about fifty. This many can be well taken care ot but represents the normal capacity Pf, farTrl When more are taken in, the home is somewhat overcrowded. During the last three months fifty-six were accommodated. Of these thirty-nine were white and seventeen Negro. The Negroes are ho id in a two-story frame building near the brick structure.

Their quarters, while every attempt is made to keep them comfortable, are antiquated and overcrowded. The judges explained this by saying that, although they would like to provide new and larger quarters, they could obtain funds only by a bond issue voted on at one of the county elections. At the present time they thought that such an issue was not likely to be voted. As far as possible the work about the farm is done by the inmates. No attempt to force them is made, however, and they putter around at odd jobs at their own inclination.

One inmate, crippled and partially paralyzed, takes pride in having the privilege cf doing the laundry at the farm. He is in sole charge and doss the washing so tl 'roughly that the county court is glad to allow him ten dollars a month. When the weather is not too warm, the women spend much of their time sewing. A hired man is regularly kept to do the heavy manual labor about he farm, and during the harvest he is assisted by otheis. In addition to the 130-acre stand of wheat now being threshed, there are twenty-five cres of corn, and large tracts of grass and clover.

Three gardens supply the home with enough fresh vegetables to last through summer and winter. Recently more than two miles of new wire fence were put up. The farm is also well stocked with animals. A herd of twenty-three cows is maintained, ten of which are thoroughbred Herefords. The thirteen milk cows provide ail the milk necessaiy for the home.

Eight brood sows are regularly kept, and more than fifty hogs are butchered yearly. A flock of 350 chickens assures plenty of eggs and a good chicken dinner evei Sunday. Four work mules are also owned. A barn with liberal capacity provides ample storage facilities. All these signs indicated that the farm was well managed.

Most county institutions suffer not so much from dishonesty on the part of county officials as from neglect. Boone County, however, can take pride in having built up over a forty year period a county home that will compare favorably witi. any in the sta'e. Its farm is efficiently operated, the inmates are well fed, kindly treated, and contented in their old age. Although it is of impossible for such an institution to become entirely self supporting, the Boone County infirmary has gone as far in this direction as a program that Insists both upon economy and considerate treatment of the Inmates will allow it.

Of all Boone County institutions perhaps the least known to citizens is the county farm, known as the Boone County infirmary. What does it do? How is it operated? How are its inmates treated? Whom does it benefit? To answer these questions and to make the readers of this paper better acquainted with a little-known but impottant county institution, Omar D. and a reporter paper made a visit to the in'-; firmary to investigate conditions. The story of what they found is told in the following article, Editors note. A farm that in normal times would be worth $30,003, a well-stocked 240-acre tract of which every acre is producing that is the result achieved by the County Court, in building up the Boone County infirmary, four miles north of Columbia.

The present county home for th aged and infirm has been in its present location for almost forty years. Originally 160 acres were purchased and the inmates were housed in a small frame house. Since then 80 more acres have been acquired and a large roomy two-story briar building erected. The Boone County Court has as one of its many functions the care and conduct of the county farm. Before starting our visit we informed the court of our purpose to investigate present conditions at the farm.

The court not only willingly permitted us to inspect the farm, but at our request agreed to accompany us. Judges W. P. Cunningham, J. E.

Barnes, and Wilson Doc Hall gave us many interesting features on the work of the infirmary. Approach to the farm is made over a gently winding shale road which leads away from the well kept gravel highway. In the distance we could see men at work harvesting the 130-acre stand of wheat. This years crop was abundant and of good quality. The red brick infirmary is set back slightly from the road and surrounded by tall shade trees.

A spacious lawn is in front and gives the dwelling a cool look that is welcome when the theremometer is around the 100 mark. Our visit was made without any notification, for we wished to seethe farm as It was on a normal day when no preparations had been made to receive callers. Mr. and Mrs Cleveland Tucker, who for the last three years have managed the institution, were not in at the time but the judges showed us through the house. On the first floor are Mr.

and Mrs. Tucker's rooms, the kitchen and dining room, large new refrigerator and other modem equipment as well as its fine ventilation made the kitchen one that would appeal to any housewife. A large kettle over which Mr. Gray paused appreciatively was packed with pieces of chicken for the next days dinner. On the second floor are the sleeping quarters of the white inmates.

Both the men's and womens rooms were cleanly and well aired. The inmates were cheerful and glad to see us. All said they were well fed and had no complaint to make about the way they were treated. Occasionally persons suffering from mental ailments are confined at the home until they can be transported to Fulton. To Insure safety to the other inmates they are locked In special cells, but have room to move about freely and are not uncomfortable.

One room, smaller than and set apart from the others, attracted our attention. Judge Cunningham explained its purpose. Since many of the inmates are feeble and advanced tat $. death cornea man time people about Cross- they told he was an ideal Letitor. It is wonderful to see cjjjJjetitors get along so nicely.

Mrs. TJJjert said that whatever Crossley said couId be depended upon. You find such harmony among owners in the same town found at Warrensburg. FRIEND, Congressmen Lozier of Carrollton, has been laid for repairs for about six weeks. Jus as he was about t0 board a eovnment launch some weeks ago, yell and has had a serious frac-? of the upper right arm.

He 'dl Jam Za. in a hospital for four weeks. wa mind he had a great rest, but in erwise he was knocked out temp- otl nrtly. By the way Lozier would fke a great governor, but I imagine wants to stick in Congress. he other day Mrs.

Gray and I a Miss Ellen Ruth Reesman of aj Plata, attended the Liberty Zjeater in Mexico and saw "Daddy fng Legs. I saw this picture be-the talkies came hi. It was lid then, but it is changed some 3 is now wonderful one of the fit pictures I ever saw. 'he Liberty Theater at Mexico is 'dandy well built with very com-Jrtable seats top prices at 35 cents lid they still charge the kids 10 fhts. (The Moberly school board has deeded that women teachers cannot yoke or drink or they will lose jeir jobs.

What about the men? 'While in Mexico I went in and saw J. Hoxey, who has recently rji J. Hoxey, wno nas recently jjght and consolidated his two ftels there the Alamo and the jbxey. He is one of the best hotel Jen in Missouri. He got tired of Sie game and sold out.

And then he Jad a chance to buy back at a igure which made him a lot of ijoney. He tells me now that he is 1 Mexico to stay as long as he lives, jf course he and his wife may visit lallfomia occasionally but they will Iso claim Mexico as their home, yid that tickles his friends. Without the Hoxeys Mexico does not seem (he same. Miss Genevieve Davis, daughter Rube W. Davis of near Hallsvllle (ends me a bedtime story which she (Continued on Page Six) Centralia Couple Marry Miss Ella Mae Goff and Clarence Douglas, both of Centralia, were married at the home of the Rev.

Arlle Hunt Friday. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. O.

Goff. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas.

The couple will reside in Centralia. Douglas is employed at th Chance Company factory..