New Cambria Leader from New Cambria, Missouri • Page 1

NEW CAMBRIA LEADER VOLUME XXVI. NUMBER RIG NOW UN. LOADED AND READY FOR CONSTRUCTION Bad weather has put a temper on erectng the oil derrick on the Thos. Jones farm, just northwest of New Cambria, whch IS on the Hart-New Cambria farm-to-market road. The Jones farm is on about the eastern end of the 5,000 acre block that genial C.

W. Richradson, of Oklahoma City secured the leases and where prominent egologists thought starting to drill would be Richardson, most advisable. Mr. though only a lease man, has had many years in the oil game and often stated that when oil was found in North Missouri, that it would possibly compare with the finer grades of of the Rance Creek fields of Wyoming. The hompany that is interested in drilling nortwest of New Cambria is F.

L. Vaughn, R. L. Hodges, Mr. Cooper and Mr.

Tankersley, all of Oklahoma. The Ray Doris Drilling Co. of Sedan, Kans, will have charge of the drilling, and the drillers and their families have already arrived. At Queen City at a depth of 1100 feet the drills pierced an oil bearnig stratum and produced a flow of oil. Free oil was brought up in a baler and appears to be of a superor grade.

ATTENDED STATE MANAGERS' MEETING H. L. Belfeld attended the state managers meeting which was held at the Hotel Tiger at Columbia Monday and Tuesday. The meeting was largely attended by managers and directors over the state. The purpose of the meeting is to cuss business problems and to renew contracts.

Mr. Belfield was elected director of the M. F. A. Grain and Feed at Kansas City.

Each year, seven managers over the state are elected to this position. The M. F. A. Grain and Feed Co.

distributes feed and grain and flour over North Missouri, and also has a seat on the grain exchange. BIG SNOW STORM AND COLD WAVE A ten or tweive in ch snow fell in New Cambria and commun.ty Saturday night and all day Sunday, but with no wind it fell gently with no drifting. It was light and feathery. The thermometer fell to 8 or below zero last week and has hovered around there off and on since. Tuesday morning the landscape was transformed into a beautiful white fairyland -everything covered with a white frosty coatng which formed during Monday night when a dense fog fell.

The coat ing of ice stayed on all day Tuesday and snow flakes fell most of the morning and in the aftreoon it began snowing again in dead earnest and kept it up all afternoon. The thermometer was 2 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, but by noon it had climbed to 20 above. This is the biggest snow here in several years. FARM CLUB HOLDS REGULAR MEETING The Women's Farm club held its regular meeting Friday night in the club room at the Farmers' Exchange. The president Mrs.

Lizzie Jones, called the meeting to der and roll was called and minutes of last meeting read by secretary Jennie Ramsey. Plans were made for. program for meeting to be held at Oakwood, Jan. 20. At the next meetink Jan.

19. a prgram will be given answers to roll call will be "making my first pie." The county director, Miss -Edna Turner, gave a report. 44 New Cambria, Macon County, Missouri POPULAR WEIN COUPLE WEDS A wedding of interest occurred in Wien Tuesday morning when Miss Marjorie Kunkel became the bride of Richlard Fessler. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Father Leubbering lat the St.

Mary's of the Angels church at 8 o'clock. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ignaz Kunke! who reside about 2 1-2 miles southeast of Wien and who was lovely in a becomnig wedding dress. The groom is a son of Mr.

and Mrs. Otto Fessler whe reside about one-half mile northeast of Wien, and is an in dustrious young farmer. The happy couple were born and reared in hte Wien community and are very popular among their circle of friends. A weddnig dinner was ed at the home of the bride's parents. In the evening a dance was given at the Wien hall honorling the newlyweds at which a fair crowd was present considering the inclement weather A treat was served and a joyous evening spent.

The happy couple will later locate in the Wien community. Their host of friends wish them a long, prosperous and happy wedded life. CHURCH SERVICES AT PRESBYTERIAN There will be church services next Sunday, Jan. 14. both morning and evening with sermons by the pastor, Rev.

W. G. Branstetter. Special music. The public cordially invited attend and members urged to be present.

CHANGED HANDS Last week's Bucklin Herald made the announcement that I. G. Stafford, who had just come up from the warm climate of Texas, and run out E. W. Krenkel, who had published the Herald for the last 18 months, out in this blizzardly weather, and with his wife, will toast their "shins" in the office and continue giving the Bucklin people the excellent paper they have always enjoyed.

Our relations with E. W. and his estimable wife were very cordial and we hate to say goodbye. But to you, "Staf" land her ladyship, as you drive; around, drinking in the beautiful sconery and getting acquainted, drop into the New. Cambria Leader and we will give you a glad handshake.

PROMINENT BROOKFIELD CITIZEN DIES SUDDENLY Brookfield is mourning the loss by death of one of their most prominent citizens, Earl E. Cramer, which occurred Friday, Jan. 5 at Jefferson City. Mr. Cramer had attended a meeting of the Missouri highway men at the Missouri hotel in that city and was entering Wis car) to return to his home when stricken and lived only a short time.

Cerebral hemhorrhage was supposed to be the cause of his death. Earl E. Cramer, son of Oliver Cramer, was born in Brook field and was in his 53rd year. He was prominent in the life of Brookfield having served several years as secretary of the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce. He had been Secretary of the State Highway Com mission for 4 years and also Secretary of the Citizens Road Association.

For 7 or 8 years he had been on 'special road work in the State Highway Department. The Leader editor and. Mss. Robertson had the pleasure to meet Mr. Cramer a few years ago at the Northeast Missouri Press Association which met in Brookfield and his courteous manner and warm welcome to press made everyone feel the at home.

He leaves a wife and daughter and a grandson and his father. Funeral services were held Sunday from the Presbyterian church in Brookfield, conductled by Rev. I. D. Borders, pastor.

REMEMBERED GRANDMOTHER WITH FLOWERS A good grandson is a joy forever, especially when he remembers to do the courteous and lovely things that grand-' mothers like. Mrs. Calista Humphrey has such a grandson for on Tuesday of this week she received from him a large boquet of cut flowers which has made her very hap py. The boquet contains white and yellow mums, American Beauty red roses, snapdragons large sweet peas of all dainty shades and fern. The donor is Owen Humphrey of Pueblo, who himself is a florist.

BALCONY OFFICE Coles Store a member of the federated stores and has just completed a balcony ofrice. It is nifty and up-to-date giving privacy for the manager I. M. Cole and also he has complete view of the lower floor. The balcony office is one of the features of the federated stores and is another improvement added to the Cole store.

THE HEAT IS ON 3 SCORCHER. THAT NATIONAL UNAMERICAN RELATIONS THURSDAY, JAN. 11, 1940 GUY HALL MARRIED IN CITY In the marriage notices of the Kansas City Times of Thursday morning, Jan. 11th, was the announcement of the marriage of Guy Hall of Sweet Springs, and Miss Alene Powell of Kansas City, Mo. Guy Hall was formerly manlager of the Lindley-Buster Produce of New Cambria.

and while here was prominent in the business and civic life of New Cambria and a staunch Republican and was always for everything for the upbuilding of New Cambria. The bride is: a daughter of Mrs. Robert Powell of New Cambria and was born and raised here and is a very adcomplished young lady. Their many frends here extend congratulations. MISSOURI MAUSCRIPT (By Jas.

K. Hutsell) I am a bulldog running along at the feet of Je-us, barking at what he doesn't -Carrie Nation. Over the rise of the Case County, Missouri, hills where was likely to come dashing at any time a huge negro, clad in a red hunting coat and astride a white horse a trumpet to his lips, he heralded the apapproach of the Queen. She came behind in a carriage rubber-tired and upholstered in plush. The coachman who handled her team of dapple grays was in black broadcloth with a silk hat pushed back on his black head.

The harness had mountings of silver; and, bouncing oa the rear of the carriage, was a bare-legged negro boy to open the gates or let down the fences. If her afternoon visit to the neighbors was going to be formal, two outriders flanked her carraige. She was in purple velvet and when carriage took out a- cross the fields, her crown crystal and cut glass wobbled hazardly upon her head. To the neighbors, she was Mrs. Moore.

To herself she was Queen Victoria of England. She was, it turns, out, the mother of Carrie Nation. It has been just forty years since Carrie descended on her first saloon at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. and. in the ten years that followed, Mrs Nation and her hatchet were to chop a niche that probebably will remain unique in American temperance history.

Kansas has always caught the scorn of the world for fostering this busiest of busybodlies of modern times. Since Kansas has it, she can keep it. But the Missouri phase of Carrie Nation affords the background that destined her to be something more than the village meddler, the background that made her the holy terror that 1900 knew. George Moore had money when he brought his family from Kentucky to Belton, in 1855, when Carrie was nine. But long trips were hard in that day, even for wealthy people; and Carrie, reaching the end of this trip with a heavy cold, went into something the 'Fifties termed intestinal consumption.

She was ill for a year; so ill that her usually rational father as well as her usually irrational mother, urged her to prepare for heaven. On her tenth birthday (in November of '56) her father took her to a protracted meeting at Hickman Mills, and with a shout of glory, Carrie was saved. Next day, in an ice choked creek, she was baptized. After. that, she gathered the slaves in the family dining room on Sundays and expound- Price $1.50 a Year DEATH OF FORMER RESIDENT It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Thomas L.

Herbert, formerly of the Palmyra district, west of New Cambria. The editor received the following letter which will be of interest to the older residents most of them old friends of Mr. Herbert: Penryn, Calif. Frank Robertson, Editor New Cambria Leader. Dear Mr.

Robertson: I am writing to tell you that my father Thomas L. Herbert died December 8 at the age of (would have been 89 in February) and as we do not know anything of the Macon county that he seemed to love so well, I am asking you to discontinue the Leader which until a few months ago was a bright spot in my father's life and each week its coming was looked forward to with so much interest. So many of his friends have gone and he looked back on Macon county as the main link to life. The bill will be paid when the estate is settled. Very truly yours, Annie H.

(Mrs. K. The Herbert family moved from Ohio to the Palmyra community about 5 miles of New Cambria many years ago. The family consisted of the mother. Mrs.

Anne Herbent and three sons, David, Daniel and Thomas. Dave and Dan took up farming and Thomas the youngest, chose teaching school as his life work. He attended Kirksville college and taught Palmyra school and West Valley and won the respect and love of his pupils by his firmness, courage and tact with people. The two older boys never married and passed away several years ago. Tom went to California years ago where he married and made his home.

Dan Herbert willed the old Herbert place to Phil Fisher who still resides there, for taking care of him until he led away. Everyone speaks in praise of the kindness of Fisher to Dan. Will Malloy lives on what is known as the Dave Herbert farm in the same community. Sympathy is extended the family. Robinson.

Penryn, Calif. :0 THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE I been reading where the Commerce Department predict ed the biggest holiday, sales 1929. I was nonplussed. So I adjusted my specs and took another look, thinking it must be a mistake on account no known New Era person has ever before been guilty of saying something good for 1929. But it checked up--and it was no misprint.

Mr. Hopkins, he is flirting with the dog house. He is becoming non compis mentis-as we say in Hickory Grove. Nobody up there right next door to the Head Paymaster- -if he is not a bit touched--is gonna make such a faux pas. (Latin or Trench, it is everyday vernac here at Hickory).

But to get back to 1929, brother, that is what I been waiting for--night and day. I had 2 pair of shoes then, and we had turkey--even without a double-jointed Thanksgivingand I kept my life insurance paid up. And as I look back I vannot remember anybody who was down-in-the-mouth or discouraged. But there is one thing we did not have in 1929-we had no Docktors of Economics. But we had good business.

Ynurs with the low down, JO SERRO. P. T. A. POSTPONED The Parent-Teachers Association which should have met (Tuesday night was.

postponed indefinitely on account of the bad weather. ed the gospel. There were a few months fo her at Mrs. Tillery's boarding school in Independence (and later a few at a boarding school at Liberty). But when the Civil War and the Missouri Kansas disputes erupted, Mr.

Moore loaded the family in the plush carriage and, followed by a long line of ox drawn wagons, set out for Texas. There typhoid killed most of the slaves; something killed the horses and mules. The oncewealthy planter freed the remaining negroes, traded the carriage for supplies, and finally reached Cass county in poverty. Mrs. Moore's delusions became worse (with the sale of the carriage her obsession of roytlity faded into an obsession of royalty faded into an obsession that she had abdicated the throne of England) and Carrie was called from school at Liberty to run the household.

In 1865, when Carrie was 19, young Dr. Charles Gloyd came to Belton, boarded with the Moores and took over a country school while he searched for a village in which to practice medicine. Carrie had never in her life been nearer a young gentleman than the opposite side of the parlor davenport. But this young doctor spoke several languages. There was sudden awe in Carrie's eyes; and then esteem: and then, unspoken, there was adoration.

One night he caught her hand in the dark hall. Five days after they were married, he rame into the new home at Holden and sprawled upon the bed in a drunken stupor. After that, Carrie's midnights were spent listening for his wobble and to the creaking of the doltor's shingle in the wind beyond the window. Carrie and the Lord went into conference. Charles Gloyd smoked to excess; so Carrie learned to damn every cigarette.

He drank to excess; so Carrie called down the wrath on every cork. He was, by chance a Mason--and, in the turbelent years to come in Kansas, Carrie was to fight fraternalism she with used the on same tobac- vicious co and saloons She packed her life's one love and left for Belton. Six months after the birth of Carrie's daughter, Charles Gloyd died. Carrie went to Warrensburg till she could get a teacher's certificate, taught four years at Holden, and then went to the Lord and asked for a husband. Ten days later she saw David Nation, lawyer, minister, Union veteran and Warrensburg editor in Holden on his day's business.

Six weeks later they were married. He lived with her for twety-four years in Missouri, Texas and Kansas, until, in utter disgust with her babblings and her hatchet assaults on sa(in her Kausas era) he divorced her But by then loons Carrie Nation had become an international synonym invading for big- the White House to rail at a Presotry-and was ident who smoked cigarettts. When she died in Leavenworth in 1911, they brought her body back to Belton; but the grave remained unmarked in a tangle of thick grass until 1924. About the time a marker was set up, prohibition enforcefent officers uncovered on the farm that had been her father's, one of the largest moonshine distilleries ever found in the region. Its water came from the same source at which Carrie Nation used to quench her thirst.

Basketball Games AT NEW CAMBRIA SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TUESDAY, JANUARY 16-SALISBURY (HERE.) FRIDAY, JANUARY 19-LA PLATA (HERE.) COME OUT AND SET SOMT GOOD GAMES.