The Clarence Courier (Clarence, MO), 1908-05-06

              ... iM'uamMWUffWimSEPWUnlia The larence Courier, VOLUHE XXVMI. CLARENCE, SHELBY COUNTY, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1908 NLTIBER 5 SEE FELKER'S Lawn Mower Wonder STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! A new era has dawned upon the use of Lawn Mowers Self-Sharpening lawn mowers with Self -Adjusting ball bearings mark the zenith of lawn mower building ..... These features add a comfort, satisfaction and convenience formerly unknown to the lawn mower using public Height of machine, Length of endurance, Quality of stock, Ease and Smoothness of operation are qualities that commend, and to these added the Self-Adjusting ball bearings and self-sharpening features, gives you a mower that at once excites the Wonder of both the mechanic and user as well as the profound respect of all competitors Self-Sharpening with Self-Adjusting ball bearings, points worthy much repetition, fully guaranteed, are alone worth the price of the Mower Nellie Meeks Goes Crazy. Nellie Meeks, the young girl connected with the famous Meeks murder, which was committed near Browning, Linn county, Mo., fourteen years ago by George and Wm. Taylor, passed through Cameron last veek enroute to St. Jo seph, where she was to be placed - X 1 At 1 in me state insane asylum, says the Cameron (Mo.) Observer. It was reported here that Misf Meeks had recently become insane from a blow on the head which she received at the time her parents were murdered. The terrible crime is still fresh in the minds of the people and will long be remembered in the history of crime. Wm. Taylor was hanged for the crime at Carrollton. Mo., but George escaped from prison and is still at large. fhe wife ot George Taylor, who is now a fugitive from justice, has re-married and is now living in K-tnsas City. The above can be found Only at FELKER'S May we not have the privilege of showing you? WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Poorloss Woven 7iro Fenco The Common Sense Fence. We are are-nts for the famous Peerless Fence in this territory, and we believe that for an all round, sensible fence it is the very best there Is. It Is made of a selected hard steel, crimwd wire and has the famous Peerless lock that won't slip. Cannot be pushed up from the bottom, shoved down from above or buckled in the middle. We want every farmer who has a rod of fence to build t'ds year to step into our place and talk to us about Fearless. Peerless Fen- e is made by a great manufacturing company who know what makes good fence and who can make and sell it t a price that vi'l interest you. It doesn't make any aifferciica -.rtietlier you want to buy next week, or six mouths from now, c. mo around and see us the next time you are in town. We may he aulc u su vo you both money .nd trouble. miimwii in mrs Ml rmaw...! ","'m ViT- ' ' For sale by A. FELKER YOU CAN FIGURE AND FIGURE GOOD But Our Iron Fence is Cheapest from the Start. Cheaper than wood. Will Ust a Ufetimo.W II WilititJhnrtfsWwId'iFalr.SI- Louis, 1S34. U II CINCINNATI. O. ! W ol Iron Fence ibowa li our ! W Low aricet will surpriit xnu JJ I can sell you 100 feet with two gate posts, one yard gate with all iron posts, double anchors, . o. b. factory for $40.00. The freight will not be very much, and you will never have to put up another fence as long as you live, and your wife's second husband will never have to be bothered with putting in a yard fence. J. L. RIDINGS. Twenty Dead in Hotel Fire. Fort Wayne, Ind., May 3. Twenty persons were shriveled up or jumped to their death troin high windows w'len the New Aveline Hotel was destroyed by fire early this morning. Many more were injured and a dozen timely rescues were made The building is a smoldering heap, covering many of the bodies and the exact num ber of dead cannot be told. The injured and survivors have scattered at random about the neighborhood, unclad or clothed in rai ment given to them by shopkeepers who opened their establishments. The names sw3pt through the hotel like a gust of wind, and the screaming throng that filled the corridors were driven to the win dows for escape. Here they clung until the hre ate them up or forced them to It-ap to the pa ernent be- ow. Forms ot women and chil dren clinging together on the ledges were silhouetted by the b.aze inside until they diopped to be crushed tc death below Marvelous escapes and gruesome deaths mark the brief progress of the catastrophe. One man was driven inch y inch by the flames along a coping until h. reached the end. As he prepared to jump to the street fa've stories below, a hand was reached out from an ad joining roof and he was dragged to safety. Another guest swung desperately from ledge to ledge until he was within reach of a hre man's ladder. With his hand ready to grasp it, a burst of flames hurl ed him to his death. A WAVE OF REFORM. Such a blue-law crusade was never known before in this coun try. lliinli or the saloons closing on Sunday in Milwaukee, the city iade lainojs oy its been A year go it would have been an unthink able proposition. And no horse acing in New Orleans; and no gambling at Albuquerque, Cripple Creek and Dead wood: and no bun- day theaters in New York, Kansas City and Dallas, Texas; ani or ohi j'.tion in Oklahoma; and not ev en a shuve to be had in Omaha upon Sunday! What will be the end of it? hat is the question everyone is asking. Will it fizzle out as so many reform waves have done? Or does it mean that it is the dawn of an epoch in the history of the human race,- as important in its effects upon man and his habits as was the great religious "reforma tion" of four centuries ago? Ihe battle of the bottle is no new thing in this country. We have had recurring waves of temperance reform, like the ebb and flow of the tides, since the first great movement ot 1820. But there has been nothing like this before. There has nerer been such a well organized, determined, successful movement for absolute prohibition from one end of the country to the other. There has never before been such a fight for Sabbath observance and for the strict enforcement of laws for the pre vention of vice. The effeets of the movement are startling. Adolphus Busch, the brewer of St Louis said recently in an interview in Kansas City that prohibition in Oklahoma had cost him a million dollars. And be is a brewer only of malt liquors In the United States $612,000,000 is invested in the liquor business. Every dollar of it is affected by The Electric Theatre1 A Greatly Refined Place of Amusement OPEN EVERY EVENING With a complete change of program that you certainly will enjoy. We gave our first show last Thursday, April 30, to a large crowd of the best people of Clarence, and I think we can safely say we pleased every one of them, as all seemed to enjoy the Illustrated Songs, also the Moving Pictures. We have arranged to comfortably seat about 150 people and it is our earnest effort to entertain you in the most refined manner. SEARS & DODSON, Managers. gers. I the blue-law movement. It is illegal for a man to take drink, even from his own flask. upon a railway train in the sate of Texas, and any railwav era ploye has the authority to arrest him, and he gets one-half the fine as a reward tor doing so. And a man must not play cards even in his own home in Texas. No one, a year ago, would have thought that winter horse racing would, ever be stopped, or even condemned, in New Orleans. Horse racing had always been the especial sport of the southern gentleman. The winter races were as much an established attraction at the capital of the sunny south as was the Mardi Gras. Upon Thanksgiving day the pas tor of one of the churches in New Orleans, fired with the new reform zeal, preached a sermon against the vices of the say capital. He declared tiat New Orleans was the Paris of America, more wicked than the real Paris, whose slit me was the by-word ot all nations. The saloons we e in control of t le v icious element, he said the city reeked with vice, the race tracks brought an influx of gamblers and blacklegs, the races took many thousands cf dollars annually from the city and they made criminal; and luined youg men. The zeal ous preacher kindled a tire that has 'heated the whole city. The newspapers joined in the cry for reform and for the banishment of the races And the federal judge has summoned a grand jury es pecially to indict the race track gamblers Omaha has always bee a "wide open" city. It was sort of a frontier city, half-way between the more churchly east and ti e unra-strimed west. T ie "bad men" of the plains and mountains went there to 'spree" and to "paint things red." It was a saying over all the west that in Omaha "everything goes." But now you can't even buy a newspaper oi a cigai on Sunday in Omaha.a James Dahhuan, the cowboy mayor, has closed all the saloons, theaters, clubs, barber shops, groceries, meat markets and cigar stores in the city. Kven the drug stores must sell only medicines or Sundays. The hotels cannot sell cigars. The golf link-., tennis courts an 1 baseball parks are closed and a newspaper cannot be delivered or sold after -midnight Saturday. The bluest of blue laws are enforced in Omaha and in Lincoln, tin state capital. Ihe lid is clamped tijrhtly down in Kansas City, too. The aloons closed when Folk becamo governor. For the enforcement or other blue laws Judge William Wallace of the criminal court is responsible He declared that the theaters, gro ceries, meat markets, barber shops cigar stores and all other bus ncss nius-t be closed or. Sundays. He impaneled his own special grand jury, to l elp enlorce the blue laws. In one day indictments were returned against 211 actois. managers, and theatrical employes and every free will offering at the box office as they came out. But the court held that it was illegal for the actors and tage hands to work on, Sunday, even in the giv ing of a free sho w. In ishmgton, D. U, congress will be asked this winter to make the District of Columbia a saloon ess area, as diy as the Desert cf Sahara The National Anti-Saloon League of America is behind the movement there, :uid it is concen tratmg all of lis forces for the greatest fight of its existence in congress. This organization was founded in 1883. In New York the lid of strict suppression has been clamped upon all forms of Sunday amusements, from vaudeville to the Sunday evening entertainments of the Young Men's Christian association. The police are enforcing the law-there.In Louisville, Ky., the saloons are closed, all theaters and places of amusements are locked and barber shops, bowling alleys, billiard halls, groceries and everything ex cept hotels, drug stores and street car lines must do no business upon Sunday. ror the first time in its history there is no gambling in Hot Springs, Ark., and no liquor selling upon Sunday. The lid was put on there by Jefferson Davis, when he was governor. In Chicago various civic leagues and other societies are sitting upon the lid. There is much sizzling of saloon and dive keepers beneath it and many arrests have been made. So far the lid has only been put upon the saloons, but a fight is preparing against Sunday theaters and all businesses that are not absolutely necessary to be open on Sunday. ' Captain Haw ley's Concert. The two concerts given Friday afternoon and eveting by Captain na-viey s Clarence music class were delightful affairs. The pro grams consisted of numbers by iht class assisted by Captain Haw ley. violoncellist, and the Clarence Trio Club. The class are showing marked improvement and furnish excellent music and each number called forth a round of applause. On account of other attractions, both afternoon and evening, the audience was small, which is to be regretted. Captain Hawley is an excellent instructor as his class work shows Christian Church Dedicated. The der'icntien of the Christian Church at Claren -e was a crown ing success $2000 was asked for and the generous people of Clarence and viciirty responded to the tune a proximating $2500. There was a generous response from t he people outside the Christian Jiurch, members of other churches and horn those not members , t any church. I lie business men, many or iiiem snowing their appreciation of the work of the eh ireh by liberal sums There vas general rejoicing over the success of the work of the day. Tho church is one of the neatest and most commodious belonging to tuat body in North -ast Mis souri. It does honor to Clarence and fcpeaks volumes for the energy and activity of its members. The Church was beautifully decorated for the occasion with pl-ints and flowers and the program was greatly enjoyed by the large audience which was present at each service. Eld. L. L. Carpenter, the veteran church dedicator was the r.ghl man in the right place and with the words of Neh. G:4 burning in our souls: "So we builded the wall for every man" had a mind to work. -i8 - if that We are pleased to learn I?ev. H. P. Dunlop is to take up regular work at our Presbyterian Church, preaching each 2nd and 4th Sabbat in. The Church has been rev.ved and twenty-three pei sons added to the roll All are pleased to seo the old Presbyterian Church move forward. Mr. Dunlop wili make his home with us in Clarence anil our co-operation and prtyers will follow his work. Vmday, May 3rd. is the next reg ular appointment. If you are of Prtsbyterian leaning Mr. Dunlop wishes you to make yourself known. Miss Lapp of near Cherry Box visited at Pattonsburg over Sun-d y. M. Dimmitt is home from a thirty days visit with Wm. Davis anr. family at San Diego, California.Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Shepard and baby Frinces left yesterday for Maryvide, Kansas, to visit rela tives. Miss Sarah Moffett lied at her tome near Hagers Grove Sunday- evening at 7 o'clock of paralysis. Deceased was 52 .years old and had een an invalid for three years, fhe remains were taken to Tipton, Iowa, for hiterrment, accompanied by Mrs. John Moffett ard Miss Laura Moffett. The Teacher Training Class did not meet Monday evening on account of the bad weather. Will meet Th rsday evening instead. We desire that all s iall be pres nt as we have a proposition to submit which we hope will interest the members All visitors are welcome. W e have a few of the books "1 raining for Servi.e" on hands ye . If any desire Ixwks please apply to J. B. Lock hart at once as he will send the remainder on hands back to the Co. right soon. Mrs. C. M. Lee of near Hagers (riove entertained a number of relatives and friewb at dinner Sunday, April 2(5. in honor of her husband's 53rd birthday. The following were the guests: Jake Gable and lamily, Justus Echter-naht and family, U Crowel and family, Pete Miller and family, Louis Gibson and family, Eddie Forshay and wife, Elmer Oopen-haver and family, Mrs. Simon Gingrich and children. Freezing weather in parts of the state damaged the fruit crops last week. The extent of the loss is not known, but it i.s not thought that the damage is extensive ciijujh to cause any such scarcity f fruit as was experienced last summer. In some localities the weather was not cold enough to be hurtful, but here the small gteen peaches and cherries were frozen and turned black. The apples and strawberries also suffered. Jesse Huff, a farmer living three miles west of Shelbina, is out on S1L0 bond for brutally whipping his 7 year old son, Guy. He was arrested Saturday night and gave find for his ippearancc next Friday before Judge Byrum at Lent- ner. It is claimed that the reports are greatly exaggerated. We understand that feeling against the man in his neighborhood is intense and there was talk of mobbing him. The child was examined by physicians at Shelbina Monday Huff says, we understand, that the child is very unruly.