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JUDGE L. B. VALLIANT DIES IN MISSISSIPPI Former Chief Justice of Missouri, 74, Succumbs to Bronchial Trouble. Leroy B. Valliant, former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court, died at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at Greenville, Miss., where he first began the practice of law. He was 74 years old. The former Supreme Court Judge went to Greenville recently for his health, which gradually had been declining. His condition had been serious for two weeks before his death. Bronchial trouble was the cause. Judge Valliant was a Circuit Judge in St. Louis for two terms before going to Jefferson City in 1898 for a place on the Supreme bench. He was a Democrat and a Confederate War Veteran. Mrs. W. I. Rice, aged 37 years and 6 months, departed this life at her home in this city Tuesday, March 4, 1913, after a brief illness of pneumonia. Her husband, W. I. Rice survives. Funeral services, conducted at the residence, were held Thursday afternoon and interment was made in Oak Hill cemetery. A. J. Erhart traded his fine farm adjoining Adrian on the south, to J. T. Ellis for 2800 acres of deeded land and 1200 acres of leased land in Ness county, Kans. Mr. Erhart will engage in raising cattle and hogs on his western ranch, having reserved his herd boars, Major B. Hadley and Giant Wonder, and eighteen of his best gilts.-Adrian Journal. t J. W. Chambers, one of The Times' f old friends who is now located at Selma, California, writes us as follows: "We have been here since last May and have bought a small ranch near Selma. Raise peaches, vines and alfalfa. We came here for the climate and have found it good; am sure we'll be stronger. Missouri will always have a hold on us and her people are hard to beat. Was pleased with the election." b Few residents of Butler have any S idea of the magnitude of transient TO business which this city enjoys, and when one learns he is almost increda ulous. P. C. Carpenter who has been S in the bus business in this city for the past seven years informs a Times reporter that an average of 800 travelK ing men pass in and out of the city T each month in the year. Of course this estimate is simply an average P and while some months it will run 0 considerably below these figures, sa other months will show a corresponding excess. N bi John Ogden, formerly president of le the Farmers Bank of Deepwater, which closed its doors last Novemno ber when Ogden was arrested chargli ed with forgery, plead guilty to a ag charge of swindling in the Henry county circuit court Monday, and was sp sentenced to a term of four years in he the state penitentiary. Ogden was made president of the bank withpc in a few months after his release ch from the state penitentiary where he is had served a three year term. He was considered a model citizen. It L is thought that his forgeries will amount to $30,000. ha W The Drexel Star of last week pubul lished an excellent short story written expressly for that paper by Rev. so Claude S. Hanby, the popular young Jo minister of the Ohio street M. E. church of this city. The story, enFi titled "The Opportunity," deals with the self sacrifice of an ambitious at young man who, although poverty vi stricken and laboring under a burden ke of debt, refuses to accept a position of undesirable environment, although A not only lucrative, but carrying with be it the promise of foreign travel. Mr. ch Hanby's story is exceedingly well written and intensely interesting. The third Sales Day held in this city this spring was held at McMullen's with