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Run causes Jameson Bank to Close Door$
Jefferson Ciay, March 6.-The Farmer's Bank of Jameson. Daviess county, with resources of $110,000 was closed today by board of directors. following a run which started with the opening of the bank this morning. The run is believed to have been caused by the closing of the Farmers Exchange of Gallatin yesterday, which had resources of almost $1, 000.000. Members of the same fam, ily are connected with the two banks The Jameson Bank had $15,000 capitál $2.000 surplus, $78,000 deposits and $84,000 loans. C. C. Fuert is president and C. W. Johnson. cashier. Bank examiner has been sent to Jameson to take charge.
Work is in progress on a new $50, 000 theatre at Maryville. The application for a building permit gives the estimated cost as $35,000. while equipment and furnishings will cost an additional $15,000. The theater will be operated principally as a motion picture house, but will accomodate large stage productions, and vaudeville will be offered at least once week.
The County Court of St. Clair County. at Osceola, recently ordered $27.000 paid on an old railroad debt which has been hanging over the county for nearly sixty years. A few years ago the debt was compromised for $585,000 and since that time. including the present payment, $205,000 has been paid, leaving $380,000 to be paid in annual installments. The original debt was more than $2.000,000, and was for the construction of the Tebo and Neosho Railway which was never built and was fought out in the courts for fifty years and finally compromised.
John William Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stone of Huntsville. went through the Huntsville public schools without missing a day or being tardy. He has attended Sunday school for 13 years and has not missed a Sunday. He is now a junior in the University and is a member of the University band. The band was returning from a trip and was nearing Hannibal when young Stone asked the conductor if he could get off SO he could attend Sune day school. The conductor spoke to the auditor. who wired ahead to Hannibal and had a taxi meet the train and take him to Sunday school and gave him a pass to follow up the band on the next train
Drawings for Prizes Illegal The Missouri Publisher which speaks with authority on general news paper business says: "News spapers will do a service to their merchants if they call attention to the recent decision of Attorney General N. T. Gentry to the faca that drawings for prizes are against the state law and they had better stop their schemes if they do not want to be prosecuted.
TWO YOUNG MEN
They are talking Fred Harrison of Gallatin and J. L. Milligan of Richmond for Congressman from this district-Harrison for the Republican ticket and Milligan for the Democratic ticket. Both are young men and both were in the service during the world war.-De Kalb County Herald.
MISSOURI NOT FIRST IN MULES Washington Contrary to the popular impression. Missouri is not the biggest mule state. According to the Department of Agriculture. Texas had the most mules in 1925. being the only state with more than a million. Missouri came second with 390.052 and Oklahoma was third with Rhode Island had the fewest horses and mules of any state, having only 5,368. The total horse population of the country is 16 535,759. and the mule population is 5,730,608.
