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of the car after it had passed over the tiny form. Dr. McDanied was summoned. He said the child, although in a serious condition, has a fair chance of recovery.
At a meeting of the County Court last Monday, two traffic officers for the highway No. 9, in this county, were appointed. They are George Sapper and John Nevels of this city. The court has provided for a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour, but arrests can and will be made at any time for reckless or dangerous driving. The officers will be equipped with motorcycles, which they will have to purchase themselves, and have been required to fill a suitable bond for the satisfactory performance of their duties. They go to work today (Thursday) and will make a systematic patrol of the road in the county.-DeSoto Republican.
Henry Weiss, president of the Perry County Bank, was arrested Saturday on an indictment returned by a special grand jury which had been recalled to investigate the affairs of the bank. J. H. Kiesler, cashier, also was rearrested on another indictment and, being unable to make bond of $5000, was locked in the county jail. Weiss was able to give bond immediately and was released. Both Weiss and Kiesler were charged with accepting the deposits while knowing the institution to be insolvent. This indictment is the ninth charge to be filed against Kiesler since the closing of the bank on October 9 last. The other charges against him are three for embezzlement, three for forgery and two for making false entries in the books of the bank.
You will have to be good for the next few weeks, according to Bloomfield authorities, for the Stoddard County jail is overflowing with prisoners, and there is no room for you even if you do feel inclined to cut-up and get free board at the expense of the county. The Bloomfield jail is so full, according to one county officer, that they are sleeping prisoners in shifts during the night. Many of these prisoners are being held waiting sentence from the late trials, so put off your meanness un- til a little later if you want a comfortable cell, until some of them are sent to Jeff City to air their shins.Dexter Statesman.
The Lions Club of Sikeston is preparing a real treat for their brothers who attend the State Lions Convention to be held here May 24 and 25 They have engaged Brig.-General William Mitchell, late of the U. S. Aero Service, who will be here to address the Lions and their guests. Gen. Mitchell needs no introduction to the public anywhere in the United States, as it was he who told of the handicaps placed on the flying service and criticised his superiors to such a degree that he was hailed before a court martial and was suspended from service for five years. Gen. Mitchell told the truth to such an extent that the public believed in him if his superiors did not. He resigned from the service and the United States lost the only flying officer they had who had practical experience in aviation. His subject has not been announced as yet, but it will be peppy and to the point.-Sikeston Standard.
The question of whether or not the citizens of this city would accept the Civic or Commission form of government was one of the worst defeated issues ever presented to the people for their consideration. Out of 1065 votes cast at the election Tuesday only 116 voters signified their intention of desiring a change. Strenuous opposition was it raised against the question but was not confined to any one group. There seemed to be a general feeling of antagonism to the measure, which was caused undobtedly by the proposed change being voted on so shortly after the general city election just one week previous. There is the feeling that the proposition would have carried, had the election been held before the city election, but due to the fact that a mayor and four councilmen, besides the other city officers had just been sworn into office, the majority of people seemed to favor giving them an opportunity of showing what they could do. Under the law, the question cannot be submitted again to a vote for two years:-DeSoto Republican.
The St. Francois plant of the St. Louis Smelting & Refining Works of the National Lead Company has just let the contract for construction of a steel and brick building to house their new power plant, to the J. V. Boland Construction Company of St. Louis. The total expenditure contemplated on this power building and unit is $185,000.00. The building will be of steel framework with walls filled in with brickwork and will be fireproof throughout. It will be forty-four by ninety feet and forty-nine feet high to the eaves, fifty-nine feet in height over all. One giant smokestack 250 feet high and constructed of concrete will serve as an outlet from all of the boilers installed in the building. This will undoubtedly be the tallest stack in the.district. Excavation work for the building has already been completed and the contractor is on the ground, getting ready for actual construction work. It is the present plan to have this new unit in operation in August of this year. The new power house will provide space for five 814-horsepower boilers. Three of these units are now under construction by the Casey-Hedges Company, Chattanooga, Tenn., this being sufficient for present needs. The other two units can be added later if needed. These boilers will be equipped with Illinois stokers and will be the very latest and best machinery of the kind on the market.Farmington News. the fact that the Company is continuing the options is encouraging evidence that the Company is not dissatisfied with the lands drilled. The Company now has ten drills in operation in this county-six in the Doe Run Juncton-Loughboro area, two south of DeLassus, one near Wiggins' Hill and the other on the Pennicaut Lead Co. tract near Bonne Terre. Three new drills were started this week. Other drills will be brought in from time to time. Of course it is impossible to learn just what success the Company is having. There are rumors of some good holes having been drilled and other rumors to the effect that no lead to speak of has as yet been found. Mr. Barrett, the local manager, tells us that the Company is by no means discouraged and that it expects to put through its original plan of thoroughly prospecting the territory in the vicinity of Farmington as well as other nearby areas. -Farmington News. in St. Louis. A matter which has aroused much indignation among the depositors was revealed by the report of the deputy commissioner, filed with the recorder, and showing the assets and liabilities, as he found them, giving a list of depositors and borrowers. It is said that on his inventory none of the officers of the bank are shown to have had any money on deposit when the bank closed its doors. One object of the meeting and examination tomorrow is to learn when some of these accounts were closed. It still seems a fact that there was nothing wrong in the conduct of the bank-that there were no irregularities-but that the failure was caused by notes taken over from the Perry County Bank plus the heavy deposit of cash with that bank. But the depositors want to know whether the officers of the bank knew some time before the failure that the Perryville paper was bad and that thereupon they withdrew their own funds, believing their own institution to be unsafe.-Jackson Post.
A. J. Sheahan president of the A. J. Sheahan Granite Co., of Graniteville, Mo., was here yesterday trying to get a machine big enough to move the Champ Clark memorial stone from his quarry near Ironton to St. Louis, where the stone is to be cut. The stone at the quarry will weigh more than 20 tons, and is too large for his machinery to handle. He asked the local office of the Missouri Pacific to send a wrecking crane to handle the stone. He failed in this effort because the only derrick available here is one that is used to lift railroad engines and this is entirely too large and heavy to run over the Graniteville switch. Mr. Sheahan went back to his quarry defeated in his purpose, but says he will get the stonecutters out of St. Louis to come down and work the stone down to a size so that he can handle it with his own derrick. The red granite of Missouri is becoming a popular building material. It is being shipped to almost every state in the union and is said to carry one of the finest polishes of any stone in the country The Champ Clark memorial is to be erected at Bowling Green, county seat of Pike county, and old home of the famous Missourian.-Poplar Bluff Republican.
