9241. Farmers & Merchants Bank (Montgomery City, MO)

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News From Adjoining Counties, The State And Nation For practically the first time in the long milling history of the William Pollock Mill and Elevator Company of Mexico, Mo., almost every load of wheat brought to the mill is grading No. There has been but one exception in the 4,000 bushels already marketed there and that graded very good No. 2. This remarkable record is bringing the farmer Jarger return for his labor than usual as practically all of the wheat marketed is bringing No. price, which at present is 76 cents bushel, the Mexico Intelligencer says. Mike Garast and James Long, federal prisoners, serving nine months' sentence in the Montgomery County jail for automobile theft, recently escaped by climbing in the attic and punching hole through the roof. They stole J. M. Metcalf's Ford sedan and got away without being noticed. They were arrested the next day at Boonville, where robbed a store and a dwelling house and were brought back to Montgomery City. Up to July there were 674,301 licensed autos in Missouri and $8,471,000 in fees had been collected by the State. This will go into the State road fund to build more roads to drive more cars on. It said that six states of the United States have twice many autos as are in six leading nations of the world. The U. S. Treasury Department tells us that nineteen months of participation in the World War and the "clean up" of 13 years since have cost the government approximately billion dollars. The doors of the Farmers and Merchants Bank Montgomery City were closed last week by Finance Commissioner S. L. Cantley, due to slow run. The bank was organized in 1919. According to its last statement issued April 16, the bank's capital stock was $25,000, surplus and undivided profits $4,390.66, total deposits $110,899.91. Wheat threshing has been fiished in Montgomery County. From all reports the yield was good and the grain of excellent quality. The only trouble this year is the price. The St. Louis Catholic Church at Bonnotts Mill will observe its Silver Jubilee Anniversary with big celebration Wednesday, July 30. H. (Slim) Sonnen and Otto Cassmeyer, both of Westphalia, Mo., were given preliminary hearings before Commissioner D. W. Peters and held for the October term of Federal Court in Jefferson City. Sonnen and Cassmeyer are charged with resisting federal officer during raid some time ago, Both were arrested by government agents what known as "Slim's Bar" in Westphaseveral weeks ago. They declared they thought the government worker was attempting a hold-up of the place, and that they failed to recognize him. Henry Ortemeyer, said to be the owner of the bar, was given a hearing before the commissioner on charge of selling liquor. Peters took the case under advisement. Forest O'Brine and Dale Jackson, of St. Louis, whose world flight endurance record was broken by the Hunter brothers, are seeking to gain their honors and are now piling up the endurance hours. James Eads How, the "Millionaire Hobo" is dead as the result of 15 years of self-denial. He died at Staunton, Va. Physicians attending him when he succumbed in hospital said death was due to pneumonia evidently superinduced by starvation. He was 56 years old. The life of hobo appealed more to James Eads How than life in society, in which he was born. Known through the breadth of the land as Millionaire Hobo," How never was millionaire, but he had plenty for life of luxury. Instead such he denied himself even sufficient food and clothing in order to live as the of hoboes lived. Born in poorest St. Louis and educated at Harvard, How's early life was not unlike that of many others born in wealth and social position. After his days at Harvard, he studied medicine and was licensed physician, although he never practiced. How's mother, Mrs. Eliza Eads How, died in 1915, leaving him $500,000, $250,000 of which he received outright. The other $250,000 was placed in trust. Virtually all the $250,000 he received outright he spent in his hobe activities, and he devoted most of te income from the portion placed in trust to work of that nature. After his mother's death, How gave up palatial residence on Lindell Boulevard, in St. Louis, for cheap down-town lodging house. He held that the community should own all property. His work among the hoboes took him to all parts of the country and he made numerous trips to Europe during and after the World War. Wherever there was hobo "convention," How usually was there, the 'delegates' usually eating because of his presence. Opposed to warfare, he went from nation to nation and attempted to gain supporters to such a cause. On several of his trips to Europe, he worked his way on liners. How spent much time attempting to induce state legislatures to provide pensions for elderly persons who objected to spending the closing years of their lives in charitable institutions. He also worked for legislation to provide work for idlers. Robbers broke the front window of Theo. A. Hoemann's jewelry store in New Haven, Mo., Saturday night and stole number of small articles from the show window. The loot taken consisted of watches, rings and beads. Enrollment in the extension division of the University of Missouri reached new high record for all time, with 3616 enrolled during the year ended June 1, 1930, it was announced by C. H. Williams, director of the extension service. The total was 287 above that of the previous year. Courses given by correspondence, extension class, extension center and under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes statute totaled 4495, with in which more than 2400 were enrolled, proving the most popular. Women outnumbered the men enrolled by more than two to one. The County Judges' Association of Missouri will hold their annual meeting in Sedalia on August 19 and 20 during the thirtieth annual Missouri State Fair, according to information from Judge Henry Riedel, president of the association. Gov. Caulfield has been invited to make the principal address of the meeting. Several hundred Judges from over the state are expected to attend the two-day meeting. One of the largest fires in Union, Mo., in many years occurred last Saturday when the sheds and ice storage house in the rear of Purschke's garage became ignited and in a short while the entire building and garages in the rear of the old Fees meat market were in flames.