St. Clair County Democrat
Osceola, MO
11 September 1919

"'Nibbles"'
Ask any small boy in Osceola and he will tell you that it is almost impossible to judge a slipper by its size.

What do you make out of it when you pick up a daily paper and find on one page hundreds of people advertising for jobs and on another page notice that thousands are going on strike?

Fortunate is the girl who loses her temper - and then never finds it again.

The food investigators needn't be surprised if the people get impatient. Hungry people are always that way.

Another sign of being "'well-to-do"' is to hear an Osceola man refer to his "'other pair of pants"'.

For once in history all Americans are agreed upon on one thing. They are agreed that the other fellow is responsible for high prices.

Maybe the reason there is such an eagerness on the part of some fellows to invade Mexico is because it is possible to get a drink down there.

Congress can't repeal the law of gravitation, and where there are apples falling there's bound to be some cider.

It is getting around to the point where the average man will have to decide whether to buy a new automobile or spend the money for a Thanksgiving turkey.

No Osceola man is optimistic enough to believe we will ever return to the good old days when a girl was contented to receive her candy in a sack instead of a box tied with broad ribbon.

With the price of a hair cut being raised all over the country the bald-headed man has, for the first time in his life, a laugh on the other fellow.

And if everyone kept his troubles to himself there would be no trouble to speak of.

Looking at the railroad trains and considering the amount of travel one would never suspect that some people are having a hard time making both ends meet.

Wise is the Osceola man who has laid in his winter coal and paid his subscription to his home paper for a year in advance.

Wants the Women's Names
Secretary of State Sullivan is trying to get all the data for the Blue Book in this month, in order that it may be printed and read for distribution by the last of December. In this county the organization of the Democratic and Republican Women's committees has not been perfected (or reported), and it is necessary, if the names are to appear in the Blue Book, that action be taken at once and report made to Secretary Sullivan.

Our young people get a guarantee of a position with definite salary when they attend Draughon's Business College. Write A.J. Bates, Springfield, Missouri for catalog.

Won A Good Game
Before a crowd that Manager Kiefer estimates at 1500, the Kiefer and Berryhill Aero baseball team last Sunday defeated the fast Humansville team by a score of 6 to 2. The game was fast from start to finish, and proved to the fans that the Osceola team is one of the best bunches that has ever represented this town. After the game an exhibition airplane flight was given and passengers were taken up until dark, at which time there were still others waiting. Next Sunday the strong Montrose team will be here for a game and the biggest crowd of the season is expected, as Montrose is undoubtedly the best team that will visit us during the year.

River View
We have been having much cooler weather the last few days, especially of nights.

There was no Sunday school at River View last Sunday.

We should be very glad to see more attend Christian Endeavor. Let us make it a point to be there next Sunday night. Arthur Lutes will lead the meeting.

Virgie Francis, of Vernon, Co., visited with Ellen Francis week before last.

Mrs. Robt. Hadden, of Kansas, who has been visiting with her mother, Mrs. Geo. Deans, left for her home last Thursday.

R.H. Pritchard and family attended church services and a basket dinner, at Pleasant Valley Church last Sunday.

Mrs. M.H. Francis and daughter, Ellen, and Jerry Gentry made a flying trip to Vernon County last week.

Mrs. R.H. Pritchard, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Kansas, Kansas City and Creighton, Missouri, returned home last Wednesday.

Iver Boling went to Vernon County to work on the farm, on which he intends moving later on.

Joe Spangler, J.A. Carriker and W.A. Carriker and family spent Sunday and Sunday night with Jesse Culbertson and family.

Misses Ethel and Edith McLalin spent Saturday night and Sunday with Adaline Deans.

River View school started last Monday with Miss Ida Porter as teacher.

A Fact
There is no hard and fast rule for determining the size of a town's trade territory. It all depends on the enterprise of the town's merchants. Some towns will draw trade several times farther than others. It depends upon the advertising, upon the goods and upon the general treatment that is given, in other words upon how intensively a town or an individual goes after business. - Courier, Howard, Neb.

League Certain, Wilson Declares
President in Opening Talks of Tour Voices High Confidence.
"'World Waits For Us"'
Future Free From War If America Carries Out Her Pledges, Says Executive.
By Mount Clemens News Bureau.
Aboard President's Special Train. -
St. Louis. - Displaying a high confidence that his fellow citizens in the great majority agree with him in his desire to end war forever, and that they will see to it that the Peace Treaty with its League of Nations inclusion is ratified by the senate, President Wilson is making a successful way across the country on the long journey he has undertaken for the purpose of laying before the plain people a report of his work in Paris and explaining to them just what the league means.
Thus far in his travels he has everywhere met with warm greetings, both in great halls where he has spoken formally and in the little Red Cross road hamlets where his train has halted at times and he has exchanged words with the villagers who pressed forward to greet him. He feels, and does not hesitate to say so when chatting with his traveling companions, that the American people want no more of war and want to become part of the league so that there may be no more war. He struck his keynote when he said in his first address, in Columbus, Ohio:
"'This treaty was not intended merely to end this single war. It is meant as a notice to every government who in the future will attempt this thing (what Germany attempted) that mankind will unite to inflict the same punishment.
"'There is no national triumph to be recorded in this treaty. There is no glory sought for any particular nation. The thought of the statesmen collected around that table was of their people, of the suffering they had gone through, of the losses they had endured, of that great throbbing heart which was so depressed, so forlorn, so sad in every memory it had had of the five tragical years that have gone by. Let us never forget those years, my fellow countrymen; let us never forget the purpose, high and disinterested, with which America lent its strength, not for its own glory but for the defense of mankind."'

Postmaster Walter N. Watkins, of Appleton City, was a business visitor in the county seat one day the first of this week and while in town made a pleasant call at the Democrat office.

Deputy United States Marshal Sid J. Hamilton was looking after business in Osceola Thursday morning and while here made a call at this office. Mr. Hamilton was formerly sheriff of Cass County, and is an old friend of the editor.

The Bible class of the Roscoe Sunday School will give an ice cream supper at Roscoe Saturday night of this week, the proceeds go for the benefit of the church. The public is invited.

Mrs. Emma Landes, of Port Arthur, Texas, is a guest of her brother, W.A. Daniels, in this city.

Mr. and Mrs. W.C. McClain are the parents of a fine daughter who arrived last Monday. This is the fifth child and their first daughter.

W.L. Wagoner, one of our local real estate men, reports the following sales during the past week: 160 acres near Roscoe; 80 acres near Gerster; 83 acres near Vista; 90 acres near Magneola Springs.

Corbin Items
Mr. and Mrs. Ike Moorr, of Smith Center, Kansas, is visiting Mrs. Moorr's parents, J.M. Hooper and wife.

Mrs. Irene Looney, of Oklahoma, is visiting Mrs. Celia Gardener.

Elmer Gover and family and Mrs. T.B. Mumma and children, of Osceola, spent Saturday and Sunday visiting relatives at Holton.

John Roberts left last Sunday week to work a few weeks for a Mr. Johnson near Eldorado Springs.

Jesse Hooper and wife and Alva Hooper and wife motored to Appleton last Sunday.

Lawrence Garrison and family of Vista, visited Sunday with his brother, Albert, and wife.

The pupils of this neighborhood attending High School at Osceola all returned home to spend Saturday and Sunday. They will continue doing so as long as the weather will permit.

Will Tucker and family spent Sunday with his brother, Charles, and family.

Mr. T.S. Gorman and wife visited Sunday at the home of O.L. Aultman and family.

Mr. Walter DeLee, of Kansas City, visited with his brother, C.G. DeLee, and family.

Joe Wisner and wife and Lawrence Wisner and family visited at the home of Ben Leiber, near Quincy.

Rollian Frasure and wife, of Vista, spent Sunday with the latter's parents, R.E. Garrison and wife.

School began at Bear Creek the first Monday of this month, the teacher being Miss Wanetta Barnes, and the number of pupils enrolled about twenty-five.

Mr. and Mrs. Baumgarden and daughter, Jewel, spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of John Jennings, near Iconium.

Miss Ida Bella Hams spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Edra Hooper.

There will be a match ball game at Corbin Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock between the Corbin and Osceola boys. This will be the third game the boys have played so will be very interesting to see who is victorious. Everybody is invited.

Lowry City
Elmer Cooper and wife left for Kansas City last Sunday where the latter will visit for several days with relatives of that city, while the former will occupy the most of his time in the purchase of a bill of goods for the mercantile establishment of Cooper Bros. of this place.

Palmer Crawford, formerly of this place, who moved to Clinton a year or so ago, moved back to Lowry City the latter part of last week. He bought what is known as the Alexander property near the Memphis Depot.

Attorney J.H. Lucas, as is his custom about every week or so, was among those on the northbound passenger of the Frisco last Sunday.

The Lowry City Public School began the first of this month with about the usual enrollment of pupils. The school so far is moving along fairly well; with the outlook at present very good for a successful school.

J.A. Mannering, formerly of Butler township this county, who moved to Springfield some years ago where he resided for perhaps eight or ten years after which he went to San Diego, California, where he has since resided, arrived in Lowry City a few days ago and around where he will in all probabilities visit for quite awhile with relatives and old friends.

A real estate deal was made a few days ago in which W.W. Mastries sold to Jack Kincade 8 and one-half acres of land adjoining Lowry. In the deal however, Mastries gets a house and a block of land in Osceola, which will result in his moving to that town within a month.

Mrs. John Calendar, of Osceola, was in Lowry City one day the latter part of last week, the guest of G.H. Penn and wife, of this place.

David Jackson, well and favorably known, died at his home in Lowry City Tuesday, September 3, 1919.

Aver Boling went to Vernon County to work on the farm, on which he intends moving later on.

Joe Spangler, J.A. Carriker and W.A. Carriker and family spent Sunday and Sunday night with Jesse Culbertson and family.

Misses Ethel and Edith McLalin spent Saturday night and Sunday with Adaline Deans.

River View school started last Monday with Miss Ida Porter as teacher.

J.E. McClain has sold his 49 acre farm on Harpers Prairie for $2250, which is perhaps the highest price ever received for land in that section.

Mrs. Dauthat and Mrs. Adlum gave a six o’clock dinner last Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Woodson Bennett. The elder Mr. Bennett and Rev. Lawler were also present. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Adlum rendered some fine musical selections.

Emerich’s Feed Store has a full line of Kansas Best Hard Wheat Flour, White Shorts, Gray Shorts, Mill Run, Bran, Corn Chop, Salt and hay. Prices Right.

For Sale – Registered Shorthorn Bull; 4 years old. See W.A. Shryer, Collins, Mo., Route 1.

For Sale – 31 head of goats. See E.H.S. Henry.

We have a full supply of Feed – Bran, Millrun, Shorts, Chop and Tankage. Call and get our prices on these Articles. Also Highest grade of White Corn Meal. – F.P. Hostetter & Son, Phone 123.