Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--The tail-end of a Kansas sand and dust storm visited this section Monday, the wind blowing so hard that walking was difficult at times. The sky was so full of sand and dust that the sun was made to look the color of the moon and it could be looked upon with the naked eye. The storm is said to have been the worst Kansas has experienced in years. May thousands of acres of wheat were ruined, some by being buried by the drafting sand, and others by having the wheat blown out of the ground. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--Mrs. Lue Fisher is the proud owner of a new victrola presented by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hern. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--Wm. Reed, who went to Little Rock, Ark., several weeks ago with a view of locating, returned with his family Friday of last week, and is again back on his old chair at Smith's barber shop. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--Chas. Dougherty left yesterday for Crawford, Nebr., where he will farm the coming year. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--Mr. and Mrs. Keen Johnson of Elizabethtown, Ky, arrived Saturday to be with their grandmother, Mrs. S. E. Avery, who is critically ill. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--The monument ordered many months ago by G. R. Rennolds for his wife's grave in Oakland cemetery, Moberly, was put in place Saturday. It was cut and finished in Massachusetts, and is one of the most beautiful monuments in the cemetery, as well as the largest, weighing nineteen tons. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--In a letter to the home folks Rothwell Sweeney, who returned to France several months ago for his bride, to whom he was married while in the service in that country, advises of their safe arrival in this country on the 8th. They will make their home, for the present, at least, at Newport News, Va., where Mr. Sweeney has a good position. He states that he has had considerable fun at his wife's expense, she never having seen a wooden house until she landed in this country and is very much afraid that she will be burned alive. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--Folks passing along the street in front of Emmett Dulany's residence Sunday, were very much surprised to see a swarm of bees settling on a weed in the yard. As Mr. Dulany did not want them he gave them to Lon Coleman, who cut off the weed to which they were clinging and carried them home with about as much concern as if he had been carrying a string of fish. Mr. Coleman states that he never before heard of bees swarming so early in the year, and as they promptly cleaned up a big lot of sugar he gave them, he thinks hunger may have driven them from their hive. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--PATTRICK FARMS SOLD--The two farms belonging to the estate of the late H. E. Pattrick, located three miles northwest of town, were sold at administrator's sale at Moberly last Monday, the old home place, or the one on the north, being bought by Williard Edwards for $8,800, or a fraction over $60 per acre, and one on the south by L. T. Pattrick for $17,000 or $119 per acre. The farm purchased by Mr. Edwards had been in the Pattrick family since 1830. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--MISS BESGROVE MARRIED--Miss Elizabeth Besgrove, of Fayette, and Mr. John Davis, of Calhoun, Mo., were united in marriage in Sedalia Saturday afternoon at four-thirty o'clock by the Methodist minister in that city. Miss Besgrove was accompanied to Sedalia by Miss Martha Jeager, of New Franklin. Immediately following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Davis left for Stotsbury, Mo., where they will reside on a farm--Fayette Democrat Leader. The above will be of interest to our readers, Mrs. Davis having taught in our school the past two years. Friday 19 Mar 1920, Vol 33, No 48--BARN DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING--Thos. Spurling, living east of town, had the misfortune to lose his barn by fire about 9 o'clock yesterday morning, it being struck by lightning during a rain and thunder storm. With the assistance of A. T. Burton, one of his closest neighbors, Mr. Spurling succeeded in saving a wagon and some harness. All surplus feed Mr. Spurling had on the place was stored in the barn and was a total loss. The stock had been turned out of the barn a few minutes before the building was struck. We did not learn the amount of insurance carried, if any. Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections, comments welcome.