Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--NO SANTA CLAUS TO YANKS--Tonnage Must be Conserved for War Essentials--Paris, Sept 8--Unless present plans are changed there will be no American Santa Claus for the doughboys in France this winter. Mothers, wives or sweethearts will not be permitted to send presents because of the need for tonnage for war essentials, and because all the railway transportation in France will be required to move to the front the enormous quantities of supplies that will be kept flowing steadily across the ocean from now on. But they can send the greatest Christmas gifts by subscribing liberally to relief organizations. If the mothers were here on the grounds they could not do more for the doughboys than is now being done by the government and relief societies. More than one hundred carloads of last year's Christmas presents from home folks were in the depots and railroad yards as late as May this year. Nothing from no won can be permitted to interfere in the slightest with the lines of communication, and that means from the shores of American, straight across the ocean and up to the fighting line. The plan now is for the whole expeditionary forces to celebrate Christmas back home next year, and to accomplish that all nonessential must be denied tonnage space this winter. Presents to 2 million boys in France might clog the whole machinery. But there will be an American Santa Claus in France on the biggest scale the country ever knew. The entire American army is going to be Santa to the French nation. Anticipating the formal announcement to be made soon by army chiefs, placing a ban on Christmas kits from the United States, the YMCA directors are mapping out a plan whereby the doughboys will have Christmas trees in many cities and villages in France and be hosts to the French people. There will be Christmas trees, too, in huts and rest centers. In great cathedrals and ancient churches special services will be held with the American note strong in the ceremonials. While the desire of the folks back home to send gifts at Christmas time is fully appreciated, yet all must understand that the military blow comes ahead of everything. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--MISSOURI BOYS NOW IN TRENCHES--Washington, Sept 7--The 89th Division, which is composed of National Army men from Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, has now moved forward to the battle line north of Toul and is engaged in daily artillery combat with the German armies, according to a statement today by Gen.. March, Chief of Staff. Until the middle to August, Gen. March said, the 89th had been completing its training behind the lines, but now the finishing touches will be applied in actual combat. The Rainbow Division and the 35th division, made up in part of Missouri troops, already have had their baptism in fire. The Toul sector is one of the quiet ones along the line, but it holds possibilities of being a very interesting position in the future. The City of Toul lies southeast along the line between Verdun and Nancy, and is about equal distance from each of these important cities. Directly to the north of Toul is Seicheprey, the point made famous through one American successful raid upon the German forces. For the present, the 89th is not expected to see very active fighting aside from the constant artillery combats and aside from the nightly raids which develop occasionally into very interesting hand-to-hand battles. Not far to the north of Toul is the line which marks the division of German and French territory. The City of Toul, of course is the base for the sector and the troops of the 89th are operating along the line of battle to the north in the vicinity of Seicheprey. The American forces from many states are being moved constantly into the line stretching both ways from the Toul base and for some distance now the 89th will be flanked by American troops. Farther to the east and south in the Vosges and nearer to Switzerland the troops of the 35th are quartered. The 35th Division is composed in part of the National Guard troops from Missouri. One very favorable consideration in this location of Missouri troops is that none of them are very far from the border of Germany, and when the order comes for the attack from the American forces, the distance will not be great. While some American troops already are operating on German soil, it is very possible the Missouri boys may be among the first of those now moving forward to reach Germany. The custom of training the American troops by brigading them with the British is being continued, but gradually the necessity for such connection is being removed as the American troops are going forward in better condition and trained for the fighting front. The time was when the first American moved forward. An explanation was obtained from Gen. March relative to several reports received by relatives of St. Louis boys and also relatives of the boys in other cities, that they had been wounded, though a report of their injury had not been made public by the War Department. In most of these instances, it learned, the wounds were slight and were not of a character to prevent the men from seeing service soon after they were sent to the hospital. there have been 20,000 such cases reported now by Gen. Pershing. In the future the War Department will get the complete lists, Gen. March said. The formation of the first American field army in France and Gen. Pershing is personally in command of the new army. As less than 10 per cent of the American forces totaling over 1,500,000 men now in France are fighting with the British and French, it would appear that more than 1,300,000 men are in the American sectors alone. War Department officials are silent regarding campaign plans, and refrain from making predictions but the fact that the American army has reached the point where more than 90 per cent of the large number of men in France are in American sectors; and the first new field army has been virtually completed in organization, is occasioning speculation regarding the possible early use of the American forces in some large offensive operations of their own, but, of course in complete harmony with and under the high command of Marshal Foch. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--A SERIOUS ACCIDENT--Misses Bertha and Lilly Adler, daughters of Mrs. A. J. Adler of south of town came near meeting with a fatal accident Monday, and that they were not instantly killed or fatally hurt is a miracle to all who saw the accident. They were returning from the C. &. A. depot in a buggy, where they had been to see about Miss Bertha's trunk, she having just come in on the train from Kansas City for a short visit with her mother, and were on their way to Wright's store, when their rig was crashed into from the rear by Burton & Burton's delivery team, which had run away, starting from the residence of Will Reed in the south part of town, the young ladies being thrown out and the buggy torn to smithereens. The young ladies were taken to the drug store of Dinwiddie & Burkhalter where their injuries were attended to by Drs. Dinwiddie and Winn, and later in the afternoon they were taken home. It was found that Miss Bertha had sustained only slight injuries, principally about the head and face. Miss Lilly was not so fortunate. While she had no bones broken her head was quite badly cut and her spine more or less affected. The wagon tongue had gone through the back of the buggy and it is believed that it struck her in the neck. She can turn her head only in one direction and can not stand alone for dizziness. Yesterday she was spitting up blood and had developed other symptoms of having been seriously injured internally. It was indeed a narrow escape for both, and their many friends hope that each will soon be about as usual. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Born, on the 9th, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. C. Hon, a son. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Emmett Dulaney moved here from Moberly Monday. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Mrs. Laura McGarvey of Winfield, Kan., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jenkins Williams. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dougherty of near Myers, who has been ill from cholera infantum for several days, was little, if any, better late yesterday afternoon. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Sam Enochs this week traded his residence property on Randolph Street, one of the prettiest little homes in Higbee, to Dr. J. W. Winn for the latter's residence property in Moberly, and will move to that city next week. Mr. Enochs and family have many warm friends in old Higbee who give them up with genuine regret. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Chas. Grigsby of near Myers, while returning home in a wagon the other day was jerked out by a horse he was leading, his feet becoming entangled in the rope, and had the small bone in his right leg broken and his ankle badly sprained. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Born, on the 5th, to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jackson, a daughter. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Born, on the 8th, to Mr. and Mrs. Lessly Franklin, a daughter. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Born, on the 5th, to Mr. and Mrs. John Colley, a son. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Mrs. Perry Brook of Sheridan, Ill., is the guest of her son, Ray, and family. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Born, on the 10th, to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Moffit, a son. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Guy Dennis, who has been at work for Henry Powell at Marshall for several months, has decided to remain with Mr. Powell this winter, and will go to school at Gillam. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--We learn that Miss Lillian Johnson, who moved to Sheridan, Wyo., with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Solsberg, several months ago, will enter the service as a Red Cross nurse if she can pass the examination. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Ernest Mobley sold his farm of 147 acres near Myers this week to Jas. Ennis for $11,250 and will move to Fayette in order to educate his children. He will see a big lot of personal property on the 25th, a list of which can be found elsewhere. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--We printed bills for J. H. Bradley and G. W. Hurshman, who will sell a big lot of personal property at Mr. Bradley's farm on the 21st. Mr. Bradley, who recently sold his farm, is thinking of locating in Moberly but may decide to buy another farm. Mr. Hurshman, we learn, will move to the Wm. Whitmore farm. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--FIND PREHISTORIC REPTILE--State Mine Inspector Evan Jones, accompanied by Joe Lowse and Geo. Laight, went to Roanoke the first of the week to inspect a drift mine recently opened on the farm of Henry Welch, and reported that Mr. Welch, while driving an entry recently came across the petrified remains of a prehistoric snake, which measured twenty feet in length and about six or eight inches through near the head. The monster was embedded in the coal, its head being at the top of the vein and its tail at the bottom and running parallel with the entry, making its removal quite easy. Owing to its weight and the position in which it was found, however, the snake had to be taken out in sections, running from six inches to two feet in length. Mr. Jones informs us that the reptile was recovered in its entirety, with the exception of the tip end of its nose, as it perhaps was when it laid down in its last sleep in the Paleozoic age, tens of thousands of years ago. He also informs us that the find is the third of the kind made in the mine by Mr. Welch, one of which was a great deal larger than the one described above, but which was broken up to such an extent in its removal that it could not be placed together. Mr. Jones will endeavor to secure the specimen from Mr. Welch and turn it over to some museum, and has requested Mr. Welch to pay particular attention to any other unusual rock formations he may run across, for in them may be the last home of dozens of such snakes and perhaps a dinosauria, or the missing link. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Mrs. J. K. Warford, who has been seriously ill for several days, was reported some better yesterday. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Mrs. Harry Gooch of Kewanee, Ill., was called here Wednesday by the serious illness of her father, Ed. Dennis. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Jake Williams, who moved here from Myers several months ago, sustained quite painful injuries Friday in a fall from his porch and has since been confined to his room. Fortunately no bones were broken. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Ben Goe, of Strawn, Texas, who has been the guest of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Pitney, left Monday for Lawrence, Kansas, where he will attend the university the coming year. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Uncle Pet Hamilton was here Monday from Renick, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Ed Smith, of near town. Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Daniel W. Osburn, one of Renick's best known citizens, died at his home in that place on the 7th. He was 80 years old, and is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter. Funeral services were held Monday at the Baptist church in Renick, and interment made in Oakland cemetery, Moberly. Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections, comments welcome.

>Friday, 13 September, 1918, Vol 32, No 22--Born, on the 5th, to Mr. and Mrs. John Colley, a son.< Virgie Leon COLLEY, son of John David and Clara Ellen MEEKS COLLEY. Died 2 Mar 1972. Married to Mary Ellen ROBB. Cindy