Friday, 24 Oct 1913--Issue was missing. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--THE FULL PRICE OF COAL--The price of your ton of coal is not told in the dealer's bill and never can be. Just now Dawson, N. M, is telling the price of coal. More than 250 miners are imprisoned in the ground. there is little prospect of rescuing any of them. The explosion that caved in the Stag Cannon Fuel Company's mines, filling shafts and blocking up drifts, has stopped the fans and practically condemned to death by suffocation those who were not killed by the concussion. But the dead or dying under ground do not tell the price of coal. At the mouths of the shafts are the weeping women and the grim-faced, helpless men who were not in the shift that was trapped. There are children, too, grown into men and women in a day. To-morrow or the next day the wreckage will be cleared away, the bodies will be brought out and Dawson will join that long list of coal-mining towns that have attended their own funeral. And still the price of coal is not told. If in your imagination you can see the new men come to take the dead men's places--if you can see some thrifty and fairly prospering little home slowly lose its signs of happiness--if you can see its articles of comfort grow dim and worn, or disappear one by one--if you can see the dead man's wife and family vanish and the place occupied by others--if you can see all that which has been seen so many thousand weary times, you still have not learned the price of coal. All that helps to make the price but it does not quite fix it. To understand fully the price of coal you must know the terror that ever lowers over the mining camp; the potential tragedy that writes itself in the features and attitudes and lives of the men who go down daily into the shafts and the women who wait for them. Fully to know the price of coal you must live under that shadow and see the work it does. You will learn another thing in a coal camp--the charity of judging not. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--While playing about the barn last Saturday evening, the little son of Rake Winn set the barn on fire. It was discovered by Carl Sharp who called Mr. Winn and together they put out the blaze after a hard fight. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--Dr.. T. H. Walton, while standing on a ladder cleaning the leaves out of the guttering at his home Monday, fell and wrenched his back to such an extent that he was unable to get up, and had to be assisted into the house by a passerby. He is able to navigate, but not under a full head of steam. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--G. W. Blansett orders THE NEWS sent to his daughter, Mrs. P. E. True, of Kansas City. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--Marvin Trich of Kirksville was the lucky man in the Nebraska land drawing on the 28th, his number being No. 1, which entitles him to first choice of any of the many good sections, the best of which is estimated to be worth $15,000. Trich formerly lived in Moberly. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--Earl Hudson of Roanoke died in Denver, Colo, on the 27th of lung trouble. Interment was made yesterday at Roanoke. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--Joseph Lessly returned Sunday from a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Adam Hamm, of near Slater. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--Mrs. Elmer Hawkins of Moberly was the guest of her son Edwards Hawkins and family, Sunday. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--John Martin and wife of San Bernadino, Cal, are the guests of his brother, Albert Martin, and family. Friday, 31 Oct 1913--In a game of basket ball last Friday between the high school girls and a team composed of ex-pupil, the latter won, 5 to 4. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.