Looks like Bettye sent it to me (longer ago than I recalled!) THANKS! -Kay Subj: Alma Dosing  Date: 11/18/2008 From: bkwofc@i1.net Here's an interesting article I found that I thought you might be interested in. Lead Belt News, July 26, 1918. MOTHER INDUCES GIRL TO LEAVE ADOPTED PARENTS. Miss Alma Dosing, age 18, (the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dosing), left the home of her adopted parents Monday and went away with her mother, Mrs. Tom Cooper of Webb City.  Alma was the daugher of Mrs. Cooper by a former marriage, her father's name being Whaley.  He was a brother to Mrs. Dosing.  Upon his death, little Alma, who was then only seven years old, was about to be placed in an orphans' home by her mother.  Her uncle and aunt adopted her and reared her as their own, which her mother permitted.  The mother, however, made a practice of coming once a year to see Alma. Mrs. Cooper had been visiting here and in Leadwood.  She and Alma were seen to have held several earnest private conversations.  Alma had been employed by John Ball for a few days to take care of the automobile filling station. She asked him Monday afternoon for her wages, leading him to believe that she would come back, but she failed to do so.  It was found that she had accopanied her mother to Leadwood.  Mr. Dosing, accompanied by Constable Black, went after her, but she refused to come, saying it was her desire to accompany her mother to Webb City. Mr. and Mrs. Dosing have carefully reared Alma, and she had always been an obedient girl, giving them no trouble. It is the general opinion that her mother over-persuaded her to go away.