King City, Gentry County, Missouri submitted and transcribed by: Dovell & Sullivan ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ From King City's Tri-County News, published 21 November 1930: (underscores inserted where text is unreadable): LEGION POST LAUNCHES A GOOSE-AND-BEANS CAMPAIGN Three Teams Working in Membership Drive A goose and beans contest, which actually will result in a roast goose dinner for the winners and boiled beans for the losers got under way Tuesday night at the regular meeting of the American Legion post. Thomas W. ALDERSON, Elmer GRIER and W. K. COLLOW are captains of the three membership teams of five members each. The members of the winning team and all other members of the post for 1931 will be served roast goose and all the trimmin's (sic) at the close of the contest. The members of the two losing teams must attend the banquet, and each will be seated between two goose-eaters, but the losers must content themselves with plain old boiled beans, army style and nothing else but. No telephone solicitation is permitted under the rules of the contest. The drive will be over in a few weeks, and the teams are working "fast and furious". The aim is the largest membership the post has ever had. Mrs. Powers to Hospital Mrs. William POWERS was taken to the Sisters hospital, St. Joseph, in the Tapgart ambulance Tuesday night suffering an attack of gall stones. An operation was not necessary, it was decided, and she was placed under observation. She is expected home Sunday. Robert STANTON was called to Kansas City Sunday by the serious illness of a sister, Mrs. R. S. SHIPP of Cameron, who now is improving in a Kansas City hospital. Mrs. Dick COFFEY of St. Joseph visited Miss Ollie JAMESON from Friday until Tuesday. Child Has Shoulder Dislocated William Edgar PATEE, 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Detlef PATEE who live on the Waltemath farm, northeast of town, had his left shoulder (________________________________________________________________). No Back-Seat Driver Mrs. Gary CUSTER broke her right arm Friday while helping her husband saw down a tree. Mrs. Josephine MEADE is visiting at the home of her son, the Rev. J. W. MEADE. Home from Mayo Clinic C. C. BRANTLEY arrived home last week-end from Rochester, Minn., where he had gone through the famous Mayo Clinic for diagnosis of a chronic stomach trouble he has suffered several years. He said the doctors up there told him he might possibly live to be 100. WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED ON A HIGHWAY SHOVEL GANG Employment for from ten to twelve able-bodied laborers in this community is offered at this time by the state highway department as its contribution to the campaign for the relief of the unemployed, according to an announcement by C. A. CANNON, district foreman of maintenance, who was here Wednesday putting men to work. Nine King City men were put to work in a shovel gang Wednesday, and there is work for one or two more, Mr. Cannon said. Only men actually needing and wanting work, and having dependents will be given employment, he said. The job pays 30 cents an hour, the gang works from 7 a. m. until 5 p. m., and there will be twenty to thirty days' employment. Mayor Essie WARD and H. L. YATES, city clerk, are assisting locally in listing applicants for this job, and laborers may also apply at the office of the project engineer in the Lucile Theater building.