The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-07-18
MISSOURI NEWS.
Potato bugs are doing much dam
age In Harrison county,

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killed by train at CORN.
The bee crop OF honey is very large
and sweet at Elm Grove, in Holt
county.
No one has money enough to start
bank, although 1t is much needed,
at Mercer.
Fred Lowe, of Lathrop, was one OF
the graduates of Harvard who got
special honors.
The Missouri Sunday school con-
vention will be held in sedalia Au-
gust z, 8 and 8.
By q sale Of some mineral lands
near Joplin, Mrs. Cosgrove made a
profit Of $4,000.
A farm near Brnohn cid was sold
the other DAY for $4,000, and 1t
contained 610 acres.
The Springfield fair will run from
September Q to 8, and will award
$4,000 in premiums.
The new union depot at st. Louis
has been assessed at $45O,O by the
state board Of equalization.
Mound City will soon have electric
lights, and its inhabitants believe
they will then live in city.
The Monett fair grounds have been
sold for s3,OS0. There is talk OF
reorganizing the fair association.
New and larger spans will be
placed in the Boonville bridge as
soon as the water subsidies some
what.
Mrs. W. E. Dockery, mother of
Hon. A. M. Dockery, died at her
home in Chillicothe, July IL, aged 73
years.
Wheat is averaging twenty FIVE
bushels to the acre on many Holt
county farms, which is certainly a
good yield.
A. M. Wingaeld, aged "a, one OF
saline's Oldest and best citizens, died
at his homo in that county. He was
a native of Virginia.
A Springfield girl has for The third
time come near drowning by being
capsized boats, and still she persists |
In going on the lake.
George Leatherman, Of Versailles, |
is seventy-two years old, and his
name indicates that he will not wear
out in the next generation.
Members Of the Missouri State |
board OF equalization have decided |
upon a heavy increase in the acsess-
ment of various railroad lines.
Miss Ida Rosamond, of Mexico,
has been appointed by Governor
Stone as on, of Missouri's commits
bioners to the Atlanta exposition.
Miss Jennie White, of 932 College
street, Springfield, was married at
Hong Kong, China, to Edward P.
Johnson, vice consul to that port
from England. Mrs. johnson is a
graduate of the Springfield high
school class of 1913, and went to
China in the winter of '04 for tho
purpose of marrying Mr.. Johnson,
whom she had known since her
childhood.
The Hon. U. 8. Hall, Gays the
Carrollton Democrat, stated in o
conversation the other day that he
was for sound currency, that kind
favored by Cleve and. Also that he
had tried for years to be "free
silver" advocate, knowing that the
people Of his district wanted "free
silver" but could not, and in tho
future he would advocate the "go'd
standard" and would campaign the
district on that issue.
From the Boonville Democrat:
William Rank n, who was the founder
OF Rankin's celebrated Touring mill,
five miles from Boonville on tho |
Petite Saline died at his residence |
near the mill on Thursday, July 8,
1896, and was buried at Walnut |
Grove cemetery on Saturday. Mr..
Rankin was born in Winchester,
Virginia, Ocl. 20, 1906, and came to
Cooper county In 1880. April A,
1874, no married Miss Elizabeth
Macfarlsnd, of this county. Two |
sons were born to them, Silss and |
Robert g., both Of whom have fami-
lies and reside In the county. Ran
kin's mill was the first Touring mill |
ever built In Cooper county. Origi-
nally 1t was q water mill with a
capacity Of but two bushels of wheat
per hour and in q building only
fifteen feet square.
A petition asking $1,000 for libel
was filed In the La Plata circuit
court by the attorneys for Miss
Lizzie Spencer, school teacher OF
Johnson county, against William H.
Billings, George ". Billings, James
Huffman, Matthias McHenry and John
Trout. The defendants are charged
with sending a written notice to the
directors OF Miss spencer's school
requesting her withdrawal as teacher,
because they "consider her wholly
unable to teach our school," Plain
till says the implication was that she
was incompetent and un6t to have
charge Of children, and that the note
resulted in her dismissal as teacher