The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-20
NEWS FROM MISSOURI.
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The Founders week" celebration OF
Park college closed with the inaugura-
| tion OF President-eiect Lowell H. Nc
| Afee, Ph. d. Since the death of Or.
John A. McAfee, the founder of Park
college. the college has been without
president
Rev Mr. James Nj. Smith and Mrs
Smith celebrated the siXty-third amt
ycrsary of their marriage at Carthage
at family dinner party given them by
their daughters. Dr Smith Is ~ years
old and Mrs Smith is 81 Rev Mr
SMITH has been a Baptist minister G2
years.
J. W. Underwood. OF Walker. an ex-
state representative. had narrow es-
cape from death while leading n short
horn bull. II suddenly made an attack
upon him, Eoring him several times
and throwing him against n fence.
Prompt assistance saved his life. He
was dangerously injured
The St Louis 4 san Francisco has
surveyors IN the field making n re-
survey of the Ozark division Of the old
Memphis route between Springfield
and Thaycr No grade On the new
survey is more than thrcc-tCnrhs of
one per cent At the present time 1t is
! y per cent on the heavy Ozark noun
tain grades. Sixteen cars of freight
can be pulled over the Ozark division
now This will he doubled 10y rcduc-
Ing the grades
John w, Burks, Of Boone county,
thinks he has discovered a new remedy
for bad eyes He and his son ran
poIccat into hole. The son took tho
animal by The tail and pulled II out and
the father hit II on the head with n
club. This rilcd the polccat and It
perfumCd Mir Burls, hitting him.
among other numerous places, in ono
Of his eyes. The eye has been weak.
but MIR. Burke says that since tho
skunk tried his medical skin upon II
II is much better
The value Of n telephone in n country
a
Porter, feed merchants n CarrJllton.
who filed suit in the circuit court of
Livingston county against the Missouri
Valley Telephone company for that
amount on the claim that the defend
ant removed the telephone from their
store in CarrolltOn last September and
refused TO restore It. They maintained
that they had been patrons Of the sys-
TEN and ohcycd the reasonable rules
Of the company.
Missouri is not often thought Of M
n wine producing state. yet statistics
compiled by the state board Of
agriculture shows that the state
sends away annually 100000 gal
Ions Of wine and more than II 600 900
pounds Of grapes. No record can be
kept Of the large amount Of grapes and
wine that are produced for home use
Every county contributes to the pro-
duction Of vino and grapes, and the to-
tai is increasing annually. In wine pro,
duCtiOn Gasconade county leads. with
l5,0aG gallons annually. ST. Louis C0un-
ty leads in grapes, with 2O000O0
pounds annually.
Work is progressing very rapidly on
the cut-on between Cameron on the
Burlington & Mexico, on the Chicago
& Alton, and those two roads expect
to bc running trains over II some time
In July. They will not wait. however,
for the completion Of the cutoff to
commence using n shorter route to the
worlds fair, for on June 5 both roads
will begin running trains by way of
Louisiana The Alton tracks will be
used from Kansas City To Louisiana
and from there the worlds fair trains
will 30 over the burlington tracks into
St. Louis This will enable both roads
To run on much shorter schedules than
now In use
Gov Dockcry has appointed the fol
lowing delegates to represent Missouri
at the worlds curfcw congress. which
will convene in st Louis June q: W
T Darlington. DR. J =. Porth, Jcffcr-
son City. Miss Mary f.. Perry, ST.
Louis; Mrs Helen Thomas Thorpe,
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The youngest representative in the
Missouri Legislature will be ]. II. Will
hanson. of Harrison county, mem
ber OF tho senior law class of Mis-
souri, university. Mr.. Williamson has
lust rettIrnpd tn the university 10 tako