The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-12-14
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negie library.
Work is in progress on new court
house at Bolivar.
Trenton is about to purchase the
waterworks system.
The Children's home at Joplin ha.
been destroyed by fire.
The Frisco round house at Pacific
burned few days ago
Carrol,ton will build about two miles
of brick sidewalks in the spring.
The plant of thc Annie Rooney mine
at Aurora, burned few days ago, is to
be rebuilt.
The Aurora auditorium is under con-
struction. 1t is to cost Sl0,0 900 and seat
1000 persons.
The Frisco has knocked the "Sys-
tenn out of its name and out of its
advertising.
The Burlington road has contracted
for the erection OF grain house at
Harlem with a capacity Of 100000.
Friday night the Springfield high
school basket ball team won from the
Aurora high school team by score OF
80 to5.
Mrs. Alice O'Day, now OF St, Louis,
has donated her 100000 Springfield
home to the Visitation nuns and will
enter nunnery OF that order.
G. G. Arnett and Miss Emma Speed
OF Bunceton eloped last Sunday and
were married by Methodist minister
at Sedalia, at the hour of midnight
Charles L. Teeters, general foreman
of the Frisco bridge department at
Springfield, was caught by falling
girder one day last week and so seri-
ously injured that he may die.
Train No. 35, a Frisco freight, was
wrecked Friday morning at the water
tank a mile west Of Crocker, fifteen
cars being derailed and Engineer
Music OF Springfield instantly killed.
In an oratorical contest held at Car
thage fortnight ago between several
southwest Missouri colleges, Thos.
Moore, son OF John T. Moore. Judge of
the 3lst judicial circuit, won the prize
s35 gold watch.
Baked possum and sweet potatoes
forms the central dish on "eating"
occasions in southwest Missouri this
time of the year, and the combination
is hard to beat by anything that can be
put together in the ''eifele east
The Gainesville Democrat has been
purchased and re-chrislened Repub-
lican, with a like change in its politics.
II. A. and Il. w. Ebrite are in charge
as editor and associate editor respect
| lively. There is room in Gainesville for
improvement in the newspaper field.
Various Missouri towns are acquir-
ing manufactures OF various kinds.
This is effort in the right direction.
a factory is the only means OF building
up and maintaining an inland town,
and money and effort expended in
securing them is usually money profit.
ably invested.
Two disastrous incendiary fires occur
red at Carrollton Sunday morning, one
in the electric line depot and the other
in livery barn. In the latter fifteen
horses and nine mules were lost. The
telephone wires were cut before the
fires we're started, causing half an
hours delay in getting fire pressure.
Word comes from Darrow, Okla, of
the death OF young man of - years
from cigarette-smoking. Man, in this
case, is an unjustifiable use OF the word.
There is nothing manly in sacrificing
life to degrading and disgusting in.
diligence, and society and the country
have probably lost nothing in his tax.
ing off.
At Centerville last Friday the
Spaughs, mother and son, were con-
victed for the killing last May Of Sher-
iif Polk, of Iron county, the mother
being convicted OF murder in the sec.
ond degree and the son of first degree
murder. Mrs. Spaugh was given a ten
year sentence. The second son OF Mrs.
Spaugh was granted a separate trial
and his case continued to the May
term.
Torture OF . Preacher.