The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-06-21

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bank.
Houston is erecting Il new high schoc
building.
Richmond will have a $4,000 Carne
gle library,
Sparta will hold a street fair Sep
temher ~ TO % inclusive.
Higginsville has voted bonds for
S25, 600 high school building.
a new bank has been chartered a
Bertrand, Mississippi county, will
S25, 600 capital stock.
Bud Gibson of Ozark sold team o
mules last week for S4S7 80. The Mis-
souri, mule is your true arstOcrat.
Gentry Oddfellows will build large
two story brick building, the upper
story of which will be used for lodg,
room.
Application has been filed for the
erection of the Pilgrim Congregation
al church in ST. Louis, ut an estimated
cost OF 100000.
II j. Barren is again operating in
! the mining district southwest OF Ozark,
according to the Democrat, with indi.
cations that promise to belle his name,
The ladies of the Baptist church OF
Ozark have complied a cook book, to be
sold at 10 cents n copy, plus a two cent
stamp if the book is to BE mailed, for
the benefit Of the local church.
It is said that indictments have been
returned against three Columbia
students for rioting when the circus
came to town" a ruilian is no less SO
because the little is preceded by
student"
The recent frcshet took out the mill.
dam ut Ozark. AS the owners were
Just ready to tear out the old dam and
put in IA new, for which purpose they
had material already ON the ground, the
loss is quite gain in time, labor and
money.
Seventh district Christian EndavOr.
crs held their convention in Ash Grove
last Thursday and Friday. The counties
compl ising the district are Christian,
Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Laclede, Polk.
Pulaski, ST, Clair, Stone, Tancy and
Webster.
X. G. Buckeye, OF Joliet, Ill.,, inven.
tor OF the Buckeye sand brick machine.
one OF the most successful ever made
has been in Joplin looking over the
field with II view to determining the
utility of waste from the mines in max.
ing brick.
The little stunt performed by St.
Louis one day last week was the voting
of Sll, ,0OC, 900 bonds for public improv.
ments, the chief Of which is to be
free bridge costing about $4,000, 900.
This is some indication that ST. Louis
has become town.
IT is announced that more than five
hundred students are in attendance at
the new state normal at Springfield.
1t is evident that Missouri pedagogues
do not mean TO fail in their efforts to
teach the young idea how to shoot for
lack OF knowing how.
Three Austrians engaged on the con-
structiOn work OF the new Missouri
Pacific line southwest OF Springfield
were arrested last week and taken TO
Springfield for bootlegging whisky.
The gang with which they were al
tented to protect their cOuntrymcn,
and for time it looked ugly for Dep.
uty Marshal Sheldon and his assistant
deputy John Mack.
Six men were arrested near Sikeston
last week, on charge of peOnage, in
that they forcibly held about forty
negroes in virtual slavery, under armed
guard, and forced them TO labor for
nothing or next to nothing. The men
on whose plantation these men were
forced to work are Charles NJ, james
T.. and Rex Smith, accounted among
the wealthiest citizens of Sikeston.