The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-09-20
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Swift Il Co.'S glue factory sustained
loss of $4,000 by fire few days ago.
The Stone county fair at Galena last
week is said to have been a creditable
show.
The corner stone has been laid in
Kansas City for a $4,000 home for
babies.
The Southwest Missouri and Webb
City Northern electric railways have
been merged.
The Citizens Bank has been
organized at Lees Summit with q
capital stock OF $4,000.
Indications are that the present will
prove the best building year in the
history of Kansas City.
Congressman Shackelford says some-
thing must be done to get out the vote
on election day or his district is lost,
The Fifth Presbyterian church is to
be erected at Twelfth and Brooklyn
streets, Kansas City, at cost of $40, 900.
The inspection OF meats under the
new national meat inspection law com.
menced in Kansas City on the 18th iu-
slant.
Ground was broken last week for the
Masonic temple at the northeast cor
ner of East Walnut and Pearl streets,
Springfield.
Work is expected to commence with
in thirty days on the construction OF
the northwest Missouri normal school
at Maryvillc.
A strenuous effort is being made by
Kansas City to have steamer traffic
resumed on the Missouri river as a
check against unjust freight rates.
Two young men, John and George
Scott, drowned while trying to cross
the Usage river with II boat and II
horse near Kenchaloe shoals five miles
below Buffalo.
The Springfield Gas and Electric
company has been granted a franchise
to construct heating plant and to
distribute heat by pipes and conduits
throughout the city.
st. Louis seems TO have q more or
less solid grip on second place from the
bottom in the National baseball league,
and is comfortably anchored in fourth
place from the bottom of the list in the
American league.
The Kansas City police arrested a
man for carrying concealed weapons,
including jag, bible and revolver
UPON the plea that he couldn't do any
harm with 1t he was permitted to take
the bible with him TO his cell.
Secretary Shaw opened n speaking
engagement at Hannibal Monday, the
first Of a series of thirteen speeches ii
six days in the state this week. That
thirteen will prove q most unluckl
number for Missouri Democrats.
Concrete instead of wood piling i
being used IN st. Louis in construction
where piling is exposed to water. Tn,
concrete piling, it is said, will b,
practically indstructible, where tn,
toredo worm would destroy wood piling
: Pat Quinn, who had served abou
nine years of q forty-year sentence 70
murder in the second degree, disar
peared while at work on the street i
front of the penitentiary at Jeiferso
City on the 18th instant, He was
"trusty,'
The Mcdonald county courthouse a
Pincville was broken into by person
unknown and the records taken ava
from the recorders Office Thursda,
The burglars scattered red pepper o
their trail TO prevent being tracke
by bloodhounds.
Thomas T. Dalton, one OF Farming
>, tons oldest business men, died OF bloc
poisoning on the 18th instant. He ha
been leader in Republican polite
In st. Francois county since the wa
and was public administrator at Ii
7 time Of his death.
! The first train load OF "big red o.
pies" from the Ozarks will be shippt
out OF Springfield TO Il foreign mark
in short time. The Ozark Fru
Growers association expects TO expo
minimum Of 100000 barrels durir
the present season, large ratio
which will 20 TO oLondon, England.
q In the reorganiza tion plans su
mitted by the conference committee
the Cumberland Presbyterians and Il
Presbyterian church, United States
America, made necessary by the uni
OF the two churches, the Ozark Pre-
bytery is TO be composed OF the count
nj Lof Cedar, DaGe, Polk, Dallas, Lacled