The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-07-05
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The court house at Gainesville is to
have new front and be otherwise i'm.
proved.
1t is said that Dittman Bros. Of St.
Louis will erect a $25, 900 shoe factory
at Mexico.
A var Of extermiuation Is being
waged against the joints IN Kansas
City, Kansas.
Lightning seems to have a habit OF
ripping things around Sparta, The
Leader reports the killing Of horse
for George Mccoy and mule colt for
7. Z. Furguson.
A company of representative bust.
ness men of Joplin are planning TO con.
struet an independent pipe line into
the mining district. TO supply gas to
miners and manufacturers
Jarvis Hunt, the Chicago architect
who has been awarded the contract for
building the new union passenger
station in Kansas City, says "No city
on earth will have n finer station than
Kansas City,"
Lewis Rutherford on the Fink fruit
farm northeast of Sparta put one of his
fingers on top of a post just as bis help.
er landed on it with a ten-pound ham,
mer, The hammer was not damaged.
The doctor is trying to save what he
can OF the finger, says Sparta Leader
With few exceptions In circumscribed
areas the crops in this state promise TO
be fine. This includes not only grains
and grasses but fruits as we'll. There
is no visible reason why MissOurians
should not live like kings during the
coming twelve months, and contribute
much to the cOmmissary department of
the world besides, as is her custom.
The first new wheat was contracted
for delivery in Springfield last Mon.
day at 81 cents a bushel. II is stated
that the yield is below and the quality
above the average. Much Of the local
yield will be used by Springfield mill
ing companies in the manufacture of
tlour which has already been contra. ted
for in England and Germany Cuba and
Porto Rico.
Frank Alexander Mclean, u Spring,
field butcher who operated small
grocery in connection with his meat
market, committed suicide by taking
an ounce and half OF laudanum. He
was financially embarrassed and sought
this way out of predicament which he
left his wife and three children to face
alone. Another instance in which
suicide is the part of cowardice.
Building permits issued in Joplin for
the present year aggregate almost a
million and quarter dollars. Among
the most important items are the
"Olivia" apartment hotel, $3.50, 900, St.
Peters Catholic church, 5000, Joplin
Hotel 5000, 900, st. Philips Episcopal
hurch $40, 900, the JOpl n
Candy aud Specially company, $4,000,
Keller wagon factory, $4,000. Spring
field will have to sprint some to pass
Joplin in the matter of improvements.
A posse Of eighty men was organized
in Ripley county last week to go out on
a man hunt, according to the Doniphan
Republican. They wanted the East
man boys, George and ELL, who are
wanted for the killing OF Charlie,
Stacey June 10. They have since beer
terrorizing the neighborhood where
). they live and where they have been il
hiding since the killing Of Stacey, b,
posting notices OF their intention to xii
certain persons who had been instru
mental in one way or another in fasten
ing the responsibility for the STAGE.
murder upon them.
A big electrical power scheme !
about to be launched in Camden county
the plans for which have just beef
completed. The Big Niangua rive
3. makes loop Ct eleven miles in tn
county, in that distance giving a fal
= of twenty-five feet. 1t is proposed b
build huge dam to hold the waite
conducted across the neck by ditch
\ and it is estimated that 5000 horse
power will be made available. 1t /
proposed TO transmit this power b
means OF electric cables TO cities with
in radius OF 80 miles, taking |
several important cities, includin
Kansas City, Carthage, Joplin, Sedali
and Springfield. The cost Of the dar
q and generating and transmission plan
is estimated at 100000.
Producers and Cosumers,
is the title Lf the document OF the Cor