The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-05-31
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Mexico has voted bonds for $50, ,O0C
high school building.
Daviess county has acceped plans for
new S65, 900 court house.
Theate at which fruit is being plant
ed, il kept ap, will soon make OF the
Ozarks the fruit garden of the world,
A contract has been let for the con.
struction of hine miles OF gravel road in
Boone county alta cost of Sl5 900.
The opera house in course Of con.
struction at Chilicothe was blown
down, but John Ellington, the owner,
will at once begin anew.
The Carthage Press says Jasper
county potato bugs are seemingly i'm
mune against Paris green and asks for
bug eXtermiDator that will extermin.
ate
Howard Newton, an amateur ball
player, was struck just below the heart
by pitched ball in game at Kansas
City Saturday, and died In few
minutes
At Kansas City Monday William
Boggs plead guilty to an attempt to
vote illegally at the resent city elec-
tion and was sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary.
At a dance near Purcell few nights
ago trouble was started by drunken
man, who was probably fatally injured
by a Young man whom he was pursuing
with heavy whip.
Webb City has a man l03 years old,
Thomas Z, Sauls by name. Mr. Sauls
served in the Mexican and civil wars,
and is said to have built the first smelt-
er in southwest Missouri.
Galloway county farmers offer 800 for
the scalp of a big gray wolf that has been
killing sheep for the past winter at a
wholesale rate. The varmint is said TO
have killed 81, 900 worth of sheep during
his depredatious.
The contract has been let for the
erection of a Masonic temple and busi-
ness structure at Carterville. The
structure is to be I00xl00 feet on the
ground, three stories high, and brick
will be used in its construction.
A Carthage woman sues for $1,000
for being scared" by deputy cons
table in the discharge OF his duty.
Should she succeed in collecting the
claim we need not be surprised to hear
ter repeat under her breath. "Scare
me again!' followed by swelling fem
mime chorus, "Scare me to.'
Charles w. Smart, who recently pur.
chased the old Stephens Guerran,
place near Fulton, has found twenty.
six human skeletons under the house
The skulls were the best preserved
part OF the skeletons, which were ar.
anged in layers, face downward. II Is
supposed TO be an old Indian burying
ground.
They are coming back from Califor.
MIA to live in "old Mizzoo." The Mis-.
sourian likes something solid to stand
on, and when the earth gets to jerking
out from under his feet he begins tC
long for home, and generally comes
back content TO stay where the possum
gathers fat. the pawpaw accumulates
its finest flavor, and the earth is always
in stable equilibrium.
w. NJ. Wade and II. NJ. Cook, state
bank examiners, closed and took charge
of the Joplin Savings bank Monday
morning. The failure is the result of q
run lasting two weeks, started by tine
circulation Of damaging reports con
corning the condition Of the institution
Examiner Wade on Saturday discov
cred overdrafts amounting to s25, 900
The assets are small. Bad loans are re
ponsible for the failure. Two warrant
were issued for the arrest OF Georg,
w. Layne, president OF the bank, on,
charging him with lending more thar
25 per cent Of the capital stock to ont
borrower and the other with receiving
deposits after the bank was insolvent
Layne has offered to turn over his per
sOnal property TO repay depositors.