The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-04-19
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Fredericktown will build s250,000
school building,
The annual conference of teachers
will be held in Columbia, Mays.
The Missouri Pacific railway will
build a large brick freight house at st.
Joe.
A survey is being made for an elec-
trio railway from Sedala to Kansas
City.
The drill at Bakersfield, where a
company is prospecting for oil, is down
400 feet.
The Farmers and Merchants bank of
Crane has been incorporated, with a
capital stock of S2l 900.
Billings. Christian county, is to have
a new bank, to be known as the Farmers
Bank, with a capital stock of $4,000.
Vernon county is TO have new court
house S0xl00 feet, 126 feet high, to he
built of stone, slate, steel, tile and iron.
A New York concern has brought
suit against the Sedalia Water and
Light company on 100000 worth of
bonds.
Spring efeld is to have another tele.
phone system, in which the Sante Fe
construction company is TO invest
$500, 900.
Ed Barnes and c. S. Chapman, OF
Linn Creek, had trouble last Thursday
concerning road matters and under.
took to argue it with powder and lead
Barnes and his father were both slight
ly wounded. Chapman and the junior
Barnes were placed under bonds 10 keer
the peace.
The body, or rather the skeleton o
Mrs. Courtney, who with two children
was drowned August 10, 1905, BY the
capsizing of a launch on the Missouri
river near Boonville, has been found or
an island below the town. The remains
were identified by the shoes worn. Tht
jewelry worn, including $1,000 dia
mond brooch, was not found.
While trying 10 ford the north f0rl
of White river at the Hodo ferry OF
the 10th instant, Sam Thompson. driv
er Of the mail hack between Yves
Plains and Gainesville, was drowned
Judge Cox OF Hickory county, who wa
following the hack in buggy, rescued
Miss Lena Gililand. the only passenge
on the hack, before the water swept
away. The driver jumped but coul,
not swim.
At Springfield Monday night Lesli
Peters, sixteen years old, shot an
l. killed a negro named Ralph Burns
who, with another negro, both wit
guns, attempted to hold up the youn
man and his girl companion. YOuu
= Peters Immediately went TO the polio
station and gave himself up to th
authorities. II the newspaper report
Of the case are correct this is one il
stance in which killing was justified
without regard to the color of th
+, assailauts.
At Monett Friday night four negro,
who were engaged in the constructiC
of the new roundhouse at that pla,
were fired upon while asleep in the
b tent and fed for their lives withol
shoes or clothes. The negroes returne
before morning and were provided |
J. the contractors with clothes and she
ter. a reward OF 800 has been offert
by the citizens OF Monet for the a
rest and conviction of each member
the gang engaged in the shooting. III
outrage was probably perpetrated |
members of the set who are accustomt
loudly and frequently TO proclaim the
y superiority TO "niggers."
" You may talk about your flower
state, and laud its praise in song
story; of its beauty and its perfun
NJ prate, and of its blooming glory; y,
may say your say without dismay, "
= may sing your song or chant it In mea
ures grave or measures gay-whate'
I your claim we'll haste to grant 1t; b
u the flower we'd choose for Old Mizz
excels them all ia boundless measuI
for the flower that appeals TO me 3
you is source of gain as we'll as plei
ure. or the hen, of the hen, q
patient hen, l sing the well-earn
praises, she blooms for the good a
gain of men, and now and then a moi
u gage raises; she's a flower Of fragran
rare and charming, nor lacks one WI
in grace or beauty, all critics OF /
style disarming while she devotes b
days TO duty. You may sing your so
of the goldenrod, of the buttercup
laughing daisy, but the lay Of the b
md the queen of the sod, will knock
otber blooyners crazy The hen