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The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
TANEY COUNTY REPUBLICAN
BY W. Fl. AND X. d. PRICE,
Taney County

fancy is the fourth county from the west
line OF the state, in the extreme southern
tier, and so bordering on Arkansas and en-
joying TO its fullness the wonderful climate
Of the sunny Side" OF the O2arks where the
temperature rarely touches zero 10 winter and the
nights In summer are always cool enough to make
sleep delight
The county contains $50 square miles, 442, ,00C
proyemeDt. The soil varies from the rich alluyial
bottoms to the strong limestone soils OF the rdg'
es, producing successfully wheat, on which the
county was AWARDED the silver medal at the Lou.
isiana Purchase exposition, corn second to none,
"a stalk on display In this Office measuring seven
teen feet four Inches in lengthy potatoes, cotton,
melons, tame grasses, berries, fruits. vegetables,
In fact everything except tropical products Pears
and peaches DO especially well.
The surface is rugged and picturesque covered
with forests and traversed by streams OF spark
ling clearness, among them the beautiful White
river, famed for its scenery aud its inny tribes,
including the gamey black bass and jack SALMON,
while the wooded eypanses abound in small game
OF various kinds, including fox, raccoon, opossom,
squirrel, quail and turkey, afording abundant
recreation with rod and gun.
The population OF the county by the last census
was 10, III, only two OF HON were colored and
all but 70 American born. Taxes are not heavy,
Wood for fuel is plentiful and remarkably cheap,
selling in Forsyth FOR 81 q wagon.load with side
boards Church and school facilities are fair and
Increasing many of the schools manifestng such
spirit OF up-to-date-ness as TO provide libraries
Iof the use oil pupils. Improved farms are valued
vt $40 to $50 an acre, while unimproved lauds can
be had at 81 % to IS. There are still about 1900
scres OF government lads, subject to homestead
or cash entry. The county is finely watered, the
White river alone winding in and out for about a
hundred miles within its borders.
There Is considerable timber Of commercial val
ue, including hickory, whiteoak, walnut, pine and
cedar, and vast mineral wealth. as indicated by
the little prospecting that has been done. Our
minerals include marble, hydraulic lime, mangan-
eSe copper, lead and zinc in their multitudluOuS
forms, silver and gold, recent prospecting showing
the presence Of both in paying quantities, all OF
which will afford matchmaking opportunities TO
men OF means, judgment and energy
In no spot on earth, perhaps, can poor man
so easily acquire home and make u living, and
any man who is honest and energetic will be vel
coined, be he rich or poor. The railroad, (White
River line Of the Missouri Pacihc,) is stimulating
enterprise and enhancing values, River traffic
and electric roads are certainty OF the near fut-
ure to give new stimulus to every material inter-
est and enhance all realty values Now is the
tilne to yet IN right and reap the benefits.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
Enlarge the Trade Radius ofthe Town.

Every merchant In Forsyth should
be keenly interested in the enlarge
ment of the territory from which trade
comes to town. 1t means the same
thing as an increase of wages to q
laboRer, or an increase OF salary to q
clerk or salesman, Not only that, but
the influences which tend to widen the
trade territory of the town act con.
tinuously as long as they are main
tained, and amounted to the same thing
TO the merchant as continuous in
crease in salary TO the man who works
for another on a salary basis. The
merchants of Forsyth can easily insure
an increase in the trade radius OF the
town, and consequent increase in the
volume of business they transact. There
is no secret, no mystery and no din.
Guilty about the proposition.
A large proportion Of the huma
family are bargain hunters, and no
man, and especially no woman, will
scorn TO go little out OF the way to
take advantage of bargain offerings.
Let each merchant offer some special
bargain in some useful article, either
continuously or on certain days of the
week or month, and advertise the fact
through the paper, which goes to
every postofiice in the county. 1t will
be a revelation to the man who does
not believe in advertising to see the
results. People who have been going
to other towns will come in with their
faces pointed toward those bargains.
Let the merchant see TO it that they
are real bargains Satisfied purchasers
will 60 home laden with bundles of
goods and will pass the story along to
their neighbors, who will likewise
seek the good things here offered.
The effect will be cumulative. The
story will travel, and build business for
the town as it goes.
A concerted effort upon the part Of
the merchants of Forsyth would short.
ly double the area from which they
draw business, and double the amount
Of business transacted by them, and all
without material increase in expenses.
There is probably not store in town
which could not do double its present
volume OF business with its present
facilities and force. The profits on the
increased business would be like find.
ing money. Let an immediate cam.
paign be organized for increasing the
trade territory That fair, reasonable,
concerted, continued effort of that kind
will produce results, there is not
the shadow OF q doubt. There Is no
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23

that country, owing to the use OF pot
ash, which abounds as a fertilizer,
yield enOrmously-are the principal
source of alcoholic supply, which also
is so cheap that it has come into very
wide use. II furnishes most OF the
light and runs all the motors.
When its use Is fully developed it
promises to revolutionize farm life.
There is no smoke or dirt for the stove
burns alcohol, and no lamps to clean,
for its use keeps them clean. Going
from the house 10 the barn, we find
threshing and farming machines, corn
shelters and cutters, the pumps for
water supply, the milki ing machine, all
run by alcohol. So, too, of churns,
apple and hay presses and separators,
taking most of the heavy drudgery of
the housewife, and enabling the farm.
er, by using traction plows and other
machinery, to get on almost without
help. And fortunate for him is 1t that
1t is coming to be so, for II has grown
to be almost impossible to get enough
farm labor. A farmer II he finds II
more convenient, can generate elec-
tricity enough from central plant To
run all his machinery.
Many things are combining to make
the country more attractive, and farm
life more desirable and lucrative.
Trolleys, good roads, the telephone,
rural delivery, have all contributed TO
relieve the isolation ana dullness Of
the farmers days, and II the plans
and prophecies Of the alcohol enthusi-
asts come true -and there seems 10 be
no reacon why they should not--farm.
ing will soon become far more profit
able and popular than 1t has even been.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
Alcohol For Fuel and Light.

There is probably no one more than
80 years old, and who has been any
thing of traveller, who does not re-
member the frequent stops of the loco.
motive or the steamboat TO wood up.
Then, as the forests began TO disap.
pear and fuel TO grow dearer, coal
came in, and remains the chief source
of power for al! purposes, although
electricity from waterfalls and dams
has come to be Of considerable import.
ance. Following coal, came kerosene,
which has grown into almost univer
sal use as un illuminant, and has been
widely availed of for heat and power.
Now, If some of the prophets can be
trusted, we are on the eve of an al
cohol age, and are likely to find it
before long generally substituted for
all other sources of light, heat and
power. This estimate is based on the
remarkable adaptability which alco.
hol has been shown to have for all
purposes, and on the fact that it can
be so cheaply produced without taxa
tion, when ouce the country gets the
hang of it, that its low cost will cause
1t TO supercede everything else. 1t
can be made from any sort of vege.
table growth, fruit or grain, and large
amounts of material generally wasted
can be utilized in its manufacture. In
Germany every farmer has his own
still, and the prevention OF their Illicit
use seems TO have been compassed
without difficulty. Potatoes-which in
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
HOW TO BE MISERABLE.

Sit by a window and look over
the way to your neighbor's excel
lent MANSION, which he has re
Gently built and paid for and fitted
out, and sigh, 80, that | were a
rich mani" Get angry with your
neighbor and think you have not a
friend in the world. Shed a tear
or two, and take a walk in the
cemetery and keep continually
saying to yourself: "When shall
| be buried here?"
Sign note for a friend and new
er forget your kindness, and
every hour in the day whisper to
yourself: al wonder If he will
ever pay that motel" | think every
body means to cheat you. Closely
examine every bill you take, and
doubt its being genuine until you
have put your neighbor to great
deal of trouble. Put confidence
in nobody, and believe every man
you deal with to be a rogue. New
er accommodate if you can pos
sibly help it. Buy as cheap as
you can and screw down to the
lowest cent. Grind the faces and
the hearts OF the unfortunate.
Brood over your misfortunes, your
lack OF talents, and believe that
at no distant day you will come to
want. Let the workhouse be ever
in your mind, with all the horrors
Of distress and poverty.
Follow these recipes strictly and
you will be miserable to your
hearts content--if we may SO
speak--sick at heart and at vari-
ance with the world. Nothing
a N a i 4 I
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
Relief from Rheumatic Palms.

II suffered with rheumatism for over
two years" says Mr.. ROLAND Curry, a
patrolman, OF Key West, Fla. "Some-
times 1t settled in my knees and lamed
me so | could hardly walk, at other
times 1t would be In my feet and hands
so was incapacitated for duty. One
night when was in severe pain and
lame from II my wife went to the drug
store here'a and came hack with q bottle
OF Chamberlain's Pain Balm. / was
rubbed with itand found the pain had
nearly gone during the night. kept
on using it for little more than two
weeks and found that IL drove the
rheumatism away. have not had any
trouble from that disease for over three
months" For sale by City drug store,
Forsyth, John A. Lamb, Taneyville,
and Jno. T. Dickenson, Dickens, Mo.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
DIR. Fulton, of Lutte, Suicides.

Our correspondent at Dit sends the
following: "Dr. Fulton left home a
few weeks ago on one of his usual
tours, and was not heard of until Tues
day, when his wife and family re,
ceived the heartrending message that
on the 10th instant he had committed
suicide in Wichita, Kansas. To the
present we have heard no cause as
signed save that for the past few years
he had been victim of dependency"
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
Our Terrible Tongue.

You take a swim,
You say you've swum;
Your nails you trim,
But they're not trum;
Aud milk you skim
Is never skum.
When words you speak,
Those works are spoken;
But nose you tweak
Is never twoken;
Nor can you seek
And say you've soken.
A top you spin,
The top is spun:
A hare you skin,
Yet It's not skun:
Nor can a grin
be ever grun.
If we forget,
Then we've forgotten;
But If we bet
We bav'nt botten:
No house we let
Is ever iotten,
What we upset,
Ia not upsotten;
Now don't these prove
Our language rotteny
--Eoston Transcript.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
81 a Year in Advance,

will cheer or encourage you, moth
ing will throw CLEAN of sunshine
or a ray of warmth into YOUR
heart. You will be an isolated
creature, a perfect picture of woe,
discomfort and despair.
Keep the home fires bright if you
would have the winter OF lite warm
and pleasant.
Some of the people who are the
most anxious about the recognition
OF friends in heaven above are
ones who shake hands with two
fingers in church.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
A marrow Escape.

G. W. Cloyd, a merchant, OF Plunk,
Mo-, had a narrow escape four years
ago, when he ran jItnson bur into his
thumb. He says: "The doctor wanted
to amputate II but would not consent.
! bought box Of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and that cured the dangerous
wound" 25c at A, n. Psrrish's. drug.
gist.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
IN THE HonE NEST
Cheerful Evening Reveries for Tired
Mothers
DON'T WHINE.

Don't be whining about having
fair chance. Throw a sensible
man out of the window, and he'll
fall on his feet and ask the nearest
way to his work. The more you
have to begin with the less you
will have in the end. Money you
earn yourself is mucn brighter than
any you get out of dead mems
bags. A scant breakfast in the
morning of life whets the appetite
for feast later in the day. He
who has tasted sour apple will
have the more relish for a sweet
one. Your present want will make
future prosperity all the sweeter.
Eighteen pence has set up many
pedler in business, and he has
kept his carriage. AS for the
place you are cast in, don't find
fault with that; you need not be a
horse because you were born in a
stable.
Ii bull tossed a man of mettle
SKY high, he would drop down
into good place. A hard work
Ing man with his wits about him
will make money while others will
do nothing but lose it.
As to the little troubles, who ex.
poets to find cherries withoutstones
or roses without thorns1 Who
would win must learn to bear.
ldleness lies in a bed sick Of the
mulligrubs, while industry finds
health and wealth. The dog in
the kennel barks at fleas, and the
hunting dog does not even know
that they are there. Laziuess
waits till the river is dry, and new
er gets to market. "Try" swims
it, and makes all the trades. Cant
do il" would not eat the bread cut
for him, but "Try" made meat out
of mushrooms.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23

Wanted--I will pay cash for good,
sound horse OF II or u hundred weight,
Call ut Bee Greek school, or address
me at Brauson. L. L. EAK1N,
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23
THE FOLLY OF THE DAY,


There is a dreadful ambition
abroad for being "genteel." We
keep up appearances too often at
the expense OF honesty; and though
we may not be rich, yet we must
seem to be respectable" though
only in the meanest sense.-in
mere vulgar show. We have not
the courage to go patiently on
ward in the condition of life in
which it has pleased God to call
us; but must aspire to some fash
ionable state to which we ridc.
ulously please to call ourselves,
and all to crafty the vanity of that
unsubstantial, genteel world, of
which we form part. There is
constant struggle and pressure for
front seats in the social amphi-
theatre; in the midst OF which all
noble, self denying resolve is trod-
den down, and many fine natures
are inevitably crushed to death.
What waste. what misery, what
bankruptcy, come from all this
ambition to dazzle others with a
glare OF apparent worldly success,
we need not describe. The mis-.
chievous results show themselves
in a thousand ways-in the rank
frauds committed by men who dare
to be dishonest, but do not care to
seem poor; and in the desperate
dashes at fortune, in which the
pity is not so much for those who
fail as for the hundreds of inno-
cent families who are so often in
volved in their ruin.
What becomes of the honey af-
ter the honeymoon is over.
You get 'down in the mouth"
too easily, my friend. Cheer up;
walk on the sunny side of the
street; live where you can catch
the south winds. Sunshine always
warns and cheers. Get more of it
and give it out---you have lived in
the frigid zone too long already.
We would like to send agulf stream
Of Joy into your life. Give us a
chance. Read the Home Circle
department and you will always
wear smile. 1t is the best known
tonic for the "blues."
Don't forget mother when pic
MICS and good times are in order.
Don't let her do all the hard work.
And boys, treat her to some fresh
air every day behind that newly
broken colt.
Oh, if you would gather all the
tender memories, all the lights and
shades OF the heart, all the BAN
quetings and reunions, all the flial,
paternal and conjugal affections,
and you had only four letters with
which to spell out that height, and
depth, and length, and breadth,
and magnitude, and eternity of
meaning. you would, with stream-
ing eyes. .nd trembling voice, and
agiiated iland, write it out in those
tqpr ,'.ing capitals, HOME.
i.sl.'.t' -------------------------
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23

better time to do thing that ought to
be done than now, and the Republican
will freely furnish every aid within its
power.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23

Don't forget mother when pic
MICS and good times are in order.
Don't let her do all the hard work.
And boys, treat her to some fresh
air every day behind that newly
broken colt.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1907-05-23

BY all means keep the bright
home-lights burning and open wide
the shutters. Home should not be
a darkened, narrow and exclusive
place---that invites narrowness and
and sehshness in the individual.
1t should be spot from which
light and joy and good cheer radi,
ate.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-23

Daily evening prayer at 500 o'clock
at which addresses will be delivered
upon the events of Holy Week in
chronological order. Wednesday 1900
the litany and meditation to women
upon the subjetc of the rest and re-
freshment of our Lord at the home OF
Mary and Martha on the Wednesday
before his crucifixion. Thursday
100. holy communion and address
Good Friday, II to 3. Three hours
service with addresses upon the
words of our Lord from the cross.
An invitation is extended to all who
desire to do SO to attend these SER
vices, Offerings will be taken at the
Palm unday service and all other
services during holy week for the
work OF missions.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-23
GULF COMPRESS
Is Just Now Closing a Very Succes-
full Season-The Seasons Record
is Over Fifty-Six Thousand Bales

The Gulf Compress Co, of this city
has pressed 58628 bales of cot
ton this season, and OF this number
there are now only 54I8 balts
in the yard. This is good showing
for the press considering the year
Mr,CL.Mose1y, the competent and
accommodating manager of the preso
and his assistants have handled the
press as successfully and as salts
factorily as any press in the state.
1t is true that there are times every
year when a rush comes in, it is i'm
possible to turn out the cotton as
fast as even the manager would like,
but these rush times and complaints
come to every press and nearly every
business and there is hardly any way
to prevent them but they are soon
over and many of those who have
kicked at their delays have ac-
nowledged their mistake in unjustly
criticising the management.
This summer the compress will be
thoroughly overhauled and put in
shape for a big business next fail
as big business is expected.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-23
WATER WORKS
IMPROVEMENTS
PLANT RECEIVES NEW SET
OF MACHINES
The New Outfit Will Be Installed
Next Month and Will be Ready for
Use by the First of June-Capacity
Will be Greatly Increased

The city has received the new all
compressor and pump for the water
works plant, and as soon as the wate,
recedes so that the foundation car
be built and settled the machines will
be put up 1t is not expected, how
ever, that they will be ready for oper-
alton before June I.
At present the waterworks plant
has two pumps and two air compress
sers which have the capacity of two
and one-half million gollons of water
every twenty-four hours With the
new machines from six to seven mil
lion gallons per day will be the cap
acity for every twenty-four hours.
For the benefit Of those who do not
understand the operations of the
plant we will say that the air com
pressers force the water from the
wells to the reservoirs, and the
pumps force the water from the re-
servoirs to the city through the wa
ter mains.
The new air compressor will force
the water from all the four wells
while now it takes the two compress
sers that have been in use for some
time. The new pump will give the
city three and one-ha1f million gal
Ions per day, which with the present
capacity of the plant will give the
city total of from six to seven mil
lion gollons of water per day.
This increased capacity means
much for Greenville In times of
large confagrations it will save many
a dollar from losses by fire, it means
better fire protection, better insur-
ance rates and the best of all, it
means full sense of protection at
all times.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-23
WHEELER FOR TREASURER
Popular Greenville Young Man Rum
For County Office


In this issue of The Times the
name of Mr.. George NJ Wheeler ap-
pears as a candidate for the office OF
Treasurer of Washington County.
Mr.. Wheeler has been a resident
Of Greenville for several years and
during that time has been citizen
that any county would be proud to
possess. He is a young man of char
acter, honesty and ability and capable
of filling not only the office of Treas
urer but any i'll the gift of the people
Mr. Wheeler has never sought of
fee before and was largely Influenced
to run for this one through the So
licitation of his many friends
throughout the county. He is a
member of the Steger-H Holmes Com
pany, stationers, of this city, and
handles the books of this large and
popular concern. Knowing Mr.
Wheeler as we do, we can say he
will duly appreciate the support of
his friends.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-23
LADIES MEET WITH COUNCIL.
Women's Civic League and Alder
men Hold Conference

On last Tuesday afternoon spec
ial meeting of the city council was
held in response to request from the
Wioman's Civic League. The pur-
pose of the meeting was to receive a
committee of ladies representing the
League, in regard to certain reforms.
The ladies presented petition re-
questing the Council to give attention
to the following matters:
That all petitions for liquor IL
censes be carefully examined by the
Council, and that the applicant in each
and every case be required by the
Council to prove everything that the
tlaw requires the applicant to prove,
before any license is granted.
AS to gambling, it having been
brought to the attention of the Leag-
lie that the Council, at a recent meet
ing, had resolved to have certain no.
torious gambling places suppressed,
and to permit other gambling places
to operate as heretofore, the League
pTcSGHlCQ It's pIOtCSI against Su(H Pal
tail enforcement of the gambling law
and requested that the law be fully,
fairly and impartially enforced again
st all gamblers alike.
The committee were in accord with
the one member of the Council, who
had stated, according to reports, that
the resolution of the Council as to
the suppression of gambling was good
SO far as it went, but that it did not
go far enough.
8 AS to Migrants. 1t having been
brought to the attention of the Leas-
ue. that member of the Council had
stated that at this time, there were
1000 negro vagrants in the City, the
ladies called the attention of the
Council to this and requested that
the vagrancy law be enforced against
these 1000 negroes and also against
any other negroes and whites. who
are vagrants as defined by law.
The Council agreed to comply with
the request of the ladies, as to the
first matter mentioned, but gave no
indication as to what course would
be pursued as to the other two mat
ters.