Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-04-09
lan.--sikeston Enterprise, End

| ASSsSA %hsSA kaf'St SS
instant.
The cedar timber holdings Of
the University of Missouri have
been sold to the American Pencil
Company Of New York which
plans to draw from the Missouri
lands materials for the manufact.
ure Of pencils. By act Of con-
gress the stats in 1882 was award.
ed 330,00 acres Of land for the
support Of state educational in.
stitutions and has derived from
the sale of portions of the land
S332, 600. There now remains
80, 400 acres Of the original grant
undisposed Of. The land is dis,
tributed in Butler, Benton. Crav,
ford,. Cedar, Douglas, Dunklin.
Lsolede, Pemiscot, Phelps, Polk.
Pulaski, Ripley, Stone, Tansy,
Wayne and Webster countless
Exchange. That may be oor-
rect to the other counties, but as
to Pemiscot, If there is o cedar
tree there, we have to be sighted,
But there is cypress in large
abundance. There is where we
spent most Of our boyhood days,
and we used to know the hog
paths, and hunt coon by the light
of the moon. And duriRg the
big overnows every spring, we
were expert in the canoe and
floating big cypress trees, single
file out of the woods. Ny, what
fun we did have in helping make
Q big raft and then taking it to
Memphis by the Mississippi route :
floating with tide,-Cape Prog.
ress.
| Old broken down Boone Coun-
ty horses, thin shaggy and past
the age of usefulness, find an
easy death ct the hands Of the
GLASSES in stock judging and
horse anatomy in the agricultural
department Of the University Of
Missouri. The department pays
So q head Cor old horses, and
after being judged by the classes
in stock judging a rubber bag is
placed over the horse's nose and
chloroform is gradually admins.
trated until the horse is dead.
Then II Is disseoted by the stu-
dents who are specialized in vet.
Urinary science. More than q
dozen horses are used each year
in this way.
/ State Superintendent Gass will
please accept thanks for 9 copy
Of the seth annual report OF
schools Of the state of Missouri,
and we desire to compliment him
on the excellent arrangement
and accuracy of detail Of the
volume. It Is replete with infor.
nation beneficial to everyone in.
terested in the condition and pro-
grsss OF the educational system
Of the commonwealth and full of
interest to the casual reader,
Write Prof. Gass or your repre-
sentative for q copy IL you
haven't one.
! Governor Hsdley Thursday
commuted the sentence Of 8.
Barto Rimel In order that he may
lbe committed to the colony for
, the feeble minded at Marshall,
. Rimsl came to the prison in 1907
from Nodaway County under
sentence of two years for the
llcrims Of grand larceny. Officers
{ of the prison say that he has
been mentally irresponsible eyep
since he ives received and that
the psnitsntiary was no plsce
rIfor him. He was taken TO the
tcolony that after noon,.
! Although the peach buds have
been all killed several times this
) winter by expert authority on
such subjects, there seems to be
) some live ones yet, and IL they
5 are not killed again q fair orop
> can be looked foT.
!, Anew census Of Fssdsricktowa,
: compIsted last week, shows that
> city to have q population Of somes
i 49, y - - AH.I- .