The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1916-07-28

The new owners Of the Mound City
electric light and power plant have
contracted with the city to furnish
current for the street lights Mt 8
cents .kilowatt hour and for the
white way lights at 10 cents. They
offer to pump the city's water ut 7
cents a thousand gallons. Heretofore
the city has pumped its own water,
using $4,000 gallons day, and the
pumping expense brought the cost up
to II cents gallon. BY accepting
the proposed contract the city will
save $500 year.
A Maysvlle man, wishing to send
q set of harness to his son in Alaska,
entrusted the entire job to Uncle Sam.
paying ss.sI postage to have Il sent
By parcel post.
A Rock Island freight train was
wrecked between Amity and Mays
vile recently and several meat cars
were piled up along the right Of way.
Persons came from far and near TO see
the wreck, and the Maysvillc Herald
states that most Of them lost their
appetite for meat rs consequence Of
seeing so much Of II mingled with the
wrcckagc and deprived Of rcfrigcra-
ton.
A short grape crop Is reported by
representative growers In Dckalb
county.
Grant Odncal and Walter Holt were
topping out haystsck on the Odncal
farm, near Princeton, last Monday,
when bolt OF lightning struck the
stack. Both men were knocked down
and the stack was set on fire. Fellow
workmcn had barely time TO remove
the stricken men from the burning
stack. Holt recovered. but Odncal
was dead.
Contrary to the wishes Of q single
Individual who voted against the
proposition. ninety Princeton voters
carried last Fridays special election
TO extend the city's limits 50 rs TO In.
clude 80 acres more territory.
Two rui'iians. one tall and red.
headed. and the other short and heavy
set with black hair and mustachc, en-
tered a farm house. near Gait. last
Sunday morning, bound and gagged
Mrs. Dale Kclso and beat her in or
effort TO make her give them money
Unsuccessful In this, they left hel
tied In u chair and ransacked tn,
house for valuablcs and made thcil
escape before Mr.. Kelso returnc,
home.
Paying Sal 900 for 63T acres, W. II
Lcazenby, Of Bethany. becomes owne
Of the G. T.. Girdner farm. near Mt
Moriah.
Arrested for driving his car OF
Maryvillc streets without tail light
Dale Ripley, an Albany young maj
attending Maryville state normal
chose to stand trial rather than pa
the So fine. After q trail, the costs o
which are $40, q jury decrecd that tn
fine must be paid. Now Ripley ha
appealed to the circuit court.
A week after being kicked by
horse and stuck In the arm with
pitchfork. Leslie Slack, a young ma
employed on q farm near QuitmaI
died last Wednesday from lockjaw.
II requires q good sized force {
carpenters 70 build granarics fa'
enough to hold the eats now bein
threshed on the Guyton & Harringto
farms near Lathrop. The Optimi
states that this firm will have abol
10000 bushels of oats.
The artificial lake recently bui
near Lathrop Is becoming pop
lar as q pleasure resort. A crowd
rs bathers is now usual sight at Il
big pond.
Now that Maryville us on the wat
wagon serious difficulty has arisen
to It's operation. A new street flush
has been bought at q cost Of SIS
and so far the committee in char
has been unable to raise by subscri
ton the $ll0 Q month required to O
crate It. Men who formerly subscri
ed toward the maintenance of sire
sprinkler balk at the new machiI
and one Is quoted as saying: ut W
said we could run the city withO
saloon license, let them do it."
In order to move the dredge bt
now at work on the 1902 River pi
the Maryville waterworks dam,
dredging contractor expects soon
build, just below the city plant, |
other dam high enough to float
dredge over the waterworks dam.
> Isaac Neff, who died at his Harris
county farm home last week, v
known for his charity. His home v
always open to the sick and homelt
and Mr.. Neff with his own hal
nursed many q sick wanderer back
health or across the dark valley.
ter rearing six children of his q
and even after the death Of his W
Mr.. Neff raised seven orphans to
come useful men and women in
community where he made his no
Even more beautiful than his de