Ripley County democrat., 1918-08-23

County Clerk ]. ] kennon made 2
business trip 10 ST. Louis thisweek.
Prosecuting Attorney Goo. p. slOan
made 4 business trip to Naylor Tuss-
day.
Mrs, Walter w Gary and children
are At 1.-THE Blum this week visiting
friends.
Miss Miriam qeElach is at home on a
Visit to her parents, Mr.ia Mrs. !. D.
Gerlach.
Miss ,Bsss Mabrey went to Poplar
Bluff this week 70 VISIT friends for a
few days.
Miss Dorothy Wright went to Little
Rock last Tuesday to visit her sister,
Mrs. Clyde Page.
Rey. n. j. Belt and wife, Of West
Pains, IL here this week the guest Of j..
D. Gerlach and family.
Scoutmaster u. T. Foard and bunch
Poi tbe scouts are camped up The river
this week on an outing.
Louie Hoeffer and son, Carl. ,spent a
few days up near Bay Mills fishing this
week, and report angling good.
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l.. e. Bird has Joined the clerical
force Of the Doniphan State Bank, aid
will dispose Of his interest in tbs barber
shop,
Mrs II. l.. Deem left last Sunday for
Petersburg, Indiana, being called there
by the serious- illness Of Mr.. Deems
mother.
w. j. Kelly has accepted the posi-
tion, By appointment, OF city marshall
and street commissioner, and is now on
the job,
Alphonso Paul left the first Of the
week for Jacksonville, Tennessee, where
he viii work for the DuPont-Nemours
Powder Co.
AL Smith this week freighted four
boat loads Of tiling and other materials
up to The Howe works just below
Wrighter's Rock.
The city board at recent meeting
employed Horace o. Brown asswater-
works superintendent and he has taken
charge OF the work.
Mrs. l.. Harris came home the. past
week from visit to relatives in Michi
gan and other points north. She was
gone about two months,
Attorney G. 0. Borth has been elect
Cd Secretary. treasurer Of the local
chapter Of the Red Cross, vice Mrs. G.
r. Allen secretary and Mrs. e. B.
Johnston treasurer. ~
j r. Keunon and his sons had their
wheat crop destroyed by fire one day
the past week. The crop was in stack
and the fire came out OF the woods and
swept The fields The loss will reach
e, 600, a part Of which Is covered by
insurance,
DR.. Chester A. Ponder, who about |
year ego enlisted as veterinary sur
sson in the army, was examined,
passed and ordered home to await or
iers, last Saturday received notice to
hold himself ready to report for duty
about October ist next.
E. C. White, of the Republican, made
4 trip to the Bluff last Tuesday to at
lend a meeting Of the Fourteenth Con-
sressIonal District Republican Com
nlttee, which met for the purpose Of
be being the member OF
The committee from this county.
All the boys that left here some
weeks ago to work at Jacksonville,
Tennessee, have returned home or gone
else to work. While they
liked their jbbsin so far as the work
md pay Is concerned, the FEEDING arr
we're inadequate and they
nearly all quit,
Ripley county received $i4.i77 04
'tate school money this year. OF this
,um 1871 goes to the state aid fund Of
The various districts Ct The county,
a, ,425 goes TO the teachers fund, and
,3, ,97i.0i goes to the attendance fund.
Forty districtsSin the county, including
Naylor district, receives state aid.
Charley Danner came homo from
Oklahoma Thursday Of this week on
gisit TO his parents, and to see his
brother. Sam, who was here on a fur
ough from Camp Houston, San An
;onio. Tex, where he Il in sarTice in
he army. Sam left today to reioin his
and Charley will remain here
! few days longer.
Owners Of automobiles about town
he past week subscribed 4 fund
to $500 which will be used
10 repair the streets and crossings
,hont tovn ana C;tv Marsbal Kellvl