Ripley County democrat., February 19, 1909, Image 1

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'ROUND ABOUTTHE STATE, f
Gleaned frorn Exchanges.--Made by the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Orlgt
nal. Some Credited, and Some Stolen,'
2 . but Nearly All Interesting Reading. ... fc
. Cornelius Roach and two of hie
clerks haye ft total of twenty-five
'Children.
Joseph Ivie, a mine operator of
Kirksville, killed himself Friday
by drinking oarholio aoid.
There are said to be 100,000
Spiritualists in Missouri. This
may help to explain Jhai ghost
,rote. .'
Fulton's Commercial Club has
Invited the Missouri Press Assooi- peote(i to llTe Mr8 8ex BftW the
tion to hold its next meeting officer approaoh and barrioaded
there. , the doors and windows; Before
" Twp rural routes out of Glarke8 closing window the woman,
ville,. Pike County, have been made her declaration. She wrote
discontinued on aeoount of bad note saying she had gone to
roads. . Joinher husband.
fn the last fifteen years the! J., W. Cpx last week received
Joplin distriot has produce lead twenty-six .carloads of lumber at
and zno ores valued at more than Weston and Woodruff and has
1 113,000,000. - 'and has sixty-four more oarloads
' Fulton has a plumber who runs ' J tranf ! A11 taBb will
FU picture at the top of his ad- 9 "8ed nw toUcoobw.
L,D t. Nnt ..., r,imw., He hM 0,d orders for thirty-six
has the face to do that.
Chlllioothe Is the first town to
start, a "clean-qp-day". move-
men. ana roaniis are, or course,
0ue themuch abused women's
jDIUOS. -
It'loVksllbrfornke rubbing It
in on the Democrats that Missouri
Republicans will ride mules 'in
the inaugural procession inWash
Jngion. Even the poopl? who won't
(either pull pr push for a town,
the Hnle fluRtler-Leader argues,
should be willing to get on the
wagon and ride.
Fujton fa tearing its clothe? so
j fieroely in an effort to. get a
clothing factory that it 'is good
thing the starting of the factory
there, seems assured,
A murder in Osceola early this
jv.eek is about the first real ex
pitettient that town has bad
Since the Younger boys went out
' jpf the bandit business.
More than $1,000,000 worth of
pre was mined in the Alba-Neok
City district last year. Neck City
should soon be big enough to
want to change its name.
- To show how the handicap of
name can be overcome, two of the
. successful evangelists who have
. been, working Iq Missouri lfttely
a,re named Cupp and Drinkard.
The 8prlngfinld' Republican
.'has a theory that the St. Joseph,
soientist who asserts that crime
' nd .big ears go together has
been kioked by. a Missouri mule.
CoL-M. C. Wetmore, of St.
Louis, was eleoted, Missouri's
member of the Democratic nati
onal committee at the meeting of
'fhe state committee Tuesday
. ffternen
1 A Sedalia, widower with tljrfe
' fhildren advertised fori Sou them
girl 'and got hep'. - Advertising
, pays, remarks the Louisiana
Press-Journal but we don't know
It will pay the girl. . ; ;. " ;
"'Cyclone Jim Smith, one of
Vorgan'i cavalrymen, who sec
ured his nickname by his aggres-
- sire career as a greenhacker, died
the other day of pneumonia In
6t. Clair County. ;j
A -Garroll County girl took;
' L'tUs" chloroform to , quiet her
rervee lat week. She soon b-!
car e very quiet, but nobody else
h t" r 'hborhood was f?r aa
hour or two, until the dootor said
the danger was all over.
With the declaration, "This is
the last time you will see me this
side of heaven," Mrs Jane Sex of
4Joplin, -fifty-four yeare" old,
Thursday Blashed her throat with
a razor before Patrolman Jra
Stout, who was sent to arrest her
on a charge of stealing ohiokens,
oould break ooea tha done ta
Vevent the act. 8h fa nnt .
i man. tn ana llf U . 1 1L L - 1
sUws.the interest taken in the
tobaooo culture In Platte county,
it shows that Weeton has a wide-
; twake lumberman in town..
'Mr. Cox was pympelled to figure
with competitive dealers in near-
by.jjjties.- -.:-r- -
AJBurlington mortgage for $6,
000,000, covering part of the
Hopkins branch.' was releasedof
record at Maryville last week.
This mortgagage was dated Jan
uary 1, 1877, and was filed, about
the time the extension was com
menced from Amazonia to llop
kins. This branoh is now one
of , the most prosperous lines of
thes whole C. B. 4 Q. system,
running through one of the rich
est, sections of Northwest Mis
souri.
Things used to be a bit
dull!
over in the Salt River ooun'ry,
but that was before the following
appeared in the Rushville News;
"Lost A little dog about the
size of JoeYazel's feet, ears like
Charles Atkinson's, looks like
Willie Gardner in the face, and
hair like Ed Morgan's. When
last seen was headed toward
Rushville; Jf found leave At
Gardner's restaurant anJ reoeive
reward."
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A big fire at fyaynjer during
the storm of Thursday night des
troyed the telephone office, a dry
goods stored the First National
Bank, a hardware store, the post
office, a harness shop, a drug
store, and the opera house. Loss
estimated at $50,000. .
fha Missouri senate voted to
investigate the; charges of J. N.
Crutcher of Kansas City, a mem
ber of the state board of charities
and corrections, brought against
theConfederateHome at Higgins
ville. . . . r .
What the Brookfield .Gazette
believes Missouri wants is a fair
election law that will give neither
party an advantage, a law that
will beao plain that every man
can nnderstiand it-even a lawyer,
A Cass Countv naner asserts
thai the people of Butler have
feasted on rabbits so much lately
that many o her citizens run for
the brush pile every time they
hear a Bog bark. ' .
Dave Ball may go fc Kansas
City sod practice law. ..There are
tome fellows who don't liiteDav't!l lightning arresters that the
Bjand are mesn enough ta say that
" ; he can go in another direction,
An unusual bit of sooundrelism
wae perpetrated toClifton -City
one night recently. Some sooun
drel entered Melvin Wooley's
livery stable and drove a spike
into three horses just forward of
the hips. , The animals were
found next 'morning paralyzed
and soon died.
W. J. Canning committed sui
cide Wednesday night by hang
ing hiraeelf from a rafter of his
barn. Mr, Canning was a resi
dent of Fairview township, nVar
Chillioothe,. and was considered
very wealthy. It is thought that
his mind suddenly became de
ranged over business matters.
High water mark for flpdaway
County land was reaohed Mon
day, when W. W. Byers sold his
110-aore traot of land near Mary
ville to Eugene Ogden for $175 an
aore, amounting to the magni
ficent Bum of $19,250. It seems
that it is hard to pay too much
for a Nodaway County farm these
days. '- w
A Montgomery County negro
told of seeing a python-like snake
in a well near Middletewn. A
showman who needed snakes and
advertising matter went "after the
monster, but saw it not. The
credibility of the dusky witness
is, of -course, being questioned,
but be stioks to his story and!er
argues that the jpnake is well
sheltered..
Nowhere in Missouri did the
reoent "big wind" oauee muoh
more excitement thanfn Rich Hill.
A houseboat in whioh were hous
ed the families of workmen n
ployed on the canal there was
wrenched from it's moorings and
whirled into the sfream. Fortu
nately it was blown against a
dredgeboat in such- a manner as
to do comparatively little harm
and no one was injured. -
The case oLthe State vs. Maj.
H. W. Salmon? of the defunct
bank of Salmon 4 Salmon at
Clinton was reversed Tuesday in
the supreme court. Salmon was
' sentenced two years
vj vwv yanrniiupriBonuieni in
the' penitentiary by the lower
court. The onee was appealed to
the supreme court and on opin
ion written by Judge Fox the case
is remanded on a teohnioaUty.
Uncle Bob Smith, eighty-eight
y Ws of age, an Insurance agent
in Boone County, finished- a
horseback ride of 110 miles in
two days last week. Wiping to
ao a little soliciting be rode from
Columbia to RocheporC thence to
Harrlsburg, from there to Clark
in Howard County, from Clark to
Sturgeon, and from there to Qpn
tralm, then to Stephens' Store
and to points in eastern Boone
County, covering In the two days
a trine over 110 miles.
v In Joplin on Wednesday a tele
phone lineman working on a pole,'
and a horse whiqh stepped into a
muddy plaoe blacks away, were
instantly shooked to death simufc
taneously. Electrioianl say the
eventr were connected.' Their
theory says the News-Herald,
is that the horse was killed , by
ststio electricity-a condition so
unusual and improbable that a
similar chcumstanoe would not
happen again prtably in a
hundred years, acoording to the
electricians. InA-rnltnaKla aaam
the manner in. which the horse
was killed unless on the theory
that the crossing of the wires that
brought death to the man caused
damming of the eleotrical flow
at the powerhouse and sent such
weicbt of electricltv th-ono-h
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' arlh was suf!i.uenlly
ieaura the dU i t :'th
charged to
Stark Bros., of Louisiana, re
ceived an order Thursday for 17,
000 trees iand grafts from Italy.
There are few places on earth
where Stark trees are not grow
ing. There are orohards of them
in that land of contradictions
Australia; the mikado of Japan
has Stark trees in his gardens;
they are growing in the land of
czar and in King Edward's most
distant domain the subjects of
Queen WUhelmina and Emperor
William are planting them ; whan
President Roosevelt goes to Afri
ca to hunt elephants, he will find
orchards of Stark trees; in
Austria-Hungary, in Sweden, in
Belgium, in China and Mexico, in
Central and South America, even
in the isles of the sea, the Azores,
the Phillippines, Cuba, Porto
Rioo, eta. We want to make one
prediction when the average
Italian gets a taste of the delici
ous apples the "banan" will not
have the attractiveness for him in
a oommeroial way that it has now.
Prof. William H. Lynoh, g?adu
ate of the University of Missouri,
now prinoipal of the" publio
sohools of Cabool, Mo., has been
made a member of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science and the National Edu.
oational Association. Prof.
Lynoh was the first school teaoh-
to introduce the systematic
reading of newspapers in the
publio sohools. His plan hasbeen
adopted in many of the universi
ties andteoondary sohools pt the
oouhtry. He is a graduate of the
University of Missouri of the
class of 1868, and reoeived A. M.
degree in 1872. He has been a
teacher in the publio sohools of
Southern Missouri for forty-four
years and during the entire time
has lost only nine days. He sub
scribes for sixty-five newspapers
and periodicals, all of which he
distributes among the .pupl's of
his school, who must be prepared
to recite on them once a week.
During the Civil War and at
least forty-six years ago, was
organized in Atchison County
the "Sharp's Grove Safety Cora
mittee," to cheok lawlessness,
proteot property and inspire re
spect for organized government.
Its organiaation'has been oontin
uous to the present time, and it
now has approximately seventy
members. Then and now during
all the intervening years its
membership has been strictly
non-partisan and its objects and
attainments have seoured .the
safety aod protection of lives and
property beyOnd any available
means of computation aso the
number and value, During the
war and troublesome years im
mediately after, "the oemmittee"
was worth more than the consti
tution as a deterrent of crime and
disorder.
One of the coldest days thie-J
winter as Unole Charley Talley
was coming through the field to
town he noticed what hesuppoBed
to be a stiok lying on the sleety
ground, but when hereaotfed over
to pick it up the supposed stick
tried to bite him. He got out of
the way and soon seoured a real
stiok and dispatched his snake
ship. When it was dead he found
it to be a blue race; and it meas
ured about fouc. feet in length.-
Drowning Lieaaer-Kecord. .
A, parrot belonging to Mrs.
Josephine Sebastine of 617 North
Leonard avenue, was recovered
by the police in the Some of Wil
liam Page, 8110 Pine street, 8t.
Lois, Tuesday afternoon end the
arrest of Psge, who is fifty-four
old, followed, He eays he did
not steal the pet Sergeant Kling,
who recovered the bird, stys h
thnitj ts licirl it ssv: "I've
been, kidnaped," and "please
rescue me," when he entered the
Page horns.
Thomas Moranville "of Perry
oounty, with some friends, killed
a large wolf that weighed 57
pounds. Frank Mullersman of
Knob Lick was one of the party
and they chased six other wolves.
but failed to kill them.
Hay ti boasts of the onlv ma
cadamized road In Pemisoot ooun
ty. The silica put down as an
experiment, a distance of about
a ha a mile, from the city to the
alfalfa farm residenoe, is proving
a great suooess and standing up
unaer nara usage. This was per
haps the worst piece of road in
the oounty, and if this material
will stand on this road its future
is assured, and so far it is as solid
and firm as a rook. Hayti
Herald,.
A dog farm ia to be established
on a homestead in Taney County
early in. the spring, where, it is
expected by an enthusiastic pro
moter, dogs will be produced and
educated, having greater powers
of endurance and a higher degree
of intelligence than have been
known. Professor Erie Oleven
ger of Excelsior Springs, presi
dent of the Excelsior Springs
Kennel Club, is behind the log
farm and will at onoe begin work
cn the homestead and plaoe it in
oonduion to be devoted exclu
sively to dog culture, or the pro
pagation of dogs. The farm will
oover eight acres. 1 ! '
"A steak that has thefatmarb.
led in is the best to eat," said Dr.
P, F. Trowbridge, professor of
agricultural chemistry jn the
Agricultural College of the Uni
versity of Missouri, in a reoent
lecture before the Scientific As
sooiation in Columbia. "Pale
pinkish steak is from 'baby beef
and js not nearly so palatable as
more mature meat," said Dr.
Trowbridge. "The juiceiness of
a steak varies inversely with the
water in it." He explained that
the "juicy" appearance of a
steak that delights the epioure
comes from the fat melted into
the fibres of the steak and that
the flavoa comes from the amldo
aoid nitrogen and.the fat in the
fibres.
The Missouri Historical Assoc
iation now has a total of 40,000
volumes in the , historical
rooms of the Uni
versity of Missouri. Of this
number, 1800 are by Missouri
authors, and 928 bound volumes
of Missouri periodicals are also
included in ' the oolleotion. The
historical assoolatlort was organ
ized by the Missouri Press As
sociation, May. 26, 1808. The
association has collected a vast
amount of historical data1 per
taining to the early history of this
section of ' the United Stater.
The object of the association as
set forth in theoonstitution, Is
"the collection, perservalion, ex
hibition and publication of mat
erials for the study, of history,
especially of Missouri and the
middle west."
The work of the kitchen may
now become a pleasure, if the
plan for a "model kitchen," de
signed by Dr. Edna D. Day, of
the Home Economios Department
of the University of Missouri, is
adopted. Dr, Day hat had a,
temporary model kitchon built in
one of the rooms of the - Geology
Budding of the University, The
kitchen Js nine, by sixteen feel
and has two pantries, one a cold
pantry, five and 'a half by three
and a half feet, and another a
butl-r's pantry, : between the
kitchen and dining room, s'jt by
:t, foot, TU r'"i r
covered with blue and white san
itas paper and the floor with blue
and white linoleum. .The granite
ware and kitchen utensils are in
the same colors. All shelves are
painted white so that. they can
be kept perfectly clean.' The
furniture In the room is so ar
ranged that less than half the or
dinary walking about in the
kitohen Is required. .
Missouri Boys' Corn Grow. '
Insj Contest 1909.
The Missouri Boys' Com
Growing Contest promises to be
larger than ever this year. In
1909 more than 800 Missouri far
mer boys were in this contest and
at least 1000 ars expected to en
roll in 1909. There are two cla.
see, one for boys between 'the
ages of ten ai)d sixteen and one
for young men between the ages
of sixteen and twenty. Liberal
prizes are "being offered again
this year at the State Fair and
and the MisSoTjCorn Show at
Columbia for the best exhibits in
both classes. Besides the cash
prizes two large silver trophy,
are offered, one for the best sam
ple exhibited in the boys' olass
and the other for that In, the
young men's class.
The amount of corn to be
grown in the boys' olass is one
fourth aore and in the young
men's class one aore.' There are
no fees or requirements for ad- '
mission. Simply send name, age
and address to the "Beoretary of
the Missouri Coro Growers As
sociation at Columbia askinir ta
be enrolled. Corn for planting
will be furnished those who have'
no cood seed of their own. A
oiroular giving full particulars
regarding the rules and prizes in
this oontest as well as directions
for nlantinc; and cultivating the
oorn will be mailed upon request, -
B. M. JORDAN.
Seo'y. Mo. Corn Growers Asso.
Oat Adlnsj.
The yield of oats in Missouri
has been steadily decreasing for
a number of years due largely to
the facts that ths soil is decreas
ing in fertility through the burn
ing out of the humus supply. It
is, therefore, neooessary to take,
considerable more pains than
formerly in preparing land for
oats. It will almost always pay
to either plow the land for oats
or to thoroughly disk it if it ia
stalk land. Faty plowing where
a man can afford it is of course
the best preparation of tie land
for oats. The Experiment station
always replows land in the spring
or fall plows for oats and the
yteid seoured cn land whioh ' ia .
not higher in fertility than the
average land of -north Missouri
frequeutly reaches aa muoh as
60 bushels , and In individual
instances , it has been "
known to go up to 60 bushels,
In other words the thorough pre
paration of the seed , bed and
drilling the oats in with ft
drill will go a long ways toward
solving the problem of low oat
yields, .: " ' ' -V ,,
There are seasons when oats
mudded in early will make more -
yield than oats put in "on .
thoroughly prepared lands but on
the average season this is not
true. The thorough preparations -of
the seed bed, therefore, and
the use of a drill In putting in the
seed seems to be the two prime
factors for controling the yield of
oats in Missouri. A third faclor :
and one which is of much I im
portance is ths selection of tha
proper varieties. The Texs!Re1
Rust Proof or an iarly variety of
northern grown seed secured
directly from the north at le-t
every ' other year will almot
always brinj BMmfsetory retsw s.
- M. F. Miixer,
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