The Monett times., March 17, 1922, WEEKLY EDITION, Image 6

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THE BIONETT WEEHLY Ttt.ES.
'FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922.
NO MORE HAWK BOUNTIES
Deputy Game arid Fish Commis-
Chief Consulting Engineer Announces f sioner Floyd C. Callaway, has receiv-
FR1SCO LAUNCHES
REPAIR PROGRAM
Contract for Double Tracking
Part of System.
, Springfield, March 10. The first
Ktep in the Frisco Railroad company'
recently announced plan to spend a
large sum this year in double-tracking,
ballasting and teplacing old rails
was taken in St. Louis yesterday
when contracts for 20 miles of double
tracking were let in the office of F. G.
Jonah, chief consulting engineer. It
is unofficially estimated that the con
tract involves the expenditure of a
bout $1,500,000.
- rv: xi: " icates issued by the
J. M. Kurn will lorm a large item of-i c Commi.ssioner Middleton,3
expense in the general improvement. atlministration a38Ume(j office the
piannea oy me rrisco lor cms year, , . . . , . ,
u- i ... I .i o n.n bounty claim had increased
uh trh U'lll r sir a I nnrtMivim a r CW 111 111-
000.
Flans have been made by the corn
ed word from the State Game and
Fish Department, that the opinion
from Special Assessment, J. Henry
Caruthers of the Attorney Generals
office is rendered that no payment
can be made for hawk bounties.
This opinion is given upon the fact
that the Legislature did not mention
the- subject of bounties in his regulars
appropriation for conducting the
game and fish commissioner's office.
The game laws set forth the pro-
FRUIT PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT ! GEE'S DUROC SALE A SUCCESS
Monthly Report Issued by State De
partment Shows Condition in
Various Counties.
Jefferson City, Mo., March 10.
The official monthly crop, report of
Missouri . was issued by the State
Board of Agriculture and the Govern
ment Crop Estimates bureau today.
The outlook is stated to be much
brighter than it was a few months
ago. Wheat has an average of 80
per cent. Fruit prospects are excel
lent. The quantity of grain on hand
is much less than in March, 1921. At
The Duroc bred sow sale of Gee
& Sons, of Mt Vernon, held March 7,
was a success. Sows and gilts bred
to Grand Sensation and Double Path
finder attracted breeders from' several
states. Colonels Hudson, Graff
LEGAL PAPERS FOUND IN
FIELD SOUTH OF NEOSHO
vlcinn fnr an "annual" dim nf 85 ftflft
00 upon which warrants may be ! F'?".' th.e "?L' ?n
drawn for payment of bounty certifi
various county
enormous
ly all over the State. There were
nearly twice as many claims as the '
funds could pay. Naturally the
hand is placed at 90,558,000 bushels
A year ago it was 134,494,000 bushels.
Cash rents for agricultural land have
dropped within the year from $6 to
S4.60 per acre. Farm values have
shrunk, the report says. The official
report follows':
Stocks of grain upon Missouri
farms now total 90,558,000 bushels,
Neosho, Mo., March 10. A quan
tity of legal papers and documents
believed to be those taken from two
PineviHe banks, which were bur
glarized Tuesday morning, have been
Smith, Jones and Washam conducted , found in a field eight miles south of
pany to double-track the road from .. BM n. ' UnUtv nf compared to 134,733,000 last March,
5!! r!fSS Paying certificates for an "annual" -cording to e .afam returns
i . ' . ... . . sum when that amount had already ,
to Windsor Springs, a distance of four . on.i.j lqoi - Mayes of the Federal State Crop Re-
and three-fourths miles, at a total xhe 1922 ..annual bounty fund wa3 ' porting Service. Farmers now have
cost of $1,385,000 insufficient t0 cover the deficiency only 38 per cent of their 1921 corn, or
Grading will be done between ( of a care 69,494,000 bushels, compared to 47
grocer iN unuej am, -onn. , c,aims TUg caed fof &n per cent or tne iswu crop anu WTOo..
a cost of $675,000 and ballasting be- ' - . ., r-,.i ntt ,uiv 000 last March. Of wheat 15 per cent
tween St. Louis and Memphis and be.digc 'related against 24, or 5 169,000 bushels and
tween Muskogee and Okmulgee, to i . . ... . ,,, ,Q. 9,037,000; of oats, 37 per cent com-
t- , . ... ... pared to 44, or 15,895,000, against 25,-
mentioned in the appropriation nor J."' " " , . ' . , j -.
. . . , ... , 740,000. This is a total reduction of
total about $328,000.
Bridges will not be neglected. The
company plans to spend $280,000 on
because authority for such did not
44,175,000 bushels, or 32 per cent on
several of these and will spend about i . . , . , . all grain.
, ..,..,., .i exist under the passage of a law by .
$35,000 for the installation of water I . x . , f ? .. . , The su
plants, Mr. Kurn said.
BROWN HARRIS
powers to appropriate by means of
enactment of the same law section for
hawk bounty, and upon which the
many previous opinion wa3 based.
The certificates call for fifty cents
surplus corn is in Missouri's
northern third; together with a con
siderable amount in the western coun
ties, with nearly all counties in cen
tral and southern sections short on
corn and buying.
The portion of last year's oat crop
on farms is considerably more than
A marriage of interest to
people in Monett is that of Dr. Nor
man Brown, of Oklahoma City, Okla.,fr each hawk, horned owl, or eagle
- - i r a m t a Kao) rial tirafArl f f tin catrAiul nnnnf w
sou oi mr, ana inrs. a. i. Drown wi . mvi,,vivm vv v"w w. . . - .,t:4. a
this city and Miss Edith. Harris, also clerks. The amount now on file is ou ui 4"-"
CJli ,lu Miaa auiinniniit, oisu . . Mmr Inur twsnlHnir in a smaller
'approximately $10,000.00. ; ' V? ' . .
I A peculiar feature of the bounty 'percentage than usual has been ship-
provision disclosed that the hawks
had apparently increased in the same
proportion as had all sorts of game
that was supposed to be protected by
"We wish to extend our heartfelt said bounty fees. It may have hap
thanks to our many friends for their pened that hawks from adjoining
kindness shown us during the illness stales came to Missouri as fast as
and at the death of our beloved hus-1 they were destroyed here. In other
band, father and grandfather. We words our State has been years pay
of Oklahoma City, which took place
Thursday, March 9. They will make
their some in Oklahoma City.
CARD OF THANKS
ped out of county where produced,
( Cash .rents for Missouri farm land
for 1922 are decidedly less than that
last year. The rates for farms as a
: whole are $4.40 per acre for 1922, as
compared to $6 last, year, and for
plow lands $5.70 against $8. Pasture
rents for 1922, average $3 per acre
for the season, including Ozark land.
lco 'thank Mr. Tallawav vhn so 1 ft fcnnntv fnr fcawl from sPvPral The larger part of rented land is on
thoroughly cared for each detail of states nearby, this is said to be the a b"dle crP 'a
the arrangements in his usual sympa-1 experience by other states which have ' fjjlkERSON IS BOUND OVER
thetic and kind way. We extend our offered similar bounties and after-
deepest gratitude to our many friends ' wards abandoned the practice.
for the beautiful floral offerings and "
to the pall bearers for their brotherly JURY DISAGREES IN
love. I , , , RATHERS CASE
jS-., Mrs. Felix Tucker, 1
V Children and Grandchildren.'
TO CIRCUIT COURT
NEOSHO HAS BIG SALES DAY
A civil case before Justice E. A.
j O'Dwyer Thursday was that of the
j State Bank against C. J. Rathers on
i a note. Mr. Rathers was on a note
Monday's sales day at Neosho was for $500 with C. H. Ring as security
f tUr. koef linua oi'.n lio.l . I r TJotlio.- r.nwl tO,( f fllO 11 fit O HlP
The total amount of sides at the pa- balance remaining unpaid. The suit
The case of P. J. Fulkerson charged
with enticing Miss Carmon Burke
away from here home and marrying
her without her parents consent came
up 'for trial at 1 o'clock Thursday be
fore Judge Booth of Peirce City, and
he was bound over to circuit court.
He furnished bond for his appearance
, in court.
Dr. D. E. Miller announces the birth
vilion was $2125 and 54 hogs, 41 cat-, was to reecover the balance of the of a fine daughter to Mr. and Mrs. J.
tie and 18 horses and mules were note. The jury disagreed and another F. Snook, March 5. Her - name is
sold.
, trial will be held later.
! Blargaret Juanita.
the sale in a first class business way.
Following is a list of the buyers and
the prices paid:
Extra, Geo. Prettyman & Son, Fair
fax, Mo., $525.00.
No. 3, Floyd Moore, Mt.
Mo., $255.00.
No. 2, A. T. Poncot, Sarcoxie, Mo.,
$230.00.
No. 7, Wilson & Johnson, Everton,
Mo., $220.00.
No. 14, Jenks Keits, Billings, Mo.,
$165.00. ,
No. 12, G. F. Holmes, Mt. Vernon,
Mo., $160.00.
No. 15, Wilson & Johnson, Everton,
Mo., $125,00.
No. 9, L. F. Strieker, Carthage, Mo.
$135.00.
No. 5, W. F. Shulte, Adar Okla.,
$185.00. .
No. 11, Henry McCanse, Mt. Vern
on, Mo., $120.00.
No. 22, L. F. Strieker, Carthage,
Mo., $102.00.
No. 1, Fred Quade, Bowers Mill,
Mo., $100.00.
No. 7, Raymond Lambeth, Carthage
Mo., $100.00.
No. 24, Clyde v Hendricks, Miller,
Mo., $100X0.
No. 8, Homer Nicholas, Miller, Mo.,
$100.00.
No. 20, Koewing& Son, Hoberg,
Mo., $100jOO. . j
No. 4, Joe Shubert, Miami, Okla.,
$20.00. I
No. 7, Curtis Bros., Bowers Mill, '
Mo., $85.00,
No. 28, Charley Swearingen, Mt.
Vernon, Mo., $85.00.
No. 35, Fred C. Eastin, Greenfield,
Mo., $85.00. '
No. 25, Fred Quade, Bowers Mill,
Mo., $80.00. .
No. 16, Koewing & Son, Hoberg,
Mo,, $80.00.
No. 31, Leo Dohogne, Miami, Okla.,
$75.00.
No. 27, Webster Thurman, Mt.
Vernon, Mo., $75.00.
No. 21, Hyson Wise, Mt Vernon,
Mo., $75.00..
No. 29, Fred C. Eastin, Greenfield,
Mo., $75.00.
No. 13, G. F. Holmes, Mt. Vernon,
Mo., $75.00.-
No. 18, Wm.. Cherry, Mt. Vernon,
Mo., $75.00.
No. 32, Jenks Keits, Billings, Mo.,
$70.00.
The average on the first ten head
was $212.00, and $152.00 on the first
twenty head. The bred sows and gilts
averaged $130.16.
Whitaker farms of Walnut Grove
and Dohogne and Shubert of Miami,
Okla., were the contending bidders on
the top gilt.
' . LEANN.
Neosho, according to information re
ceived here yesterday by Sheriff
George Yadon.
Yadon said he was informed that
the vpapers, some of which were burn-
Vernon, ed; are in the possession of a farmer
residing in that vicinity.
The sheriff has not made an investi
gation; 'to determine definitely whether
the papers are those taken from the
banks, but said he will do so. The
papers are said to have been found
Wednesday.
Many private 'papers, including
deed3 and mortgages, were taken by
bandits who tunneled through the
vaults of both banks at Pineville
early Tuesday morning. Many liber
ty bonds, said to have been in the
looted safety deposit boxes, were
taken.
Telephone lines, between here and
Pineville are out of order and auth
orities have been unable to learn
what has developed there since the
burglaries.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
MONETT STATE HIGHWAY
. ASSOCIATION FORMED
District Organization Effected for
Purpose of Securing Concrete f
- Primary Highway Through .
Monett.
IV
Another Large Price Reduction
New Prices Fordson Tractor
Effective January 27th
V
$395.00
F. O. B. Detroit
When can we demonstrate? Place your order with us now
(TERMS)
C. Baughar Motor
AUTHORIZED
, FORD AND FORDSON SALES AND SERVICE
MONETT, MO, PnONE 70 PEIRCE CITY, BIO, PHONE 172
Noel Hobson made a business trip
to Jenkins Monday.
Bernice McCiure visited Miss Lora
Suttles Sunday afternoon.
Rev. Watson the Christian minister
of Crane is conducting a series of
meetings at Leann this week.
Mr.and Mrs.. Ernest Gray are the
parents of a daughter born March 4th
Saturday while George Turner and
son Carl were hauling wood the snow
on the hill side caused the wagon to
turn over pinning Mr. Turner to the
ground, no bones was broken but he
was badly bruised.
Some' of the farmers are busy get
ting ready to sow oats.
Rev. McKinsey started to Aurora
Thursday evening to church and got
stuck in a snow drift with his car and
had to return home.
Willie Allman is on the sick list. .
Sunday school at Ozark was well
attended Sunday afternoon. Rev.
Watson gave a splendid talk on Sun
day school work.
Mr. and Mrs; Brady Las'siter and
little daughter Jewei Ilene visited
with Mr. and Mrs. Preston Akins,
Sunday.
Little Paul Hibbard is reported ill
with pneumonia.
. Five deaths 'and seven births in
February are reported by Dr. Wm.
West, local registrar. Following
the list as received Friday:
Deaths. I
and 5 days, fracture at base -of skull
struck by accident. '
Nov. 17, '21, female, 79 years, 1
month and 3 days, old age and par-
At a mass meeting held at the city
hall, March 9 an Organization called
the Moriett' State Highway Associ
ation was effected. This i3 a district
organization created for one sole pur
pose the securing of a primary con
crete highway to Monett. We' want
to extend this highway to the Arkan
sas line and to the Oklahoma line.
Our supreme effort, however, will be
first to have it reach Monett. ;
Monett Is the gateway- to Arkansas.
The Jefferson, cut off highway is
practically completed through north
west Arkansas leaving the Missouri
line below Seligman, via Eureka
Springs, Berryville, Harrison, Jasper,
Clarksville to Little Rock. This Is
the outlet for Northwest Arkansas
and the same will apply to Western
Oklahoma. Monett is the gateway.
After aji address by F. P. Sizer in
regard to our need for the road, which
need everyone should realize and
giving reasons why we should have
the road, all 6f which was unanswer
able. The c)ub was 'given information
by Bert Bobbins as to how Monett
might secure the highway. To 'get it
prompt actum must be taken.
Dr.. j: M. Russell was .selected
temporary chairman, John P. Davis,
l temporary . secretary? Election of
I permanent officers resulted as follows
president, F. P Sizer; vice president,
Dr. J. M. Russell; treasurer, O. H.
Hudson; finance committee, O. H
Hudson, C. D. Mansfield and Wm. E.
Rogers.
This- committee will have publicity
of their own. Membership fees were
alysis.
Feb. 19, female, 86 years, 8 months , piaced at $L0Q the hope that
every person in this territory might
join with Monett in this movement.
Subscriptions to. membership can be
given to several business houses and
banks.
The committee on publicity consists
and 24 days, senility and bronchitis.
Feb. 27, female, 63 years, 6 months
and 12 days, pulmonary tuberculosis.
Feb. 27, male, 62 years, 5 months,
chronic parenchymatous. '
Births.
Feb. 7. To John Thomas and Ollie
Elizabeth Spencer, male John Spencer
Jan. 5. To Frederick L. and Lillie M
Lake, male, Darold Clay. ' .
Jan. 24. To Clyde R. and Lula . B.
Cook, female, Beulah C.
Feb. 2. To Rosco A. and Anna G.
Jackson, male.
Feb. 8. To Arthur W. and Ro3e C.
Sturgis, female, Ruth Joan.
Feb. 2. To James T. and
Powell, female, Helen Louise..
Feb. 24. To John S. and Edna Far
row, male, William B.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
of J. V. Nelson, E. W. Pfau, Solon
Wright and R. E Callaway. This
committee will have some reports,
watch for them.
The executive committee is com
posed of Bert Robbins, S. A. Chapell
and H. W. Fly. s
Mr. Robbins is already working on
plans to present solid information to
the hisrhwav commission as to our
Edna j population, general taxes, automobile
taxes, amount of traffic and every
thing that would influence a " road
through a populated district a3 a
gainst an airplane route. Anyone
having information that would bene
fit, give it to Mr. Robbins or to any
committeeman.
This meeting was the "peppiest"
meeting for a long time. Everybody
present was full of "ginger" and
will
help we will "go get
WHY SET APPLE TREES NOW?
Because there are oVer 50 per cent
less apple trees now than there were
in 1910, according to the Washington
Bureau of reports. There are also
over 50 per cent less peach trees than
in 1910. What will be. the result T
There is going to be a scarcity .of
fruit in a few' years, therefore now is
a fine time to get into the game. We
have the biggest and nicest block of
TWO YEAR old trees we have ever
grown,; including Black Ben, Ben
Davis, ' Gano, Staymens;. Winesap,
Grimes, King David, Jonathan, . and
all the- leading varieties.. We also
have a block of one year old trees
that pleases all those who have in
spected it This includes all the
standard varieties. We have about
40,000 nice peach (rees, also berry
plants, cherries, rnamentals and etc.
Dont fail to write us at once for our
new price list We will do you right
THE CLEVER NURSERY CO.,
wlltf s- ' Clever, Mo,
The city council met in regular ses
sion Tuesday and allowed bills and
accepted reports of city officers.
In the police department, the offi
cers reported three arrests one for
running over a fire hose and two forL'arin' to go". If all citizens
exceedini? the SDeed limit. .1 help we will "go get it." Do it
Edgar Masoner, superintendent of
light and water reported as follows:.
The department replaced six street
lights, and ran service lines and in
stalled ten light meters. They
now.
MRS. MOAD SUES FRISCO
FOR $75,000
three new poles and extended the
light line on East Pearl street and
reset two light poles.
The department laid 540 feet of
two inch main on East Summit and
Kyler streets. They made seven new
taps, installed . two water meters and
two meter boxes. ' .
The street lights were,, off two
nights, caused by a pole blowing down
on East Broadway on account of high
winds. The high line power was off
three times during the month, a total
of fifteen minutes. '
Sizer & Gardner, attorneys for Mrs.
set Belle Moad, widow of F. E. Moad,
WAGNER MOTOR CAR CO. IS
REMODELING BUILDING
, The Wagner Motor Car Co., at the
corner of Sixth street and Broadway I
deceased, brought suit Thursday at
Marshf ield, Missouri for $75,000
against the St. Louis-San Francisco
Railway Company for the death of her
husband who was knocked off the
tender of his engine on January 13,
1922,- while taking coal at Carl Junc
tion on the morning of that date, from
which fall he sustained a broken back,
and died on the 18th of January at
the hospital at Springfield, Missouri.
The grounds of negligence relied
upon by plaintiff is defective coal
chute, supplied with improper coal,
which was of large size , arid water
soaked, and had frozen in the chutes,
so that when Mr. Moad undertook to
loosen it, the coal came out with great
suddenness and caught the ' clinker
are re-modeling their building. The bar which he was holding and knocked
entire front of the building will . be i him off the top of the tender.
new with a large plate class window She sues "under the Federal
on the east and one in the north and
the front of the building will be used
for office, and display room.
Mr. Wagner and sons are now em
ployed in the ( manufacturing of
Mitchell two ton trucks, and have
their second one about completed.
FOR SALE: Barred rock eggs, 75
Marie Eden. R.F.D. 2, Monett. w28t4
cents per setting, of 100 for $4.00.
. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
: Notice is hereby given, that letters
Testamentary on the Estate of Sarah
J. Westbay deceased, were granted to
the lindersigned, on the 25th day ' 'of
February, 1922, by the Probate Court
of Barry County, Missouri.
All persons naving claims" against
said Estate, are" required to exhibit
them for allowance te the Executor!
within six months after .date of said
letters, or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such Estate; and
if such claims be not exhibited within
one year from the date of granting
of said letters, they will be forever
barred.
This 25th day of February, 1922.
JOHN R. WALLEN,
Judge of Probate.
Em-'
ployers' Liability Act for $50,000
actual damages, and as he suffered
from the date of his injury until the
18th of January, $25,000 is asked for
conscious pain and suffering from the
time of the accident until the time of
his death.
A. J. NORDIN ANNOUNCES V
FOR COUNCILMAN
A. J. Nordin Friday filed with the
city clerk as candidates . for city
councilman. Mr. Nordin was for
many years in the grocery business in '
Monett and is well known by Monett
citizens. ; . ' , .' -, " .
Onion Sets cheap at J. R. McFad
den's. - w28tl
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
,'All oreditors and others interested
in the Estate of C. C. Williams; de
ceased, are notified that the under
signed Administrator De Bonis Non
of said Estate, intends to make a final
settlement of said Estate at the next
adjourned term of the Probate Court
of Barry county, to be holden at Cass
ville in aid County, on the 27th day
of March; 1922. 1 '
S. A.. CHAPELL, Administrator
HARRY H. WESTBAY, Executor. This 18th day of February,-1922. '
l First insertion March 3, 1922. w27t4 First insertion March 10, 1922.