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THE NEOSHO TIMES FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR. NEWTON COUNTY, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924. NUMBER TWENTY-THREE JOINT MEETING OF ROYAL ARCH MASONS Chapters of Southwest Missouri to Unite in Monster Gathering at Springfield Shrine Mosque. The largest gathering of Royal Arch Masons ever assembled in south Missouri will be held in the new Shrine Mosque at Springfield next Monday evening, March 24th. This extraordinary convocation comprise all the chapters in Southwest Missouri and is in honor of Dr.

William F. Kuhn of Kansas City, General Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons United States. Similar meetings in his honor have been held in Kansas 'City, St. Joseph, Columbia, St. Louis and Hannibal.

It is estimated that the attendance at these gatherings has totaled twenty thousand, and it Is expected that the Mosque will lie filed to capacity next Monday. The spectacular degree of Most Excellent Master will be conferred in very elaborate form by a cast of two hundred. The large class will come" from Springfield, Marionville, Mt. Vernon, Greenfield, Ash Bolivar and many other towns in this section. A large chorus directed by Prof.

T. Stanley Skinner, dean of Music of Drury College, will sing. Prof. John Holland of Dfury will be the accompanist. The wonderful pipe organ of the Mosque will be used.

Abou Ben Adhem Shrine band will a concert at 7 o'clock, and the drill corps of St. John's Com- mandry will give an exhibition drill. Among the distinguished Masons will attend are: Dr. W. Kuhiv Kansas City, Grand High Priest; Joseph S.

Mclntyre, St. Louis, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge; Dr. George W. Walker, Cape Giradeau, Grand Master of the Grand Council; Arthur Daily, Springfield, Grand Commander; Bert S. Lee, Deputy Grand "Master of the General Grand Council; I.

H. Hettinger, Kansas City, Grand Sword Bearer of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar. DR. ISHERWOOD KILLED AT R. R.

CROSSING circle of warm friends who were attracted to her by her cheerful position and lovable character. Cfipt. Hudson has the sympathy of the entire community in his sad bereavement. Funeral services were held from the family residence Friday afternoon at 2:30, conducted by Rev. J.

D. Brame, pastor of the First Baptist church. Burial was in the I. O. O.

F. cemetery. FIFTY YEARS AGO. "Dr. H.

L. Isherwood, a widely 'known physician of Carl Junction, killed instantly last Monday morning when his motor car was struck by the Kansas City passenger train on a cross" ing a half' mile east of Waco, Dr. Ksherwood was alone and returning" tfrom a professional call. At that nt the railroad is partly hidden an embankment. The body was almost beyond recognition.

Dr, Isherwood had lived at Carl Junction 35 years. He was a former mayor and president of the Citi- Bank. Death Mrs. W. J.

Hudson. Mrs. Emma Lee Hudson, wife of Capt. Will J. Hudson, died Wednesday night, March 12, at the family home, corner of Wood and Hickory 'Streets after a lingering illness of than a year.

Deceased was bora May 9, 1843, near Huntsville, although her parents, C. F. and E. E. Sandidge, lived on a plantation near Beuna 'Vista, Miss.

She was educated at Mary Sharpe College, Tenn. She was married April 9, 1867 Co- 'lumbus, Kentucky, to Capt. W. J. Hudson who at that time was in business at West Point, Miss.

Mr. and Mrs. Hudson moved to Missouri in 1868 or 1869 and have lived constantly in the state since except two years in Texas and one in Oklahoma. They lived in Pemiscot county, for many years and came to Neosho in 1886, residing here since that tme except one year spent in Arkansas. Five children were bora to Mr.

and Mrs. Hudson but all died in infancy. Besides her husband, she 'leaves two sisters, Mrs. John Byrd of Vinita and Mrs. Dr.

Hill of Wichita, Kansas, and five nephews and four nieces. Another sister, Mrs. Mobley, died at her home in Neosho about a year ago. Two of the ttephews, John Byrd of Vinita and J. H.

Hill of Wichita, came and attended the funeral. Mrs. Hudson was a good Christian woman and while belonging to no church she took an active interest in affairs (her people all being Baptists) until prevented from BO doing, by ill health. She had a wide I The election of town trustees takes place April 7. R.

A. Hening, J. M. Robeson and A. J.

Baurdick are the judges of election. Armstrong Einstein are repainting the inside of their drug store and putting in a new front. Julius Cahn, clothing merchant, has gone east to buy goods. E. H.

Chapman of Newtonia claims to have the finest stock of pure bred Berkshire hogs in the Southwest. Charles Sumner, famous statesman, is dead at his home in Massachusetts. The President is so ill that no visitors are allowed at the White House. The remains of Dr. Livingston are on the way from Africa to England.

Forty Years Ago. D. D. Ames has sold his farm near Granby to B. Moore.

Misses Mamie Corpeny and Katie Price go to Drury College conservatory of music Saturday. Miss Lui-a Price starts to Lebanon, Illinois, Saturday to enter McKendree College. The contract for the stone work on the Herms and Stein buildings has been let. The new public school building is rapidly approaching completion. Judge Hubbert has purchased of Mr.

Woolfenden three acres of ground at the corner of Hamilton street and Franklin avenue and will erect a handsome residence. The Seneca Dispatch has appeared again after its loss by fire. J. C. Holt, a temperance lecturer, is holding forth to large crowds at the court house.

Thirty Years Ago. Bob Davis, editor of the Granby Sentinel, is a candidate for city collector of that mining center. Will Schirck and Geo. Wherlen have leased Isaiah Robison's butcher shop. J.

H. Hughes has announced as a candidate for recorder. Lead sold last week for $18.25 per 1000' and zinc for $20 a ton. George W. Bain of Kentucky delivered a lecture at the college chapel Monday night.

Rev. Harry White has been appointed pastor of the M. E. Churches at Neosho and Seneca. The Democratic county committee met Monday with D.

P. Weems as and H. C. Smith secretary. The committee decided to hold a convention to nominate a county ticket and set May 5 as the date.

Lafe Borden is a candidate for sheriff, B. F. Grimes for assessor, W. I. Price for probate judge and Warren Heaton for recorder.

ADD WILLIAMS DIES IN SPRINGFIELD Add Williams, well known citizen of Neosho where he had been engaged in the plumbing business, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Cunningham, in Springfield, Monday soon after noon from cancer of the esophagus. He had been afflicted for a year or more with stomach trouble and last fall his trouble become so actute on account of his inability to swallow and get food into his stomach that he went to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester and was told that he had cancer and they could give him only temporary relief. He came back to Springfield and was treated there by physicians who gave him hope of recovery. However, the malady kept getting worse and he went to bed about three weeks ago in his last sickness.

Deceased was 49 years old and was born in Newtonia, the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Williams.

He was educated in the public schools and at old Scarritt Colege in Neosho. He learned baseball playing while here and for many years he traveled over the country as a professional ball player. He also learned the plumbing business and was employed at Springfield and Peirce City before coming to Neosho some four years ago. He was married about four years ago to Miss Hattie Hoi- man of Neosho been his devoted his long sickness. Besides his sister in Springfield he also leaves a brother, Ernest Williams, of Newtonia.

Funeral services were held in Springfield Tuesday and also at the home" of Mrs. M. G. Pearce in Neosho yesterday at 2:30. Rev.

S. F. Stevens conducted the services here. The pallbearei's were L. D.

Rice, Fred Angwin, Lester Mahan, Dr. R. C. Lamsonj Jess Keller and Will G. Anderson.

ANNUAL MEETING OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES The Federated Missionary Societies of Neosho will hold their twenty- third annual meeting at the First Presbyterian Church on Thursday, March 27, 1924. All interested are cordially invited to the sessions of the federation. The program is as follows: Morning Session. Mrs. R.

H. Kernegy. Walter Stroup. session. Firm a Foundation." JOPLIN MAN DROWNED IN BIG SUGAR CREEK Twenty Years Ago.

Charles Marney who has been in Florida working as a telegraph operator, is home to visit his mother, Mrs. Joe Carnes. Mrs. S. D.

Powers died at her home on McKinney street, aged 82 years. Warren Heaton is a candidate for mayor and J. E. Rathell for alderman of the first ward. Mrs.

Chas. A. Burr died March 9th. Her husband died last week. Ed.

Crandall and Miss Zulu Anderson were married yesterday by Rev. J. H. Barnard. W.

P. Albert of Seneca was adjudged insane and sent to the asylum at Nevada. R. G. Weisell of Corning, Iowa, came down Saturday and remained till Monday visiting his sister and friends.

William V. Childs of Kansas City and Miss Elizabeth Christie of Neosho were married in Kansas City. Neosho Fruit Growers' Association met at the court house Saturday, R. P. Liles president and J.

H. Hughes secretary. Five pay days hath August, but that is when vacations ate due. Kenneth B. Morgan, president of the Morgan Roofing Co.

of Joplin, 28 years old, was drowned in Big Sugar Creek at Powell last Sunday about noon, and Roy Hoffman also of Joplin Vas seriously injured when their car skidded off the bank into 12 feet of water. Hoffman is in a Joplin hospital suffering from in- 'juries and collapse and- threatened with pneumonia. These two men, accompanied by C. H. Tripplett, an employe of the Morgan Company, had gone to Big Sugar on a fishing trip.

They camped on the bank of the creek and when they started home Morgan and Hoffman got into the car while Tripplett stayed out to direct the course of the car. The bank sloped rapidly away from the road and when Morgan who was driving started the car it skidded down the bank into the creek. Tripplett jumped in and succeeded out but Morgan remained in the water over two hours. The car rolled over two or three times and when it stopped was standing upright in 12 feet of water. Tripplett got aid from a fanner living near by and rescued Morgan's body.

Scott Ferris, Former Oklahoma Congressman, Here. Hon. Scott Ferris, former congressman of the Fifth Oklahoma district, for fourteen years, was here Saturday and Sunday with his wife who was visiting her father, George Hubbert. Mr. Ferris got out of politics when he was defeated for United States Senator from Oklahoma in the Republican landslide of 1920 and he is now interested in the oil business with a large company who have headquarters in New York.

He had been in Tulsa on business for his pompany and was on his way back east. While not personally interested in politics as he used to be, yet he keeps in touch with the political situation. He says this is going to be a Democratic year. Speaking of Presidential candidates he said he was glad the Democrats had repudiated Senator Reed and he thought also that McAdoo's relations with the and Doheny oil companies would make it unwise perhaps for the party to nominate him. He thought the Democratic National convention would turn, to some man from the Middle West who would stand on a platform similar to the one adopted at San (Francisco in 1920.

from Associated A. C. McGinty Prison Fred North. John Barlow. Missionary Work in Rural J.

J. Bowman. Afternoon Session. by High School Orchestra. Mrs.

M. G. Pearce. Genevieve Temple. the Beautiful." session.

Roll when Societies entered the Federation): M. E. South, Presbyterian, Congregational, 1902; First Christian, 1904; Methodist Episcopal, 1907; First Baptist, 1912; Isabel Shields, 1914; Second Baptist, Girls' Auxiliary, 1920; Circle Girls, Queen Esther Circle, 1921. Offering. Voorhies, Wasson, Noel, Neal.

in the South Rev. Ph. A. de la Porte. Esther Replogle.

Wm. Cady. L. E. Mitchell Sends Greetings to Democrats.

1210 W. Gandy Street, Denison, Texas, March 14, 1924. Fellow Democrat: express "to you my sincere appreciation of the respect tendered me at the convention held in Neosho on the 8th inst. I also want to take this opportunity of congratulating you as a loyal Democrat for the attitude you have maintained toward the Democratic principles as advocated by our former great leader, Woodrow Wilson. I am gratified that there was such an which resulted in the Newton county delegation being uninstructed except to vote as a unit.

I believe the delegates elected are of that type of citizen and Democrats that honor our party by being its representative. Trusting the decision of the convention in Springfield, on Apri 15th will result in Democratic success, I remain, Most truly yours, L. E. Mitchell. Wedding.

Saturday afternon at the Firsi Baptist Church, Rev. J. D. Brame united in marriage Miss Emma Lee Stahl of this city and Frank Adams, of Pittsburg, Kansas using the impressive ring service The young couple weer attended by Mr. and Mrs.

E. D. Stahl, who actec as best man and matron of honor Miss Violet Veerkamp played the wedding march and Miss Juanita Watt sang Love You." The young couple are students a the Pittsburg State Normal where they are both specializing in journalism. Mr. Adams has been associate editor of the college paper and since the resignation of the regular editor is acting editor.

Mrs. Adams is also on the editorial staff. The young couple have to Pittsburg where they will make their home and complete their college courses. Mrs. Adams is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. R. R. Stahl who came to Neosho several months ago and are living on Ripley street. Dates Set for Harvest Shows.

Delegates from towns belonging to the Southwest Missouri Harvest Show Association met at Webb City Friday to set dates for the different fairs and to discuss plans for holding the. annual shows. Webb City was admitted to membership in association. Those who attended the meeting were guests of the Webb City Chamber of Commerce at luncheon and 'J. C.

Spencer of Sarcoxie, president the association, spoke to the Chamber of Commerce members on value of harvest shows to the immunities in which they are held. Finances, advertising, securing ex- libits, displays, judges and speakers were the topics discussed before he meeting. Committees were ap- lointed to arrange to consider the selection of judges and to consider etting out one catalogue to serve all towns affiliated with the association. The committees are to report at next meeting of the association which will be held in Webb City at a time to be set by the president. The dates selected for the various towns to hold their harvest shows are as follows: Jasper, September 22, 23 and 24.

Sarcoxie, September 24, 25, 26 and 27. Peirce City, September 29 and 30, and October 1. Mount Vernon, October 2, 3 and 4. Neosho, October 13, 14, 15 and 16. Webb City, October 15, 16, 17 and 18.

The towns represented were Sarcoxie, Webb City, Jasper and Peirce ity. Rural School Inspector's Report oof Visitation in Newton County. Rural school inspector, Mrs. Margaret Squires, of the state superintendent's office spent the week of February 25-29 in Newton county. Her report to State Superintendent Lee, of her visitorial work, among other things says: "The week of February 25 to 29, nclusive, was spent in Newton county; the work moved along smoothly and in a well ordered Superintendent Veerkamp had the work most thoroughly organized; and although the roads were muddy, we had 104 teachers present, besides 44 board members and 56 patrons, at the four meetings.

"In I saw some six or eight teachers conduct recitations in as masterly a manner as any that I had ever witnessed. Mr. Veerkamp presented recitations in Geography, while I present "Silent Reading," and other teachers presented various other subjects. In general, I may say that pupils and teachers responded very well, so that we had a most excellent week's work that is bound to be helpful to the several communities visited. "At the Racine meeting, the T.

T. Class of Neosho and their teacher were present; and at another meeting, a city superintendent and his teachers were interested spectators. "Sincerely, "Mrs. Margaret Squires." HOUSE PASSES BONUS BILL Provides for 20-year Paid-up Insurance and Cash for All Not Entitled to Over $50. Washington, March house today for the third time in four years passed a soldier bonus bill.

The vote was 355 to 54, and was taken after forty minutes debate. Twenty speakers took the floor during the brief period, however, advocates of a full cash payment option assailing the rule under which the bill was taken up, which limited debate and prevented the offering of amendments. "Die hards" of both parties declared against the measure of principle, while proponents argued it was a measure which could become law. The measure provides for paid-up insurance of twenty-year endowment life policies and cash payments to veterans entitled to not more than $50 in adjusted service credit. Provisions of the old bill for vocational training and farm or home aid are eliminated.

The insurance provision is somewhat different from the deferred payment certificates proposed in the old bill and because of these changes the measure faces an involved situation in the senate. Members of that body have asked time to study the new bill, while others already have prepared different proposals. The finance committee to which the measure will be referred, is now occupied with the tax reduction bill. CUNNINGHAM'S DIVORCED WIFE MURDERED County Court Proceedings. The county court met Monday with Judges J.

S. Cornish, B. J. Canady and L. E.

Blankenship present. The court orders that the county treasurer be directed to place on time deposit $704 in each of the four banks of Neosho, for a period of six months at 4 per cent interest, out of the interest and sinking fund. The court proceeds to check up the expenses of the special election held Feb. 26 amounting to $898.33 and the clerk is directed to certify same to the state auditor so that the county may be reimbursed for said sum. On March 18th the court completes settlment with J.

Dave Maness, collector of Newton county. After checking the various amounts collected by him and also the amounts charged to him on the tax books, the court finds that he has turned over to the proper officers all the moneys collected by him as the law directs and they find that all the merchants' tax has been collected, which is an unusual thing for a collector to do, and the court finds the following amounts of current tax for the year 1923 are delinquent: Land, personal, income, $23.80. The court has instructed him to use all legal means to collect the above amounts and also all that is delinquent for 1922 and prior years. The social committee of the First Congregational Church wishes all the young people and their friends to be present at the midweek meeting on Wednesday, March 26. Supper is to be served at 6:30 at the church.

Meeting to be held immediately after supper for the purpose of organizing a Social Club. All young people fifteen years and over are requested to be present. Dr. Zeo Zoe Wilkins, 35 years old, divorced wife of the late Tom Cunningham, wealthy Joplin banker, was found murdered in her office and residence on the south side in Kansas City Tuesday afternoon. She was clad only in her house dress and her skull was crushed with a blow on the left forehead and her throat had been cut by a rusty pocket knife which lay beside the body.

The room was in disorder and apparently a struggle had preceded the murder. The murder had been committed Saturday night, according to the coroner. The motive was not robbeiy, police believe, as things that a burglar would have taken were left in the room. However, the assailant had ransackec the house as boxes and papers were scattered over the house. Dr.

Wilkins T. W. Cunningham in 1916 and a year or so later got a divorce but the episode cost him $315,000. Three days after she got Cunningham's bank stock she sold it to Amos Gipson of the First National Bank who later committed suicide in Mexico City. Dr.

Wilkins was an osteopathic physician and was practicing in Kansas City. Elks Elect Officers. At their annual election of officers Thursday night the Neosho Lodge No. 1330, B. P.

O. elected the following: Exalted S. Price. Esteemed Leading E. Weston.

Esteemed Loyal Maness. Esteemed Lecturing Trau. R. McNabb. T.

McNabb. Trustee, 3 C. Hudson. Trustee, 2 W. Roberts.

I. Peck. Representative to Grand 0. A. Hearrell.

Cody. Inner Ruark. The Neosho Lodge of Elks has grown to a membership of over 200 and several applications for membership are on hands waiting to be acted upon. H. S.

Price who was elected Exalted Ruler is filling this office for the fourth time since the lodge was organized. 5 BUY YOUR FRUIT- SPRAYING MATERIAL 5 Lime Sulphur, 3 5 Arsenute Lead, a S. Nicotine, Bordeaux Mixture and 5 Paris Green 3J Guthries' Drug Store East Side Square iiiiiiJiciiiiiimiiiiimciiiiiiiimiiifiHi.