The Current Local from Van Buren, Missouri • Page 1

uin HI TO 0AL With Which Is Consolidated The Carter County Herald VAN BUREN, MISSOURI. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1913 NUMBER 34 We noticed Philip Long present meandering over the inundated TEACHERS' MEET AT lowlands and was passing over Life in Southern! Clipped, or Read in COURT GRANTS SPECIAL BOND ELECTION the tracks when the freight train California A Exchanges at choir practice at the M. E. church Sunday evening, but we are inclined to believe -lie spent the day a mile or so down below town.

"Fess up. Phil." crashed into it Morley Banner. Van Buren boosters, one and all, and all together, with the help of We wonder who will be the Editor Current Local, Much Local Interest Aroused Nicholas Longworth of the Wil Also Grants Incorporation Pe the editor of the Van Buren Current Local! are concentrating The teachers' meeting, which son West Plains Many days ago the last vestige of California's short winter vanished, and since then we their efforts upon a new Court Journal. was in session at this place Sat Bank Soon to Cpen Other News Items tition of Ellsinore Orders Work on Jail house before the year 1913 gives urday afternoon and evening1, Koom for about three, isn there? But we hope they won't have had bright sunshinney way to tne next, van uuren is was a success notwithstanding and warm, dry days. It is be badly in need of the new edifice all be as slick domed as Nich.

the fact that a number of the ginning to be spring, and people and will likely have all plans and to Van Among other business trans The Centerville Outlook boasts are sowing barley and planting teachers failed to "show up, Judge Emmons went Buren Monday to attend court. specifications drawn before the county acted at this session of the that the "county bastile" in that jag truck patches. The oranges not snows of spring quit the A large crowd was present and I ii i i i i v.w.a.wj wu4 bf an wit? wuoiuci- town is without an occupant now. nw. killed are being gathered, packed everyone was deeply interested A.

E. Richmond, of Ellsinore, We usually consider it a real Tm PpryiihJ ation of a petition calling upon and enthused, but you should and shipped. An acquaintance gave me a bushel and a half of I hd miff ta nvflM aniiiql alAf was in our town Sunday between item of news when our county have heard some of those papers trains. Our former fellow citizen, Mr. ion to vote bonds for building a jail has an occupant here, as it oranges with which I hone to read bv the eiirhth Grade bovs Addie" Markham, has become new court house.

The petition is a very rare thing. satisy the appetites of my chil U. lmsiy and James tarna- and o-irls of this nlace. also some arrwlr man in ma nrooont hstma mwiaH 10. nnmna OA Ur.Zrsr i dren lor this kind ol truit, so 1 iivil' 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i vci nvt.myitl I I aan were seen in our city last of our surround; no- noiVhhor ivAua wui.i; irao uuuunis fnllnwrinn- a fobon fnnm tk fkn A they will not care for them when wviiuojr.

noon, now verv noon and the death oi a young man named TkiW naA. ik nnn nn tno we return to where they come W. C. Frazier went to Van practical they were. You would Garrett, at Houston a few days of January m.

(J A. gue The high. Buren Sunday on a short visit want to yell three cheers for ago, iroin npinai menmgma, Markham. A farmer nonr PiU. imnuulmtel.

rnart I attended one day the trial of to his home. what our county is going to be after an illness of only twenty- burfff fl0ld tQ the HuU DilIon for eiection, fixing the date for seven nours. was noi mougni i I a.m We had a little threatening when this Present generation of Clarence Darrow, shook hands with him out of curiosity, and j. v.n.iujs uunipaiijr jicokciuajr dcv- Duine un oaiuruay, April Oin, to ho the eontflcrioiiH form. how.

t. i. I weather Friday afternoon, look- uovs ana ms occome men ana en nogs, wnicn Drougm mm tne ma. it is Deueved bv manv gained the impression from what eVer. I nnnf anm t1TO nn I tUnt ed like more winter.

women, ut course there were "tai, duui ui yj. 1 ux an aver uiak uic eiecuuu win carry uy I observed that he is guilty. (He Old Mother Hubbard picked excellent IPf and talks According to the Prospect' age $24.65 each. This speaks the necessary two-thirds ma- is charged with bribing a juror oy me oiuer ones imi we uoni News, a citizen of that town well for Crawford County as Mority this time, as the necessity in the McNamara case.) threw feathers all over Grandin. 11 CT W.V' mailed a parcel post package a swine raising section, for be- for such building is becoming In a previous communication I A uoys ana gins, inegins enier- Dr.

Watson has been improv-Lj a mntnat tn stated I would give you some containing butter, to Boston, sides the price, it was said at the greater all the time, and because Mass. Mitfht work all right packing house that the hogs many people favor a larger bond data regarding the development ing flu arusr store, wi sneives raake the beat cake3 and candy for the purpose of display wind- and it wag decidc(1 that in the winter time, but if it were were the finest ever raised in issue than was proposed before, of this country, its resources and people. I will begin by saying summer, chances are it would be this section of the state." Iron- $12,000 being the sum asked at OWS. I il ti u.i i i. 4.

1 ftiueiuia uiaiuea nuu win musi the last special election. able to travel the last lap of the ton Register. the growth of Los Angeles and Grandpa' Whittaker was Cake and Misses Pearl Rogers and The people of Ellsinore pre journey without assistance. in our town Monday, returning Nora Fissell the best candv suburbs during the year 1912, has been truly marvelous. In sented a petition to the court on that day to Hunter, his Tho wear wagner, Mary Lee, the i ru i ndian wife of Waiter Lee, a LllSlIlOre LchoeS home.

for refreshments nnrl nil Gripmpd the city of Los Angeles, alone, negro, in shooting up her hus- I $31,000,000 was expended in Miss aye Grafues who has to eniov that mst of it immense and with an automatic revolver. 16 asking that articles of incorporation be granted them. The instrument carried the names of a large majority of the residents of the town and was, of course, ioiaoiaioiDia6 building enterprises. Uuilding Deen visiting in Hunter for iv too accident killed a perfectly cood A.I' several days returned home last permits were issued by the city Gentry visited rela- mule, which loss is severely felt Lasker the community. -Henvetta tives on Ten Mile Sundav.

iwujr. "ho teachers' meeting and granted without demur by the A 1 mi 1 I .1 authorities at the rate of one every ten minutes, every working day in the year, and a buildr (UlUa.) tflanwira. a person wouia neea a peaa- recital at the library was ex- C. W. Riblett, of Williams- court A commission of five .) is how they do it in he should start to cellent, both on the part of the visited here a mft th the 'wild and wooly," is it? i I ing completed every seventeen 'raise turnips for a living," in scholars and teachers.

There ounuay. 1 Inonrtto pstnhHsh a nrftvlsinnnl minutes. The new buildings this country. were some good facts presented The Frisco depot at Sargent, J. L.

Moore, of Van Buren, government until the time for completed would, if set side by a small station just west of Wil Herbert Johnston does not cro Among those who spoke were: was here on business Saturday holding an election in the spring. side, adjoining each other, con low Springs, was demolished by outtoZack Stephens' so often Prof. Perrin, of Ellsinore; A. of last week. and to see after the nreliminariea stitute a chain sixty miles long, a freight train crashing into it now.

He is only making tri- Harmon, W. E. McKinney, and Miss Maude Ballard spent lat- to the completion of the incor- Many oi these buildings are on the night of the 27th, ult, Dr. Watson, of Grandin, all of weekly visits. terpart ol last week visiting poration.

ine commission con- cheap, but many are also up-to- whose talks were beneficial as according to the Willow Springs Republican. And in the same friends on Brushey creek. sists of the following, persons: Dr. Johnston came down from West Eminence last Saturday to date business buildings which well as interesting. Mrs.

AI Glen Kingen was seen rushing W. S. Perrin, Chairman, Philip cost much money. The con issue is chronicled the destruction see his family and look after Bedell had the prize paper which will be published in an early down Brushey creek Sundav on erame, Harmon Gaines, J. struction of the government of the depot at Nichols Junction, special business.

Brunhey creek Arney, and Oscar Hilterbrand. harbor at San Pedro goes steadily just beyond Springfield, when a issue. The program rendered his business interests. Rev. Reid failed to fill his appointments here and at Mace correammdenL Wil liamnvillel Uur sister town is to De COn- on, and the great aqueduct de freight and passenger train col follows Herald.

gratulated on her enterprise in signed for supplying an unlimit lided there. None were injured, APTKIt.NOON HKHHION donia Sunday on account of tioocoi nt this matter and on setting the ed amount of pure water to the OrKiinlzfttlon tn fortunately; but this is certainly sickness in his family. Addre Hupt. W. 8.

I'errln. will practice scraping faces here ointr lown8Tnot ine a new sort of railroad wrecks, Pnper, "Keliitlim of the Home to the city from the mountains, wil soon be completed, at a cost oi Ifnimfv Bonf hv anv maana a A number of the little folks in thA tnrnro wo HimnoHA hp I Hoiiool" Mr. Hh(1hII. The editor of the Iron ton haviW honaht. out tbnld harhr worthy example.

Bonn by primary pupil "Kqiilnio Hoiik" here have the whooping cough, several hundred million dollars. i ii a i 'The Duel. Register registers a very spirited w. a. ranney, me county but up to the present, it has not W.

F. Hardin Glendale an average of one I'ttpnr, "I'loy a Cbuructxr nullrtur' kick" on account of the Iron Highway Engineer, was present Hhkii ilarinoti afflicted them very much. new building a day was main The M. W. of A.

met in regu Fnper, "Tuklnu Citrw of Milk' Mountain mail service at his tained during 1912. The finest 4 A. jp Harmon is nnisning a Mary Kiivnllln. and made his last settlement with the road overseers in his lar session Saturday night. Be town, claiming that it too often Papr.

"How to II11II1I lips Worn Out Kami' roads in America are here. On a term of school now on Beaver- 1 a sides their regular work, they Allicrtliu (Inifm'. official capacity as such. At the happens that the mail is ground up by the wheels of the mail stretch of public road between dam, whicn keeps mm away Paper, "Wliut I Think Hoy or Olrl C011I1I bestowed the initiatory upon last regular election, the people do With Poultry In Curti-r County from home during the week. here and Pasadena, one and Walter Price IU-kxIo miner car when the bags are dumped quarter miles long, there is now KVKN1NO HKHHION A social was given by Miss of the county voted to abolish this office and henceforth the settlement with overseers will be The farmers of this section have been putting in good time at that station.

Extreme carelessness of the employes hand eing expended $200,000. Two Blnglnic Uruixlln I'lipll Addre Hupt. W. H. I'urrln.

Anna Wilson at her home Monday night in honor of J. hills are being cut away and a Papnr, "My Idea of Tcachnr' Moral Train ing it is charged and evidently it hauling ties this week on ac count of the favorable weather. attended to by the court, thus eep chasm bridged with con Mm" Maritar is a fact. This has happened a Carnahan. Quite a number of necessarily nrolonoW its sm.

Talk, "Jmpcirtancft of a Healthy ilody crete. Automounes are as com Times were ratner suck in our Vr. WalKon. time or two lately with the Van J- R's. friends were invited and 8jon8 a day or B0 at each term Buren mail when it is thrown off every one reported an enjoyable a worthy imnrovempnt in the mon as house flies.

In construct Recitation, Widow Orn Jlaruion town for a while Monday morn l'apur, lloiikki'f plnii 011 th Farm i I ng these roads and in the build ing, but later in the day we had Jon Jonex. evening, and we will Protests are at Wilhamsville, voucn ior county jail building was author- Paper, "Mlntakp In Farm MiiniiKi'iiirnt auite a snow. Then in the after the veracity of that certainly in order. report, as zeA Ky the court at this session. ing of houses no effort is spared to make southern California a lilia Kedi'll noon we had bright sun shine, we were to fortunate as to be Paper, "A lioy' Idun of Koad Hiilldliui which is the remodeling of its About the queerest bit of news Kmnk MrDermotl.

fascinating place to be and to en so we predict the snow will soon one of his friends, and we were sanitary system. A contract Bliiglim (J nine! In PuplU, we have ever come across was joy life. be gone. Recitation, "ComitliiK Kbk" was made witnueo. unanm.

a published in Monday's St. Louis Ollvo Wilcox. Aside from the government Carnahan will depart the practical plumber, to put in a Paper, "Dnlrylnu" W. K. MrKlnney Rfimblic: the collision of a freight Talk, "Change 1 Have Noticed In the near iuture ior a new neia oi new water tonkf wr pipe, train on the Louisville Nash Mehooli In the ljlnt KlVe year Gus H.

Page went over to his home at Mill Spring last week getting things in readiness to return to Grandin to take up his duties as cashier in the new laDor, ana we are Bure ne win iavatorv. all of which will work at Pan Pedro harbor, and the oil industry both of which use largely foreign labor there are few public works. Citrus Mr. IliiriiKin ville tracks and a steamboat on The following resolution wa pant We, the tne iumueriand river, it seems carry with him the best wishes be Buppiied with water from the of all for success in any of his wen in the yard nearby by means teacher of Uraudln Hi hool Dlnlrlct re that the railroad maintains en pectfully reiiueit Mr, lledell to permit the publication of her excellent paper In of a force pump. Thi9 improve- gines with extra high fire-boxes the paper of the county for the benefit of Naw ffnm Tn Milt ment is one worm the contract the teacher not preaent.

especially adapted for "wading" I nnpo tn tho roiinttf.Xl17 Ol and one was passing along the XT- i tt. J- r' --j we naven niaue our The various roiitino hn.inoaa Eclipses in 1913 bank, which wilt soon be in operation. A crowd consisting of one wagon load of young people attended a box supper and entertainment given by Clarence Johnson, teacher of the Mace- tracks near Cumberland City, appearance for two weeks, but transacted by the court at this i ff There will beve eclipses dur- which were unuer water, wnen a fVanrlin we have been term will be given next week. 11 -t ng the year VJi6 two 01 the smaii steamer, me jjocme was mjghty busy moon and three of the an. The The session continued during only two days Monday noon to VVeHnesflav noon nrwl.

tho T. visited friends W. Cole is some profit in raising English near Grandin Saturday night dispatch shown bv the court this fruit raising is the chief industry on a scale of any importance. The fruit was mostly killed this year-a not unusual thing and investigation shows that most citrus farms are mortgaged and their owners hopelessly in debt. Apricots, grapes and peaches grow without irrigation, but citrus fruits must be irrigated, and tho they bring more money in the market, it costs much more to grow them.

To be frank about the matter, the citrus fruit industry is, I believe, more an advertisement of the climate than anything else. The farmschange hands often and an erstwhile walnuts. and Sunday. time augurs well for the future It may, then, pertinently be I it I Jim Joplin spent Saturday aretirUi tOBJggi asked: Why does Los Angeles grow? In my next communica night with Phil. Long.

Phil. had to take him home- or pre- tv, aaa ir a tion I will uivp. the reasons whinh donia the proceeds first eclipse will be of the moon amounted to $10.00. Miss Anna 0n March 22, visible in North Pratt carried off the cake as the America. On April 6 there will prettiest girl.

be a partial eclipse of the sun, Calvin Graf ues, Luther Mounts visible in the northwestern part and Misses Alberta Grafues and of America. August 31, a partial Bessie Silger took the train last eclipse of the sun, not visible in Sunday traveling northward for America. September 15. a total a pleasure trip, but stopped off eclipse of the moon, visible to At the city of Hunter where they North America except in the secured a team and spring wagon northeastern part. September And had a "dee-lightful" drive 30, partial eclipse of the sun, not iback to Grandin.

visible to America. Ex. Dildine's, for an indefinite my judgment give to this city tendea 80 anyway, ts impetus; with some suggest- Mr. and Mrs. J.

E. Casteel, of penoa. ions for the benefit of anv reader Bonne Terre, and Mr. George On Saturday evening, Febru- ary 15, there will be given at that may have any notion of Groone, of Festus, visited at S. 'trying" this country.

Resp'y, W. Long's last week. the Ten Mile school a box supper and entertainment Proceeds to be for the benefit of owner usually is content to keep his experience to himself, for ob J. W. CHILTON.

Wiley Fuller and wife have Glendale, Jan. 31, 1913. moved from the old company vious reasons. 1 here probably he school. Everybody come..