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i I THE CURRENT Legal Publication For Carter County and The Citj of Van Euren VOLUME 48 VAN BUREN, MISSOURI THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1933 NUMBER 38 LOCAL PROCEDINGS OF THE TRUE OZARK TALES SCHOOLS OF COUNTY HIT HARD BY "DEPRESSION CARTER COUNTY COURT FROM BYGONE DAYS Court met Monday, February 6th MISSOURI HISTORY NOT FOUND IN TEXT ROOKS A LOSER IN FAMOUS CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH With four months' expenses yet to and during the five-day session trans EARLY DAY SETTLERS be met the Van Buren school district acted the following business: IN" HENPECK VALLEY f8ces considerable shortage of funds from tlc (Dsarks Bryan Carnahan, road overseer of owinsr to a shortage in state allowance. Dist. 2, filed report and was allowed The valley which flows into Cur- decrease in valuation, slow navment! $28.60 in settlement LUI RING It is 130 years ago this week, on Court allowed Bill Eddington $1.50 for labor in Dist. 2. i em niver at nouse ora, inree miles of taxes and other factors, according above Van Buren, was named Sugar to Austin Moore, president of the Creek, because of the many large su- board of education.

No hope is held gar trees growing there, but owing out to the teachers for the final Feb. 15, 1803, that John A. Sutter was born in the city of. Kandern in Jasper Condray allowed $1.50 for labor in Dist. 2.

the Grand Duchy of Baden. He was to play, some forty years later, a lead to a romance the name was changed month's pay and possibly none for Luin Roy allowed $11.00 for lumber ing part in the pioneering of America, furnished Dist. 2. 10 nenpecK. it happened this way the last two.

We understand that the There were two families on adjoining teachers have been told this lament- and that colorful episode of American Shelby Leach, Roard Overseer of farms near the mouth of the creek able fact and that, without exception. Road Dist. 1, makes settlement and history, the California gold rush of 1849. and in each family was a grown girl, they have expressed a willingness to is allowed $42.00. John Woods, who lived two miles continue until the end of the term Sutter came to America from Swit further up the creek, had four young regardless of whether thev are paid W.

P. Alley, overseer of Dist. 4, is allowed $38.00 as per bill filed in zerland, the home of his parents, in men working for him, and two of Property valuation in this district fell settlement. 1834. He came to Missouri the same year, and stayed for a time in St.

me young men went to exchanging a off several thousand do ars last assess Luther Bucy, overseer of Dist. 3, few smiles with the girls but, being ment and with prospects of a still files settlement and is Louis. Ho is said to have purchased land in Missouri, and may have lived very bashful, the progress was not greater shortage in state funds next in settlement. REFLECTIONS The melodies' of Master Minds, Lofty, peaceful, somber, wild; May find their essence; echo, theme, In the crooning of a child. The heavens above; creation's gems, Glorious in their midnight rule; Are gathered from the ends of space, And mirrored in a tiny pool.

The rainbow in its varied hues, Is held within the dew-drop's span; And the love of God is oft revealed, In one impulse of mortal man! eausiaciory. on the other two year it is evident that another re- County Assessor W. T. Carter for a time at Westport. On a trip to Santa Fe he first heard glowing ac young men went down to visit the duction in teachers salaries is due.

or makes annual settlement with court girls and met with a more favorable expenses must be reduced otherwise. counts of California. In 1838 he left reception, and they teased the first Although conditions are bad here, and is allowed $1059.28. Later the court recinded this order pending fur Missouri for the west coast, visited two boys that went so much about we are informed bv County Superin in Vancouver, the Hawaiian Islands, ther investigation- of some items of getting "henpecked" that the little tendent Condrav that thev are worse Alaska, and in 1839 made the first allowance. settlement, and eventually the whole at Elsinore, Fremont and Hunter.

Austin Moore, Circuit Clerk, allow settlement on the site of Sacramento, now the capital of California. valley, was called "Henpeck." Ellsinore with four paydays to make ed $18.51 on salary. Truman Douglas from Ray County, vet is something like a thousand dol- Jack William's allowed $54.00 for This pioneer became a Mexican cit Tennessee, a brother-in-law to Thos. lars behind already and most of the izen and official. He erected a fort, Chilton, settled on the upper part tax money already in.

Hunter, not built manufactories, and soon became or what is now known as the Levi maintaining a. hieh school this terra Maberry farm, sometime between the has cut expenses somewhat but it al years 180 and 1825. so loses on attendance and much of wealthy and a power in northern California. In the events that preceded the cession of California to the United States, Sutter gave aid to the Ameri The next settler was James Kelly, the real estate in that district is sim- who settled on what is known as the ply non-tax producing as it is owned Written for th Current Local. cans, in 1848, James Marshall, in fchade Chilton farm.

bv non-residents. Fremont' biirtrest the employ of Sutter, discovered gold The next farm up the valley was trouble is an unusually heavy levy support of Mr. and Mrsr, Yates. S. A.

Carnahan allowed $76.00 for salary and postage as Treasurer. Jack Womack allowed 0 for support of Chas. and Bill House. Jack Womack allowed $5.00 for service as janitor. T.

J. Bramlett allowed $15.00 for support of county patient. C. C. Vaughn allowed $21.00 for support.

J. H. Stark allowed $21.00 for support. Mrs. Maynard allowed $15.00 for Bupport.

A. M. Yardley allowed $10.00 for settled by Mrs. Glassford. She later which has slowed up payment of gold not far from Sutter's fort.

Sutter tried to keep the discovery a e- sold the farm to William Dawson. It local taxes. Of the consolidated dis- fearing his laborers would leave is now occupied by Arvil Chilton. tricts, Grandin is in fair shape finan- him before work he had under way was finished. But the news of dis ihe next farm up the valley was ciallv.

thanks to a nest esse of about settled by Mrs. Edwards. It is now $2000 at the beeinnimr of the pres- covery soon leaked out, and the great owned by S. A. Galbraith.

ent term. That district alone of the tampedo to California began. The writer is unable to learn who consolidated srroun has been able to Historians have little to say on the settled the next farm up the creek pay its bills promptly. support. but Richmond Dawson bought it in Supt.

Condrav informs us that the Sam McCarthy allowed $37.50 for 180U and spent the remainder of his rural schools, with one or two exceo support of Ona Kinnard. life there. I tinns. are in fair financial Rhane and Etta Smith allowed $5.00 for sup FRAZIER RECTOR MRS. BURL STARK ine- next settlement was made by will be able to eo their full terms rn i I i rnl i 1 nmoiny urn; ivioore aoout leau, and port of Jas.

Sartin. Arnold Roy allowed $4.00 for lum her furnished Dist. 3. between it and the last mentioned place, Win, Cowin developed a farm A PRACTICAL TEST John Frazier and Mjss Faye Rector surprised their many friends by slipping away to Poplar Bluff about two weeks ago and uniting in marriage. They kept their secret for sev Wes Rhea allowed $16.00 for wood OF TECHNOCRACY in 1880.

C. P. Turley allowed $88.33 as sal- The next farm above belonged to Anderson Sheets as far back as the for prosecuting attorney. Time, the newsman, propounds one extent to which Missouri was affected by the gold rush. But old newspapers tell the graphic story of one of the greatest migrations history.

Thousands of Missourians mingled with the great stream of emigrants, and from Missouri itself led out to the West the principal trails over which the Argonauts traveled. Independence and St. Joseph on the western frontier of Missouri leaped into national, attention as starting points for the overland trip. Not until about the middle of April, when enough grass on the plains had grown to sustain the stock of the emigrants, could the Argonauts leave Missouri for the West. But even as early as the middle of March, 1849, Mrs.

Hurl Siarks ditd Tuesday night at her home lieui' Short station, following a lingering illness which culminated in pneumonia shortly before her death. Funeral services were held today at the M. E. church, conducted by L. Prichard, and burial was iif "theVan Buren cemetery.

Croy funeral service. Mrs. Starks was 40 years old, and had spent her entire life in the home North Central Telephone Co. allow writer can remember, but he does not that take a technocrat, or mebbe know who settled Albert Einstein, to fjguraut. Her ed $8.00 phone rent.

T. -Jeat, allowed $18.00 lor sup The nlnrp nhnve trio Khpft farm! tlB! eral days but were finally found out and were given the usual rousing 'charivari Monday night. Mr. Frazier is one of Van Buren's most successful merchants and is prominent in civic affairs and poli was settled bv Samuel West and was A traveling salesman stopping at a port. County Supt.

H. D. Condray allow ed $106.24 salary and expense. known since the Civil War as the 8maI1 town hotel approached the cash-Bailv Smith farm. er one morning.

"I'm carrying more Herald allowed $220.48 for publish where she died. She leaves a husband and three children besides a half bro- tics, being chairman of the local Democratic Central Committee. His bride, The next farm was cleared by Dan money than 1 t0-' he Smith and the one above it, ac- tantlv- yu take care of ihls cordine to the writer's earliest rec- bill for me?" The cashier put ing right of way for Grandin farm to-market road. is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

ther, Fred Ball of Willow Springs John Rector and is one of the most and sister, Mrs. Ola Loyd who lives Van Buren Light Co. allowed $11.90 it in the safe, gave a receipt. collection, was owned by John Smith emigrant companies from all over the popular of the younger set of this i nearby the old homestead. for light and water furnished court The hotel's butcher called to collect The next four farms up the valley United States were organizing at In The deceased was one of the best community.

house and jail. were in the order named owned in what was due him $100- The drum- Dr. T. W. Cotton allowed $15.00 as dependence and St.

Joseph. Merchants were busy outfitting the emi the early days by Louis Skaggs, mer's money being handy, the cashier paid with that. The butcher went local registrar. James Bowers, Thomas Skaggs. LOCAL POULTRY FLOCKS ARE PROFITABLE known and most popular women in this community, being a model mother and wife and very active in community affairs.

It is said by those who knew her well that she had not an grants, streets were crowded, and trade in livestock was "very brisk." (Settlements will b. continued in on down the street, paid his rent, $100 Dr. Sheets allowed $8.00 for same. Dr. A.

Johnston allowed $12.50 for the next few issues before taking up Tle landlord owed his lawyer $100. In April, oxen to draw the covered same. local incidents again). Poultry record keepers in Carter and Rovnnlds Counties who are co wagons of the emigrants could be pur i ne lawyer owed me aocior, i ne doctor owed the hotel $100. Before enemy among all her wide acquaint- Jessie D.

Schupp allowed $6.75 for chased for $35 to $50 a yoke. Good operating with the Extension Service anc and her very enthusiasm for same. dark the same $100 bill was back in J. J. CHILTON.

SHERIFF MCKINNEY IS A VICTIM OF OWN GUN mules were selling from $40 to $60 helping others shortened her life. The Gladys Dorris allowed $5.00 for in keeping these records reported a satisfactory Profit on their flocks each, and the supply was equal to the Local joins her many friends in ex the hotel's safe. In came the drummer. "Thonla lia ooi1 oa tha s.luvl hanrl. same.

demand. W. C. Croy, Coroner, allowed $9.00 tending heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. There were ways the emigrants Sheriff C.

D. McKinney is in a Pop- for inquest on Lewis Lord. Sheriff C. D. McKinney allowed lar Bluff hospital recovering from a frlend the drummer said, as they could travel to get to western Missouri.

Some came up the Missouri during January. The egg production for the flocks was also quite, satisfactory with the high flock averaging eggs per hen and the low flock averaging 11.2 eggs. The average production for the ten flocks during Jan strolled out of the lobby: "I had that COUNTY'S 4-H HOME GARDEN CLUB ORGANIZED gunshot wound in his left leg which he received from his own gun last river on crowded steamers. Others came overland by way of the old hick all hot and bothered keeping this $100 for me. It's stage money!" and to impress other hicks, he used the Boone's Lick Trail, following the Santa Fe route to Independence.

Still $24.45 for waiting on county court. Sheriff McKinney allowed $54.00 for feeding prisoners. Current Local allowed $9.75 for stationery furnished collector. Heral allowed $17.45 for stationery furnished county. County Clerk E.

R. Burrows allow-(Continued on page 5) Carter County's first 4-H Home Garden Club was organized at Grandin last week with Mrs. Frank McDer-mott as leader. This is not only the others came overland across North bill to light a cigar. The problem is, who, if anybody, did not get paid? Missouri to St.

Preacher and pedler, lawyer and Thursday night while he was in Poplar Bluff on business connected with the recent Grandin Bank robbery. Mr. McKinney had gone to the Bluff late Thursday afternoon, accompanied by Deputy Jont Wood and his brother, Cap "McKinney, to take charge of some of the loot from the Grandin bank that had been discovered near there, and was about ready to return home when he stopped for a laborer, merchant and mechanic, doc first club in this project organized in Carter County this year but is the first time in history of the county that a 4-H Home Garden Club has ever WOULD CHANGE GAME AM) FISH TO COMMISSION tor, scholar and artist, were among the Arganauts who waited at the WINTER IS PRUNING TIME starting points to begin the long over uary was 15 eggs per hen compared to 11.1 for December and 9.15 for November. Will W. Storman's flock produced 18.8 eggs per hen for the month to rate first place.

Sparks and Kitter-man a Grandin ranked first last month but came in fourth place in January with a production of 10.8 eggs per hen. Anson Massie of Fremont ranked second with 17.7 eggs per hen. The ten poultry cooperators could have increased their profits by almost 600 in November and December had they followed the example of those cooperators who obtained the highest land journey. At St. josepn in may there was a wild scramble to cross Approximately 795 bills have been introduced in the 57th General Assem brief visit at the home of a relative, Mrs.

Roland. While there someone asked to see his gun and while re been carried on. This 4-H club is sponsored by the Community Club at Grandin which is one of Carter Coun-tys Home Economics Extension Clubs. Mrs. Herman Spears is president of this club.

Officers for the Busy Bee 4-H Home Garden Club are Garth McKinney, president; Kenneth McDowell, the river. Ten dollars was charged to cross one wagon, and regular steamers were pressed into service to supplement the regular ferry. Emi turning it to the scabbard it discharg ed, the bullet entering the front part Carter County farmers will find that the general run of orchard pruning will probably have the best results if done some time after the leaves drop in the fall and before they appear in the spring says T. L. Tal-bert, chairman of the horticulture department of the Missouri College of Agriculture.

Any time during this dormant season when men may work comfortably out of doors, pruning work may be carried on with profit. of his leg about twelve inches above grants were soon offering as much as $20 a wagon to be crossed over. In bly up to the present time. Practically all of these measures are re-organization or economy bills. The Legislature sitting as a jury should find as near a solution -as possible for our problems as a depressed state and people.

The General Revenue fund of Missouri contained only $30,000.00 for the paying of the States obligations due February 15th. It isn't pleasant to reveal these facts but I 1850 there was even a greater rush Marie McKinney, se- vice-president; ators and other farmers in Carter the knee and followed the bone on which it split into several pieces, to a short distance above the He was rushed to the hospital where the into the gold fields by the overland route. egg production during those two mon-! cretary; Ruth McKinney, song leader ths. Thn nlv wav that these Conner- and Bert Turner, reporter. Other Out on the plains, the emigrants bullet was removed and he is report ed well on the road to recovery.

and Reynolds counties can get this members of this club which has an extra profit next year which is slip- enrollment of 6 boys and 6 girls are might be overtaken with cholera, as do so to show you the condition of our state as delivered to' this administra Although in office less than two months, Mr. McKinney Is proving an able sheriff, handling admirably some rather tough cases that have The objects of pruning are essentially two in number to alter the shape or growth of the trees and to influence the production and character of the fruit. A more detailed statement of the objects- of pruning may include increasing the vigor of old trees and regulating the amount and ping through their fingers, according Dorris McDowell, Cecil Putnam, Irene, to District Agent Rodgers, is to hatch Bert and John Gibson, Rose Cannon the chicks early this spring so that i and Ruth Smelser. the pullets may be properly developed i It is the belief of District Agent and in production in time for the high Rodgers that the Home Garden Club egg market which normally comes in is one of the most practical 4-H clubs September, October and November, which Carter County boys and girls Since the egg market has been high I may carry on this year. With pra- ctically every family in the county tion from the hands of the Caufield administration.

If Missouri pays her debts alone in the next four years and places herself on a sound footing she will have accomplished a successful administration. To co-operate with Gov. Roosevelt's campaign pledges and reap some of the advantages of his re-forestration program I introduced an enabling act providing for the purchase of land in Missouri by the Federal Government to establish Federal Forests and Parks in our state. For your informa at this time of the year for a period covering the last 100 to 150 years, it is safe -to plan on this happening a- living on a greatly reduced income, the importance of providing a larger portion of the living from the farm gain in 1933. Farmers in Carter and Reynolds is apparent.

Certainly the produc- already come before him. He expects to be back on the job here within another ten days, meantime his duties are being looked after by Deputy S. E. Dell. WORDEN IS HANGED Harry Warden, who was associated with his brother, Lew, and Pete Stevenson in the Fremont school board robbery about a year ago, was hanged at Carthage last Friday morning.

The two Wardens and Stevenson, whose homes were at Mt. View, pulled a series of robberies and attacks on girls in Jasper county soon after their escapade at Fremont and all three were arrested there. Lew Warden pled guilty but failed to escape the many of them were. They might suffer untold hardship in fighting the elements, but the lure of gold led them on. In their lighter moments, they sometimes sang "Joe Bowers" or "Sweet Betsy from The name of Missouri was carried afar by these emigrants, and they made Pike county, Missouri, one of the famous localities of America.

The gold that enriched so many men only brought John Sutter poverty. The frenzied miners over-ran his land, trampled his crops, killed his cattle, and destroyed his fortune. Sutter could only stand by and protest in vain. In later years, Sutter was pensioned by the State of California, but the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Mexican title to his lands invalid. For many years Sutter petitioned Congress for $50,000 in re-payment for his services to the Americans in the early days of California history.

But Congress never passed on his plea. Sutter died in a hotel in Washington, D. on June 18, 1880, the day after Congress had adjourned once again, failing to grant his petition. Counties need not expect an enormous tion of a large supply and variety of profit from their poultry flocks in I vegetables in the home garden from 1933 and 1934. However, successful early spring until late fall is the first poultry raisers are proving over and and most important step toward pro-above again that a reasonable profit ducing more of the living for the direction of any growth; preventing the formation of weak and undesirable crotches; removing all dead, badly diseased, and injured wood; removing crossing or interfering branches; restoring in young trees at planting time a proper balance between top and root system; and regulating and distributing the number of main or scaffold branches on the tree trunk.

The objects of pruning and training have in many instances been overemphasized, since after all the main purpose in pruning a fruit tree is not to produce a beautiful and shapely object, but rather to obtain a tree which is capable of carrying heavy crops of fruit without the breaking of limbs or branches. It is also true that judicious pruning and graining will facilitative other orchards operations such as picking, spraying; and cultivation. tion and farther check on my legislation and farther chesV-pretao etaoiii tion I wish to inform you the Game and Fish Commission Bill was passed out of the committee recommending may be made when approved practices family on the farm. The training which, the Grandin in poultry management and good judg ment are used in handling tha flock. Feeding a good but economical lay it to pass by unaminious consent of all members.

I wish to thank the three news pap boys and girls will obtain in their club under the leadership of Mrs. Mc-Dermott may be duplicated in other communities in Carter County. Literature and other information regarding this club was obtained from the District Extension 9gent at Ellington where other communities interested in the Garden Club may receive similar information and assistance. ing mash is an item requiring itte.i-tion at the present time. Information concerning methods which successful poultrymen are using in handling their poultry flocks may be obtained from the Missouri College of Agriculture through the District Extension Agent at Ellington.

gallows and was hanged last March. -Harry stood trial but was convicted and paid the penalty last week. Stevenson got a change of venue to Mt. Vernon where he escaped with a life sentence, although he was generally regarded as the leader of the gang. ers of Shannon County and our good friend Ray D.

Weaver for their kind and sincere comments. I deem friendship the greatest asset to the life of man. ANSEL I MOORE.