Joplin Globe from Joplin, Missouri • Page 2

JOPLIN GLOBE. SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1925. BIDS RECEIVED FOR JASPER WTY ROAD birtlo Ululnvny Commission to t'oiui'ntts for 100 Miles ol Construction. mtMl DAMAGE SUITS TOT Aim $100,000 FILED City, 1'l luiiuhecl ivnd seven bids were ro'ched and opened today at the Pi.Mty hlKliwftS' depnrtiiient for al- ano.si 100 mlleH of now road work on tliR MlMt -ouri hljrhway to be In twenty-eight counties or tlu! Mtfiie nt an ftpproxlmate cost tiC About road con- tiacdH-K luid representatives of eon- attondea tlie letting, P.Ida will 1)0 awarded to the bidders at a later meeting of the highway commission. The letting is one of the largest in the history of the state, according to highway officials.

There are sixty-one projects Included and they are located In every one of the ten highway divisions of the state. It was said. ftlUes of Paving. The new work is to Include eighty- four miles of concrete paving, fifty- tliree miles of gravel construction, forty-four miles of grading preparatory to surfacing. miles of concrete and gravel, and twenty-four small bridges.

Counties in which the work Is to be done are: Andrew, Atchison, srercer, Grundy, Randolph, Lincoln, Jackson, Platte. Lafayette, Boone, Callaway, Gasconade. Perry. Jefferson. St.

Francois. Ste. Genevieve, Jasper, Barry, Vernon, Greene, Dallas, Christian, Stone, Wright, Texas, Rip- Icy, Butler and New JIadrid. 9,000 SO FAR LISTED IN CITY CENSUS HERE Kiguies compiled yesterday by JiUther JIcGehee, sliow that 9,000 have been listed in the city census now under way. The figures compiled so far, gives no indication of the population.

work began Tuesday and at the present rate the six enumerators will conclude the In about two more weeks. Several large damage suits totaling were filed In circuit court on the closing day yesterday of the time allotted for the filing of potltlona for the April term ot court, which opens April 13, Three suits totaling growing out of one case, were filed against the Southwest Missouri Railroad Company. Mrs. W. A.

Frlzxell. driver ot an automobile, struck by a street car of the railroad company, in CartervlUc, last September 22, asks $50,000 ment for internal injuries. Her husband also fUod a suit i ognlnst the company, asking $10,000 as compensation (or money expended for his wife's care and the loss of her companionship during the time she was In the hospital. Thomas DowUng, whose wife was killed In the mishap, asks $10,000 Judgment against the company. Mrs.

Dowling was killed almost in- i stantly. according to his petition. A. R. Bryant, formerly owner of a Jewelry store at 1052H Main street, asks $27,000 judgment in a suit filed against the Joplln Gas i Company; E.

C. Gray and .1. Gray, owners of the property on i which his store was located, and AV. J. J.

Lefien as owner of the prop- erty south of the jewelry store. Bryant states that he was Injured and severely burned when a gag explosion in his store the morning of October 10, last, blew him into tiie street. Bryant also aslts $2,000 judgment for ihe of his stock in the explosion. Thcron Graves named the Atlas Powder Company defendant in a $3,000 suit to collect judgment for, Injuries to his lungs, caused, he al- leges in his petition, by sulphuric gases arising from inlxturo." at ihe i powder comp.iny's plant. SAGMOUNT ACCEPTS PLAYGROUNDS QUOTA Resort Plans Improvcmont.s for Coming Totirist Season.

KLAN IS MENTIONED IN CARTHAGE CASE Inn, located south of Joplin on the JopUn-Ncosho road, sent In acceptance of the Playgrounds quota yesterday. It was announced laet night by John F. Potts, secretary of the organization. The resort will pay $100 each year tor three years. Sagniount Inn Is rapidly gaining a reputation as a summer pleasure and tourist resort In the OKarlt region.

This summer the management plans to specialize In chicken and fine steak dinners, for which it became well known last jear. Jiany Improvements are contemplated at the resort, Potts said. One oC these La the ourly construction of a nlnciy-room hotel. The resort now ha.s two fresh water swimming pools with diving bwrds and chutes, KLAN DRILL TEAM STAGES A PARADE BODY OF MRS. RAYL WILL ARRIVE TODAY The body of Mrs.

Alice Rayl. 5S years old, 1911 East Seventh street, who died Friday night In St. liouls, will arrive here at the chapel ot the Hurlbut Undertaking Company this morning. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Mrs.

llayl died at the home of a friend, Mrs. E. Kichter. In St. Louis, whom she had been visiting the last three weeks white on a business trip.

Mrs. Rayl had resided in Joplin for twenty years. She was born in St. Louis on December 14, 1866. She was married to Rayl on July 25, 1888.

Mrs. Rayl was a member of the Villa Heights Methodist church. She was active in Woman's Christian Temperance Union work, In the Ladies" Aid Society of the church and in the W. O. W.

circle. Besides the husband. Mrs. Rayl is survived by four sons. Charles J.

Rayl, Alma A. Rayl and Arthur L. Rayl of Joplin and Lester W. Rayl of Webb City, and two daughters, Mrs. F.

G. Burch of Albany, and Mrs. ArvIUa Morgan of Kan- I sas City. 100 robed members of the Ku Klux Klan stagoa a parade and drill exhibition on Main street yhorily 10 o'clock last night. The klausinen also paraded earlier In the iilKht at Carthage and Webb City.

There were about flttocn cars and about forty "murchers. Xearly all ot the automobiles contained only the driver, tiie vehicles being used to pick up the marching men when the parade reached First and Main streets. Accompanying the march- era was a band, the members of which wore regalia. The klan began marching north on Main street from Twentieth street, entering Main street from the east. At several intersections in South Joplin, the platoon of marchers aligned tour-abreast stopped to I)resent a drill exhibition.

At each intersection from Ninth street to First street the marchers stopped tor the drill. Xo public announcement of the parade had been made. However, it was generally known during the day that tliere would be ACREAGE TRACTS NEAR JOPLIN IN BIG DEMAND Woman S50 by Hnto.1 on Cliargo Klnn Conthietert "Trial" In Klavern, Is Clnlm. TURK IS EXONERATED IN DEATH OF YOUTH AocUlcut la Wliieli Vul llolloy Wilson, AVn.s Kllli-d, Held VnavoUlnMe, Carthage, March Fannie Bray field was fined $50 and costs by Judge S. W.

Bates In division one of circuit court this afternoon on a charge of conduoting a house for Improper purposes. Trial of the case, which reached the circuit court on appeal from a decision of Municipal Judge Joe Davis ot Carthage, was begun last Monday. Part of the evidence was presented then and further trial was postponed until today. One of the principal arguments of T. C.

Tadlock, counsel for Mrs. Bray- fleld, was that the case had been "tried" at the klavern of the Carthage Ku Klux Klan and that witnesses against the defendant were prejudiced thereby. Penles Making Stnfoniont. Glenn E. Stemmons, deputy circuit clerk, tesitlfled that Dr.

Earl B. Baker, a Carthago dentist, in a telephone conversation shortly after Mrs. Braytleld'a arrest, said that he had to go to the klavern as a "witness In the Brayfleld cose," Dr. Baker, on the witness stand today, denied making such a statement. Dr.

Baker, who is a member of the city council, was (luestloned by Tadlock as to whether he had ever been to the klan klaVern, The witness at first refused to answer, but when instructed by Judge Bates to do so, admitted that he had. A letter to A. J. Brayfleld. husband of the defendant, written on klan stationery and bearing the seal of the order, was Introduced by the defense.

In it. Brayfleld was notified that he had been suspended from the klnn for a "major offense" pending the outcome of his trial. Tn his argument. Frank R. Birkhead, assistant county prosecutor, referred to klansmen as "poor, misguided men." "I am with them on their lambasting of the Ku Klux Klan," he said, adding that "I take no stock in any such organization." After deciding the case.

Judge Bates said "clandestine meetings for the purposes of trying people's neighbors is childplay." The sooner such practices are abandoned the better off the community will be, he said. APPII BLOSSOM FETE AT ROGERS APRIL 8 At Tycnm. Floats -tied to IJc Fjutercd In to Attend. JURY IS DEADLOCKED IN ARKANSAS MURDER CASE AVell-lVIerited Success A citizen, lionored politically and professionally. Dr.

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It clears the skin, beautifies It, increases the blood supply and the circulation, and pimples and eruptions vanish quickly. Beauty Is but skin deep and good blood Is beneath both. For your blood to be good, your stomach must be in condition, your liver active. This Discovery of Doctor Pierce's puts you In fine condition, with all The organs active. Ask your nearest druggist for Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, In tablet or liquid form, or send 10 cents for trial package of tablets to Dr.

Pierce's Invalids Hotel in Buffalo, N. 65 PHOTOS ENTERED IN OZARK SMILES CONTEST Sixty-tlve photographs have been entered in the Ozarks Smiles contest and a number of others are expected the first of this week. Some delay in finishing pictures has been encountered. A number of photographs are expected to be entered by high school classes of Joplln and Webb City. Gentry, lias ciuallfled as the home of pretty girls, having entered nine photographs of Arkansas beauties in the contest, Webb City is second in number of photographs entered, having six to her credit.

Other cities entered in the contest and the number of photographs are; Rogers, Anderson, Pierce City, Eureka Springs. 2: While River, Lanagan, Sulphur Springs, Wentworth, Rocky Comfort, Fayette- vllle, Bentonvllle, Good- 'man, 2, and Pittsburg, 2. Tliere a big demand for acreage tracts near Joplin and for property, E. L. Jeffries, local real estate dealer, said yesterday.

Jeffries reported a sale of the Elmer Caiplinger "fruit farm southeast of Joplln to George Young of Bowden, and of the C. Jeans property at 2024 Pennsylvania avenue to L. C. BIcktord. John F.

Potts, active secretary of the Ozark Playgrounds Association, has received Inquiries from Dr. Davis Foster of New Smyrna, who desires to buy an acreage tract, and from John Blattner of Keota, who Is Interested in a large tract of timber In blocks of 820 to 640 acres. Other inquiriCT received at the playgrounds bureau are from T. J. Cooper of Memphis, and Hayes Rlordan of Oklahoma City who wish to Kpend their vacations here.

KANSAS CITY MAN IS ARRESTED AT CARTHAGE Special to The Bentonvllle, March jury sitting in the case of J. D. Hurley, charged with second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing of Centers Presley, still was deadlocked tonight. The jurors have been deliberating since Wednesday noon. Circuit Judge W.

A. Diokerson called the jury into the court room this afternoon and was informed that the jury vote stood ten to two and that it had not been changed from the first ballot. Without asking what decision the majority had made. Judge Dickson sent the jurors back to their room, tolling them they could reach a verdict if any Benton county jury could. He also stated that the state and the taxpayers were entitled to a verdict and was confident the Jury could arrive at one.

Defense counsel filed exceptions to the instructions. Karl Turk, driver of the car which caused the death of Val ItoUey Wilson, years old, Friday night, was absolved from any blame In connection with the boy's death by a coroner's Jury last night. The Jury after being out a few minutes returned a verdict that "Val HoUey Wilson came to hl8 death by being struck by an automobile driven by Earl Turk and said accident was entirely unavoidable." The Jurors were D. F. Hines, H.

B. Dooley. A. J. Day, J.

W. Wal- lac.e, Ed Cunningham and Wallace Porter. Turk, who resides at 604 Brownell avenue, is manager of tlie Abernathy Lumber Company. Seven Witnesses IQxamincd. Seven witnesses were examined by Coroner K.

M. Stormont at the Inquest which was held at the chappl of the Fronk-SIevere Undertaking Company. Turk testified that he was driving about fifteen miles an hour on Seventh street, going west. He said he felt the car strike something about seventy-five feet east of St. Louis avepue.

Owing to the fact that an immediate stop would have left the car on the street car tracks, he drove across St. Louis avenue before stopping, he said. He said he met a car going east Just before the accident but was not blinded by its lights. Jlrs. Turk, who was with her husband in the car, said she did not see the boy and did not know what they had struck until after the car had stopped.

Walter Jones, a miner- living at 1812 East Seventh street, the only eyewitness to the accident, said the boy apparently crossed the street just behind the car going cast and got in front of the Turk machine. Ho gave it as his opinion that the accident could not have been avoided. Mrs. Pearl Bowen. Charles Keenan.

Mrs. Nora Carpenter and C. R. Neal, also testified. The boy's father arrived in Joplin yesterday from his home in Kansas City and was present at the inquest.

Funeral services will be held at the home of an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mills, 42 8 Highland avenue, at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning. The services will be conducted by the Rev. Oscar Morrison, pastor of the Shoal Qreek Baptist church.

Burial will be in a cemetery at Columbus. to Tha Olobe. Rogers, March least twenty-five floats representing towns and communities ot northwest Arkansas will he entered In parade, a part of the third annual Northwest Arkansas Apple Blossom Festival to bo held here April 8, according to Hugh Whitlow, general chairman. The festival, which was started In a small way, has developed Into ft huge affair hnd Rogers will be taxed to the limit of its capacity to care for Its guests this year. Representatives from a majority ot the states are exjiected to be present and every part of Arkansas and- neighboring states win be ropreserited, Qticoii' C6ute9t! On.

The parade, pageants and coronation ceremonies will be conducted on ft scale never before attempted and visitors will be given a chance to see the Ozark orchards in full bloom. Whitlow; says that "Our characteristic Ozark hospitality will bo extended to our thousands of guests." A number of cities and towns have entered candidates in the Apple Blossom queen contest. The girl chosen queen will preside over the parade and pageant and will reign until another Is chosen next year. Sale of Corsets 5 SPECIALLY PRICED FOR ONE WEEK CORSETTES RUBBER CORSETS WRAP-A-ROUND BRASSIERES offer exceptional values in our Corset Section for bne week, beginning Williams, Graduate Corsetiei.c,. will gladly make appointment for fittings.

THIRD FLOOR An Old-Time That Never Changes What the years will bring us, none can say. But one thing we know. If we were to become as big as the Bank of England, the old-time spirit here would remain the same friendly spirit of fairness and co-operation which has been our guiding principle from the beginning. This bank places friendliness on a fooling with service. The Miners Bank of Joplin Fourth and Joplin Sts.

Carthage, March man giving his name as J. D. Connor and his home as Kansas City, was arrested by Sheriff Guy T. Humes and Deputy Sheriff Fred Lukens and taken from a White River train which arrived here from Springfield at o'clock this afternoon. The man was arrested at the request of authorities at Fayetteville, and XVelllntrtnn, Knn.

Authorities from Fttyetteville will arrive here tomorrow to identify the man According to the local officers, the riian was released on $1,000 bond following tt preliminary hearing on a fraud charge In a lustlce court at Springfield todrty. His trial is to be April 8. He was accompanied by his attorney, Henry C. Smith of Kansas City, when arrested. Connor was on his way to Kansas CUy when arrested.

Dr. Clinton Improves. Dr. Loyd B. Clinton of Carthage, who was brought to St.

John's hospital here about a week ago when he suffered a recurrence of an injury to his leg, w-as reported improved by hospital attendants last night. He will return to Carthage Monday and will resume his practice there. The injury which caused Dr. Clinton's return here was su.stalned over a year ago when the pelvic bone of his leg was fractured In an automobile accident here. Scents to Take Test.

About ten Boy Scouts will take advancement tests at a court of honor to be held at scout headquarters at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night. Among the second-class scouts who will take the tests for first-class scouts will be Dolph Williams. James Pickup, Syrus Keagey, Gale Miller, Geprge Peters, James Oberg, Charles Wagner and a number of members of Farrls Smith's patrol of Trcop 3. Four Divorce Petitions Filed. Four divorce petitions were filed In circuit court yesterday as follows: Hazel Cummins against William L.

Cummins, Laura Wiggins agaln.st George B. Wiggins, Anna Mitchell against Robert and Phoebe Huntley against Ben Huntley. ENORMOUS CROWDS AT OPENINODRUG SALE Two-for-Ono to Continue lu- Shipments to Rpplenlsli Stock. GET IT AT Dan Leyerle's 410 Main Street Phone 63 The Fourth Street Drug Store 218 West Fourth Phone 888 Instant Free Delivery Service. LET US FILL YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS i-iowest Prices Plus Service 522 MAIN ST.

this institution affords Joplin savers the same he pful sei'vice and the same absolute safety that have characterized i through the twenty yeafS of its successful Depositors like this bank, the way it handles their accounts, the spirit which actuates it, and you will, too. Come in and let us tell you how a Savings Account here will help you to greater success. per cent compound interest paid. The Conqueror Trust Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 Resources Over $4,500,000.00 lllilllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllKIIII lllillllllllllllirillillilllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlM COUNTY JAIL TRUSTY MARRIED AT NEOSHO WORKMEN'S BILL BRINGS NEAR ROW IN STATE SENATE (Continued from page 1.) Carthage, March bar.s of the Jasper county jail seemingly hold no terrors for Dan Cupid inasmuch as a (courtship wlilch Is alleged to liave originated at the jail w.xs terminated last Tuesday when J. Frank Presley, Carthage man, who Is a trusty at the institution, and Helen Bransfield, who was released last week after serving a sixty-day sentence on a misdemeanor charge, were married by Probate Judge Phlpps of Newton county.

The license was obtained and the ceremony performed at Neosho where the couple were accompanied by iieputy Sheriff Fred Lukens of this city. Presley's sentence will be terminated in about three weeks. "ACCUSED" OF BEING INSANE, SEEKS $25,000 Mirillnda Joy asks judg ment against Carl Mlsenhelter, Mae Misenhelter and a woman named Mrs. Foster as damages for "falsely accusing her of being Insane," in a petition filed In circuit court yesterday. The plaintiff states in her petition that the defendants had taken her to Webb City, where she was imprisoned for twenty-four hours, the dffeTidants stating that she was Insane.

Shannon county, and Player of Osage county, immediately changed their votes from "aye" to "no," however, after the roll call, for the purpose of reconsidering the measure for passage at tomorrow or Monday's session. The bill, which has already passed the senate, would enact virtually the same system for the collection of the stale income tax as that used by the federal government in the collection of the federal Income tax. It is estimated that about $1,000,000 additional revenue would bo derived each year under the now system proposed by the measure. Three amendments to the bill, adopted earlier tonight, provide for not more than twenty field agents and ten additional stenographers for the tax commission tor administration of the new method of collection and provide that no reports will have to be made employers of employes salaries that are bolow the limit for single persons and $2,000 for married persons. The bill provides that all ployes must make annual reports to the tax commission showing the salary earned by each employe during the year so that these reports can be checked by the commission and all persons required to pay an income tax be made to do so.

TOMORROW MONDAY 419 Main Wales Starts on Tour, By Aaaoclated Prest. On Board the H. M. Repulse, March tour of the Prince of Wales has started with calm weather. After dinner tonight the prince and members of his party witnessed a motion picture film featuring tho overhauling of the Re- vulse for its present voyage.

Two thousand, seven hundred for- persons made purchases at the Two-for-One Store at 620 Main street at 10 o'clock last night, according to a tabulation made by the promoters of the idea, of selling two articles for the price of one. Tlic store was opened for the first time here yesterday morning. The promoters will continue lo operate as a Two-for-One Store and will have shipment after Hhipnicnt of merchandise arriving all tho time to keep tho stock In each line complete. The promoters are so entliu- over the results of tlic tirst day they have employed their own traveling buyers to nuiku purchases to support tho store. from I 'iltHburg.

Nc- oslio, Carthage. Wehb City, Curtoi- vllle. Plchor, Baxter Granby and several other points in tlie district visited the store to make purcliases. Drugs and drug razors, stationery, utricc Carter's crushed fruU.s. rubber goods of all Idnds, domestic and imported toilet goods, jiutenl mcdiclneK and liouschold drugfi an numerous articles are Included in the stock of the Two-tor-(Jne Store, The policy of tho store Is'lu sell only standard merchandise advertised in newspapers and magazines throughout the country.

This i)ollcy win be followed closely by tho promoters, they announce. One of the articles ottered yesterday was a standard 10-lnch Victor phonograph record. These were sold at two for 39 cents. The regular price is 75 cents each. During the.

day, records were sold. Owing to the tact that the promoters are continually replenishing their stocks, they expect Monday to be an even greater day in volume of business than was Saturday. As bo- tore stated, the sale will continue Indefinitely anil will be known and advertised RS the Adv. A Great Special Sale Group Lovely New Spring DRE Just New Styles- Valves Which Will Surprise You 13 H00.S12 yuur now Easter Frocks here tomorrow and have the lovely up-to-the-minute frocks you are wanting and at the same time keep well within your budget. new TOxaiiisite georgette Soft crepes and.

flat Beautiful new satin SEE OUR WINDOW TODAV SPECIAL MONDAY 150 NEW SPRING HATS $0.50 One Day Only A CAREFUL aeleotlon, bringing you many favored rich workmanship. Featuring the popular colors. 2.