1918 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers
An interlibrary loan of microfilm from the State Historical Society of MO was the source of the below given data.		 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers

Extracted by: Donna Cooper, Coordinator
Cassville Republican, Thursday, April 25, 1918

Local And Personal


Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bass of Exeter R.1, are the parents of a 10 pound boy, born April 19.

Mr. and Mrs. Marlow of Marionville are visiting Mrs. Marlow's father, M. Y. Setzer, at Exeter. They visited Cassville friends Saturday.

Bert Hankins who enjoyed a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Hankins, and other relatives in this community, returned to Camp Funston Sunday night.

Fred Boyer who lives northeast of Cassville on Flat Creek, has been in for a few days on a furlough from Camp Doniphan. He was in the hospital for two minor operations during the past few months.

Homer West of Eagle Rock who has been working at the Wentworth mines came home Saturday. He says that the mines in the Joplin district are also closing. Ore is selling from $35. to $55. per ton and at that price it can not be mined.

A few Barry County teachers are being paid $70. per month salaries in the rural districts for the coming year. J. L. Hankins is to receive $70. at Arnhart, D. H. Truhitte $70. at Gunter and James Black $75. in the Eureka district.

Mrs. Anna Barnes and two little sons of Anaconda, Mont., are visiting Mrs. Barnes sister-in-law, Mrs. Della Wilks.

J. B. Thompson went to Ft. Riley Friday night to visit his brother, Willie Thompson, who went there a few weeks ago as one of the Barry County registrants.

Miss Nadine Robbins will represent the Cassville High school in the High school declamatory contest to be held at Springfield Friday night. Representatives from the First Class High Schools of Southwest Missouri will enter the contest.

F. A. James of Shell Knob and T. H. B. Smith of west of Exeter were transacting business in Cassville Monday. Mr. James said some of the farmers in that part of the county had corn up and that wheat was looking fine.

Clyde C. Hammers of Seligman has won a prize of $10. in the contest among the teachers of the state in writing essays on the subject, "Why the United States Is At War." Mr. Hammers entered the contest with the grade teachers of the entire state and won one of the Third prizes awarded. This is a very complimentary showing for himself and for the county.

Mrs. D. L. Mitchell and daughter, Mrs. W. T. Ward, returned Monday evening from Rogers.

Edw. Clark and little son visited Mrs. Clark at the state hospital at Nevada last week and found her getting along fine. Mr. Clark was well pleased with his wife's improvement and believes that she will soon recover.

Miss Marzelle Rose who has been teaching English in the Lamar High school this year has been reelected and will teach next year in Lamar. Miss Rose is a graduate of Drury College, receiving her A. B. degree at the institution in 1917. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rose of Purdy.

O. C. Brattin of near Purdy secured one of the new Ford cars from L. E. Fawver.

Allen Stubblefield is in from Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, visiting his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Clay Stubblefield, south of town. He is in the Medical Reserve corps. He has been sick some since enlisting last December but is looking fine.

Ralph Hawk and Lester Hanes of this city were among the soldier boys from Camp Doniphan who passed through Monett Wednesday night of last week on their way east. Robert Hawk and J. B. Hanes were in Monett to see their sons during the thirty minutes stay here.

Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Whittington of Eagle Rock were in Cassville Thursday. Mrs. Whittington said she had taken a good list of names of parties who had pledged articles for the Red Cross Auction sale to be held at Cassville April 27.

Bryan Siler south of town on the Sallie Lee farm has smallpox.

Orville Prier has been employed to teach the Black school near Cassville.

Lester Hanes wrote back the later part of last week that he is at a camp of embarkation in Virginia.

J. H. Aldridge of Mano was here Thursday. He is a local solicitor for the sale of Third Liberty loan bonds and said a number of his neighbors were subscribing for bonds. Chas. Curry and R. H. Elam are also soliciting for the sale of Liberty bonds in Roaring river township are are making good reports.

Franklin Carr of Shell Knob who had been at the Camp Cody training camp and who lately returned home declaring that he would not go back, was placed under arrest at Springfield and brought to Cassville Thursday by Sheriff Houston and held for orders from the training camp officials.

Loren Horner is in from Camp Doniphan on a furlough for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Martha Horner, southeast of this city, and with his brothers and sisters and friends in and around Cassville. He appears to be in the very best of health and is looking fine.

J. C. Skelton and son, Maurice, and Noel Curry, of Eagle Rock, were in Cassville Saturday. Mr. Skelton took home with him a new Ford car.

Maurice Skelton of Eagle Rock has been employed to teach the school in the Carter school district at a salary of $45. per month.

L. E. Fawver, the Ford dealer here, received a shipment of Ford cars Friday.

H. G. Dodson of Exeter bought a new Ford car last week from L. E. Fawver, the Cassville Ford dealer.

I. N. Wirtz is at home from the Picher, Okla., mining district.

Mrs. Sarah Wilks of Verona, who was acquitted two weeks ago in the justice's court of the charge of being an accomplice in the murder of her husband last November, has been re-arrested and is under bond.

Prof. Ira C. Wilson will receive the degree of B. S. from the George Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville, Tenn., at the college commencement June 11. He writes that he is not yet certain where he will be located in the coming year but will engage in the profession of teaching.

Mrs. Della Wilks has been appointed by Judge Landis as administratrix of the estate of her husband, Walter A. Wilks. The estate is estimated at $15,000 to $20,000. Mrs. Wilks' bond was placed at $30,000.

Line


Mrs. Walter Wilks visited at Clarence Miller's the latter part of the week.

Shell Kno


The Thurman sale was a success. Everything sold well especially the stock. Cows sold as high as $90. to $95. dollars.

Munsey


Sime Perse found one of his mules dead on the range.

Calvin Skelton of Eagle Rock purchased a new car last week.

Finas Ball and L. W. Clay are doing some carpenter work for Elbert Ball.

Silas Ball lost one of his fine calves.

Mr. Goins is seriously ill.

Chas. Ball and wife and Frank Tucker and wife visited Elden Ball and wife Sunday.

Flat
Woods

Grandpa Riggs is no better at this writing.

Exeter


Mrs. Kelley who is in very poor health will spend part of the summer with her son, Frank, of Washburn.

Beauchamp Shore will move here next week from Monett.

Mrs. S. A. Brattin is spending a few days at the farm.

North Purdy


Amos Henson has purchased a new rubber tire buggy.

Zenvar Eden spent the week end visiting her sister, Mrs. Ellis Nunnley.

West Jenkins


Mrs. Mary Stockton and daughter, Hila, went to Monett to visit her daughter, Mrs. Lola Fare.

Fred McPhail will teach Willow Branch school this year.

Mano


Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Brock, Sunday, April 21, a daughter.

New Site


Saunders Haddock and children are reported some better.

Mrs. Ernest Fleetwood received a telegram Saturday from the Mayfield sanitarium stating that Miss Nettie Fleetwood had undergone an operation, doctor well pleased and patient resting well. We hope for her speed recovery.

Washburn


Mrs. S. A. Woodruff left Monday for a two weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. E. A. Lund, of Mansfield, Mo.

Mrs. Harrison Antle and children of Oklahoma are visiting Mrs. Antle's parents, Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Hodge.

Christopher Turner, Arthur and Walter Weathers left for their respective homes in Kansas and Utah Thursday evening.

Rocky Comfort


Ezra Long was a business visitor in Joplin Saturday.

Miss Estes Lawson of Powell who had been attending school here died Sunday morning of pneumonia. Interment was made in the Roller cemetery Monday afternoon.

Bethel


Mr. and Mrs. Tilman Henderson, Harlan McCoy, Mrs. Oma Erickson and son, Carl, motored to Corsicana Sunday and visited Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Ennes.

Miss Dena Ramsey went to Muskogee, Okla., Friday where she entered the hospital. Mrs. Sherman Erickson accompanied her, returning home Saturday.

New Salem


Earl McCollum of Boulder, Colo. visited a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Trimble. He left for his home Friday night. James A. who has been with his mother, since his father's death went home Thursday night and Mrs. Emma Roller of Wichita, Kan., left Sunday night.

Mrs. Bryon Young of Roaring River is visiting relative in this part.

Mineral Spring


We had some snow Saturday evening and plenty of ice Sunday morning. Nothing seems to be hurt.

Licensed to Wed

Charlie Roller, 24, Monett & Hilda Fassier, Clinton
Rosa Hollibaugh, Wheaton
H. J. Romine, Tulsa, Okla. & Eva Mackey, Tulsa, Okla.
Glenn Hillhouse, 29, Verona & Cordia Thomas, 22, Leann
L. L. McCracken, 19, Monett & Georgia Knight, Monett
Cassville Republican, Thursday, April 25, 1918


Wilks Funeral


A large number of Cassville citizens drove to Verona Wednesday and attended the funeral of their fellow townsman, Walter A. Wilks.

The funeral was held from the Presbyterian church and interment made in the Spring River cemetery, one of the most lovely cemeteries in Southwest Missouri. The funeral was conducted by Rev. E. W. Love of Joplin.

The city of Cassville furnished four of the pall bearers, Geo. E. Joslin, C. H. Hadley, J. C. Henry and W. O. Black; also a quartet from this city, Mrs. John Ray, Miss Esther Higganbotham, Ross Stuckey and J. W. Hisey, sang for the church services. Many of the beautiful floral offerings were sent by Cassville friends.

The large crowd assembled at the church and at the cemetery was a manifestation of the high esteem in which Mr. Wilks was held at his boyhood home and in Cassville where he had lived for several years.

Pioneer Citizen Dies


B. F. McCary, one of the pioneer citizens of Barry County died at his home on the Cassville and Washburn road, Sunday morning, April 21, at the age of 83 years, of a complication of troubles incident to old age.

Benjamin Franklin McCary was the oldest son of the late Hon. Henry McCary who was one of the county's oldest settlers and who served this county in a number of official positions and in the State Legislature. The McCary family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCary and two small children, B. F., the subject of this sketch and Asbury the next brother, came to Barry county from East Tennessee in 1837. They settled the farm which was since been owned by the family and known as the McCary farm four miles southwest of the city on the Washburn valley. B. F. was born in Tennessee in 1835. Eighty-one of the eighty-three years of his life were spent in this county and within a few miles of this father's old homestead. For many years he had lived near Washburn but a short time ago he brought a farm adjoining the old original home farm to spend the last of his days.

When a young man Mr. McCary obtained a good common school education, as good as was afforded in that day, and taught school. He took an active part in public affairs and was a useful citizen. During his long life, nearly all of which was spent in this county he had seen the county develop from a territory of sparse settlements into the county it is today. But he was not only an observer, he always took an active hand in the work necessary to its progress.

Mrs. McCary died several years ago. To them some ten children had been born, of whom seven are living. They are: Sally Davis, widow of the late Bert Davis; Libbie Davis, wife of Judge Wm. Davis; Maud Anderson, who lives in Mexico; Ollie Burnett of Dewey, Okla.; Ocie McCary of Stark City; Mrs. Nannie Pallet, who was living with her father and Mrs. Geo. Packwood of near Exeter.

The funeral was held Monday at the Roller cemetery, conducted by Rev. C. M. Smith. Following the funeral service the Masonic Lodge of which Mr. McCary had long been a member, gave his funeral ceremony.

Sousa's Band At Monett


Sousa's famous band is to be at Monett for a concert Friday morning from 7:30 o'clock until about 10 o'clock.

The date announced last week was Saturday forenoon but it has been made one day earlier.

Those desiring to hear this famous band will have an opportunity early Friday morning, April 26.

Charged With Serious Crime


Gladys Owens of near Butterfield was placed under arrest Monday charged with having attacked a little twelve year old girl, a granddaughter of Mrs. Burchett at Butterfield, Sunday about noon, as the the little girl was returning home from a neighbor's where she had been playing with other little girls. She was attacked with criminal intent by young Owens in a woodland near Butterfield school house.

Owens was chased by a number of Butterfield citizens but he succeeded in making his escape. He was caught Monday and brought to the county jail.

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