| 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, August 8, 1918
Personal And Local
Judge Henson of Mount Vernon announced Tuesday that he would appoint Mrs. Amy Burkett of Neosho as official stenographer during the temporary absence of Mr. McClure for a year in YMCA war work overseas. As evidence of the shortage of men available to this court work the judge said that in the past month in which the appointment was open, he had only three applicants - all women. Ola Farwell of near Eagle Rock was one of the Barry County registrants to leave for camp July 22, was rejected upon physical examination after arriving at the camp and given a discharge. He went from Funston to visit his brother, Otto, and cousin, Albert Farwell, at Camp Dodge before they left for the eastern camps. W. E. Hankins received a letter this week from Fred Marbut who is in France. He wrote that where he was located he did not find France is beautiful a country as he expected it to be. He says he is getting along fine. Uel Davenport of near McDowell motored to this city Saturday morning and brought the sad news of the death of his neighbor James Ethridge, who was found dead in bed at the Ethridge home Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Newman received a letter Friday and another letter Saturday from their son, Otto, who is now in France. One of the letters was written while he was in England on the way to France. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McClure of Claremore, Okla., are visiting Mr. McClure's mother, Mrs. Jane McClure, Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Chandler, J. W. George and other Cassville relatives and friends. Don Murphy who enlisted about one year ago in the U.S. Navy is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Murphy, northeast of Cassville on Flat Creek. He came in Thursday on a furlough. Don has been assisting in the work of transporting troops across the Atlantic, having made five trips across. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin of near extra accompanied their daughter, Mrs. Marvel to Cassville Friday where she took the teachers examinations. She will teach in the Central school District West of Purdy this year. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin had two sons in the government service, Adolphus as a mechanic in one of the shipyards and Ola is in the Navy. Thos. Ferguson of Republic who was at Butterfield last week on business, was in Cassville Saturday. Mr. Ferguson who has been the proprietor of the Republic Monitor for some time has sold his plant since his son, Curtis is in the draft. Curtis was at associate publisher of the monitor. S. P. Roseberry of Aurora was in Cassville Saturday. He has sold his home in Exeter to Mrs. Mary Antle and has moved to Aurora where he is engaged in the grocery business. Barry County citizens will regret to lose this most estimated family. J. A. Roller of near Washburn is proud possessor of a fine registered calf which he lately bought of L. N. McFarland. He gave $200 for the animal and says he is very choice individual. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris who have been visiting in Cassville and who were on their way home, going via Verona and Noel, were called back on account of the illness of Mrs. Morris' mother, Mrs. Dora Talbert. S. T. Bradley who has been in the mercantile business at Traverse, has sold his stock of goods to F. S. Edwards and has decided to move to his Cato ranch. Mr. Edwards is from Stone County. C. I. Smith of Marionville is visiting his daughter, Mrs. James House, east of Cassville. J. H. Aldridge of Mano was here on business Thursday. The administrator's public sale conducted by him July 29 for the estate of the late Kesiah Channell was a success, the property all bringing good prices except some unbroken horses. T. H. B. Smith auctioned the sale. Troy Dummit of Purdy was brought to the county jail by Sheriff Houston Thursday up on a charge of having broken into this Smith grocery at Purdy. William Johnson and Sam Autry of near Purdy attended the school board meeting here last week. They reported crops fairly good in their respective localities. Mrs. Dora Talbert has been quite sick for the past week of a nervous breakdown. Mrs. Hattie Fox who has been away in summer school is in home for a vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Jones of Dadeville visited their niece, Mrs. Granville Moore, at Mineral Spring and Mrs. John Ivey of Cassville last week. Sheriff Houston was notified from Camp Dodge that Alva Mackey and Earl Nickle were wanted at the camp and were thought to be at home near Butterfield. The boys were brought to Cassville Thursday evening and have returned to camp. They had returned home at the same time that Glenn Tucker, Albert Black, and Ed Wade return three weeks ago. Mrs. Tom Mason and little son of El Centro, Calif. arrived Sunday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Rachel Thompson, and sister Mrs. J. C. Henry. She has been visiting for a few weeks with relatives that Mason Valley, Ark. Mineral Spring
Everet Baker of Gaddis now sports a Ford car. Victory
Miss. Lena Towe is visiting her cousin, Miss Maggie Hobbs. Munsey
Omen, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ball is on the sick list. Albert Ball has purchased a new buggy. School at Munsey begins today, Monday Mrs. Donaldson teacher. Julius Clay has the fever. Clark
Sherman Rhea and his wife and his mother Mrs. Nannie Rhea, spent Monday night with Eaton Rhea and family. Washburn
Dr. Northcutt has been quite ill but is better. Harry Woodruff has bought a Studebaker car. Black
There will be a meeting at the Black schoolhouse Monday, Aug. 26th for the purpose of raising the quota of thrift stamps assigned to the district. Come everybody. Gunter
The twin infant babes of Mrs. Alice Broshears was buried at new church Saturday evening. Shell Knob
Several of the boys have gone to Kansas to work. Arnhart
Mrs. Mattie Bowman returned to her home in Texas after a few weeks visit with relatives and friends in our midst and in Mountain Township. Roaring Spring
P. H. Faulk, went to Oregon about eleven years ago and since has traveled over the entire United States, Canada and Mexico is enjoying a vacation among the hills of Roaring River at his fathers, E. C. Faulk's. Forest Grove
Miss Edna Bennett attended the teachers meeting at Cassville last week. School began Monday at this place, Mrs. Carrie Hankins teacher. |
Cassville Republican, Thursday, August 8, 1918
Death of James Ethridge
James Ethridge was found dead in bed, Saturday morning at his home on Flat Creek between McDowell and Jenkins by his wife when she went to his bed to call him to breakfast. Mr. Ethridge had attended the Frank and Ben Stubblefield sale on Friday and had told some of his friends that he had not felt better for some time than he felt that day. He had made no complaint of illness upon going to bed Friday night, however, he had been bothered with appendicitis and heart trouble for some time. Saturday morning Mrs. Ethridge awoke and noticing that Mr. Ethridge was still asleep, as she thought, she got breakfast and upon calling him to breakfast discovered that he was dead. An examination by neighbors who were called in, disclosed that he likely had passed away several hours before. James Ethridge was born in the southern part of this county in 1846. The greater part of his life was spent in this county. For many years he had lived within the vicinity of McDowell. In 1870 he was married to Missouri Marbut, daughter of the late Judge Marbut. To them no children were born but they had reared one or two orphaned children, one of whom, Mrs. Davenport, was still living at the Ethridge home. James Ethridge was one of Barry County's best citizens. The county had no better men than James Ethridge. He was a man of recognized honor and integrity and his loss will be keenly felt by the community in which he lived in by the county. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. McKinsey and internment made in the Calton Cemetery. George Lemon Dead
George Lemon died very suddenly Saturday afternoon, August 3 at his home on a farm west Butterfield owned by Farmer Higgs. He had gone to the spring for a bucket of water a few minutes before his death and appeared to be feeling as well as usual that day. Upon returning with a bucket of water he went into the house and lie down. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Lemon with whom he lived heard him gasping and upon entering the room found him dying. The funeral was held Sunday at the Horner church southwest of Cassville and internment made in the cemetery there. George Lemon had lived in Cassville and surrounding community for many years. He was about 70 years old. He had never been married and since the death of his mother a few years ago he had been making his home with his nephew, Loren Lemon. He was a man of a reserved disposition and a good citizen. Cassville Boy in Battle
Mrs. M. B. Babb of this city received the following letter Monday from her son, Bernard Babb, who is in the trenches in France: France, July 9, 1918 Dear Mother: Received your letter yesterday. Was very glad to hear from you. Have had some very exciting times in the past month. Probably you have read in the papers of the fight of Belleau Woods. We took our objective and could have taken more. We captured about 600 prisoners and several machine guns. We found Germans chained to their machine guns to keep them from running away. We are having fine weather over here at present. I took a swim in the Marne River yesterday which reminded me of the old swimming hole at home. I hope everybody is o.k. at home. I saw John yesterday. He is the same old John. Private B. A. Babb, 1st Bat. 5th Reg. Marines 88th Division Moves
The 88th Army division which had been in training at Camp Dodge, Iowa, begin moving Saturday to an embarkation camp in the east. In the 88th division were about ninety Barry County boys who left Cassville for the camp on May 28. Two Boys Leave Monday
Charles R. Calton and Boyd Browning left Monday for Syracuse, N.Y. for special training for the army service. There were limited service men. Roger Wilson was sent by the local board Tuesday at Fort Ben Harrison, Ind. to train for the engineer Corps. Elijah Vanzandt Passes Away
Elijah Vanzandt of Bonham, Tex., who has been visiting Cassville relatives and relatives and friends near Washburn for the past two weeks died at the home of his half brother, Walter Vanzandt, in this city Monday afternoon at the age of 69 years. Sunday he took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Sol Sparkman near Washburn and ate a hearty dinner. In the afternoon he ate some watermelon and during that afternoon took very sick. It is believed that the roasting corn and watermelon he had eaten had brought on something like cholera morbus. He was brought to Cassville Sunday evening and medical aid was obtained but he grew worse until he passed away that afternoon Monday. Elijah Vanzandt was born in Tennessee. When a small child his parents moved to this County and located near Washburn. He lived in this county until about twenty years ago when he moved to Texas where he has since lived. He was married to Julia Montgomery, and to them three children were born. Mrs. Vanzandt has been dead for many years. The three children, Mrs. Steven Thompson, Miss Mamie and Albert, all of Texas, are living. He leaves three brothers: James of Los Angeles, Calif., George of Cheyenne, Wyo. and John of near Fort Smith, Ark., and one sister, Mrs. J. D. Knott of Boise city, Idaho. He also leaves three half brothers, Tom, Walter and Charles Vanzandt and a half-sister, Mrs. E. W. Daugherty. The funeral is being conducted this afternoon, Wednesday. Card of Thanks
To our many friends who so kindly assisted us and who extended to us their sympathy and condolence during the illness and at the death of our dear little son, Horace Turner, we desire to express our sincere thanks. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ayers Licenses to Wed
D. W. Bennett, Monett & B. M. Martin, Pierce City Cecil Pilkerton, 19 Monett & Mattie Knight, 19 Monett Ralph Fare, 18 McDowell & Mamie Long, Cassville one E. C. Stubblefield, 32 McDowell & Dora Potter, 25 Jenkins |
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