| 1917 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 |
April 28, 1917, Saturday, Cassville Democrat, Barry Co., MO
Chicken Thieves Are Arrested:
Oscar Whittington, Fred Kring and Fred Sullivan stand charged with stealing chickens from Hugh Montgomery this week and selling same. Whittington and Kring were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Evan Shore on a warrant issued by Squire Sons and were fined $1 and costs, amounting to about $10. Whittington's mother made arrangements and paid her boy out, the Kring boy is serving his fine and cost out in jail. The Sullivan boy made a "get away" and evidently took an aeroplane, as he had not been located at last accounts. Theses boys are young from ten to twelve years of age and it awful to contemplate that they would do such things. The parents of boys around Cassville must know where their boys are, and with whom they are associating. Idleness begets crime and if boys are not kept busy they will go tot he devil or start in that direction, and if not haltered, will land in the lower region. At Monett, this week, the Times reports that 19 young boys were arrested and taken before the officials of that city on a charge of stealing. These boys it seems were habitual loafers, spending nearly all their time on the streets, when they should have been at home working. Young boys of Cassville have been to actively engaged in stealing eggs and chickens and there should be a stopping place some where and sometime and those boys learn lessons that will have a tendency to cause them to make a halt in their downward career and think of their probably destination - the county jail, state penitentiary or reform school - and then the Lord only knows what will be their ending. Boys do better, make men of yourselves and thereby make your parents happy and glad and stop their hears from bleeding and lacerations. Two Children Die
A message was received Wednesday from W. E. Larecy, Soper, Okla., to his father F. Larecy at Eagle Rock stating that two of his children, Elby and Margaret had died of measles. The remains were interred there Thursday. Wm. E. Larecy was raised at Eagle Rock and his many acquaintances in this county will deeply sympathize with him in his great sorrow. Drinks Carbolic Acid
A 2 year old grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John Ivey of this city, pushed a chair up to a safe, Thursday morning and got a bottle containing carbolic acid and drank a portion of the contents, while the mother of the child was out in the yard after some wood and when she came in the the child was lying in the the floor. Physicians were summoned, antidotes were given and after a time the little fellow vomited some of the acid up and was apparently making some improvements, thought bad burned about the mouth as well as on the insides. He had been eating peanuts and they being good absorbers, assisted in lessening the danger from this awful drug. This is another warning from keeping poisonous drugs around a home where children can get to them. Friday the child continued to improve. Houston Gets Whiskey Seller
Sunday, Sheriff Houston, accompanied by his deputy Walter Vanzandt and Wm. Couch, motored to White River and not being able to find a ferry across White River, at the right place, they walked about 8 mils to the Roark Store located at Mack Calloway's farm, where they found Chas. Bradley selling whiskey and beer open and notoriously to any and everybody and they purchased some of his merchandise and then arrested Bradley and brought him to this city. Bradley is said to have cried like a baby and importuned Sheriff Houston not to put him in jail; as he had never been in jail, which created a sympathy with the sheriff, who let it get his better judgment and took Bradley home with him for the night and between that time and daylight after vomiting all over the bedding Bradley took French leave and has not been heard of at last accounts. Part of a barrel of whiskey and two and half barrel of beer were captured and locked up in Mack Calloway's smoke house. Monday morning Sheriff Houston and Deputy Vanzandt went back to Roark, to capture the runaway, but were unable to even hear, much less find him. While down they they arrested J. M. Bradley, father of Charles, who had operated a distillery at Elk Raunche near Eureka Springs, and took him to Beaver, Ark., and there turned him over to Sheriff Johnson of Carroll County, Ark., who took him to Berryville, Ark., where he was placed in jail. The institution of the whiskey joint at Roark, it seems has been furnishing whiskey for a quite a large section of country, as it is said, that people from Eureka Springs, Berryville, Ark., Eagle Rock, Golden and the country surrounding have been going there to get their supplies of this foul stuff. Ignus Diringer Dead:
Ignus Diringer died at his home Thursday morning 3 miles northeast of this city of old age and chronic malaria, aged 75 years. He left a wife and children to mourn his passing. The remains were shipped to Mulvane, Kan., Thursday nigh for interment there. He was the step-father of Joe Harris who resided in the same neighborhood. Killed in Auto Wreck:
James Parker of Joplin, was killed in an auto wreck, Tuesday in that city. He was a brother of Chas. Parker, of Joplin and Dan Parker of Miami, Okla. We believe he once resided east of this city many years ago and moved to Joplin from this county. Probate Court Docket of Barry County, May Term, 1917
First Day, Monday, May 14, 1917
Autrey, Archie C., W. O. Autrey, Administrator. Auffert, Mary, Clem Auffert, Administrator. Arnold, Carrol S., et al, J. A. Arnold, Guardian and Curator. Boulden, Wm. C. S. G. Boulden, Administrator. Browning, Jas. L. et al, Lizzie Browning, Curatrix. Brooks, J. T. , Elsie Brooks, Administratrix. Burton, D. D., J. F. Pilant, Administrator. Beasley, Lafayette, J. W. LeCompte and Martha Beasley, Executors. Bowing, Opal, Mary Zinn, Curatrix. Bowen, Raymond et al., W. N. Laidlaw, Curator. Curry, Sarah et al. Thos. Curry, Curator. Carlin, Wm. M., Pleasant Carlin, Executor. Coisson, J. B., A. Bounous, Executor. Case, Juley?, E. M. Witt, Guardian. England, E. F., John England and Sheridan Lane, Administrators. Easeman, Nadine et al, Vicey Stockton, Curatrix. Second Day, Tuesday May 15, 1917
Ferguson, J. H., B. W. Withers, Administrator. Ferguson, Roy C., Thos. Ferguson, Curator. Greathouse, Joseph, George Greathouse, Curator. Hughes, Emma M. W. C. Bray Administrator. Hemphill, Melinda, Robert Stubblefield, Administrator. Hussey, McKinley et al, S. M. Calloway, Curator. Lowery, Leona, J. A. Blades, Administrator. Leonard, William, Asher Reed, Executor. Lee, Charles M., I. M. Lee, Executor. McCary, John T. Cam McCary, Administrator. McCary, N. A. and Mary T., J. W. LeCompte Administrator. Mulloy, Annie, Sarah Clark, Curatrix. Martin, Arthur M. William Senseny, Curator. Menscke, Fredrick, Lyddy Menscke, Administratrix. Rather, Zona et al, V. H. Rather, Curator. Third Day Wednesday, May 16, 1917
Sturgis, Ella, N. Sturgis, Administrator. Shrum, Abe, et al, J. W. LeCompte, Curator. Saxe, _ee, et al, W. L. Black, Curator. Tate, Gladys E., Nora G. Tate, Curatrix. Tausch, William, S. B. Hutchison, Administrator. Vanderpool, Thelma, Flora, Myrtle Evert, Curatrix. Williams, C. C., James E. McWilliams, Administrator. Wheat, Geo. W., L. S. Ryker, Executor. Wilson Wayne, et al, J. L. Wilson, Curator. A true copy for the recorded. C. M. Landis, Judge of Probate. |
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