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The
Paris Mercury
Paris,
Missouri
October
29, 1926 edition
Names
found included;
Morgan,
Bodine, Eberhard, Burnett, Grimes, Buckner,
Dry, Major, Gerster, Gibbs, Maupin, Grimes,
Bassett, Dyson, Janes, Smith, McAllister,
Washburn, Adams, Taylor, Browning, Hurd,
Stuart, Blakey, Brown, Noel, Snyder, Curtright,
Buerk, Gosney, McMurry, Moss, Curtright,
Harley, Peck, Scobee, Marr, Crump, Herring,
Boyd, Vaughn, Goetz, Boyd, Herring, Flanders,
Ragsdale, Bassett, Mitchell, Grimes, Barnes,
Ball, Bodine, Clapp, Lockart, Shields, Peyton,
Heathman, Shuman, Boulware, Solomon, Wiley,
Houghton, Heron, Smithey, Callison, Heitmeyer,
Harrell, Walton, Francis, Tyler, Hughes,
Landis, Harris, Golden, Bruner, Miller, Roney,
Tyler, Blanton, Noel, Houston, Buckner, Mason,
Kirkland, Martin, Wright, Wood, Ornburne,
Gibbs
Miss
Marion Morgan of Shelbina, a student at
William Woods, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Claud Bodine Sunday.
Mrs.
Glenn Eberhard of Kansas City is the guest of
Mrs. Irma Burnett
W.A.
Grimes was operated on for prostate trouble at
Kansas City Thursday.
Miss
Emma Buckner attended the state Baptist
Association at St. Louis last week returning
Saturday.
Mrs.
C.L. Dry and mother, Mrs J.C. Major of
Wichita, were in Columbia this week.
Carl
Gerster is at home from Colorado, where he
spent seven weeks and is much improved in
health.
Mrs.
Renfro Gibbs of Mexico was the guest of her
father, W.F. for several days this week and
last.
Judge
R. G. Maupin of Shelbina began gathering corn
last week on one of his farms.
One 14 acre field averaged better than
75 bushels to the acre.
Judge Maupin is planning to sow 40
acres of wheat, the ground having been broken
last summer.
Mrs.
Stella Grimes, and Arthur Bassett and wife are
visiting Mrs. George Dyson at Rushville, ILL.
W.
Janes has installed a saw-mill in the Wabash
yards and is sawing his walnut timber into
lumber to get a lower freight rate. He will
make a shipment to California this week.
Mrs.
Perry Smith Dead.
Mrs.
Jennie Smith, widow of the late Perry Smith of
Paris, died in a Kansas City hospital Monday
from the results of a fall, in which on hip
was broken, sustained at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. F. W. McAllister, in that city
the Monday previous.
The remains were buried at Paris
Wednesday afternoon with funeral services by
Rev. Shively at the Christian church, of which
she had been a devoted member for over 50
years. Mrs.
Smith was a native of Illinois, her maiden
name being Wallace, and she and her husband
came to Paris in the decade following the
civil war, living here until the latter’s
death some 7 years ago.
Two devoted and dutiful daughters, Mrs.
McAllister and Miss Gertrude Smith survive
her. She
was 76 years old at the time of her death, and
during her long life in Paris no woman gave
herself more freely in good deeds or was more
widely loved.
To her motherliness and her kindness
she united an abundant humor, merriment ran
like silver thread through her life, and to
those of us who were young in the years that
have sped so swiftly by the memory of her home
and the hospitality of its mistress will ever
be a happy and a beautiful memory.
The sympathies of the community of
which she was so long a beloved member, are
with the daughters in their bereavement.
Boy
Car Thief to Reform School
Mellon
Washburn, 16 year old boy held at Paris for
car theft in Kansas City, was sentenced to
five years in the Boonville reformatory
Saturday.
Judge Hayes remanded the two Adams
girls to the care of their parents with
oversight by probation officer Marr.
Duncan’s
Bridge Postoffice Robbed
Burglars
entered the Postoffice at Duncan’s Bridge,
located in the back part of Owen Taylor’s
store, and robbed if Friday night.
The burglars secured $20 in nickels of
Postoffice money and $22 belonging to Mr.
Taylor
Wallace
Browning of St. Louis visited home folks over
the week-end.
Judge
Hurd attended Masonic grand lodge at St. Louis
this week.
Mrs.
A. T. Stuart attended the meeting of the
Missouri Synod of the Presbyterian church at
Kansas City the first of the week.
Linda
Lee is the name of a brand new Paris girl who
arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glendi
Blakey Saturday.
Harry
Brown, son of Wood Brown, west of Paris,
killed a big blue crane in the pond at this
home Tuesday morning.
It was truly a noble bird, having a
wing spread of six feet.
Miss
Vivian Noel, daughter of C. R. Noel and wife
of Paris, has been made the recipient of two
important honors at Stephens College.
She was first elected president of the
Junior class, containing 350 students, a
recognition both of her popularity and ability
to lead, and was named a s one of the girls
from the Burrel Bible Class to attend a
student religious conference at Birmingham.
Mrs.
Regina Snyder, aged 94, died at the home of
her son, J.H. Snyder in Paris Tuesday morning
and the remains were buried from the Christian
church Thursday afternoon with funeral
services by Rev. Wood.
Deceased was a native of Switzerland,
coming to this country as a girl, and spent
most of her life on a farm in Illinois.
She is survived by four children, two
of her sons, J.H. and Theo., coming to Paris
to live four years ago.
The sympathy of the community goes out
to them.
Miss
Imogene Curtright was selected as one of the
Maids of Honor at the Mexico Fall Festival to
represent Centralia and participated in the
parade.
Miss
Frances Buerk, of Paris, is a member of the
Girls Glee Club at Central College, Fayette,
Missouri.
This musical organization is composed
of thirty-two voices, and will give a number
of concerts during the school year.
A tour through the state will be made
sometime during the latter part of the year.
Miss Buerk is a member of the second
soprano group.
She is a junior at Central.
Diptheria
Scare Subsiding
Following
the death of little Martha Louise Gosney from
diphtheria, her aunt, Mrs. Maud Moss, who
helped to nurse her, was taken with a mild
attack of that disease, but a timely use of
diptheretic serum by Drs. McMurry and Moss
Friday enable her to recover quickly.
Mrs. Stella Gosney, mother of Martha
Louise, a trained nurse, has attended Mrs.
Moss. The
little daughter of Will Curtright of Flat
River, here visiting Mrs. Carl Harley, was
also taken with disease on reaching home, but
it yielded quickly to serum treatment.
Most of the children of Paris have been
given preventative doses of the serum and all
danger has passed.
The two cases were isolated, the after
effect of measles.
Robert Peck also has a mild case.
World
War Veteran a Suicide
Harry
Scobee, world war veteran, for whom a guardian
was appointed in probate court two weeks ago,
committed suicide in the old Crump house at
Santa Fe Friday by shooting the top of his
head off with a shotgun.
The house belongs to his mother and has
been vacant along time.
Life was extinct when the body was
found and the remains were buried at Mt.
Prairie Saturday.
Deceased was 36 years old and served in
the medical unit of the army in France, losing
one leg.
He had been twice arrested for theft
during the last two years and twice paroled in
the belief that his mind was not right. The
disgrace is believed to have preyed on him and
caused him to end his life.
No note was left assigning other
causes. He
was drawing compensation to the amount of $60
a month and appointment of a guardian may have
also piqued him.
Col. P.G. Marr was named as his
guardian.
Scobee was a fine specimen physically
and it is generally believed his war
experience and the nervous shock of his wound
deranged him mind.
Birthday
Luncheon to P.E.O’s.
Mrs.
Harry Herring and Mrs. J.P. Boyd were
hostesses Friday at the home of the former at
a beautiful four-course birthday luncheon to
their P.E.O. sisters and visiting friends.
The P.E.O. colors, yellow and white,
were carried out in the decoration scheme on
the tables in the dining room, where tall
yellow candles and baskets of white and yellow
asters prevailed.
The ice cream too carried out the color
idea, being in the shape of white lilies with
yellow centers.
With it was served the two-tiered
birthday cake decorated with the marguerite
and gold star both P.E.O. emblems—presided
over by Mrs. Baxter Vaughn who responded to
the toast “Our charter members.”
Other toasts were given, with Mrs.
Stella Grimes presiding as toastmistress.
Mrs. George Blakey responded to
“P.E.O. Ideal:” Mrs. Nannie Goetz
following with “Loyalty” and Mrs. Boyd,
with a brief talk on “Early Days.”
Just
before roll call which followed the luncheon,
birth day greetings were read from the Clio
Club.
The
out of town guests who enjoyed the hospitality
of Mrs. Herring and Mrs. Boyd were Mrs. Robert
Flanders, Omaha; Mrs. Buckner Ragsdale of
Charleston, and Mrs. Arthur Bassett of
Shanghai, China.
The
organization is twenty-four years old and its
first president was Mrs. Guy Mitchell.
Wayne
Barnes, Claire Curtright, Will Ball and
Stapleton Bodine, students at the University,
were at home for the week-end.
Mrs.
C.B. Clapp Dead
Moberly-Monitor-Index—Mrs.
C. B. Clapp, 67, wife of Dr. C.B. Clapp, well
known surgeon, formerly of Moberly, died at
Homestead, FLa., early today.
Dr. and Mrs. Clapp had made their home
here since 1890 until they went to Homestead
two years ago.
Dr.
Clapp was chief surgeon at the Wabash Hospital
from the time it was opened in 1891 till he
left here and he had owned and operated the
Woodland Hospital since 1909.
His wife was actively associated with
him in his work.
Mrs.
Clapp is survived by her husband, her mother,
Mrs. Mary Lockhart, of Danville, ILL., and two
sisters, Mrs. Mary Shield and Mrs. Grace
Peyton, both of Danville, Ill.
Mrs.
Clapp, who was Miss Laura L. Lockhart before
her marriage, was born at Danville February
19. 1856 and was married to Dr. Clapp November
21, 1883.
She was active in church work at the
Fourth Street Methodist Church when she lived
in Moberly.
She taught classes, was active in
missionary work of the church and she donated
the chimes with the pipe organ at that place.
Mrs.
Clapp was a member of the executive board of
the Y.W.C.A. for several years and a member of
Sorosis, one of the oldest women’s clubs in
town.
Funeral
services will be held at Danville at 3
o’clock Tuesday afternoon and burial will be
made at that place.
Holliday
Notes by Cleo Heathman:
Misses
May Shuman and Elizabeth Boulware spent the
weekend in Kirksville.
H. Solomon, wife and daughter,
Gertrude, motored to Hannibal Sunday to visit
their daughter, Margie, who is taking a course
in nursing.
Hurlie Wiley spent the weekend wit his
parents.
Miss Edith Houghton returned to her
work in Moberly Sunday afternoon after being
at home on account of measles.
Miss
Opal Heron returned to her home in Leesburg
last week.
Charles Smithey spent the weekend wit
his parents.
G.A. Callison and A. Heitmeyer motored
to Columbia Monday to attend a farmer’s
meeting.
E.E. Curtright and J.D. Harrell are
attending the Masonic Grand Lodge in St. Louis
week.
Victor
News
L.B.
Walton and family and Mrs. Will Francis and
sons were shopping in Hannibal Saturday.
Mrs. George Tyler was operated on for
ear trouble at Woodland Hospital, Moberly.
Mrs. Lod Hughes was shopping in Paris
Monday. Abe
Landis and Tom Harris were in Moberly
Saturday.
There will be a basket dinner at the
old church the fifth Sunday and preaching at
2:30 that afternoon by Rev. John Golden.
Come and bring well filled basket.
E.S. Bruner spent Sunday at Excello.
Orville Francis and wife, Vina Miller
and Pearl Roney motored to Moberly to see Mrs.
Tyler.
Mrs.
Anderson Blanton is at home from California.
Misses
Olivia and Vivien Noel were at home for the
weekend.
Mrs.
Sally Houston of Mexico is the guest of her
father, W.F. Buckner.
Mrs.
Julia Mason, Miss Frances Kirkland, Miss Bell
Martin, Miss Nadine Wright, Clyde Harold Wood
and William Ornburne attended the district
teacher’s meeting at Kirksville this week.
Mrs.
Renfro Gibbs of Mexico was the guest of W. F.
Buckner.
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