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1,265.00
Amount from estrays.
45.85
$16,122.25
CREDIT.
By loans made
$15,191.00
By balance ..
931.25
$16,122.25
SCHOOL FUND INTEREST.
To balance on hand.
$3,443.72
To interest collected.
8,289.31
$11,733.03
CREDIT.
By apportionment.
$10,815.76
By balance in treasury.
917.27
$11,733.03
AMOUNT OF FUNDS OUTSTANDING AND IN TREASURY.
To school fund bonds.
$80,978. 13
To interest delinquent.
13,590.71
To cash.
931.25
$95,500.09
CREDIT.
By bonds and mortgages on real estate.
$94,568.84
By cash in treasury
931.25
$95,500.09
The court house fund for 1888 is represented by these figures:
DEBIT.
Cash on hand at settlement. $ 407.40
Collected on bonds and taxes.
17,455.76
Bonds outstanding
3,434.90
$21,298.06
CREDIT.
By warrants paid on work and labor. $ 7,072.05
3,434.90
Cash on hand.
10,791.1I
Bonds outstanding.
$21,298.06
Total amount of court house fund on hand.
14,226.01
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STATE OF MISSOURI.
WARRANTS AND SCRIP OUTSTANDING JANUARY 1, 1889.
Warrants of 1883. $ 138.45
Warrants of 1884.
94.45
Warrants of 1885
244.48
Warrants of 1886.
6,766.99
Warrants of 1887
6,693.67
Warrants of 1888.
15, III.OI
$29,049.05
Scrip for 1883. .
5.00
Scrip for 1884.
6.10
Scrip for 1885.
3.50
Scrip for 1886.
517.95
Scrip for 1887.
1,203.85
Scrip for 1888.
1,934.50
$3,670.90
Expenditures of a Year .- These figures constitute a sum- mary of Barton County's expenditures in 1888:
Assessor's fees.
$ 640.00
School commissioner's salary
87.60
Sheriff's fees
830.30
Circuit clerk's fees
47.00
Stenographer's fees.
450.00
Prosecuting attorney's salary
610.00
County justice's fee. s.
1,070.85
Poor commissioner's salary
150.00
County physician's salary.
270.00
County clerk's fees.
2, 111.30
Treasurer's salary.
833.35
Stationery for circuit clerk
159.35
Stationery for recorder.
128.65
Stationery for probate judge.
128.40
Stationery for county clerk and townships and postage and expense
306.70
Public printing.
506.35
Abstracts from Lamar Abstract Co
558.50
Merchandise for county officials
106.45
Rent of court-room and offices
680.00
Cost of elections
257.15
Pauper accounts.
2,708.76
Coal for county
123.50
Insane expenses. 874.25
Road and bridge work.
1,723.05
Criminal costs.
1,075.58
Grand jurors' fees.
336.45
Petit jurors' fees.
1, 509.45
Witnesses before grand jurors.
150.40
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Incidental expenditures ..
345.90
Court house construction
6,050.85
Common school fund loans
14,030.00
Township school loans
6,647.70
Total
$45,507.84
Population and Valuation .- In 1860 Barton County had 1,817 inhabitants. In 1870 its population had advanced to 5,087. In 1876 it was 6,900. In 1880 it was 10,340. In 1889 it is estimated at 25,000. The assessed valuation of property in the county in 1880 was nearly $2,000,000. It is estimated that it will reach $6,000,000 in 1889.
SETTLEMENT.
Early Settlers .- The first settler within the limits of Barton County of whom any knowledge is obtainable was Allen Petty. He occupied the position of county commissioner and county seat commissioner, and in the latter capacity was aided by Mr. Fisher, who, prior to 1857, had been a resident of Jasper County. It is said of Allen Petty that he lived in five different counties and never changed his location.
Among the old residents of the county, many of whom were here before the war, were George E. Ward and his two sons, Ed. G. Ward and J. T. Ward, Elisha Peters, J. C. Parry, George Oldham, Mr. Minor, John Apperson, Morris Baker, Philip Matthews, Irwin Brown, Joseph H. Brown, J. A. Creamer, Felix Bonse, J. H. Zevely, James Smith, " Al." Pinnock, David Nor- ris, Frank Lease, Dr. L. M. Timmonds, Dr. Charles Van Pelt, A. Cochran, Jesse Kelley, Thomas Seal and Doctor Blacker. As will be seen by reference to the county civil lists, some of these were among the early county officials.
Prior to the war, the citizens of Barton County were few indeed, and a good deal of the land was owned by non-residents, and valued at $1.25 per acre. The war prostrated all enterprise and retarded all material progress. Most of the pioneers have passed away, and their places are filled by their children and their children's children, who, with the large number of Eastern peo- ple here, make up the county's population.
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Pioneer History .- For some years after the earliest settle- ment, bands of Osage and Sac Indians hunted over this territory, for the most part maintaining friendly relations with the whites. One resident of the county, " Gil." Roup by name, was an invet- erate Indian hater, and lost no opportunity to kill an Indian on sight. At a later date, accompanied by his family, he started for California, and had not proceeded far on his journey when his · party were attacked, and every one in it killed, by a considerable body of Indians. The early settlers about Lamar had to go to Spring River to mill, twenty-five miles distant, and for years the nearest trading-point was Carthage. The first store in Lamar was George E. Ward's, near his residence (on the present site of M. N. Wills' residence). The earliest postoffices were: At Lamar (J. C. Parry, postmaster); Drywood, or Baker's Green (Morris C. Baker, postmaster); and on Coon Creek (" Bob " Stan- ley, postmaster). The mail was brought weekly on horseback from Independence, by way of Papinsville. The first religious services held in Barton County were in the old court house, which, during late years, has, in a different locality, done service as a restaurant. The first school was taught about 1854, about two miles south of Lamar, by William Seals.
Land Entries .- A list of names is here given of individuals who entered United States lands in Barton County: Thomas Dunford, Martin Braden, Joseph S. McBride, John Weir, Jr .; Samuel M. Baker, Homer F. Fellows, Royal A. B. Mills, Joseph Neely, David Ward, George Andrews, William H. Denmead, Martha Abernathy, William Stewart, Charles A. Davis, Benjamin Curver, George Arnold, John Blackburn, Mason Crabtree, Til- man H. Lea, Joseph Stone, Spencer Thompson, David Norris, William H. Norton, Harrison Zimmermann, William M. Thomp- son, Nicholas Wood, Henry Garner, Frederick Garver, Anselm Clarkson, George S. Park, William Smith, Henry Baker, Thomas J. Toler, William H. Smith, Sarnia Worthington, John P. Gri- sham, Samuel W. Duprey, David P. Bethel, Thomas F. Bugbee, Francis M. Overby, James F. Winter, Abner and George W. Embry, James L. Nicholls, Harrison Shrader, George Kimmell, Isaac Zimerly, Allen L. Pierson, Joseph Hooper, James F. Long, Nicholas F. and James T. Jones, Robert S. Rutledge, Jacob Van-
A RURAL SCENE.
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kin, Stephen H. Thompson, Urial F. Murray, John F. Smith, Jesse Kelley, Robert G. Coleman, John Tarleton, John Wyson, David H. Super, Levi T. Davis, Albert Pearce, Absalom R. Roads, Israel Miller, James W. Webb, Charles C. Fordes, Theron Barnum, James D. Webb, John H. Wyman, Leonard Gilson, Samuel B. Wright, Fanny M. Chadwick, Theodore B. Webb, James S. Easley, Charles O. Lockhard, Amelia Jenks, Florella Nurse, William W. Bennett, Alexander M. Tucker, Joel B. But- tles, Joshua Dial, Samuel H. Shelley, John M. Becker, Frederick Krecker, Conrad Bowman, C. Free, Benjamin Ezekiel, Samuel Sheek, Edgar Ames, Moses W. Carter, Samuel Starkey, Edgar S. Taney, Solomon Sturges, David K. Bush, Alpheus D. Hagans, Conrad C. Stuntz, William Dugan, James S. Wilderman, Amos Thompson, Albert L. Lee, Isaac Francis, John H. D. Jarnett, Chester D. Knox, Rufus Maloney, Thomas H. Mong, M. Hey- man, Jacob Blickensderfer, Percy M. Hirst, S. Newell Dodd, Oliver H. Smith, Alonzo Thompson, Reuben B. Royer, David Fleming, Samuel A. Gillibrand, Edward J. Johnson, Cornelius D. Freeland, Albert C. Widdicombe, Washington Moseley, An- thony McBride, Gilbert M. Venable, Milton Cooley, Christian Stoner, Davidson Smith, Charles F. Hill, Jonathan J. Philbrick, David Steel, Anderson S. Jones, Washington Farmer, James H. Zevely, William C. Wells, Alexander Henry, Jonathan D. D. K. Carter, James W. Bass, Joshua Waggoner, Isaac Darnelle, Sam- uel Fish, Dexter Otey, Isaac Gearhart, John T. Smith, John Black- burn, James A. Beal, John L. Waters, Jacob Lawrence, Allen L. Pinson, William Stewart, William Y. Moore, Charles P. Gage, Ward P. Lay, T. W. Wintzel, William Neocker, Charles W. James, John Johnston, James M. Stewart, Charles V. Culver, Joseph W. Petty, Albert W. Tipton, Orange J. Scott, Nathan Ball, Nelson Monroe, John Tarleton, Jacob Shamberger, Benja- min Curver, Alfred Branham, Andrew Hall, Christian C. Bren- nerman, Joseph C. Parry, William Parry, Sanders Jones, Tim- othy Moshier, Francis G. Adams, James S. Easley, George Mad- ison, Chester C. Ford, Bryan P. Scolly, Charles C. Orr, Edgar Ames, Harriet Voorhees, John Postlethwaite, Timothy Baldwin, James Glynn, Abraham T. Hay, Silas Bent, Francis M. Gregory, Alexander Hall, Benjamin Curver, John A. Davenport, William
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C. Davis, William H. Parker, Henry S. Wharton, Samuel Clough, Robert Maddox, William Forman, John Kirkpatrick, William Adams, Richard Carter, Steward S. Johnson, R. H. Craig and William C. Vance, Benjamin T. Ristine, Thompson Davis, Nancy Carr, Joseph C. Webster, Samuel Russell, Thomas S. Atkin, Gurdon Thompson, Robert G. Pasley, Alonzo Thompson, Orrin W. Jones, Daniel Hamaker, Moses W. Carter, George W. Wild- erman, Simon Hostetter, Fanny Cooper, Andrew Baker, Thomas Capehart, Charles A. Davis, John L. Milligan, Hollaway Collie, George Spears, John B. Earle, Robert Poindexter, James H. Birch, Thomas Lindley, Theodore Thompson, Linville Bradley, Robert Canara, Caleb B. Seaton, Charles L. Stephens, James W. Bass, Thomas S. Watthall, Sanford M. Rowlett, Nicholas F. Jones, William R. Rector, Hayden Wyatt, Ira D. Broyles, Joseph G. Hutton, Thomas Lane, Jr., Amundas W. Schmoldt, Joseph Burghill, I. Shipley, Francis Hull, Thomas I. Evans, Henry Shadle, Clifton H. Moore, Theodore W. Talmadge, John A. Creamer, Ebenezer Stephenson, Jonathan Harris, Elisha Brener, John Gilfillan, Mina Marsh, William A. Creamer, James L. Brown, Samuel M. Coleman, Singleton P. Waters, Henry H. Brown, Marquis Burns, Almon J. Spofford, William H. Burns, James Phillips, Thomas Carr, William W. McNide, Elisha Garnts, Thomas Campbell, Sherman Webster, Francis Brown, Elizabeth M. Richards, Elisha G. English, H. W. Witherell, John Grenen- dyke, Levi T. Davis, David M. Cockley, John M. Stephens, Ebenezer Smith, Sally B. Child, Samuel Lane, John F. Lane, Benjamin F. Graves, Joseph N. Johnson, Thomas H. Majors, Joseph Nichols, Richard Carter, Jeremiah B. Fusen, William McDonald, John C. Richardson, Melvin L. Gray, John R. Ed- wards, David Cronie, Moses Lyon, Abigail C. G. Davidson, Sally M. Graham, George Girty, George Kimmell, William E. Culver and James Guthrie, Barnard F. Schermerhorn, Nathaniel Block, John L. Dimmitt, James N. Laird.
Swamp, School and Other Lands .- The above list comprises the name of every individual who was a grantee of land from the United States in Barton County. Some of these persons were early and permanent settlers, and some were non-residents. Some of them took up many claims, some several, some a few, and some
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only one each. It has been the aim not to weary the reader with a needless repetition of names. The Government grant com- prised, besides these, the swamp lands and lands granted to the State of Missouri and to Barton County for educational and other purposes. The original list of entries, in the recorder's office, is thus certified to:
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, ¿ SPRINGFIELD, MO.
I, William J. Teed, Register of the United States Land Office at Springfield, Missouri, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing are true and correct copies of all the original entries and memoranda of public lands in the present limits of Barton County, Missouri, as shown by the tract books of said office. Witness my hand, at office, this first day of August, A. D. 1871.
WILLIAM J. TEED, Register.
A few of the entries above mentioned were made prior to 1857. Most of them were made in that year, and some have been made since. Through the misrepresentation of interested parties, a very large part of the public lands in this county were declared swamp lands, and these were granted by the United States to the State of Missouri, under an act of Congress entitled " An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits," approved September 28, 1850. The selection was made under said act and approved March 2, 1857. The patent was issued to the State April 16, 1857. By an act of Legislature entitled " An act donating the swamp and over- flowed lands to the counties in which they lie," approved March 3, 1851, and amendatory acts, approved December 13, 1855, and November 4, 1857, such lands were granted by the State of Mis- souri to Barton County. In 1868 the Legislature passed an act entitled " An act to perfect the title to lands known as swamp lands," approved March 21, 1868. That act provided that " all deeds executed by the county for any swamp lands shall be deemed and held to be legal and valid, whether issued by the county court or a commissioner appointed by said court for that purpose, and such deed or patent shall vest in the purchaser of any such lands all right, title or interest of said counties in said lands as fully as if said patents or deeds had been granted by the Governor of the State and countersigned by the Secretary of State, as is now pro- vided by the General Statutes." Such lands have mostly passed
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to individual ownership, the last general sales of them having closed about twenty years ago. Since then school lands have been about the only available lands for the purposes of settlers, and these are nearly all taken up and under improvement, eighty acres only having been sold in 1887, and 560 acres in 1888. From these facts it may be seen that the settlement and development of Barton County has been marvelously rapid, only a little more than thirty years intervening between the advanced civiliza- tion of to-day and the beginning of general settlement and improvements; and this progress was for a time impeded by the Civil War.
COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
County Organization and Boundary. - Barton County was organized in 1857, and its boundaries are thus defined: Begin- ning at the northeast corner of Section 14, Township 30 (north), Range 29; thence west, on the line dividing Sections II and 14, to the western boundary line of the State; thence north, with said State line, to the line dividing Townships 33 and 34; thence east, on said line, to the northwest corner of Section I, Town- ship 33 (north), Range 29; thence south, on the subdivisional line, to the place of beginning.
Organization of Townships. - One of the first acts of the County Court was to divide the county into a convenient number of municipal townships. There were seven when local government was resumed at the close of the war. These were named Newton, Union, Mineral, Nashville, Lamar, North Fork and Golden Grove. By successive divisions the number has been doubled.
On Wednesday, February 7, 1866, it was ordered by the court that the municipal townships in Barton County should be bounded and named as follows:
Newton Township, commencing at the northeast corner of Section 2, Township 33, Range 29; west to the northwest corner of Section 6, Township 33, Range 30; south to the southwest corner of Township 33, Range 30; east to the southeast corner of Township 33, Range 30; south to the southwest corner of
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Section 18, Township 32, Range 29; east to the southeast corner of Section 14, Township 32, Range 29; thence north to the place of beginning.
This embraced what is now known as all of Milford Town- · ship, all of Doylesport Township, and the north half of Newport Township.
Union Township, commencing at the northeast corner of Township 33, Range 31; west to the northwest corner of Section 3, Township 33, Range 32; south to the southwest corner of of Section 34, Township 33, Range 32; east to the southeast corner Township 33, Range 31; thence north to the place of beginning.
This includes all of Union Township as it now stands, and nearly one-half of Barton City Township.
Mineral Township, commencing at the northeast corner of Section 4, Township 33, Range 32; west to the State line; south to the southwest corner of Section 18, Township 32, Range 33; east to the southeast corner of Section 16, Township 32, Range 32; thence north to place of beginning.
This included the west half of Barton City Township, all of Leroy Township as it is to-day, and the north half of Ozark Township, and a portion of the northwest fourth of Central.
Nashville Township, commencing at the northeast corner of Section 21, Township 32, Range 32; west to the State line; south to the southwest corner of Barton County; east to the southeast corner of Section 12, Township 30, Range 32; north to the northeast corner of Section 24, Township 32, Range 32; west to the place of beginning.
This included the south half of Ozark as it is to-day, all of Southwest Township as it now stands, all of Nashville Township and a portion of the south half of Central.
Lamar Township, commencing at the northeast corner Town- ship 32, Range 30; thence west to the northwest corner of Sec- tion 3, Township 32, Range 32; south to the southwest corner of Section 15, Township 32, Range 32; east to the southeast corner of Section 13, Township 32, Range 32; south to the southwest corner Section 18, Township 31, Range 31; thence east to the southeast corner of Section 13, Township 31, Range 30; thence north to the place of beginning.
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This was composed of the following townships as they stand to-day: all of Lamar Township, east half of Central, and the north half of North Fork and a part of Richland Township.
North Fork Township, commencing at the northeast corner of Section 24, Township 31, Range 30; west to the northwest corner of Section 19, Township 31, Range 31; south to the county line; east to the southeast corner of Section 12, Town- ship 30, Range 30; north to place of beginning.
These boundaries then comprised all of Richland Township as it is to-day, and the south half of North Fork Township.
Golden Grove Township, commencing at the northeast cor- ner of Section 23, Township 32, Range 29; west to the north- west corner Section 19, Township 32, Range 29; south to the county line; east to the southeast corner Section II, Township 31, Range 29; north to the place of beginning.
This embraces all of Golden City Township as it is, and the south half of Newport Township.
On the 8th of April, 1872, the county court made the follow- ing order:
All of Township 33, Range 29, shall constitute Milford Town- ship.
All of Township 33, Range 30, shall constitute Doylesport Township.
All of Township 33, Range 31, shall constitute Union Town- ship.
All of Township 33, Range 32, shall constitute Barton City Township.
All of Township 33, Range 33, shall constitute Leroy Town- ship.
All of Township 32, Range 33, shall constitute Washington Township, changed February 8, 1873, to Ozark Township.
All of Township 32, Range 32, and the west half of Town- ship 32, Range 31, shall constitute Central Township.
All of Township 32, Range 30, and the east half of Town- ship 32, Range 31, and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Township 31 of Range 30, and Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, all west of river in 13, in Township 31, Range 31, shall constitute Lamar Township.
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All of Township 32, Range 29, in this county, shall con- stitute Newport Township.
All of Township 31, Range 29, in this county, and all of Township 30, Range 29, in this county, shall constitute Golden City Township.
All of Sections 7 to 36, inclusive, in Township 31, Range 30, . and all of Township 30, Range 30, in this county, and all of Township 31, Range 31, east of Muddy Creek, and all of Town- ship 30, Range 31, east of Muddy Creek, shall constitute Rich- land Township.
All the remainder of Townships 30 and 31 of Range 31, shall constitute North Fork Township.
All of Township 31, Range 32, and all of Township 30, Range 32, in this county, shall constitute Nashville Township.
On the 16th of November, 1874, Southwest Township was formed as follows: all of Township 30, Range 33, as is in the county, and all of Township 31, Range 33.
Barton County's Promoter and Name .- George E. Ward was instrumental in the division of Jasper County, and the organiza- tion of Barton, which he named in honor of David Barton.
STATUTORY AFFAIRS.
County Court .- The county court organized in 1857, with William H. Brown as presiding justice, and James Guest and J. G. Hutton as associate justice. Branch T. Morgan was appointed clerk, and Joseph H. Brown, sheriff. The court met at the house of George E. Ward (often referred to as " the father of the county "), which was a primitive building on the site of the present residence of M. N. Wills, and proceeded to the erec- tion of townships, the appointment of justices and constables, the establishment of roads, and other necessary business. Its present justices and officers are as follows: Charles A. Morrow, presiding justice; Simeon Isenhouse and Robert Perkins, asso- ciate justices; John E. Rundell, county clerk; George W. B. Garrett, sheriff.
Circuit Court .- The Barton circuit court was organized in
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1857, with John R. Chenault as judge, and also first met at the residence of George E. Ward. No records are extant from which its proceedings, or any part of them, may be learned. No court was held during the war. According to an act of the State Leg- islature of 1865, defining the several judicial circuits of the State of Missouri, Barton formed a part of the thirteenth circuit, with Dade, Lawrence, Jasper, Newton, Barry, Stone and McDonald Counties. At the session of the Legislature of 1871-72, it was attached to the twenty-fifth circuit, which comprises the counties of St. Clair, Cedar, Barton, Dade and Vernon. Owing to the destruction of most of the buildings in Lamar during the war, there was not, in 1866, when the first post-bellum circuit court was held, a convenient place for its sessions, and it is said to have been held in the open air, and the grand jury to have deliberated under a tree. The justice who held this court was John C. Price, Branch T. Morgan being the clerk. There have never been any legal executions of the death sentence in Barton County. Mur- der trials have occurred, resulting in the imprisonment for vary- ing times of the persons convicted, but in every case mitigating circumstances have developed to render the erection of the gal- lows uncalled for. In no part of the Union is peace better preserved or the laws better administered.
Attorneys .- Among the attorneys of more or less note who have practiced at the Barton County bar, may be mentioned the following: C. H. Brown, member of the State Legislature, representing this district, 1874-76, now a prominent banker; James F. Hardin, an eccentric man, and, in his time, one of the noted criminal lawyers in Southern Missouri; John S. Phelps, member of Congress and governor of Missouri; S. A. Wight, State senator representing this district; G. H. Walser, who represented Barton County in the Legislature, 1868-70; William H. Avery, first superintendent of the public schools of Barton County; C. B. McAfee, who was once candidate for Congress in this district; John Q. Page, once circuit-attorney in the judicial circuit; W. F. Cloud, administrator of the Chenault estate, and once deputy-collector of United States Internal Revenue; C. H. Morgan, who was county attorney, member of the Legislature, and three terms member of Congress; Edward Buler, who repre-
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sented the county in the Legislature; D. A. Harrison, once county attorney of Jasper County, now attorney for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company; T. A. Sherwood, judge of the supreme court of Missouri; R. F. Buler, who represented Cedar County in the State Legislature; E. O. Brown, once judge of the court of common pleas, in Jasper County; Lee Chiswell, three times elected prosecuting attorney, and now editor of the Lamar Dem- ocrat; A. J. Wray, many years school commissioner of Barton County, also public administrator; Volney Moon, once a Dem- ocrat editor at Lamar; A. H. Dale, once the nominee of his party for Congress; M. E. Benton, United States attorney under Cleveland's administration; C. W. Thrasher, once a candidate for Congress; Daniel P. Stratton, judge of the twenty-fifth judicial circuit of the State of Missouri; T. B. Haughawout, a | Repub- lican elector in 1888; T. H. Cannon, formerly editor of the Lamar Rustler, now editor of the Sedalia Bazoo; H. C. Timmonds, formerly a journalist of Cedar County, who represented Barton County in the Legislature, and was prosecuting attorney; John B. Cole, present representative of Barton County in the Legisla- ture; R. T. Railey, once editor of the Lamar Leader; John H. Flanegan, member of Legislature from Jasper County; A. C. Burnett, prosecuting attorney for Barton County; C. S. Essex, formerly probate judge in Hickory County; and N. Gibbs, J. C. Cravens, J. H. Harkless, H. H. Harding, R. B. Robinson, Robert W. Crawford and J. P. Ellis.
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