Lowry City Indepedent
Lowry City, Missouri
17 January 1929

Munsingwear for Every member of the family. Pretty dress patterns for those dresses you will be needing. Overcoats, Work Clothes, Caps, Gum Boots and Gloves for the outdoor worker. Always an attractive supply of Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Hunter & Haverland

Want Ads
Coal haulers are requested to stay off of the Sterling Eversole farm.
Sterling Eversole.

For Sale: Grand piano, in good condition; also a good sewing machine. Both reasonably priced.
Mrs. D.A. Dawson.

For Sale: A child’s crib bed and mattress, in good shape; will sell cheap. Call Mrs. John Robinson.

Baled timothy hay; $12 a ton in Lowry City. See Geo. W. DeLozier.

Wanted – Plain sewing. Reasonable prices. Mrs. L.E. Shaffner.

Native lumber for sale on Jennie O’Connor farm, 10 miles southeast of Lowry City.
Louis Cleveland.

John Denney, who has been down with the flu the past four weeks is improving slowly though still in bed.

Damascus Doings
Quite a few from around Damascus attended the sale at Mr. Sharp’s, Monday.

Bro. Tucker closed the meeting Sunday morning and returned to his home at Miller, Missouri, that afternoon. He was accompanied as far as Bolivar, by Bro. Elmer Wright who attended church at High Hill, Sunday.

Gladys Jackson who has been helping Dorothy Duvall the past week with the housework and taking care of her mother, who has been seriously ill for some time, has returned home. We are glad to hear that Mrs. Duvall is somewhat better.

Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Earhart ate dinner with Mrs. Veach, Monday.

Guy Veach and a nephew from Westphalia, Kansas, came in Thursday and visited until Sunday.

Produce Exchange Elects Directors
The annual meeting of the Farmers Produce Exchange was held last Saturday at which time the following directors were elected for the year 1929: R.F. Lebow, Arthur Neuenschwander, J.E. Beardslee, Tom Kelly, and A.C. Mabry. Mr. Mabry is the only new member on the board, the other four having been members the past year.

Store Burns at Mt. Zion
At about 7:15 o’clock Monday morning fire was discovered in the roof of Jim Andy Gover’s store at Mt. Zion, and the flames spread rapidly, consuming the building and much of the contents. Some flour, feed, and show cases were removed from the building.

Mrs. H.A. Denney was quite sick several days last week, but at last reports was improving. Her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Bray, of Collins, came up to help care for her.

The Frisco turn-table, which was installed across the tracks east of the stock yards, about eight or ten years ago, has been dismantled, and the large turn-table loaded on a flat car for shipment to Springfield.

Walter Miller of Copan, Oklahoma, has been very ill with the flu, and suffered a serious backset last week. At last reports received by his daughter, Mrs. J.A. Colley of Lowry City, he was somewhat improved. Mr. Miller is a former Lowry City postmaster, and has been postmaster at Copan for eight years.

Harley Hunter tells this one: His partner, August Haverland, recently bought some thingamajigs from a New York traveling man that do the same for a fellow’s shoes that tire chains do for tires. Tuesday morning when the walks were slick, Mr. Haverland, intending to equip his shoes with these new “chains”, got hold of a pair of ice skates instead, and started for the store. The first time, he coasted a block past the store, and returning coasted by over a half-block before getting stopped. The next trip was successful, as the “boy”, Mr. Hunter, ran out and by a flying tackle aided him in putting on brakes.

Concerning a Former Lowry Citian
From a Paris, Texas, paper: Barnett’s Tin Shop, which has been operating in Paris for more than 20 years, will move to its new location at 16 East Kaufman Street on December 15, where the management will be glad to receive their old friends and customers. The company is owned by J.R. Barnett, one of the old-timers of Paris, and his son, Frank Barnett, who is associated with him as a full partner. Mr. Barnett, who lays claim to 75 years of life, but who is many years younger in health, appearance and ability, came to the city as a small boy with his parents in 1862, shortly after the beginning of the Civil War. His first job was in the tin shop and implement business of JF.I. Williams, one of the city’s pioneer business concerns. He later worked for the Bettes Hardware Company and the M.F. Allen Hardware Company. He started in business for himself toward the close of the last century in a small way, and today he owns not only the oldest, but one of the largest and most successful concerns of the kind in this section. The business includes tin and galvanized ironwork, galvanized tanks and radiator repair work.
J.R. Barnett, subject of the above paragraph, was a pioneer resident of Lowry City. A son of John Barnett, he was born on the farm now owned by Mrs. George Daugherty, south west of Lowry City. Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War the Barnett’s went to Texas, but returned here several years later. J.R. Barnett went to Paris, Texas, in the early seventies and learned the tinner’s trade. Returning to Lowry City he conducted a hardware and tin shop on the present site of Austin Brother’s store, later moving to the present site of the Farmers State Bank. He built the residence now occupied by W.H. Dawson, assisted in the building of the Presbyterian Church and erected two story frame store buildings where the F.M. Cooper and Bell & Davis stores and the Farmers Bank are now located. These buildings were destroyed by the big fire. Mr. Barnett returned to Paris, Texas, about 33 years ago, and has since made that city his home. Mr. Barnett is a brother of Wm. Barnett of northwest of Lowry City.

Mrs. Lydia Jackson is very slowly recovering from her recent illness.

Stanley Hemphill spent Saturday and Sunday with his grandmother, Mrs. E.M. Terry and his sister, Genevieve, at Osceola.

Mrs. Edna Moore and son James, and Leo White were Sunday dinner guests of Dan Bowman and daughter, Maudie, of north of town.

John Hooper, old-time resident of the Corbin neighborhood, passed away Sunday morning. Death came suddenly and unexpected. The Independent has learned no further particulars.