CARUTHERSVILLE, a city in the south-east corner of Missouri, U.S.A., on the Mississippi river; served by the Deering Southwestern and the Frisco railways; the county seat of Pemis cot county. The population in 1920 was 4,785. It is in a cotton-growing and lumbering region, and has cotton gins and compresses, cotton-seed oil mills, planing mills, various wood working factories, a tomato cannery and a shoe factory.