Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-09-02
State "a. Large.

the Why Not2'
Counterfeit mckIos are in extensive
circulation Il: Joplin
Sernadine is 3 present popular
smussmen: In kahOka-
Tire Carthage Patriot Is publishing Il
series oi cartoons
The he. Perse post office 1as entered
and Febbedsa % few dayaago.
! Female prisoners arc made 70 pound
rock in the streets in Sedalia-
Pinaforc Is SAIL to be the present
rage at Clinton, in Henry county
The Pettis county teachers institute
concludes four days session to-day.
4 Scott county farmer has made the
! first barrel Of sorghum rnolasses Of the
season.
| Mrs. BaiIentinc, the lady postmls-
tress at Commerce. is not expected to
live.
Land buyers are reported as over
running the country in tue vicinity Of
Centralia.
4 big grange picnic Is to be given at
Cartwrights grove, near Upper Alton.
to-day.
Hon. Thomas Brace, of Monroe. has
been nominated for Judge of the Han
Dibal district.
Louis PhUian was badly poisoned by
spider bite the other day in Bo!linger
county.
The peach crop Of Mississippi county
has been an entire failure this year,
but the apple crop is immense
At the recent term of the Laclcde
circNit court one man was sentenced to
hang and three sent to the penitentiary.
The Monroe Appeal tells Of the late
burning of a school homse near Tulip.
There has been trouble as to school
affairs.
A forty-six hour walking match be-
tween the one-!eggcd contestants has
Just terminated at Joplin. Score, u to
IS miles.
The Brownsville Herald is offered for
one year for the largest watermelon
brought to the office Of the paper dur
ing the year.
The editor Of tue Marshall Daily
Progress says eheerfuily: We had
our maiden row Saturday evening: a
few cuts and bruises, bat nothing
serious.
! Moberly thief goes about at night
fishing through open windows with an
ordinary tishpole and hook and line.
He manages to get out articles of
clothing by the device.
There were only two applicants fer
examination for the West Point cadet
ship, which was held last at Jackson
last Thursday Louis Welker and De
Soto Burford. Burford was successful.
The New Madrid Record says: Cot
ton picking will begin next week in the
lower township. and none too soon. a
our sister county, Dunklin, has long
since put a bale upon the market.
Tie Trenton Republican has the fol-
lowing personal:
Miss Jennie Graueenhauserielser
heimcr of Kalamazoo Mish.:-is in the
city. visiting the family of +. W. VI
kuPpeIhcimer.
The Marshall fair begins September
7th.
\ dead negro baby was found in a
corn field near Slater few days since.
\ female detective from Detroit.
Mich. is in Joplin. in chase. she says. of
a gambler and robber named St Clair.
Hannibal business men are showing a
lively interest in the proposed new rail
road from that city to the southwest.
The men engaged in publishing an
indecent newspaper called The Switch.
at Kansas City, have been heavily fined.
The editor of the Stockton Stalwart
is cautious. In his last issue he says:
We know many things this week. but
we don wish to be used as a maui to
ilatten out the surface around the
square.
Some young men who were out hunt
ing near st. Paul discovered in the
woods lot of clothing some of which
were smearcd with blood. and a num-
ber of postage stamps wrapped up in a
flannel rag.
The Moberly Headlight has this item:
y colored girl living in Big Foot,
Huntsville. ran away from home. Ii is
not known whether she eloped with a
man OF went 10 the woods after plums.
Hannibal has Il young lahy who has
become confirmed tobacco chewer
Denied the money to crafty her taste.
she is often seen upon streets quietly
picking up cigar stubs, which no per-