The daily Cairo bulletin., 1881-10-18
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GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS
Notices In these columns, ten cents per line
each insertion, Marked

--Stone-g -guttering is being laid in front
of the business house of Mr.. Dan Hartman.
Men and teams are at work filling up
Commercial avenue above Twentieth street.
Joseph, not Chief Joseph, but Col.
Joseph, representing Old John Robinson, is
in the city.
The principal object of interest in the
family of Mr., j. II. Jones since Friday is
new, bright boy baby.
Fourteenth street has been again re-
paired. twill remain so as long as the
pump is out of order.
The office of Mr.. G. NJ. Alden has been
removed from the north to the south side
of his business house.
Time table No. of the Cairo Division
of the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific rail-
road took effect Saturday.
Two new boilers have arrived for the
Singer Company, and are being put in poti-
ton in the newly erected brick boiler house
of the company.
The ladies of the Methodist church will
give an oyster supper at Reform hall next
Thursday evening. See their advertisement
in special locals.
DR.. G. G. Parker was called upon on
Saturday to set fractured rib in the body
of one Sandy Blanton, who is fireman at
The Halliday, The injury was the result
of hard fall.
Bill boards are being erected in various
parts of the city for the purpose of accom-
modating the posters of the several large
shows which are to be in Cairo within the
next few weeks.
Sixth district Sunday school conven
ton will be held at Greenvile, Bond coun-
ty, Ills, on Thursday and Friday, October
Goth and 2lst. All Sunday school workers
are invited to attend
"A farmer with double horse wagon,
heavily laden with hay, bran and groceries,
broke down near the railroad track on
Commercial avenue, near Eighth street, yes
terday afternoon. He got out of the dilema
by hiring another wagon.
"A little colored girl, living with her
parents in one of the two story frame build
ings on Washington avenue, above the
Hibernian engine house, fell from the Sec
ond story porch to the sidewalk yesterday
afternoon; but was fortunately not very Sc
riously injured.
The big showl Old John Robinsons S
big show will be here on Wednesday, Oct.
96th One day, no longer, no sooner and
no later. Excursion rates are now being
fixed on all the roads leading into Cairo.
The reputation of this show is so we'll es-
tablished that the people will certainly
wait.
The officers electered by the board of
trade last Saturday, were; Wood Ritten-
house, president; N. B. Thistle
wood, vice. president; G. Pink, secretary,
and R. w, Miller, treasurer, A board of
directors was also elected. The question of
receiving the associated press dispatches
was not considered.
On the 9Th inst, the wedding of Miss
Josie Taylor and Mr.. A. s. Wilkinson took
place at the residence Of Mr. p. Il. Pope in
Chicago. The event was attended by few
select friends and relatives. The presents
were many and elegant. THE BULLETIN
tenders its congratulations.
The steamer Head Light, owned by the
Central National Bank, Boonvile, Mo,
which has beer running between that point
and Rocheport in connection with the Mis-
souri Pacific Railway, was sold Saturday to
a Mr.. Smith, to run in the lower Mississippi
trade. She departed for her new field of
labor Saturday forenoon.
"A drunken man who attempted TO do
some work on Eighth street yesterday
morning, fell, striking with his mouth upon
a hard substance which caused his face to
be covered with blood as he lay where he
had fallen, unable to rise. Passers by
thought him seriously injured and sent for
doctors and druggists to attend him.
Among the latter was Mr.. Speck, who
dressed the mans wound in true, profes.
sional style.
An auxiliary foreign missionary socie.
| ty, consisting of twenty-five members, was
organized at the Methodist church Sunday
evening, after very interesting address
from Mrs. Scott of Chicago. The follow.
ing officers were elected; Mrs. II. Crews,
president; Mrs p. W, Barclay, first vice
PRESIDENT Mrs G. M. Alden, second vice.
PRESIDENT corresponding and recording Sec