Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-09-14
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Is here.
Corn is ripcning.
Dad colds prevalent.
a good rain would prove accsp able.
"StaRe rick comes to happy
conclusion.
Farmers are through with their rush
and come to town once more.
And the Normal student is again
abroad in the land.
Some OF last years students express
surprise at the changes in kirksville
since June.
The saloons are closed to await the
result of their application for county
license.
Five pis oil rhots were fired at late
hour, in the east part Of town Tuesday
night. Who did it? The marshal
would be- pleased to know.
Good roads, sunshiny days and cool
nights. A combination which makes
Autumn the golden period Of the year
in tins latitude We are having them
now
The Ivie building on the north side
is rising into handsome shape and
the walls will soon be completed. Mr..
Jos. NJ. Ivie has given the work his
personal supervision this summer.
john Tinsman did handsome job
in the way of ceiling ornamentation a.
the new residence of J. D. Miller. We
went and took look st it on Monday.
Our postmaster will have an elegant,
convenient and desirable residence.
From what we can gather f,om far
mers generally corn so far has not been
damaged by frost, and is ia oldly get
ting cut of the way.
The platforms at the N. NJ. Depot
have been extended and improved in
order to accommodate the increased
business, consequent on the transfer OF
all husinesSto that depot.
The present is emphatically not a
good fruit year, and apples are retail
ing at 60 to 80 cents per bushel while
grapes are scarce at cents per pound.
We learn that number Of theQ. NJ.
& T Ry.men contemplates moving their
families to this place from Quincy and
good houses are IN demand.
The Picnic of the NJ. E. South, Sun
day School. which came off a. Level
Ign Grove, on Tuesday last, IVES very
pleasant affair The little folks. tor
whose pleasure it was gotten up, en-
joved it finely.
The Wabash Dining Hall, has reach
ed its destination near the depot and
will be IN running order IN few days.
The opening of the present term of
the Normal Is made notable by the
large number of new students. Pri-
vate advices from Warrensburg report
that school as enjoying quite a prosper
Gus opening.
Bicycle-riding is becoming quite
popular among the young gentlemen
of Kirksville, but so far, most of the at
tempts to ride on one wheel has result
ed in headers Mounting the silent
steed" is quite difficult, but anybody
can get Oft.
1T is said that the orators of the
Magnet Club wasted some of their
choicest puns, at New Baden, without
causing a smile to fit across the solemn
of their audience. 1t is
not considered polite to laugh durlug
services, out there, and the master of
evidently forgot to explain
that it was not funeral or religious
occasion.
Last Sunday new turne table took
effect on the Wabash st Louis and |
Pacific between Ottumwa and st. Louis.
The Canon Ball" resumed its place
again.
A large number of new students
lave enrolled at the Normal this week
md mo,e are dropping in daily. We
re glad to hear that the present will
probably be the fullest opening session
n the history of the school.
Mrs. Clara Huffman, of Kansas City
vho is announced to lecture at the c.
J. Church on Saturday evening, has a
inc reputation as speaker. She
hould be given an audience. See notice
n this issue.
The Soldiers Picnic and campfire at
ierceville, twenty miles southeast of
lis place on Thursday last, was a very
affair. Quite number Of
irksville folks attended.
The Pool House, is one of the ''insti-
ltions" of Huntsville and we learn it !
to grow in popularity with
le travelling Public. The house is q
ljoying very fine patronage at the
resent time and is rated as one of the /
st stopping places between st. LOUIS l.