Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-01-19
Stahl Citl Notes.

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ED. GRAPHIC: Items scarce IS hen'i
teeth. Our neighbornood since the
holidays is as quiet as the mantle OIL
snow that covers our hills.
Job Rayner is buying fat cows. anc
cows and calves for shipment.
A shooting match for turkeys new
years Gay and on the following Mon
day a: Cottonwood. Lots Of fun and
the best Of good feeling.
4. The sale of A. Crawford was sue
cess in part. Stock sold well, but div
goods were not in demand except at
ruinous prices,
| ]. B. Novinger shipped car load of
coal to Green City he is as happy as a
big sun flower, as it cleared him $40
net profits.
Tobias Lankard has returned from
an extended visit to his birth place in
Pennsylvania. He says lie wants no
more Pennsylvania in his as can't see
how the farmers get their products to
market after they have worked like
slaves to raise it. He says the hilliest
portions of this country is a paradise
as compared to the portion Of the old
Quaker state visited by him. Other
parties are thinking the same way for
we see three nice new frame houses
have been put up recently in that
rough country bordering on hog creek.
We suppose they are going into stock
as we have thought for sometime that
these prairie knobs were the best stock
sections in Adair county. Those hills
are covered with grass interspered with
brush and plenty Of water in hog creek
all necessary adjuncts to the stock far.
mer. There is plenty CT unoccupied
land that can be had cheap. Hog
creek valley invites hundred to come
and grow up with the country. Raise
stock and dairy products, and all that
do so, can be happy, as it can be made
to flow with milk and honey, they can
soon sit under their own vine and apple
tree il they will please have Doc.
Grove or some other bee man write
and tell the farmers what he knows
about bees and their management !!
We want practical common sense and
not theory.
Samuel Claybrooks, Sen. is danger
ously sick with lung fever.
The GRAPHIC is three or four DAYS
late at Stahl, who is TO blame, doubt
less not the publishers. You know
how natural it is to grumble and find
fault. man seems to be chuck full of old
Adam especially when we are looking
at or criticising the faults of our neigh
bors.
The night of Jan. Sth. was unques-
tionably the coolest Of the season. We
piled the fuel higher and higher but
still old boreas would not down, but
made our noses as red as beet, our
fingers tingle and shook our carcass as
If we had an ague chill.
III. Pickens and Miss Liza Bragg
were married Sunday. May the bless
ings of happiness, prosperity and the
blessings of heaven be and abide with
them forever.
&C. Mills was along the line Of the
Q. M. & P. looking up his ties.
Joe Friday, Of Sullivan county, is at
his brothers J. &. Novinger's to day on
BUSINESS, Joe is ii fine spirits. He
says it is boy this time.
John Walters is going into the tie
business. He has contracted to have
1000 made to beg,r with and get his
hand in.
Mrs. Lucy Ford is at her brothers
Will Hughs, shlbley's Point, quite sick.
Preaching a: Red school house Fri
Gay night. Rev Shelly officiating. Also
on Sunday, Elders Price and Overeem
House full and everybody
happy.
Jack Megrew is on the sick list, but
he has too much git up and git to be
down long,