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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14
Pure and Nice.

Maynard's candies are attracting C
great deal oil attention, not only for the
handsome manner In which they are
made, but from the fact that they are
so!utely pure. He is now manufac-
turing regularly and in large quanti-
ties, both stick and fancy and supply
ing the trade as well as his own Gus
toners. Parties purchasing confec-
tionery should insist on having May
nard's.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Us. POOLS agent for the Travellers
Accident Insurance Co., Of Hartford,
and sells tickets from one day up for a
small amount. Parties gong off on
railroads should always stop and get
an accident ticket or policy that will
pay their family 5000 in case of
death or $25 per week IN case you get
hurt. Call on Pool and get partieu-
lars.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

We have a nice lot of mack
.erel and white fish which we
will sell at net cost to save
carrying over. Call early
while they last. Halliday Bros
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Halliday Bros. have added
another large order of glass.
ware to their already immense
stock. Call and see them and
get their prices.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14
We Want a thange.

We are going to change the walt
paper business. The people wanting
wall paper Will find it greatly to their
interest TO call at Jamison's Drug
Store any time within ninety days for
bargains. 27-3t
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

John Hannah. the old and reliable
groceryman, is beginning to open the
campaign in groceries and you may in
the future look out for first class gro
ceries at prices that will startle you.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Flour from $100 to s1.50 per sack at
]. S. Baker G. Cos. All other groceries
proportionately low. Give them call.
All kind of feed on hand and delivered
to any part of the city.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Bring on your cash and get
your groceries where you can
get the most for your money.
Halliday Bros, are selling
cheaper than anybody.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

John Hannah says he is getting hard
up and wants money. Those knowing
themselves to be indebted to HIM will
do well to call and settle their bills at
once.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14
The Studebaker.

These wagons are by far the best in
the market and everybody knows it.
Carothers & Green have just received
another car load. Don't buy any
other.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14
Fresh Oysters.

Fresh Oysters served IN every style
at Uncle Charlie Allgaler's Kirksvllle
Kitchen. Give him call and be made
happy.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Bring on your country pro-
duce, we handle immense
amounts of it. Halliday
Bros.
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For Rent.

Dwelling house, of three rooms.
kitchen furnished; living well and
cistern at the door. Apply at this
Office.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Parties desiring Dental work of any
kind should call on DR.. Carter, in the
New Brick Block, north side square.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14
Tie Makers Wanted

Wewant 100 tie makers and ten coal
miners at once, PIcKLER G. CREBs.
N.3t Kirksville.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

John Hannah will sell IXL St.
Charles -four as cheap as any man who
will sell good -four.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Uncle Charley Allgaler Is still give
ing good square meals for % cents at
Klrksville Kitchen.
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Try Smith & Bay
lor for w ire ndPick
ct Fencing.

John Hannah will sell flour as cheap
as anybody who sells good flour.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Recktol & Snyder still have on hand
Peninsufar, Gold Medal and Superior
stoves. Fire backs guaranteed to last
fifteen years.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Try a sack of Mountain
Pink Flour at Halliday Bros,
only S1.25, can't be beat.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

j. NJ. Mccall on the north side
square will loan money at 6s on sums
of $500 and over.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Stair work, such as Ballusters, Rail-
ing, Newell posts, etc., on hand or made
to order promptly at the Variety Wood
Works.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

The prospects OF fall trade
being good Halliday BROS,
have added largely to their
stock. Many bargains in
staple goods; get their prices
before buying elsewhere.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

New cranberrles at Willard Bros.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14
DIED.

Ethel, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
II. j Bailey died in this city on Friday. Nov Z.
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by Pror
Mason, on Sunday III , p. NJ.
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For sale

A hig grade Bull Calf s months old.
Inquire at this office.
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THE CORN PRIZE.
Notice to Contestants,

Ali persons competing for the
GRAPHIC Corn Prize and for A. NJ.
Smiths Corn Prize will please drop a
card to this office, at once, giving full
name and post-office address, so that
no one may be missed.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Another lot of that cheap
sugar at Halliday Bros.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Call and see the nice assort-
ment of fancy lamps at Halla-
day Bros. They are very
cheap,
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

A nice lot of California fruit.
at Halliday Bros,
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NOTICE.

stin on the corner southwest of the Brick stabII
and devote all my attention to midwifery and nj
female diseases.
CATHERINE C.. DAVIS.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Flour from sOc to s1.25 at Hoye &
Co.'S.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Nice new honey at Halla-
day Bros.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-11-14

Iowa and Spring Creek coal at Hoy
& Cos.
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Musical.

j. D. MILLER, P. NJ.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
Jack" the Evangelist.
Chicago Herald.

Some years ago there lived in Han
nlbal, Mo, an old lame darkey nam
ed Jack, who made frequent excur-
sions to the surrounding country to
preach the gospel to the coiored popu-
lation.
One Sunday, after having preached
an eloquent discourse, he raised one
of his big scaly, splay feet and rested
it upon a bench in front of him and
said: DE ole man hab walked fifteen
miles ober stones and grabble jes' TO
de good oh yo' souls, an he dussen't
spec muffin fur it in dis town, but if
you would iis' lone him a pair oh ole
shoes de Lod would bress an prospah
you"
The brethren not having brought
any shoes to chulch took up a collec-
ton and handed him the proceeds.
After pronouncing the benediction he
placed his old "yaller" saddle bag
across his arm and hobbled off toward
Hannibal.
Having traversed a mile or two of
the distance he diverged from the road
among the timber One of the breth-
rem a short distance in the rear motto
ing the maneuver, followed, and found
Jack standing beside hollow stump,
with his hands resting upon his sides
and his mouth stretched from ear to
ear with laughter, looking at his feet.
"Well, OATS jis' a little de currisist
ting ebber seed ia all my bon days.
1 run groun' quirril into dat stump,
an poked my han in aftah him, an ii
lit slap dab right onto dem shoes. An
de funniest ting is days jis' zackly de
ole mans fit. Brudder Johnsing, de
fingah oh Providence mus hab rected
me to dat stump"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
Locked Up in His Own Grocery
Detroit Free Press

The other night a policeman, who
was patrolling Grand River avenue
and trying the doors of business
houses, came to grocery and found
the door unlocked and the key in the
lock. He sprung the bolt, put the
key in his pocket and sauntered on,
and in course of an hour he found
opportunity to send word and the key
to the house of the proprietor. He
didn't expect any particular praise for
this action, but he was hardly pre-
pared for the storm which soon swoop-
down upon him. The grocer him
self, with battered hat, torn coat and
two fingers bleeding, suddenly appear
ed before him and said:
''If I've any influence in this town,
III have you off the force in two
days"
"Why; what's the matter?"
matter? Ask me what's the mat
ter2 Oh, I'll fix your
For what9 For finding your
store unlocked and sending the key
to your housel"
Yes, sir. l was down there hunt
ing up mustard for a sick child at
home, and what do you do but lock
me in and walk Off y
rs it posslble?"
"And there I've been for an hour or
more, and would be yet if | hadn't
crawled through a cellar window.
Oh, I'll lay for you, old guardian of
the peace"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29

upon the subject, and the furnace at
Washington, Pa, has been used so
rarely that cremation has well-nigh
come to be thought a passing fancy,
which has gone the way of the blue
glass craze. Something of surprise is
therefore aroused by the statement of
the president of the United States
Cremation society that over five thous-
and people of the country are pledged
to the disposal of their bodies, and
that SIS, 900 has already been raised
toward the building of the proposed
crematory near New York city. The
people who believe In cremation with
out caring enough about it to make
promises which they themselves can
not in the nature of things be sure of
fulfilling, must of course be many
times the pledged member, so that If
the president has not exaggerated the
facts we must believe that there is a
pretty steady, if slow, growth in the
United States toward the classical fun
eral customs. The repugnance against
cremation is largely a sentimental
one; it would take generations 20
make the burial urn fill the place
which the flower covered grave and the
grassy graveyard hold in the magma
ton of mourning friends, even if the
fear of the insecurity of the burial
were removed But this is not the
chief obstacle to the growth of the
cremation society; the greatest preju-
dice which it has to fight. say the Off
GERS, is that of Christians based on
the doctrine of resurrection. This is
almost to silly for belief, and has not
even the excuse of the ancient Egyp-
tan fear that the body could not be
raised again unless it was carefully
preserved.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
Phillips and Summer.

Wendell Phillips ence said to a
friend of mine, says a Washington
correspondent, that it was strange that
Charles Sumner should have had his
career, while he should have had
Summers. When they were young
men each planned a life which the
other afterward lived. 1t was Phil
lips purpose to be politician, to be
active in pol ;cs, rising from point to
point, until he should command the
applause of listening senates. He
knew his splendid powers and how
admirably they fitted him for distinc-
ton in politics, and his ambition
pointed him to the highest honors.
Summer, on the other hand, planned
a quiet life devoted to literature. He
would read, he would write, he would
lecture, far from the ignoble strife of
the politicians Now" said Phil
lips, sit was not long before | would
have been defeated for any office
wanted, no matter how humble; so
that was shut out of politics and
shut up to literature. while Sumner
went from strength to strength rejoic-
ing in the very sphere which he had
despised."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
Willing to Take 1t in Crackers.
Detroit Free Press.

A colored man with his right foot
bound up with numerous rags and
cloths yesterday entered a grocery on
Woodward avenue and asked for a
cash contribution of 25 cents toward
the erection of new colored peoples
church edifice.
Where is it to be 1ocated?" asked
the grocer.
"Wall, that hasn't bin dun decided
on yet"
"Haint figgered on dat, sab"
'HWho is the pastors"
Dun forgit; but reckon we kin
find one"
who is the head man in this enter
prise?"
'De head pan! Wall, lie bout de
head man, l reckon
Il am not satisfied with your ex-
plantations, said the grocer. ''How
can l be certain that you won't ap-
propriate the money to your own pur-
poses?'
Am dat what bodders your"
Il confess it is.
well, sab, we kin git ober dat
purity easy. Instead Of making a cash
contribution just weigh me out two
pounds of crackers Wild instrukshuns
to turn 'em ober to de buildin' COM
mittee. lie cheerman OBJ dat committee
if amt nobody else!'
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29

point towards that end of the cigar
which is lighted, and this fact applies
to filters, binders and wrappers. This
is the Cuban plan, and they had for a
long time the advantage of us in this
country, for here the tobacco was
thrown in lndiscriminately. At the
present time, however, the Cuban
method is adopted by many of our
manufacturers, and the result is seen
in much better cigars. What / call a
good domestic cigar can be bought for
three for a quarter. Such cigars if
made by a reputable firm, are superior
to any fifteen-cent imported ones.
Most of all the domestic cigars con-
tain Havana tobacco, not, as l told
you before, because, that tobacco is
superior to tie American, but because
the latter of the same grade is scarcer.
The advantage which Cuba has IS In
the quantity of good tobacco, not the
quality. In all my experience | never
knew the domestic cigar to have as
good a reputation as IL has to-day"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
The Value of Alaska.
San Francisco Chronicle.

Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas. is
authority for the ruthless and sweep
ing condemnation of Alaska as ''the
most worthless territorial acquisition
any Government was ever afflicted
with" 1t is certain to those who
know much about Alaska that it is
not nearly the worthless territorial
acquisition" that he brands it. In
the first place, Alaska is very large
larger than all that territory which
thirty years ago was known as the
"Great American Desert whereof
the State of Kansas is part, and
forty years ago. not esteemed more
highly than the Senator now holds
Alaska. In the second place, Alaska
mas very valuable fisheries of salmon,
cod, halibut and king salmon, as yet
but little developed, but enough to
indicate that in few years, with a
suitable Government for that Terri
tory, they will be worth as much as
those of Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia, both the food supply and the
creation of a mercantile marine on
the American coast of the Pacific. In
the third place, Alaska is covered in
many parts with the best forests in
the world.
Alaska has mines of gold, copper,
iron and coal, not much developed as
yet, but encourage the hope that,
after the goldmines south of them in
our country shall be exhausted,
Alaska will become one of the great
est producers of this metal in the
world.
Its climate is on the coast less
rigorous than that of Newfoundland,
or Sweden or Norway, or the Baltic
coast of Russia. There are good 1ea
sons for the belief that wheat can be
made profitable crop in parts of the
Yukon Valley. And the cedars of
Alaska are better and infinitely more
inexhaustible than the famed cedars
of Lebanon. Such country, cover
ing as it does an area more than half
a million square miles, having long
coast-line, good harbors, many habit
able islands, mines of the precious
and useful metals, forests without
end, fisheries and great rivers, albeit
its depths are as yet unexplored, is
not to be condemned out of hand
as the Kansas Senator condemns it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
Terrible Birthmark.
phiIadelphia z ress.

A most remarkable case of human
suffering, and one which has stcadily
baffied medical science, is reported in
Springfield, Erie county, Penn. VIM.
Furgeson, when seven years of age.
was seized with severe pains in his
right hand, and though he is now
forty-six years of age, he has been an
nually attacked, singularly, though
at each time suffering more than at
the preceding. Commissions and
paroxysms now visit him at exactly
the same period of the year, and al
wavs at the same hour in the even
ing. He is now suffering the most
acute agony, and is visited by scores
of physicians, who in every case have
been completely baffied. By this pc
culiar freak of nature, his body be-
comes terribly contorted. Resplra-
ton almost ceases, and he becomes
for the time unconscious, and on
awakening shows every evidence Of
having passed through most terri.
bic ordeal. On being restored he be-
comes perfectly well, and Is only
troubled at intervals of year, but
with positive regularity. The case
can only be accounted for by the fact
that Furgesons mother, shortly be-
fore his birth, saw the contortions
and evidences of agony in a snake
which had been thrown into the fire,
and that he has become thss birth
marked
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
OREGON'S STRONG MAN.
A Giant Who Smashes Two Inch
GPlanks-He Meets sullivan - The
Result
Astoria Core. } independent.


Our citizens are all familiar with
Sylvester LIE Gowriff, a native of
France. who has lived in Astoria for
some time. Probably no man on this
coast has as much muscular power as
this giant of strength. In wrestling
he has thrown number of profes-
sioual wrestlers in San Francisco. and
his wonderful powers of endurance
have surprised every one who has seen
his exhibitions. Last winter, on
wager, he performed remarkable
feat. Two men seated themselves in
chars, and lie Gowriff. grasping the
bottom back rung of each chair lifted
one with each hand and set them on
counter three feet high. Not long
ago he was making his brags that he
could break a two inch plank with his
fist, and a number of gentlemen,
anxious to see this done, tried to find
a plank, but uusucceSsfully. They
produced three boards one inch thick
and nailed them together and set
them up Sylvester marched up to
the boards and let drive with his fist,
and the boards were split in several
pieces. His fist did not show even q
bruise or scratch. We do not know
that this wonderful man has the re-
quisite scientific knowledge to cope
with a man like Sullivan, but one
thing we are certain of, if he ever gets
blow in on Sullivan the champion
of the world will be evicted from this
world TO the next.
Sullivan has PUBLISHED in every city
he has visited that he will give 81, 900
to any man that will stand up to him
for four rounds, each round to last
four minutes. LIE Gowrif has &C,
cepted the proposition.
Northwest NewS:-John L. Sulli-
van, the champion has arrived, and
was received by an immense crowd.
The exhibition given at Occidental
Hall was well attended. Every body
wanted TO sec the champion, and
more than that, they wanted to see
LIE Gowriff sta.d before him. After
! some sparring between members of
the combination, lie Gowriff and Sui
hvan made their appearance. LIE
Gowritf is muscular fellow, and is Il
perfect giant in strength. In wrest-
ling he has thrown number of pro
fessional wrestlers in San Francisco,
and his wonderful powers of endur-
ance have surprised every one who
| have seen his exhibitions. LIE Cow
riff, when he met Sullivan, exhibited
look that showed he had lost hope
of being able 10 stand up the four
rounds, and it was well he did SO for
he was not then doomed to disap
pointment Sullivan simply did a
little light sparring for nineteen sec
onds, aud then he threw out his left
hand and hit LIE Gowriff a slap on
the face that sounded like meeting
between a fog horn and a political
orator, knocking him down and COM
pletely out of time. The yells seut
up at this feat were terrible.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
American Grown Tobacco.

An experienced cigar manufacturer
reports that as good tobacco is raised
IN this country as In Cuba, only Cuba
produces proportionately larger guam
titles of 1t. From American-g grown
tobacco can be picked out as fine a
quality as there is In the world, but it
requires good judge to do that, and
good judges are few. The manufac-
turer says: THE great point in max
ing good cigars, is good Judgment in
selecting the tobacco, care in prepare
ton of the tobacco for the workman,
and proper treatment of the latter
after it gets into his hands. The best
part o: cured leaf of tobacco is its
point, and its worst is where the stem
enters the leaf. Between these two
points there is regular graduation
of excellence from the point of the
leaf downwards. Bearing this fact In
mind, it is obvious that the careful
workman will so construct his cigar
that the best of the leaf will always
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
"WnO Turn Dat Hog Loose"

At certain hotel in Peoria, where
the meals were not always what they
should be, a merchant traveller, one
day, sat down to the table. He put a
dollar under tumbler, and, calling a
waiter, SAID
DO you see that dollar, Jlm2''
Eyes, sab, replied Jim, with a
grin.
We'll, now, Jim, l want you to get
me a first class dinner You under
stand?"
Yes, sab, " and Jim set out about
furnishing a feast fit for a king. He
had; no time to see to anybody else.
He hunted up new dishes, put extra
touches on everything, and kept his
eye on the dollar. Finally the M. I.
finished, and wiping his mouth, he
winked at Jim.
Yes, sah," grinned the darkey, in
anticipation.
Jim, do you see that dollar?" put
ting his hand on it in a generous
way.
Yes, sab"
Well, you will never see it again, >
and it went into his pocket and out of
the dining room, while jim indignant
ly remarked: go de Lawd, who
turn dat hog loose in heah2"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-29
All Lee and Joe Titus Swear.
New York Times.

All Lee accused Joe Titus, negro,
yesterday, in the Tombs Police Court,
with assaulting him Tuesday night at
the Third avenue elevated station at
One Hundred and Sixteen street. ''He
called me Chang Chang and WOW
wow-wow, exclaimed the Chinaman,
passionately, before Justice Power,
land stluckee me thlee timee on
headee after me tellee him to stoppee. =
The darkey in his own defense OBJ
served: LAS de Lord sits in glory,
and with all due respect to the present
house, eff I'd a hit that Chinaman he
wouldn't be har today" Justice
Power decided that the negro ''swore
the stronger" and dismissed the com
plant.