Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-03-28
aRAPHIcs.

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Cometh apace
The bees are humming.
Have you secured sound seed corr
Farmers will try their seed befor'
planting this time.
Quite number of people managed
10 get to town Wednesday.
Temperance talks at the NJ. E. churcl
this week. Both eloquent and lnstruc
tive.
Talk about your quarantine and
blockades; our muddy roads are suffi
Gent.
The ladies waiting room has been
scrubbed out nicely and orened again
at the depot. Thanks.
The Church and Home has beer
purchased by Elder Curl. We wish it
new proprietor success.
It is Just as inconsistent for repub.
lican paper to advocate license, as 1t Is
for democratic organ to favor prohl
bition. There have been cases of the
KIND but they were abnormal.
We learn that word was received by
telegram on Tuesday evening by Judge
Stevens that his son Newt. Stevens was
lying at the point Of deatnln Arkansas.
His disease is pneumonia.
1t is claimed by some that the license
issued by the present board can he re-
voked by the next. Our candid opinion
is, it can't be done, and that is one
reason why it was rushed through as il
was.
We think the farmers and stock men
of Adalr county owe Mr.. 7. G. Camp
bell of this city vote of thanks for his
intelligent ana persistent work in con
nection with the cattle disease in thi;
county.
The only serious complaint against
GRAPHIC, we have heard urged yet is
the fact that 1t gives too much reading
matter to suit some persons. The fault
is not fatal one however as no one is
compelled to read all of it at one sitting
We are requested to state that there
is no excuse for private misrepresen-
tions of the financial condition of the
town of Kirksvllle, for political purpos-
es. 1t was published in full last week
and shows balance in the treasury of
over 1900 dollars. See last issue oil the
GRAPHIC.
Rev, T. j. Wheat was out Wednes-
day with blue ribbon in his button
hole. Glad TO see it. He pledged him
self to see that his party does the right
thing in regard to the temperance
question. We fear this Is too
big a contract for even as ener-
getic an individual as brother Wheat.
Omnipitence is not vouchsated to NOR
tails
We regret very much to learn that
DR.. WeSscher has sold out his property
here and is preparing to once more go
to the Pacific coast to remain. The
doctor who has just returned from a
course of lectures at the Keokuk medi-
cal college, has large number of friends
and patrons IN Adair who will miss him
very much as family physician.
The friends of high license are not
all "whiskey' men by any means, and
we do not endorse the abuse of that
class by those who think differently.
We oppose license, not because there
might or might not, be less liquor sold
under it, but because we believe the
whole system of granting legal sane
ton to an evil tor the sake of revenue
is vicious. Men will come to look at it
in that light bye and bye.
1t was luxury Wednesday to stand
out in the celebrating sunshine and
sniff the balmy breeze that Is if you
could get far enough away from some
of our fragrant back alleys to get the
pure article The farmers told us how
ever that travel over our bottomless
roads to and from town was anything
else but luxury. 1t was simply aw
fully lawful"