Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-12-04
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Hear the woes ~f"Two Married Vic
Tins" at Smiths Hall Friday nigh.
Dec. l1tb.
Every man. woman, boy aud girl
IL the county should a. tend tt, poul
try show at least one day.
Elder j. w. Davis is holding a very
successful prot,acted meeting at Union
Chapel in ILLINOIS Bend. He organized
church last Saturday with seventeen
members. and it now numbers thirty
two.
Every teacher in Northeast Missouri
should attend the next meeting of the
N. E. Mo. Teachers Association at
Palmyra, Dec. 29-sI, and school boards
would do We: to encourage them in
going.
During the past week DR.. NJ. Ste.
vens, physiognomist. has been visiting
his former friends il, Kirksville. He
has gone to Keokuk, Iowa, to give a
course of lectures, and will not return
till spring.
A fire company of thirty two
members was organized Monday
evening. The engine has been put in
excellent order and we expect to have
one of the hest drilled fire companies
IN the west at an early day.
W. ]. Wilkes has made preparations
the most complete 70 handle all the
poultry in the county. Take your
poultry direct to the Kinks, lille creau,.
cry, where his fowl houses, Slaughter
ing and packing rooms are located.
j. H. Campbell returned from trip
through Wilson township Monday.
He reports tnat he never saw so much
improvement as is being made at this
time, and that the entire county Is
ploughed up and the farmers expect
ing to raise the largest corn crop 10
the history OF the county next year.
The members of the Presbyterian
choir assisted by some of the best vocal
talent in town, will give concert in
the Opera House on Friday night.
Dec. 18th, The programme wi n
sist of solos by Mis- Prewitt. Miss
SWEET, Messers Bemis and Sheldon,
Duets. trios and male and mixed omar.
tettes. All are invited.
Last Friday evening the "Longfel-
low Society" of the Model department
gave an entertainment of a very high
order in the Normal chapel. Each
exercise showed the most careful prep.
aration and the solos sung by Misses
Prewitt and SWEET evlnced rare musical
talent highly cultivated. We are glad
to know that the entertainment was a
success, not only as an entertainment.
5ut financially, as well.
Tuesday the business houses were
closed and draped in mourning out of
respect to the memory of the Vice
President. Memorial services were
held in the Cumberland Presb, terian
church and addresses were delivered
by ]. NJ. DeFrance, Rev. Martindale,
G. NJ Mcclure. F. NJ. Harrington,
w. d, Oldham, and Prof ]. U Bar
nard, in which eloquent tributes were
paid to the honored dead.
Mr.. W. A. Pickens, one OF the best
corn growers in the county called at
our Office last Thurs day. He gathers
seed corn as soon as it gets out of the
milk and cures it carefully, ana as a
consequence, is never troub led with
replantlng. Having experimental he
found that corn gathered thus early
grew more vigorously than corn
selected from the crib. He now has 80
acres plowed raady for spring planting
and expects an unusually large crop
next year.
McFadden's Boston Double Uncle
Toms Cabin is a mammoth company
composed of twenty-five performers,
ten colored plantation singers, two i'm
ported Irish trick donkeys and six
monster bloodhounds- The version
of the drama as played by this NAM
moth company, is new and novel, in
Producing many old-time Southern
scenes, characteristic of the Sunny
South, representing the great planta.
ton jubilee festival, the Mississippi
steamboat and levee scene, the South
Carolina jubilee and plantation singers
sons, dances, specialtles and a host Of
new and original ideas never produced
by any other company.
Two imported Irish trick donkey:
and six monster blood hounds with the
Boston Double Uncle Toms Cabin.