Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-05-22
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~ VIII soon be time TO IaiR Fourth
Of July
The Florida Index has number of
subscribers in Kirksville.
r. f. BEoRroL claims to own the
finest two year old colt in town.
Our Street Commissioner Mr.. J. G.
Rec las making excellent improvements
In cur streets.
Keep up the work on the streets.
There Is nothing adds more to the beau
ty or heathfulness Of a town than well
kept streets ana good drainage.
The star eyed goddess of reform Is
abroad in kirksvile. hat She seems to
have had demoralizing effect on the
corner where She first alighted.
The June bug has wings ofeoid
The lightning bug has wings OF fame,
The bad bug has no wings at all,
Blu; he gets there all the same.
Jonas Caskey has had his business
house thoroughly over hauled and 1t
is now second to none in neatness aud
arrangement of stock.
Our street are receiving considerable
attention from the hand of our COM
missioner. The drainage of portions
of the town has been wonderfully i'm
proved in the pIst two weeks.
1t Is reported that our west side
artist is soon to take unto himself one
Of Kirksvllle's fair daughters. We
may be out on a foul, but If we err
please notify, as we ere always subject
to correction.
The Knight Templars held Ascen
sion Services in the C. P. Church
Thursday night o! las: week. A large
audience was present and the services
were verg impressive Rev Sir North
cult. Of Ely Commandery, delivered the
address.
The icurneyman tailor, Thomas
Porter, more commonly known as the
dude tailor, who has peen employed by
W. G. Cochrane, the past winter, skip
ped out with his little bundle Tuesday
morning, leaving two boarding houses
to mourn his departure. Nj Cochrane
Is also poorer by fifteen dollars
On Monday May Ism, 1885, at an ad-
iourned term Of Circuit Court, Rich
Stephens, who was found guilty at the
April term and his punishment assessed
at three years in the penitentlary;
plead gunty;and was sentenced to two
years in said retreat. Sheriff Klnnear
escorted him thlther Monday night.
When lovely woman throws a rock,
A contumar,oua hen TO scare,
| Il glves tn artistic eye & shock
To mark her altitude and air,
| Bot be not to your danger blind,
Ifyau should ne behind her then;
Atonce place Of safety fnd,
That Is to ssy-stand near the hen.
Mr.. ". Mccartney, an employee
Of the variety wood works, happened
TO painful accident, last Monday
morning. While ripping piece oE oak
timber with a small buza saw one of
the pieces was thrown back by the saw
striking him in tno side; the pain caus-
ing him to double over and uncon-
seiously lay bis open hand On the saw.
The hand was 50 BADLY lacerated as to
require amputation of the middle fin
ger above the third Joint Drs. Burton
and Pierce performed the operation
and the patient is dom g well.
Judge stahl, with his family, will
leave Huntsville, next week for their
new home in Bentonville, Arkansas.
He will open the Benton County Bank,
which has been incorporated under the
laws of the state with acapital of $40,
600, the first of June. Judge Stahl,
having been in business in Adalr
county since boyhood, is well and IA
vorably known all over the county.
His strict integrity and gentlemanly
bearing in all the relations of life have
won 70 him an enviable reputation and
the people of Adair county will greatly
regret losing so valuable citizen
from their midst He became stock
holder in the First National Bank al
this place, when it was organized as
National Bank and has subsequently
held the position OF assistant cashier
which position he held, till he deter
mined, on account of his wife:
| health, to change MS location
The people of Bentonville, and Ben
ton county will find in Judge Stahl al
they could desire as business mai
and gentleman, we bespeak for hi
y business in this new location, tina
success which these qualities eve
q bring.
Hosiery and furnishing goods at tn
e emporium of fashion, the Ladi9;
Bazaar.
q 1oo o;oars for ne nj Inc NichnlS'