Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-05-01
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once.
Carpenters are busy repairing and
extending the Wabash depot at this
place.
Pay car for the Wabash was in town
Wednesday dispensing happiness to
the R. R. boys.
See our terms for the GRAPHIC for
eight months and lose no time in send.
ing in your names.
w. C. Crawford, proprietor Brashear
lumber yard, is selling lumber at
River prices. If.
The exercises at the Mercantile Hall
By the graduating class of the public
school pr omise rare treat. Don't fali
to 90.
The nineteenth annual session of
the Missouri Press Association will be
held at Columbia June 2nd and 3rd
1885.
The meanest man we have heard Of
lately is the Macon man, who stole a
poor fellows sweet potatoes after he
had placed them IN hot bet.
As the spring has been little back
ward. the tendency among the farmers
will be to rush their work. Remem-
Der that ground put thoroughly IN
order before planting is worth two
plowlngs after the corn is up.
Mr. Jas. Emert opened business in
Willard Monday with an entirely new
stock of goods and will supply them TO
the people at the lowest living prices.
Give him call and look through his
stock.
Mr.. Dug. Murphy has purchased the
interest of Mr.. Nicholson, in the firm of
Murphy & Nicholson, and hereafter the
firm will be known as Murphy Bros.
These young men are energetic and
thoroughly reliable and we wish them
every success.
Miss Allie Updyke and Mrs. Finch
will begin select school ON the 18th
of May a: the Washington school
building. The success that these
ladies' have already met with as teach
ers IN our public schools, bespeak for
them a most liberal patronage.
Mr.. VIM. Hart received severe fall
from the top of ten foot step ladder
Saturday, spraining his ankle severely
and has since gone about on crutches.
In going down stars Monday he lost
his balance and fell the entire length
of the stairway, but fortunately escaped
with few bruises.
kirksville will have one of the finest
poultry shows west of the Mis-
sissippi this fall, Adair county must
make fiji e showing. We are depend
ing on the boys ana girls, who are
taking interest in the poultry business
for material help in this display.
The Post Office at Glenwood was
robbed Saturday night. 16 registered
packages, and about $500 IN money be-
longing to the firm, were taken. The
safe was drilled just above the comb
nation. Two strangers, who were ioat-
ing about town Saturday, are suspi-
cioned.
Al the contest at the rink on Satur-
day night, Chas. Anspach won the
gold medal as the champion skater of
Milan. A contest between the cham
pion skaters of Milan and Kirksville
at the rink Tuesday night resulted in
favor Of the Kirksville skater. Chas.
Anspach, of Milan, and B. Miller, OF
Klrksville, were the contestants.
Mr.. R. j. Vespy and j. G. Lyans, OF
Jones county, Iowa, last week pur-
chased 1000 acres of land in Walnut
township, ana will proceed at once TO
make it a first class stock farm. We
are glad to note this enterprise. There
are fortunes there for those who do
not wait and watch, but who work and
watch
Mr. Alfred Smith returned from a
business trip to Kansas last week. He
came near being in the food and cy-
clone that recently DID so much dam
age in that. state. He thinks Kan. does
not begin to compare with Missouri,
and we would remark right here, that
this impression is becoming very gen,
eral
The Mendelssohn Quintette Concert
at the Mercantile Hall last Friday eve.
ming was the finest musical entertain
ment ever given in Huntsville. The
vocal part Of the performance wa:
probably more difficult than musical
yet as whole it was a grand success
and the Club may justly feel proud il
having brought so excellent an enter
tainment to our town.
a young man by the name of Loder
while attempting to board the freigh
tram at Edna last Monday afternoon
missed his footing and fell between thu
platform and track. His right arm a
the elbow was run over by the truck
of the caboose and terribly crushed
making amputation necessary. II,