Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-11-19
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Winter weather.
Thanksgiving is coming.
What has become of the -four
ing mill?
a number of Sherifi's sales il
this issue. Look them over.
Corn is worth l5s cents pc,
bushel at Edgar, Neb.
The county treasurer is without
any funds to meet existing indebt
edness.
Hogs sold in the Kirksville mar
ket, Thursday as high as $3.50 pei
hundred.
The residence of q. Mason, east
of town, was destr Dyed by fire las
Friday morning.
The industrious drummer is do.
ing his best to drum up business
Several were in town this week.
The great strike among the
butchers at Chicago is at at end,
and the men are returning to
work.
Mr.. James Fletcher of Dayton,
Oregon, left a very fine sample of
Oregon wheat on our table Tues
day of this week.
Heavy snow storms prevailed
throughout the north and west this
week. The Wabash trains from the
north have been considerably de-
layed by the the snow bio ;kade.
Brasfeld & Kellogg purchased
five hogs of I. G. Campbell last
Saturday, the lot weighing 1916
pounds, an average of 365.
Rev. Williamson assisted by
Rev. Wear of St Louis, is conduct
ing a series of meetings in the
Presbyterian church.
Rogers & Bros, silver plated
ware has maintained supremacy
over thirty years. Fer sale by
Hart & Miller. 3w.
c. B. Jones who has been in Kan,
for some time. returned to Green
top last week. He is contented to
remain in Missouri for the future.
R. r. Edmonds, living near
Sublette, lost his smoke house and
contents by fire last Friday night,
and came near loosing his dwell
ling.
Burt. Featheringill, breakman
On freight train No. 4, @. NJ. & P.
Ry., was run over and had his
right foot cut off by the cars at
Lewiston, last Saturday.
We sampled the cider, now be-
ing made by Chas. Patterson, at
the grocery store of Jonas Caskey,
one morning this week, and we
unhesitatingly pronounce it of ex-
cellent quality.
A broken rail threw the mail
train off the track near West
Grove last Sunday evening. The
report is that five or six persons
were seriously injured, and two of
the coaches were badly wrecked.
W. d. Oldham says that the rea-
son Senator Proctor did not show
up on last Wednesday, was be-
cause he had just received an invi-
tation to W. E. Links wedding,
and has decided to postpone his
visit till the oath, at which time he
will certainly be here.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railroad men are laying side
tracks and preparing the yards at
Gault, where the road crosses the
@. NJ. & P. A train load of iron
went over the @. M. & P. from
this place Tuesday, and next week
they will begin laying track both
ways from that station.
The Q. NJ. & P. Ry., has passed
into the hands of eastern capital
lists and will hereafter be known
as the New York, Quincy San
Francisco BY. Surveyors will be
put on the western extension In a
short time and in the spring the
grading, to complete the line into
Kansas City, will begin. Railroad
men think the New York, Quincy
& San Francisco will, in few
years, be the best road in the west.
Considerable excitement has
been caused in Dade county, this
state. by the discovery of a gold
bearing, quartz vein 80 feet thick,
which assays, 500 of gold and $40
of silver per ton. The quartz is SO
soft that it can be beaten up with
a hammer, and the gold washed
out with a pan. A company is be-
ing organized to buy up the land
in the vicinity.