Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-12-17

published at Higginsvills, No.,
for sale. The paper is we'll estal
llshed in a town of 1000 inhab.
r tants and is doing a prosperou
: business. A live newspaper ma
will find this a good opening.
A movements being made look
ing to the incorporation of som
of the cities surrounding Ney
York City with New York, whicl
it is said, will add about 800 600 t,
the population of the city, bringin,
it up to 100000. This would
not include any of the cities il
New Jersey.
A new side walk has been laid
on the east side of the First Ma.
tional Bank, and new walks, that
are Joy to the pedestrian, have
been put down this week in front
of Doneghy Bros, and w. G..
Fout's drug store. We will be
glad to report further improve
ments next week.
The Q. NJ. & P. Ry., patronizes
our Kirksville merchants quite ex-
tensively. Last Saturday, when
the pay car came in, we noticed
that number of drafts were left
for our business men. Among
them was one for Picker & Crebs
amounting to nearly one thousand
dollars. We understand that their
bill sometime. runs as high as five
thousand dollars in single
month.
Murphy Bros, want all their
old customers to call at their new
location, Normal Grocery" south
east corner of the square and ex-
anime their stock and prices. The
books of tho old business will be
found here, and they earnestly ask
that all accounts be settled at once.
With thanks for past patronage
they hope by fair dealing to merit
a continuance of the same.
The Kirksville Foundry and
Machine shops are crowded with
business and the trade of this es-
tablishment is daily widening in
extent and volume. A large lot
of sled and sleigh runnersis being
turned out which have sold all
over the country. The process of
chilling making them of very
superiour quality and rendering
them SO hard that nothing but an
emery wheel has any effect on
them.
At the poultry show in Kinks
vile last week, fellow ownsman,
r. S. McCandless, took eight first
premiums, three second premiums
on light brahmas, partridge Coch-
ms, and wyandotte chickens. He
also took the $40 sweepstake pre-
MUM on best breeding pen of
fowls, and the premium on the
best display of Poultry. There
was about 800 fowls at the show
and poultry men say it was the
best show of fowls they ever saw.
Memphis Reveille.
Therejs considerable rustling
among the ers TO obtain a,
better grade of cattle A few days
ago John Pervine of Polk town
ship added some valuable animals
to his heard from the Side View
herd of J. G. Jamison. This week
we noticed Judge John SHIRLEY
taking away another from the
same herd. NJ. f. Strock also sent
some short horns to his farm near
Brashear, last week! from George
Rice's herd near town.
The GRAPHIC is very glad, very
glad indeed, that prospects are fav-
orable for Kirksviile getting a
Touring mill; mill with bran
new boiler, patent rollers, and all
. the latest Improvements. The
men who have stood around with
their hands in thei, pockets and
said Kirksyille would never have
another Touring mill will be sur
prised some Of these morning at
being aroused from their SUM
bers by the whistle calling the
mill hands to labor. They will
then have to declare they were
mistaken.
Chillicothe has been profoundly
stirred by the temperance agita-
ton. Messrs. Hughes and Ward
closed two weeks campaign there
last Thursday, having obtained
over 1000 signers to the total alb
stinence pledge. Their work is on
the line of personal reform, educa-
ton of the masses to higher
plane of living, especially direct
ing attention to the awful conse-
quences of indulging in strong
drink, and the want and woe the
liquor traffic is inficting upon SO,
ciety, and urging communities and
the state 10 put it away.
: A mechanic of Trenton, who is
in the habit of taking an occasion.