Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-09-18
in the PRESS !

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The PRESS subscription
list is still booming!
Circuit Court is still in ses-
sion when we 60 to press.
Monday was the Hebrew
New Years day, says the P.-D.
Send Us the cash or a card
if you wish your paper contIn-
ned after the time paid for ex-
pires.
Elder Robinson, Of Delassus
is holding a protracted meeting
in the Christian Church at this
place.
\EPink Shirley was, last
Week. sentenced to two years IN
the Missouri pe.litentiary, for
stealing.
Chickens assisted out Of
the shell are generally assisted
into another world. lfthey are
unable to hatch themselves they
seldom do any good.
-Wanamaker pays a man
ten thousand dollars a year to
write his advertisements and
then pays editors hundreds OF
thousands of dollars for printing
them. He is the most successful
merchant in America. He says:
II would no more think Of run
ming my store a week without
advertising than l would think
Of living without eating" ."--Ex.
The annual Fair at Cape
Glrardeau will be held on Octo-
ber IA to 18, 1890. All persons
desiring to attend a fair any
where this year can not do bet.
ter than go there, from the fact
that the :Cape" is q beautiful
city, situated on the bank of
the ''father of waters" and all
necessary arrangements will be
made to accommodate those
who wish to attend.
Ek-According to the Missouri
game law, It is unlawful to kill
game between the following
periods: Prairie chickens. be.
tween February l and August
Is; quails, January l and Octo.
ber 1; wild turkeys, March l
and September /. The punish
ment for killing out of season is
Imprisonment in the county Jail
not exceeding one year, or by
fine not exceeding 81 900, or by
both such fine and imprison-
ment.
There are times when the
editors weary; when his heart
is sick and sad, when cash is
not in his Golfers and things go.
ing all to the bad. 'Tis then he
picks up his ledger and looks
his delinquents DER and won
ders if really there's heaven for
those who pay no score; for
those who ride in chases and
drink the choicest wines while
the editor rides shank's horses
and on cider and crackers dimes;
for those who bring in their ads
just the moment of going to
press, for those who know just
how to run it may their shad.
ow ever grow less for all the
numbskulls and nymishies that
brother and bore a man-if
heaven they reach, why, the
editor certainly can. So brace
up, my boys, bs hearty, and
cheerly sling the ink; gather
items and publish them fairly,
no matter what crockers may
think.-Ex.
Say" said a somewhat ex-
cited individual as be darkened
the portals Of the PRESS Office,
Ibid you'ns get an advertise.
ment from Mr.. TO put in this
, paper for me ?"
We informed him that we
had.
You didw
he was again told that the
add. bad been received.
"Shure it was in last weeks
paper, are yon"
We assured him that there
could be no mistake about it.
"Well," he continued, II
don't see what made Mr.. --
tell me that it was not in your
paper. I'm not taking the pa.
per myself, and I wouldn't have
come out here to-day If it
hadn't have been for seeing
about that advertisement. l
, had no other business "
This man had ridden "a miles
I, under August's sultry sun and
and over the rougEest of roads
to saveCD q dollar. He could
have taken the paper for one
!. year far 81, and besides saving
that trip he would have received
the news for q year. This
teaches 4 lesson Of economy(s)
from which many could profit.
4 pAODle who live IN thp cOn n try