The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-09-05
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


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The Missouri Bankers association
| met at Lebanon. Routine business was
transacted. and plans for the future
benefit of the bankers were discussed,
John C. Russell, Of st. Louis, in an I'D.
dress, saidi
farmers should have lust TAXATION. so
should bankers. We have no fight to ask
| for Law to let us put In OUR property at
forty cents. The farmers are experiment.
ing. but they are advancing. One of the OBJ
lects Of our Organization 10 to see that its
rights are protected. Just as the fafmef is
seeking to do. We want to put our rights Id
such light that they will be granted. We
can not go before the boards to ask them 20
do something dishonest II the property OF
the state was put at double its present valu'
alton We would have only to paw half the
taxes We now pay. The way to get relief is
to see that all property is taxed like ours.
We all get poor when the assessor comes
around. 1--we are all assessed alike. we win
ind justice robs no man, and we get the aid
to which we are entitled.
The following permanent officers
were elected:
President-R. L. McElhany Springfield.
vice Presdents-w. J. Anderson, Kansas
City; c. W. Rubey, Lebanon; Breck Jones,
St. Louis.
Executive Committees. W. shultz. sedas
liza; b. W. Malcolm. Rollaj +. 2. Hays, Lam
caster; J. l. Wilcotson, Carrullton; Speed
Stephens, Boonville
Secretary and Treasurer-John Caro- Rus
sci. St. Louis.
Sedalia was chosen as the place OF
holding the next meeting, which oc
ours in June.
A Missouri Girls Sad Ending.
Rose Hayden left a comfortable home
at Little Blue, jackson county, few
months ago to visit friends in Denver,
Col. She was of good parentage, and
well raised. She was only IL, pretty,
and it was not long until she had a
lover in Denver. She married without
her parents consent, as the story
goes, and in short time she began &c
repent. Her husband deserted her, and
then the next chapter of her life was
dark, filed with pitfalls and she trod
the path that led lowell, places where
good people shun and sin is queen. The
other morning she remarked to n COM
! panion; "Weil, there's morphine, here's
beer; don't know which to take to do
me Tue IIlOSb SOOu luTcc uOuIo IdttI
she was dead. She took the morphine.
Father and Son Reunited.
Ten years ago John Handley lived in
st. Louis. His 10-year-old son ran away
from home and no trace could be found
of his whereabouts. The father re.
moved to Sedalia some eighteen months
ago. The other day while excavating
for sewer on the streets he was ap-
preached by a young man for work.
The latter almost instantly recognized
the elder man by exclaiming: ''How
are you, father; we haven't met lately"
1t proved to be his long lost son, and
the meeting was a joyous one. The
young man had just returned from Den
yer, where he had spent greater por-
tion of the past ten years.
How an Old Couple Parted.
Mrs. Mahala Leolar. aged S., died
near Iatan, Platte county, the other
morning. She was taken sick while
watching at the bedside of her husband,
who was seriously ill. While she was
dying the husband was carried to her
bed and placed by her side, where he
remained until death came. They were
married sixty years ago, and settled on
their farm near Iatan forty-five years
ago. They have eight children and
numerous grandchildren and great
grandchildren.