The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-07-25
LEAD PENCIL JoTTINos,
1emorandums Made in the Re.
0orter's Wanderingh.
Local sPitnters.
MONDAY.

One saloon, one bank, two news
papers and no hotel, is the size tow
jackson is.
The fact that there are very few
empty houses in this city gocsto show
that the Cape is very desirable plac,
20 live.
George Siemers says his whea'
crop this year averaged twenty-on,
bushels to the acre. That is not al
average crop for Cape county.
james Walker will give a Jul,
celebration at Benton on the SOth O
July. lie was in the city yesterday
making arrangements for ice and
other supplies for the occasion.
independence street from Main
TO Spanish is one of the dirtiest streets
in the city. 1t should be cleaned up
once just for a change.
-Megrimine cures any headache
in 80 minutes Sample free. The
Dr. Whitehall Megrimine Co., South
Bend. Ind. Sold by Druggists.
w. II. Cocrver's fine new house
is beginning to show up. Mr.. Coervcr
will have the best house Oh Harmony
street when it is completed.
The remains of Mrs J. u. Schaefer
who died in Germany the other day
viii be brought back to this country
and buried nj jackson some time next
winter.
The saw mill business along the
dine of sur railroad is tlie money max
ing business in this section of the
country. Ther arr turning ont a
world of lumber and thcy dad Il ready
suarkct for all they make. There is
an abundance of timber handy TO get
at and therc IS lots of money in il
when ii is worked VI.
The editor or thc jackson CHSk-
LINK is na1l ls1Hu>c the fity Coun-
Gil 0t .J;nkson granted sahFon license.
and Ec publishes the names of all the
citizens of .IHrks'h WHO sigrrti the
sa'non-kfrfrr> petition. Many of
tic :aN-paycrs who signed the petit
tion made tl;cir Msrk. Those who
iil that are Bc,truvIa:s who cannot
write tiNir nssatcs.
The first -four IRON new wlicst TO
nrTivr nj New Orleans this season was
manufactured at the Union Mills in
ehiS city. II WAS of course splendid
fonr ard it broucht good price.
Tho two Murphrsboro dailics
started a few weeks all-at-homc print,
but they are not that way now. They
nave both adopted the ready print
plan, and il they hold out on ,hat
plan with the patronage they are get
ting they will surprise Us. Murphys-
foro is a dead old town and even one
dairy paper there will .tarvc. Cape
Girardcau is the smallest city in the
Union supporting two daily IaaperS
and il is the oaiy town that ri sup
port them well.
Holiday Bros, of Cairo, Ills, are
receiving about twenty-five thousand
bushels of wheat per day. They buy
Tor export TO France and they ship
by river to New Orleans.
Maj. 5. VI. L. Mcclure, Of Wheat
land. Ills. uhreshed and shipped this
year fifteen Thousand bushels of
wheat.
The docket of the Probate Court
at jackson takes up considerable
of cur space to-day. Those who have
business i'm that court will find by
reading over the docket what day
they will have to appear in court.
Ed. II. Engelmann is now conf
fortably located in his handsome new
The statement that Mrs. Srhaefcr,
widow of the late Jacob Ii. Shaefer,
died in Europe q week Dr. ten days
ago is untrue. Mrs. Schaefer has
been dangerously i'll but she is not
dead. as was reported, and it Is hoped
that she will soon o and
be able to enjoy her visit TO the
old country.
The editor of our evening con-
has laid of a part Of his
force. The income from the four
snloon advertisements is not sufficient
to pay such q large force of hands.
The jackson saloon has three
b~ar-tcnders and we understand that
,hcy arc kept on the trot day and
night waiting on customers When
a man keeps a saloon in Jackson two
wears he can retire from business
independently rich.
We publish a lengthy article TO-
day from our religiously inclined re-
porter. lie has been attending church
and the preachers have stuffed him I
full of the gospel
b. +. Speak will move into his
new house this week. The Adam
Frank house that he will vacatc will I
be ovcrhauled and improved before
is again rented. Z
Married, at the residence of the '
mother, in this city, July 10Th.
1891, by George q. Kimmcl. William :
n, Robinson 10 Kate JIinklc. ]