Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1891-05-14

Rev, Dodson of Jefferson
county preached at the Chris
tian Church Saturday evening
and Sunday.
Ernest Statler, son of Geo
E. Statler. is learning the ma
nipulatiOn of the "stick anC
rule" in the PRESS Office.
John Martin and wife ot
Cape county were visiting the
families of DR. Sander and
A. J. Bedwell last week.
John Henry, formerly OF
Gravel Hill, has been appointed
First Assistant Grain Inspector
and has gone to St. Louis to take
charge oft position. The sal
ary is $1,000 a year.
T-Postmaster Lane and two
Of his daughters went up to ST.
Louis county Sunday to visit
his brothers. Ono of them was
a member of the last Legisla
ture from the above county.
If you want a good farm.
er's paper take the journal OF
Agriculture" For the cash
we can furnish it and the Press
both for $l,50 a year. Come or
send while this offer is open.
An Indiana woman seems
to have been fatally epidemic
among ex.soldiers. The Farm
er Of that State says she Is, up
to date, the widow of four OF
them, and draws a pension for
each.
An absent minded Indiana
women lately remembered that
about Christmas time she i'm
prisoned a turkey under a wash
tub. When uncovered, forty five
days later, the emaciated bird
hoped ont and gobbled for
nourishment
We want to tell You that
sooner or later, and before a
great while. our friends east of
the Allegheny mountains, yea,
east of the Mississippi river,
will wake up some morning and
find Missouri the greatest
dairy State in the Union.
The famous Spnrgeon says
that when a dog is not noticed
he doesn't like it. But when IA
dog is after a fox he doesn't
care whether he is noticed or
not If a MINISTER is seeking for
souls he will not think of him.
self.
The Greenville Journal
says that a cross.eyed man may
be straight, but he never looks
that way.
Apropos Of which permit
the PRESS to say that straight
eyed woman may be cross. al
though she never looks that
t>wYy.
|0AHenrv Vandeven and James
Trader each received the same
nnmber of votes for roadover-
seer in the district which EN-.
braces Latiin, Leopold and con-
tiguons territory. The County
Court will be called upon this
week to s1raighten the entanglc-
ment.
"A peculiar bug in no way
resembling the chintz bug is de
stroying the peper-grass, sour
docH, dandelions and other
early succnlents which enter
into the compositions of ia bl.,
greans at this place. -.Greenville
Journal.
Bully for the bug!
dissolve alum in "ot water,
making a very strong solution.
Apply to furniture or crevices
in the wall with a paint brush,
This is sure destruction to all
noXions vermin, and Invaluable
because easily Obtained. IL is
moreover, perfectly safe to use
and leaves no trace behind.
! -There will ba memorial
Services held in memory Of Elias
Wells by Post Isl G. Il. H.. Il,
;Atir hall in Ial!na on he 3lst
of this month Funeral sermon
by Reverend Kittprman Every,
body is cordially invited to at.
tend. MONROE HINDMAN.
G. 2. 1S4, G. A. r.
Little Olgie tishe, has
adorned the Press office with
a Lowell, boqnet. Thanks, Olgle.
and may thy pathway through
life be s,rewn with the happiness
Of which these lowers, silent
monitors, are emblematic.
Sweet flower, thou te''st how hearts
AZ pure and tender as thy leaf--as low
And humble as thy stem-will surely
know
The joy that peace imparts.
/-The little town of Winona
il Shannon county was almost
totally destroyed by iira on the
1st dav of this mouth, The Cur.