The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
LEAD N c JorrINas.
4emoranduras Made in the Re.
porter's Wanderings,
Local ~Splfnters.
MONDAY

VI ~
3 to Dutchtown yesterday and spent tn
day pulling game fish out of Hubbl
creek.
Born, to the wife of p. Haas,
May 10th, 1891, a bouncing big DO,
Justice Kimmers court was il
session this forenoon.
Capt. Hume SAYS he saw a SUI
dog the other DAY and he knew tina
that was an Indication that a col,
, wave was coming.
}, The brick for ID. A. Glenn's new
store house on Main street, are nov
ready, and Henry Koch will begiI
putting them in the walls this week
Probate Court convened at Jack
son this morning and will be in ses
sion all this week.
The gospel tent closed It's engage
ment in this city last night. 1t ha.
been here two weeks holding two
meeting a day. The preachers have
talked loud and long, but he Cape
Girardeau sinners heart softeneth
not, nor did he contribute literally in
the way Of dimes and nickels.
The ice wagon drivers were
ashamed to drive around town this
morning. They wanted TO go out
with the coal wagons.
Use Cheatham's Tasteless Chill
Tonic. better than pie. but it breaks
the chills off short and no mistake.
Guaranteed to cure. so
John F. Reynolds has purchased
himself a horse and spring wagon,
and now when he goes out to do n
job of painting he will take his lad
ders, paints, etc, with him.
August Bierwirth has started a
tobacco factory in the IIirsch build
ing, next door TO his cigar factory.
He will put up only smoking tobacco.
DIR. Sam Harris and Frank E.
Burrough were thrown from a road
cart on Main street this afternoon.
but neither of them received any in
jury. more than to get their clothes
good and dusty. Franks old gray
mare made a quick jump GRO the
gutter at the corner ofMain and IIar-
mony streets and the two men went
over backward. They were lucky in
escaping unhurt.
Father Guilty is making a rock
road from the Rock Levee road out
to the College house. The College
farm has long needed that kind of a
road.
In the ncighborhood of Conran-
VILE they are killing two or three mad
dogs every day. One farmer killed
four last week and Sunday another
one was killed on the Rock Levee
near the toll gate.
Ask your druggist for Cheatham's
Tasteless Chill Tonic. Distinguished
from the old original by the word
"tasieless" printed III red ON all car
toons and labels. 4 new departure.
but the result of Years of careful STUDY
and experimenting. No cure no pay"
Take it and be happy. so
In spite of the unfavorable
weather last week the military boys
made solne money out of their picnic.
The proprietor of the gospel tent
preached his farewell sermon last
After concluding his sermon
he lccturcd, and in his lecture he said
The Cape was the hardest town he
ever struck in which TO raise money.
think il is to The credit of the
town that the people refused to give
up their money to a %catch-penny con-
cern like hat OF the gospel tent.
-Buchrmann's big auction sale goes
on from day to day and the attend
ance of bidders increases right along.
Those who have been purchasing seem
to be well satisfied with the bargains
they get.
Found, on Independence street, a
pair of spectacles. Owner can have
same by calling at DEMOCRAT office.
LowRIE PoETERsIELD.
Charleston is to he lighted by
electricity. Pitts White, a citizen of
that town, has just purchased a plant
with a capacity of three hundred in
candescent and thirty arc lights.
With the exception of J. Maple
Wilson, everybody in Miller & Will
sons drug store is supporting a boil.
and boils are not pleasant ornaments
Sheriff Bierwirth went ont TO
Jackson this morning to attend Pro-
bate Court.
Gen. Z. I. Wheeler has returned
home from the swamps. lie is now
in perfect health. One day of editorial
work followed by three days recrea-
ton in the swamp will restore any
man TO perfect health.
Ex-senator Oliver came down
from Jackson this morning TO have
his hair cut. One barber in this city
has been cutting Mr.. divers hair tor
himeor ten wears and ne will ride ten
miles to have that barber trim him up.
TUESDAY.
Geo. E. Chappell has taken charge
of the City Registers office. Mr..
Chappell is a first-class accountant,
and we predict that he will make a
splendid CITY Register.