The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-06-20
LEAD PENCIL JoTTINGS.
Memorandum Made in the Be
porter's Wanderings.
Local S~pitnters.
MONDAY.


When the fire bells sound the
alarm hereafter. 90 straight TO the Era
office. There or t~hercabout you will
find the fire.
We suggest that the City Coun-
ell either establish water works here
or purchase a tent and move that
Main street print shop into il.
John Gawronski has no insurance
on his stock. His building was insur-
ed for two thousand dollars. The
bvilding and the stock in the store
were badly damaged.
during the conflagration to-day
at MIR. Gawronski's house. We no
ticed our City Auditor, Mr.. Lecch,
taking his papers TO a place of safety.
lie had Tin box which looked as if
it might have dollars in it. Will, how
eve denied the impeachment, SO we
didn't go through him.
DIR. lIudgings had TO get a move
on him to-day. We heard he has taken
lodgings up at Mr.. Fagan's residence.
The fire started him. When you are
sick and want medicine, you don't
have TO build q fire under DIR. Iiudg-
ings. all O want TO do is ring the
bell.
Some of the best people in this
town are not known As that sort.
But when il comes TO saving a mans
pr0p,r :y they always get in. The
fir. bell rings and they rome.
Bob Whitclaw was down 10 look
after his law books to-day when the
fire began. This time the fire was
further away from him than il was
the other night. Bob WAS not 50
badly scared this time Is hc was be-
fore. He SAYS he carried ont two arms
fall of law books.
The rcmains of Mr.. Frank Drarc
were brought here for intcrmcnt yes
tcr.lay. Mr.. Dcanc. as il will be re-
mambrrcd by our Older times folk.
was one of our Cape City boys. He
was a brother of Mrs. Jacob Burr0u%h.
and 10 rail- il.c matter more fnrcibly
10 mind. Tor our folk Of to-day. hc WAS
an uncle of our present P~rosccutin"
A~ttorncy. Frank I%:urrouch. Thc>r
VINO remember Mr. Dcanc viii re-
ell the fact that lac WIS Il bright man.
"r rumld hive si.atrd others with
less sorrow. I"ic.
There were about two hundred
aud fifty cNcur>ioni>ts Oh the CNcur-
sion boat from Cairo Yesterday. They
visited the College and Convent and
were royalty entertained by tho-ctwo
educational institutions.
In the casc of the State vs.. &. W.
Ballard. charged with forgery, II
c'Ian.c of venue Was taken last SaIur-
day when the case WAS called for ;ria!
nj jackson and the case was sent 10
Justice Willrr in this city.
Major Til has opened a beer de-
poi in this city for the ,alc of the eel
cbratcd Anhcuscr- Busch beer. The
dcput i, in the lIirsch building On the
Lcvcc. MIR. Uhl has built an ice house
sufficiently large Ia hold Il car load of
beer at a time and hc Will deliver beer
90 customers nice aud cool SO that
they will moi have 10 wait OH II to
cool in their own ice boxes.
We rushed around TO the fire this
afternoon and were astonished TO see
a lot of type cases sitting out ON the
street. They didn't belong to us.
II was the same old printing material
that our citizens carry out of a burn
ing building every once in Il while
Still We felt sorry for the Colonel, not
withstanding he gave us what he con
sidcrcd a tremendous raking over II
few days ago-said we had been gull
" of numerous crimes, etc. Possibly
we have, but then we have been here
a long time and we have never yct
been disturbed by fire. We have nc
.f t~n ,nt nr Ioraaflnr M
are not constructed that way.
The WEEKLY DEMOCRAT is now
fifteen years old, aud it is the verdict
of all that il is the best newspaper il
Southeast Missouri. No other paper
ever published in Cape Girardcar
reached the age of fifteen years
The DEMOCRAT has published TIN
obituaries of about twenty five liltl'
sheets since it was established an'
unless somebody comes 10 the from
with some money soon, it will b'
called upon TO chronicle the death
from starvation, of another it'll
Journalistic attempt.
To live and lei live is a question
which annually comforts the resident
of or low grounds and swampy dis
tricts. Take Chcathafn's Tasteles
Chill Tonic and live to die a noble
death then by \ commonplace chill.
TUESDAY.
The Main street print shop move'
yesterday to the IIirsch building mex
door TO the post office.
This was a bad day for a shoS
10 strike the town. The farmers ar
all hard at work tryin" 10 SAVE thci