The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-10-01

- ctcE SaTTolI HIS the Contract Il
s plaster the new Slurdivant Banl
building. He will begin work in the
building mex week.
Tho Stoddard County Agricul.
: tural and Mechanical Society will hold
S its first annual Fair at Dexter, October
18th to 10Th.
When d street ears begin to
run we can all go to church then
without having to walk q mile to
, listen to a tiresome sermon.
Christ Sander, of Dutchtown,
called on us to-day. Mr.. Sander saws
business at Dutchtown is good. The
farmers, he says are all busy sowing
wheat.
The City Board of Equalization
has raised the assessment on the
property of quite a large number of
our taxpayers. Now listen for some
s~quealing.
w. a. Penney left this afternoon
for Cairo where he goes TO sec to the
shipping of the iron for the street
railway in this city. The iron will be
shipped here by boat.
-LOsT-.A counter book contain
ing C nj accounts. The book had the
words Rent Account" on the outside
of cover. Finder will be rewarded
by returning book to j. II. Sander on
broadway.
When a man without property
begins o sympathizc with his wealthy
ncighbors because their taxes arc
so high. put your house in order. don
your ascension robe and listen for
Gabricl's trumpet.
The people of Dutchtown anil
vicinity arc very fortunate. DIR. Peters
has consented to practice medicine
and surgery there. We do not dctract
from the reputation of medical
man when VIC saw that perhaps there
is not a more skillfnl phy-irian and
surgeon In Southeast Missouri than
Dr. Peters.
Remember the game of base ball
next Sunday between the Cape boys
and the Commerce nine. There vii!
be an excursion on the transfer boat
Lincoln, and all arrangements have
been made for a pleasant trip.
The great heap of brains under
that white hat our contemporary
talks about are the brains Ola calf. Our
butchers sell calf brains at fifteen
cents n quart and John Jones sells
the White hats at one dollar c,ch, any
size wanted.
We were in error when We said
there were no colOred men in the
Democratic parade i'm this city last
Monday night. There was one roll
ored msn marching with heI)cmocrats
but he was not noticed till after the
parade WAS over and the paraders
were breaking ranks.
Preparations arc being made Tor
a Republican pole raising at kclso
which will take place in a few days
The Republicans Of Scott county arr
awakening and falling into the ranks
of the grand old party on It's
march to victory.
Lovers of sport with the gun
should 60 to the Fair Grounds next
SUNDAY and see the match for one
hundred dollars between WI "crack
shots" After the match for the u
hundred dollars there will he a purse
shot for which will be a free for all
shoot.
Those who contemplate building
q float for the Trades Parade are
urgently requested 10 report the fact
to me on or before Monday. Oct. )
and be prepared to give me a de-
scription of YOUR float as sOon there
after as possible.
l.. J. ALBERT, Jr., &. VI.
To help swell the ranks in the
torch light procession in this city last
Monday night all the loafcrS and
vagabonds of Southeast Missouri and
Southern Illinois were imported here.
For their services they were given
free transportation and all the rcd
liquor they could hide away. They
were expensive torch carriers but the
Democrats had to have them to make
a showing.
-McTCIluutS NHo "uut W iSoeh
the largest number of people must
place their advertisements in the
DEMOCRAT. For seventeen years the
DEMOCRAT has been under II man.
agement. 1t has preached the funeral
of about twenty infant newspapers
that were born and died in this city
during those seventeen years and it
has been growing in popularity right
along. 1t is read by nearly every
family in this county and by hundreds
OF people outside of the county. An
advertisement in its columns pays
the advertiser more on his investment
than Al advertisement in all the other
papers in the county.
Is That Rasiness:
| did the stone work tor Henry
Ossenkup on the foundation of the
Sturdivant Bank building, had to sue
IL .ot.Ao,t and pnu- vrhon |