Fair play., 1892-06-25
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

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Charleston now boasts of a good
fire engine.
Washington county defeated local
option last week by majority of l50
votes.
The teachers institute of Miss.
issippi county is in session at Char
lesion.
The Pcrryyille ice factory will COM
mence operations the middle of next
month.
The thermometer registered 10i
degrees down IN Reyonids county
last week.
The financial statement of Bnttler
county was published in the Poplar
Bluff Citizen last week.
a man at Charleston has n solid
silver spoon that has been in his
family five hundred years.
Prof A.. J. Sparks of Higginsville
will conduct the teachers institute in
Carter county next month.
The teachers institute of Jefferson
county will be held at DeSoto com
mencing July 18th and closing
August 18th.
A pair of twin calves which are
slightly on the Siamesc twins order
are On exhibition on farm near
Poplar Bluff.
Notwithstanding the large amount
of wheat that was destroyed by high
water, the crop in Mississippi county
promises TO be larger than any here
tofore harvested.
The Pcrryville SIN says: The
farmers on the hills in Perry county
have fine prospects for a good yield of
wheat. Corn is a little late, yet most
of the fields look well.
Mr.. Zoak Byington, a brother TO
Mrs. Joseph Schind'a", u.ad at his
home in Sie. Genevicvc county on
Tuesday of last week, of consumption
Aged about 22 years.-Pe,ryriNe SIN.
All the business houses of Perry
vile eXceci the restaurants and drug
stores have signed an agreement to
close their doors on Sundays. The
drugstores have right to sell drugs
only.
The Festus correspondent of the
liillsboro Democrat says the popula-
ton of Fcstus is running up into the
and rapidly increasing, and
yet for all that there is only one Chris
tian church in the whole city.
Lucinda Moore, colored, died at her
home in Perryvillc last Monday eve
ming at 5 O'Clock. Mrs. Moore is sup
posed 10 be nearly one hundred years
old, but the records in the clerks |
office only gives her age Sc years at
Ihe time she was sold in 1912 by |
Daniel Boone, which would make
her Sc years.
A little son of Martin Milfclt of
Perry county lost one of his legs
asst Wednesday. Mr.. Milfelt was
cutting hay and coming to Il stump
he boy lifted the cutter bar over it,
,ut in letting it down he unthought-
idly put his foot in front of the
moving sickle. His leg was cut
nearly off between the ankle and |
luee. Medical and was summoned
md amputa,ion was found necessary.
The Cape Girardcau Democrat says:
1T is strange coincidence that many
If our old and prominent citizens
lie on the 18th day of June. Yes
erday was the 18th and two old
1apc citizens passed away, and we
night cite many more who
reathed their last OF the day named.
mong them was Philip Reilly whose
cath occurred twelve years ago yes
eraay. Mr.. Reilly, like G. II. Cramtr
nd Christian Iioffmeisier, was at one
me prominent and very Influential
itizen of the Cape"
Fpm,ngfon Times Mrs. Hem
lerlc met with painful and some
hat peculiar accident last Saiur-
ay. She wanted to clean some
othes, and had been told that
aSoiinr aud warm water woula do
e.irc c;irrIy. She placed The clothes
l wooden bucket, putting abou.
INT of gasoline on them, and then
CURED boiling water over them
lstead of warm water. The intense
eat caused the gasoline to explode
nd burst into flames, which en- :
elopeh her arms, burning them and
ne side of her face very severely.
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