The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-06
LEAD PENCIL
Memorandurns Made in the BE.
porter's Wanderinea.
MONDAY.

House on the 3Oth of August. Mis-
Foster has how a first-class opera an,
our people will be pleased TO know
that she will again visit our city.
There are a few o~fhce-seekers il
this county who are making a still
hunt for Office. They want goot
paying offices but they don't want tc
paw any of the incidental fees neces
sary for campaign purposes.
The fruit crop in Southeast Mis-.
souri, is not good this year. The
peach crop is small and we under.
stand the apple crop is not what il
usually is.
Miss Sloan, daughter of Capt
Charley Sloan. of st. Louis. is visiting
Miss Mamie Filbrun in this city.
There are several nice little resi-
dence buildings in the city for rent
aud in the course of another month
ortwo there will be several nice new
buildings ready for tenants.
In the Recorders Court this
morning two strangers wcr fined
eight dollars and costs each for being
drunk and fighting OH the street. In
default of payment they were locked
up.
Our lumber dealers seem TO be
doing a good business. This would
indicate that. times are not SO hard as
some people think.
Hon. l.. F. Klostcrmann and J.
A. Frank will go TO Denver, Coo,
some time this month.
The c~anarv-hird law suit was
compromised this morning, the plain
tiff paying costs.
-ltev. Father Nugent is at home
now making preparations for the
opening of school at the College.
Tho renter who cultivated ID. a.
Glcuu's land out Oh the Bloomfield
road near this city raised thiriy-two
bushcl of wheat per acre.
William Beaudean will sell his
personal property at public auction
next Saturday, aud he will then move
TO the city.
The Lincoln Republican Club
met Saturday night at the court
house. The Lincoln Club now num-
bcrs a membership of four hundred.
Fritz Sicmers came in from Cor
donville yesterday and ordered a car
load of beer and ice from the Cape
brewery and Ice Company. Fritz
says his patrons will drink no other
beer but the Cape beer.
A prominent merchant says: 81
havesold Megrimiue for over a year
and guaranteed it to cure any head
ache without bad after effects and
have not found 4 single cast it did
not relieve. Sample free. The DIR.
Whitehall Megrinline Co, South
Bend, Ind. Sold by druggists.
The little colored boy who was
fined fifteen dollars and costs in the
Recorders Court last week gave the
officers the slip Saturday and made
good his escape. lie is however, not
far away. but SO long as he remains
outside the city limits he will not be
molcstcd.
Seems TO us that the city should
adopt some plan whereby TO get
some work out of the law breakers
who are convicted in the Recorders
Court. This way of working a ma
two or three days and then letting
him 90 does not pay the city and it
is no punishment to the law breaker.
Put the convicted offenders of the
law to work and make them pay tor
their wickedness.
st. Peter ION a summer vacation,
but looking after business on the side)
"See here. why haven't you been up
INV way?.' Surprised dcnizen OF
earth-"Why, I'm not dead yet" st.
Peter-"You deceive yourself; you've
been dead some time, and you are
very much in the way here" Sur
prised denizeu-"lW call in the neigh
bors to prove Pm alive and in busi-
ness" ST. Petcr-"That's too much
trouble. Here's your local paper;
show INC your advertisement"
Mr.. J. w. McMaster, of Sparta,
Illinois, will be in the city this week
to talk to our people about getting
up a stock company for the manu-
faeture of pressed brick. Mr.. Nc
Master says VIC have the finest clay in
the world for pressed brick. He is a
practical man in the brick business
and he is willing TO invest money
here provided our business men will
take some stock in q factory of that
kind.
We call the attention of the read
ers of the DEMOCRAT to the adver-
tiscment of F1entge s. Wood which
a,pears elsewhere in this issue.
TUESDAY
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