The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-02
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LEAD PENCIL JoPrINas.
0emorandurns Made In the Re
porter's Wanderin9A,
LEGAL s~piiniers.
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MONDAY.
w. II. Yegel bought o lot this
morning fronting eighty feet On
Broadway by two hundred and thirty
one feet deep. The lot is situated
Just west ]. n. Whitelaw's property.
The lot belonged 10 Col. G. c. Thi-
lenius. The price paid was eighteen
hundred dollars, anu MI. Vogcl got a
bargain.
They have organized a Building
and Lean Association put at Jackson
with the following men as officers: A.
x. Byrd. President; DIR. G. W. Vineyard,
Fice-President; J. E. Franklin, Secre-
fairy; W. II. Miller, Treasurer; j. E.
Franklin, DR.. G. w. VINEYARD, Eli
Aberna,hy, NJ. b. McNeeley, W. II.
Miller, Thos. Mcfarland and A. II.
Byrd, Directors.
IL. A. Astholz is fixing up the
ground OIL his lots on Independence
street preparatory TO building two or
three cottage houses. He will find
no trouble about keeping the houses
rented, and the money expended in
their building will be a paving invest
ment.
The present City Council has
passed more ordinances than any
other Council we cver had, and the
end is not yet.
lie didn't know it was loaded,
but it was and the ball lodged in the
1eshy part Of his companions arm.
This happened at the Blue Hole yes
ierday while some young fellows
were there trying their marksmen-
ship With a 22-caliber revolver. The
young man who YVES shot was badly
scared but not seriously hurt.
There will be several new
houses built this year in the Gibony-
Houck Addition. Ono nice building
il now nearly completed in that part
of the city and We understand the
contract is let for another.
Tho Opera IIouse was crowded
Sa;ur'ay night by people who were
eager 10 hear the great Democratic
editor, Col. Henry Watcrson. Col.
Waterson is q fine writer but he is
not a great orator. We have men
here in Cape Girnrdcan who can
turn Wa,crson Down when il comes
20 oratory.
There came very neat being p
fire Saturday night that would have
wiped out the whole of Main street
had it got Roadway SO that the wind
could have reached it. 1t was an ash
box in the real of Frenzeil's stove
store that caused the alarm. The
fire was extinguished before it had n
chance 10 spread.
The Board of Directors of the
Southeastern District Agricultural
Society held a meeting at the court
house last Saturday afternoon and
prepared the premium list for the
next Fair. The Fair Ground Com
mittee was instructed to advertise for
bids to build an Office building adj
Joining the Se~cretary's Office, TO be
used for an office by the President of
the Association.
One good old Democrat eager to
shake hands with the man who want
ed to take one hundred thousand men
to Washington and seat Tilden in the
White House in 1876, walked up to
MI. Schuchert Saturday night and
reaching out his hand said: "Col.
Watcrson, l am SO happ! TO meet
you"
"A prominent merchant says: 81
have cold Megrimine for over a year
and guaranteed it to cure any head
ache without bad after effects and
have not found a siugle case it did
not relieve. Sample free. The DIR.
Whitehall M%egrimiue Co, South
Bend, Ind. Sold by druggists.