The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
sou cuLLINos.

Fredericktown now produces pressed
brick and tile.
An electric road from Pierce City to
Monet is being agitated.
Corn in Andrew county will average
forty bushels to the acre.
Bollinger county will vote IN a prop
osition to erect a So, 900 Jail.
Pleasant Hill, Cass county, is reach
ing out after a cheese factory.
p. F. Walkers and Miss Zilaha Bridge
water were married at Hannibal.
An elegant 81, 900 clock is to be erect
ed on the courthouse at Maryville-
The old settlers meeting at Kahoka
was attended by several hundred peo-
pie.
The proposition for a new st. Louis
bridge is lost for this session of con
gress at least
The w. c. T. U. ladies are vigorously
prosecuting violators of the liquor law
at Golden City.
The Ninth congressional district re-
publican convention meets at st.
Charles, September j.
John Haley was run over by a race
horse and fatally injured at the fair at
Harris, Sullivan county.
Evangelist Culpepper of Georgia,
converted over 100 sinners at his tent
campmeeting at Boonville.
Rev. DIR. W. Pope Yeaman has been
moderator of the Missouri Baptist as
ISOLATION for twenty years.
Rev. Geo. II. Williamson, of Spring.
field, is the new pastor of the Presby-
terrain church of jefferson City.
DIR. Houston, OF Stanberry, will here
after be connected with the Northwest
ern Medical college of st. Joseph.
The Fehmer farm of $50 acres, east of
Oregon, Holt county. was sold for S15,-
900. Missouri farms are as rich as silver
mines.
The city council of Springfield has
passed a bill making the license for the
sale of cigarettes $3.50 a year, in order
to shut them out.
SiXty-five additions have been made
to the membership of the churches of
Skidmore, Nodaway county, as a result.
of revival meetings.
The supreme court will pass upon the
case of John Dusty, a st. Joseph negro,
sentenced to be hanged for assaulting
little Fanny Porter.
The grand lodge of l. O. o. F. may
buy the Winner hotel, a summer resort
at Liberty, and establish a home for
widows and orphans.
Rev. NJ. T. Sapp, of Albany, Gentry
county, is so broken down in health
that he is compelled to leave Missouri
and take a trip to Colorado.
Andrew James and William C. Eli
son, of Monticello, all lawyers and two
of them judges, are natives of Lewis
county and sons of a lawyer.
Worth county farmers are warned
against swindling insurance agents
who are trying to induce farmers to
have their policies transferred to other
companies.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, ]. j. Ingalls,,
Congressman Bland and Hatch will be
among the attractions at the Interstate
Harvest home t o be held at Maryville
September 3-S.
The game laws of Missouri permit
the killing of turtle dove and meadow
larks after Angus: l, prairie chickens
after August Is, and quail and turkey
after October 1.
Andrew Pihale, hardware merchant
of Martinsburg, .Audrain county, has
assigned to Joseph Fennewald. The
debts mou to $1,000 and the assets
to something like Sf,5Oo.
A member of the McFall city council
~nGfr,.l f.ar- &Ia% I@l- L.
ordinance making it lawful for a citi-
zen to defend himself without being
subject to a. fine was rejected.
Mayor Davis OF Kansas City and
Mayor Thompson of Excelsior Springs
are arranging to have a convention of
Missouri mayors held in Kansas City
during the week of the Priests of Pal
las parade.
II. L. Miller, q Nevada druggist, ap-
piled his maidstone to a dog bite re-
ceived by Charles ~Schackelford, of
Enoch, Vernon county. who was bit
ten by a cur dog. The stone adhered
three hours.
At Providence church, 12miles north
east of Sedalia. Rev. c. NJ. White, a
Baptist divine of Sweet Springs, is con-
Quoting a series of successful revival
meetings, ant already there have been
over 100 conversions.
The contract for the Tarkio (Atchi-
son county, drainage ditch wa let re-
to II. E. Gowdy for S13. 9O5, he
being the lowest bidder. The drainage
district saved 81, 995. 10 by rejecting all
the bids and advertising for new ones.
Missouri is the land of ancient Gu
cumbers. Mr.. J. L.. Spears, of 1912
Liberty street, Kansas City, has one
which was bottled August IL, 1870.
There are traditions of a cucumber in
Missouri which remembers.
1s49.
Letters of inquiry are being received
Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. ask
ing if there is room in the vicinity of
Hopkins, Nodaway county, for a few
drought-stricken families to come and
spend the winter. They have been in
vited to come.
Civil Bend, in Daviess county, is the
home of the Oldest married couple in
the state. The two old people are
Uncle W.. s. anderson and wife, both