The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-13

Some of the country people in tow,
last Monday took Ferd Lipp for tn,
big fat Snowman and they followei
after the street Gar shat Mr.. Lipp wa.
riding in until they were told that Mr.
Lipp was a citizen OF this city ani
was a butcher and not a Snowman.
W. L. Arnold, representing the st
Louis General Electric Light Co., and
Guido Pantaleoni. representing thu
Westinghouse Electric Light Co.. wers
in the city yesterday to consult with
Cannon Bros. about furnishing then
with an electric light outfit for this
city.
Herman Petzold. of Pocahontas,
offers ten dollars reward for the ne.
turn to him of a new set OF Wagon
harness stolen out of a wagon al
Crawford's Landing Friday night,
October 9Th.
Frank E. Burrough seems to enjoy
country life. In the country Frank is
farmer Burrough but when he comes
to town he is lawyer Burrough.
Houck's Missouri and Arkansas
Railroad is going to be exteded to
connect with the Cat road somewhere
west of Sikeston in S~cottcounty.
The ice cream season is over and the
boys are now feeding their best girls
on fresh oysters.
Congressman Arnold is out in the
Western counties.
Nearly every steamboat that goes
down the river these days. has a big
lot of horses on board. The horse
market in st. Louis is oyerstocked
and horses there are cheap
The water works hands are putting
down the water mains on south Sprigg
street.
H. S. Doyle went down to Wayne
county Wednesday to spend afew days
hunting.
Capt. Hume informs US that he is
kept on the run filling orders for coal.
These frosty mornings remind the peo-
pie that it is time to be laying in their
winter supply of fuel.
The building season is about over
for this year, but next spring thewater
works will be importation and then we
may expect a revival of business all
along the line.
New corn is selling in~this market at
thirty-fiYe cents per bushel, and that is
considered a fair price, considering
the price of wheat.
There IRE two good store rooms in
the Opera House building vacant.
Capt. Juden is having a new shingle
roof put on his residence on Merri-
wether street.
An adjourned term of the Common
Pleas Court will convene on the 10Th
day of November. The election will
then be over and litigants will have
nothing to trouble them but their law
suits.
The Spring Races at the fairgrounds
on the Fourth of July next should be
talked up and advertised early this
year. There is nc reason why ten
thousand people should not be on the
Fair grounds on the Fourth of July.
J. G. Boyd, representing the Western
Electrical Supply Company of ST.
Louis, is in the city.
F. A. Wonder, of the Fort Wayne
Electric Company, is in the city.
For large andnicely arranged stores
there is no city in the State excepting
St. Louis, that can beat Cape Girar-
deau.
Otto Holm is out at Jackson doing
a big job OF decorating. Nh. Holm
is an artist who understands his bust
ness and when our Jackson friends
see some of his work it would not sur
prise us to hear that he had several
jobs in that town.
The Chicago Store has moved into
the Rabich building opposite the Cape
City Mills.
John Allen, head engineer at the
Matteson Paint Mills, died at his home
Wednesday,. The deceased was a
highly respected colored man and his
death will be incurred by a large cir
Gle of friends. He was a brother of
Charley Allen. the Main street barber.
The other night a gentleman from
Perry county while here attending the
circus, became somewhat under the
weather and in his ramble he came in
contact with an imaginary man in the
form of an innocent little rose bush.
The Perry county mar came out second
best With several scratches.
If we could have a big circus in
Gown once a month we would be in the
swim. in a business point of view.
After this year the Scott county
farmers will have no excurse for
growing about the rough road. The
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