The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-15
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

o'eOheiOn vi our readers
to the advertisement of d. A. Glenn.
which appears elsewhere in to-day's
DEMOCRAT. Mr.. Glenn is offering some
big bargains in clothing.
The tickets are out for the ball to be
given by the Daughters of the Con-
~federacy on the 9th of this month.
A man who will beat a church would
rob his grandmother of her burial
robe.
Our Justices of the Peace all e to
have plenty of business.
The Cape Girardeau Building and
Loan association will issue the Tenth
Series of Stock, to be dated December
18th. 1894. Application for shares can
be made to the Secretary, Henry a..
Astholz.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
are working hard to make a grand
success OF their ball on the 9th OF this
month.
Editor Pigg, of the Pennington
News. was in the city last Saturday.
Frank e. Burrough killed a large
red fox on his. farm near this city last
week.
Joseph Meyers declines to serve as
of the Directors of the Fair Asso-
citation. He says he served five years
and he now wants a rest.
The Water Works and Electric Light
Company are distributing polls over
the city for the electric light wires.
They expect to light the city up by the
first of January.
The Fair Association will advertise
the Fourth of July races in time to let
everybody know what the attractions
will be next Fourth of July.
J. w. Wright has completed his
house out in the West End.
DR.. Brown is getting the material on
the ground to build himself a new
house on his farm five miles west of
this city.
John Vogelsanger will rattle off a
ine music box during the holidays.
He has sold nearly all the chances
already.
Why is it that the Baptists have SER
vices in their church every night in
the week and three times on Sunday?
The river is SO low that river navi-
gationi is very uncertain. A boat may
get through all right but the chances
are that she will hang up on a sand
bar
Three young men we're out taking in
the town to-day. They were full of
bug juice and of course they were rich
in their minds.
We find that 4 number Of the farm
ers 7esiding ear this city are in favor
of Il county stock law. The PROPOSE
ton however. was voted down two
years ago, and it would be voted down
again.
Hunters should remember that it lisa
violation Of law for them to kill and
ship quail out OF the county in which
they are killed. Railroads are also
prohibited from Transporting such
@ame to markets outside of the county
where killed.
c. I. Bettan viii take charge of The
Circuit Clerks office on the first of
January and he will have a term of
court on his hands the first week Of his
official life in hat Office.
The night rain on the St. Louis,
Cape G~irardeau and Fort Smith Rail-
road IS a greatconvenience toour peo-
pie and it also brings lots OF trade
here that we would not get.
There ire five or six whisky heggars
in the city. They go from saloon to
saloon begging drinks, and they live
off the lunch they grab from the lunch
counters.
W. Y. Leech, agent for The Fougeu
tibDtIll Has DGtl tidkiIl2 SDlilc Hctu-
cd improvements on that property. He
has had a handsome iron fence put
around the north and east sides of the
lot which adds greatly to the appear
of the property. The Fougeu
property is valuable property and we
are pleased 10 see itbeing kept in good
condition.
There is Z steamboat load of toys in
this town. Nearly every store in town
has a toy department. They Will be
lucky If they sell ont during the holt
days.
There is no excuse for any man to
appear in society with a grizzly beard
Introduction of Buckingham's
Dye, which colors natural brown or
Frank CAM is going into the con-
fectionery business out in the West
End in st. Louis. Frank is a clever
and we wish him success.
3. 2. Speak is clerking for Mr.. }
Wright in his store at Hamburg. Mr..