The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-18

SoAA6 S0hokO0t6 lOT CBSSk
Of the Common. Pleas Court.
Rev. Kelley of the Second Baptist
church is going to move to Charles
ton.
Rev. Arthur will return home after
the hot wave rolls by a married and
better q Preachers as we'll an
other men r human.
Only two more weeks till our public
schools will open.
Our fire engine wasn't in it, at the
fire Tuesday night. The creamery
building was burnt down before the
engine could be hauled out to the
grounds where the building stood.
The School Board met yesterday
and ordered a warrant for five hundred
dollars issued to Henry Ossenkop,
part pay on his contract for the addi-
ton to the public school building.
Mr.. Houck informs us thot he is 60
ing to put one hundred car loads of
creek gravel on the Rock Levee this
fall. A coating of six inches of gravel
will make that one of the best roads
in the country.
Rains have been going all around
us and here we sit high and dry. We
surely must be a wicked people.
Mr.. A. J. Tetrick is in the city visit
ing his family.
The present drouth is giving US
some pointers on the c~onveniences of
water works. Many cisterns are dry
and people have to carry or haul
water from long distances. We havn't
had such a continued drouth. for sew
eral years and we hope we will not
have another one for years to come.
Maurice Cramer came down from
ST. Louis Wednesday after his chill
dren.
Work on the water works pump
house is progressing rapidly.
The colored Masons of this city are
making an effert to have the Grand
Lodge meet in this city.
Misses Sadie Connolly and Kate
Walsh. of St. Louis. are visiting Miss
Philomene Dempsey this week.
Judge Koehler is holding the regular
term of the Probate Court in Jackson
this week.
Father Cuddy informs us that he
has splendid corn on the lower farm.
J. W. Heryford. travelling agent for
the St. Louis Union Stock Yards, is
in the city.
The infant child of Tom Schaefer,
colored. died Wednesday evening.
There was a wagon loaded with
melons standing on nearly every street
every morning this week.
Hon. Louis Houck has been up in
Perry county this week looking after
his railroad in that county.
Mrs. Maurice Cramer was here this
week visiting friends.
Nh. L. s.. Joseph spent Monday and
Tuesday in st. Louis. He says bust
ness in the big city is distressingly
dull.
DR.. Blomeyer performed q surgical
operation on a lady's thumb the other
day.
Our preachers are. lot taxing the
patience of misconceptions during
this hot weather. They will begin to
haul the poor sinners over the Goals
about the first of November.
There are lots of men in the city
looking for work. They have heard of
our water works far and near and they
come here seeking employment.
Water is so scarce in this city that
our salOon-keepers have given their
b~ar-tenders orders to quit watering
their whisky.
The corn over in the Illinois bottoms
will not turn out more than a half a
crop this year.
Now. since Brother Arthur has done
gone and got married We have no
young single men left in the pulpit in
this city.
Times are so hard and people are
becoming SO saving that the rats can
no longer make a living foraging in
this city and they are swimming rOs
the river.
John L. Miller and Miss Annie
Kaechele went out to Jackson this
afternoon. Licenses are all issued at
Jackson.
1t is said that fishing down in the
ST. Francis river is good. The river
is low. the water clear and the fish
hungry. What's the matter with US
having a little sport with the game
fish?
The Albert Grocer Company seems
to have a good run of business right
along. inspite of the hard times.
The grading of Frederick street will