The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

Us SOcuo StOTt Gb NeN
Hamburg in Scott county.
Frank Unnerstall was awarded the
contract for hauling the gravel fol
Spanish street.
The city is having a sewer put in al
the crossing OF Frederick and Good
Hope streets. The crawling on Fred.
erick street is completed excepting a
wagon load or two that will 90 over
the ever.
I'd. Juden went up 10 Egypt Mills
Saturday night to hear Joe Russell OF
Charleston. and Maj. Dennis OF this
city speak. he informs us that there
were 0 Republicansthar Democrats
out to hear the speaking.
The county court will meet next
Monday. After one days session the
court will adjourn till after the
election.
Bob Taylor. for many years first
clerk on the steamer Idlewiid. is now
a commission merchant in st. Louis
and Capt. Burton of the Idlewild tells
Us that Mr.. Taylor is doing a biz
business.
The DEMOCRAT never publishes any
thing rby request of the friends Of Il
man it has injured. If we make a
charge against a man and later find
that cur charge was false we are glad
20 make amends without having to
consult the mans friends.
Alex Sherwood arrived in the city
Sunday from Jefferson City. Mr..
Sherwood claims Cape Girardeau
county as his home and he always
comes home to vote. Alex is a clever
gentleman and his friends in this
county are always proud to meet him.
Richard Carroll was awarded the
contract by the Board of Education to
furnish four hundred chairs for the
new addition to the public school
building.
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. 4. !. Brown.
October Both, 1894, a girl baby.
The city council will meet in regular
session next Monday morning.
J.. H. Held. of Sikeston. came up
Monday on business. Mr.. Held is in
the machinery business at Sikeston.
Judge Green writes from St. Louis
that the Buckalew case was continued.
It had just as well peer dismissed for
all there is in il.
The new additionto hepublic school
building will be made COMFORTABLY with
one OF Capt. Gray's patent hot air
heaters.
The saloons were all closed last
sunday and old Leatherbead attended
prayer meeting.
These are awful dark nights and the
streets are almost deserted because of
the darkness. VIII We never again
have electric lights:
Peter Maui is keeping books for G.
n. Wilson during the absence of Char
ley Mcdonald, who is on the jury in
the L. y. court in St. Louis.
There must be big money in the
secondhand goods business. There
will be an old dilapidated newspaper
man looking for a job here after the
election and he would make a very
appropriate and becoming sign for a
secondhand store.
We are grinding them off-the cleo
ton tickets and next Tuesday they will
he deposited in the ballot boxes at the
ate of four for the Republicans to one
for the Democrats.
The sunken steamer Albert ). Willis
still lies undisturbed at the bottom of
the river in front of this city, and
steamboat pilots say that ii the hull
i allowed to remain there much longer
il will never be removed.
Our ferry boat is doing a big bust
ness. Movers are crossing the river
every day. They ar coming from H.
linois, Indiana and Kentucky to seek
homes in old Missouri-the best State
for home seekers west of the Missis-
sippi River.
Const Dohorn. of Scott county, in
forms us that some of the Democratic
candidates down there are going to
have IA close call this year at the cleo
lion. The people. he says. are tired of
being ruled by the Democrats.
This cold wave reminds us that over
coats are about to becomefashionable.
but the poor farmer who gets only
forty cents for his wheat will have to
content himself with a horse blanket.
\ colored voter who heard JAS. II.
Waddell speak at the court house
said: ''Fo God dat man started ont
wild a lie in his mouf and de end of dat
lie was nebe: tocht."
Anton Lindemann returned home the
other day from Stoddard county where
he had been on a visit. He brought
home with him some specimens of
otoddard county corn that no county