Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1894-12-20
ing the subscription to. stock with
which to establish and operate a

which to establish and operate q
long-distance telephone from Mera,
phis to New Madrid, a distance d
l70 miles. Pemiscot county has
stepped to the front and subscribed
sufficient stock to the enterprise to
complete it to the Missouri and
Arkansas line. There are SOM
Arkansas gentlemen, from Helena
and elsewhere, ready to aid, and il
is expected that Memphis capital.
lists will assist in the movement,
The gentlemen engineering the
movement expect to have it com.
pleted and ready for operation BY
Jan. ID. There will be a station
every six miles.
Major Brooks, engineer of tha
Pemiscot railroad, was in town
Wednesday,, He said work was
progressing rapidly on the road and
that it would be completed to Hayti
by the 18th inst. This will leave
about seven miles to finish in ten
days to get here by Christmas.
All the levee is now under con.
tract and work commenced except
a few unfinished gaps. We have
not learned the particulars of the
letting of the last .levee contract
but have heard that the bid that
got the work was $40 cents pei.
yard.
Dunklin Democrat; What now
appears to have been a cold-blooded,
deliberate and premeditated mur-
der was committed two and hal.
miles southeast of CIarkton, in New
Madrid county, Dec. 10. The mur.
dered man was named S. Ed Cavitt
His murderer was Henry Shelton.
Both were comparative strangers,
having lately come here from Elm
Tree, Weakly county, Tenn. Cav
lit, the murdered man, was married
and the woman appears to have
been at the bottom of the trouble
They were splitting board timber,
and while Cavitt was holding the
wedge Shelton hit him on top OF
the head with a heavy maui, frac-
turing the skull and causing death
in few hours. The two men had
frequently had trouble over the
woman, it appeared, and only two
weeks ago Shelton swore out q
peace warrant against Cavltt.
Greenville Sun: Sol D. Whitener
died at his residence on Castor last
week. His remains were inferred
in the cemetery near Patterson.
, Sol Whitener was one of the best
experimental farmers in Wayne
county. He was the first to intro
duce the. steam thresher; also the
first to dehorn cattle. He was wide
awake and never missed an oppor.
tunity to benefit and prosper his
neighbor as we'll as himself.
Current Local: Tom Allen OF
Marble Hill came over to Van Bu-
rem last Tuesday and bought the
! Local Office and will be here in the
near future to take charge.
Cape Girardeau Democrat: James
McKenna is making an effort to
have the wreck of the steamer AL.
bert Willis removed from the river
in front of this city.
We find that a number of the
farmers residing near this city are
in favor of a county stock law. The
proposition was voted down two
years ago and it would be voted
down again,
The Daughters of the Conteder.
acy are working hard to make a
grand success of their ball on The
9th of this month.
Frank E., Burroughs killed large
red fox on his farm near this city
last week.
Joseph Meyers declines to serve
as one of the directors of the fair
association. He says he served FIVE
years and now wants a rest.
The Water Works and Electric
Light company is distributing poles
over thecity for the electric light
wires. They expect to light the
city np by Jan. |.
The. fair association will adver-
tise the Fourth of July races in
time to let everybody know what
the attractions will be.
The river is so low that naviga-
ton is very Uncertain. A boat may
get through all right, but the chances
are that she will hang up on a sand