The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

grand SUanQ ana tne FENCING OF INT
park will not be completed for severa.
weeks yet.
Our millers are paying forty-foul
cents for wheat now.
The present term of the Circuit Cour
will not last over into mex week. The
docket is a very small one
The Water Works Company is now
working a large force of hands and
the work is progressing rapidly.
Mr.. Houck says he expects to have
his Perryville road completed by the
18th OF September.
New home grown oats are selling al
thirty cents per bushel in this market.
We understand that Robert G. Ran
ney is going to move out on his farm
in the e future.
Are We to have any attractions in
the city for Fair week? If We are
seems to us that it is time for us to
begin to talk them up.
Jackson will have a big crowd of
people to feed on the first day of Sep
TENDER. The Republicans will hold
their county convention on that day.
When the +. T. f. Gun Club gets
its rooms fitted up there will be no
finer club rooms in the State.
Col. Thilenius attended the township
convention at the brick school house
in Randol township and he informs us
that it was the largest township con-
vention Randol township ever had.
Dennis Diebold. of Scott county.
has been granted a pension. p. c.
Cooter of this city worked his claim
for him.
The fool killer will come along this
way some of these days and he will
find that ne has a big job on hand
with the would-be big little politicians.
There are Il greater number of chill
dren on Themis street from Spanish
street to Main than in II M block
in the city.
Another week of dry weather and
there will be some corn fields in this
section of the country that will not be
worth going into to gather.
Richard Carroll has been granted
letters of administration upon the estate
of Charles Allen, deceased.
Miss Annie Tresenriter. of st.
Louis, is visiting relatives in this city.
Twenty-Five little boys. aged from
eight 10 ten years. were eXcusionists
down on the steamer Grey Eagle to-
day.
This throwing of melon rinds on the
streets should be stopped. 1t looks
ugly and the decaying rinds breed
disease.
Grant. the colored poet. WAS on the
muscle the other day. He hit another
colored boy on the head with Il club.
and Tor that foolish act he mad t" IN
spect the city bastile FOR about oi.e
hour.
Herman Eogeisang will complete the
Doyle house on the corner OF Themis
and Spanish streets in about two
weeks.
Ga the 18th OF this month the Opera
House Band of this city will furnish
music for IL church picnic at Kelso.
We can assure GU. friends at kelSo
that they will hear some fine music.
A railroad conductor who hears the
drummers discuss the Buckalew dam
age case against the city authorities of
this city says the drummers all say
that Buckalew will be backed with all
the money he wants by the travelling
men.
DrumneFs say they never SAW busi-
n.~, SO dull all over the country as it
nov =. They say we have no reason
to complain Of dull times here in
Southeast Missouri. for this section Is
prosperous when compared with other
sections.
BY the first of December we expect
our water works to be in operation
and in good working order. then We
cal have water whether it rains or
not.
I. Fl. Poe. superintendent OF the
county poor farm. tells us that he has
fine corn on the poor farm this year.
He planted early and the com was
made before the drouth hurt it.
|. Ben Miller is getting in an inn
mense stock of school supplies. There
will be no trouble this year for students
of our schools to get anything they
want in the way of school supplies.
Bob Morrison. father, of our dis
distinguished townsman. J. NJ. Nor
rison. visited the city this week.
Ed. Juden and j. NJ. Morrison are
having a legal tilt in the Circuit Court
at Jackson over a house and lot in
this city.
The Normal students will begin to