Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-08-23


of home talent would have narrow
ed to personalities, outside parties
would not have been suspected.
The farmers around Queen City
have been threshing their timothy,
and up to date have pocketed
$40, 900 from that source. Grang-
ers in that part of the country
would hardly consider it a re-
proach to be called "hay-seeds."
Che Canton pickle factory re-
ceived in one day lately 2O07
bu ushels OF cucumbers, and yet the
vines had not then gotten squarely
down to business. There certainly
need not be much love sickness
among the girls or blues among
the farmers about Canton.
The telephones ofSullivan coun-
ty have been incorporated under
the name of the Sullivan County
Telephone Company. Private in
struments on the line will cost $40
per year. All railroad stations in
the county are connected except
Pollock and Boynton.
Trenton is talking of a new rail
road to st. Joseph, and if it is
monarch of all it surveys, the line
will certainly be built, for it would
require an exceedingly assiduous
reader to keep track of all the sur
veying going on in that part of
the country Just now.
Schuyler county has an individ-
ual who might easily get aposi-
ton with some "greatest show on
earth" as the Man of Truth. In
the simplicity of true grandeur,
this party rises above his fellows
by admitting that he would rather
spend his dimes at circus than
for any other purpose.
The Transcript would evidently
be pleased to see Queen City favor
ed with another visit from Kinks
vile dramatic talent, as it pro-
nounces "Uncle Josh" a success,
and while according two or three
special mention, declares ''all ac
quilted themselves with a degree
of perfection highly commenda-
ble."
Two men from Athens county,
Ohio, sold at auction in Memphis
one day last week, a lot of cattle.
The price ranged from S2S 60 per
head for three yearold steers down
to $3.50 for Indifferent yearlings.
More farmers from drouth strick-
en- districts might take a similar
advantage of Missouri's great
crops.
Memphis has not yet undertaken
Chicago's annexation fad, but sets
its reputation for divorce cases up
in relative proportion with that of
the Windy City by having no fewer
than ten ON the docket for the
August term of court. Our Scot
land county neighbors should OBJ
serve the seventh commandment
more or read Tolstoi and others of
mis- ilk less.
Here is something from valued
contemporary in neighboring
town: ''Camp meeting is not a
good place so 90 to misbehave.'
The editor may possibly have in
tended to say camp meeting is not
a good place to go to misbehave,
but the ministers should give him
the benefit of the doubt at any
rate, and call upon him in the in
terest of his spiritual welfare.
A minister of the Christian
church who happens to be free
silver Republican lately addressed
a political gathering at La Plata,
with the result that both papers
misrepresented him and have since
been industriously misrepresent-
ing each other 1t may yet be
necessary for the reverend gentle
man to deliver few sermons in
LaPlata to restore harmony.
Scotland county has been turn
ing out its Democratic official late
ly in high handed manner, leav-
ing only the treasurer and the col
lector in their customary places.
1t is only a short lived reform,
however, and is in effect merely
! till the improvements about the