Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-10-18

LaBelle, Missouri, is one of the pret
tiest, busiest, richest and best towns
of its size in Missouri. 1t is located
on the o. X. railroad, in Lewis Coun-
ty, and is thirty-six miles west OF
Quincy. Its citizens and business
men are full of enterprise, and are as
pleasant people as one would care to
meet. 1t would be Il pleasure for us
to tell our readers about these people
and about what they are doing in a
business way, but it will be impossi-
BILE to do so in this article.
The Journal had heard much talk,
lately, of some remarkable work done
by DIR. A. M. Thompson, a well-known
physician of LaBelle, in the way of
curing men of the liquor habit. In
order to learn whether there was any
truth in all this talk, the Journal
sent an employee over to La Belle
yesterday for the purpose of finding
out whether the Drunk Cure" was Il
genuine thing or fake. The results
of this investigation are surprising.
AS the reporter entered car at the
o. X. depot in Quincy yesterday
morning he saw a well-built, intelli-
gent farmer helping very drunk man
into seat. The reporter thought
that the men were Missouri farm
hands who had been in Quincy for a
little fun, but after the train had
started and the poor drunken fellow
was being held in his seat by his
friend, he asked where the fellow be-
longed. The drunken man proved to
be M. Downey, of Bowen, Hancock
county, Illinois, and his friend was j..
c. Ely, of the same place. Mr.. Ely
was taking Downey to DR.. Thompson,
at La Belle, to be cured of drunken
ness. Being interested, we made our
business known to Mr.. Ely and learned
that he ely and Downey had been
running thrashing machine near
Bowen, but that both men had drank
more whisky than water and were,
in fact, habitual drunkards, until
about week ago, when Mr.. Ely was
cured of the habit by DR.. Thompson.
He felt so good over it that he went
right back after his friend and part
ner, Mr.. Downey.
Arriving at La Belle, the JOURNAL.
man went up one side of the principal
business street and down the other
and made inquiries of almost every
business house in the city as to the
merits OF DR., Thompson's Cure for
Drunkenness. From beginning to
end it was the same story-that DIR.
Thompson had effectually cured some
of the hardest whisky drinkers that
there were in the state; that these men
although some of them had hardly
been sober IN many years, did not
now drink a drop of liquor of any
kind and are now as good citizens as
there are in the county. Of all the
business men interviewed not one was
found who did not say that DIR.
Thompson's success had been re,uark-
able.
Although DR.. Thompson has been
experimenting with liquor cures for
fifteen years it was only about year
ago that he discovered his sure and
quick cure. One of his first success
full cases was that of William Dill, he
is called,) Morton, a brakeman on the
o. x. railroad, who lost his situation
through drink, but who has now been
reinstated in his old position. Mr..
Morton is known in Quincy as well as
in La Belle. The business men of
La Belle say that he used to be holy
terror" but he is now a perfect gem
tleman.
Perhaps the most remarkable cure
of all is that of DR.. D. c. Rees, an old
and we'll known physician of La Belle
The reporter met DR.. Rees yesterday
and was surprised to learn that he had
been confirmed drunkard for more
than twenty-five years. He told the
reporter that he had drank liquor for
more than forty years until he took