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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
GREENBRIER.

Again l will try to give you ,
few items from this vicinity.
Church at Greenbrier this week
was conducted by Revs. NJ. D. Mar
grave and Grow.
James Null made his initial bow
as lawyer in Squire Lloyd's
court last week.
Miss Edith Fink of Brownwood
has been visiting Miss King Of this
place during the past week.
Prof. Chostner, our teacher, spent
Saturday and Sunday at Drum with
his brother.
A. @, King says he has twelve
acres of corn to gather yet.
Little Otto, son of Mr.. and Mrs
A. G. King, has the Group very bad
but is reported better at this writ.
ing.
James Cameron, our merchant,
is doing a good business.
James Richardson LOOK IN the
Sam Jones lecture at the Cape last
week.
Miss Virden would be pleased for
the lady or gentleman who took
her lantern to return it.
Prof. James M. Chostner has Just
closed one of the most successful
terms of school eyer taught in this
district. The ladies set fine din
ner for the school on the last day,
and 1t is needless for US to say that
everybody present enjoyed them
selves.
l will close by wishing THE
PRESS and its many readers success.
HEADLIGHT.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
Pockets and HalrpinS.

Babs last letter winds up with
this characteristic tribute to the
pockets and hairpins her sex adore
so much:
Pockets and independence are a
natural combination, and giving two
pockets to womankind, and these
two pockets near the front where
she can reach them, makes her feel
as if this were indeed free coun-
try. With the possession of pock-
cts l have discovered that woman
IS an accumuIative animal. In one
of my pockets at the present time
there are handkerchief, watch, a
calendar, o letter, two newspaper
clippings, three gumdrops, four
cloves and the picture of q baby.
In the other one are four ten cent
pieces { am keeping them to put
in ten cent bank), u lot of pennies,
bunch of keys, q glove buttoner,
a torn vail, two halrpins,a a religious
poem and arecipe for making chick
en- curry. Who can beat that? !
had safety PIN, but l lost it. How.
ever, you cannot put confidence in
a safety pin, for it has away of be-
ing safe or unsafe, according to ITS
fancy. But you can always rely on
II hairpin. ! do not know of any
thing to which q hairpin is not O
valuable assistant.
| have seen a lock opened with d
hairpin.
have seen gas burner cleaned
with u hairpln.
l have seen lace curtains pinned
together with II hairpin,
l have seen u stocking fastened
with u hairpin.
! have seen heavy portiOrcs loop
cd by hairpins.
| have seen u hairpln used as .
book.mark.
| have seen hairpln held In The
gaslight and then used 10 darker
the eyebrows.
! | have seen u hairpIn dipped IL
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
81 Boomers Brlndle Hen.

"Say, fever hear OF ole 81 Bloom
or" ejaoulated the old man as he
bit off piece of navy plug; custer
keep hens. Hens wuz jes' erboul
Sis size, cause ne wu2 the dumbest
LATEST man ! ever seed, by gum
He wus 80 dun, dun lazy thet be
ustcr kick Ut hevin' ter 20 out an
pick up the eggs.
"l'ut 81 wuz great on 6ggcrs
Git 81 sot down with his feet on q
ralllu' an he would dgger NIL dav
without stoppln' fer his meals.
"Wul, one day 81 got Ter ilggerlu
on hens. Say, pcver liggcr on hcnsi
BY gravy with an Ols stab pencil
M a piece OF brown paper We kIr
ligger Oul more money then IN forty
guild mines.
"'l'hc way Ihcl II iIggvrcd WA
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27

months term of school IN the Cros-
by district last Saturday.
The entertainment last Thursday
evening at the Ladd school was q
success.
S. J. McMinn came down last
week to settle up the old partner
ship affairs of McMinn & Slinkard.
Rev. J. g. Hembree has been
holding a weeks meeting at this
place.
A. J. McNIinn says he will be
happy when he is released from
the postoffice.
The young folks had a party at
W. R. Speer's last Saturday night.
r. James has filled his bond for
the postofice and sent it in for ap-
proval.
DR.. J. G. Cubbage came home
from Illinois last week.
Married-Sunday, Jan. 23, Roe
Vanmater Of Wayne county to Miss
Francis Beatty of this county.
John M. Roe of Sedgewickville
was in this part last week looking
after the estate of Nimrod Chrisen,
berry, deceased.
ALLEN ARooN.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
GLEN ALLEN.

Seeing nothing from this part OF
the country in your paper, [ thought
L would send you q few items.
Health is good.
Plenty of rain and mud.
David Reilly is making some val.
liable Improvements on the Harry
McManus farm.
James McGee has been improv-
ing his farm by putting up a plank
fence and recovering his barn. He
says he will sell out to anyone who
wants good little farm.
John Reilly, Jr., has moved into
his new house.
Peter Miller is clearing a large
new ground.
Mr.. Scott was in our neighbor.
hood last week buying hogs.
John Stevens is agent for the
Farmers Insurance company.
We had good sermon at the M
e. church Thursday night.
PLAIN BILL.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
UNION RIDGE.

Plenty Of rain and mud the past
few days.
Misses Belle and Ola Rogers
visited their uncle at Jackson q few
days ago.
Mrs. e. W. Barks has been right
sick for the past week.
Miss Lima Rogers is the guest of
Mrs. James Turner.
Walter F. Colo, accompanied by
his sisters, Misses Cynthia and Ida,
visited at Mrs. Eliza NewePs last
week.
Miss Matte V. Whitener, Green
vile belle, is spending the winter
with her grandfather, lsham Teot-
ers.
Grandmother Hatcher has been
on the puny list for few days.
Mrs. G. NJ. Johnson and little
Stella are recovering from the mea-
sles.
Mrs. Grad Brown still continues
in very poor health.
James NJ. Teeters was home from
Buchanan last Saturday and Sun
day.
Paul WRIGHT was up from Leo
pold Sunday to see G. NJ. Johnson's
family.
Mrs. William Kreigle and chill
dren have the measles.
James Farrar sold a fine bunch
of fat hogs to Ed Stevens and drove
them to him Friday.
g. NJ. Schoeble. who was serious
ly i'll Of the measles, we are glad to
say is mp and about again.
r. L. Teet6rs, accompanied by
Man Estes, Z pent Saturday night at
home. VI
Il. Il. Barks, one of our incest
young men, will enter Mayfeld-
Smith academy when it opens.
Willie Burcham left yesterday
for Frederlcktown, where he will
attend school.
Mrs. @. M. Johnson's sister from
Leopold visited her Sunday.
Master Marvin Yount has the
mumps.
G. NJ. Johnson visited Paul
WRIGHT near Latin Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Sample is visiting
her sister near Liberty.
MISS Dora Barks is on the sick
list at this writing.
Mrs. o. II. Schoeble and lucy
Johnson will recite for our Sunday
school next Sunday.
With best wishes for THE Pass,
TooD AND ToDD.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
HAHN.

As I have not sent you the news
from this place for some time,
thought l would drop you few
items for your appreciated paper.
Some sickness and q few deaths
in this vicinity.
Died--Jan. l6, of pneumonia few
er, Thomas Gray,
The following persons now con.
fined to their bods with pneumonia
fever are reported improving; |. ],
Murray, Marion Ford, and II little
daughter of w. M. Cobble; also the
daughter of George Roberts and
Mrs. ID. l.. Shell.
Rev, Hclton held o weeks meet
ing at Union Hill last week. There
will DO services at tho new church
on tho 9th Sunday conducted by
Rev. Fred Eaker OF Lowndes.
The Perkins creek school closed
last Saturday. Charley Ford, the
teacher, IL seli'mado young man
ofour town, and has given general
satisfaction.
Our merchant N making some
valuable improvements on hil
dwelling,
Our new church has had ono coal
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
DRUM

Health IS good in this neighbor
hood.
A. Fl. Jones is flying around be
hind the counters for Mr.. Laird
while he is thrashing out the stalks
in his last years corn field.
Charles Row has five hands al
work in his clearing.
Most ali of the boys around this
town are agents for bIueing. They
seem to be trying to blue the whole
country.
A. p. Cunningham is still buying
calves.
Will CIippard Of Greenbrier pass
cd through our town the other day
Curtis Gladish is down from
Millerville again. | think there is
something attracting his attention
here.
Malone's creek got on boom
last week.
Miller y Cartons mill runs reg
ularly every Saturday. Dee Scott
pulls the whistle for them.
Our school is a grand success un
der the care of Prof. Chostner.
My honorable friend was mis-
taken about Jlmmie's wedding.
have heard of people being married
in tree tops and on the water, but
never on horseback before. Squire
Nenninger married them in the big
road in front of his home. He
wanted them to 60 in his house
but the lady said right there she
wanted to be married, and right
there she was going to be married
so the Square married them or
horseback, while IN the middle-of
the-road. JUMBO.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27

this: 1het if one hen LAID one egg,
two thousan' hens would lay two
thousan' eggs, which at one cent
apiece would be twenty dollars a
dav.
"Wul, thet set 81 plum crazy an
he went inter the hen biz'ness.
"But somehow or other the thing
didn't pan ont ez be had fggered, so
he sot down ter fgger hit out.
"'Hits plum PLAIN ter me- said
81, 'thet some of these yere hens
don't realize their responsibility in
this yere financial transaction. |
amt goin' ter hev any star boarders
Oh this yere hen ranch, an if them
yere hens don't do their full duty
to their country they're goin' in the
pot, by gum | amt got time, said
he-thet wuz favorite expression
of his; he never did hev time fer
anything except ter fgger-" q
amt got time said he, ter watch
them yere hens ter see what hens ar
doin' their full duty an what hens
ar not!'
$50 he sot down ter fgger hit
out.
"Wul, hit took him whole plum
week ter fgger hit out, an then he
went ter work an'built a sort of con-
trapshum fer the hens ter lay in, an
IN this yere contrapshun he had a
sort of kodak attachment, so thet
when the hens went in ter lay thet
yere machin took their pictures, an
all thet 81 had ter do ter find out
what hens were laying wuz ter de.
velop them pictures.
"Wul, the fust day he got twenty.
five pictures of an ole brindle hen
thet he had.
"'Bust my gallusesn said 81, eff
thet ole brindle hen of mine amt
gone an laid twenty-five eggs in
one day.
"Wul, he sot down an went ter
tiiggerin' agin, an the way thet he
hggered HIT out wuz this way; thet
if one hen laid twenty-five eggs in
one day two thousan' hens would
lay fifty thousan' eggs, which at
one cent apiece would be five hun,
dred dollars day.
"'Now, what l want ter do said
81, is ter git two thousan' hens like
thet ole brlndle hen, an my fortune
is made!'
Wul, the next day he got forty.
five pictures of thet darncd ole brin-
die hen
"'Gosh all hemlocks!' said 81, an
he went ter tiggerln' agin; but he
had ter give hit up, cause the fig,
gers were gittln' beyon' him. An
thar wuz another thing thet 81
coulden't see, an lhet wuz how thet
ole brindle hen got time ter eat
So he jes' lald around the next day
an kept his eye on thet ole h"n
"Wul, he found ont how thet ole
hen worked hit, an hit busted his
hggers plum high.
"Ye see, thet ole hen had got on.
ter thet yere picture arrangement,
am 50 she jes' hung Ground thet yere
machine till some hen came Ground
what wanted ter lay an egg an then
she would slide ia an spring the
machine an hev her picture took,
an then she would let in the hen
what wanted ter lay an egg.
What made her do hit? Wul,
Pm dumbed if | know. But 81
kinder fggered hit out thet seein'
the: wuz nothin' but an ole hen she
wuz ies' naturally vain"
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
hAFL1N.

Perhaps your many readers
would like to know how we are
getting along down here on the edge
of the swamps.
Health is good; but one or two
cases Of sickness reported.
The continued rains have made
the roads almost impossible, and
the bolt haulers haye a bad time
getting bolts te the fact6fy. Mr..
Wann is running on full time.
DR.. Thrift has located here. He
is opening up general drugstore,
and went to the city Friday to lay
in y supply of drugs.
John Winters, our teacher, is pre-.
pairing for an entertainment at the
close of his school. A good time
is expected.
Jack Allen has employed an ex.
perienced blacksmith and wood
workman and have them at work
in his shop. He is now prepared to
do all kinds of repairing and gener'
al work on short notice.
Wal Sadler has built him a new
blacksmith shop and is now ready
to do all kinds of general black.
smithing.
George Pitman moved from town
to farm, but be has become very
much dissatisfied and will move
back as soon as he can find q vacant
) house. Latin needs u few more
houses to rent. There are three or
four families wanting to move here,
but can't get houses.
If the Mckinley boom will hurry
and reach us think Latin would
improve rapidly, but it seems rath'
er slow in reaching us. Say, how
does the boom in price Of wheat
offset the decline in the price of cot.
ton and pork? Wonder if it has
kept up an equilibrium? Wonder
if the prosperity wave has failed to
reach tho east is the reason the
mill workers are on n strike therel
What u delusion that prosperity
craze was.
viii let your readers hear from
me again. OBSERVER,
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27

able rates are provided, and no ex.
ira charge is made for meals served
IN rooms. The Mayfield sanitarium
is a model of Its kind in the west.
The general management of this in
sitltution is largely controlled by
Mrs. w. H, Mayfeld, lady of 6ne
tact and refined tastes.
One important feature Of the work,
which should always be emphasized,
Is the religious atmosphere, which
will be felt and appreciated by any
one staying only a few days in the
institution. 1t may be SAID that the
chapel and other places Of prayer
constitute the lower house of this
institution. No operation is per-
formed without prayer, and the
more serious without much prayer.
1t may be said of DR.. Mayfield that
he goes to his work in the name and
strength OF his God. 1t is only due
to DR.. A f. Baker to say that much
of the religious element is set in
motion by his presence and prayers
in the institution. Many patients,
even Christians, come here greatly de-
pressed and almost hopeless, touch
ing their faitn In CHRIST, yet after
short stay, go down to their homes
rejoicing in the new-found Savior.
Quite a number come unconverted
and without hope in Christ, and go
back to their homes rejoicing in the
same precious Savior.
DR., Mayfeld's practice is confined
to general and genealogical sur.
gerry, aud he IS the originator of an
operation for laceration of the peri
neum, which is pronounced by many
physicians who have witnessed the
operation performed to be the ideal
operation.
He is doing great amount of
capital surgery, and DR.. Piker of
Mississippi SAID of him that in this
work ''he combines the strength Of
lion with the tenderness of child
and the sympathies of a woman,"
making him one of the most sue
cessful operators in the west.
DR.. MAvGeld Is a member of the
St. Louis Medical society, American
Medical association, and honorary
member of the Southern Illinois
Medical society. He IS a charter
member of the Saturday and Sunday
association of St, LOUIS, and was
one of the origlnators of this moYe'
ment in the city.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
sCOPUs.

Plenty of rain, and consequently,
plenty Of mud.
Moses James came up from Scott
countya few days ago.
Columbus Burton closed q sue.
cessful term of school in the Cedar
branch district last Friday.
Logan SLovall, of near Jackson,
is visiting in this locality this week
Several of the boys are making
preparations to attend the March
term of Circuit court.
Rumor has it that Mr.. Stanton
will put in a stock of goods at the
factory in the near future.
The society at the Chostner
school is well attended and consid.
erable interest is taken by the
teacher and pupils of that district.
A DEMOCRAT.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
A PALATIAL RESORT FOR THE
SICK,
The Mayfield Sanitarium.

St. Louis is only second to New
York IN its efforts to care for the
sick, says the Chicago Banker, Mer-
chant and Manufacturer. A notable
example IN this connection, and one
that deserves more than Il pasSiDg
notice, is the recently founded May
field sanitarium, winch, for sNIq
and equipment has no superior Gh
the country. TO all physicians who
desire a good place to take their
patients the advantages here afford
ed are of such character as to invite
the attention of the most discrlmi-
mating members of the medical pro.
fession. The location Of this sani-
tarium, on the northeast corner Of
Tayloravenue and West Belle place,
is most enhancing, being in the
heart of the residence portion of the
west end, and of easy access from
any part Of the city. From Union
station the red Car north transfers
west on Washington avenue to Tay'
lor avenue; the suburban line also
passes the institution. The exterior
of the building presents a most I'M
posing appearance, built OF q fine
quality Of buff Roman pressed brick
on the Italian renaissance style of
architecture, and from the fine, broad
verandas and the large roof garden
magnificent view of the finest res.
idence portion of 81. Louis Is Oh
tained. The interior, with its light
and tastily furnished rooms aud
spacious halls, lighted by electricity
and gas, is fitted up with all the
latest Improvements, including non
absorbent operating rooms, asceptlc
walls, gymnasium, hot water heating,
hydraulic elevation, library, parlors
and chapel, complete telephone
system throughout, shower and
massage baths, a cpmmodlous sola'
rum, the only one III the west; IN
fact all that twelve years of sanltar-
ium experience could suggest to
make patients comfortable and hap.
py, has been put in regardless of
expence.
The staff Is composed of physi
clans who stand high IN the medi'
cal profession. The nurses are all
Christian women, who view their
calling as God.g'ven work, and not
from mercenary standpoint. They
are in love with their work. W. ii.
Maydeld,M. d., sole owner and sur.
gcon in chief, isa professional man
of rare skill and wide experience,
and Tor Il number OF years had the
Management Of the Missouri Baptist
sanilarium, which he had built up
10 u high degree al eillcieupy Thu
cost of board ut the MiybeId sani'
iarinm is from eb to sli per week.
nnpiug from $500 lus5 per week
when confined 10 the room. Ia ~
diiion 10 the abpva salies of rooms
most elegantly Furnished ,l roseon'
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
We exchange anything we have for Produce. Bring
your feathers, wool, eggs dry hides furs, sheIed
corn, and any other produce you may have
Remember the Place.
J.v. SuNKARD & SON,
Zalma, Mo.

Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Killian, a fine boy.
Frank Schinneman of Neely's
landing was in our town the other
day on business.
William Hicks, our furniture
dealer, is very bad sick at William
Kings in Madison county.
] understand that DR.. F. M
O'Kelly is going to Marquand to
practice medicine.
Four more weeks and Prof. John
Sample will close most successful
term Of school.
NJ. F. Bollinger has returned
from Cape county, where he has
been running his sawmill.
We are having some mumps and
measles in this vicinity.
Success to The PRESS aud the
democratic party. PATToNITE.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27

red stuff and used to color the lips,
while as for buttoning shoes, crimp-
ing bangs, picking nuts and cutting
books, hairpin is invaluable. We
can do without politicians, we can
do without suffragists, we can exist
without whisky and live on COM
paratlvely little money, but hair
pins are necessity to the nation.
Without them a woman feels that
she IS indeed a helpless creature.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27
The Mighty Mississippi.

IlOW mai fhhOl lOAuS APP NS
the grandeur o, their couhtry's
geography? asks George Carey Eg-
gleston, in the New York World.
How many know that there is no
river system on earth which even
distantly compares with that of the
Mississippi and its tributaries?
The census tells US that these, all
flowing through one channel into
the Gulfof Mexico, aggregate more
than 100000 miles in length. The
Amazon, the Nile, the Ganges and
all the rest of the great river sys-
TENS on earth put together scarcely
approach this magnificent showing.
Think of it! A steamboat leaving
Pittsburg can visit twenty three
states without passing through any
artificial channel. She can 60 up
the Allegheny and Monongahela,
the Big Sandy, the Kentucky, the
Wabash, the Tennessee and the
CumberIand-clear into Alabama
before reaching the mouth of the
Ohio.
Below Cairo she can traverse not
only the Mississippi hut the St.
Francois, the Arkansas, tho White,
the Red, the Yazoo, the Talla-
hatchee, the Yalobusha, the Qua
chita, the great bayous and all the
tributaries of these streams.
Above Cairo lie the upper Miss.
issippi, the Illinois, the Missouri,
the Yellowstone, the Platte, the
Big Horn and score of tributaries
to all these. The supposititious
steamboat can land at 1850 towns
and cites On her way.
These rivers drain an area of L.
683,303 square miles occupied by a
population Of "a, 4,298,332 in 1890.
The commerce Of this great river
system was carried in 1889 by T.
453 vessels, with an aggregate ton
mage of 3,393,379 and a value of
$15,535,000.
And so rich is that commerce
that its annual gross earnings
exceed the total value of the craft
engaged in it by nearly a million
dollars. 1t carries nearly eleven
million passengers and nearly
thirty-three million tons Of freight
per year.
And this is only one Of the great
river systems OF our countrY-one
of the many that include such
mighty systems as that of the
Yukon, that of the Columbia, that
of the Colorado and that of the
Alabama and Tombigbee.
And from one end to the other of
all these rivers there is no custom.
house to stop traffic or to levy one
cent Of tribute upon it!
1t is worth every Americans
while to reflect upon the greatness
of our land and to rejoice in it. 1t
is worth while to remember also
that the resources of this marvel
lous country are far less than half
developed.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1898-01-27

THE ovation that it is proposed
to give Sanford B. Dole. president
of the so-calIed Republic of Hawaii,
on his visit to this country, will be
truly Characteristic American per-
formance, but one not very credi-
table to the national character.
Dole is in no sense q hero, and his
coming to this country at any other
time would attract no attention.
The noise that will be made over
him is purely an exhibition Of the
American habit of booming an en-.
terprise. He stands for the annex
alton sentiment, and the ovation to
be given him is instigated by the
annexation boomers and intended
to affect the action of the senate on
the annexation treaty. The kind
of enthusiasm to be evoked by this
demonstration is Fictitious and
should have no manner of influence
in any quarter. Curiosity and the
noise of brass bands attracts crowds
and national gush comes cheap
Sanford B. Dole is one Of a band Of
white conspirators who overthrow
the native government of Hawaii by
fraud, and established themselves in
power. Their pretense at estab-
Fishing q republic was farce. They
are despots, and Dole is the CHIEF
of the crowd.