The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-17
MISUNDERSTANDING
s CITY In GENERAL. 8

Frank E. Burroush is confined to
his room.
The spring election will be the text
excitement in this city.
Wild grapes this season are much
like the nut crop-very scarce.
Business will soon 10
boom as the holidays grow near.
Curt Berry is going to open a mer-
chant tailoring store at Jackson.
Two courts in session at Jackson
this week gives some life TO that town.
Don't pay your election bets with
certificates of Indebtedness" Pay
cash.
Pete Carroll is still confined to his
room and he seems to be getting no
better.
The Brinkopf Bros are in the pork
business this season on an extensive
scale.
The discovery of oil in this county
would give us the long looked for
boom.
Charley Blattner has administered
on the estate of j.. G.. Stubenrauch,
deceased.
Poplar Bluff had a disastrous hotel
fire as will be seen from accounts in
another column.
Peter Maui has purchased property
in the Third Ward and he will move
into it next week.
The Powers Road Sign Co. are now
covering several States and doing an
excellent business.
Judge John A. Snider passed
through the city Saturday OF his way
home from St. Louis.
The pork market has opened but
the supply is not sufficient at present
to meet the demands.
At the January term of the Common
Pleas Court Judge John A. Snider
will occupy the bench.
That coon hunting party that went
to the woods last night failed to catch
anything except a bad cold.
Our pork packers are complaining
for the want of hogs as very few are
coming into this market at present.
The moon fulled on the evening of
N-han 9Th an1 tho ~annhl1nanS
fulled on the morning of November 4.
The funeral of J. G.. S~tubenrauch
occurred Sunday afternoon from the
family residence IN Good Hope street.
Shelby Wills died at his home in
this city this morning. He was n of
the Oldest of the colored men in the
city.
Some of our betting people won
their bets and yet they didn't win
them-at least they failed to get their
winnings.
The first snow of the season struck
this section last Sunday. 1t was a
real snow storm but it lasted but a
few minutes.
Chris. Geldmacher and Joe Schwab,
who are hunting a Arbor, have
made several nice shipments Of game
to this market.
Rudolph Balm is in St. Louis. He
went mp to help in the search for Luke
Russell, who disappeared from his
home last Saturday.
The Western Poultry and Game
Company want all the turkeys in the
country and will pay the highest
market price in cash.
Business is picking up right along.
Even Democrats admit that their bust
ness is increasing and they are glad
the election is over.
1t is the intention of the Company
to have trains on Houck's Missouri
& Arkansas railroad running into
this city by the first of January.
November 29th is Thanksgiving.
Don't all say turkey at the same time.
However, any contributions in this
line will be thankfully received.
1t is almost impossible to find an
idle laboring man nowadays. So it
has been for the past three years, and
so it will continue for the next four
years.
When the Commerce road is COM
pleted and trains running into this
city we have every reason to believe
that the Cape will take building
boom.
There has been ne news received OF
Luke Russell, who disappeared from
his home in ST. Louis last Saturday,
Notwithstanding that searching parties
are looking everywhere.
The final survey for Houck's Mis-
souri, and Arkansas railroad extern
sion into this city is being made and
the stakes set for the contractor who
will do the work of excavating.