The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-10-06
MISUNDERSTANDING
!. CITY in GENERAL.
Observation-Disclosures

Republican Club at Jackson with a
membership of one hundred and sixty
seven. Good for Jackson.
There will be some splendid attrac.
tons at the fair next week. Special
attractions every day.
Mr.. c. S. Morrison, Merchant and
postmaster at Delta, has announced
himself as a candidate for County
Treasurer. Mr.. Morrison is a first
class business mar and a gentleman
who stands high with those who know
him. See his announcement in this
paper.
Next week should be a grand holi-
day week. The new fair grounds will
be opened next Tuesday when the big
fair will begin. Citizens OF Cape Cir
ardeau should make next week a grand
holiday week and everybody should
take a pride in showing up on the fair
grounds.
Judge John G. Wear spoke to a
large audience at the court house in
Jackson Saturday night. Judge Wear
is another prominent Democrat who
has quit the Bryan party. His speech
was an able effort from al able man.
Next week will be fair week and
every citizen in Cape G~irardeau
should prepare something to help
make the fair attractive.
Postage stamps that are damaged
by sticking together in warm weather
may be returned to the department
and their value paid to purchaser or
exchanged for new stamps, or if you
spoil a stamped envelope in attempt
ing to write the address on it, do not
throw it away, for you al return it
to the post-office and receive the stamp
value. All the redeemed envelopes
and stamps are sent to the post-office
department by the postmaster redeem
ing them. and records kept. Those
regulations are not generally known
and they may be of some value to a
large number of people.
There will be room in the floral hall
a. the fair for the exhibits Of every
body. Let our people be there with
something to show.
Get your advertising matter ready
and hand it in if you want the Demo-
Graf to tell the people what you have
to sell.
The City Council met Monday night
and transacted the regular monthly
business.
P. J.. Murphy has been awarded the
contract to do a lot of street grading
at Jackson. Mr.. Murphy is an ex-
perienced man in grading work and
has had big contracts in all parts Of
the country. He did that splendid
| piece of grading for the S. NJ. & A.
railroad along our river front. The
city of Jackson will get a good job of
grading.
Mr.. Harrison of the Himmelberger
Land and Lumber Co., OF Morehouse,
is in the city looking for a house to
move his family into.
The people who left this city Mon
day to spend a few days in ST. Louis
will spend also two or three thousand
dollars that will eve return to this
city.
The merchant who fails to advertise
his business before the opening of the
big fair will wonder how it is that his
competitor. who does advertise. does
all the business.
Privilege men on the fair grounds
will reap Il harvest this year. The
people will be there and they will
have the money.
Hon. Norman A. Motley, Republi-
can candidate for Congress will make
a canvas of this county the week af-
ter the fair, beginning October II, ana
closing on the 10Th. MIR. Motley is
an interesting speaker and his anvas
of the county will make votes for the
Republican county ticket.
The Opera House management have
this year reserved every eat in the
house and in buying the cheaper
tickets you will have your seat re-
served the same as those buying
a higher priced ticket. Next week
they will place tickets on sale for the
whole week so that you "a get your
seat reserved three or four days in
advance. Prices for the week SOC and
Csc. Tickets for sale at Miss Amy
Kimmel's.
DIR. Rolston is keeping bach His
wife is visiting relatives in ST. Louis.
A gentleman has been in this city
two or three days looking for a
dwelling house in which to locate his
family. So far he has been unable
to find a desirable house. He is
willing to pay from thirty to thirty
hve dollars per month rent for a
house that will suit him.
Let US make fair week a grand holt
day week. The fair next week will be
the beginning of a new era in our
fair and we should see that the fair is
a grand success.
The river is rising and their is now
a good stage of water for steamboat
ing
There will be more people at the
fair next week than ever attended a
former fair here.
There vas a meeting Of the Nc
Kinley-Roosevelt Club 1t the court
house last night.
William Kruger has rented the
room nex door to the p~ost-office and
will move his business from the
Masonic Hall building. /,
Sam Davis, formerly an old Cape
boy. is in the city accompanied by his
wife on a short visit. Mr.. Davis is
in the railroad business at Butte,
Montana.
Scott county people who attend the
fair next week will not have 10 pay