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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

For nice fresh cool lnncheons
or a hot meal, go to the right
place, Caldwell & Son.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

We can prove to yon III Il
minutes that Monarch Mixed
Paint is the best and most eco
uomical to use.
RANEY & SAUNDERS.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Hon. w. O. l.. Jewett, of
Shelbina, spent Sunday in the
city with friends,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

For the best root palnt-guar-
anteed not to peel, crack or
blister-go to W. N. Maddox
implement Emporium.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

r. A. Ogle. of st. Louis,
spent Saturday and Sunday in
the city with friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Only seventy, five cents to
PANT your buggy-look as
good as new with Senours Car
rage Paints. Take no other.
For sale by
RANEY q SAUNDERS.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

The be~' ouggy Paint 20 to
lSANEY & SAUNDERS.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Try Jos. Haas Stock and Poul
try Food. For sale by
w. b. EGAN.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15
Washing Day Made Easy.

BY using Mapla City Self
Washing Soap. Try it once
and you will use no other. All
good grocers sell it,
For the latest styles in shapes
and trimmings for hats and bon
nets go to Tudie Swinkey who
has the only Chicago trimmer
in the city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Buy your School Books of
Raney q Saunders.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

1t is said that the Burlington
railroad company will soon
build an air line road from
Monroe City to Bear Creek,
and at the latter place connect
with the Palmyra Hannibal
branch to the latter place.
The survey was made sometime
ago. The proposed road will
make the distance to Hannibal
seven or eight miles shorter
and do away with several heavy
grades. -Shelbina Democrat
The Democrat commits an error.
The road will connect with
itself and not a branch. If the
proposed connection is made the
Fl. & st. 10. and the M. K. & IT..
r. r. will run almost parallel
from this point east for dis
lance of twenty two miles. AS
it now is Palmyra is a way
station and if the proposed
change is made it will be a
WIN Ter tau'r Oh tho bra IN.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Frank Dimmitt, of Shelbina,
was the guest of kinsfolk in
this city Sunday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Thomas Moore ,and wife, of
Shelbyville, KY, are visiting
relatives here.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Prot. and Claude Nichols
were after birds Saturday and
bagged a nice lot of them.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Get your dinner and lunch
cons at Ga dwell & Son to-day
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Miss Mamie Lane, Of Hanul.
bal. has been the guest of Mon
roe friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Miss Anna Rouse returned
hame Thursday from visit at
Mokane.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

1t has been settled that the
constitution does not follow the
flag Courier Post
(Republican)
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15
Twain On English Family Hotels

Mark Twain was his own
droll self again in describing
just before sailing for home that
British institution an English
family hotel. He declared:
IAN English private hotel was
once the best in the world. 1t
is still the quietests, but it's
other merits are in decay. tits
lingering along upon it's. bygoue
honorable reputation Many
elderly English people still
cling to it from inherited ha bit
and arrested development.
Rich Americans frequent it
through ignorance and super.
stition. They find in it's
austere solemnity and Sabbath
repose delicate charm which
makes up for high charges and
medieval inconveniences."
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Come in and pay us what you
owe.
SHARP e. DONLEY.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

H. G. Scheetz, of Palmyra,
was looking after his realestate
interests here Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Chamberlain's stomach and Liver Tablets
cure biliousness, constipation and headache.
They are easy to take and pleasant III effect
For sale by B. o. Wood
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Prof. Lightbody, of Hume
we'll, was a business visitor in
the city Saturday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

If you do net have a library
ticket you should get one with.
out delay. You get great
value for your money.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

The largest 5 cts. Tablet at
RANEY & SAUNDLRS
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15
NJ. X. 81 Il. Time Table.

TRAINS SOUTH.
l5-Passenger ......................1l:O 3 q m
S--Passenger. ............... 49,, 1907 p m
t5l--Local Freight ..... ......,..9 :45 a m
:, 81 Daily Except SUNDAY,
TRAINS NORTH.
No. 16--Passenger. ................. 1855 a m
2--Pa engel. 2:48 p m
t52-Lo eslFreight .......:.:...... $40 p m
50 tDaily 5cept Sunday. Others Daily.
JAS. BARKER, G. P. & T. A.
st. Louis. Mo.
E. B. SPAHR, Agen
The following Wabash trains over the Katy
stops here for passengers No. 6 4:45 p. m. 70
Kansas City. No. s, 1852 p. m, to Chicago.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-11-15

Public library oPen this af-
ternoou.
Are you in favor Of having a
lecture course in Monroe City
this winter?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
Particulars of the Strange
Tragedy in Atchison County.
The Insane Wife of Charles
Meeder Planned Her Crime.
FOUND SLEEPING CHILD
Took Little One From Between
Two Women.
Threw 1t Into Cistern and Fol-
lowed It.

Atchison, Oct. IA most deplorable
tragedy occurred near Pennington
Tuesday night, resulting in the drowning
of Mrs Charles AIeeder and her 3-year-
old daughter. 1t is undoubtedly a case
of suicide while mentally deranged.
Mrs. Meeder was the wife of the Rev.
Meeder, pastor of the Emanuel Evan
Sel1caI church three miles east of Far
mington. Rev. Meeder lives near the
church Mrs. Meeder had not been in
good health, and her husband took her
out riding a good deal. Tuesday they
A1seder seemed rational. The family re-
tired about O'Clock The child was ta-
ken in charge by Mrs. Meeder's sister
and another woman who was staying
at the house, and the three went to bed
up stairs, while Rev. and Mrs. Meeder
occupied a room on the first floor
About midnight Rev Meeder awoke,
and his wife was gone. He stepped out
side and noticed that the lid over the
cistern had ben removed. Looking down
into the ciStern he saw his child floating
around on the water, being held in suS-
pension by its clothing. Obtaining
ladder he pulled the lifeless body out.
John Meyer, a neighbOr was sent for,
and he. with several others brought up
the body Of Mrs. Meeder. Mrs Meeder
had gone up stairs and taken the sleep
ing child from between the two women
so gently that neither awoke. and had
either thrown it into the cistern and
then jumped in herself, or had jumped
in with it in her arms. There was eight
feet of water in the cistern.
John Meyer and George Nolk came to
town early this morning to summon Cor
Oner Ferguson. Mrs. Meeder was So
years of age. Rev. AIeeder has been
preaching in the Emanuel Evangelical
church near Pennington about two
years. His church belongs to the Evan
gelical association which holds meetings
at Forest park every summer. DR.. Fer
guson did not consider an inquest nee
essary, and returned to Atchison at 2
o'clock this afternoon. He believes Mrs.
AIeeder was insane
The cistern was the double kind, the
water going into the outer portion and
filtering through a round wall in the
center. The child was found in the
outer portion and Mrs AIeeder in the
inner portion. The drowning could not
have been accidental, as it was rather
tight squeeze for Mrs. Meeder to get
down through the trap door. Mrs
Meeder probably dropped the child down
on one side of the wall into the IN
filtered part of the cistern, and after
ward let herself down into the middle,
or filtered part She had been show
ing signs of insanity for some time, and
Rev. Meeder hid his revolver, fearing
she would use it. She seemed to know
that her mind was failing, and feared
that she would be sent to an asylum,
or sent away" as she put it.
She left five children, the oldest a
girl of u and the youngest a baby born
last March. The Emanuel Evangelical
church is in a German settlement from
which it has its main support. The re-
mains Of mother and child will be buried
in the church yard.
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WALKED ELECTRIC WIRES.
J. T. Cushman Consequently Fell and
Was Nearly Killed.

Galena, Oct. III. T. Cushman, a
young man who has been in Joplin at
tending to the large mining interests of
his brother during the latter's temporary
absence, jumped from the second story
window of the Clarketon hotel at 5
o'clock Tuesday morning while in a de-
lirfous condition and was later found
temporarily insane by Officer Tom Golfer,
two blocks away.
At 2 o'clock in the morning, some
guests of an upper floor heard voices
below them. They looked out and there.
below them, was Mr. Cushman trying
to balance himself in a. maze of electric
light wires. into which he had jumped
from the second story window. He was
clad only in his undergarments, and in
the raw, cold air of the morning present
ed a pitiable spectacle. He kept up an
incessant nurmuring while c1inging to
the wires and once called out to the two
watching above that he had crawled
out there SO they could shoot him.
He also implored for some one to shoot
him if he should jump,
In a short space of time Cushman
threaded his way a few yards down the
alley and jumped. Mr.. Cushman is an
apparently bright and intelligent young
man. He resides at Waterloo, Iowa
He has ben sick for a week and became
delirious yesterday morning.
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BASEBALL DATA.
Story of the National Game Since Or
ganization OF Big League.

With the closing games this week the
National league will wind up its twenty
fifth season. In that time the membe
ship of the league has seen many changes,
and but two of the teams that played
quarter of a. century ago are now among
the contendiney clubs for the national PEN
nant. Until 1892. with the exception OF
two seasons the league was composed OF
eight clubs. From that year until the
present season there were L clubs in the
race. Chicago and Boston stand out as
the two clubs that have been with the
league from the beginning.
In the Is years of its existence Boston
has eight times landed the pennant. the
next best record being to the credit of
Chicago. The team representing the
Windy City has taken the bunting an
even half dozen times To the Chicago
team, too, belongs the credit Of having
made the highest percentage of any team
in the league Her record of 1913. made by
the team in $780, is the banner percentage
of league pennant winners. This year the
clubs were more closely matched. and
Brooklyn. with percentage of less than
500, has the lowest percentage of any club
that has stood at the head of the Ma
tional league
The following table shows the champion
teams since 1876, the number Of clubs in
the circuit, the total number of games
played each year ahd the percentage of
Brooklyn team viii land the pennant for
this year and their percentage is given
in this table. based on their play in SIS
NATIONAL LEAGUE REMNANT WIN
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WESTERN BANKS.
Reports to the Comptroller of the Cur
rencY Made on September 5.


Washington. Oct 1.-THE abstract of
the condition of the national banks Of
Iowa, exclusive OF Des MOines. a the
close of business on September 3, as re-
ported to the comptroller of the cur
rency, shows the aVera &c reserve of 3d. IS
per cent, against 31.1S per cent on June
90 loans and discounts increased from
creased from $1,64S.SS1 TO S1.152. 926, total
specie increased from s.. 720. 25S to So
S45.54S; individual deposits increased
from 1925, 493 10 S46 426, 4S7.
The national banks of Texas, exclusive
of Houston, show the average reserve
TO have been 25-17 per cent. against p. SO
per cent on June %; loans and discounts
increased from $40. AS. SS4 to $50, 951. 379; ;
gold coin decreased from $1.S75, 979 to
81. $50. 1853; total specie decreased from
S3,S61, 627 to S3,335.301; lawful money re-
serve decreased from $5,701,47S to So
194,4z0; individual deposits increased
from $44, 661. 2T2 10 SIS, 49,. 917
The national banks OF Kentucky, ex-
elusive of Louisville. show the average
reserve TO have been 30.7S per cent against
80 81 per cent on June %: loans and dis
counts increased from $19 $40, AIS to $19,-
91S. 43S;; gold coin decreased from $685.
452 to SSS7. 495; total specie decreased
from S1.240,000 to 81, 222,2 pa; lawful money
reserve decreased from S1.7S3,S7 to ST.
700 SCI; individual deposits increased
from s1S,221.TS9 to SIS, $40. 220.
The national banks of Mississippi show
the average reserve held to have been
2S.20 per cent, against 29-9S per cent on
June %; loans and discounts increased
from 81, S69. POP to 5000 352: gold coin
specie decreased from $244. 965 to 1922, S19;
lawful money reserve increased from
S406,4T5 to 1927 .994: Individual deposits
decreased from 81, OBS, O6S to Sc, SIS, 626
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NEED A COURT ROOM.
Sessions of Circuit Court May Go to
LeaVenWorth.

Unless the citizens of Topeka furnish
q place for the circuit court to meet
the next meeting. which is to be held
the fourth Monday in November. will
be held in Leavenworth. The court will
meet here If a suitable room is provided;
If not. the court must meet where it
can be accommodated
It is impossible to hold court in the
federal building on account of the torn
up condition due 10 the building of the
addition Both court rooms are ex-
posed on the north side. and it would
be impossible TO heat them.
The appellate court room in the Shaw
nee county court house was used for
part Of the session last summer and
later the senate chamber was obtained
II some such arrangement could be made
now and d suitable room offered to the
court it IS likely that the fall term
would be held in this city IF nothing
is done the court win in all probability
be held in LeavenWOrth.
The docket indicates that the term
will last about three weeks There will
be thirty jurors, a large number of wit
nesses and the attorneys in attendance
The business will all be in the circuit
court, as there are no criminal cases for
the district court to try.
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health and strength. When I commenced
to use the medicines I weighed only II2
pounds, now 1 weigh 40 My husband
and friends all thought that I would die,
but today am well woman
Mrs. Barhan's experience is not singu-
lar Thousands have given similarly
strong and convincing testimony. There
are no other medicines in the world that
have such long and continuous record
of cures.
There are no other medicines "just as
good - or just the same " as Doctor
Pierce's. Like all valuable things these
medicines are sometimes initiated. Don't
be imposed upon. See that You get what
you ask for.
If you have any doubt as to the nature
of your ailnent write fully, giving your
symptoms, to DR.. R. V. Pierce, chief con-
sulting physician, Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N Y. He
will consider your case carefully, and
will tell you, absolutely free of charge,
what to do to get we'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
BARN sToRmERs QUIT.
Kansas City Ball Players Tour Not
Success

Coffeyville, Oct 1.-THE baseball ag-
gregation posing as the Kansas City
Blues is soon to be no more. Dissat-
isfaction among the players and some
individual knockers are given as the
reasons
At the start of the trip which is so
soon to end three of the players sold out
their interest in the trip TO the managers,
Gear and DUNCAN, for a sum which
they thought better than their share of
the gate receipts
It seems they reasoned well, for the
trip has not been a paying one as
whole, and the dissatisfaction is caused
by the other players havfng to carry
these three men at a loss. The sched-
uled trip was to have extended for two
weeks more through Kansas and Mis-
souri,, but only three more games will
be played-Chanute, lola and Pleasan-
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
CON S U MP ITO

begins and leaves off in thous-
ands of people, who never sus-
pect it. 1t isn't much more
than a pimple-indeed it is a
a pimple-lung Pimple.
Health, all round it, stops
it-just as a skin pimple gets
stopped
How to get that health all
round it: take SCOTS emulsion
of cod-liver oil and be careful.
Wen send you little to Try if you Ike.
SCOTT 8 BOVINE, go Pearl street. Nsv Vszk.
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Ruhlin Saves Money.

Akron, O., Oct 11-Gus Rubin, the
pugilist, is entertaining his aged mother,
his youn gest brother and two sisters at
Washington His mother and brother
returned Saturday from a visit to her
old home in Switzerland. It was money
earned by Gus in the prize ring that
sent them there, and paid all the ex-
penses. This is the result of his saving
trait that has so stirred up the knock
ers in the east. Every few weeks he
adds to his bank account in this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
Missionary Omnera

Winfield. Kas., Oct. 1.-THE Woman's
Home Missionary society Of this district
held its sixth annual meeting here yes
terday with a good attendance Officers
for the ensuing year were elected as fol-
lows. President. Mrs. Alice Borren, Ar
kansas City. secretary, Mrs. S. J. Neer
Winfield; treasurer, Miss Margaret
Nineland, Wellington
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
A Me- Cnnnterfait

Washington. Oct 1.-THE treasury de-
partment today gave notice of the dis
covery OF a new counterfeit SO silver
certificate. series of 1891. with portrait
OF Hendricks. The counterfeit is de-
scribed as a Photographic print without
the silk border and of inferior work
rnanShiD.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
Yesterdays Football Scores.

At iladelphia-University of Penn
sylvania, "a; Dickinson college, 0.
At Princeton-Princeton. 26; Pennsyl-
vania State college, 0.
At New Haven-Yale, so; Bates col
lege. o.
At Champaign, uI.-University of Iln-
nois. 6; College of Physicians and Sur
geons, Chicago, O.
At Cambridge, Mass-Harvard, 1s;
Amherst, 0.
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LEAGUE PENNANT WIN
NERS

Since the birth of the National Leagu
no less than d cities have been repre-
scented in its circuit. All the cities in the
old league circuit, with the exception of
6,nlliadeIpnta- cleveland, Cincinnati and
lyn was Che only club to win the cham
pion It's first season in the league. Mil
Waukee in 1873. Syracuse in 1873. Phifadel-
phia in 1888. St. Louis in 1855. Washington
in 1886. indianapolis in 1887 and Baltimore
in 1891 were all tail-enders in their first
season
The leading batsman each year and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
Smith Cnminr Weat.

General Charles Emory Smith has left
Washington for Lincoln. Neb., where he
Will speak on the 18th, beginning a cam
paign tour that will cover Nebraska
and Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
RURAL DELIVERY IN BUTLER
d. J. Ormsby Establishes Route Out
of Ell Dorado.

Ell Dorado, Oct. 11.-H J. Ornsby,
special agent of the postoffice depart
ment. went over the rural delivery
route south of town, found one hundred
patrons along the line and will recon-
mend the route, which means that it
will be established November l.
Sherman Avery will be carrier and
will receive $500 per year salary Car
riers are travelling postofffces as they
have to sell stamps, cards and envelopes,
issues money orders and deliver regis
tered letters. They have to stamp all
track of every piece of mail they take
out of the postoffice and all they bring
in, report the same TO the postmaster
and he reports TO the postoffice depart
ment the first of each month.
Carriers may also carry passen gers or
% ckages. express and other articles, for
patrons along the line, at their wiz The
south route will be known as Rural De-
livery Route No. l. FL Dorado, Kansas
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

PHILADELPHIA, 5: BOSTON, 2
Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 11--PhiladeIphia
defeated Boston yesterday afternoon by
timely hitting. The weather was cold and
disagreeabIe. Attendance, 1880
Score by innings:
Boston ......................0 0 0 O2OO %
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ourselves as a nation and TO remember
to keep what we have got and TO re-
member the further fact that prophecy
is only to be valued according TO it's full
fllment / have too much confidence
in the hard common sense Of our people
to believe that they viii commit The folly
of going back into the slough Of desponA
out Of which we have lifted ourselves
By so much painful effort; but II you do
commit that folly you must not advance
the argument that you did not know u
was loaded"
The best method OF cleansing the liver is
the use OF the famous little pills known as
DeVVftts Little Early Risers. Easy 70
take. Never grippe. At all drug stores.
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Pensions for Kansans.

washington, Oct 1.-Pensions have
zen granted as follows:
Additional-William Pitman, Kansas
City, SO; Samuel H. Grimes, Fall River,
s12: Michael Carroll. National Military
ZONE, Leavenworth. SO.
Supplemental-Frank 3. Noble, Stan
", Sc; Hugh r. Taylor, Sedan. Sc.
Restoration and Additional-Albert J.
Adams. CedarVale, IS.
Increase-Nat haniel T. Allison, Column
lus, SIG: William II. Brown. South
faven. So; David F. Davis, Sedan. Sl4-
Original Widows, ets.-Esther B. Stew
TT, Towanda, IS; Louisa Blanton.
ouncil Grove. IS; minors of Addison N.
albert. Topeka, SIS; special account.
eptember 26, Margaret Berry, Jewell. IS
haughnessy. Garrett, s14: George ".
freeman. North Topeka, IS; Frank ?.
II els, Larned, S6.
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feeling all over.
70 had fe N ale
ness. I was all
down, and could
t do any work
thout suffering
N uervo US at
ks, SO I wrote to
1. You advised
me to use DR..
Pierce's Cold
en- NJ c dica1
Discovery and
/ Favorite Pre-
\ scription.' i
Il used five bot
ties of each.
I game in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
II was suffering
with what the doc
tor called chronic in
digestion, torpid liver
and vertigo" says Mrs. Martha E. Bar

and vertigo says Mrs. Martha E. Bar
ham, of MELVILLE, Prince George Co., Va.
Ny symptoms were giddiness in the head,