The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-08

ocOGe county IofDOFB BTO ouyinB
SORT from the farmers IA the Illiuois
bottoms.
At their meeting Tuesday evesing
the stockholders of he Cape Girsr-
dsau Fair and Park Association so
amended their bylaws A. to elect only
three new members Of the Board Of
Directors each year. This leaves six
hold-over members in all the time.
The change is a good one for it leaves
a majority of the Board in who will
have bad one or two years experience.
Deputy Sheriff Hopper is out look
ing for the prisoners who escaped from
the Jackson Jail.
P. H. Knighton, of Hannibal, Mis-
souri,, adjusting agent for the Ger
man American Insurance Company
yesterday . adjusted the loss in John
Metz's saloon caused by fire
December 1st. Mr.. Metz received a
chech for two hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
1t would be a nice thing and very
appropriate too, for the stockholders
of the old disorganized Prospecting and
Mining Company to get together and
either donate the money of the Com
pany now lying idle in the bank to the
| Fair and Park Association or take the
amount out in stock in the Fair and
Park Association. The money is do
ing no good for anybody where it is
and the Fair Association would put it
to guod use.
William C. Bergmann's new store
house will be the largest business
house on Broadway.
Charley Unnerstall's new building,
corner Good Hope and Frederick
streets, will be one of the best build
ings in that part of the city.
There is no city west of the Missis-
| sippi River that has better streets than
Cape Girardeau. Strangers who come
here are surprised to find a small city
with such fine streets.
We didn't get the Cotton Belt rail-
road but We are going to get a rail.
road that crosses the Cotton Belt that
will give US more business than the
Cotton Belt would have ever given us.
The Prospecting and Mining Com
pany is going to begin boring for oil
near the Blue Hole about a mile south
of this city as soon as the machinery
can be placed on the ground.
The we'll borers at the brewery have
reached a depth of over five hundred
feet, four hundred feet o. which is in
a solid rock. There is no telling how
deep they will have to bore to get
through that rock and there is no
knowing what they will strike when
they reach the other side of that rock.
They are boring for water but should
they strike oil there will be no COM
plant.
Judge Frank E. Burroughs term of
Office as Judge of the Common Pleas
Court expires December 31st at mid.
night. After that date and hour John
A. Snider will be Judge of the court.
Our pork packers are doing a big
bushes and they are paying big pri-
ces for pork hogs, too.
Circuit Court will convene on the
first Tuesday in January, that being
the first day of the year, 1901.
DR.. Bates of Wayne county will
move his family to this city as soon as
he gets his house fixed mp.
Oar plumbers are all busy and they
are kept hustling to keep up with the
work they have OF hand.
Henry Koerber, ST.. has delivered
and planted for the fair association
the largest number OF trees. He planted
, three shade trees and eighteen cedar
trees as a donation for himself, ; fol
Henry Hopper. | for Henry. Lange,
for Richard hocrber and ! for Henry
} Koerber. Jr.
l. Ben Miller is going to give away
the handsomest doll in town to the lit
: tie girl who receives the largest
} number of votes. Go to Mr.. Miller's
drug store. see the doll and learn par
ticulars.
: L. Il. Gillian requests us to say Il
! the farmers that the Western Poultr!
and Game Company don't want to re
ceive any more turkeys until the l5tl
/ of December.
The chances are that the four mer
who escaped from the Jackson. jail las
Tuesday night will be :apturea befor,
may days.
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