The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-22
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: CITY In GENERAL. :

To the Honorable City Council
Pass that railroad ordinance.
There has not been a very big rush
of porkers to the market this week.
w. Fl. Vogel is doing the tin work
on the new addition of the hospital.
Herman Buck is putting up a new
bill board near the Cape City Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Joseph returned
home from st. Louis Monday evening,
Mrs. L. J.. Albert is much better to-
day than she has been for several
days.
Hogs are selling at from 81. 15 to
$50 and still there are very few CON-
ing to market.
The we'll atthe brewery is now about
30 feet deep and the drill is still
working in that solid rock.
A member of the City Council is
soon to be married and he is threat
ening to resign from the Council.
The city council met last night and
passed a resolution asking congress
to look after our bridge interests.
Where is that fellow who got out
the souvenir album? Echo answers,
''gone where the woodbine twineth."
Charity should begin at home all
the time. Some people don't recog-
nize when you do them a charita BILE
act.
We have been informed hat a sa-
loon will be opened in the corner room
of the R~iverview Hotel the first of the
year.
Judge Joseph Koehler of Jackson,
has been down AT Hot Springs for a
week or two for the benefit of his
health.
Will Juden is here to spend the
holidays with relatives. Mr.. Juden is
"a travelling man and his home is now
in Iowa.
By the opening of the new year the
Cape will be we'll supplied with news
papers. Wonder how it will be six
months hence?
Louis H. Graessle is all smiles to-
day. His wife presented him with a
Christmas gift this morning-a bounc-
ing big baby girl.
The case of the state against George
p. McLain has been reversed in the
supreme court. This means another
trial in the circuit court.
The young folks had a party at the
residence of Frank Sutton. The party
was attended by a large number of the
young elete of the city.
The Illinois Central will sell tickets
10 and from all stations on December
%, %, "A and 81, and January l and =
at one and one-third fare.
Cape Girar1eau, the Newspaper
grave yard is soon TO have another
new newspaper to join the little long
felt wants that are already here.
There were only two votes in the
council against the passage of the
railroad ordinance. The two votes
against we're from the third ward.
Deputy Sheriff Cotner was in the
city Saturday. Mr.. Cotner believes
that the prisoners who escaped from
the Jackson Jail Will be captured.
$1,000 reward for the return OF II
liver and white Pointer bitch
ing to IN name of Dainty.
c. D. BOYETON.
No bridge can be constructed over
the Mississippi River except @here She
river has IL Straight stre;ch OF at least
two miles. This knocks GraVe Point
out.
The City Council passed the railroad
ordinance at lis meeting Mondaynight,
giving Houck' Missouri & Arkansas
railroad the right OF way into the
city,
Charley Unnerstall will give a grand
opening bali in the new hall in the
Unnerstall building on Christmas
night. This is the finest dance hall in
the city.
Our wbiskey dealers and cigar mar
ufacturers will hereafter have to sub
nit to an examination by a govern
ment officer who don't Know manure
from mush.
Hon. Louis Houck addressed the
citizens of Jackson last night on the
subject OF extending Houck's Mis-
sauri & Arkansas railroad from Cape
Girardeau through Jackson and On to
Perryville.
They have about sixty cases of
small pox at New Madrid We don't
want our New Madrid friends to visit
us till they work that disease out of
their skins.
Married, in this city December 18th,
1890, by William II. Wiler, J.. p,