Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1901-05-08

Southeast Notes.
Perryyille has passed a curfew
ordinance.

ed upon by Marvin College at Fred
erlcktown 10 assist in building u
girls dOrmitory.
The five cottages Of the Insane
Asylum located at Pennington were
completed few days ago 1t may
be year before all the buildings
are completed.
The merchants of jackson have
agreed TO close their stores at I
o'clock excepting Saturdays and
are to sell no goods on Sunday ex-
cept IN case of sickness or death.
St Trau,,''s Herald: The Southern
Missouri Railway Company has
FLED twenty-five suits to cpudemH
right Of way through st. Francois
County, running north Of Farming.
ton, and crossing the M. R. & B. 7.
Railroad near EIvins.
st. Francois Herald: Thirty nine
out OF the l24 civil cases for the
May term Of court in this county
are actions for divorce. Probably
most of them will be granted. 1t
should aOt be hard to see that more
stringent laws on the divorce ques-
ton are needed,
Cash-Book: Another crowd of Cape
county citizens left last week to try their
fortunes in the West. These were all
young men from the western part of the
county. Their names are A. w. Talley.
Gale H. Miller, Ben S. Sterns, Jesse
Moll and-Hutson. They went to
Colorado.
Benton News Boy: Hon. Marsh
Arnold, aS attorney for the enter,
prise, informs us that a new drain
age system is being considered |
which would drain great sections of
Cape G;rardeau county and the
northwest corner of Scott county.
The ditch will head and drain the
basin Of White Water river west of
Delta and the swamp in Cape CIR
ardeau county, the lower bottoms
of Hubble creek, in Scott county,
and empty into Little River north
Of Birds Hill.
As joker the liquor dealers of
Abingdon, Miss, nominated Rev.
Windsor II. Whyman for constable
thinking that the proffer of such an
honor would make the mlrister
angry. Instead Of taking offence
however. he enlisted the aid of the
church people. canvaSsed the town
and rolled up the biggest majority
ever given to candidate for the
office Now Mr.. Wvman says be
will make it his business to see that
the Sunday and midnight closing
laws are strictly enforced, the sa-
loon keepers realize that they will
have to toe the mark.-f.N.
Mr.. David Rice, accompanied o.
his son IN law, John B. Cook, were
turkey hunting on Little River
south of the city, last week, and
while passing through the swamp,
noticed that the switch cane in sew. s
cral places was in bloom. This is =
something very unusual, and Mr..
Rice, who has been a resident of S
thus section for forty years, says 5
that he never witnessed the sight n
but once before. and that was in the il
spring OF 1919 or 1880, he also states n
that the cane that bIoomed that It
year all dicd.-Dunkln County d
Mail. S
Irving Bond and Miss Edna D
Adams, two we!l.to.do young peo a
pie Of SIoddard county went to \
Bloomfield to procure marriage fl
license and upon arriving there MIR. il
Bond drove his horse to watering 81
trough, got ont Of the buggy and ii
took the bits from the horse's mouth 81
so he could drink. The animal took le
fright and ran away but was stop
ped by heroic effort Of Il Mr.. Laws al
who grabbed the horse around the y,
neck and, although dragged some o.
distance, succeeded in choking him pr
down thus perhaps saving the young d, D,
Iady's life. a,
Charlottesville Democrat: 1t is NJ
said that there are counterfeit dol
lars in circulation in the state. The
hanger to the public arises from the ar
act that many Il man ordinari ycare- e,
ul IN his money matters, would be S;
ooled by them. There is no silver in
n the coin, bat it has the substan- en-
iaI appearance Of the real thlng. en-
Che exterior is undoubtedly OF ala, CT
njnum, but there is filling Of some
ning else, perhaps Lead aud tin.
Nhe feature by which the counter
cit is detected IN their weight, IA
which is too hight by Is per cent, od
nd easily distinguished on this ac. ~
cunt. The dates of the coins so W.
At detected at the banks are 1891. IA
S92 and 1894. its
Fredel icktOwn Tribune: d c "'
'arver wanted to get reputation II
$ knocker, so he picked up rock be
ISL Monday afternoon and knocked ev
ohm Hamilton, engineer of the De- g.,
ure Milling Co., on the head with i0'
. While Mr.. Hamilton had no ou
biection TO Docs getting a reputa- "a
on as Il knocker, he decidedly OBJ, Ne
'cted to his acquiring it. at his ex- RET
ense, so he sprinted home for his an
rot gun and, hut for the interposi pa
on Of his wife and nelghbor, GU
ould have knocked Knocker Doc the
ITO kingdom come with leaden to
elIets immediately or sooner. up,
Just at this point a professional Cit
nccker, City Marshal Casey, APP gre
cared Oh the scene and knocker pal
oc forthwith became runner. A Fa
W shots from the marshal's revol- pal
er brought the rnnner to halt and Sp,