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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The city of Paris, Mo, is
said to collect 5000 per year
from each of its drug stores for
selling liquor That's one way
to replenish ;the city's eX,
chequer.-Brookdeld Budget -
Paris and Shelbina are shy on
legal SALOONS aud are making
reps that fathers who have boys
to raise, are making notes of.
Boys must be tall enough to
chin bar aud II years old be.
fore they can learn to drink in
bar room and if ne has not
been taught and seen the ev ills
of it by that time, salt won't
save him nor will mamas apron
strings.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Some twenty-five ladies and
gentlemen left the city last
night for Salt River. They
were out for a camping frolic
and fish if they could find
enough water to cast line in.
Wait until next week and you
will hear from it.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The average Kansau is Il
scorcher in all Of his estimates.
One year his tale of woe is corn is
worth nothing, we have to burn
it, but this year its our corn
crop would be worth fifty cents
bushel.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The heat Sunday was record
breaker in Iowa, Illinois, Indi-
ana, Kentucky, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Missouri. In Monroe
City at 2;30p. m. the mercury
climbed to the 112 notch.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

E. D. holland and son Paul,
of Shelbyville, spent Sunday
with his mother, Mrs. Mary E.
holland.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mrs. e. J. Alexander. of
Br0okfield, spent the latter
part of the week in the city
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gus Jackson.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

FL. G. Fake has secured a
good position with one of the
leading contractors of st. Louis
and is now there working at
his trade.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mrs. William Gentry. of Shell
by county, spent I'd portion of
the week in the city with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A.
Hawkins.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Frank Orr has sold,26 head
of 1000 pound cattle to a Mr..
Barrett, of Princeton, ILL.,, for
So. % per hundred.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mrs. Kruger the faithful COM
panion and wife of Dom Paul
and Mother of the Transvaal'
died in her 81 year, Saturday af-
ter three days illness with
pneumonia.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Judge n. l.. Hume has had a
neat drop canvass awning put
up in front of his carriage EN-
porium.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mesdames A. Boulware, G. E.
Purnell, j. H. McClintic aud f.
l.. Mefford spent Tuesday with
friends in Palmyra.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

John Demaree left Saturday
morning for Hannibal where he
joined his old company, Co. F.
and then left for the encamp-
ment at Nevada, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Jack Reager, one of the
prominent farmers near Emden,
was 4 business visitor in the
city Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Fold a paper up the way it
was originally folded when you
get through reading it. By so
doing you may confer a favor
on some one who may want to
read it after you are through,
and in addition to that you show
that you have an average sup
ply of good sense by so doing.
-Brooktield Gazette.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mark Hawkins took in the
Bluff City Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Miss Matte Redman, one of
the pretty Rensselaer, girls,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
her cousins, Misses Minnie and
Lilly Redman.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Alex Nelson and Thomas
Dawson left Tuesday night for
Chicago and the Pan American
Elk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Ran Sullivan was a Palmyra
visitor Monday.
f. w. Ragland and family
moved to Shelbiua Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

D. r. Ca mpbell was looking
after the j. j. Rogers wool in
terests in Palmyra Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mrs. w. r. Anderson spent
Sunday and Monday with her
sister, Mrs. H. Clay Heather, in
Palmyra.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Frank White left Sunday for
the Sucker State, where he is
now engaged in threshing
wheat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

George II. Rulings and wife
left Monday for their home at
Nebo, III. They took with them
their baby grand daughter Lena
Ely who will live with them.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

U. j. Davis and daughters
Misses Zetta and Iva, of Endeu,
were in the city on shopping
expedition Tuesday. While
here Mr.. Davis kindly remem
bered the DEMOCRAT.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Elicit Tompl1ins came in
from Denver, Colo. Tuesday
morning for a months visit with
the homefolk and friends. He
is highly pleased with his
adopted home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

G. M. Sullivan, Harry McClin.
tic and Mise sMary Landers and
Maud Ha wilkins took in the City
of Flowers Sunday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Miss Eva Powell has been
spending a week with the home
folk near Philadelphia, and
playing the milk maid and
Maud Muller.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

D. Milton Proctor has return.
ed home from Liberty where he
has spent the past year attend
ing William Jewell College.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

DR.. Dallas, of Hunnewell, was
a professional visitor in the
city Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

After an absence of two
months, r. j. Pons and daugh-
ter. Miss Mae and sou, Donald,
have returned from Jackson
vile, Fla.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Misses Matte Glassc 0ck and
Fife Baxter. two charming
young ladies, of Huntington,
spent the latter part of the
week in the city with their
friend, Miss Hattie Bond.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Edward Branch has taken his
teams to Hannibal and is now
hauling lumber from Saverton
to that place.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

w. W. Longmire, was a bust.
ness visitor at the capital of
the Little Kingdom Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Misses Gertrude Mccall and
Irene H ornback spent Saturday
with friend, in Hannibal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mrs. w. Shanklin McClintic
has returned from a three
weeks visit to her sister at
Memphis, Tenn.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Miss Tomye Ely lett Monday
for Bowling Green, Mo. where
she assisted her friend. Miss
Laura Patrick. in a musica.
Tuesday. 1t is safe to say thai
the lovers of music in the King.
dom Of Pike, who attended the
recital enjoyed Il treat way
above the average.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Y. f. Bottorff left Tuesday
for Golden, ILL.,, to attend the
funeral of his mother-in.law
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Pete Burditt was declared
we'll Monday and turned out of
quarantine. He went direct to
Quincy to go to work again.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Mrs. A. L. holland and chill
dren, of Paris, are spending the
week with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. f. Brown.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Miss Mary Carson has been
spending 4 week with her friend
Miss Susie McElroy, near Rens-
selaer.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25
EStray.

One 3 year old Shropshire
buck. r. V. SULLIVAN.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

After d pleasant visit with
the homefolk. Mrs. Thornton
Marshal, returned to her home
in the Gem City Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

H. G.. Scheetz, of Palmyra,
spent Monday in the city look.
ing after his realestate inter
eStS.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

DR.. and Mrs, Thomas Proctor
are visiting their son, DR..
and Mrs. II. C. Proctor at Stur.
geon Bay, Wis
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The hot weather, we'll, it has
long since become a serial
story.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Dick Cummings and Sam
White, of Palmyra, were bust
ness visitors in the city Tues
day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Rev. o. 3 liJiuday came up
from Palmyra TO preach the flu.
neral of Mrs. Lee Ely at De
Moss Chapel Thur iday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

In Shelbina where there are
no saloons thirsty citizens ship
in beer by the barrel and claim
that they save money by it
Brookfield Gazette.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The p. E. O's. will meet at
2:30 p. IN. Saturday with Mrs.
S. j. Nelson.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

A. G. Ely, of Hedge City, was
here Thursday to attend the flu.
neral Of Mrs, Lee E'y.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Sow COW peas, rye or some
thing else for fall feed.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

There was plague of mos,
QuItoes between Sabine and
Beaumont. Texas, last W ednes.
day They drove men from
their work and killed quite =
number of horses aud cattle
The winged pests Came from the
swamps.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The H. & ST. Joe depot boys
have had another shaking up.
Bert Thiehoff has returned from
his vacation and now has charge
of the day Keys. John Wood is
hack on the night shift and Ran
Sullivan was transferred to
Wheeling, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The Indianapolis Sentinel,
the staunchest supporter of w =.
j. Bryan in Indiana endorses
the Ohio platform in full.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

M. Hornback was transacting
business in the Bluff City Tues
day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Frank Christian and A. Ne
Finks are prospecting among
the Indians around Ell Reno.
Edward Stell and Will Finks
are running the shop.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Tuesday morning Mike Har-
tigan notified Bob Spooner of
near Hassard that his hogs
were on the Katy right af way
and must be taken out. Bob
flew into a passion and with a
heavy club split the old gentle.
mans scalp an inch and knock
ed him down, There may and
may not be a serious prosecu'
ton caused by the attack, Mr.,
Hartigan is known as quiet
congenial gentleman. Very
little is known OF Mr.. Spoouel
here.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Twenty-three thousand school
marms will light out for the
Philippines Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The name Quincy Bay ought
to be changed to Deaths Pool.
There isn't a season of the year
but what week after week with
painful regularity it claims the
life of some one.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Grumbling will not do any
good,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Great country this; the hens
are laying hard boiled eggs,
cooked fish are being ca ught
out Of the streams and John
Stephens is cutting ice.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Miss Fannie Finl1s is in Han.
nibal visiting friends. Her
sister, Miss Anna will accom-.
pany her home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Over at Paris the citizens are
hauling a muddy yellow liquid
they call water, out of the long
water holes in Salt River. We
wonder what has become of the
tax levied on the druggists to
run pump to save the hauling
of that self same liquid.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

V. Balzer. of New Canton,
H., spent Friday in the city
with his brother. Geo. He was
enroute home from the Ell Reno
scrap bag. He was not favor.
ably impressed with that neck
of the woods.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Prof. D. S. Gage representing
the Westminster College at
Fulton. was in the city Monday
in the interest of the school.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

The band concert at the park
Monday drew 4 large crowd of
people.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Miss Nellie Bristow is spend
ing the week with friends al
Coopersvllle.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

j. B. Thomas was business
visitor in Quincy Saturday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Sow COW peas, rye or some.
thing else for fall feed.
Samuel Christian was visi.
tor in Clarence Tuesday.
The p. E. O's. will meet at
2:30 p. IN. Saturday with Mrs.
S. j. Nelson.
A. G. Ely, of Hedge City, was
here Thursday to attend the flu.
neral Of Mrs, LIE" Fly.
Rev. o. 3 liJi,Iuay came up
from Palmyra TO preach the flu.
neral of Mrs. Lee Ely at De
Moss Chapel Thur 'day.
Miss Fannie Finks is in Han.
nibal visiting friends. Her
sister, Miss Anna will accom-.
pany her home.
Prof. D. S. Gage representing
the Westminster College at
Fulton. was in the city Monday
in the interest of the school.
Frank Christian and A. Ne
Finks are prospecting among
the Indians around Ell Reno.
Edward Stell and Will Finks
are running the shop.
In Shelbiua where there are
no saloons thirsty citizens ship
in beer by the barrel and claim
that they save money by it
Brookfield Gazette.
Great country this; the hen:
are laying hard boiled eggs,
cooked fish are being ca ugh
out Of the streams and JOIN
Stephens is cutting ice.
Beginning at the Marshal
mill on North river and extend
ing for a mile. the rain fel
heavy enough Tuesday after
noon to make the roads muddy
This is the time when mer
chants have reached the stee
hill and now need more horse
(advertisiug) in order to sci
their stocks of goods. This
not the time.t quit advertising
Because her refrigerator leah
ed and she had to keep a pa
under it all day, a Palmyr
woman got red.headed and too
it back to the dealer and toll
him never to sell her secon
handed things any more.
V. Balzer. of New Cantor
ILL.,, spent Friday in the cit
= with his brother. Geo. He wa
enroute home from the Ell Rep
, scrap bag. He was not favo
!, ably impressed with that nee
of the woods.
The average Kansaa is
4: scorcher in all Of his estimate
e One year his tale of woe is corn
r worth nothing, we have to bur
t it, but this year its our col
Y crop would be worth fifty cen
= a bushel.
Seven years ago Uucle loser
Mayes, who resides on Il
{ south side had a we'll bored
= feet deep and failed to fiji
y water, now he has plenty al
=. to spare to his neighbor
!. Water.now stands Is feet in Il
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Beginning at the Marshall
mill on North river and extend
ing for a mile. the rain fell
heavy enough Tuesday after,
noon to make the roads muddy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Prof. Starr, of the University
of Chicago, has made wonder
full discovery He says: Am
erican people are becoming
more like Indians. If it was
not for the emigration we would
all become Indians IN a few
years. Well, we do not censure
men who think they descended
from monkeys for thinking we
are being elevated to a level
with the Indians.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

This is the time when mer-
chants have reached the steep
hill and now need more horses
(advertisiug) in order to sell
their stocks of goods. This is
not the time to quit advertising.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Because her refrigerator leak
ed and she had to keep a pan
under it all day, a Palmyra
woman got red.headed and took
it back to the dealer and told
him never to sell her second
handed things any more.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

a general agent of Milwau-
KEGS largest brewery says:
During the last few weeks we
have been unable to get beer
into the state of Kansas fast
enough to I'LL orders. They
must use it for irrigation pur,
poses out there, as with the eX
listing prohibition laws of the
state there can be no other use
for it. Chicago Stock Journal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Samuel Christian was visi.
tor in Clarence Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Ran Sullivan was a Palmyra Grun
visitor Monday. good,
E. w. Ragland and family Mari
moved to Shelbiua Tuesday. Bluff {
.-------
| Estray. The
One 3 year old Shropshire long s
buck. r. V. SULLIVAN. story.
D. Milton Proctor has return IVA
ed home from Liberty where he nuS'ne
has spent the past year attend. Gay
ing william Jewell College. The
Mice Mary Carson bas been Monda
spending Il week with her friend appre'
Miss Susie McElroy, near Rens- Miss
selaer. ing tn
Fl G. Scheeiz. of PALMYRA. Coope
spent Monday in the city look Tive
ing after his realestate inter- marin:
ests. Philiu
G. M. Sullivan, Harry MCClin. Dicl
tic ana 'Mlsse sMary hduoers anu White
Maud Hawkins took in the City pese u
OF flo"ers SUNDAY day.
Edward Branch has taken his =,
teams to Hannibal and is now t1i
IL. It. &C., c,,o.tor dren,
.l,ae ,I, week
Mrs ,
Frank White left Sunday for
ha of WI no ic
now engaged in threshing "'S
wheat.
------ Memr
Mrs w. r. Anderson spent D..
Sunday and Monday with her 1,I
quara
; "'"' '"' .-.-------.-------- QuinC
George II. Rulings and wife .e.
left Monday for their home at A..
Nebo, III. They took with them NTa.s,
= their baby grand daughter Lena :. 49,,
, Ely who will live with them.
DR..
After an absence of two
a l'io"tns' Jus " 80 and \
e geon
+ vile, Fla. Th'
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MISS Na'l'e lSeo'i""' oAe VI j. B
# the pretty Rensselaer, girls, +be n
- spent Saturday and Sunday with
:, her cousins, Misses Minnie and In
y Tillv Redman to be
> ---------------- Their
Mrs. William Gentry. of Shell bnt "
y by county, spent I'd portion of paint
70 the week in the city with her life q
q parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A.
=. Hawkins.
D --------- have
Mrs Kruger the faithful COM Bert
,, panion and wife of Dom Paul his v
l.. and mother OF the Iransvaal' of tn
q died in her 81 year, Saturday af- back
p ter three days illness with Sulli
\. pneumonia. Whe
The heat Sunday was a record A
ID breaker in Iowa, Illinois. Indi KEGS
20 ana, Kentucky, Nebraska, Kan "Dul
n, sas and Missouri. In monroe have
he City at 2:30p. m. the mercury into
ir climbed to the 112 notch. enou
After climbing the snow cap mus'
I'd ped mountains, drifting through pose
Ct the torrid canyons and breath lstln
av ing all the pure air that could STATE
If be obtained from the Colorado Tor
,d fir trees, Emmett Vowel returned Dr.
~ to his hot native heath and &c n
~, was as glad to get back to- e,l !
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

Grumbling will not do any
good,
Mark Hawkins took in the
Bluff City Tuesday.
The hot weather, we'll, it has
long since become a serial
story.
M. Hornback was transacting
business in the Bluff City Tues.
day.
The band concert at the park
Monday drew a large crowd of
appreciative people.
Miss Nellie Bristow is spend.
ing the week with friends at
Coopersvllle.
Twenty-three thousand school
marms will light out for the
Philippines Tuesday.
Dick Cummings and Sam
White, of Palmyra, were bust
ness visitors in the city Tues.
day.
Mrs. A. L. holland and chill
dren, of Paris, are spending the
week with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. f. Brown.
Mrs. w. Shanklin McCliutic
has returned from three
weeks visit to her sister at
Memphis, Tenn.
Pete Burditt was declared
we'll Monday and turned out of
quarantine. He went direct to
Quincy to go to work again.
After d pleasant visit with
the homefolk. Mrs. Thornton
Marshal, returned to her home
in the Gem City Tuesday.
DR.. and Mrs. Thomas Proctor
are visiting their son. DIR.
and Mrs. II. c. Proctor at Stur.
geon Bay, Wis
The Indianapolis Sentinel,
the staunchest supporter of W.
j. Bryan in Indiana endorses
the Ohio platform in full.
The name Quincy Bay ought
to be changed to Deaths Pool
There isn't a season of the year
but what week after week with
I painful regularity it claims the
life of some one.
The H. & st. Joe depot boy
have had another shaking up
Bert Thiehoff has returned from
his vacation and now has charg'
of the day Keys. John Wood i
: hack on the night shift and RAJ
D Sullivan was transferred t.
Wheeling, Mo,
Il general agent of Milwau
: KEGS largest brewery says
During the last few weeks W
e have been unable to get bee
y into the state of Kansas fas
enough to I'LL orders. The
}, must use it for irrigation pur
h poses out there, as with the eN
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-25

- -
j. B. Thomas was Il business
visitor in Quincy Saturday.
Misses Gertrude Mccall and
Irene H ornback spent Saturday
with friend, in Hannibal.
DR.. Dallas, of Hunnewell, was
a professional visitor in the
city Monday.
D. r. Campbell was looking
after the j. j. Rogers wool in
terests in Palmyra Monday.
W. W. Longmire, was a bust.
ness visitor at the capital of
the Little Kingdom Tuesday.
Y. f. Bottorff left Tuesday
for Golden, ILL.,, to attend the
funeral of his mother-in.l law.
MeSdameS A. Boulware, 9. E.
Purnell, ]. H. McClintic aud f.
L. Mefford spent Tuesday with
friends in Palmyra.
Judge N. l.. Hume has had a
neat drop canvass awning put
up in front of his carriage En-
porium.
Frank Orr has sold,26 head
of 1000 pound cattle to a Mr..
Barrett, of Princeton, ILL.,, for
1926 per hundred.
E. D. holland and son Paul,
of Shelbyville, spent Sunday
with his mother, Mrs. Mary E.
holland.
Jack Reager, one of the
prominent farmers near Emden,
was business visitor in the
city Tuesday.
Alex Nelson and Thomas
Dawson left Tuesday night for
Chicago and the Pan American
Elk.
FL. G. Fake has secured {
good position with one of the
leading contractors of st. Louis
and is now there working a
his trade.
Mrs. e. j. Alexander. o
Brookfield, spent the latte
part of the week in the cit,
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs
Gus jackson.
John Demaree left Saturda
morning for Hannibal where b.
joined his old company, Co. F
and then left for the encamp
ment at Nevada, Mo.
U. j. Davis and daughter
Misses Zetta and Iva, of Emdeu
were in the city on shopping
expedition Tuesday. While
here Mr.. Davis kindly remem
bered the DEMOCRAT.
= Misses Matte GlassC 0ck an,
Fife Baxter. two charmiE
young ladies, of Huntington
spent the latter part of tn
week in the city with thei
friend, Miss Hattie Bond.
Some twenty-five ladies an
{ gentlemen left the city la
night for Salt River. The
The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1901-02-08
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING !

At meeting Of the stockholders OF
THE DEJEAN Il MITCHELL co. held
at the Office of the Company on the 18th
day of January, 1901, of which meeting
all the stockholders had notice, and were
present, the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That Article III Of this
Corporation be amended so as to read as
follows: >>4
The Capital Stock of this Corporation
rs hereby fixed at fifty thousand dollars
($5O,OOO0O) divided into five hundred
(5OO) shares of one hundred dollars
0lW0 0O) each; but the Capital Stock
may, with the approval Of majority Of
the Stockholders, be increas, I'd to one
hundred thousand dollars (lOO,OOOOO.)
Resolved, That Article V OF the Char.
ter OF this Corporation be amended so AZ
to read as follows:
The corporate. power of this Corpora
tion shall be vested in board of seven
~ directors, each OF whom shall own at
least one (l) share Of stock in the Com
pany, and who shall be elected by the
Stockholders on the third Wednesday of
September in each year.
J.A. HATLEsTAD,
Secretary.
January lS, 1901.
January Is, 1901. N-3t