Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1901-07-31
Southeast Notes.

Ark, at a depth of 1850 feet the
well spouted oil'in large quantities.
Two Of the first car loads of wa.
termelons sold at Maiden for $345.
A Chicago man was the purchaser.
Marquand AMI vicinity had quite a
storm July %. The new M. w. A. hall
was blown from its foundation and bad
ly damaged.
The proposition TO vote a $4,000
debt for sheet improvements in
Jackson fell IL votes short at the
election held for that purpose
July 23,
jackson Herald: George W. Full
bright, Henry Wilhelm and Wash
Snider, Of Oak Ridge, left last Fri.
day for Oklahoma TO take up land
in the Kiowa. Chamanche opening,
Perryville Sun: There is going to
be a new railroad into Perryville.
They are locating IL at present. 1t
will 90 near Millheim thus benefit
ting Bol1mger county as we'll as
Perry.
In an alteration at Blodgett one
day last week between jeff Nc.
Daniel and a man named Martin
the latter was killed and the former
and a young lady named Jordan
wonnded.
Near Poplar Bluff, Charley Adams
17.ycarold son of Rev. Sam Adams,
was drowned July 10th, while bath
ing. He was carried into deep
water by strong current, and could
not swim.
Mississippi county reports some
big yields of wheat, running as high
as 81 bushels per acre. With the
largest acreage ever sown, the aver
age is estimated at 2S bushels per
acre for county.
The coal chutes at Bismarck, con.
tanning 600 tons of coal, caught fire
July % and was only extinguished
by heroic efforts Of the people there
and the timely and splendid work
of the DeSoto fire department
A slndicate composed of Jack
HorrolI, E. W. Flentge, A. r. Pop.
der and Mrs. Sophia Painter recent,
ly purchased the John Painter farm
of 1870 acres, adjoining Cape Girar.
deau on the west, for $4,000. The
land will be laid off in town lots and
placed on the market.
THE miracle happened Missouri
got rain yesterday afternoon, but
not a drop of it touched Cairo.
Those who were banking on Mis-
souri, prayers to give Cairo rain are
in the soup. From the weather OBJ.
servatory on top of the custom
house it was easy to see that heavy
rain was falling in Missouri, but
1t stopped at the river Cairo
Argus.
Caruthersville Journal: Some
mercy was extended the prisoners
in the county Jail, and on Tuesday
they we're allowed in the corridor.
One of them procured u case knife,
which was converted into saw, and
when discovered they had made a
fair start on saving one Of the outer
bars in two. Their fua had the effect
of causing a curtailment Of their
liberties.
Dunklin Democrat: Sheriff Nc
FarIand and Deputies Mahoney,
Franklin and Griggs, and DR..
Hudgings passed through here Mon.
day, with IL prisoners, bound for
the penitentiary, and one unfortu.
nate for the hospital for the insane
at Fulton. If the good work of kill.
ing off the "bad" men and sending
the worthless ones 70 the peniten.
tiary keeps up, Pemiscot will get
to be as good county as Ounklin.
South African farmers have sent
to this country for 10000 lady, bugs
for which they are willing to pay
two cents each. 1t is generally sup.
posed that lady-bugs are very de-
structive to other bugs which lnjure
crops. We are not posted as to the
lady'bug population, but we know
this country can spare whole lot of
humbugs, some "bigbugs' and few
gold bugs.-Caruthersville demo
crat. ,...
Kennett wants an ice plant.
The people of Marble Hill have
been paying a cent pound for ice
all this summer. Someone could
certainly do we'll with an ice plant