Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1901-11-27
inch 10 length, and has an average
diameter Of nearly two inches.

lNi"HNtNt " "e"ti1 tNo '"Nh'1f
The nst Freight traIn from Ken
neil 20 Cape Girardeau over
IIouok s Missouri &Ashansas road
arrived % the Cape November 10
Helcomb had quite q destructive
FIRE November 2lst Eight bust,
ness bonnes we're DESTROYED, and it
is reported that nose Of the proper.
" was Insured.
Piedmont was visited by another
disastrous FIRE the lIth instant.
Fortunately the property was IN.
sured. Piedmont has had several
destructive free Ia a short time
Jaokaoa Herald EN5ff
An Organization has been formed
10 Jackson aud vlelpity 70 be known
as the Poultry organization. AT
present lbereare 10 members. They
will meet in the courthouse Nov. 80
70 perfect the organization.
a constable and marshal up IN
Perry county made raid on q lol
ofrooeters near Mlliheim. aud tho
sun Gays, got eight who we're Gned
tothe tune Of % and the extras for
disturbing tho peace Of Ira Hide.
brant.
Masqnand Cor. IN Psedsnckiown Tnbpuc
A monthold babe atDesloge was
left alone 10 the house when n vic
ious hog found its way in and ai-
tackled the child and so crushed lis
arm that ampntatlon was necessary.
The mex; day o siR year.old boy
was attacked, but escaped with a
iew bruises.
ChArleslou Eaierpiisei
Dayid Lewis, one of Long |
Praires good farmers, last sprinT |
realized $40 per acre on bis wheat
crop From the same land he has
taken aud average of sl4 per acre
for peas aud $40 per acre for hay;
or sS4 per acre for the seasons
yield.
There is a bole 10 the ground one
thousand feet deep near the Blue
Hole two miles south Of this city
that's all, just a bole in the ground.
Tape Democrat
trsa wonder some enteresting
farmer don't work that up into
post holes,
Harrington Tines
A young man named Lee Barnes,
in the employ of the Colnmbia
Lead CO., was killed last Friday
morning by falling from tho mouth
TO the bottom Of fRed Onion" shaft,
a distance Of about 500 feet, He
was just stepping on the cage TO
descend, and missing mis- footing
fell betw6en 1t and the walls OF the |
shaft. Hts body was badly mangs.
ed. His. home was 10 Reynolds
county and be was only about nine.
teen years Of age.
The following from the Wayne
County Journal, Is two good days
work:
County court is in session thie
week, and so are the road oyerseeFs.
They lined mp Monday, that is the
road overseers did. six hundred
strong, and it looked for while
ike they would stampede the court
1ut our worthy justices dispatched
he matter in hand with dignity and
1romptness and by suDup the next
morning, there wasn't a road over
'eer within forty miles of town.
George Schnell, the "lopg side"
awyer at the big mill, covered him
elt with glory and the yard with q
nmber last Thursday. He cut 1864 r
ogs 10 eleven hours, and lost forty
minutes. This beats the record here
md We doubt i this days work has
'een beaten by any one. Just think
Il il, 1864 logs in $40 minutes, or !
~ logs every minute. George is I
'roud Of bis days work, The compa- /
" is proud of George and SO are we. /,
'exter Messenger Ii
The general Baptists have decid- I
d 10 place u college in Dexter, and /,
re negotiating for tie purchase of
he courthouse building. The build
ng has been inspected and a favor d
bic report made TO the Association, t
lhch Is now IN session in this /
ounty. A conference committee
rom the Association will meet the
committee Of the Dexter '
Improvement Association to.mor p
ow night to arrive at solnr under. Il
landing about sale, terms. etc.
they buy this bnildlng or
OF they have decided to have col :
sge here,
rederick ean Democrat News :
There are more people coming to
ladlsoh county now than ever be. J
IRE in its history. Not t day passes y
ut some prospectors come in look o
,g for land for mining or farming .
nrposes. We understand one min !,
" company is paying bonns 500 :
o all the land on which they car U
ct an option at 800 an acre. The b
ch strike at The Buckeye and the Il
ickel and cobalt strike at the !
atherine bas spread all over the
ate and pfOspectors are coming in +"
Tree and fotr each day and all are d
nxious TO obtain land.
ape Democrat: 1
A posse oftarmers from the neigh. I
orhood of Dutchtown went out c,
Ionday after that gang of wolves n
lat have been killing the farmers !,
pgs and sheep IN the neighborhood
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