Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1901-05-15
lie Hill. Missouri. Wednesday, MAY Is, 1901.
Southeast Notes.

Alter July lst, Cape Girardea
will have a second class postoffict
The officials of Popular Bluff ar
making it warm for the dives G
that place,
James Uleason met a horribl
death at saw mill near Charleston
last Friday by falling against a saw
The steamer City of Paducal
sank at Brunkhorst Landing earl,
Monday morning and several live
were lost.
A new dredge boat is being bull
in Mississippi County which vii
begin work on tfolrteen mile ditcl
about June l,
The forty-third annual meeting o
the Missouri Medical Association
will be held at Jefferson City, May
2l, % and 23rd.
FrederIcktown Democrat-News
Hon, W. D. Vandiver will deliver
the annual address before the socie.
ties of NJ. G. l. June 4.
A military company, to be known
as Company IN" Unattached,
National Guards of Missouri, was
recently organized at Dexter.
Theodore Friedmeyer who resid.
ed near DeSoto committed suicide
last Wednesday by emptying the
contents of shot gun into his head.
Cash-Book: There IS said TO be
one or more cases OF genuine small
pox at Friedheim, a town in the
northwest part of the county.
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Joe Patton, the colored man who
stabbed John Vogt at the Cape a
couple of weeks ago, plead guilty
yesterday and was sentenced to the
penltentiary for three years.
Fredericktown Tribune: The Lord
said; "Let there be light" but the
F'redericktown City Council says: "Let
there be darkness!" and darkness it is
at least within the precincts of Freder-
icktown.
]. F. Benning was run over and
instantly killed by a train in at.
tempting to cross the tracks in the
yards at DeSoto, Thursday of last
week. He was highly respected
citizen and left a wife and two
children.
Jackson Herald: On last Saturday
Lloyde Simpson, youngest son of J.
W. Simpson, got on Mr.. Poe's wagon
which was loaded with gravel. Mr..
Poe did not notice the boy. and
somehow the boy fell off the wagon
and the wheels ran over his arm,
MASKING it very badly. He is get
ting along as we'll as could be ex-
pected under the circumstances.
Fredercktown Democrat.News:
1t was reported IN St. Louis this
week that Mr.. S. H. Leathe, the
owner of Mine La Motto had about
concluded arrangements for the sale
of this property to the Gugenhei-
mers Of New York. The Gugenhei,
mers are the Independent smeIter
people and are investing extensive
ly in mining property in the Flat
River district.
Charlottesville Democrat: G. S.
York retired this week from the
management of the Pemiscot Press,
which paper he has edited for several
months. The paper was sold at auc.
tion one day last week. Mr.. York
in his varied experience in PENN.
scot county journalism, has demon
strated that he is perfect gentle
man, and an excellent journalist.
He announces that he will enter an
other line Of work 10 the future.
A travelling man stood at the de.
pot yesterday morning explaining
to Il lad from the country how he
happened to be bald, "You see,"
he said, "there wasn't room for !
brains and hair both, so the I
brains being more numerous, push.
ed the hair away I
That isn't what paw says" re.
piled the boy. "Paw aIIus lowed {
as how an empty barn didn't need
no cOvern
ST. Francois Herald. The Wright .
County Progress says Prof, W. H. ,
Lynch Of that county takes more
han 80 newspapers and intimateS
hat he pays his subscription. We $
must take off our hats to such a +
eacher. We know teachers who $
axe one paper and do not pay their /
absorption to that. Then we also
Know of teachers who do not take a
ny papers, Oh, for some Lynches
or Lynchlngs) in St. Francois ii
ountyl o
Both of the banks at Frederick. ?
own bid the same, Al pei cent for II, -,
he county funds, the Court extend. ~ ~
d the time for the banks to file an -
ther bid without advertising and NJ
My one, the Madison County bank
led second bid 4 per cent which
'as awarded the funds and the
ecnrity bank proposes TO have the
latter settled in the higher courts R
Iaiming that the court should have W
dvertised again and set another IL
ate for determining the matter. 10
Cape Democrat: The we'll boring n' n'
the Cape Brewery was finished 'a @
lst week. At depth of twelve pc
undred and twelve feet the borers WI
truck artesian water, and as water "i
nd not oil was what the brewery az
eople wanted, the work of boring I'd
oased. One thousand feet of the eV o..
oring was through one solid noun vi vi
lin of lime1tone. The water that ~ ~
ows out at the top of the we'll is as y, y,
rystat and as cold as ice. The flow, a. a.!
1t holds oub will supply the ~, y"
rewery with the necessary clear a. -,