Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1901-05-22

shops to be erected by the Iron
Mountain at Poplar Bluff last week.
st. Francois Herald: Judge Fox
came up from Fredericktown Sun
day, and opened Circuit Court Mon.
day with the largest docket before
him the county has ever had.
At Caruthersville, Thomas Combs
shot and killed negro by the
name of Jack Perkins, the 14lh who
was trying to force entrance to a
store IN which Combs was employ
ed.
A large store and its contents be.
longing TO the Jackson Store Co.,
at Steele, in Pemiscot county was
destroyed by fire the night of the
l1:h. Loss between eleven and
twelve thousand dollars with an in,
surance of $8,240.
| Willie Givens of Bloomfield, who
had started west to make his
fortune, got as far as st. Louis
where he committed suicide by
shooting, the 9th. He is supposed
to have been robbed of his money
and became discouraged.
At the recent term of Circuit
Court at Kennett twenty-five d.
vorces were granted, Charles Miller
was given three years in the peni-
tentiary for burglary and larceny;
Frank Flemer two years for forgery
and Robert Barnes two years for
abduction.
Pennington News: The directors
of the St. Francois County Electric
Railroad Co., held u meeting in the
Mayors office last Satur lay morn
ing and adopted bylaws and au.
thorized the chairman, Peter Giess-
ing, to employ help in securing right.
ofway. The surveys are about com.
pleted and the maps and pl ofles
are being prepared.
St. Francois Herald: On last Satur-
day the 20 acres comprising the
Fair Grounds was sold under deed
of trust and was bid in by Thomas
Lang for $4,000. Messrs. Lang,
Clardy, Sleeth, and other prominent
citizens become the owners, and, we
understand will endeavor to arrange
for renewal and a rejuvinatIng of
the county fair, and possibly make
a public park of the grounds.
Campbell Citizen: J. NJ. Uroff
has received an answer to his "want.
ed wife" ad in last week s Citizen.
The young attorney is dead gone
on the chance, and is haying a shirt
done up and two celluloid collars
repaired for a wedding the first
Friday in June. He has also spoken
to the barber to shear him for the
occasion, and writ to his ma to make
him new jeans coat. Who says
advertising don'tpay?
exchange says: "How often
do we hear people say, "Where IN
the world do all the flies come
from?" 1t is simple enough. The
topper makes the whisky fly; the
cyclone makes the house fly; the
carpenter makes the saw fly; the
boarder makes the butter fly; the
black ksmith makes the shoe fly; the
jockey makes the horse fly; the
butcher makes the COW fly, and the
housewife makes the old man fly,
Farmlngton News: A. Albaugh
has lately sold two fine English set
ter dogs, one Is months and the
other IL months. The older one to
Martin Voorhees,, of St. Louis, for
$3.50, and the younger one to Mr..
Randy, Of Cotton Plant, Miss, for
$3.50. Mr.. Albaugh has 16 other
fine dogs in his kennels, each one of
which he could easily sell at any
time to sportsmen in the cities at
from $40 to $500. He will leave in
July with his dogs TO attend all the
important field trials IN the U. S.
Campbell Citizen: Immoral teach
ers are drifting into the back rank
their justly deserved positions.
School officers nowadays are inquir-
ing into the character of applicants
for schools. A swearer, a gambler,
a drinker of strong drinks had as
we'll be in the church as a teacher
and instructor of children. The
fact ls, he IS past evil that deserves
and gets no encouragement from
either church or school. Why should
he when men equally as competent
and without these faults can be Sc
cured.
Pennington News: The Asylum
Commission appointed recently by
Gov. Dockery met in this city the
latter part of last week and receiv-
ed the management of the work on
the new inoane asylum from the
Commission appointed by Gov.
Stephens. The new Commission
met in ST. Louis last Saturday and
formally organized by electing Hon.
j. D. Allen, president, and J. f.
>Affen, secretary of the Commission.
II. II. Hohenschild was employed as
architect ofthe new buildings, which
the Commission desire to be com.