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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1901-09-06
In rienOrian.

The subject Of this sketch, Law
son q. Drury was born, reared and
spent his early manhood In the vi
cinity Of Danvillc, Mo-, and doubt
less, the Few OF his friends who are
still on this side of "Thc River"
will drop n tear of loving rcmcm-
bcrance, when they read of his
death, which occurred at Liberty,
Mo-, July 4, 1901.
He was born March 9, 1880 mt
Loutrc Lick, whore his father kept
n general store. His parents moved
to Danvillc, before II was incorpo-
rated as "A town, and when the old
brick church, so long town land
mark, was founded and built was
one OF the charter members and
original contributors, his father
subscribing fivc hundred dollars
each for himself and wife and five
hundred for his Ave children, Of
whom Lawson was the oldest.
He was of the firm Of Watkins a
Drury In Danvillc In the early fif-
ties and was married about this
time to Miss Margaret Forshey OF
Ohio, sister of Joshua Davis of neal
Fulton and niece ofthe late Asbury
Forshcy of Montgomery.
There was born to them three
children, only one OF whom, Mrs
John Lawther, late OF Fulton reach
ed mnturlty.
They removed to Columbia, Mo,
wnerc Mr.. Drury was professor o'
Mathematics In the Missouri Uni
versity, of which college he was d
graduate. Ills wife died mt Fulton
while yet young woman, aftcI
which he went TO Kansas City
where he engaged in mcrchandiz
ing and in 1864 married Miss Kate
Wilson of that city. To this unior
were born three children, who SUR
vive him, Mrs. Susie Brooks o
Duluth, Mimi, Rob't Drury ant
Mrs. Frank Dean OF Liberty n
whose home the last year OF his lif'
was spent.
Several years since he was strick
en- with paralysis from which III
only partially recovered, never be
ing able to speak but few words o
to read or write afterwards bu
seeming to understand all that wa
said TO him and take an interest i
all that occurred about him.
: second stroke n few months ag
rendered him almost helpless. ii
5 was always cheerful and patient
but seemed to welcome death as
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1901-09-06
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In memoriam of our dear sister
Miss Blanch Hughes, who was
called up higher Sunday after
noon Aug. % 1901.
Truly hath II been said Of her.
"Shc died In the harness" for
the call came suddenly, while she
was on her way home from the
house of God. But blessed be the
name Of the dear Saivor In whom
she implicitly trusted, II found her
prepared and ready, yea, II found
her house "swcpt and gnrnishcd"
for like the wise person OF whom
the Scripture informs us her house
was buildcd upon n rock, oven the
Rock Christ Jesus and the SUM
mons gave her not n moments
warning, she was trusting, swcetly
and constantly had she trusted
and nm angel boatmon conveyed
her across the dark river and land
ed her "Safc In the arms of Jesus,
Safe on his gentle breast,
There by his love DER shaded,
She Is calmly and swcetly waiting
at rest"
The morning of her demise she
attended Sabbath school ana
ut her own church the D. D. Pres
byterian. In the afternoon she
attended the temperance lecture
in the Baptist church under the
auspices OF the w CIT. OF when
she had been n worthy member
,or ,,,b.r az vcnrs. q, her way
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nome from ."'a a''o''oo' .,',,, 'ls
whcn almost on hcr Wv" '"'c9""'"
the death messenger called for her
and her sweet spirit took its flight
.a ,,on.,ons ohov. where sh,
W ''' 'n"'',o'' ",'' 80,
Is now oaskihe 'n inc o'crh" sun
shine of Gods presence, and IN
rho companionship of the deal
poa..rer She ia waiting for In,
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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1901-09-06

The Misses Rodgers south OF
town entertained last Monday
night in honor OF their gucPts
Misses Anna and Mamie RUM /,
of st. Louis. Those present were ;
Misses Anna and Mamie sRupxi
Lora Mudd, Nellie See, Bette Kid
well, Lcola Faulconcr, Blanch
Cater, Maud Mitchell, and Maggie
Chaplin. Messrs. b. NJ. Sisk, Les
lie Reid, Harry Jacks, John Mar
tin, Rev. Z. B. Brown, Charles
Runzi and Mike Brooke.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
new HOME SECURED
sT.PAUL CURLING CLUB PURCHASES
SITE FOR A CLUB
HOUSE
BUILDING TO BEGIN AT ONO
Location Is Mt Ninth and Exchange
streets-Land Bought From
Ex-Gov. Ramsey
Yesterday.

The future of the st. Paul Curling club
is assured. Negotiations were yesterday
closed for a piece of ground at Ninth and
Exchange streets, and last night plans
for the new club house were prepared by
George Cunningham and William Cam
eron. The latter will superintend the
erection of the building, which will COM
mence within ten days.
The site which is amply large enough
for all requirements, was secured from
ex-Goy. Ramsey, q good round figure be-
ing paid for it. and the work Of putting
up the club house will be begun as soon
as the occupants of two small houses now
standing on 1t, have removed.
Now that good downtown location has
been secured, the members will institute
a vigorous canvass for new members,
and, according to President w. WI Dori-
mer, there should .be no difficulty IN Sc
curing at least 100 before the close OF
the coming season. There will be ample
time to get into shape before the North
western Curling associations bonspiel at
Duluth which is scheduled for the second
week in January. 1t Is the intention 70
send at least ten strong Kinks to par
ticipate in this, and later several of the
best will go tosWinndpeg, where the curl
ing supremacy of the world is settled
every year.
Raspberry island and the weather beat
en- club house, which has been the scene
of many hard fought battle on the Ice
will pass out of the local world, and in
it's stead the new home of the st. Paul
club will be the headquarters for curling
enthusiasts in the Northwest.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
SALARY ITEM HEAVY
HALF-MILLIoN DOLLARS REQUIRED
TO PAY ST. PAUL
employees
WOULD BUY LOTS OF TURKEYS
City Offices Alone Absorb $4,000
a Year, While School, Police
and Fire Employees Com
sumo the Balance.

st. Paul has much to be thankful for,
inasmuch as the charitable organizations
say there never was so little demand for
their services as at the present date, yet
If they had at their command the money
that the conference committee last week
set aside for salaries alone, every man,
woman and child in st. Paul could be
furnished with a sumptuous Thanksgiv-
ing dinner, while gifts of money to the
needy could be dealt out with lavish
hand
From Mayor Smith down, exclusive OF
the fire, police and school departments,
checks to the extent of $4,000 will be
drawn next year, an amount sufficient TO
buy every inhabitant of the Sanity City
nice, fat turkey. For the city Off
GERS and their clerks alone s4S,5o0 is neces-
sary.
How the salaries other than that of the
city officers and their clerks absorb
much of the $2,50o.0O0 that will be raised
by taxation next year is shown by the
fact that $165,000 will be necessary to pay
the members of the police force; $16o,ooO
to HqaIidate the salaries Of the firemen.
andS $4,000 to satisfy the demands of
those employed in the schools. Here
alone is over half million dollars, not
to speak of the paltry $1S0000 which will
be required to keep the city officials
from want.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
BACK FROM GOLD FIELDS
GEORGE s. CANFIELD RETURNS
FROM NOME.

George 8. Garfield. secretary of the
Democratic state central committee has
returned from six months absence in
the Nome gold district. Mr.. Garfield
seems to have found good picking in the
frozen North, and he will return there
soon. He says any man of energy Can
make a fortune in the gold country He
says:
Minneapolis people appear to be strik-
ing 1t rich up there. 2. w. Backus, Of
the Backus-Brooks Lumber company,
has cleaned up 100000 during his stay in
the country, and that isn't circum-
stance to what he and his business as
sociates will take out Of the country be-
fore they are through.
Another Minneapolftan who has reaped
a rich reward for his labors is Charles
Garfield, young fellow whose family
lives at st. Paul Park. His cleanup for
last year was $4,000. He has rich claims
on Ruby creek in the Solomon river dis
trict
Mr.. Backus has taken most of his gold
out of the Solomon river district He
is conducting operations on O large scale,
and Is utilizing the Thew automatic
steam dredge to great advantages. This
dredge has gold saver which scoops up
the earth and strains the gold all in one
operation. He is associated with a COM
pany Of Ohio capitalists, foremost among
them being Mark Hanna Although the
earth was frozen up when ] left Nome
nearly month ago, mining Wal still
being conducted on e small scale. The
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
WAS INSTANTLY KILLED
TEAaIsTER FALLS FROM SEAT AND
WAGON CRISHEs HIS HEAD.


Ole w. Johnson, a teamster in the en-
ploy of William Foelsen, contractor, was
instantly killed at Hamm's brewery
about O'Clock yesterday morning. John
son was driving a team attached to a
wagon loaded with rock down an in
cline leading to an excavation for the
new bottling house when the spring seat
on which he was sitting slipping and he
fell to the ground. The wheels passed
over his head killing him instantly. His
face was badly crushed and his brains
were scattered about in the sand. Coro-
ner A w. Miller was called, and after
investigating the matter decided that
death was purely accidental and an in
quest unnecessary. The remains were
taken to the ,norgue and later to Thor
sell & Thaung's undertaking rcems.
Johnson leaves d wife and two chill
dren living at 904 York street. He was
forty years old and was born in Sweden.
He was employed by William Foelsen,
who has the contract for the erection of
new brildi1 gsi FOR the use Of the Hamm
Brewing company
Officer Ferguson, went to Minneapolis
to look up the aged father of the de-
ceased and notify shim of his sons sad
end.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
PIONEER RESIDENT DEAD
ADoLPH MUNICH DIES IN ST. PAUL
AT ADVANCED AGE.


Adolph Munich, a pioneer resident of
Minnesota, died at his residence, 653 East
Fifth street, yesterday at the advanced
age of Seventy-two years. His death
was largely due TO a silnstroae received
two years ago while at work repairing a
dam on the Snake river, at Pine City,
from which he never recovered. Mr..
Munich was born in the province of Sax
cny,. Prussia, and came to America in
1850. Four years later he came to Minne-
sofa and located ut Daylors Falls, and re-
moved to st. Paul in 1871. His wife died
three years ago, ana he is survived by
eight children, ell adults. seven of whom
reside in st. Paul.
For some years he was president Of
the Volkszeitung Publishing company.
He was the first president of he Musk
Verein, and for twenty years was sec
rotary and treasurer of the Old Reliable
club, of Dayton.s bluff. lie. was also a
member of the a. .. y. w.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
RUMOR is NOT TRUE
ARMOUR COMPANY NOT TRYING To
ESTABLISH SOUTH ST. PAUL
PLANT
GEN. FLOWERS EXPLANATION
Says Armour Representative Com
ferred With Him ON Other Mat
tiers, and Reports on Other
Proposition Are Wrong.

The perennial agitation in regard to
the intentions of the Armour Packing
company to establish a plant at South
ST. Paul, was revived yesterday by the
evening papers, owing to the fact that
T. J. Connors, a general representative
of that corporation, was in the city, and,
in company with B. II. Baker, manager
{ the local branch, spent some time at
South st. Paul m the morning, and had
a conference with President Flower, of
the Union stock yards company.
Gen. Flower, when seen by The G b e
last evening on this subject, said:
assure you in all seriousness and SINGER
ity that Mr.. Connors' visit had no such
significance as has been ascribed to 1t
by the evening papers. He Is making
one of his regular tours Of the principal
stock markets, and naturally considered
South ST. Paul worthy of a visit as well
as Kansas City, Omaha, and the others.
His principal object at this time, as
far as L could learn from his CONVEX
sation with me, is to learn what the
future prospects are for our hog market.
The subject of hogs is particularly inter-
esting to packers just now, from the
fact of the light corn crop and the con>
sequence prospect of a high market.
Mr. Connors is a high official of the
Armour compony, but it would not nat
urally be in his line of work to carry on
negotiations for the establishment Of a
plant at South st. Paul. His work is of
a statistical character. Had there been
any negotiations looking toward the es-
tablshment of plant here they would
necessarily have been with me, and as
sure you there was nothing of the sort. "
1t is we'll known that the Armour COM
pany has in the past seriously consId-
cred plans to locate a packing plant at
South ST. Paul, and that under advan-
tageous conditions they would do so,
and probably will in time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
RIVAL BID EXPECTED.
OHIO CONCERN WILL TRY FOR
CITY GAS LIGHTING
CONTRACT
WILL BID ON GASOLINE ALSO
Company Will Purchase Gas From
Local Concern and Try and
Make Profit ON Cost of
maintenance.

In the manufacture of gas as far ss
the Sanity City is concerned. the st.
Paul Gas Lighting company has a mo-
nopoly, but the prospects are excellent
for a rival bid when the contracts are
placed the first of the coming year.
Cleveland. Ohio, parties have been IN
st. Paul the past two weeks and have
negotiated, it is said. with the gas com>
pany to the extent that they will make
a bid for the maintenance of the lamps
in the gas districts. Under the present
contract the gas company furnishes the
light and keeps the lamps in order for
$23 each per year. Maintenance. the conf
pany figures, consumes one-half the cost,
and it is this that the Ohio concern will
try and make profit on. Gas will be
contracted for in wholesale quantities
from the local company, while any profits
that will accrue will come through IL
saving in the cost of maintenance. This
same company will be an active coIa,
petitor in the gasoline field.
The specifications for the coming years
lighting contract were completed yesrer
day and bids are now being advertised
for. In order to induce competition sew,
eral sets of bids are demanded, one for
electric lighting, one for gas lighting in
the gas district, and others for lighting
either with gas or gasoline the entire
city. Gasoline is now restricted to Ger
tain sections of the city, but by enlargin3
it's scope it is hoped to pit 1t against the
gas company to the extent of forclns
lower prices.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
GALA TIME AT ARMORY
COMPANY Fps BALL A DECIDED
SUCCESS.

The complimentary ball given by Com
pany E, First regiment, N. G. S. NJ, at
the armory last evening was one of the
social events of the season, and Com
pany e, which is noted for it's social
functions, outdd itself in entertaining
its large crowd of visitors. Three hum
dred invitations were issued and nearly
all were accepted, and the armory was
taxed to its utmost to accommodate all
who were present.
The company gave a haif-hour exhibit
ton drill, of which nothing need be said
when it Is remembered that Company E
stood second among all the companies in
the state at inspection last spring. The
drill was followed by a grand march,
twelve numbers and three extras, which
completed the programme. Punch, ice
cream and cake were served.
William F. Grossman, A. A. Mckay,
William Repke and Harry M. Ashton,
the committee on arrangements, ara en-
titled to much praise for the ease and
nicely with which everything was car
ried out. The other committees were as
follows: Reception, Capt. w. c. Mont
gomery, Lieut.. S. A. Warner, T. H. Hoyt,
r. L. Slocum, F. II. Pease, H. J. Van
Keuren; floor, Ben Williams. H. L. Sad
Ter, M. r. Gibbs, William Barry, F. A
Jahnke, e. w. Swartz.
This is the first of series of social
events that will be given by the COM
pany this winter.
Adjt. Gen. Libby was among the WIS.,
itorS
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
CASE OF MECAARDEN
GOVERNOR LIKELY TO ANNOUNCE
HIS DECISION TODAY.

Gov Van SAINT said last evening that
he still had under consideration the re-
port of the public examiner as to the
condition of the books of the office Of
Sheriff Megaarden, of Hennepin county,
and had not yet decided what course
of action he would take in the matter.
He said that in all probability he would
be able to say today whether he would
or would not suspend Mr.. Megaarden
during the tendency of the present GRIM
inal proceedings against him in the Hen
nepin county courts.
The governor had a long consultation
with Attorney General Douglas yesterday
as to the legal features. of the question,
and both of those officials granted a
hearing to Judge John H. Steele and A.
Y. Merrill attorneys for Megaarden. The
attorneys presented arguments in opposi-
ton to the suspension of Megaarden. It
was shown that Assistant County Attor-
ney Bert Wilson had filed an affidavit
in the Hennepin county district court
to the effect that Megaarden could not
competently fulfill the duties Of sher-
if in summoning the witnesses and jul
rors for his own trial, and that upon the
showing Judge Elliott had issued an
order directing that the coroner perform
those duties.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-27
PRAISE FOR COAST
WASHINGTON MAN SPEAKS WITH
ENTHUSIASM OF IT'S DE-
VELOPMENT
BIG TRADE WITH ORIENT
Predicts That in a Few Years Pa
cifc Coast Will Be as Densely
Populated as Atlantic
Seaboard.

A. S. Taylor, president of the Union
Fruit company, of Everett, Wash, who
makes FREQUENT trips East, and who Is
we'll known throughout this state ana
WISCONSIN, is an enthusiast In all that
concerns the Pacific coast.
1.-THE general business conditions for
the last ten years have been very favor
able" says Mr. Taylor. The Pacific
coast has recently experienced period Of
development that would seem remark
able to Fasteners. It is hard for any
one not familiar with the conditions there
to realize what this means. Much OF the
credit for the great change for the bet
ter in the last two years IS due to the
efforts of the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern railways in acquainting
the people of the northern and centraf
East with the advantages Of the Pacific
coast as a manufacturing and agricul-
tural district.
.sThe population is increasing rapidly
and most of the capital is invested in
our industries by Fasteners. beneve
that when the people of the Eastern
states become more generally aware of
the farming and manufacturing adj
vantages of that section that they will
emigrate in much larger numbers than at
present The crops this year were
abundant and the prices were satisfac-
tory. Those ged In mercantile and
manufacturing lines all report business
as excellent, especially the trade with
the far East. The Eastern investor now
looks on the securities offered by the
state of Washington with favor, and 10
seeking investments along conservative
lines. Everett now has a population Of
5000 and is a thoroughly up-to-date city,
with water works, gas and electric light
ing plants, a good street car system and
many industries. An S00-barrel-a-day
flour mill Is kept running night and oay
to supply the trade in the far East.
Everett Is the terminus Of the Great
Northern road, and buildings have Just
been finished that Will house 1900 freight
cars Extensive machine shops and
roundhouses are In course of erection,
and all this will have great influence on
the growth of the town. The Weyer-
hauser syndicate of Chippewa Falls, Wis,
is largely interested in the lumber bust
ness tributary to Everett, and will soon
build saw mill, the minimum capacity
of which will be fifteen carloads of lum-
Der and 100000 shingles day.
Altogether, I believe that the Pacific
coast is the country for the young man,
and that it's prospects for manufacturing,
mercantile, agricultural and commercial
advancement are of the brightest