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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09
New Chapter Organized.

On Saturday last, January
4th., Mrs. Dora Hallock, OF
this city, Supreme Organizer,
went to Quincy and organized
a chapter of P. E. o. with II
members, six of whom were
already P. E. O's. On May 3rd
'94 Chapter H., Missouri Was
organized, chiefly through the
eefforts of Mrs. Cassidy. So,
/ for the second time in her
beautiful home. a band of sis
tiers assumed the VOWS and
duties of p. E. o. and added
another golden link to the un.
broken chain Of sisterly love.
Promptly at o'clock all were
present and ready for work.
Election of officers resulted in
the following: Mesdames Cora
E, .Stine, President; Lucy w.
Trowbr!dge, Vice-Pres.; gamma
M. Best. Recording Secretary;
: Ora A. Stocks, Corresponding
Secretary; Margaret Cassidy,
Treasurer; F. D. Best, Chap.
lain; Amy Timothy, Journalist;
Wintry F. Darby, Guard. These
with Mesdames Anna II. Will
liams, Belle Johnson and Miss
Maude Sahland stand as spOn
sors for Chapter F., Illinois,
winch promises to be one OF
the stlintiuentIal and sue
cessful Chapters in the state
Only one more is needed to
make enough for a State Grand
Chapter. After the meeting
closed all we're invited into the
elegantly appointed dining
room, where d most appetizing
luncheon was served. Carna-
tlon and Maiden Hair fern
formed he table decorations
that all did full justice to the
feast provided, can not be
questioned.
The first regular meeting Of
Chapter E. was held Wednes-
day afternoon OF the home of
the President. Mrs. Steine. T's'
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09
Home Seekers Excursion.

The Nj. K. and r. will sell
Home Seekers tickets on the
first and third Tuesdays of each
month until further notice at
one fare plus $500 for round
trip to all points in Mo-, Kan,
Oklahoma and Texas where
one way rate is 500 or more.
For further information see E.
B. Spahr, local ticket agent.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

The DEMOCRAT is under OBJ
legations this week to two of
city's gracious mesdames and
one of its charming daughters,
for which we more than cheer
fully return thanks. There are
times when a kind hearted,
generous woman can materi'
ally aida plodding male editor.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09
DOnIey.

Joseph H. Donley, of Nevada,
Mo. died Of hemorhage at
A.lA Monte, Mo, Sunday. He
was ex.circuit clerk Of Marion
County,a brother of Harrison
Donley of this city and a
nephew of E. S. Hampton of
southeast of the city Mr..
DonIey was we'll and favorab ly
known here.
The Howard County News
has entered it's tenth tidal
wave in the Sea of Journalism.
1t is il clean newsy sheet.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

Benjamin F. Gains of Cham
berlin, l. II. and Miss Linda
Carlisle were married at
Sedalia Dec. 25. Mr. Gains is
teaching at Chamberlin. Both
the young people are we'll
known here and their many
friends wish them a life of hap.
piness.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

Correspondents letters never
go to the waste basket bnt
when they reach the office We'd
nesdny are frequently crowded
oui FOR by th,i time all space is
prepared for Kindly send your
letter in Monday evening as
the bearer does not reS IN city
until late.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09
Last week the Real Estate

Last week the Real Estate
and Loan firm of Davenport &
Lear sold 10 acres of land
North West of here in Marion
County to John Shearman for
$50. per acre. They also sold
to E. j. Mcknight lots Is and
16 in Block % known as the
Miss Callie White residence for
5000.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09
Get cash price on flour al
Sharp & Donley's.

w. L. Bond is for John j..
Rogers remodeling and adding
two rooms to the residence on
what is known as the Logan
Froge farm. Pat Cochran help.
ed to build the house "a years
ago and Monday stood by and
watched IA portion of it torn
down.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

The Norborne Democrat is a
new venture in journalism.
George F, Crrtchley is editor
and publisher 1t will ad,
vocate democratic principles
and starts off with good ad
vertising patronage.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

Misses Grace Sharp and May
Megown of Monroe City are
the guests of Miss Jessie WALES
in this city.-Shelbina Torch
light.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

r. V. Sullivan has sold ten
head of good cattle to Barger &
McClintic.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

Sharp and Patterson, sue.
ceSsors to Sharp, Patterson &
Co. will continue in the poul.
try nusin ess and will paw the
highest market price for everv
'1In% in their line. They also
carry Il full line of the best and
freshest Field and Garden Seed.
9.l6.l902.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

Public Installation of Officers Monroe Dis.
trict Court of Honor No, 4l67.
On the evening OF Jan 6 1902.
Proceeded 10 install the follow
ing officers viz: S. G Demaree.
Chan: F. NJ. Bower, Vice chan;
Miss Sallie V. Crawford, Re
corder; j. H. TerriIl, Treas ;
Mrs. Bette Clark, Chap; J b
Bristow, cond; r. O. Ballard.
Guard; and F, S. Turner. Sent
The rest of the program was
as follows, Music, songs by
Degree team and others inter.
sperced with Rotations by
Misses Della McGlothlin aud
Eva Powell. The singing wan
all good but we wish to make
special mention OF the trio by
A. S. Maddox. F. o. Steele and
and Hon. r. L. Woodsou, also
the vocal soles by Miss Blanch
Thihoff which were highly APP
preciated.
The degree team and God.
dess of Liberty dressed in their
new regalia executed the court
drill in a creditable manner.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09

Bring your eggs and butter to
sharp q Donley and get the
highest market price.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-09
A Happy New Year.

The receiving party was com
posed of the members OF the
club and their guests. viz
Mesdames Walter Moss, Carl
jaeger. Mark Hawkins, Walter
Williamson. Bert Bull. Gardner
Wade, William Westhotf, James
johnson. j. #. S. Hickman, as
sisted by Misses Eleanor and
Mildred Scott, Mamie Hallock.
Ruth Brown. Lois Rogers, OF
Denver, Colo, - Wagner, OF
Kahoka. Mo. and Mrs. Stella
BelwoCd. Of Warrensburg, Mo.
Special entertainment was
furnished in way of recitations
by Miss Hallock, music both in
strumental and vocal. by Misses
Eleanor and Mildred Scott,
Lois Rogers. Ruth Brown and
Mrs. Walter Williamson.
The brilliantly lighted room.
the deliberately gowned women.
the music. and the brilliant
flow of conversation combined
to make the occasion one of
unusual interest aud eachsof the
callers is loud in his praise of
the Young Married Peoples
Club as a social factor. =,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
OBITUARY..


The Daily American of Mahanoy
City, Pa, in announcing the recent
death in Savannah of Mrs. William
n. Hoffman, nee Miss Welhelminia
Dipper of Mahanoy City, editorially
pays her this tribute.
In her pleasant home in the South
land the fair spirit of a noble woman,
Mrs. William Hoffman, nee Wilhelmina
Dipper, took flight from earthly
realms Saturday last. And how many
eyes there are that will grow dim
with sorrows moisture when they real
izet that Miss Minnie. the name she
was tenderly and lovingly known by,
is dead. Hundreds and hundreds of
our growing youth will remember her
kindly as the earnest heart, the kindly
eye and the firm friend who led them
gently, but authoritatively, through
the most wearisome of their school
days. The sweet and gentle woman
is dead, but the beautiful traits of
character which endeared her to all
who knew her give heavenly glow and
vigor to their prayerful wish that her
everlasting life be sweet as the MUIR
muir of the brook and the rustic of
the corn "
Mrs Hoffmans funeral took place
Tuesday at her former home.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
TO PREVENT MALARIAL FEVER.
The New York Board of Health Says
the Disease and Mosquitoes Insep-
arabic.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
The Board of Health has issued a
circular in relation to the prevention
of malarial fever, a disease now un-
derstood to be propagated by the bite
of a kind of mosquito known as ano-
pheles. So far as is known, infection
is caused in no other way, and the
department has determined to take all
possible measures to prevent the breed
ing of this mosquito, and also calls
upon physicians to cooperate with it
by reporting cases, as is done with
diphtheria and other "notifable dis
eases"
Malaria, which is also called ague
dumb ague, chills and chills and fever
is not produced by standing water
| upturned soil and so forth, EXCEPT in
so far as these conditions allow the
mosquito to deposit it's larvae. To
transmit the disease the mosquito must
bite a person infected. After a lapse
of eight days such a mosquitoes bite
will infect healthy persons 1t is
therefore necessary in order to stamp
out the epidemic, as the department
hopes to do, to avoid mosquito bites.
kill the insect whenever possible and
prevent its breeding. All standing
fresh water, except IN large bodies not
fringed with grass or slime, where fish
eat the eggs, afford a breeding place.
All water which has to be kept stand
ing, such as that in rain barrels, pans.
tin cans. wells and so forth, should
be closely covered by wire gauze, snug
to the margin. Water that cannot
be covered in this fashion should be
protected with film of kerosene oil.
An ounce is enough for fifteen square
feet, and may be poured on at anv
point, as it spreads itself. Window
screens and mosquito bars for beds are
recommended. and infected persons are
urged to use the greatest care to pre-
vent being bitten and thus allowing
the disease to be carried about to
others.
The department hopes to enlist the
help of the proper city authorities in
draining or caring for large bodies Of
water, and eventually to rid the CITY
and the suburbs Of all plague OF mos
quitoes and malaria Though the un-
dertaking requires general vigilance
and cooperation. there is some salts
faction IN the thought that the two
pests may be removed together.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
Mrs. TiIiie d. Abrams, Brunswick,
Ge.

Brunswick. Ga, Aug. 14.-All Bruins
wick was grieved to-day to learn of
the death of Mrs. Title B. Abrams,
wife of Mr.. j. B. Abrams, and one
of the most popular and lovable young
women of the city, who died last night
at the residence of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Borchardt.
Mrs. Abrams has been i'll for several
months, and was taken to St. Joseph's
Infirmary in Atlanta some time ago,
in the hope that the treatment there
would benefit her. No results being
obtained, she returned to Brunswick
and gradually grew worse.
Mrs. Abrams, besides a mother,
father, several brothers and sisters,
leaves a husband and three small chill
dren to mourn her loss.
The funeral will occur tomorrow
morning and the cortege will probably
be one of the most imposing ever seen
in this city.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
MADE BOGUS CONFESSION.
THOMPSON TALKS FREELY OF
BARTHOLIN CRIME.

Then Says He Has Only Told Story
Police Have Been Trying to Make
Him Tell, and That His Confess
sion is Lie. May Be Some Truth
in 1t, HOwever-''MysterfO WOm-
ans" story is Verified-Minnie
Mitchell Believed to Have Been
Numbered in BarthOIin House and
Carried Away.
Chicago, Aug. 14.-Becoming des-
perate tonight while being subjected
to vigorous examination by Inspec-
tor Hunt, Oscar Thompson, who is de-
tanned pending investigation of the
Bartholin- Mitchell murders, confessed
to everything that the police have
been trying to make him tell. When
he had finished Thompson laughed de-
risively and said:
Inspector, that story is a lie. You
wanted me to tell you all these things.
1 have admitted all, but 1 must confess
that it is all a lie"
Inspector Hunt, who has been labor
ing with Thompson for days, thought
for moment that the solution of the
mystery was pouring from Thompson S
lips, but the next moment he realized
perpetrate joke.
In making the bogus confession
Thompson said:
yes, Bartholin made me go to the
laundry barn and get the wagon that
Wednesday night. He made me bring
it to the house at 431O Calumet ave-
nue. and back it up to the curb. Then
Bartholin came out of the house carry
ing a mysterious bundle. He put it
in wagon, then drove to the Engle-
wood prairie and hid the bundle in the
weeds. You have been telling me to
tell you that and admit that is the
truth. You have told me the same
stories day after day and have
pressed me to confess that they are
true. l will tell you that all these
things happened, but, Inspector, I will
also state to you that every word l
have spoken is false. Everything I
have told you is a deliberate false
hood
The bogus confession came Just at
the very moment when a confession
was expected, and Inspector Hunt was
greatly disappointed. After Thompson
was returned to his cell, Inspector
Hunt said
Il believe that strange confession is
Thompson's last card, and that he will
tell terrible story before long"
The "MysteriOus woman
The identity of the mysterious wo-
man in black, who last night told the
inspector she had seen William Bar
tholin, Oscar Thompson and "Old Dad"
Claffey wrangling over Thompson
laundry wagon early on the morning
of the Mitchell girls supposed murder,
was cleared up. She is Mrs. Mary Tai
lerday. To-day she positively identified
Thompsons wagon and horse as those
she had seen with the men. Confirma-
ton of the story told by Mrs Taller-
Gay came when D. A. Meyers, a motor
nan of Wallace and Center ave-
nue. electric car told the police
that he had seen the laundry wagon
where Mrs. Tallerday described it as
being between 8 and o'clock of the
morning following Minnie Mitchell:
death. Meyers identified the horse and
wagon as Thompson's. This the po
lice say satisfies them that Mimi,
Mitchell was murdered in the Bartho
lin home and carted far out on State
street.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
AN EAST TENNESSEE AFFRAY.
Husband Killed and Wife Skipped
With Another Man.

Knoxville. Tenn, Aug. 14.-Authen-
tic details have been received of a des-
perate ARRAY in which three young
men and a woman, all of them promi-
nent in Scott county, Tennessee, were
involved, and which is said to have
resulted in the death of one, and
the possible death of another.
and the flight of both the
the woman and the other man impli-
Gated. The most striking feature of
the affair is that the dead man, Jar
rett Trammel, was probably killed by
his own wife, the woman over whom
the difficulty originated.
Mrs. Trammel and Wing Duncan, the
alleged murderer, escaped over the bor-
der into Kentucky. The scene of the
tragedy was at Winfield, a small town
in Scott county, Tennessee.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
THE SPIRIT OF CHARITY.
Douglas Raises $3.50 for Bereaved
Bohemian Family.

Bohemian Family.
Douglas, Ga, Aug. 14.-After the
funeral services yesterday of Vaclar
Hascovec, the Bohemian pharmacist,
whose sudden death was noted in these
dispatches of the 18th, the people of
Douglas raised a fund of $12O for the
grief-stricken widow in order to assist
her to her parents, who now reside
in Chicago, all her other relatives be-
ing in Bohemia. No effort has been
spared for her comfort.
The iron on the Douglas extension of
the Wadley and Mount Vernon Rail-
road is laid from Douglas to within
four and one-half miles of Broxton.
Trains will be running through much
earlier than first expected.
Douglas now has a double daily mail
service each way. east and west. The
old reliable Morning News arrives at
Douglas at 9:42 a. m. on the date of
publication.
Prof. Hendricks, the principal, is
getting everything in tip-top shape for
the opening Of the Southern Normal
Institute on the 26th inst, and every
thing points to a most f1attering at
tendance of pupils.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
- <'-e-----------------
WOES OF A DRUG CLERK.
Painting Women Among the Least
of His Troubles.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Just where or how the idea origi-
mated 1 cannot say, but it is true that
the general public persists in consider
ing the drug store a free dispensary,
an information bureau. parcel room,
a place of general convenience all
rolled into one" remarks a drug clerk
not thousand miles from the Record
office.
Free dispensary" we exclaim
aghast. and then we remember that
nearly every accident case we ever
heard of was rushed to the nearest
drug store. A drayman with mashed
thumb wants it done up quick" be-
cause his horses are outside, and ten
to one hen object to paying rs cents
for the materials used, neither think
ing nor caring for the time he has
consumed or the blood-stained floor
Truth to tell, though, the drayman is
not as sarcastic about paying as is his
brother in broadcloth. One of the lat
ter sort quite felt robbed at being ex-
pected to pay so cents for the lotions
oil silk and the like, in which his
sprained ankle had been done up.
UngratefuI Man.
Painting women are another phase of
the business that would stagger an
ordinary man, yet the sex seems to be
forever fainting near drug stores, at
which able bodied ones hasten to hus-
tie them to said drug stores, clearing
the track with, Lady fainted-out of
the, way" With the utmost delicacy
ye drug man must loosen ner neck
rigging, and administer aromatic spir-
Its Of ammonia. Bnt he doesn't COM
plain, because women are usually de-
cent enough 10 come back and say
thank you-a thing which no man has
ever done in our informant's rs years
Of experienced
He has other things against naa,
too. Man knows II al, which Is a crime
beyond forgiveness. As q matter ~
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
Il. n. Waters, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.

Atlanta, Aug. 14.-E. B. Waters, Jr,
the former advertising solicitor of this
city, who shot himself through the
head at his home near the Exposition
grounds Tuesday morning, died this
morning at l o'clock at the Presbyte-
rian Hospital. His body was taken to
Fort Valley this morning and will be
inferred at a country cemetery twelve
miles from Fort Valley.
His father, E. B. Waters, of Rey-
nolds, Ga, accompanied the body
to Fort Valley. Dependency due large
ly to drinking. is thought to have been
the cause of the suicide.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15

did get here and they landed in New
York.
A long time ago they got mixed up
with the Croton water works system in
New York, and the people called them
Croton bugs, which name still sticks,
but they are German cockroaches all
the same. over in Germany the Ger
man cockroaches are hated as cordial
ly as in this country, and there is
the story that the department sets
down concerning them:
I'm north Germany these reaches are
known as "Schwaben, a term which
applies to the inhabitants of south
Germany, and the latter section re-
taliates by calling them 'Preussen,'
after the North German. In East Ger
many they are called 'Russen.' and in
West Germany 'Franzosen,' the two
latter appellations indicating a certain
national antipathy to rival countries,
as well as a fanciful idea as to origin"
Anyway, cockroaches are the aristo
Gratis of the insect family. They have
not been changed in their long asso-
citation with man. They are among
the most ancient of all insects, and as
nearly as can be found out they are
the same sort of a roach as they w<re
ages and ages ago. They never change.
OF Ancient Pedigree
Fossil remains of common kitchen
cockroaches occur In abundance in the
early coal formations, and the depart
ment has discovered that there was
cockroaeh age once. 1t is known to sci
ence as the Carboniferous age, but it
was misnamed. In the heat and mois-
ture of that age the cockroaches sim
ply thrived and inhabited the earth.
And the cockroach of to-day is exactly
like the cockroach of that distant time
the males then as now had two pairs
of wings and the females had almost
no wings at all, which shows the per-
versity of the whole cockroach sys-
tenn.
Having gone into the history of cock
reaches, the Department of Agricul-
ture makes a confession that shows
that Secretary Wilson is a bad house
keeper. Here is the confession:
"Ir attempting to eradicate cock
reaches from the department store
rooms where cloth bound books and
envelopes are kept various paste mix
lures containing arsenic were tried,
but the reaches invariably refused to
feed on them IN the least. This ap-
plies particularly to the German roach,
or CrOton bug, and may not hold so
strongly with the less wary and per-
haps less intelligent larger reaches"
Intelligent Beasts.
SO the cockroaches are still in the
storerooms of the Department of Agri-
culture and the scientists of that de-
partment can't get them out. The de-
partment explains that Like crows
among birds, the reaches among in
sects are unusually well endowed with
the ability to guard themselves against
enemies, displaying great intelligence
In keeping out Of the way Of the irate
housekeeper and in avoiding food or
other substances which have been doc
tored with poisons for their benefit.
Their keenness IN this direction is
Internationally the inheritance of
many centuries. during which the hand
Of man has ever been raised against
them"
The "irate housekeeper" who reads
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-15
James b. Bonner, SAN Antonio, Tex.

San Antonio, Tex, Aug. 14.-James
B. Bonner, superintendent of telegraph
of the entire Hartman system of rail-
roads, died here to-day, aged 81. He
came to San Antonio five weeks ago
from his headquarters at San Fran
cisco for the benefit of his health.
Mr. Bonner started in as a messen-
ger boy at New Orleans. Among rail-
road and telegraph men he was very
popular. The remains were tonight
shipped to New Orleans, where the
interment will take place.