Mexico Missouri message., 1902-09-25
r1iSsouri Notes

overlooked, III Is DIG one TINS year.
with its usual long premium list
Skidmore's pumpkin show promises to
be pie for the farmers this year.
Orville Moore, an excelsior Springs
barber has decided to study medicine,
which probably means that he will
so into surgery in earnest.
The Sedalia Democrat tells of q
Walker man who married his mothers
half-sister Speaking of tangled re-
lationships here's one that is mixed
up for sure,
A Jefferson township couple were
married while sitting in a buggy In
Trenton recently. The first time they
quarrel she'll probably say he drove
her into marrying him.
Hannibal has a mystery. A human
skull was found under an old build
ing there the other day. AS even the
Oldest inhabitant cannot account for
its presence there the skull is thought
to be one of a prc-IIannibal man.
In its fight on the weed nuisance
the Warrousburg Star has waXed sar-
castle. mo wonder" says the editor.
IF the old soldiers in camp here now
have noticed the increase in number
and size of the weeds along the walks
since the war"
A Marshall carpenter has been run
ming jig saws and other kinds of ro-
tary machinery for twenty years and
has never met with an accident.
70 living
Poplar Bluff, had a queer fishing cN-
perience the other day. His bobbin
went clear out of sight and when Hud-
son pulled in his line he found nearly
dozen good sized fish on 1t. Ho
could hardly believe what he saw so
he rubbed his eyes and looked again.
Yes, the fish were there and he pre-
pared to pull them out of the water.
Just at this iuncturc. however, he was
startled by cry from the bank OF.
Iii. there! You've hooked my string
of fish. Let en- go'" And thus fiud-
sons big fish story went glimmering.
There isn't an empty house in Ell
lott. But what's the difrerence?-its
the full houses that win anyway.
There hasn't been fire in Carthage
in nine weeks. As Carthage has rather
large department the abscnse OF
alarms is viewed by the firemen with
alarm.
Maryville Is to have candy factory.
II will be surprising If some enterpris-
Ing individual doesn't see the opportu-
nifty and establish dental college In
Maryville.
The shortest courtsiip on record in
Missouri occurred in Neck City Satur-
day. II. w. Parker of Chltwood met
Miss Clara Holdman at noon, and at
1880 O'Clock they were married. BE-
fore they met, neither knew the other
was on earth.
Ed Happy. Mrs. Happy, and. in fact.
the whole Happy family of Hardin,
are happy. the occasion being the ar
rival OF new Happy-a boy, just ten
pounds Of pure happiness.
A st. Clair county man who returned
from visit to Colorado the other day
says: 81 had a fine visit. but there Ia
no room in Colorado for me. am
like a fellow who was on the train
with me. When he woke up in the
morning and found himself in Mis-
souri,, he said: Thank God, we are in
paradise once more.
Tom Ford, a full-blooded Greek In
dian lives in Dayiess county. His
white neighbOrs call him Ford the
Creek.
Orrick's negro population Is quitting
Al ~
melons are very plentiful in Ray coun-
ty this year the action Of the negroes
cannot be explained.
When a newly married Carthage
couple refused to respond to a chari-
vari the other night the crowd dropped
a burning newspaper down the chin
ney and smoked them out.
Michael A. Moore who carries the
mail from Quote To Vaudeville Is to-
tally blind. lie has been mail car
ricr for ten years
1.-TWO Kids Are We'd" Is the way the
Slater Rustlcr headed the account OF
the marriage Of a young Slater couple
the other day. The groom was IS and
the bride H.
j. T. Elliot Of near Platt5burg says
that he went out the other day and
| caught pair Of lG-ycar-old mules,
harncsscd them 10 lG-inch pillow,
using a harness h" bought sixteen
years ago Then be plOwcd his pOta-
toes and found sixteen potatoes that
weighed sixteen pounds. Now he'd
like to sell his potato crop for about
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