Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-10-09

last Friday night.
Leave your orders for Meat and Ice
with us. All orders executed promptly
and goods delivered free MS usual.
d. G. HARDY.
Il. w. Cochran drove to the Usage
last Sunday to bring home his wife
who had been making visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson Col
Inns.
Rev. J. Ed. Sims and wife, who had
been making visit Of several weeks
with friends in Jasper and Cass coun-
ties and in Oklahoma, returned to their
home in this city last week well
pleased with their trip.
The delegates from the Baptist con-
grcgation in this city to the meeting
of the Lamne baptist Association be-
ing held at Syracuse. are Mcsdames
George p. Clark, Mary A. Oliver, +. NJ.
Scoggins and Miss Anna Rutherford.
Monday of last week Guy Million OF
Boonvillc was married to Miss Pencie
Dameron of Salisbury. The groom Is
the son OF w. Il. Million, proprietor OF
the Million House in Boonville. Now
that the young lady has caught u Mil
lion, and she is the better half Million,
they should be able to accumulate
Millions in the future.
Last Saturday Il. A. Crewson shipped
a small cargo of different kinds OF our
clays TO II. Is. Harmon in Kansas City.
Mr.. Harmon has large brick kilns in
operation there and expects to give
the specimen clays thorough test
by making bricks and taking them
through the regular process by which
he manufactures other clay into
bricks.
The program Of the County Teach
cr's Association, which will be held on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Of
next week in this city was handed us
too late for publication last week, but
will be found in another column Of
this issue OF the Democrat. The meet
ing will no doubt have Il large attend
ance as an elaborate program has been
carefully prepared and all teachers
motif fed.
Figures made us lie in two different
| insta nccs in our industrial articles last
week. In the article headed "Big Zinc
Find, we stated that Superintendent
Freeman struck coal at "75-fect below
the surface" when 10 should have read
40. feet In the land deal we also
said the stipulation was 2G3, ,7i0," when
it should have read "2G, TAO" or course
the errors were noticed when it was to
late to correct them.
| j. d. Ryan of Leavenworth, Kansas,
and family, with Thomas Ryan broth
er, q. W. keirstead the coal expert,
with long train Of equipment, passed
through Versailles n week ago and
went into camp at the Stover Coal
Bank. These men are Interested in
the Morgan Co. Coal Co. and are en-
gugcd with n force investigating tho
full extent OF conl deposits in that
locality, while they are also enjoying
a siege OF 'roughing it," President
Ryan's little son Is keeping the road
warm riding back and forth from camp
to town on fine Shetland pony.
The Progress Club held its first fall
meeting last Friday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Il. N Simons on North
| Monroe street The social features
were NIL that could be desired as the
members considered it n kind of re-
union after several months vacation.
Mrs. Simons, after the program had
been dispensed, invited the members
TO Spidel's restaurant where she treated
them to splendid lunch which was
highly enjoyed by all The meeting
this afternoon will be held at the home
Of Mrs. s. K. Price ON North Fisher
street.
Max Joachimi, DR.. Kelly and Dan
Williams mounted their bronchO charg-
ers last Saturday night and started for
the valley and shadows Of Xwanzig to
give the 'coons and 'possuns merry
chase. Dan captained the party and
we dare bay he took them to every hol-
low stump this side the Usage. No
report has been made Of the output OF
the expedition, but rs we have heard
Of no 'possum suppcrs during the week,