Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-11

Elder Il. u. Woods OF this city is
holding n series OF meetings this week
at High Point.
Barber & Shaver are the proprictors
Of tonscrial parlors in Darktown. This
is u hairsplitting combination.
Leave your orders for Meat and Ice
with us. All orders executed promptly
and goods delivered free as usual.
d. c. HARDY.
Mrs. J. p. II. John, Jr., OF Eldon, is
spending the week with her husbands
parents, Gov. and Mrs. John y. ST.
John, and other Versailles friends.
Passenger nnd freight trains collided
on the Frisco near Baxter Springs
Tuesday morning causing bad wreck
in which twelve people were injured,
two fatally.
II. Is. Herman, the Indiana gentle
man who has the clay plant under con-
siderntion, was here part of this
| week, but had no authentic informa.
| tion TO give out relative to the progress
Of his enterprise, however, the matters
will mature in the near future.
The fact that work has been com.
plctcd on the big iron bridge of the
new road, spanning the Usage river,
and that the tracklayers are on this
side working toward Versailles, is evil
dcnce sufficient that before the leaves
turn ''yallcr" the Rock Island tracks
will be laid into this city.
Ross Martin, who returned to ST.
Louis the first OF last week to assume
his duties rs guard at the Worlds Fair
grounds, came home again Monday
last owing 10 sickness. Ross was suf
fcring with malarial trouble when
here. He took up his duties but was
compelled to get leave and has since
been under medical treatment.
Messrs. Lewis and Mccormick, who
are engaged in deep drilling at the
Crystal Lead Mine Ave miles southwast
of Versailles report splendid success as
they go down. They have struck lead
and zinc in such quantities that they
have decided to put in new machinery
and work the Crystal" to its full ca
pacity, Al the results OF their drilling
justify the move.
Governor Dockcry had his whiskers
shaved of at jefferson City Tuesday,
and the sensation offered substance
for third of n column telegram in
the metropolitan dailies of st. Louis.
IL seems funny what the great city
press deems important in the way of
news matter. Some Of the dispatches
have whiskcrs on them, while others
are clean shaved.
o. c. Irwin. representing the Crsw-
fordsvillc Qnd) Electric Co., is here
and has boen in consultation with the
committee having charge OF the cleo
tric light matter in connection with
the city council, and has favorable
proposition which will be acted upon,
probably by a special election. The
plan proposed ~ to operate m electric
light plant on the municipal owner
ship basis, on which complete specih-
cations and mode OF procedure ar"
submitted. Our people will now have
u chance to say by their vote whether
VIC will have q system OF electric lights
or remain In darkness.
T.. II. Calef, travelling freight and
live stock agent, and J. w. McClain,
passenger and ticket agent, OF the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Co., came to Yer
saiIles last Friday in IN official capac-
ity. The partial nature OF their bust
ness WAS to look into the telegraphic
situation in which the people Of this
city were left by being cut out OF ser
vice when the Western Union telegraph
Office was closed at the depot. They
will make an effort to re-cstablish the
Office here. Our people have con
demned both companies for the unjust
treatment received, in no mild terms,
and they express hope that with the
new roads advent this disagrceablc
situation will be remedied for all
time