The Cairo bulletin., 1904-04-19
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS
Brief Mention of Events Concerning
the People Of Cairo and
Vicinity.


bile & Ohio employees
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Halliday have
moved into their new residence al
2911 Elm street
Mr. Werner and Son have installed
one OF the latest improved Multiple
National Cash Registers
Work on the Grinstead building
was resumed yesterday The big
ground floor josts are being laid.
Marriage licenses were issued &c
James II. Austin, and Lille l.. Smith,
both OF Charleston Mo- and to Lew
Greggs and May Emerson, both OF
Moberly. Mo
Rev A. G. McGarr missionary
who has spent much time in India
will deliver an address at the Presby
terrain church tonight 10 which every.
one is cordially invited.
The city has commenced work up
on an eight foot wide concrete eros.
sing at Second street and the Ohio
Leyee, extending from the Illinois
Central depot to The Halliday
The summer cars of the Cairo
Electric and Traction company were
out Yesterday for the first time this
season They have been newly paint
ed and put in first-class condition.
The excursion from ST. Louis t.
paducah Sunday passed through Cal
no. The reason for this was tina,
The transfer boat from Brookport tc
Paducah could not handle the trains
Of eight coaches.
The residence OF Mrs Catherine
Stapleton at i0S Tenth street, caught
fire yesterday afternoon, resulting in
the burning OF a small hole in the
roof The fire was extinguished with
a few buckets of water
Niamo, the eight year old daughter
If Mr. and Mrs Charles Seeley, o.
rwenty-seyenth street, died yesterday
morning of St Vitus dance. The re
mains were taken to Jonesboro, III
.or interment Mrs. Seeley is very i'll
The meeting of the Thursday Card
club this week has been changed t.
Wednesday evening to prevent con
tiiCt with other events on the social
calendar The Misses Hastings, OF
upper Washington avenue, win enter
tain the club
The Blue Front restaurant is re
eeiying fresh coat Of paint. Sons
extensive Improvements are contem
plated which. if made, will add great
y to the capacity and convenience d
this popular place
Mr., and Mrs. t. Butcher, Of 1909
Commercial avenue, celebrated the
wenteth anniversary of their MAJ
-iage and the first communion Of Their
laughter Sunday with a family re
lnion in which their relatives in Cairo
md vicinity participated.
G. l.. Russell a carpenter employ
I'd at the Chicago Mill and Lumber
eompang's plant. died Sunday evening
At his home on Thirty.third street. Tie
was about Sc years old and left
wife and six sons. The remains will
ne taken to Willard today for burial
The Forester's excursion from ST
Louis 10 Cairo Sunday was not well
owing to the cold wealth
ar Another of these excursions will
be run from St Louis May II. at
which time the Cairo and GAINESVILLE
baseball teams will be doing battle
here.
\ steam pipe which was being test
ID in the brew-room of Cairo's Own
Brewery yesterday, burst at a pres
sure Of so pounds, and Mr. John
Nicholson, who was passing through
he room at the time came near be
ng badly scaided He was slightly
burned on one arm and his clothing
vas drenched
The funeral OF Mrs Charles Carr
nee Connell was held at Beech
Grove cemetery yesterday afternoon
Many members of the Parthenia Re
aekah degree lodge of which she was
! member drove from here An &C
count of the funeral service is gwen
n this issue by the Mound City cor