Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1904-02-11
Southeast News.

the Fredericktown Trust Con
pany is now the richest institutio
Of the kind III this part of the stat
1t is capitalized AT half Il millio
dollars.
! The County court of Perry cou1
| ty has let the contract for the ne,
$50 600 courthouse. The work G
erecting the building will begin i
a short time.
The democratic central commit
tee Of Madison county met at Fred
cricktown last Saturday and order
ed a primary elction for May 2l tt
nominate county candidates. Tht
committee also endorsed Mr.. FolE
for governor.
Cape Democrat.
Thirty-three acres Of swamp land
was sold at the courthouse this after
noon under Il second deed of trust,
for two hundred and tifty-one dol
lars. There is nothing on the land
but 4 first mortgage and lot of
coons.
Cape Democrat.
Cape Girardeau is Just now shut
off from the outside world. If a
man wanted to go from the Cape to
heaven, he would have to 90 all the
way round by Poplar Bluff to get
there, and when he got to Poplar
Bluff the devil would get him. 1t
is fright, the way we are fixed for
getting in and out Of town.
Cape Democrat.
\ girl in Stolfs candy store
caught fire from gasoline stove
this morning. She was enveloped
in iames and ran to the street. Dir.
Cannon Of Graysboro, who hap
pened to be passing the store as the
girl appeared on the sidewalk, took
in the situation in an instant and
he smOthered the flames with his
overcoat before the girl was hurt.
The republican committee of the
Fourteenth district met at Poplar
Bluff February 3, and decided to
hold the convention at Poplar
Bluff May 10, to nominate candi-
date for congress. The committee
endorsed Roosevelt for president,
for vice president, Nor
toni for governor, and Judge Sni-
der, Of Jackson, for chairman of
the state central committee.
Cor. to Greenville Sun.
A man at the tunnel is not expect
ed to live. Poor fellow. He was so
as to enter one of our
towns saloons and drank too much |
ocoze, became rude and was beaten
almost to death Ey its inmates. The
blood that was shed that night and !
swept out on the snow was some
thing dreadful. Who is to blame for
hat? The men who come home with |
90 much tanglefoot expect their
wives to meet them at the door with |
smile from ear to ear and a cup of
lice soup or hot milk waiting for
lim. She must at all times be all |
smiles, but if these same men meet |
mother man in Il saloon, little I'M
just as they were when in
he presence oftheir family, they are
'eady to pick up an iron rod or beer
bottle and knock him down. The |
lights and noise at these saloons the |
)ast few weeks is almost unbearable
% the civilized people of our town.
some of the good women Of our
own and country these cold nights
ire here hunting their husbands.
Dne cold evening not long ago, q
nan, his wife and baby drove in
own with a load ofwood. The lady
waited at the store until after dark
or her husband, who was too full of
,ooze to think of home Some men
ifted him in the wagon and started
hem home after dark. These are
,nly a few facts we mention. Now
s the time for us to organize in order
o secure good sober men for our
:ounty officials. Let US make good
elections and stand up for the right.
let's make Wayne county the best
ounty in the state, good officials as
veil as good citizens. Some of the
iquor people told our people before
he election that if local option car
led they could not get a drop of
even if their children were
make bitten, yet think ofthe snakes
n these saloons. They bite more
'eople than the grass snakes. The
;ood people of our town are very
'roud of our cOunty's young
awyers.
A Pipe Story Which is Not
Pipe Story.