The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1904-02-12

ioT ". VI Eumcs Will iuos1ii tuc
officers and make an address on
pythianism.
Advices from Fulton this week
are that Galloway county Is we'll
supplied with money since the
Ed. Butler trial. A st. Louis pa
per says the county attorney Of
Galloway got $4,000 from Butler
for assisting in his defense, and
a report from Fulton says that But
lcr paid each Of the jurymen 800
after the verdict was rendered.
Editor Parsons Of the Bcllflowcr
Telegram last week very tcrsely
gave the Montgomery county DEM
ocratic officials and candidates to
understand that he Is getting tired
of helping to elect democrats to
oillce unless they exhibit q dispo-
sition to divide up with him In
the printing work Of their offices
better than those OF the past have
done. The Middletown Chips calls
this yellow dog partisanship. The
TRIBUNE denominates IL a genuine
Missouri mule democratic kick.
J. M. Davidson OF Gamma is al
most lost now since he sold his
store and real estate over there
He was In Montgomery City Fri
day and looks ten years Older
He now talks of moving to Illinois
where they grow larger horses than
they do here, but he won't stay
there long II he does go. Any man
who has resided as long as David
son has within the sound of the
melodious Missouri mule can never
be contented very long anywhere
else. And then II the state should
go republican this year the price
of property would nearly double
in price before two years.
Just think Of II. Nearly nine
months from now until the Novem-
Der election. What do you sup
pose will become of the Montgom-
cry county democratic candidates
for oflice by that time ? Some Of
them are already beginning to
look like shadows, and the chances
are that there will be hardly hide
or hair OF them left long before
that time. And then just think OF
the cigars, drinks, hotel meals, &c.
II will take to try and keep the
"fellars" in line until then. And
then the dear people who don't
indulge, what a grand old time
they will have investigating the
characters, church relations, anc-
estry and geneology Of those dem
ocratic candidate friends of ours.
Being n candidate for Office Is a
good thing for some people, even
II they never get elected--it tends
to make them behave themselves.
The oldest postmistress in Mont
gomery county, and perhaps in the
state, 10 Mrs. Mary Jane Miller oi
High Hill; aged nearly eighty-twc
years. Her husband, who was al
old union soldier, has been deat
some years, but Mrs. Miller is moi
a pensioner. She says she car
earn a living without 1t. Mrs. Mil
Ter was appointed postmistress o
High Hill by President Harrison
then was let out for four years By
, the Cleveland administration, ant
r is now serving her second term b.
order OF President Mckinley
postmaster general. She can d.
2 her household work, is sound 4
: body and mind, does not use spec
5 tacles, and says she can read nm
write almost as well as she eve
8 could. The postoffice is located /
her sons drug store, and he no.
n does most OF the work as her as
i sistant. Mrs. Miller Ia proud c
. her career, and Is surely an unusu
G ally well preserved and energeti
= woman for her age. And yet som
z men say the old women are goo
Q for nothing. We wish every post
= office in the land had some goo
Il widowed mother at the head Of
and young ladies for clerks.