The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-12
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS
Brief Mention of Events Concerning
the People of Cairo and
Vicinity


are making arrangements TO attend
tho Great Spring Carnival which will
be held in Paducah week, Of May H.
Cairo's brewery has a brick foun-
dation two fec above The ground on
Commercial ay nue. between the main
buildng and the stable, upon which
will he erected a massive and hand
some iron fence.
Several pasteboard signs hung up
on the front of Engine house No. >
do not signify that there is any
paint upon the front Of the building,
but it does signify that it needs sew
eral coats of fresh paint as it pre-
SCENTS a very delapidated weather bea-
ten appearance
The N. c. T. II. will hold their reg.
ular weekly meeting this Thursday
afternoon at 8 O'Clock at the Presby'
terrain church parlors. This will be a
mothers meeting and an interesting
program has been arranged Dainty
refreshments will be served All
friends are invited, and the mothers
are especially urged to attend
One Of the most desirable little I'M
proyements made in the city for
some time was the laying of a sewer on
Sixth street, from Railroad street to
Commercial avenue 1t was provided
for by resolution offered by Alderman
Hasenjaeger about six months ago
1t will do away with a bit of surface
drainage which has for years been
very offensive to pedestrians on one
of the most travelled streets in the
city
Martin Conelly, yardmasteT Of the
Illinois Central at Mounds, died short
ly after noon yesterday from injuries
received a few days ago by being
thrown from his buggy The story as
told at the time was that his horse
SHE'D, turned the buggy over and he
was caught under it ana his leg
broken 1t appears that he also re
ceived an injury Of the head which
proved to be conclusion of the brain
ana from which he died The fu
neral will take place at Mounds
The announcement Of the big cani
val to be held at Paducah next weeF
is made in The Bulletin this morning
a partial list Of the attractions tc
be offered IL given from which il win
be noted that many frst-class feature.
will be presented. Cairo people are
always generous with their patronage
Of such amusements and there is nc
doubt bur that a large attendance
from this city viii be present at the
carnival which begins next Monaa.
and lasts all week
There. was small strike at tia
business place of Mr. Homer Ather
ton yesterday, the confectionery
stand near Eighth and Washington
tin recently run by Mr. Webb, Mr.
Atherton had number Of men EN-
ployed renovating the interior-paper
hangers principally and then employ
ed a sign writer to letter the front
The latter was not a union man, Il
seems, and the paper hangers were
and they "struck." At last account
ing there was a prospect Of settle
ment
A series ofyery interesting reyiya
meetings are in progress at the Cairo
Baptist church Rev ] J Porter. o.
Joplin, Mo, brother of the regular
pastor, is conducting the services ano
with marked success, preaching clio
qucntly and effectively to large gath
arings nightly The music is an i'm
poItant feature of the service. con
luctel by Singing Evangelist J. A
Blown Two harps, three yioins ar
organ and a piano are the instru
mont useI Tonight The subject vii
be What is Hell and Whore is IT,
A handsome line of delivery wagon
wan De seen FOR the FIRST time thi
morning The wagons were manuiac
ture1 at VIM Oehlers wagon and bug
gy works ana expressly for the Cairo
Ice manufacturing company. which
enters the local field today Mr.. Och
Ter has turned ont another specimen
of the high class work for which his
establishment rs famous In his see
tion. The new wagons are attractive
~ decorated in uniform colors They
are painted a bright yellow with blac3
lettering showing the name of the
new ice company and the location OF
its factory The formation of the new
8as announced in The Bul
letin some months ago and as stated
elsewhere in this issue ID is now pre-
pared for business The office ana
works is at Commercial avenue a. 2
Twenty-seventh street, the building
formerly occupied by the Egypt Flee
trio company.
TWENTY WEARS IN KOREA