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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08
Solid Institutions,

For years the banks of ST.
Louis have been known as solid
institutions, more so than those
of any of the great cities and
yei in a small way, they are no
more solid, no more conserva-
tive, no more solvent and relid-
BILE than the Monroe City Bank
and Farmers & Merchants Bank
of this city. The depositor is
safe with either Of them, as
their statements in this issue of
the DEMOCRAT proves.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08
GREAT SOCIAL
Event, The Entertainment Of the
Century Club.

One Of the leading social
events Of the season was the
entertaining Of the Century
Club and It's guests, about sixty
in all by Mrs. w. L. Reid, Tues
day evening.
The color scheme and decora-
tons were those Of the club,
green and white and the ices
carried out the iGea by being
in, for, and color, that OF the
Fleur de lis, selected because
the club, which is Of literary
nature, had been making a
study of France,
The punch bow! was presided
over by Misses Anna Boulware
and Carolyn Rogers.
When the Century or Kismet
Clubs invite their friends to
meet them when the sun goes
down, there is always a royal
time for the guest and mem
bers.
Lawrence PierSOi, Of Tulsa,
l. r., was the guest Of his ur-
Gle, John G. Picrsul. lie re.
ports Tulsa on the boom.
Charles Wood, of Oak Dale,
was Il business visitor in lnc
city Monday.
While in Monroe Guy the
other day Prosecuting Attorney
Boyd went t. ~, IOure Com
mission Co, oihcc duu t iuv
man in charge 90 C'ose up or he
would prUceCu 20 prosecute
him. The operator asked for It
few day . ,,m 10 Cummu,I>df,
with his hcuse, ana we Team he
has iU.d, MS tent Good Tor
BOvd
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08
Fair Game

We are truly glad to chroni-
Gle the Monroe base ball team
in playing better ball. Sunday
afternoon the team crossed bats
with the Hannibal team at the
park and succeeded in keeping
sau score down t. 10 10 Z ia
favor of Hannibal. What the
home team needs is practice,
with it they can. play bail, with
out it they wi II play farce.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08

We heard a gentlemen re-
mark the other day that when
shirts are done at home they
never look like anything and he
told the truth. We charge'only
y cents for neghgee shirts.
MONROE STEAM LAUNDRY.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08

IP Stephens an employee in
the milling department of the
Atlas Cement Plant at Hanui-
bal, spent Tuesday near this
city with his family.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
OF the financial condition Of the
Monroe City Bank,

al Monroe Guy,
ness on the 29Ih day of May, 1905,
puull9heu IN the Monroe Clty DEmC-
GRhT, newspaper printed ana pup
llshed ~ MONROE CIIy' state on MIS-
souri,, on the OH day OF june l0Oo'
pESOI,RCES
,.., .,i..,.,,,.,'
1o"ms ",'u u'SIo,ne1' per o,o. -, T.,
80 ~ n ,,,J'' a. ''Jy', IA NV
OverdIal.s 1896 80
Bonds and stocks 0 90
zeal estate (bhnklng house, 5,3OO Oh
DIher real estate ~ w
FURNITURE ana IAturcs oOo w
Due IRON other oahNs ahu ,,.,
bankers, suhJeCI 10 "hcck do,oSz ~
Cash items 500 10
S"oc cG,'S Ssat G G0
OH rosou,.,,,s M rol,o,s ~ M
----
Total 5000, 100 OF
,.,,,.,,,,,,,,
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $4,000 90
Surplus fund 1900 %
Undivided profits, net 1888 10
Que 10 banks ana bankers,
IndtyidnaI drnosit. s,hiect
to check HAP ID
Time certificates of dcposit U 90
Den and certificates Of deposit 3,l02 90
Cashiers checks q COL
count mn, 900
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08
Only Five Dollars

a Nonroe City jury fined a
man five dolla RI frr beating his
wife. Monroe no doubt will be
a popular resort for "wlfe beat
erS" in the future. A man who
would s'Iilce a woman should
either &c hung or sent to d lu-
matte asylum for life, Clarence
Courier,
....--.'------------
Miss B?ulab Smith, of Hauni,
bal, has lie, The guest of rela-
tives in Che city
Do you wart 10 improve your
propcrlvY II SO Use The Sun
Proof Paint.
w. B. SPALDING.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08

Al Jefferson City Wednesday
of Las week before the supreme
court in the MCGOWAN. Morgan.
Small gas grab case Frank Hag-
ermau and James A. Reed de.
clared that they would give
facts sufficient 20 prove that
Doodle was used. Mr.. Reed, in
one OF his most impassioned
plans, used these pointed words;
The Judas has been caught
with the silver his in hand-will
this court say a court Of chan
Gerry has no right TO prevent his
going away with itY Tell
the aldermen of Kansas CITY
that Judge Gates has no right
to prevent this steal; tell the
corrupt council of Philadelphia
the court has no right to pres
vent them from selling the
rights OF the people, Tell leg
islative bodies everywhere that
the courts have no right to
check such steals and you es.
tablish a precedent which wlll
start a reign of legislative crime
unparalleled in history -
Milan Standard.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08
I ClTcCt Attest:
j. NJ. PROCTOR,
j. }. BROWN, Directors.
y. t. DAVENPORT,

Pearl McRcynolds has had
his bachelor bone re-papered
ana mat looks decidedly sus-
piCiuuS. who - she, Pearl?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08

Hon. p. B. Dunn reached here
Saturday evening from San An.
tonic, Texas, where and his
family sped tie winters. Mrs.
Dunn and Miss Clara are visit
ing in Monroe City,-Shelbina
Democrat
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08

J I'll Wuitecotton left last
nigAt for B,zbec, Ariz., to spend
sever lays,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08

Ma Va Yates oIr.veu home
from Furto", yesterday. He is
a stu i in the school for the
deaf and DUMB
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1905-06-08

Thomas Flaming, of Vinita,
l. T., arrived yesterday to
wish relatives and friends.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

We Are Pleased to Announce to Our Clients
and Friends That, We Are Now Ready to
Accept Subscriptions for the Stock of the
Mesa Crande Tourmaline and Gem Company.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

proper p Of 6 hd al Ghs San Diego oCyC
m O. ar
in
property owned clear any
p
of Mesa GhT TrnnH nc Gem Crmnn t or purpose paying
% 6 ~ which e op
mini gpH 10 IN enormous % h work h
~
ut in proves
oh %
question very wh i'm bhH he Mesa Grand Company b pdn gems guam s
Or e in N
h h dnok n billions for in fd~ associate Gen Y not
al ty pp in H profits
Cp hd honestly will a he h anon
figuring t Or profit PROPOSE
H p an hi output of the B Bp
nsy OF to in of would ip
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-27
MEETING OF BROTHERS
Hon. W. R. Bigham, Consul at Cape
Town, South Africa, Visits D.
[. in this City.
First Meeting Since the Brothers Trdv-
ersed Together in South Amer
lean Countries.

Hon. William R. Bigham of White
City, Kansas, United States consul
at Cape Town, South Africa, accom-
panied by his wife, arrived here
last Wednesday morning, and spent
three days with his brother,
Darwin L. Bigham and family
of this city. Mr.. Bigham has
held the position of consul at Cape
Town for four years. The meeting
of the two brothers is the first in
many years and when the Redwood
brother heard of his brothers com.
ing he took the train for Mankatc
to escort him and his wife to Red
wood Falls. In a short interview
with the consul Mr.. Brigham stated
that during the time he had been
stationed at Cape Town the trade oil
the United States with South Africa
had increased from less than So, 600
900 to over $23, 100000 annually.
After the Boer war there was re-
markable development of trade as
usually follows under such condi-
tions, and following upon this in
fiation has come a period of compar-
alive stagnation of business. Later
on matters will undoubtedly settle
down to their usual current.
Mr.. Bigham states that there are
about 100 American concerns rep
resented at Cape Town by agencies
and branch houses. These COM
prise many of the leading manufac-
turing and shipping corporations
of the country who took advantage
of the cessation of hostilities to sup
ply the demand which the opening
of the country made.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-27

AS to the Beers, Mr.. Bigham said
that the case is parallel with the
condition of affairs in this country
after the civil war, in some respects.
Not until the coming generation
reaches the stage of affairs will all
feelings of animosity die out in all
probability. Still the country is
calming down and a settled condi,
ton of affairs is manifest that gives
promise of development of trade
and commerce as the years go by.
Mr.. Bigham has a fund of infor-
nation relating to South Africa and
tells many interesting incidents.
He describes the climate at Cape
Town as being about the same as
that of Los Angeles, Cal. In the
last four years he has seen frost but
once.
Describing the new bridge over
the Zambezi river in the heart OF
Africa, the consul states that he
crossed it recently, soon after it's
completion.
1t is said to be the highest bridge
in the world, as it crosses the river
just below the falls which are APO
feet high, or the highest of any
of.the large rivers. Above the falls
the river is three miles wide, but
shallow, it falls into a crack in the
rock hundred feet wide and for
forty miles follows zigzag course.
1t seems as though the river was
turned up on it's side as it rushes
along between the walls of rock.
It's depth is unknown. The only
white people there are the railroad
officials and employees and the peo-
pie who house travellers.
Speaking of the Kimberly dia-
mond fields Mr.. Brigham says that
they continued as productive as
ever, and that the DeBeers COM
pany, as owners, continued to die
tate the price OF diamonds through
out the world. With their output
untaxed and the poverty-stricken
government protecting the company
against kaffir diamond trading the
profits are fabulous. Kahir en-
ployees are herded in a stockade
and three days before they quit the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-27

service they are, it is said, given q
physic, and placed under watch sc
they cannot carry off the diamonds
by the swallowing process. DC.
casionally diamond gets away by
kaffir throwing it through the net
roof of the corral and afterwards
finding it. Diamond dealing is
carefully protected by law.
Mr.. Bigham related in an inter
esting manner few facts incident
to the gold mining industry. Gold
bearing rock is found in three lay
ers or stratas, the first strata being
about seven hundred feet below the
surface. The gold is about evenly
distributed through each strata,
the second strata being richer than
the first, and the third richer than
the second. The labor is nearly
all performed by the natives while
the engineers and bosses are large
ly Americans.
Diamonds, gold, ostrich feathers
and a small quantity of hides are
among the chief exports.
Business conditions there are
greatly depressed owing to farms
having been destroyed during the
war, and farmers not yet having re-
covered from the blow.
Mr.. Brigham will not return to
Cape Town, he having resigned his
post there, on account of the salary
not being large enough to keep up
the dignity of the post. Cape Town
is the most expensive city in the
world in which to reside, eggs run
ming as high as $1.25 per dozen and
potatoes $12 per bushel. Hotel
rates are not less than s. per day,
regardless of time you remain.
When Mr.. Bigham first went to
Cape Town the salary of consul was
49, 900 per year, and paying $1,000
to get there, he was obliged to draw
heavily on his own resources to bal
.ance his affairs. Finally, the gov
eminent allowed him $4,000 per
year, secretary at 1900 and a
stenographer at $500. Even this
was too small to keep up the digni-
ty of post where last year the
Last page.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-27
6 FLYING BANVARDS
Attraction at County Fair Opening To-
day at a Salary of 500
Per Day.
Greatest Line of Free Attractions Ever
Pulled off BY Any County
fair of State.

The 32d annual fair of the Red
wood county agricultural society
will open in Red wood Falls today,
and the fair management will offer
to the people Of Redwood and sur
rounding counties the greatest free
show ever pulled off in this section
of the state, and by far the greatest
show that has been pulled off by
any surrounding agricultural So
ciety this year.
When the news was flashed
across the wire last Friday night
that the Six Flying Banvards had
been secured as the third free at
traction of the fair the management
was ready to back it's statement
that the best line OF free attractions
had been secured. The Banvards
are to-day the worlds greatest ira
peze artists. So wonderful have
their feats on the trapeze become
that last winter they, by special
engagement, appeared at the circus
royale in Paris, one of the greatest
amusement places in the world.
This year they were the leading
attraction at the Portland exposi-
ton for two months, and they come
to Red wood Falls direct from Chi
cago, the society paying them 800
per day for every day of the fair.
Their feats are simply marvellous,
including single, double and triple
somersaults in the air while Jour-
neying from one trapeze to another
so or rs feet away, and during all
the time that they are before the
public the entire six members of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-27

the family performing. The family
are too expensive for circus work,
and fair society managers are won
dering at the daring spirit of the
Redwood society in securing them
for Redwoo Falls. The manage
ment here is jubilant over the en-
gagement. Unita and Paul are two
wonderful performers receiving the
plaudits of the big crowd at the
state fair, while the Primrose club
of colored jubilee singers made
distinctive hit here last year.
For the benefit of all we are
authorized to state that the officers
guarantee that the Redwood show
is a much better affair than that be-
ing pulled off at Marshall on the
same days, or of any other sur
rounding fairs, and they are pre-
pared to back up their statements
with money.
The state pure food exhibit will
be on exhibition at the court house
hall. Here, too, will be the exhib-
its of so much of the county society
as relates to the division for ladies'
the culinary, the domestic, the art,
and the floral exhibits, will all be
shown in the main or adjoining
rooms of the court house.
The vegetable and agricultural
divisions will be In the Crouley
building just west of the Lauter-
bach harness shop. This includes
the poultry division, also. The
horse exhibit will be on the lot Of
the Commercial club on Second
street, on which barns have long
since been erected. The cattle.
hogs and sheep exhibit will be on
the Melges lot just west OF c. D.
Thompson's brick building on Sec
ond street and in the city pound
lot. This will give more and better
room than at the old fair grounds.
The show will commence at $50
O'Clock this morning, when the
Primrose club of jubilee singers
will commence the entertainment on
their platform under their arch at
the intersection of Second and
Washington streets. They will en-
Last page.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-27

Delay means daily waste of time. lab
or and product.
DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS save
so per cow, per year every year of use
owe over all gravity setting systems
and So per COW over all initiating sepa-
rrtors. They received the Grand Prize
er highesl award at ST. Louis.
Buying trashy cash-in-advance sepa-
rators is penny wise, dollar foolish.
Such machines quickly lose their cost
instead of saving it.
If you haven.t the ready cash Della
val machines may be bought on such
on such terms that they actually pay
for themselves.
Call an see them and get our terms.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24
MANKIND HAS COLD BLOOD.
Comparative Low Temperature Is TO
Blame for Most Human
Ailments.

MAN Is the coolest bluOded animal
by 1t most at this time of the year are
the saloon keepers, the furriers, the
drug stores aud-we doctors, remarked
pr. Il j Neville, OF Albany, who came
here to attend meeting Of the New
York State Medical association The
doctor, says the New York Globe. who
vas sitting In the hall OF the Victoria.
vas led to make the above remark
through the appearance of man pass
Ing CARRIED In heavy black bearskin
oyercuat.
Mans low temperature the doctor
went on. rs responsible tor more than
half his ailments. Your normal TEN
peraturc Is YSla degree Fahrenheit 1t
Is only when YOU have Il bad tempera.
ture that YOU get rs warm as any Of the
lower animals That is to say. when
GOu are in high fever with tempera-
ture OF lU2 you are at the normal heat
" the cat, the dog the OK, the rat ana
60 on. Ia the coolest of seas the por
poise is never cooler than 100 degrees
The bat, the rabbit the guinea pig. the
hare and the elephant likewise are all
cool al 100 degrees.
THE hen has the highest temperature
of all the lower creatures. aud II is a
good deal warmer. too. when chicken
lis temperature then is as high as III.
but age aud experience cool her blood by
three degrees"
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24
ONCE A DANGEROUS COUNTRY.
Risks Run by Iun Guests when
Dueiling Was In Vogue in
ireland.

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The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24
WEALTHY MEN OF COLORADO
The Centennial State Possesses Over
One Hundred Bona-Fide
Millionaires.

Colorado is the state Of vast individual
fortunes, outranking any other state in
the union on n per capita basis. 1t has
the further distinction that most OF its
vast fortunes were made within its
boundaries, not alone In mining, but
In the cattle industry. In realty spec
ulation, in fruit, sugar beet culture, po-
tato-farming and In manufacturing
and other mercantile pursuits.
Many people OF wealth have moved
Into the state In the last few years and
invested large sums in mining corpora.
lions In the stocks of banks aud other
enterprises, aud are not individually
known to the commercial agencies
Still another class represents the re-
tired country capitalist, who has moved
from the section in which his wealth
was acquired to Denver Of Colorado
Springs His individual holdings, too
unless they are In realty, are necessarily
hidden from the regular commercial in
formation sources
Who is the richest man in Colorado?
'hNlt "bHh', thpllhliHNt VI l'tHN'if nv
most conservative estimate of $l5 ,0O0,.
600 was given by two persons VINO would
naturally be expected To oXaEgerate Mir
MOftat's wealth. On the other hand
from those nearest him, those VINO
ought to know and yet would not allow
an exaggerated estimate to be given
out, the estimate was between S2j O00.-
and s3OO0OO00 giving him an easy lead
In the Colorado list
There are los miIlionaircs, and II to
these could be added the names of those
who have left Colorado after making
fortunes. It could be easily doubled. The
total wealth of the los miilionaires OF
Colorado aggregates about $3.50 600, 900
There Is probably no section OF the world
with population Of less than 600 900
that can show such home production OF
wealth
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24
SMART MEETS SMARTER.
Thought He Knew How to Keep an
Umbrella, But 1t Got
Away.

Into the Jersey City station Of the
Pennsylvania railroad sauntered a
purtly man lie wore chesty look
and carried an umbrella, relates the New
York Times Advancing to one Of the
benches he pulled a chain and paddock
from his pocket, ran one end Of the
chain through the open handle. and
made the umbrella fast to the seat Then
he said to a man sitting there:
i've travelled all over this country
Tor five years, and know thing or
two"
Then he walked away.
The man who sat there got IN. lie
had check suit and a smooth cheek
tie stepped up to the umbrella, pulled a
ale from his pocket, rubbed 1t to and
fro across one OF the links in the chain
for a few minutes. looscning the UNI.
brella. Then he said to another man:
III the Teller who is smarter than
chain lightnin comes back after his
parasol, tell him the chap you saw
a-walkin' OFF with 1t never was on the
farm afore."
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24

absorbed INTO ms system lie nov
begged permission to return 10 his du-
ties as, In spite of his painful expert
euccs. his faculties were unimpaircd.
At this moment Or. Austin became
conscious OF an upruar in the campus
An excited thrung was surging about
the laboratory. AS he stepped out ON
TO the porch to investigate the cause
the crowd broke into a run. headed by
Mccarthy, who, arIuless and legless.
came lying toward him, followed by
wOrkmen and students.
why, Why" exclaimed the doc
tor what on earth has happened%
IT'S bcwitched. ann" Mccarthy
yocifcrated "Whin | was scrubbing
he shpot on the ilurc, me arms and
legs cam of.
Every one felt of him; his arms and
legs were as tangible as ever, but to-
tally invisible There was confu-
sicn Of voices, and the hubbub was
momentarily increasing when Ma
earthly. breaking away. fled humeward,
spreading panic at every step.
Dr. Austin sent his answer immedi-
ately by the noon mail
one week later everybody was at the
railroad station. the president and
faculty, the trustees and students, the
mayor and city council, waiting with
addresses Of welcome while the plat
form was crowded with representative
citizens, and all about the station were
carriages filled with ladies. Only lsa-
bel West was at home reading for the
hundrcdth time The letter she had re-
cciyed from John Warwick the day
before
a whistle was heard in the dis
lance n rumhling, ms the train crossed
the bridge the engine swept into view
around the curve. rushed past the sta
tiOn, slowed up and stopped, painting
heavily The band began playing
People broke into cheers and ladies
waved their haudkcrchiefs. The pas
sengcrs, stretching their necks out Of
the train windows, wondered why peO-
pie were mobbing the tall, athletic
young fellow who stood blushing like
q schooIboy and smiling TREMENDOUSLY.
/ Then, as the train moved OF, there Waa
mighty roar of students voices:
Rah! Rah' Rah! Sis-boom rah!
What's the matter with Warwick?
He's all right! Who's all right? War.
. wick! \. o. Timcs-DemuCrat.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24
Electricity for Hent.

The ease and surety with which q
furnace heated electrically is con-
trolled Is a point of much importance,
and is sufficient to warrant the great
er expense involved by the use OF this
system, The fact that the furnace is
under perfect control conduces to
efficiency, and this brings the cost of
energy nearer to that of other sys-
tens. AS to the actual cost. taking II
all In all, there is not such q great
disadvantage in the electric system
and one can easily imagine case
whore electricity and gas could be on
a par in this regard