The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-03
MOUND CITY.



spent two or three days CT last week
n Memphis.
Married, in Mound City on Saturday
evening, April 20, Mr. Ernest Read to
Miss Annie Drake, both of this city. |
Tho ceremony was performed at the
home OF the brides mother, on Pearl |
street, at $3.50 o'clock, Justice ]. Il. |
1onnell performing the hymeneal SER
vice. Tho bride is comedy and yivaei |
Gus. She is the youngest daughter Of |
james II. Drake, deceased who for |
Years was chief marshal OF Mound |
City, and who was brave and eff |
Gent officer The groom is a young
man Of fair character and Industrious
habits-an employee of the Wisconsin
chair factory.
William Hough is having his cot.
tase, situated on Main just above East
First street, renovated throughout.
The building is occupied by Ben Blank
3nship.
Tho new building that is to be &C.
cup ed by the Novelty Manufacturing
company, Immediately above asst First
'treet on Commercial avenue, is com.
oietcd. The people who are to operate
he plant have begun to receiv and
alace their apparatus. Within a very
Few days now all who have such an
Inclination can call at the new institu-
ion and learn the modus operandi of
.urning out butchers blocks, butter
moulds, rolling pins, tool handles and
! great lot Of other things.
The order with the farmers now is 4
ieeding land to corn. There will be an
increased acreage in this cereal in Pu.
ask county this season BY the way,
10 the experience of all the farm
ne class. as well as the casual OBJ
ierver, that the ground breaks up bet
ter this spring than for ten or twelve
years past The long spells of frecz-
ing weather last winter put cutivat.
able land in excellent order for pul-
verizing.
Farmer Burgett, one Of the best
posted farmers and gardeners In this
section, who resides at Center station
and owns eighty acres Of coal black
dirt there, visited this city today.
The attendance at the several
churches Sunday evening was crafty
ing to the pastors in charge and plea
iurable TO church goers generally.
There was big house at the M. Il.
church
Jesse stark Of Memphis, Tenn, for
'nerly an old Mound City gentleman
7rrived here on Saturday for a visit
with relatives and friends he knew
4 other days. Uncle Jesse says that
MS son-in law, Johnnie Jones, anoth-
CT erstwhile resident of this city, has
an important and lucrative position
with a Memphis pump factory.
Miss Annie Barthold of Grand
Chain, on her way to St. Louis for an
extended visit with relatives, was the
guest Of Mr., and Mrs. Henry Crippen
on North Main Saturday and Sunday
Clay Stark, proprietor of Puzzle
| Bones market was In Memphis two
| - fNhiti hhs lbci WIEN.
Harry Handley one Of the new al
| iermcn-a gentleman who never oc-
cupied a like position with greater
| qualification to himself and those who
elected him--i3 Transforming his cot.
! tagc on Main near East Second street
into q vcritable bower of beauty and
coziness Art glass adorns the swell
windows; the richest OF carpets lay
upon the floors; costly papers hang
upon the walls and the furniture and
other furnishings could not be tabcoe1
by queen who occupied a throne
meritoriously If you call on Mr.. and
Mrs. Handley you will form the opn.
Ion that there are no people in this
community that are mere hosp.tablo
and soulful.
John Read and better half enjoyed
q drive TO Cairo Sunday.
Mrs. Michael Williams Of Paducah,
has been the guest Of Mr. aud Mrs. Joe
Lutz the past week Mr.. Williams
came down Sunday and tho twain re.
turned home together Mr.. Williams
10 Mrs. lutz'e father. and IL euperin.
tendent Of the Paducah steamboat
ways. ~ 4.s 81. Ar .tisn
Ray Palmer Ton OF the editor cf the
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