Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-11-16

Ida Ferling aged %, of Elvins end
ed her life by swallowing carboli
acid November 6.
The Teachers Association 0
St. Francois county has requeste,
the prosecuting attorney to call spe
cisl attention OF the grand jury t
the cigarette law which appears ts
be violated t" the injury of young
pupils in ;he schools.
Cc 80. s>-~'-
! ". IL. Lewis of Flat River, for
msr editor of the Piedmont Banner
was in De Soto last Sunday to at
tend the meeting of the printers
union. 1t is reported here that Mr.
Lewis is organizing stock com
pany to start a democratic paper al
Flat Nvpr.
Ca.li !.s..,I, Courier.
4 pet" gray wolf broke it's chain
at Headquarters, a small station on
the Frisco last week, md attacked
Mrs. Stroud, wounding her severely
before men working at the mill
came and killed it. The wolf be-
longed to Clint Darling. all accord
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Bloomfield Courier.
The succ-ss with cotton this year
will result in much larger planting
next season, aitho none will
plant cotton exclusively. Any farmer
with good land can raise four acres
of cotton without feeling the loss of
time as tie work comes mostly be
tween times in the cultivation and
harvesting of corn. wheat and grass
eS.
Dunklin Democrat.
The Maiden Merit tells Of the ex-
perience Of some innocents up that
way who ordered groceries from a
travelling Kansas City fakir. One
man, WV. Gordon, ordered 5Olbs.
sugar, so lbs. coffee, 6 lbs. soda l
can baking powder, to cost 1882.
When the goods came the order
had been stuffed and he was made
to pay for the coffee and sugar, II
lbs. of soda, , Of ginger, 2 ofpepper
S Of rice, l Of nutmeg, l can baking
powder, a total Of $3.50, or 1868,
more than he ordered. Home mer-
chants would not be permitted to
live in q town if they robbed that.
way.
Charleston Courier.
Rumors are III circu iation that
several new railroads will cross the
Mississippi on the Illmo bridge in
the noar future. The Williamsvillc
road has extensions that way, and
the Mobile L Ohio, soon to build
into Chicago, is casting wishfui
eye IN this direction, and SO is the
Burlington, A direct route to Kan
sas City is still another reliability.
In the next ten years it is possible
that Scott county will have as many |
connections as St. Louis !
now has. What blunder not to |
have provided trolley, wagon, and
foot accommodations when the |
bridge was building.
Democrat.
Circuit court will be in session,
next monday, and is billed to hold,
and on, until January S, 1906, or
SO court days. The docket, which
the Democrat printed this week, has
on it about Goo cases. OF these, II
are divorce cases, many Of them
having come over from the May
term. The only murder case IS that
against Warren Stanley a great
mess of local option cases, generally
old ones, are on the docket. There
is plenty of business before the court
to keep it busy until January, and
Judge Fort having recovered his
health, will likely stay with it. He
has but two counties-Dunklin and
look after now.
Peryville Sun.
Game Warden Allen had William
a colored man residing
near the ST. Mary's seminary, arrest
ed and arraigned before Squire
Robert T. Brown last Saturday for
illegally killing quails. The darkey
pleaded guilty to the charge and n
fine of e25 and costs was assessed
against him, amounting to $500.
This being the mildest fine under
the present game law. The colored
said that he killed only
two OF the above named feathered
tribe, and that he has no desire to
kill any more of them in or out of
the season specified by the law.
meat at this rate per pound
would make a miliionaire's "eyes