The Laclede blade., 1905-07-29
HERE AND THERE.
Local Items Of the Week Gathered For the
Busy Blade Readers.

Judge J. M. Pratt, who left here ,
couple Of weeks ago, suffered sun
stroke and fell on the side walk jr
Kansas City last week during the hot
spell. He was taken to hospital
and at last accounts was improving.
i Everybody is invited to the revival
meetings to be held at the home Of
| F. G. Adams, west Of town. There
will be preaching tonight and Sunday
morning, afternoon and night by Rev
Zumbro. All will be welcome.
The rain that began falling ut s
Eo'clock Wednesday morning and the
steady downpour that continued for
several hours was just what was need
ed. 1t insures the full maturity of
all the early corn in this vicinity, if
not the entire crop.
E. E. Gould has organized the
Gould Land and Investment Co.,
with headquarters at Little Rock,
Ark, and will leave for that place
next week. He is also immigration
agent for the Missouri Pacific and will
work in connection with the land de-
partment of that read. There is a
big Immigration to Arkansas just now
and Mr.. Gould will conduct excur-
sions and locate those seeking homes
in that state and in Louisiana.
Rev. Price A. Crow, former pas
tor of the Laclede M. e. church, with
Mrs. Crow and their two sons, are
welcome visitors here this week, guests
of the family of J. T. Hamilton. Rev.
Grow is pastor of St. Marks Metho-
dist Episcopal church at Buffalo, N.
Y, and they are on their way home
from attending the Epworth League
at Denver ut. Marks is
one of the downtown churches of
Buffalo and has fine edifce costing
$4,000 with a S. 900 parsonage. 1t
has membership of over 400. Rev.
Grow preached a fine sermon to a
large audience of his former parish
toner's Thursday night, who were glad |
to meet him.
Enos HI. Hurlbut escaped from the |
state hospital at St. Joseph Monday |
and arrived in Laclede on a freight |
train Tuesday afternoon, and went
direct to his home in the northwest |
part of town. At first he claimed to |
have been released, but later stated |
that in order to get away he had
crawled a mile and a half on his
hands and knees behind hedge
fence. He walked to Stewartsville,
where he boarded the train and came
to Laclede. On some subjects he
talked nationally, b4s it was evident
that his mind was no better than
when he was taken to the hospital
several years ago. An asylum officer
came to Laclede Wednesday noon
and returned with him to st. Joseph
that evening.
The baseball game played here
by the Laclede and Hale
5eams was much better than the av- D
rage, although it was Laclede's first {
yame of the season. The, Hale team I
good one and their pitcher is a {
yonder for his age. The game was &
exciting from the start. Neither side Is
vas able to score until the sixth, when t
'ach made one, and Laclede got an
'ther in the seventh. In the eighth, q
With two gone, Laclede began to do t
hings. Besides pitching q magnif- 9
entgame, Adolph BrendAhl won it by I
out = three-saeker with the lg
'ases full. It looked like Hale would a
ie the score In the ninth, with the n
'ases fun and only one out, but an In o
cid hit and q strikeout finished the b
zms nicely. LAelede played q per i
ct fielding game, but1ths batting q
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