Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-02-23
Items Of Interest.

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Drusilla Morrel of 122 Adelphi street,
Brooklyn, now in her 1O2d year, wa re.
ceived into full member in the Simp.
son Methodist Episcopal church, Cler-
mont and Willoughby avenues, last Sun.
day morning. With her there were re.
ceived into membership her daughter,
a grand. daughter and a great-grsnd-
daughter--four generations in all.
A booze fighter at Concordis took on
an extra jag the othea night and went to
the Union Pacific water tank to sleep II
(the jag) of. Along about | | O'Clock he
woke up and as the tank was OVERLOOKING .
little and leaking a great deal, he on
cluded a terrible rainstorm was raging
and sat there till daylight, waiting for
the rain to cease.
The pastor of a Howard church an.
nounces that henceforth he will begin
services promptly on time. whether
there is a quorum present or not"
ave are receiving some nice things in
white goods, enbroideries, lace and
waists" says a Hardin merchant. What
fare they-girls?
A Le%avenworth man was injured the
! other day by the explosion OF a can Of
tomatoes. 1t was tie severest casualty
of that sort since a pie blue up at the
Wichita pure food show.
A Shawnee county woman who was di.
vorced twenty-five years ago. is trying to
have the decree set aside. In the prero-
gative of changing ones mind there 10 ne
statute of limitations.
The county court Of Texas county,
Missouri, last week ordered q vote on
local option.
Two hundred farmers Of Cooper
county, Missouri, have organized to
promote an electric railway to connect
Prairie Home with the Frisco at Eldon.
A Northwest Missouri editor
ed wedding under the headline, Joined
Hands for Life" Several mouths later,
when the m was granted a divorce.
the editor headed the notice. "L.et Go
Again"
The Ottawa, Kas, Republic, in a re.
ent issue, told all about what to eat
except how to get it.
j W. Higgins, a farmer, borrowed
$4G0 from the list National bank at Nor.
man, Ok, and put the money in a pock-
et(sook that contained so. He lost the
ppcketbook, which was found and hand
ED over to the City National bank.
Higgins owed the latter bank an old
6ebt of 500. The bank garnisheed the
1890 and applied 1t on the 500. Hig.
/gins was SO disguised that he left the
country.
The fast-mail wreck at Gasconade
bridge is a reminder that fifty years ago
Jefferson City was the western terminus
of railroading in Missouri. The traiu
! that was wrecked at that bridge OH
November |, 1855, killing thirty and
manning many more, carried
party of representative St. Louis people
J on All excursion celebrating the complet.
son of the road to the state capital. In
was not until the summer of 1855 tina,
the road was completed to Kansas City
as is we'll remembered by soldiers return
ing from the war who had to tramp the
unfompleted gap.-St. Louis Republic.
The Pittsburg Leader prints this wed
ding announcement from the Macksvill,
Enterprise: THE editor Of this mora
guide was over to the county seat las,
FRIDAY Oh marriage license business fol
himself and Bess FIinshaw. Him ant
her were married Sunday night at the
Christian church."
T. T. Railey, a student of the Univer
sity of Missouri, whose home is a,
H~arisonville, has written a song entitl
ed my Son Lou which has attracted
considerable attention from admirers O
popular music. 1t expresses in a catchy
way the thoughts and feelings of a clos,
first old father as he digs up his hare
cash to send his son Lou to tn,
University.
The recent cold spell in Oklahom,
drove large numbers Of quail and othe
game birds to the barn yards for food
Mrs. T. Howard, living neal Avoca
lurcd a drove of % wild turkeys into
corn crib and captured the entire flock
A Dunklin county, Mo-, lawyer