Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1907-02-08

county, bank LASS week.
A number Of local capitalists are or
CANNING stock company for the pur-
pose OF erecting another electric light
plant and contemplate installing large
ice factory also. Poplar bluff Repub-
lican.
An enterprising man at Harrisburg
has hit upoa novel scheme to collect
bis old accounts. He has advertised an
auction day and win sell them to the
highest bidder. His creditors are kick
ing like fury, but he declares that he
will do what he advertised.
The notion that mild winter weather
is. unhealthful is founded on tradition,
not on fact. More serious sickness and
deaths occur in extreme cold weather.
statistics show this and it may be obser-s
we'd that there has been less sickness
here this winter than any before.
At Poplar Bluff last week a mad dog
run amuck through the city, biting
many other dogs and animals. Mayor
Felts has issued proclamation to all
persons owning dogs to keep them up Or
il they are allowed to run atiarge they
shall be muzzled for . period Of 60 days.
The now noted and long-drawn: :out
Sugg case isto be argued inthe supreme
court, before a full court, on the 2srd,
and It is understood that both sides will
be given all the time they desire. That
case should be finally settled, it does
seem, as it has been in the courts for
about 80 years, including the time 1t
slept, -Dunklin Democrat.
DR., S. McAnally, OF Marble Hill, be-
lipviAg that mineral can bs found and
worl1ed in paying quantities in Boiling
er countythe same as adjoining counties
on the north, ordered and has nearly
set up and ready ior operation machin-
cry sufficient to test the question as to
whetier ore can be mined in his county
witha good per cent of profit or not. If
suca shouldplevs o.be true thig gill
hassood thplg for BoIlipger re- county. !. !.
"a h6mber Of old state bonds that have
been called, amounting in principal and
4 interest to $15, ,270.49 have not been pre-
sented for payment, and issupposed that
they have been lost or destroyed. The
money for their payment is in the Mer-
chants Lscleds Bank at ST. Louis, and
State Auditor Wilder suggests that the
moneybe returned to the state treasury,
as It is probable the bonds will never be
presented for yment.-Farmington
Times.
APoplar Bluff citizen has "read in
the papers" where Mrs. Geo. Gould,
practical owner Of the /. NJ. reilroad,
has lavished SIS, 900 on collar for her
poodle dog. He then elaborates on the
"miserable shack from which the Goulds
COMPEL US to board their trains, some
times called depot" A nice distine-
tion is drawn between $4,000 collar
Tor poodle dog and a $i5 depot for
city Of ten thousand inhabitants.-Pux-
ico Index.
The "svamp countryof SoutheastMis-
souri," as many are pleased to term it,
came of better from the highwaters
than Southern Illinois, Indiana, West
Kentucky or Tennessee, and q large
scope Of Texas. And whileA the chill
-billies" look on these regions with dis
dain still 1t remains a fact that for pro-
'ductivepess and big crops America has
no better scopes Of country. The fear
Of fannie and crop failure never enter
the miuda Of the inhabitants. Dexter
Messenger. II
We donot find many landowners In
Southeast Missouri who are opposed to
drainage, but there are few. 1t does
seem that the recent rains ought to con-
vince anyone Of the need Of more and
larger bitches. The whole county
south of here is covered with vster be-
cause there are not sufhcient ditches.
he roadsip Sandy wocd- ssF- getting
In bad condition from the water stand
ing on them, 30 nuch 80 thatquick sand
i forming. Several drainage petitions
afe now pending before theeountycourt
and they should be grantsd without any
oppositioa what ever. Benton Record
a negro shot and killed Conductor
VOL AZ Chstfee, last week. 4, is said
Wolf told the Marshal ofths town ahss
he negro had done eertain bad aei
aud tie negro shot him The name
I q The negro who shot him is silas
Young.
since The shooting afIsir the ooIored
population has. been ordered 70 leayt
tho town and many are doing %.
Conductor Wolf's home vas In No.
bsssiz, uhs1e - was taken for Burial
: III. ~ i v>fy popular iaiIroad man snt