Potosi journal., 1907-11-20


Locally the financial situation re-
lains tue same, our banks taking care
t their business without difficulty.
The payment o! quarterly pension
liecks which is now going on will add
cash circulation through
mt the county.
L. S. Ramsey, "a well-known mer-
,hant at Sunlight, in the southern
part OF this county on last Saturday ,
flied voluntary petition in bankruptcy |
ia the Z. S. district court of St. Louis. !
He gives his liabilities as 1910 81 and |
his assets S., 5,955.56. He was generally
to be doing good business
and free from iinancial difficulties.
we hope he may soon extricate him.
self from his money troubles.
Mr.. r. P. Hall of near Hopewell.
who has interested himself in secur ring
a rural free mail delivery route from
the Hopewell post-ofice for the peo-
pie living west of there, was in town
Saturday and reported that the Post
Office Department had recently sent
an inspector to view the proposed
route, who found it perfectly feasible,
it is said. The probabilities are that
the route will be established before
long.
The Lead Belt Bank in Bonne Terre
of which II. D. Evans, welI-knowu in
Potosi, is cashier, temporarily sus-
pended payments and closed it's doors
oH the 9th inst. to prevent a run Oh
the bank that would soon have ex-
| hausted its cash. An investigation OF
| the banks affa airs later by the state
bank examiners proved its condition
j perfectly solvent. and it was opened
again for business on Tuesday OF last
week.
MIR. J. NJ. Alexander, OF Compan,
d, Twenty-second Illinois Infantry
was shot at Stone River, Tenn, il
1862, being forty-tve years ago, ano
has been carrying an ounce and /;
quarter bullet in his side ever since
1t occasionally gave him some pain, 81
he decided tn have it exactly located
and he had Or. Gaines, by means 0
the X-Ray show him where it Wa
and found it imbedded in the liver
Salem Monitor.
1t must afford travellers over lh
iron Mountain system no small de
gree of satisfaction to note the wor
that is going OF in improving TIL
road-bed of this railroad. The wO-
is not being done in spasmodic al
tacks, here and there, but seems t
be pretty general and thorough a
along the line. New ties are bein
, placed wherever needed aud til
road-bed reballasted. While giviD
due credit for this improvement "
will say it comes none TOO soon, fC
the tracks were in poor condition
as frequent wrecks on the road weL
to testify. Newspaper publicity {
v this state of affairs has been lare
q factor in compelling this improv
r. nlent.
The Potosi Telephone Co. has begu
e the work of improving its system. -
h new switch board, with 200 drops wi
j will be Installed. which is double ii
capacity of the board now in use. III
new board will have self-restorir
& drops, which will be great conve
II ience and aid to the central operate
u Where the wires concentrate near I'll
central office they will be gathered
d cable, 10y which ali annoyance fro
crossing wires viii be overcome, A
these Improvements are for the be
terment Of the service. The ousine
of This company has had steat
growth from the time it was first j
d stalled, some live or six years ago, al
K with the addition OF the wires
? rural lines centeriug here, it becan
| Imperative tn increase the facilIti
G. for handling the business.