Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1907-01-04
Around About the State.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Monroe County will be seventy siA a
wears old January 6, Sunday. Q
Twenty two prisoners were taken .
from Kansas City to the penitenhary'
Monday.
The elevator at Fortescue burned
Saturday night and i2,UO bushels o'
grain was lost. {
Corning apple dealers shipped liz 6
cars of barreled apples and twenty-five
cars of apples in bulk this fall.
Judge Ellison has sustained the legal
itv of the local option law in Gentry
Country. That will intensity the
drought in that county.
The Laddonia Herald has been sued
for libel to the extent of 5000 for max
ing a guess that prospective druggist
intended TO sell booze.
A negro prisoner in Joplin haoitually
sleeps while standing. Long associa-
,;on with chicken roosts is supposed 10
be responsible for his pecularity'
HI. Kleinschmidt OF Chillicothe, sold
TO Scruby Bros. meat market thursday
A hog which weighed 800 lbs, receiving
$s.7b per hundred or $50 for the animal
Bates County's big drainage ditch is,
now under construction. The first dirt
was moved Thursday and from now on
big steam ditchers and scrapers Will oe
busy.
Judge A. M. Woodson has appointed
paul Brace as his official stenographer'
ne having in that capacity to his father,
the retiring Chief Justice Theodore
Brace.
James M. Smith, age seventy-hve
wears, did at Moberly, Saturday m"rn-
ing. while eating an apple, but we hard
lv think that is warning TO quit eatng
apples.
> In the C,ss County circuit court
Isaac White sued the i'rexel Mercantile
Company for 5000 damages because ht
was bitten by a dog in the store Inc IN.
fury found for the defendant. /.
Ex Gov. Lon v. Stevens has wrlttci
An excellent article on the "New Pro
posed Elastic Currency" which ma
been published in pamphlet form ana
will no doubt be widely read.
Colonel Ewing of Lathrop, received
car load Of hard coal this week that ma
been on the road twenty-one days froi
Chicago. The price had advanced
cents ION since he placed the order.
FIX. Craven Of Washington townsh'
delivered Jumbo hog at Perrett, Nor
aav. It was fine specimen OF Nilsson
hog and weighed 660 pounds in !
everyday clothes. and was the red Dur
breed.
A murderer in the warrensburg j
offered to bet the sheriff a So hat
could ride the sheriff's bucking nor'
The officer was something OF spor
but.he Couldn't afford to lose'a bet al
prisoner, too.
In recent issue of the Monroe U
News appears cut OF Mark Twai'
birthplace at Florida, Mo amodesttV
room structure with big chimney br'
ing IL on the outside at ons end, an
fashion Of chimnsys Of pioneer days.
Puxico Is another Southeast TO
which does NIT like the colored m
and he is not allowed to stay in
town. Recently one of the hotels nj
negro porter but he was given to
derstana that he could not live there
James Baily and wife, an aged cor
OF Huntsville, while visiting q
daughter, Mrs. Geo. Evans. at Uni
vile. were taken sick and both
Monday within an hour Of each OF
The remains we're Inferred at t1uHtsv
The Christmas dinner at the Miss
state peaitentiary consisted Of $500
of dressed turkey a. II i-2 cents pc
and ave barrels of cranberies. Y
items were over 1000 pounds Of 81
bread and 1900 pounds Of mince'
pies.
Mrs. NJ. F. Rogers, residing
miles southwest Of Hamilton, has T
and marketed this year f276 wors
turkeys. This beats the records an
titles Mrs. Rogers 70 the blue q
unless some qiher lady can report :
or sale.
N. Logan Guthrie Of Falton ha
ceived g, 900 Of The $4,000 be wo
guessing correctly the numoer o.
admission 70 the 81. Louis Worlds
o,her claimants for the money
kept him guessing ever sines the
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