Ripley County democrat., 1911-12-29
Local and General News.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

DPd mess Is CduSeu ON dH lnnttleu CoI-
dition Of lhe mucous lining Of the Eus-
tachian tube. When this tube is IN
famed You have a IuHbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed, deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored TO its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases ont Of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous surfaces
We will give one hundred dollars for
auy case of deafness (causnd by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
! Take Halls family pills for constipation.
Manager c.. G.. IIellmers of the
Electric Light Company of Mary
vile was in Skidmore Tuesday in
conference with number of
business men of that town in re-
gard to the local company string
ing a wire from MaryvilIe to that
town, fourteen miles distant, to
furnish light for the streets, husi-
ness houses and residences. The
cost of the proposed plan would
be in the neighborhood OF So, 900.
A faithful, shepherd dog, Is
years old belonging to d. b.
Pankey, a Kennett banker, died
few days ago. The dog was
smarter than many people. He
knew when Sunday came and at
tended churchtwice each Sabbath
whether his master was there or
not. On prayer meeting night
"Bingo"-that was his name
always occupied his accustomed
place in church. He knew the
tone of the Presbyterian church
bell aud responded.
Some smart alecks in Dunklin
county, thinking to have some
fun with n man who was not very
intelligent but trying to live a
proper life, induced him to take
u drink, planning to lnloxicate
and humiliate him. However,
the sharpers became drunk, also,
aud the intended victim wrote a
n tie for one hundred dollars,
which they signed as securities
and on which he secured the
money from a bank. They will
have the nute to pay.
E. w. Stephens, chairman; A,
A. Speer and Theo Lacaff,
members of the state capital CON-
mission, inspected the Warreus-
burg sandstone quarries Satur.
day. They were surprised at the
magnitude of the quarries and
the abundance Of stone found
there. The commission is agreed
that it will be Unnecessary for
them TO GO outside of Missouri To
secure the material with whh h
to build the capital. They went
from there to Kansas City.
Sometime ago l read an sc-
count in a Missouri paper about
the bones of Daniel Boone, the
pioneer hunter and fighter, in
which it was stated that the com :
missioners from Kentucky had
failed to locate the right graves
in the cemetery at Marthasville
in Warren county, and took back
with them to Kentuckythe wrong
remains" said Prof. T. Berry
Smith of Howard Payne College.
Fsyette. "The Kentucky dele
CATION came to Missouri after
Boone's remains about the year
1870. Marion Mckinney, who
died not long ago in Fayette, a
very old man, once told me that
he was living near where the
Boones were buried and that he
showed the commissioners where
the graves were, aud that he was
enabled to do this because of the
headstones over them. There
was no douot that they were the
right graves. The hesdstonps
are now in the Howard Payne
muss1m.''