Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1911-04-06
Southeast News.
Piedmont Banner.

having eighteen rattles aud button,
and he brought back the rattles To
prove il.
On March q the barn on the farm
Of Mrs Mary Berefeld, near TiIsit.
was destroyed by fire supposed to
have been started by sparks from a
traction engine belonging to Bern.
hard Voshaee Besides the building
a 2.year-old mule and a lot of farm
machinery was burned. with partial
insurance
Pennington News
James Hopkins of south of town
tells us that he has five ducks which
laid 359 eggs since January up to
March 9--S6 days-an average of
little better than four eggs per day.
counting Sundays. or giving them
Sundays of an average Of just about .
an eGc per duck each working day /
The one that can beat this can have
the dog
Pennington News.
MAJOR Giboney Huuck. who has
been spending the last week in this
vicinity securing rights ~ way fo-
the Houck road extension has r.
turned TO Cape Girardcau Tie told
News reporter that he had no'
made much progress in securing the
night of way and MS pretty much
discouraged. but would make another
Try ut Il soon
Grrrau..o Journal.
John Short was certainly born uu- |
der the sign OF the Pisces While r
out GigGing last Thursday night he !
fell from his boat and after climb
Ing back into 1t found s fish had
lodged IN his pocket Personally We +,
accept no responsibility as 10 these (
facts hu, they are vouched tor hy 8
Mr. Short himself and others Nho d
SAW the occurrence -
In Vest Plains q daily paper Is t,
hrlnG conducted and has been con. q
Quoted fur several ycar>-hy three b
young women There arc only tso Il
dallI"s IN the state IN smaller towns y,
The paper is @lfsuppouine The 1T
young women Misses Ella and Fran ~
RS Williams and Mrs FntAc Dixon -
arr sisters They also issue a weekly
MI The reporting, typs>rtline make IN
~ work and ad soliciting is done hy tr
he three girls ~ho also run the 10
lreSs fold the papers and wrap the th
'ut-oi town mail an
Bloomfield vtuigcater In
4 meeting Of the interested par
les was held in the Little Vine
last week for the pur,
sse Of organizing a drainage dis E'
rIct The object Of the organization
, To drain the Swan Pond and some
djaceut lo" ground and Expresses e"'
ITO Castor River We understand 80
he district will be formed and the "o
ork pushed as rapidly as possible MI
he enterprise will drain quite a lot SUI
land Row unfit for cultivation and the
: Of great benefit to much more. yot
ontoa Register. HIS
While at work In the iron mine on III
ie north side Of Pilot Knob. March pia
J, Alvin Zude. 10 years of age. was pia
llshed under a mass Of falling dirt aas
nj rock, receiving injuries from 'ile
hich he died in ten minutes Ii is hIo'
Ill that the young man had been pau
arned, just few moment previous l'n'
the accident, to remove the dirt IL "
4 rock hanging over him, but he IL IL
layed obeyins instructions The seie
ceased was the son of Mr. and all
u Herman Zude of Pilot Knob. sam
4 was very worthy young man, stan
ferson Democrat. "a
For some time several persons alon
I'M ST Louis have been investieat- conf
the sulphru-iron deposits near with
Soto and Vineland. One of these wha
n is a noted mining engineer, an nav
ler a chemist and the third an
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