Potosi journal., 1913-09-10

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Festus will mold its annual fair Sept.
2Srd to Goth.
| Panl Flynn of st. Louis is visiting
non.efolks Mere.
John W. Swift Of Hurst, H., is a
new reader Of the journal.
Herbert Briscoe oi St. Louis visited
friends here the past week.
j The summer OF 1913 will 60 down
in history as ''hot one.'
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Simpson are
visiting relatives at Troy, Mo.
Mr.. Dennis Sullivan OF Caledonia
was in Potosi Tuesday on business.
Petosi got light shower Monday
noon. 1t settled the dust and that
was all.
Livery Stable for sale, good paying
business; apply 10 Mrs. C. L. Huskey,
box 461, De Soto, Mo.
Among our renewing subscribers
are r. W. Hornsey, Desloge, and ].
W. Kirkpatrick, Peoria.
| Judge Dearing is holding circuit
in Jefferson County this week. He
has heavy docket there.
Capt. W. I. Hunter returned to Po-
tosi Thursday last after spending sew
eral weeks in Colorado.
Messrs. J. W. Kirkpatrick and Mat
koupel OF Peoria were visitors at the
Journal office Saturday.
Mrs. J. w. Towle and children will
leave Potosi Thursday to return to
their home in Memphis, Tenn.
| Piedmont must be growing burg,
it had an increase in its school atten-
dance this fall of Is over last year.
P. ]. Polite of Hulsey was in Poto-
81 Wednesday last and dropped in at
this Office to settle with the printer.
! Mr.. B. Il. Goodson Of Topozark was
caller at this Office last Thursday to
| ton list.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Fisher OF Gale
donia were in Potosi Tuesday. Mrs.
Fisher was on her way home from a
trip to St. Louis.
Perryville is making an effort to
capture the new factory the Hamilton
Brown Shoe Co., wants to locate in
Southeast Missouri.
The Annual Conference of the st.
Louis district of the Al. E. Church,
South, will meet this year at Jackson,
Mo-, on September 24th.
County Clerk Long says he has
been farming for forty years, and that
this is the worst year on crops he has
experienced in all that time,
Mr.. F. X. Connolly accompanied
his daughter, Miss Katherine, to st.
Louis Monday, where the young lady
will attend school at Ste. Ma1y's Con-
vent.
Judge Dearing adjourned circuit
court last Wednesday until October
18th, when the murder cases of Wal
ter Lewis and stote Rhyneer will be
called.
It is said that the drouth of 1854 in
Missouri was worse than any that has
occurred since, but that don't furnish
much consolation for the drouth this
summer.
Mrs. Letha Mckeen, formerly Mrs.
Wat Cole, was in Potosi Saturday last
returning to her home in St. Louis,
after a weeks visit to relatives in Wal
ton township.
Governor Major will attend the meet
ing of the Southeast Missouri Develop
ment Association at Bismarck on Oct
oher 10th. The Governor will be one
Of the speakers.
Arthur Guyton, who has been work. |
ing as drug clerk in St. Louis the
past summer, has given up his job
and come home. He wi have charge
OF the City Drug Store here after he
rests up while.
The extended drouth has caused |
many springs and wells in this coun-
ty to become dry for the first time
since the long drOuth Of 1901. The |
streams are now at lower ebb than
they have been since the same year.
George Miller of Pennington left
that burg on August &, to walk to
New York City, just for the fun ofthe
thing, and made the trip in 25 days,
making an average of so miles a day.,
the total distance being nearly 1906
miles.
The good effects OF oiling Potosi's ,
main street have about disappeared
through the evaporation of the oil.
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