Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1915-06-10
Southeast News.

WIN WIS tVNfHty tth il ti'ut'
court nj New Madrid on a charge OF
killing his father and who was found
not guilty by a jury and discharged,
was shot and instantly killed on the
streets Of Gideon last Friday nigh,
by City Marshal Hays Langley
Sikc-tnn Herald.
The farmers are now needing
hands very badly to help haves,
and ,hresh wheat and also to assist
in laying by corn and finishing TAX
, ine ~ hay We suggest tina, the
pess,,nis,s around town be offered
three Jobs at once so that they will
either he run in their hole. SO TO
work ot forever hold their peace
East Prairie Eagle,
j + Aker on pinhook was in Tues.
day aud tells us that he mas hun
dred acres OF corn laid by He has
100 acres Of wheat that probably will
make twenty or twenty five bushels
Ia the acre and tifty-one acres Of
oats that will make forty bushels er
more To the acre he says crops
hook better on Pinhook than he ever
saw
Perry County Sau
Th. New York chapel will he desii-
caiei June IS by Rev W + Nc
Murs. II y, of Louisville, Ky who
is secretary oi the general hoard Of
church extension We exp~~., this
to lie the Greatest occasion in the
history ot York chapel Al former
presiding el,iets and pastors, together
with the public. are cordially invited
To attend
James c. Smith. a civil war vet
erau. having served iu the union
arlny. - years Obj and . highly Fe~
Sprrtcsi c.tixen ui honne TeTFv. was
leasiing a mule on the afternoon Of
May 3u, when IL became frightened
and leFked him ,Iu~n and draaSesi
him about hundred feet from
which he suffered injuries that cans-
ed his death the following Nsvines-
day,
iackean Cash-ha.a
The work of constructing the ditch
to divert the chaunets Of Castor and
Whitewater rivers into the Mississip-
pi is being pushed rapidly towards
completion. This Is one Of the great
est drainage schemes In the history
Of such @ork, and the Little River
Drainage project Is attracting world
wide attention When completed il
will redeem from overflow enough
of the fines, soil in the world to make
pretty good sired state
Perry County Sun,
A toi Of the lo@land in lower Bois /
Brule bottom Il under water. Glenn |
Gibbar was in town Tuesday and he |
said that had 50 acres OF fine whea, |
taken by the water. but there are |
~others in the same fix. The biggest |
part OF the island near Belsique Is
under water. aud great deal Of
damage has been done to the grow
ing crops. Some families and srea,
deal of stock has been moved from
the iowland of the island to higher
places,
por,ageville MissouriAn.
Alex Crabuee unearthed an Indian
relic from the mound a mile and
half west from wariell while digging
ditch. The relic is monster lower
Jaw with a full set of teeth which
would fit on the outside Of the jaw
of any large living man today, The
teeth are well preserved with only a
few exceptions and IL is doubtless
the under jaw OF an abotieine for
with IL was dug up good sized
eaIthen bowl-quart size-by the
pside Of which the moundbuilders
teeth we're found.
Perry County Sun.
The harvesting Of Southern Mis-
souri's S5OO.0o0 strawberry crop is
In full blast this week and is requir-
ing an army Of pickers estimated at