10 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1905
Page
1
Dexter Messenger laments a decline in Fourth of July celebrations. He argues that excessive drinking and sloppy behavior by many self described celebrants have turned the holiday into a Bacchanalian revel instead of a sane observance.
The Star-Chronicle questions whether the Equitable scandal signals broader rot in finance and big corporations. It asks if high earners can remain virtuous, warns that public trust erodes as money trumpets method, and wonders which big entities may follow into decay.
The Fredericktown Democrat-News reports Gov Folk has shut down the Delmar race track after a lengthy struggle with lawbreaking operators. The opponents argued the track harmed youth and led to imprisonment, while supporters say Folk fulfilled his duty with broad citizen backing.
The piece contrasts crimes by three U.S. senators Burton Mitchell and Depew with lesser offenses, arguing Depew’s long lobbying and corporate ties exceed petty pilfering. It condemns hypocrisy in public judgment and notes Depew’s Yale directorate and railroad influence. The argument extends to other senators.
The Commoner argues that Aldrich and Platt pose greater danger than Burton or Mitchell due to subserviency to corporations. It says the public conscience was shocked by Addicks attempting a senatorship purchase, and that true purification requires an elective senate with votersDirect choice will dismiss eminent attorneys paid by railroads, express companies, and trusts.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes Missouri's vast mineral wealth. Missouri already supplies about 50 percent of US zinc and 90 percent of nickel, with lead mining also strong. Demand grows as new districts develop yearly, and Missouri may rival California in gold and silver production.
A Missouri writer laments California fruit prices and farm economics. He notes prunes at 3 per ton, picking costs of 2.50 per ton, and many lots unpicked. The piece criticizes land costs, nonresident ownership, and tax gaps while detailing drying, sulphur curing, and shifting to mechanized wrapping for oranges. He compares orange packaging prospects with hand-wrapping and comments on lemon pricing and ranche butter shortages.
Our entire stock must be sold in 15 days. Sale begins Friday and closes Saturday August 19 at 7:00 PM. Goods piled high on counters marked in plain figures. The chance of a lifetime. Waroneer Bros.
The article notes California butter shipments to the East, vast dairy production valued at $20 million annually, and a home shortage. It describes Corning’s growing creamery plans, Maywood Colony residents, a Spanish doctor and wife moving near Corning, and the impact on M. W. Colony. It mentions Governor Folk and Lewis and Clark expo prospects, plus local weather and fruit (notably the Mieny peach) conditions.
Southeast News reports Hiuyti opens a new bank and 56 has Bonne Terre. Farmington notes Deekan Lead optioning 7000 acres near Libertyville with prices 850 to 100 per acre. Fredericktown mentions a depot ticketing incident and a sharp exchange with Linus OConnor. Caruthersville notes juveniles quiet after minor property thefts. Henry Revelle, 25, killed at Central mill in an industrial belt accident leaving a widowed wife. Cape Normal president Dearmont assaulted by Lowe, a janitor, amid visitors. attack described as brutal.
A tale bearer relays a slight from one neighbor to another, implying friendship by warning the second neighbor. The second neighbor responds with a sharp, coded rebuke about decay and hostility, suggesting a hostile view toward the first neighbor and the speaker.
Our correspondents report poor health locally as Augusta Davis remains ill and Aunt Anin Sitzes dies leaving a husband and many relatives. J M Welker’s boys overworked a horse that died after plowing last week amid heat and ongoing local business with Judge Zimmerman visiting Glen Allen on recent business.
Pulltight notes health good after rain and wheat threshing underway. Walter Crain of Boonville Mo visits relatives here. V A Propst injures colt but animal recovers. Miss Bertha Propst returns from Millerville. Jobin Hahn and family visit W A Propst. Bertha Propst visits Ruth and Myrtle Limbaugh. News scarce. Tuesday notes say only son remains.
Buchanan notes a well attended picnic with a good crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Geo Carr visited L G Spear. Mr. and Mrs. James Kinder of Cape Girardeau stay with his family. Two deaths recently: Mrs. Mary Edwards July 31 and Emmett Sparks August 4. Miss Clem Kinder resigns from Gresham store for a vacation and will enter Cape Normal.
The crop report notes light yields across wheat oats hay and corn due to late rains with wheat oats and hay hurt and corn not looking great. Peach crops are light and rotting before ripening while apples remain plentiful. Nearby social notes plus several visits and a 77th birthday are mentioned from Observer records.
Sickness and deaths mark the week with William Brown laid to rest in Hopkins cemetery August 1 in a large gathering. Prof. J. P. Salyer and wife visit nearby relatives as Rev. John Yount attends Cole chapel services. The 11 month old child of James Lincoln and wife died July 25. Local folks report improving health for Aunt Jane Welker and Rev. I W Jones, while crops and roads suffer from floods and heavy rains. Shooting matches, church attendance, and threshing activity fill the community calendar.
In a small town notices recount illnesses and hospitalities as Miss Della Rhodes returns home after a week with relatives. Families move and visit, with Elory Limbaugh taking charge of a farm near Glen Allen. Levi Lincoln and Mrs Limbaugh die within days, leaving widows, children, and sorrow in an obituary promised for next issue.
The Fortieth Annual Convention of the Missouri Sunday School Association will meet in Boonville from August 29 to 31 with three sessions daily. Attending speakers include Marion Lawratee, A O Brown, A P George, Zillah Poster Stevens, W I Black, P Goodson, and Mybel among others.
Daley and other Monday school specialists join the program. The Western Passenger Association offers a one and one third fare state wide open rate on the certificate plan. Obtain certificates from agents with tickets. Beonville churches welcome attendees with lodging and meals at modest prices during the Harvard Plant event. Each state school may send a pastor, a superintendent, and one delegate per fifty enrolled. For credentials and full program write Missouri Sunday School Association 27 Talade Building St Louis Mo. The editor instructs on handling outsider directions, office boy places them in the waste basket.
Mr A Ford notes in the New Idea Woman's Magazine that koustari peasants in Russia sustain scant incomes by hand crafting vast amounts of lace spoons icon gear and brass wares The lace industry is seen as the enduring line protected by patriotic societies and teachers sent to homes to train children Apprentices begin at eight and labor up to eighteen hours daily for about twenty dollars profit in a long winter season Nearly a million yards of lace are produced yearly by peasant women selling for equivalent dollars.
Sarah Louisa Winters born April 2 1864 died July 2 aged 2 years 3 months. She married Henry W Winters August 24 1851 and lived with him nearly 24 years. They had seven children two sons and five daughters. One infant daughter died at ten days. Parents Uncle Jesse and Aunt Mary Lutes were devoted members of the M BE Crear South church. The home of her parents was known as the preachers home.
Emrose Winters grew up in a Methodist family and joined the Baptist church at Marble Hill on Saturday before Easter 1004 without her husband or children's knowledge. She had four older children in that church, prayed with her family, and died after a three month illness on March 28, 1905, peacefully expressing readiness to meet her Saviour.
The new bridge across the Mississippi at The bes enables trams to replace ferries and cut schedules by about an hour. It links St. Louis with Southeast Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas with solid steel track. Two daily trains operate with Nos 2 and 4 to St Louis and Nos 1 and 3 from St Louis. Trains 3 and 4 offer buffet sleepers between Shreveport and St Louis. Trains 1 and 2 provide sleepers between Texas and St Louis. All trains include chair cars.
The note directs readers to contact the ticket agent on the Cotton Belt Route for additional details. It emphasizes seeking information via the agent rather than elsewhere and highlights the route as the source of assistance.
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