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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
4
Ex collector W S Yount assists in County clerk's office. Subscribers renewed by Henry Elfrank and others. Bargains proclaimed at TW M Smith's in Marble Hill. Local visits from Sander, Finney, and Clippard abound. Wheat crops forecast light in SE Missouri. Obituaries and social updates from Glen Allen, Patton, Leopold, and surrounding communities.
A fine line of spring clothing in the latest styles features gun metal craws and fancy brown mixtures from Taylor Mercantile Co of Marble Hill Missouri.
County board of education will hold the next teachers examination in Marble Hill on Friday and Saturday June 25 and 24. Jesse Jackson near town called on us last Thursday and left a sample of 90 day yellow crop ready to harvest several weeks ahead of usual. Wanted all cords of 4 foot wood at 75 cents per cord. Leirms and Diakey Luteville Mr Rev and Mrs Wm Lowe left for New York Tuesday stopping in St Louis visiting friends and will be away a couple of months to visit their son and Lowe brother.
Jasper N. Tankersley of De Soto visited Prondale on Wednesday. He has been appointed head of the public schools of Jefferson City, a Bollinger county native born and reared, son of Thomas Tankersley of Lutesville. Local friends praise his advancement.
A mosaic of short items notes visits and travel of residents including Mr and Mrs G T R Snider to Latlin Miss Clara Stevens of Bonne Terre visiting relatives in the area and various errands by lawyers and preachers. A revival meets at Marjan and a Fourth of July engagement in Marquand are mentioned along with fishing trips and minor accidents. The piece also mentions fashion advertising at Taylor Mercantile Company and school events at Predéericktown with McCudl Fashion sheets.
A noisy, fragmented column weaves a ridiculed “Seven Ages of Man” ditty with garbled phrases about birth, sickness, folly, and maturity. The piece blends odd humor with stray local notes from Lutesville and nearby towns, mentioning church work, arrivals, and a dental-length stream of miscues.
The New Bridge across the Mississippi at Thebes enables the Cotton Belt to end the forty transfer cycles and shorten schedules by about an hour. The Crickore Bridge is a premier engineering work providing unbroken solid steel track from St. Louis to Southeast Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. Two daily trains run to and from St. Louis with sleeper and chair car service between Shreveport and St. Louis plus connections to Texas.
Fragmentary line requests contact with a ticket agent for more details. The readable text mentions Coan elt Route but provides no clear event or entity beyond a general directive to inquire locally.
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