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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1895
Page
1
Cape Girardeau area reports a busy week at the Southeast Normal School with commencement events, college delegates, and a faculty reorganization. Highlights include student speeches, medal acknowledgments, and a large graduating class led by Myrtle Freese with subsequent celebrations and an alumni gathering at Zalma and nearby towns.
Health good and weather very hot. O J Snider visited, rain blessed Saturday. Scott Burford of Lutesville striped wagons for local makers. Wheat yields vary from ten to twenty bushels per acre in German settlement. B F Ruff, Jumbo queens ware salesman, on the streets. Henry Bettles of Arcadia visits his brother Rev Father Bettles. George Hasenfelt and Miss Katie Spooler wed on the 15th in a private ceremony. celebration planned after harvest. Local politics hint at a silver convention. Mal family of Son Lodge visiting John Reoty near Holliday’s works. Dan Robins and Mrs Myers’ father seen recently. Two packmen passing through signal better times. Rock Point attracting Constable Cooper, though Jack suspects no harm. W R Daniel, Grassie church elder, near his 80th year. Frank Mitchell from Nebraska sold Mourie farm then returned home. A Scott County gentleman looked to buy land here for health and cheap woodland. Two new post office assistants started recently. Albert smiles at the change.
A sharp faced woman refuses the offer as a shabby peddler with straggly whiskers insists on selling baking powder. He mutters about her kitchen low ceiling and bread rising unable to happen.
A witty quip from Puck contrasts marriages rushed with those never pursued, noting that some couples marry quickly and repent, while others remain forever single and repent in later life.
Southeast News reports a big picnic at Marquand with the Mine La Motte brass band, new bank planned in Sikeston with 830,000 capital, and watermelon season expected July 10. It notes smallpox cases in Poplin up to 53 by June 12, local accidents, a baby found in a cistern at Poplar Bluff, youth wanderings, and various regional incidents including road work, a bloodhound purchase, and a severe quarrel ending in a murder near Doniphan.
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