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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1897
Page
1
A regional note from Marble Hill Missouri includes a humorous poem about a loyal spouse and a lengthy education column. It discusses new pupils at M.S. academy, dropout losses to farm work, and debates on Indian and Negro treatment, plus calls for active local voter involvement in school matters and director elections in Bollinger county.
Our Correspondents report on Glen Allen activity with teachers, blacksmiths, and town news. mentions include Mrs. Limbaugh visiting, Miss Clara Snyder at home, and Mr B’s girl visiting. It notes a school election discussion and records combined votes around 1,816 in two-candidate races amid a broader general election total over 2,800.
ZAIMA local notes report P. W. Smith suffering with boils. Officials Caldwell and Nenninger of Marble Hill were seen on streets last Friday. John Burrow from Brownwood came on business. Deering Machine agent Mr. Speer visited on the 30th. Local youths bought four breeches and suspenders late at night. The maiming stock case State vs Gaines, Smith and Umph James was postponed to the 8th due to a sick witness. Miller and Winters of Millerville were in town last week. Dick Whittaker moved his family to Malden on the 1st. He says he has willed the Zalma correspondent to the other paper his red breeches. J will be a daisy with them on. 8. A. Jackson of Bloomfield was here last week, Andy Bedwell of Marble Hill was on our streets last Saturday. Mrs. John King visited the family of A. C. F. of Greenbrier last p.
Lutesville News reports a quiet week with visits from O. J Snider and W. S.King, Susie Revelle’s return from Poplar Bluff, Emma Miles visiting Perryville, and Free Miles the barber away on business. Rev Danner preached at the M B church. A sale of straw hats at King & Revelle’s, restaurant improvements by Eli Lines, and a school board decision to hire W A Leoffler and Della Caldwell for the coming year are noted. W St King resigns as artmaster. Ed Beck expected as successor. Marriage of John A Snider and M E Cofer announced, future home in Jackson. Berry growers form the Lutesville Fruit Growers Union with F M Wells as temporary president and George B Myers as secretary, aiming to cut express charges to aid marketing.
A collage of short items describes Indian river palmettos aged 300 to 500 years, Cape Girardeau and Bloomfield notes, a Farmington bank incorporation, a big fire in Bloomfield, and various local curiosities. It also includes garbled cultural bits about navel oranges and Greek-Turkish conflict, finishing with a stray New York Grant Day reflection.
A casually nostalgic aunt recalls a long-ago romance with a promising artist youth who later earned a West Point cadetship. The niece teases about romance while the aunt blushes, recounting the quiet moments and a decisive moment when he spoke her name.
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