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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1905
Page
4
Local notes from Marble Hill and Lutesville cover store ads at Taylor Mercantile Company, clergy announcements, subscriptions renewed, visitors and moves, church meetings, and upcoming sermons. Includes Mr. and Mrs. Welker, Rev J H Jenkins, Dr J C Armstrong, and civic items from Squire Gibbs and Judge Sample.
Our Correspondents note corn gathering near completion as Rev Arias Jamison leads a Trace Creek church meeting that ended last Friday night with large congregations and interest but no conversions. Grandma Pridy died at her son-in-law M G Richards home last Saturday. burial at Trace Creek cemetery Sunday with Rev F F Yount conducting and funeral planned for December second Sunday. A disturbance followed the funeral as John Clay, intoxicated, caused trouble and was restrained and taken to Glen Allen. Robert Moyers is described as a peaceful man who cannot endure a man cursing his wife.
Leopold community updates report Henry Buttel being seriously ill. John F. Tenholder Jr. has moved to St. Louis for work, and Rev. Fr. Bettels returns from a western trip. Miss L. Brummer plans a winter in the country. Farmers report corn gathering and hog killing. Hog cholera concerns rise, urging separation and burning of infected hogs to stop spread.
Ira Crites is sick with typhoid fever and several residents are listed as ill or on the sick list. A series of routine visits, moves, births, and weddings are noted among Seabaugh, Walters, Conrad, and Propst families plus occasional travel to Perryville and Marble Hill. Weather interrupts services. Little Sam.
Miss Eva and Mayme Rea visited Grandma Myers. Marion Newell stays with son-in-law Jasper Cooper. W. H. Cooper visits Wayne county friends and notes booming business. Mrs. Rhodes family return from Dunklin county cotton work. Gregory school spelling bee well attended. B. D. Baker held a Friday night school entertainment near Hahn. David Newell and Fannie Goff wed at Little Vine church on Sunday November 19 with Rev. F A Morris officiating. Stephen.
Rain and mud affect Scopus with health generally good aside from a few sore throats. Corn gathering dominates the past week as Brown and Mungle run their saw mill full time. Miss Iva Farrar visits home folks for the week. The stave factory will shut down this week, with a new project likely starting to keep the men employed.
Dr Chestner made a county trip on scarlet fever concerns. Jonas Barks brought home Shorthorn cattle from Bessville. Elder George of Leora kept Coles chapel appointment despite rain. A 13 pound newborn was noted at Daniel Limbaugh's. Barks lost three Newfoundland puppies from his buggy while delivering mail. A local mention says Moses James is in Old Arkansas seeking a farm, with best wishes to Toe Press.
Castor community news lists farmers like Dolph and Felan Ward buying hogs, Bollingers visiting Fredericktown, and Beal injured in a wagon accident. It notes illnesses, a widow’s bereavement, church services, weather, hunting interest, a hand injury at Greenbrier, a clothing mishap, and Thanksgiving reflections.
The farmers report a light corn crop this year but Henry Green gathered twenty six large loads from twelve acres and quality is good. Eps Hahen buys bogs locally. Mrs W G Kitchen and daughter Ina visited Patton on business. Moses Limbaugh left for Colorado. Sle and daughter with Bertha Hahn and babe. Protracted Liberty meeting ended Friday with seed sown for future harvest. Sylvester Dogget and S J Long aid the literary society especially the debate part. Flora Hahn teaching in Green district visited home. William Gruner hauled wheat to Dolles mill last Thursday and back Friday. Local youths hunt frequently and bring in game, especially possum. We live in an improving age, yet skeptics remain amid cautious optimism.
John King spent days in St Louis buying Christmas goods. A new bank at the place shows solid business. Ed McCormick injured his hand at Greenbrier saw mill. Dr Lages reports recovery. Bridwell and Harris take over A F Rogers Restaurant as Rogers retires with fortune. Clyde Wilkinson ill with pneumonia. Mrs Joseph James visited from Brownwood. Farmers near end of corn harvest. crop short. Bollinger and Green order coal for their flouring mill. wood plentiful but coal cheaper. C H Pape opens brick kiln and succeeds in brick production.
Uncle Pink Huffman builds a residence for the new store keeper. Mrs. Pound heads to St Louis for the winter. J M Welker returns home briefly. Mrs. Martha Thomason Miller travels with Charley Ragsdale’s children for Flat River. Ragsdale has remarried. Mrs. Maxwell returns to Murphysboro. Wilber Welker visits Marble Hill. Southern Methodist stewards seek funds for Marquand quarterly meeting next Saturday. Hunters Cornelius Hawn Fred Emil Mabuce and Fred Davenport bag four possums. Mrs. Sam Bess visits relatives near Glen Allen. J H Chestner family visits mother-in-low who is very ill with blood poisoning. Billy Barnes of Sikeston buys Estell Arthur place and moves family in. Rev. Barret unable to fill appointment due to moving from West Plains. Uncle George Rhodes suffers a dislocated knee. Coons and possums reported ripe. Miss Ethel Mabuce at home Sunday. B F Slinkard moves sawmill back to farm. Joseph Arthur’s 40th wedding anniversary celebrated November 9 with family and friends. Halloween party at G A Venable’s. Jacob Bess visits daughter Mrs Sam T Lanpher at White Water. E Arthur and family and Miss May Arthur return to Sikeston. Jake Yount relocates saw mill to Johnson Yount place. L C Griffith drives poultry to Lutenville. Beaville, Illian.
G ien Allen reports Prof Ira Deck had business in Lutesville last Saturday. Mrs W S King of Lutesville visited her daughter Mrs P J Burford of this place Friday. Dan McClean, Diehrstadt section foreman, visited his family here Sunday. Dr Chandler of Lutesville was called to William Howell's recently as two of his children fell ill.
Belmont branch will add a Belmon t and Charleston turn around train departing Bismarck about 6 p m for Charleston and back to connect with main line to St Louis. Affected travelers expect improved night service as delays and late trains have bothered the public.
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