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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1893
Page
1
Readers with overdue subscriptions are urged to settle balances at the paper office next week. The note requests payments of any amount to stay near even, urging town residents to come in and settle arrears before circuit court action.
John W. Revelle of King and Revelle of Latesville travels to St. Louis to buy a heavy fall and winter merchandise shipment. The firm promises a full, well assorted stock with emphasis on clothing shoes and heavy dress goods. Arrival begins next week. See them.
Mayfield Smith Academy marks its tenth session with large anticipated attendance. Books and supplies for the commercial department are ready, building repairs completed, and the belfry to be raised about twenty feet. Prof. Graham anticipates indefinite tenure. the session is expected to be unusually successful. Also notes Mrs. Peggy Mayfield’s death at 92 near Kurreville Cape county, and local ads for school supplies at Biggs & Smith and clothing at Sample and Kinder’s.
Poster calls for providing pens pencils tablets slates and paper to students. It notes public schools opened Monday in Lutesville with Prof Leoffier Miss Caldwell in charge and Marble Hill with Prof Farrar Miss Finney. Enrollments reached 91 at Lutesville and about 80 at Marble Hill.
The report notes the Press association banquet did not start and the speaker vows to tackle circuit court. An advertisement for a dinner shop promises temperance dishes and meals. Robert Phelps and family return to Lutesville, settling near the former Parker shop by Magnolia mail.
A Sept 6 1891 letter from ER Graham of Morrisgep Saint Academy expresses regret at a clash with the St Francois association meeting, notes pleasure in press guests, and gratitude for the press toast. It mentions lunch baskets for pupils, a Wanted ad for a girl to cook and do housework, and records the marriage of Blanche O Hare and William Wilkinson at the water yesterday.
Miss Josephine Kauffman arrived from Philadelphia last Tuesday and will reside with her father. Other members of Mr. B Kauffman's family are expected to join in a few days. Anton Hass of Kelso will enter his daughter at Mayfield Smith academy.
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