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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
4
Entries detail moves births visits and property changes across Marble Hill Lutesville and nearby towns. Exchanges include families like Hickam Burford Phelps and James. road work on Dry Creek. a garage project. school teaching updates. a public auction notice for Susan Clair estate. and revival meeting publicity at Nar mony church.
A 1918 public auction notice details sale of homestead land near Lutesville with good water, stock, and tools, plus a narrative of a family fishing outing. It lists cattle, hogs, goats, crops, equipment, and household items to be offered, with terms: some cash, credit on notes, and twelve months at 6 percent. The announcement includes date September 28 1918 and location Possum Creek on the seller’s farm two miles west of Lutesville.
A reader questions whether the county court has again levied interest on delinquent taxes and why most taxpayers have not paid the tax in past years.
A letter from Pennsylvania Railroad general manager R L O'Donnell, read to the Texas House by Blanton, notes freight engineers earn 4700 yearly and passenger engineers 4500, while Texas governors receive 4500. The figures also show conductors’ pay higher than lieutenant colonels and captains, with Missouri governors earning less than some engineers.
A locomotive engineer, scabbed manned, drove into a Sunday cloudburst at thirty mph. A washout killed six and injured twenty three aboard. another engineer found a missing bridge and four died with six severely hurt. A third crew member recalled a dangerous river crossing during the storm area.
A Chicago Tribune reflection notes that a late engineer faced dangers as a wreck occurred after a bridge failed. It stresses safety devices, especially the block system for engineers and workers, arguing strong bonds and prudent restraint save lives while risking enterprise and prosperity.
Eight hundred replies to a London magazine survey asked What is home These readers spanned all classes from poverty to comfort Seven editor selected as gems present a portrait of home as a refuge family life and moral center including fathers mothers and children and the strains and comforts of daily living
Estate of Susan C Pair deceased. Notce is given that letters testamentary on the estate of Susan C Pair were granted to Gerver C Pair and James M Pair on September 10, 1918, by Ballinger County Probate Court Missouri. All persons having claims must exhibit them to the undersigned and present them to the Probate Court within six months after letters are granted or be barred from any benefit. If not presented within one year, claims are forever barred. Executors: Pam, James M. Pam. P O Address Lateeville Missouri. Judge Athest RC. ALttanpen.
Notice announces a special election to be held Tuesday October 7 1919. It lists Wa D Hinkis 8 F Duan Z A O Reiley B H Bollinger among initial signatories and notes more than two hundred signatures or participants.
Bollinger County Missouri court orders a special election on October 7 1919 to decide issuing three hundred fifty thousand dollars in bonds for road and bridge construction maintenance and related improvements. Bonds issued in five series at five percent interest payable semi annually with ballots prepared for county voters. Clerk Geo W Bidewell certifies copy of proceedings and directs publication in local papers.
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