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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1905
Page
1
Tus editor in St Lows reports purchase of a pew press and engine to enlarge the paper. Machines arriving soon will allow a larger subscriber list and improved service. Readers are urged to aid by renewing and paying up, with a hoped total of 1500 subscribers.
Agricultural letter argues silos are now proven, cost effective, and durable for farmers. It cites a Pennsylvanian dairy trial led by Prof. C G Williams showing silage fed cows produced more milk and butter fat at lower feed cost, with higher net profit than grain rations. It lists seven silo benefits for efficiency, herd size, digestion, and storage, concluding silos remain a merit in dairy farming.
Fragmentary OCR text references a special S47 07 item and mentions Saeed and an amount around 3.75 and 50 shillings, but the readable content is too incomplete to determine exact context or events.
A traveler recalls a 1300 acre Deer Creek bottom peach ranch near Sacramento with five camps and irrigated, sun cured fruit. He notes malaria along the river, heavy mortgage, and a Red Blood bank taking control, plus unusually large trees and sycamores. He hints at curious eastern perceptions of California dried peaches.
M A Wallace writes from Corning California about peach curing sheds where peaches arrive in trays and are treated with sulfur to reveal rot. He notes Missouri peaches chosen for curing, visits Chinese camps, and compares Chinese and white labor on peach farms, praising Chinese efficiency. He describes Stanford Ranch, its wine production, and Vina’s saloon-dominated town, arguing saloons do not fuel prosperity. August 25 1885.
Our Correspondents report Miss Rey Fulkerson and Jamer Williams from Marble Hill entering school on Monday. Rev Ed L Stovall preached at Lutesville Sunday morning and evening. College boys defeated the high school and town boys in a ball game. Mrs Dillon gave an elocutionary recital Tuesday and visited that evening. Cadets ordered uniforms and expect delivery soon. Prof Wendrix will lead Lutesville high school and visited the College and hall Tuesday. Miss Ella Fulkerson traveled to Sikeston Thursday for a W C T U gold medal contest.
We are having some nice bright days now with Fremers busy making fodder. Charles Chronister of the Grego- area is noted in the readable segment as contributing to farm duties and local agro activity.
Protracted meetings led by Rev. Henry George and Rev. T. W. Cooper unfold in Flatwoods this week. W. J. Rea and Albert Myers visited Zale, where Albert allegedly inherited Maltese estate prestige within the M. W. A. The Cane Creek church heard a baptism sermon, resulting in four converts baptized.
Bro John Sanders preached at Union Sunday morning. Barrett will preach at the Ridge next Saturday night and Sunday. Gol Folks day is abandoned after opposition. Ann Ann Sitze’s funeral will be Oct fifth at Union at 11 a.m. Our school averages 43 pupils. Mrs Ransom Bess, Oscar, Clyde Sitze ill with fever. Otto Watts and Maude Sanders visiting. Sawmill voyage from Judge B P Slinkard to Dan Whitner place. Mrs James Cameron visiting relatives from Greenbrier. Uncle France Watts running 11 classes. Cland Alexander visited relatives. Brss VI.Stan.
Leopold news notes several births and local happenings. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Van Doren on September 20, and a voter was born to Mr and Mrs August Trankle the same day. Families visited, business moves occur as Kenry Dierken shifts to St Louis, and Uncle Robert Vangennip buys another Dongola farm. Judge Nenninger seen on streets, roads improved by Hunziker, and locals discuss silk industry and upcoming year plans. Homer Stevens returns from the Cape. Crump sold crop to merchant F G Clippard. Charles Nenninger and others appear in routine town life updates.
The Whitewater Valley Stock Farm advertises first class stock ready for sale. It highlights a fancy herd of Short horns, thoroughbred Berkshire hogs, and high class mutes and nurses. Managed by J. H. Estes, proprietor.
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