Monroe Chautauqua closes amid praise and rain
Greater Monroe concludes its second annual Chautauqua with 325 tickets sold for next year and a $75 to $100 deficit to be covered by 120 guarantors. Acts such as Apollo Quartet, Bell Ringers, Chicago Lyceum Quartet, Mrs Palmer readings, and Geo Bain lecture impressed. rain interrupted Sunday night and Cartoonist Ross Crane canceled.
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Monroe
Apollo
Chicago Lyceum Ladies Quartet
James Francis O'Donnell
Gabriel Maguire
Africa
Geo. W. Bain
Ross Crane
Mr. Crane
L. M. Wood
Monroe City
Wedding At Law Office Meriwether Meri Wether
A small wedding occurred at 10 am Tuesday in the law office of Meriwether and Meri Wether. The couple involved includes Rickey and Shearman Miranda.
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Law Office of
Meriwether & Meri Wether
Lovera Shearman Miranda
Local residents lay granitoid walk and repairs across neighborhoods
New Things, D R Campbell, 160 feet of granitoid walk. Lee Pierce, 60 feet. Dora Hallock, 160 feet near Cleveland and Washington Street cement crossing. J H Grady adds 75 feet. Vesper Buell, 75 feet. Rose McAllister, 150 feet. Mary Hord re-roofing. Frank Ryan and Charles Ryan remodeling homes.
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D. R. Campbell
Lee Pierce
Dora Hallock
Cleveland
Washington Street
J. H. Grady
Judge Meriwether
Rose McAlllister
Mary Hord
Sings His Way to Victory in County Nomination
E Murry Sandusky, blind Democratic hopeful for Macon County treasurer, won the nomination over three veterans by a 800 vote plurality. He avoided speeches, relying on old fashioned ballads sung from the stump, praised for his sweet tones. A Motherly Democrat item notes his canvass style contrasts with other candidates' oratory.
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E. Murry Sandusky
Macon County
Sandusky
Vandalia visitor returns home early due to wife illness
R. K. Kendrick of Vandalia arrived Tuesday to visit relatives and attend the fair but left that evening because his wife fell ill at home.
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R. K. Kendrick
Vandalia
Items From Farmers In Monroe City and Nearby Markets
Farm notices list two Jersey milch cows for sale by J J Dimmitt of Monroe City Missouri. ML McReynolds & Son and Melson Co plan pig purchases in Monroe City. Melson Co in Jacksonville will be in town Saturday August 22 seeking fat horses and mares aged 5 to 12. JL Owen shipped 11 head of beeves to Bluff City market and bought seven head from Isadore Hagar five from C Straub and one from Tom Sharp. Henry Ridley advertises rye seed. Victor Hagan plans a farm sale five and a half miles south of the city and three miles east of Indian Creek on Friday August 21 under Col W T Youell. The sale includes four good horses, one buggy mare, one brood mare in foal, two yearling Palominer fillies, one carload of two year old cattle, eleven yearling steers, one cow and calf, eighteen shoats at 100 pounds, one sow and nine pigs, two brood sows, one boar, thirteen tons of hay, two hundred fifty bushels of old corn, ten acres of corn, a stack of sheaf oats, all farm implements, and household items. DEMOCRAT bills advertise the sale. Henderson & Son report buying two large electric fans for poultry car use to cool stock in heat. Take the Democrat.
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Art Melson
J Melson Co
Jacksonville
Fla
Monroe City
JL Owen
Beeves
Bluff City
Isadore Hagar
C Straub
Tom Sharp
Henry Ridley
Victor Hagan
City
Indian Creek
W T Youell
The
Democrat
Character and kindness in life and artful care
Excerpts expound how virtue shapes the face and conduct, citing Ruskin on inner grace influencing outward form. Dr Wilkinson blames aging copper cookware for appendicitis, urging copper utensils return. A Morbidity-era reminder urges preemptive kindness and alabaster gifts to ease friends before death, quoted from Mokane Herald-Post.
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Mokane
Unruly Horse Wrecks Buggy at Chau Tauqua Grounds
During a storm at the chau tauqua grounds Sunday night Clarence Bixler's horse ran wild and wrecked his buggy three blocks away. He was dumped out but not injured. Fred Gosney has been with Quin cy friends.
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Chautauqua Grounds
Clarence Bixler
ABOUT THE CHURCHES Interesting Denomination News Column
Church notices from Monroe area include Dr. McNair moving to the Hickman place on Katherine street and a bell arrival for St Peters Brush Creek. Sunday School at 9:30, preaching at 10:45, Junior League 2:30, Senior League 7:00, plus evening preaching and regular services. Bethlehem Baptist church in Ralls county hosts Aug 17 meetings with Dr Ceced Cook assisting. A local wedding party travels from Williams and Lutie Wood area to Palmyra for marriage, with well wishes.
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E. McNair
North Park
Bethlehem Baptist
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Ralls County
Ceced Cook
Charles King
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Bertha Rickey
Hannibal
Rev. B. D. Weeks
Roy Meriwether
Rev. Weeks
Rickey—Miranda
Frank Ryan
Charles Ryan
Minneapolis Journal
J. J. Dimmitt
Poland
China
ML McReynolds & Son
Henderson & Son
Market Report
Barger & McClintic
Clay Underhill
Monroe Milling Co
HiGreen
Pond Poultry Co
John Ruskin
New York
William B. Wilkinson
Staten Island
Wilkinson
My Creed
Fred Gosney
Quincy
St. Peters Church
Brush Creek
Sheil
Sidney
Methodist
W. F. M. Society
FUDES
Saint Jude's
J. J. Rogers
St. Yarden
Alfrn
Jveter, Jr
Jas. Noble, Saat
Rertor
Firs Baptist
Nev
One Park
Williams
Lutie Wood
Emden
Joe Depot
Palmyra
William Couch
Myrtle Wood
James Chitwood
Maudie Wood
Cynthiana
Maddox
Monroe County
Annie T. Humphrey
Joe
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