16 Feb 1899
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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1899
Page
1
Readable items note Rogers' store specials and speeches by Rev J K Travis at Jackson's Chapel near Stoutsville. Reports cover a Baptist church fire with $9,000 value, no insurance, and bold fire department efforts. Other items include residents visiting, upcoming sales, and political commentary on state affairs and the Whitecotton matter.
Representative Whitecotton of Monroe county led the minority in the legislature aiming to block legislation and embarrass the State administration. He ran behind his own ticket by about a thousand votes in the last election with no opposing candidate.
Civil and military items report American forces in Manila tightening control after insurgents were driven from San Roque, with quiet restored. casualty tallies show killed, wounded, and missing among officers and enlisted men, while reports from Olis, Otis, and Miller detail operations at Caldogan and Iloilo. Additional dispatches note Aguinaldo’s forces near Polo and the capture of Toilo, Panay, plus local obituaries and osteopathic trainees leaving Kirksville.
A letter states a Monday night fire destroyed stock but saved books, now at Boulware & Sullivan's Tailor Shop. The writer requests payment by account or note and urges prompt settlement, signing A. BouLWARE.
Mr and Mrs B O Wood entertained eighteen couples at their Main and Second streets home Tuesday evening with euchre as the main amusement. A delightful supper followed after other diversions. Space limits prevent a fuller description of the good time enjoyed.
A note of heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for their kindness, assistance, and sympathies during our recent trouble sent by Mrs C C Lewis and her children.
FOR SALE. Two coming 43-year-old one half blood Hereford bulls. One thorough-bred Shorthorn Durham bull and one coming 2-year all thorough-bred Hereford bull. JAMES T. SANDIFER. R. O. Cranston, formerly of Co. F 4th Mo. Vol. returned home on the noon train yesterday and wasn't the dear girls glad to see Robert. Miss Delia Moss left Monday for St. Louis where she will spend some ten days visiting her niece, Mrs ff A Og'e.
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