Items From Farmers Offerings and Auctions
A long list of farm sales and stock listings includes white oak posts and cord wood for sale, multiple mule and cattle sales, beeves and shoats shipped, and a 1614 acre partition with scattered acre awards. Mentions of farmers like Burditt and Williamson, and traders such as Meriwether, Rosin, and Randley populate the market patch, with notes on eggs, oats, and grain buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Tompkins
Roy Melson
LT Burditt
Edward Burditt
William Tulley
Laundry Advances At Monroe City Steam Laundry
We visited Monroe City Steam Laundry Saturday afternoon and found a bustling scene. Mr Georges added a washing machine doubling capacity, showing business growth and satisfactory service for patrons, with praise for Barney and wishes for continued success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe City
Barney
Miss Acna Garner Attends Palmyra Thereday Event
Miss Acna Garner traveled to Palmyra Thereday to attend her aunt Miss Dithmitt's event for sheet music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acna Garner
Palmyra
Dithmitt’s
Churches News and Drought Aid to China Chiefs
An churches column reports Protestant groups in the city sending 27 to drought and famine relief in China. It details Mt. Vernon and Union Valley joint services, evangelistic meetings at Christian church, weekly sermon topics, and weekly church activities including Sunday morning service at 10 45, evening service at 7 30, Sunday School and Epworth League. The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society meets March 1 at 2 30 pm. Regular notices cover officers meeting, the pastor’s extended visit from J C A Read of Rock Island with sermons, and upcoming junior George Washington party at the parsonage with Frank Elliot 4 Palmyra visitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Vernon
Union Valley
Union Valley Church
Ely
Epworth League
Wagons by Drescher and Pierceall head to Carstairs
Good Wagons Drescher and Pierceall are crafting a broad tired wagon for Spalding Bros to carry to Carstairs Alberta Canada. Henry W Wood bought one wagon from Drescher and Pierceall but refused to for at after using it. The wagons cost 67 in the city. Garry Arnold of Hamilton and Mrs B A Spalding Ill spent Sunday in S A Millet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drescher & Pierceall
Spalding Bros
Carstairs
Alberta
Canada
Henry W. Wood
W. T. Ragland
Garry Arnold
Hamilton
Rand Mra. B.A
Spalding
Aibal
S. A. Millet
Moxith
Gueutis
Pretty home wedding bonds Miss Dessa Melson and Clarence Utterback
Yesterday at noon at the Melson home the wedding of Dessa Melson and Clarence Eugene Utterback took place in a ceremony officiated by Dr JL Read. About eighty friends attended as bridesmaid Miss Oka Melson and groomsman L L Utterback stood with floral details of white wed ding bells and pink and white carnations. The couple shared a royal dinner then departed for St Louis and will reside at home after March 5 bearing gifts and best wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dessa
Isaac N. Melson
Clarence Eugene Utterback
Stoutsville
JL. W
Oka
L. L. Utterback
Columbia
Tommie Ely
St. Louis
Bear Perry
Court House Dilemma In Monroe County
In open court at Palmyra last week Judge Eby warned Monroe County must build a new court house or court may be held in a ball. He said Paris court house is a dangerous trap and should be abandoned, urging Paris to fund a new building if the county stays there. Monroe City, dubbed the Queen of the Prairies, offers to finance a county court house instead of issuing bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James T Umstatth
The
Democrat
Jne L Evans
Palmyra
Eby
Mon Oe
Paris
M Mouroe
Monroe City
Queen of the Prairies
Lam bert Hagan Resigns From Sullivan’s To Move North
Lambert Hagan, the attentive clerk at W A Sull ivan s, resigns, planning to move to Carstairs, Canada for a livelier job. Theodore Dick Hardesty takes over Hagan’s vacated post, a local-born man expected to be popular at Sullivan s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambert Hagan
W. A. Sullivan's
Carstairs
Canada
Theodore
Dick) Hardesty
Lambert
Sullivan’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
F. D. Proctor
Meriwether & Meriwether
W. J. Rovsn
John F. Boarman’s
William Buckman
H C Benson
JB Gray & Son
JB McClintic
Lewis Lundberg
Clay Underhill
Madden Bros
W W Randley
Worland
Shelbina
Isaac N Melson
William Reichoff
Ed Longmire
Billy Joe Jackson
Bluff City
H A Warinner
Jne L. Owen
Leo Yates
Philadelphia
Hayden & Yates
Geo T Fisher
JO Wood
Turner & Tabbot
S O Conner
Hol Worland
Jno L Owen
Geeves
Shie
W T Youel
Jack
Will Farrow
E. P
Roy G. MmLson
Fugu
Randolph County
Shelby County
Buckman Bros
James Cusack
Hawkins & Melson
Jeb Mortbland
Bricker & Spiker
I N Melson
Joe Kervus
Walter Moss
Manning Elliott
Bob Hays
DA Spalding
W P
Will Wilson
JR Wilson
WL Elsie
Joe B Hays
J. M. Proc
TOR & Son
Crier Lamplighter
Pearl McReynolds
Poland
Cumas
Durocsaw
Pearl
Market Report
Benes
Katy
Agent Dawson
Utter
Barger & McClintic
Pond Poultry Co
Henderson & Son
Vint Spalding
Charlie Willard
Loraine
Ill
Apd
Vint
Central Baptist
William Jewel Quartette and Concert Co
C P. Forsythe
R. H. Herron
T W. Bibb
J. S. Custer
Mr. Forsythe
Methodist
Christian Church
Jeptha
Paul
Paradise
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Presbyterian
First Baptist
J. C. A. Read
Rock Island, Ill
Frank ‘Elliot
Melson-Utterback
Dan Cupid
Court House
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