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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
4
A nostalgic verse echoes how the small town newspaper steadies moods and memories. It celebrates local news, social notes, and the cadence of home life found in the hometown paper. The poem contrasts daily papers with cherished local issues and familiar faces.
The note asks readers to settle a debt from the DemocraT, claiming about 2,000 is due and that even one dollar helps. It urges prompt payment to cover the new press and other owed amounts, warning not to wait for another invitation.
The county grand jury at Joseph, Missouri reported gross frauds in the city electric lighting department. Indictments were returned against the department heads and other city employees. It was found that dead men were carried on the payroll for years. Names of the indicted were not made public.
Inquiries point to Roosevelt as a common target for blame as the public notes a sharp drop in holiday purchases of sewel plate, art works, antiquities, carriages, automobiles, and other expensive tokens, an unusually low level for the season across many years.
A. L. Denbroeder and wife, once Monroeites, were re married in Quincy after a recent divorce in which she charged extreme cruelty. The court awarded alimony and money to support their children. In Kentucky, two tobacco buyer warehouses at Bethel were burned by night riders who also destroyed the general store. Riders masked and armed, terrorized the town until their work was complete. Funeral guests included Frank Thompson and wife and Mrs Anon Renesa of Bannibal, Kat Bowen and J. A. Miller of Miller Township. A 10 pound girl was born at the home of W. B. Blintt.
Local column cites strong religious sentiment as thick as cream on St Joseph milk. Stewarts ville Recore.
An ad offers 160 acre tracts in New Mexico across the Texas line at $100 per tract with railroad fare paid to view land described as fertile and well watered. The note pledges the land’s quality and urges quick action for a short time.
In Denmark women receive a plain gold band on the left hand’s third finger for engagement. On the wedding day the groom moves the ring to the right third finger, marking marriage. Also a man recalls giving up his telephone due to overwhelming calls from distant friends, noting only a millionaire could tolerate such pressure.
A fragmentary dialogue pits a bellicose general against a pacifist apostle. The general claims war keeps populations in check, while the pacifist concedes that view shifted with the advent of the automobile, implying science and progress alter justifications for conflict.
Robert H. Kern of St. Louis, longtime Jefferson Club leader and Polk supporter, says the Governor promised him the succession of Virgil Rule would be communicated. Kern asserts Polk told him the race had narrowed to Frank M Estes and Kern, and that he sought the judgeship to return to law, believing Polk knew his legal work for him.
B. Spalding traveled to Lakeway on a business trip yesterday, according to brief local notes. The report provides a concise snapshot of his itinerary without additional details.
Al Broughton of Oak Date was with Monroe friends yesterday in a brief local note.
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