Memorial Day Observances and Local Notices
Memorial Day ceremonies at St. Jude's cemetery honor Confederate soldiers with hymns prayers and wreaths while flags and flowers adorn graves of Federal soldiers and Odd Fellows members. The piece also notes local votes and politics plus assorted local notices and ads from Monroe City and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Daughters of the Confederacy
St. Jude's Cemetery
McNair
H. C. Goodman
John L. Owen
Southland
Odd Fellows
St. Jude and
Holy Rosary
First Baptist Church Ladies Exchange at Wade & Dawson's
The First Baptist Church ladies hold an exchange at Wade and Dawson's on Saturday afternoon. Mrs Minnie Umstaddt of Hannibal visits relatives including Miss Lizzie Umstadttt. Lee's and Hess stock items advertised. Monroe notices include for rent a well located cottage and Rebekah lodge officers elected and to be installed in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies of the First Baptist Church
Wade & Dawson
First Baptist
Wade & Dawson's
Minnie Umstaddt
Hannibal
Lizzie Umstadtt
Monroe Lodge
Rebekah
Ve Bell
Kate Toutsville
Rouse
N.G
Daisy Strean
W. Deering Binder
J. G
W. Bell
Post Card Offer and Tangled News Bits
Farm Progress of St. Louis offers twenty colored post cards for 6 cents and asks for five nonsubscribers’ names, then digresses into editorials about soldiers lists, Missouri politics, Zephyr tornado deaths, and a taft campaign note with stray names and ad bits from Brookfield Argus and Hess Panacea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Progress
St. Louis
United States
The Split Infinitive Debate in Early Grammar Notion
A New York Sun writer rails against the attack on the split infinitive arguing that adverbs between to and the verb are common. The piece cites Byron, Macaulay, Ruskin, Burns, Johnson, Lamb, Burke, Shakespeare and others to claim the form is natural and effective. It contends grammar practice should not suppress a useful expression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Byron
Macaulay
Ruskin
Burns
Johnson
Lamb
Burke
Shakespeare
Ohio State Journal
Paint your buggy now at L M Wood
Sherwin Williams Buggy Paints and varnishes offered together in one operation by L M Wood. This line advertises the availability of paints and varnishes for wooden buggies, urging customers to purchase now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherwin- Williams
L. M. Wood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Federals
Citizens
Lamar
R. K. Megown
Monroe City
Monroe County
Jessie Bush
Ezra S. Hampton
Guardian, Meriwether & Meriwether
Guardian
Siberia
Verkhovnensk
London Globe
Dean Osbourne
Democrat
Rush Turner
Rush
Lees
B. F. Burris
Atlanta
James King
Perry
C. Steward
Evan Smith
B. D. Neal
Rensselaer
Shelby County
Dick Thomas
Joe
Strean’s
Samuel Saunders
Lakenan
Miss
She and
Miss McClintic
Columbia
Lee's
Hess's
Lee
Hess
Harry Wood
Borijg Bride
Clinton, Mo
Mrs. Woods
W. W. Longmire
Elsie McLeod
Monroe
Marion
Susan E. Boarman
W. J. Rouse
The
Balzer
Demaree
Hadley
J. W. Sikes
Sikes
Clayton Argus
Temple
Texas
Zephyr
Kerens
Akins
Missouri
Washington
Taft
Brookfield Argus
Hess' Panacea
Firm
Anderson & Montgomery
Anderson&Montgomery
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