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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
8
Dated items note social visits and family travel around Monroe City, Hasard, and Clinton with names such as Yates, Dooley, McLeod, Hagan, and Spalding. Observations include health, church activities, hay shipments, ice cream, replanting corn, and local gossip amid scattered weather and welfare references.
London dispatch records Lord Roberts announcing British occupation of Pretoria at 12:30 p m and 11:40 a m messages. Official entry to take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. News confirms Pretoria in British hands after sustained campaign.
A long obituary notes Mrs. Mary Murray of Knox County born September 2 1859 in Missouri died May 28 at 155 pm. She joined the Baptist church in youth and remained there. Funeral at residence led by Rev Hale of Shelbyville with burial in Shelbina cemetery. She leaves husband one child four sisters five brothers and fond memories of her last words urging her daughter to be good. Washington reports Archbishop Chapelle to be made a cardinal and bring two US votes in the College of Cardinals. The piece also covers local opinions on Monroe City and Palmyra conditions, depots, and county politics with strong editorials on newspapers and civic accountability.
City Council met June 1 in regular session with Mayor North presiding. Aldermen J S Scott J H Grady D A Ely J W Bell and D D Mei discussed finance and street repair. Ordinance No 69 fixes 0.5 percent property tax for city operations and requires able bodied men 21 to 50 to work on streets or pay $2.00. The measure passed June 1, 1900.
Jolly Joe Beilow of Huntington is back briefly from timber lands in Southern Arkansas and will soon return fully equipped to logging. Wagons for that work are being built in Monroe City.
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