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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
8
Wheat cutting begins. Sunday School at Ariel well attended. Local weddings and visits fill the week as families travel, preach, and share meals. A buggy accident near Warren ends with no injuries, while church events and a missionary society meeting highlight the Sunday agenda. Leaders and residents attend conventions and discuss farm shipments, poultry, and local commerce.
Wm. Brown of Texarkana has returned to Rensselaer and will spend the summer at the boarding house. His sister Miss Alice and aunt, Miss Tim Smiley, will soon join him, and they
Yesterday B A Umstattd of Rensselaer brought wheat heads grown on prairie land that measured 6 and 64 inches with meshes well filled.
In Cooperville the latest tale paints a humorous trade between W. J. Mc Leod and Robert Gander. Gander offers a pony for a price dispute that nearly derails the deal as both men chew hillside navy and spit over the fence, ultimately settling on an even trade. The piece ends with a skeptical note about local pig prices and penny gouging.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude to many friends who assisted during a bereavement. Lucy A Repman and family extend blessings to all who offered kindness and support.
The author notes the Ilissos and Cephissus beside Athens in Greece are small compared with Missouri’s Flat Branch and Hinkson. He observes many classic rivers are not as large as a Missouri creek, and some run dry. He compares Attic plain to Cedar Township and suggests Greece’s population is far smaller than St. Louis Kansas City and St. Joseph.
Mrs. Girty R. Pord visited Palmyra yesterday while Mrs. Ham Buchanan from Philadelphia stays in town with friends. Mrs. John Green of Rensselaer shopped in the city yesterday. Miss Mary Landers attended the Epworth League convention in Hannibal on Tuesday. J. M. Proctor & Son are stripping seed from 800 acres of blue grass. How is that Mr. Kentucky.
Why should you bring your sale bills horse and jack bills to the Democrat office to be gotten out Because the works will be done quickly neatly artistically and at the same time reasonably Mrs Norman Goodnight was in a critical condition at her home near Palmyra half of last week She fell from a wagon and received serious internal injuries She is a daughter of William Jones south of this city and a sister of Mrs J A Hickman of this city.
Head Consul Northcott issues the annual proclamation for Memorial Day observance. Citizens are invited to attend on June 15 and bring flowers to decorate graves of deceased neighbors. Rev. H. H. Johnson will conduct services.
A fragment quotes a tense exchange at a stairway foot scene where Capper shows interest in a small game upstairs. An indignant church worker challenges him as the discussion hints at graft or corruption concerns in a street confrontation.
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