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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
8
The column details cattle, hogs, sheep, corn, and grass acres, noting 200 head cattle, 400 hogs, 700 sheep, and market shipments. It lists buyers and neighbors including J M Proctor Sr and Son, A Boulware and Son, and many others, praising Monroe Prairie farming prosperity and urging reader engagement.
Rogers and Thompson raise a new canvas awning. Wilson restaurant gains morning shade. Andrew Garner lays 165 feet granitoid sidewalk on First Street. Efi Bixter repaints cottage on Winter Street. A Jaeger adds canvas awning to storefront. Mrs John Baker installs 50 feet granitoid walk and 7 by 30 foot porch. Annie Powers adds 125 feet granitoid on Thames Street. Reichoff building a 42 by 48 feet barn. Henry Fuqua installs 125 feet granitoid walk at cottage. Shoemate reroofs barn with 76 000 shingles. Bagley adds one room. Mrs Geo Kirby buys 1 1/2 lots on Lawn Street for a 6 room cottage. Baldwin and Kendrick plan 6 room cottage and barn. City crews lay cement culvert at Vive and Winter streets and create crossing on Firat Street.
Monroe trio led by John Wittmar and Fred Wittmar plus Willie Young powered Palmyra to an 8 2 victory over undefeated Quincy Elks. Young showed grit in field as Palmyra secured the win with strong pitching and timely hits.
In May the Columbia police court convicted sixty offenders with E. Z. Marks paying 895 in fines and 476.50 in costs for offenses from street baseball to drunken brawls. Fourteen offenders were women and forty six were men. of the men twenty seven were white and nineteen black. The town, under a local option law, previously required bars at least a mile away, now extended to five miles, sparking speculation on consequences.
An animated debate notes the class of 07 had no valedictorian because there was no valedictory address. The farewell speech defines the honor, tied to top grades, leaving the ceremony incomplete without it.
Frank D. Proctor visited Hannibal on Saturday. Mrs. J. M. Boulware of Hannibal visits home folks in the Queen of the Prairies. Master Jno. B. Hagan visits friends in Lakenan. Miss Estelle Anderson spent Sunday with Gen i City friends. Master Isaac Moss went to Brashears to visit his mother, Mrs W. H. Eagle. Dr. J. L. Sweeney was a business visitor in Gem City Thursday. Mrs. Eva Byland visits Hannibal relatives.
Good Water reports that on Thursday the mineral well piping was drawn and cleaned and new valves installed in the pump resulting in a plentiful supply of salt sulfur iron and magnesia for all residents.
Waller Q Clark, ten miles from Monroe, visited his brother and sisters on Thursday for the first time in ten years. He remains living alone.
CO P Forsythe, a Monroe boy, is first bass in the William Jewell Quartette. A full house is expected. Miss Josie Hays writes her father J Pole Hays that they are happy at Windhurst Texas and prospering despite heavy rain.
William J. Bryan, visiting New York, says trusts railroads and tariff will dominate the next presidential campaign. He views the Democratic party outlook for the coming year as very good. Bryan is guest of the Democratic Progressive League. Mrs. O S Rogers of Palmyra was with Monroe relatives. Jack Lowry with Gem City relatives Saturday.
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