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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
3
A ballroom scene centers on Mr and Mrs Bings at a dancing party where Mrs Bings discovers her rubber that kept her feet dry was also the joke punchline. The host couple laugh, recognizing the humor of a night spent dancing in rubber footwear.
Royrotts Truman Inglesby of New Salem Illinois has been a guest of relatives in the city. Mrs Cora Turner is with friends in Moberly. Tandy Gentry and wife of St Louis arrived to visit his mother Mrs Dee Gentry. Dan Drescher of Stuttgart Arkansas visits homefolks. J Roy Spiker went to Bushnell Illinois to visit relatives. Frank Tipton of Hannibal with friends in the city. B McCulloch of Hunnewell visits Hannibal. George Sidner was a business visitor in Hannibal. Samuel Webster visiting homefolks in Elvaston. Gus Mayes of Lakenew with friends in the city. Charles F Kestner of Cooperville en route to Quincy on business. Mrs Dora Hallock and Miss Mayme visit son E C Hallock in Chicago. Martha Best of Palmyra visiting her brother Judge W B Drescher.
Monroe County residents are noted in a local summary with several names and movements. Hon J P Boyd of Paris and Hon R S McClintic visited, while Mrs Minnie Umstattd and others toured the city. School enumeration shows a total of 5,000 plus pupils with gender and color breakdowns and town gains. Local real estate transfers, visits to relatives, and travel to nearby towns are listed along with a first trip back home for W E McMurry after twenty years and a property sale on Silk Stocking Row.
A reflective passage notes how fashion and language evolve from the cotton tower era to modern times. The writer recalling youth in simple apparel contrasts it with current trends of tailored wear and refined speech, highlighting cultural shifts across a generation.
A collection of practical tips covering flavoring with citric acid in frosting celery crispness by chilling, stain removal using matches lemon juice and sun, baking with milk for richness, old Turkish towels as floor cloths, coffee pot cleaning guidance especially for aluminum, and a DIY funnel method using a lit string on a bottle neck to crack it evenly.
Mrs. John Gentges and daughter Julia of Quincy arrived Friday with B G Gentges and family. Though residing in the city five years it is his mother’s first visit to him. Mrs Gentges has lived in Quincy and Adams County since 1844, and this is her first crossing of the Mississippi River.
In St Joseph Missouri on June 10 the Reverend Joel Osborn Baptist preacher holding a pastorate on Messanic Street was convicted in Police Court on evidence from George Davis and Mrs Josie Woodford. He admitted he sought to catch a male parishioner by aiding the wife in surveillance and was fined five dollars.
Mrs. Agnes Reid from Old Clinton is visiting her daughter Mrs. William Backman.
George McLeod of Hannibal visited friends in Wray on the Sabbath and spent Sunday afternoon with them in Quincy.
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