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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
3
Missouri faces a crowded field with two delegates and four alternates. Editorials note Roosevelt era politics, anti-saloon league tensions, and Missouri’s strong GOP support while Missouri Democrats anticipate Stone carrying Howell County and the state.
A massive farm in Chi huahua owned by Don Luis Terrazas covers about 8 million acres. It spans 150 miles north to south and 200 miles east to west, housing 1,000,000 cattle 700,000 sheep and 100,000 horses. The farmhouse reportedly cost 400,000 dollars and features palacelike furnishings, with 100 male servants on the homestead, grand gardens and stables rivaling imperial standards.}
Miss Julia Megown arrived Thursday from Colorado Springs Colorado where she has been teaching school. She will spend the summer with the homespike Dr. R. K. Megown and family.
C. EB. Albertson and Topsy Loomis visited the fair grounds on Thursday to watch the ponies. Albertson, a chicken lover, carried a shoe box filled with fluffy chicks home with him.
The Paris versus Shelbina game at Shelbina Thursday ended 1 to 0 in favor of Shelbina. Spectators included Harold Davenport Ray Yowell Ray Handley T Jones Will Young Lambert Lane Will Longmire Shelby Sweeney J J Dimmitt Percy Lasley V H Spalding Will Losson Bea Eddings E O Hallock Edgar Davenport and Judge J T Umstattd.
Joseph S. Schott of Chicago reports vineyards northeast of the city yield wine grapes with thirty to seventy five bunches each per foreman Davis. Jim Gordon’s old mare produced two very small mules, two feet eleven inches tall and notably ugly. News notes mourn Tom Cannon’s death in Arkansas once from Woodland, with sympathy to his bereaved family. A Sherman son cites war language misattribution in 1864 papers.
The piece notes a tale of Pretty Patty finding a single intact heart among many chipped and scratched ones and keeping it safe. It then discusses July issue contents of a women's magazine and comments on press reaction to a Senate bill by Senator Stone to reimburse the St. Louis Sub-Treasury for a $61,000 theft. The passage argues the bill aimed at triggering committee scrutiny and mentions a prior trial of a youth named Dyer. It ends with a call for fair treatment in the senatorial battle and GOP accountability.
A comic quote collection notes a woman’s view of recklessness and caution, reflecting on a man who brags about amateur country gardening to avoid inviting friends to see it, as cited by the New York Press.
The National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announces active operations from Washington DC and plans a campaign handbook ready by July 1. It seeks voter cooperation to elect a Democratic Congress and asks for financial contributions and distribution help nationwide.
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