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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
2
A June verse by James Russell Lowell extols summer leisure and rest beneath a tree. The speaker praises basking, sunshine, and the slow ripening of the mind, contrasting industrious study with the season’s restorative sweetness.
In the era of high prices and living costs the St. Joseph Observer questions why railroads alone demand higher rates and wages while street railways telegraphs water and electric services keep or lower prices. It notes rail dividends rose 184 percent since 1898 and asks if speculative stock discounts the future, urging the public not to bear the railroad blunder.
Miss Edna Boulware hosted a banking party entertaining Cleo Patton Margaret Patton Amy Green Dee Hampton Elizabeth Patterson Calista Tooley Mildred Buell and Edna Vaughn. They enjoyed a lively night of sport and a breakfast where the viands vanished. Oscar Broughton of Oak Dale attended.
Rev Olando B Holliday a prominent M E Church South minister died at his home in Huntsville on East Mulberry Street at 8 50 pm Monday June 13 1910 of heart disease He had suffered illness for a year with stomach and heart trouble and his death was expected He was born May 9 1860 at Stewartsville Mo and served multiple charges in Missouri He was married to Lizzie Lee in 1887 and four children survive He will be buried in Carrollton after memorial services at the M E Church South conducted by Presiding Elder A B Culbertson The Huntsville Herald notes him as a righteous man and former pastor in the city.
Judge Davis of the circuit court sentenced a whole congregation to pray for 60 days and ordained a Christian Church Bishop to oversee compliance. Two Jamesport factions argued over worship form. a church trial failed to resolve it. After 40 hours of testimony, the judge found a stress issue and withheld ruling, per counsel’s suggestion.
John Cissell told an Appeal man Monday in Paris Appeal that a woman tied to a knave is worse than to a chron ic fool, noting the corn crop situation is early and most still planted with past planting dates.
Samuel W. Allerton, famed Chicago financier and rancher, quits the Republican Party at 82 to join the Democrats. He blames GOP policies for government overreach and rising prices, argues government meddling harms individual rights and business. He cites officials in Jersey City limiting work at a stock yard and decries wartime costs as proof of Republican misgovernance.
Real estate firm Bailey and Sornberger broker a sale of eighty acres at the city northwest for 16000 cash. Buyers N A Drescher W S Woodson and A Hamilton of Monroe City see Brookfield as a growing hub with suburban demand rising. Land to be laid out for market, joining Col Dake addition as a future part of town.
Report cites a violent incident as Oklahoma’s capital move is announced in Guthrie with Miss Haskell assaulted by a brick. The Chicago Inter Ocean is criticized for bias while residents and visitors from Palmyra, Woodland, St. Louis, Denver and Santa Fe are noted arriving and meeting local figures amid quick commentary on regional identity.
Fishing party consisting of Claude Martin Ollie Elliott Cecil Dawson and Wm A Sullivan enjoyed a Salt River trip filled with activity and good times Pascal Davis departed Friday for St Joseph where he has secured a post esther
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