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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
7
The quatrain exhorts seizing the present as the only hour worth living for. It laments the universal habit of delaying life, noting soldiers, lovers, and all seek tomorrow's promised triumphs yet are kept from action by delay. The speaker urges action now, warning against postponement.
J Bross warns that trimming hedges and discarding brush blocks roads. He says many patrons on a mail route neglect road upkeep, justifying denied delivery. He reports dragging two miles of road with a heavy load, noting hedge brush left in the middle would ruin efforts.
New York March 6 reports George L Meylan, Columbia University physical director, studied 687 entrants over two years. Smokers outscored non-smokers in weight, height, lung capacity and total strength. Other notes include Clifford Chipman visiting his brother George and several residents traveling to visits in St Louis Bluff City Macon and nearby Monroe Ralls County.
Quotations on anger politeness ignorance and bias weave through a central note about men and women. The piece attributes social flaws to rhetoric, disguise, and manipulation while suggesting prudence in judgment of others in a Chicago Daily News framing.
New York March 7 Governor Charles B Hughes received endorsement from the state committee for the presidential nomination. The committee resolutions praised Roosevelt for opposing injustice and demanding justice for all and placed him among Washington Lincoln Grant and McKinley as historic figures.
The Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain system announced today that after March 10 the services of 2000 men in its St Louis shops will no longer be required, bringing total idle workers across the system to 7500.
Miss Isla Terrill of Bowling Green visits Miss Gertrude Sharp while Koy Meriwether toured Marion's Capitol. Eva South of Hunnewell visits relatives J D Robey and wife. Capt Clay Price of Florida plans to Santa Clara Cal to visit a daughter. J P Boyd of Paris calls on friends Monday. B B Hixson of Hannibal visits his ill father Rev B F Hixson. Mrs Fannie Fields travels to Quincy to see Hon R S McClintic. Paris guest Miss Grace Frazier visits Palmyra homefolks. Dr Leo T Bell conducts business in Marion's Capitol. Mrs Hiram Clough visits a daughter in Macon City.
L M Wood promotes Mi o Na as a fast, positive stomach restorer and offers a money back guarantee if it fails to cure. The ad claims nervous debility headaches and melancholy stem from a weak stomach and inactive bowels, and says Mi o Na strengthens stomach muscles and normalizes digestion. A 50 cent box lasts a couple weeks and wards off many indigestion attacks.
To our kind friends who came to us in the hour of great sorrow and so willingly and lovingly helped us care for our dear baby we tender you our grateful thanks. Howard Tuley and wife.
Frank Courtney of Frankford spent Saturday and Sunday in the city with friends. Mrs J N Sparning and baby of Kirksville were guests of her parents. Frank Smith and wife of Ely visited relatives here. Ed Madden attended a Sedalia sale where a fancy fellow sold for 2000 dollars. Miss Lottie Lange of Hunnewell visited her brother Bert and family. George and Miss Bess De Lashmutt, Quincy students, spent the weekend with relatives south of the city.
J. N. McWilliams, longtime Pond Poultry Co. representative in Muscatine, Iowa, traveled to Macon on Thursday seeking a new residence as a promotion. He and his wife have made many friends. Muscatine has shifted Democratic with every city office now held by the party.
Miss Bess Williamson visited Kirkaville on Saturday to see F. M. Lewellen of Eldorado Springs. Lewellen arrived Saturday afternoon to reconnect with former associates. Dr. J. B Corley of Indian Creek joined friends in the city Saturday afternoon.
Mrs M B E Wood is visiting her two sons at Cincinnati. Mrs Perry Maxwell went to Palmyra Saturday to visit relatives. Henderson and Son have placed a new platform acafe in their poultry house.
Mr Bryan promotes guaranteed bank deposits as a popular reform. Oklahoma has enacted a bank deposit protection fund, with Kansas considering similar law and Nebraska weighing a special session. He argues residents should buy home goods at home and that government should serve the people, not trusts. The Commoner disseminates his views. subscriptions cost sixty cents via mail order to Lincoln Nebraska.
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