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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
8
Idaho has abundant fertile land with crops like wheat yielding 85 to 60 bushels per acre Oats 75 to 100 pounds per bushel Alfalta 4 ton per cre Potatoes 300 to 600 bushels per acre Sugar Beets 2 to 80 tons per acre Vegetables and fruit grow well Apple trees mature in seven years with expenses covered Markets strong with few failures and storms.
Multiple brief items record visits by M. P. Crisler of Blackfoot Idaho and others, a dry Chariton County election result with a 664 majority, social events in Hunnewell and Hannibal, upcoming talks by David Wallace and Charles M. Gay, local business notices for Jaeger hardware and Deere gear, and various personal errands and hospital services across the area.
J A Watson reportedly visited on Tuesday to pay Mrs Emma Brown forty one hundred dollars. The payment relates to the life insurance carried by the late Dr S M Brown with Bankers Life Association of Des Moines. Proofs of death were filed March 5 and the draft issue March 11.
Judge J T Umstattd suffered severe hand wounds when a barbed wire stretch broke and tightened. Mrs Bailey Jackson and Miss Sarah Elizabeth visited relatives in Shelbina. Burlingina railway trains derailed near Hunnewell and Lennie affecting passenger service. Detective Frost and Monroe police chief Polk Masterson visited. local option election fate discussed. Pope Dimmitt from Hast St Louis joined Monroe friends.
Miss Edna Vaughn hosted a Saturday evening gathering in honor of friends Miss Mariam Read and Miss Anna Mary Barr who are soon moving to Gloster Mississippi and Macon Missouri. Attendees from afar included Miss Oka Melson, Katherine Key, Paul Bottorff, and Wray Hewitt of Hannibal.
Jobo Richardson of Hannibal visits Monroe widows, and Mrs F T Blackwood of Quincy visits sister Mrs James Palmer. Numerous travels include Miss Vera Scott of Palmyra visiting cousin Miss Eleanor Scott, John McGlasson and wife from Louisiana with homefolks, and many others visiting relatives or tending farm interests around Monroe.
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