Monroe City Fair Highlights Farm Trade At August Event
The Monroe City fair lists farm sales and breeding notes from August fairs including Jersey cow with calf, 160 and 240 acre farms sold, sheep wool values, and silo construction plans. Mentions Bradley and Bright strain, 7 day old draft mare, and Saddle Stallion Harrison Star No. 2400 offering service. Also notes shipments, corn crop plans, and local notices from J J Dimmitt Monroe City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Yowell
JL Owen
City
Mr Whipple
Macomb
Ill
Frankford
Crookston
Minn
Eagle Grove
Iowa
Brookfield
F P Kimber
Kansas City
Harrison Star
Fair Ground
Cynthiana
Mystery Soldier Revealed as Mann in Confederate List
For years a Louisiana soldier listed as A Confederate resting in St. Jude was thought to be Mann. The two names are now said to be the same man, but the true identity of Mann remains unresolved. The tale reflects a survivor's family waiting after the war and marking him as missing until reunion in the afterlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. J. C. Holland
St. Jude
Louisiana
Mann
Paint firms touted for quality in Hannibal city visit
L. M. Wood and James Kennedy of Hannibal joined friends in this city praising Sherwin-Williams and Mound City Paints as proven quality options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherwin-Williams and
Mound City Paints
L. M. Wood
James Kennedy
Hannibal
Edmonson Trades Store Stock for Monroe City Real Estate
J H Edmonson trades his Broadway general merchandise stock to Monroe City resident Node Green. Edmonson receives Monroe City real estate as an investment and may reopen at the old stand later. Green prepares the goods for packing and shipment while Edmonson remains lease holder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Edmonson
Broadway
Node Green
Monroe City
Edmonson
Mr. Green
Journal
Hannibal Journal
ABOUT THE CHURCHES SERVICES AND HOME IMPROVEMENTS
This column lists weekly church programs including Methodist services and Ember week observances with specific times, plus notes on a Sunday Unity sermon and Bible School. It also reports local housing work such as new builds, roofWork, porch additions, and several cement walks and curbs around properties on Court Street and Silk Stocking row.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Melson
R. K. Megown
Locust and
Silk Stocking Row
R.K. Megown
Court Street
Republican spendthrift record in the Panama Canal effort
The speaker labels the Republican party as wasteful, citing payments totaling 20 million for ten million yellow bellies, 300 million already spent to “keep them,” and a 300 million dollar ditch project at Panama with a request for 20 million to fortify it, followed by 300 million more to maintain. Ballots suggest public support for this.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
T. B. Reed
Panama
Surries and sales pitch headline from local ad note
A boastful advertisement proclaims the best line of Surries offered to the public for money with an urging to call. Miss Maggie Smith traveled to Palmyra yesterday to visit relatives, noted in the same item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Jaeger
Maggie Smith
Palmyra
Odd Fellows Plan Sunday Graves Decoration Visit
The Odd Fellows met Tuesday night and decided to meet at their hall Sunday afternoon then proceed to St. Jude to decorate the graves of departed brethren. The U. D. C. will ensure Confederate graves are marked with small flags and flowers. Citizens will tend private lots and loved ones’ graves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jude
Tempering Copper Discovered By Denver Jeweler
A Denver jeweler named David Lamon accidentally found a method to harden copper by misusing a borax substitute. He analyzed the compound, secured a patent, and claims a breakthrough that could impact multiple industries. The discovery, once ancient and lost, resurfaces through a fortuitous mistake reported by the Courier-Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lamon
Denver
Techical World Magazine
Courier- Post
Guardian seeks resignation from Monroe guardianship
Notice is given that Ezra S Bush of Hampton as guardian to Jessie Bush and estate of Ezra S Bush will apply in the Probate Court of Monroe County Missouri on Monday July 12 1809 to resign guardianship of person and estate. Meriwether and Meriwether act as guardians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe County
Jessie ‘Bush
Two Boys Born at Local Households in Town News
The Stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tawney delivering a boy. A second newborn son was welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Elliott. Advertisements urge shoppers to buy hammocks at cost and coal oil five gallons for 35 cents at Anderson & Montgomery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tawney
W. D. Elliott
Anderson & Montgomery's
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monroe City Fair
Plymouth Rock
Bradley & Bright
L. C. Wilson
Carrico
Gloster
W. T. Yowell
Charlie Sharp
Madden Bros
Amos Miller
Frank Christian
JS Elzea
Ford
Hayden & Yates
Geo. T. Fisher
H A Greenwell
Jim Tom Spalding
D J Sullivan
J T Umstattd
Jaok Owen
Beeves
JT Fuqua
JT Spalding
Kendrick Bros
Irve Hickman
C R Lanham
J B Gray
Boulware & Son
Floyd Carpenter
Will Reichoff
B S Machels
J J Jett
J J Elliott
Sam Scobee
C E Steel
T W Powell
T R Powell
J C Schmit
S W Seward
J W Mudd
H C Hays
S Bono
Theo Hess
W D Greeves
James Greeves
A Byland
Tom Vanmarter
T M Logeman
T E Willard
Loraine Ille Times
Monroe
Guy
J. J. Dimmitt
Charlie Sullivan
Market Report
Boulware
Rogers & Thompson
Henderson & Son
Sheik-ul-Islam
Fetvah
Sheik ul-Islam
Philadelphia Public Ledger
St. Jude Cemetery
George Balzer
Sam Demaree
Methodist
W. F. M. Society
A. Mm
Christian
Christian Church
Grace Divine
Bible School
Young People’s Society
Woman's Missionary Society
Emmett
Yowell’s
First Baptist
Thomas Jarman
J. F. Smith
Maggie O'Daniel
James Smith
Mary Norman
Evan Smith
Ezra S$, Hampton
Guardian, Meriwether & Meriwether
Guardian
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