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Read the Democrat. Try Democrat sale Bills. The clam does not advertise, but who wants to be a clam? Mrs. Fred Farris was on the sick list the latter part of the week, For Sale—600 bales first class clover hay. Alex Burger, Com merce, Mo. Frank Miller, postmaster at Oran, had business in the probate court Monday. Order that job printing today and give us the time to take pains with the work. Mrs. McDonough and Mrs. Clayton and son Claran of Morley visited Mrs. Morley Saturday. Jas. F. Allen, the Oran booster, came over Monday to see how things were circulating around the county Hub. Mrs. Nannie Newton and broth er, Adair Rodgers, left Saturday for St. Louie after a visit at the H. D. Rodgers home in Benton. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Adams com menced housekeeping in their home on Tywappity street Mon day. They have a neat and com fortable home. The attention of Democrat readers is called to the page ad of the Banks Department Store, Oran. Many exceptional bargains are listed therein. A. E. Goetting has several of his sanitary ice cream pails out that he loaned to patrons and they have failed to return them. Ad would like to know where they are. The committee that solicited funds for the furnace in the Methodist church requests us to state that those who have not paid their subscription should do so at once at the Daugherty drug store. Remember the Democrat will soon begin a new serial story en titled ‘“The Marshal.” The ro mance that is running now will end next week. Be sure to read the opening chapters of the new story. Scott county will be represented on the program at the meeting of the Missouri boosters at Kennett Monday by G. C. Montgomery of Sikeston, who is on for a five min ute talk. Several of the Benton boosters will attend the meeting. H. A. Alexander, foreman of the Himmelberger-Harrison Lum ber Co., at Morehouse, but who lives at Bloomfield, was in town Monday. On being conducted thru the Scott county court house he said it was the best he ever saw. Two families from Frankfort, Ind., have bought 200 acres of land from J. H. Moore, south of Commerce. Their names are G. W. Melling and J. F. Lure and they number eight persons in all. Their household goods arrived at Commerce Saturday and they moved to their new home that afternoon. A man named Kitchens was ar rested on a telegram from Hodges Park, Ill., Friday and Saturday the officers came over in a car and took him across the river. It seems that a safe was blown open by burglars at Hodges Park Thursday of last week and Kitch ens and another man were seen there about that time and the ar rest was made on suspicion. Kitchens told that he and his part ner separated at Fayville, Nl., before crossing the river and that they had only been together for two days. H. C. Thompson of Perkins was in town Thursday. Louis Dannenmueller is an ad dition to our family of Oran read ers. Attorney G. RK. Daugherty of Chaffee had business here Thurs day. Hotel for rent. Good location. Apply to J. M. Beardslee, Blod gett, Mo. Jos. W. Myers, the Sikeston insurance man, was in the county seat Monday. A. V. Bayley, insurance agent from Cape Girardeau, was in Benton Monday. W. J. Kraft, the decorator, is plying his trade at the RK. M. Finley home south of town. John Warner returned Friday from Newport, Ark., where he had been on drainage business. You want an auto? Of course. Write us or see our sample at garage. L. L. Hunter, Morley, Mo. Miss Oral Cleaver returned the last of the week from Cairo, Nl., where she had been taking medical treatment. Mrs. Robert Singleton, nee Flora Brown, had her Democrat changed from Campti to Cou shatta, La. B. Nation of Morley was in the county seat Thursday and called at the Democrat office to pay his subscription dues. W. B. Smith, one of our Van duser readers, was in the county capital Friday and had the date on his Democrat changed to 1915. You can sleep in the the dark, but you need the light to do busi ness. And advertising is the great source of business light. See? R. H. Tesreau, the Chaffee pho tographer, was here Thursday taking pictures of the Scott coun ty court house and other public buildings. This has been one of the pret tiest Januarys on record. Half of the month is already gone and almost every day has been warm and sunshiny. Married at the probate office by Judge John F. Martin, on Jan. 1, A. L. Gordon of Chaffee to Miss Dora A. Clay of Sikeston.. Charleston Courier. Mrs. Katie Engle and daughter were here from Chaffee Saturday. The Democrat will go to their home each week as a result of their visit to the county seat. Henry Hester, the young man from near Sikeston who was ad judged a lunatic, was carried to the asylum at Farmington Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Robert Cannon. The electrical fixtures are being installed in the Scott county court house and the work will be finished in a couple of week. The fixtures are beautiful and in keep ing with the magnificence of the entire building. The attention of the readers is directed to the advertisement of W. F. Schade’s 5th annual sale, which appears in another column. Anyone interested in jacks or jen nets will do well to write Mr. Schade for a free catalog and at tend the sale. Two saw mills are busy cutting up the gum, oak and cypress on the Northcut ditch east and north of Redman Switch. The mill east of Redman is run by the Larkin- Workman Co., employs four hands and cuts about 4000 feet, mostly cypress. The other is near the railroad, 2 miles north of Redman, and belongs to Otto Schubert. This mill has two saws, one of which cuts oak and hickory and the other gum and cypress. It’s average output is from 13,000 to 15,000 per day, when both saws are run continuously. Last Thursday's St. Louis Globe Democrat contained an extensive write-up and large photograph of Miss Cleopatra Freeling, the noted opera singer, who is a nat ive Benton girl. The article told of Miss Freeling having been left an orphan while she was studying vocal music at Milan, Italy, and that she was undecided as to whether she would continue in her career as an opera vocalist or would attend to the Scott county stock farm which had been left her on the death of her mother. The paper printed likeness of Miss W. ©. Poynter of Morley was here Tuesday. Louis Dohogne of Kelso was in town Saturday. Dr. H. S. Winters of Oran was in Benton Saturday. R. F. Steck spent the fore part of the week at Sikeston. Burklow Williams of near Mor ley was in town Saturday. County Judge Matt Thomas was down from Kelso Saturday. If you have anything to sell advertise! Nothing sells itself. Lawyer J. L. Hale was down from Chaffee “Thursday on busi ness. Miss Genevieve Profit of New Madrid is visiting with Benton relatives. Andy Heisserer was down from Kelso Tuesday and renewed for the Democrat. F. E. Mount, the Sikeston monument dealer, was in the county seat. Monday. Editor Wat Coleman tore him self loose from office business Sat urday and came to the county seat. Leo Dohogne, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Kelso, agtoed to Benton Friday in his Paige. Miss Ruth Harris and brother James of Morley visited Benton relatives the last of the week and returned home Sunday. Miss Fanny Lee Adams re turned to her home at Olive Branch, Ill., Saturday after a visit with Benton and Blodgett relatives. F.S. Rice of Oran was in to renew his subscription Saturday and to hand in a notice about a fine stock hog which you will find elsewhere. J. A. Griffie has opened a bar ber shop and clothes pressing pate lor in the Daniel building. Mr. Griffie and daughter are keeping house here. R. M. Finley and wife drove to Richwoods Sunday where they visited with Celestine Finley and family, at which home there was a new baby to get acquainted with. P. E. Eldridge has purchased 25 beautiful White Wyandotte hens and three roosters and has built a splendid house for them to occu py. They are certainly good to look at. Judge W. ©. Bowman, accom panied by deputy surveyor R. C. Hill, inspected the work done by contractors on the gravel road be tween Benton and Sikeston Satur day. The judge was well pleased with the work. EK. E. Smith and family left Tuesday for their new home near Clarkton where they will engage in stock raising. The Smiths are good citizens and the best wishes of a host of friends go with them to Dunklin county. Linemen for the Watermelon Telephone Co. were busy the lat ter part of last week setting poles to run their wires to the Henry Grant home as their central office will be changed to that place from the Miller restaurant, Antone Wilhelm of Benton R. F. C. had his name enrolled on our list Saturday. He had been trying other papers and decided the Democrat suited him better. He is figuring on building a bng alow in the east part of town. Gavin Leedy, who has been at tending school at William Jewell college, Liberty, left Wednesday evening for Jefferson City, where he has accepted a position in state treasurer E. P. Deal’s office. This offer on the part of Mr. Deal came about on account of Judge Leedy being an old friend. Pattsburg Democrat. The special feature and pictoral section of the Sunday St. Louis Republic contained a page write up of “‘the queerest club in the world, The Quo Vadis Club.” The organization was perfected on the 13th of the month, has 13 mem bers and has its meetings on the 18th of each month. The club was organized at the University of Missouri at Columbia and the requirements for joining are that you are a student, a good fellow and have “bummed” 1000 miles? Among the membership of the club we notice the likeness of Chester McPheeters, son of coun ty clerk James McPheeters.
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Benton Scott County Democrat
Benton, Missouri, US
Thu, Jan 15, 1914
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