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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
4
Comfortable Store notes a 100 degree day as residents, visitors, and travelers pass through Potosi. Local leaders, callers from Belgrade, Irondale, and St. Louis are mentioned, along with road lamps darkened by gasoline shortages and a burst of social, religious, and business activity across the region.
A listing of county officials including Circuit Judge F Kt Dearing Hills Co State Senator F H Farris Steelville Mo Representative W M Bennett Potosi Presiding J e County Court Joseph Wilkinson County Court 1st district Jules F Boyer Cadet district Judge ic H C Compton Palmer Clerk circuit court Isaac A cee Thos S White ff Jas 1 Pynce Pena Case attorneys E M epesine Chas Williams ty Assessor Norman F Robinson Courtois Chanty School Commissioner J J S H ees Pomel Shatice of the Henson oO Fae Point TIME FOR HOLDING COURTS court Ist Monday in March Potosi
Time card entry notes Bains stop at Jaineral Point with pets Cotton Bele pre eres 11 00 am and Bismarck Aco 8 23 pwm. Details appear fragmentary but indicate travel times and stops.
Peter A. Connolly aged 35 died Tuesday after being overcome by heat while riding a street car in St Louis. Funeral from St James Catholic Church in Potosi on Thursday at 9 AM. He leaves a widow, daughter of Mr John Fiyna, and his remains will be brought for burial tonight.
Local notices advertise fertilizer prices from Swiss Par, Pet's Diamond Mix, and St Louis Sanitary Co Daisy and Pure Raw Bone Meal with cash terms and limited time holds. J. B. Boyer also notes stock of Wheat Drills and farm tools. The Johnson Holladay murder case at Greenville yields manslaughter in the fourth degree for Johnson, with a $300 fine, no appeal expected. Further details tie Hiram Helladay and Moore A. Johnson as Greenville residents and brothers-in-law amid a 1909 shooting over alleged marital infidelity.
Fragmented OCR reads like random names and places: Se ceee reser Mence Hedgecath Irondale Effie Seahourze alee Ss Frowis Masoe Nettle Pencett Caledonia. The legible fragments hint at a local notice or directory entry with scattered personal names and a place name, but no coherent event or action is evident.
Shirley. Father warm 229 dry 26 present, fain i mech seeded bere Mere Ceert Geceptes tikited relativ e and 'reads at De Soee week. Beet cockieg & the orier of the sy im eis becalitr. Tos berthisy Gfle rative gives by Mr and Mrs Wm Hill oo the ab ios. is booored the birth amniversary é tr daugeter, 32s on enjoraine aiair Mr W Tt Teskiee. of Goterads. ix Visiting friends and resquires there. The Bates Creek pubic school is progressive nicely anter the prcent management of Mr. F. Bobbinson. Messrs. Ton Harney and Roebert Milsap. of Carlton. were among the guests at the Mill dSirtbday celebra tion last Thursday. Mr. Willie Miller is on the sick list. A number of our people attended the funeral of the late Mrs George Hill, of Hazel Creek, last Thursday. THARETILE.
In Irondale the Big River Lead Co moved another drill opposite the railroad depot and will sink a shaft soon. A new diamond drill, owned by Chicago interests, started Monday on P. M. Robinson land. Rumor says Iron Mountain Railroad Co will lay a switch to the shaft on McCormick land soon. Lead has been reached. the switch will become necessary. B F Powell bought Beardon heirs interest in adjacent lands. De Soto couple B T Eaton and wife visit relatives here. J M Jamison loaded another wheat car for shipment Monday. If prosperity endures Concord township may become the county’s banner township. OBSERVOR.
An old classified style notice touts HERBINE as a vigor and vitality booster for weary persons. The product is offered for sale by F X T A Dale with a price of sec.
Round About Us reports a drowning after Everett Dent fell from a canoe while fishing in Current River, Shannon County. The notice also mentions the Southeast Missouri Holiness Association camp meeting in De Soto from August 23 to September 3, plus local news about a swindler in Perry County and a stabbing near Iville.
A county report highlights successful early tests of rock road construction and cites reduced objections to cost as progress continues. The Ironton Register notes a letter from Tom Hall, wanted for killing James Asher at Red Point in Troon County, offering to surrender if protected from Asher’s friends but refusing to surrender to him while able to pull a trigger.
Departed this life on August 17 near Sunlight Bert Hoton son of Joseph and Etta Hoton aged 16 years 3 months 2 days. The piece laments the loss as a divine mystery and offers faith that Bert now rests in the Savior's love in a peaceful afterlife, urging the family to endure with grace.
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