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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1906
Page
4
The Potosi Journal published weekly from Potosi Missouri describes its post office publication status as second class matter. M Deggendorf is listed as editor and publisher for the August 29 1906 issue.
Official Washington County directory lists county officials including Circuit Judge Joseph J. Williams and Clerk Isaac A. Letcher. It announces court terms: circuit court dates the first Monday in March and fourth Monday in August. county court dates the first Monday in February May August and November. probate court dates the second Monday in February May August and November.
St Louis Junction and St. Louis Time Card lists trains stopping at Mineral Point with going south schedules for No. 23 Little Rock Local at 10:45 am and No. 4 Texas Express at 4:40 pm. Going north shows No. 8 Memphis Express at 5:24 pm and Local Express at 2:15 pm. also St Louis Local and Potos branch services.
Potosi hosts a lively court week crowd with jurors and attendees from Caledonia Latty Belgrade and De Soto. Notables and visitors include F G Grisham Wallace Gibson J F Richardson Eugenia Casey and J O Coley. Oak Lawn Dairy Farm offers ready ice cream for fairs and picnics. Local ads note subscription renewals and a tragic death by self infliction.
De Soto plans a Labor Day celebration on Monday with a reduced round trip rail fare for the occasion. The item notes various local happenings, including court actions in Greenville, renovations in a Presbyterian parsonage, and social events in Potosi and surrounding towns, with multiple residents traveling and attending gatherings. Evidence of crime and political activity appears, alongside community notices and local business updates.
For sale two box stores one stall and a lance with drum all in good condition suitable for seldiomthouse or small church apply Journal office. The Priscilla Society will meet at Miss Clara L. Stall home next Friday afternoon. Hugh Donahue former Mineral Point civil war veteran died at Federal Soldiers Home St James Mo on August 24. She was found dead in bed. Mrs Tloward Swift received a kitchen shower from Twentieth Century Club members at her mother’s home last Tuesday. Mrs Swift newlywed. Advertising is no good the man in old clothes observed. The millionaire merchant replied that he tried it Ton as the Indian tried the feather bed. An Indian slept on a feathered plank all night and said Paleface say feathers heap soft Paleface heap fool. There was a call from Blackwell for an inquest on the wife of James Craig who dropped dead near Blackwell while picking chips. coroner did not deem it official.
The Democratic congressional committee of the Thirteenth district met at Bismarck on Saturday and tallied votes from counties with primaries, declaring M. KR. Smith the nomine. Washington county did not participate as no primary had been held there. Rep H C Kell attended from the county and offered limited recognition.
Fire destroyed the restaurant of Walter Schmalz in Leadwood last Friday around 2 pm. The blaze started in the gasoline tank room. Walter Varencamp, employed by Schmalz, had just refilled the tank and was returning when a flare struck him in the face. The building burned rapidly, with most contents lost. Loss estimated at 31200 with 100 insurance.
Zeno Ilorn, 33, of near Lelleview, fell beneath a freight train in Bismarck Monday evening. Surgeon J. L. Eaton amputated both legs above the knees, but Ilorn died two hours later from injuries. He was interred Wednesday. A Missouri education board meeting ordered enforcement of contagious-disease rules in public schools, with penalties for violating parents. The message also contains humorous rural anecdotes about corn, hogs, and alchemy analogies.
Advertises school books cables pencils and general school supplies plus men's furnishing goods and ladies ready made skirts offered at discount prices.
J. W. Settle & Co. M. R. Smith the Democratic candidate for Congress opened the campaign at Flat River last Saturday night. He spoke briefly, attacking President Roosevelt and opponent Rhodes. Audience never exceeded thirty five, including local Democratic candidates. Indications show voters favor current prosperity and oppose a return to prior conditions.
State vs Yarbrough found guilty of carrying concealed weapons with a $850 fine after a trial by jury. State vs Wigger et al continued on state motion for malicious trespass. Waldman motion for new trial overruled for selling intoxicating liquor without license. Simmsons nolle prosequi on concealed weapons. Wood vs Latham appeal from Justice of Peace dismissed. Parmeley Jr. convicted by jury of febonious assault and sentenced to ten months in jail.
A memorial notice for Mrs Clementine Politte wife of Abraham Politte who died at her home in Old Mines on August 15. The obituary recalls her as a loving mother of seven children and notes sorrow at the loss of both mother and child buried beneath an old tree in Old Mines.
Members of Beckett Post 348 are asked to attend on Saturday September 1 for recalls to muster and other post business. Warns Foley's Kidney Cure at City Drug Store claims to cure all kidney and bladder diseases.
The advertisement claims the pills solve periodic bilious attacks and habitual constipation. It features testimonial from John N. Pleasant of Magnolia Indiana praising Dr King's New Life Pills and notes a 25 cent price at Thurman's Drug Store with a money back guarantee.
A dairy and fruit convention will be held in Hismarck Missouri from October 10 under the direction of the Immigration Association of Missouri. The aim is to demonstrate the adaptability of Missouri dairying and fruit raising and to encourage immigration.
From Leadwood on August 1 a strawberry roan horse about ten hands high with foretop cut off, scar across nose, wood eyes, black legs and tail, shod all around. Reward five dollars for recovery or three dollars on delivery to E. M. Davis Leadwood. Also notice on Choice Fultz seed Wheat eighty cents per bushel subject to objections. W Lytenl & Sons, P O Box Level Maie.
An advertisement warns that more than half of men over sixty suffer kidney and bladder issues, often enlarged prostate. It urges early use of Foley's Kidney Cure, citing a Rockport Missouri user age 80 who reports marked improvement after two bottles.
W T Hunter a representative of German American Insurance Co of New York is listed as the contact for lire insurance. See him for policies and coverage details.
A testimonial from E. W. Goodloe of Waco Texas praising Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption. He states five years of use kept him well and safe after a long cough. The ad claims cure for chronic cough la grippe croup whooping cough and pneumonia prevention. Available at Thurman’s drug store with a 50c bottle and a dime trial bottle free.
W T Hunter is administrator of the estate of Sarah A Lake deceased by the Probate Court dated August 1. All creditors must file claims within one year for allowance or be barred from any benefit. Claims not exhibited within two years from the letters will be forever barred. Forest Missouri August 14 1%.
Oring Lunative Fruit Syrup sold with a positive guarantee to cure constipation headaches stomach trouble or indigestion. If it fails manufacturers refund your money. City Dray Store.
A ten dollar reward is offered for information leading to the conviction of anyone trespassing on Dy lands in Washington County sections 4 and 5, township 3s, range 3 hi. Writn by J. Powe, Sr., St. Louis, Missouri.
M T Lynch editor of the Phillipe lang NJ Daily Dost writes that he has used many medicines for coughs and colds in his family but finds Foley's Honey and Tar the best of all. He cannot praise it enough, as the City Dray Store notes.
A promotional notice urges readers to subscribe to the Journal and Sue Twice a-Week Globe-Detraocrat for a year at 450. The message stresses urgency and prompts prompt action if not already a subscriber to the Sinese paper.
In SelI defense Major Tutu, editor and manager of the Constitutionitt-1, Eminence, Ky., recounts a four year old attack by Miles. He bought a box of Arnica Salve from S. F Thurman's drug store and says it healed him in ten days with no trouble since, noting it treats sores cuts and wounds.
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