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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1901
Page
4
Train schedule snippet shows southbound and northbound stops including Mineral Point Belmont and Bismarck. Entries list express and mail trains with arrival and departure times such as 11.04 am and 8.23 pm and 12.50 pm. Accents on North and South routes indicate multiple daily services.
Local notes report residents visiting St Louis and Cadet, subscriptions renewed for the Journal, Thanksgiving observed with feasting, politics talk brewing, and moves by Sam Anderson & Son. Key names include Jos Cresswell, J W Moreton, Sophia Casey, E Hicks, Edmond Casey, Hallie Higginbotham, Faith Harmon, J A Eye, Frank Govero, G B Maxwell, John Turner, Rev John W Hughes, C Hockingheimer, Miss Naoma Lynch, and Sime Martin.
Local merchants advertise up to date holiday stock and festive prices while shoppers are urged to inspect Fright Sparkling Christmas wares. Thanksgiving trips report Miss Latty Bust Miss Faith Harmon and friends visiting Bast homestead near Blackwell before returning to Potosi.
The Powwsi Cornet Band played on Thanks giving Day but uniforms were not ready for Thursday's parade. Members Aaron Jenkins and B F Kendall added new instruments costing $156 together, with Hero Casey buying a tenor valve trombone. County officials visited Belgrade and Caledonia road projects, praising the special district plan and urging wider adoption. Farmers Institute attendance was light, but dairy feeding and livestock disease talks were given, along with notable apple exhibits from Rev H W Cook CG V Fochsteller and John Z Coleman.
Mr J A Evans of Washington died of typho-pneumonia in the national capital. his brother Mr J F Evans, cashier of Washington County Bank, receives the sad news. The bank reports sound finances with gains since December 1900, a surplus of 35,000 and undivided profits of 1,157. Also noted is a theatre performance by St James Dramatic and Literary Society at the Opera House with elocution training led by Rev Walher Mullen. this is the first of a winter series of entertainments.
Letters testamentary issued to Alice Andes as executrix on a 1901 date in Washington County Missouri. Claimants must exhibit claims for allowance within one year, or be barred. two-year bar for unexhibited claims. Executrix: Alice Andes.
Belgrade brief notes the eye doctor Dr G Kates Talley and his fitting of glasses, with location in Belgrade Missouri. A fragment mentions someone named MecFrey from Victoria killed by cars near Dé Soto on November 39, suggesting a traffic incident.
The document presents a bank balance sheet listing resources liabilities and capital as of November 30 1901. It names James Long as president and J F Evans as cashier with notes on real estate securities deposits and various cash items. Notarial affirmation and directors are included with the notary Epw T Eversone.
Mrs W M Bennett gave birth to a fine girl at Lead Miner last Friday morning. Mother and child are dying well, and Mr Bennett can tend the store. A new suburb of Irondale near Powell’s west bank of the river is developing with several houses and a store planned. Mrs Sarah Neal died at 86 from general debility at her Cedar Creek home. Earl Bennett, 9, survived a swinging trap accident that nearly killed him after a rail fell on his head. Silas Pockett’s son Walter at Colorado Springs recovers from a second surgery for an internal abscess. C W Lynch of Winchester credits Foley’s Honey and Tar for saving his boy’s life from membranous croup. For sale by all dealers.
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