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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
4
The PotosI Journal notes the post office at Potosi Wisconsin as record class matter with editor and publisher F M Deggendorff. The weekly publication runs on Wednesdays and serves as the town paper for local notices and records.
Official directory lists elected officials including judge G Williams and J Cresswell, county officers such as sheriff W Julius and treasurer N J Robinson, plus district court terms. Noted court dates: circuit court on 1st Monday in March and 4th Monday in August. probate court on 2nd, May, August, November terms.
A fragmented timetable lists trains heading south and north with numbered services and times. Entries include Texas Express at 4.30 pm, Memphis Serene 5.38 am, and local lines such as St. Louis Local with partial codes and station indicators.
Tax collector eases duties and politics may loosen. Visits from John Scott Indian Creek and Postmaster Osterwaild Festus. Mrs Clarkson Arcadia visited relatives. Seed catalogues hint spring delays. Steelville dealer adds cheap clothing. Francis M Hearst dies in De Soto aged 74. Ship game, rabbits, poultry to C Stahl St Louis for top cash price. Old court house burn and delay in new one. Sullivan becomes saloonless as city council blocks licenses. Farmington plans $25 400 electric plant bond election Jan 28. Judge Eversule sold stallion Chester for 100 to H Hayes. Subscriptions renewed by several locals. Banks resume cash payments but Petosi banks never paid cashiers checks.
Adolph Fiebiger, a Hillsboro area farmer, twice tried to shoot himself Tuesday but failed, suffering two scalp wounds. The Ironton-area items note postal rules affecting newspaper mailing and mention county clerk Reyburn’s telegram about his brother-in-law Fred W. Green’s death in Fort Worth, Texas. Weather notes report a boreal winter with heavy rain, followed by snow six inches deep by Monday morning.
At Elvins a quarrel erupted when Cave Hartshorn arrived with his commission to replace J C Westover, who lost his eleven year postmaster’s job after a boxing style scuffle. Meanwhile mail carrier G C Blount’s team wandered free near Berry nano, ran into Courtins Creek, and both horses drowned. Replacement costs place about $300 for the outfit.
County Court appointed Thomas J. Holman as County Surveyor in charge of road and highway engineering under the latest legislature. The Farmingtion Times lauds the move, and local items note cold weather and train service concerns as nearby towns protest mail and rail conditions.
Mr Robert Singer of Desioge called at this office in Potosi on Wednesday en route to Floyd to visit relatives and renew his subscription. Flo reports lead belt operations have resumed full time but with reduced workforce and wages.
Mr Chas E Brown of Danville recently arrived in Potosi to settle affairs in the purchase of the J M Ramsey property at Barytes and had bills printed advertising an auction sale of all goods in his store there.
Alex Danklin a young colored man and former overseer at Cleer Creek Stock Farm near Belgrade was brought to Potosi under arrest by Sheriff Collins and jailed. He is charged with selling property mortgaged to others. Danklin had been working in St. Louis prior to arrest.
Mr Joli H Tennison known as Uncle dick and one of the county’s oldest residents died at Frank Tennison’s home near Belgrade last Friday night of pneumonia. He was about 70. His son survives, plus a daughter Mrs Chas B Johnson of Bismarck Missouri. Funeral was Sunday afternoon. The Journal extends sympathy to the family.
Nearly all property owners on the north side of Hirb Street from Happy Hollow to the Depot favor concrete sidewalks if the city council enforces the sidewalk ordinance. Other towns enforce such ordinances, though officials hesitate to act for fear of offending willing holdouts. Public opinion should push the council to enforce and apply the rule to all, since improvements cannot be free.
A fragmentary OCR entry lists Bradley Irondale Mo tella A and McFarland as readable names, with no clear event or actions provided.
Miss Mars Ward of Cadet visits her grandparents here last week. Mr T F Sloan of Irondale visits his son Dr J M Sloan here. Miss Rosie O Hanlon of St Louis visits her parents here. Influenza and pneumonia reported by medical fraternity. Mrs John White and child of St Louis visit here. Presbyterian church building committee to review plans for a new church. County court session postpones road commissioner appointment due to no applicants. Capt F Will declined the post. Mr Politte Elvins of Elvins visiting Potosi seeking Republican nomination for Congress. petitions available for endorsement. Levy and Mrs F M Gilliam welcome a baby girl. Mrs Ella Scheppaed made a business trip to Berryman. Miss Esther Smith returns from Irondale. W S League ill for another week. A stump removal method using saltpeter and kerosene recommended. Postal regulation note on second, third, fourth class mail and penalties for misclassifying mail.
The article traces Missouri’s organized assembly roster from 1820, noting Washin gton County’s first representative James H. Relfe and senators like Samuel Perry. It lists successive delegates, pairs, and single representatives through 1852, detailing names such as Cole, Reyburn, Brickey, Hudspeth, Perrinmen, Kennett, and others, showing the shift from multiple to a single representative.
Geoply sizes S250 and S205 with capacities of 1500 2000 8000 500 and 8500 cans per L0 hours. Perms two fifths on delivery of factory 10 percent of pack unit balance paid no interest good discount for all eash write for catalogue.
The Journal announces ready nominating blanks for county and township offices usable by Republicans and Democrats. Under the state primary law a candidate must have a voter petition to appear on the primary ticket. Each blank holds twenty two names and circulators can supply blanks for all twenty two precincts in the county.
A Bonne Terre subscriber, J E Martin, reports heavy rain and illness with many deaths, notes work is plentiful but wages cut 20 percent, and calcining fur races are active though cold weather slows demand. Despite hardship, he praises steady employment in the Lead Belt.
Probate Court in Washington County Missouri gathers annual settlements from guardians and administrators for minor and deceased cases. The docket, certified by Judge James A. Henson, covers February 10 to 12 1908 with names including Forshee Ogie Hughes Barron Sloan Hodgen Sloan Long Canning Long etc and ends with official seal in Potosi.
Expresses gratitude for kind and sympathetic services during great loss of husband son and brother. Wishes others the same sympathy in time of trials. Signed by Mrs Grace Richeson wife J O Richeson father Moruer asp Brothers Lutty Mo Jan 6 1908.
A department store in New York displays a sign that delights mothers and boosts attention at bargain counters. A fatherly usher watches the scene as mothers compete, with the new schema proving a notable success.
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