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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1915
Page
4
Ripe dewberries and corn notes mix with visits from Mrs Lucy Bust and Miss Rosemary Connolly. News covers wheat cutting, lead prices, Chautauqua plans, a fire at Norwine’s store, smallpox cases in Jonne Terre, and local officials enforcing the stock law. Residents from St Louis to Flat River are mentioned with social visits and subscriptions.
New York reports rising numbers of women in domestic service and a high unmarried rate among U S females. School teachers in Denmark and Belgium receive pensions and honors for bravery while Red Cross service is noted. Quebec nunneries promote printing training within the nunnery system.
A county wide local option vote is ordered for July 17 in St Francois County. All towns except Farmingto will participate as Farmingto already adopted local option. The prevailing view favors a dry outcome for the county.
The Mineral Point road is being graded along a route from the irondale road to Stammit road, then onward to rejoin the old Mineral Point road near the McGregor farm. Local renewals include F Crammer Belgrade and others. C C Mitchim sells DeSoto Press to J M Bowers Wayne County for a Democratic paper. new Times starts at DeSoto by E C Edgar and H H James. It is independent. J C McCormick of Muskogee Oklahoma visits family in Farmington News era.
Morning sermon titled Imitators of God. Evening service reflects Psalm 41. Church announcements note schedule for June 20 1815. Sessions emphasize religious instruction and worship. Local clergy lead morning and evening readings with scripture focus on imitation of divine conduct and psalmody.
A damaged OCR fragment lists personal names and places including Lawrence Massey George L Province Minnie V Wood Emilie Greene Burt KR Smith Belgrade Ella FE lwes Marina J Mount Bismarck Florence Province Clarence Adams Richwoods May Drinnen and similar fragments suggesting a notice of names without cohesive context.
N W Bliss, a Big River farm owner, brought 60 gallons of ox heart cherries to town Saturday. He has picked 30 gallons from one tree and says more remain. In three years the tree has netted him 100. Isnot there room for thought Along fruit raising lines here Desoto Republican.
Mrs. Lizzie Bryan of Sligo surrendered to Sheriff Gibbs last Saturday on an indictment by the April grand jury for intent to kill Mrs. Jamison who lives nearby. Reports say several women joined the fight using rocks knives and clubs. Mrs. Jamison sustained multiple cuts but has entirely recovered.
The Supreme Court takes up the case to compel former Collector A Letcher to return records to his successor. Ten days are granted to file extended briefs. The court reverses Letcher’s citation for contempt and plans to rule before summer adjournment in July.
John Henry Duncan of Palmer was badly hurt at the Wall mines last Wednesday. A tub of ore hoisted in a 50 foot shaft fell back, striking him on the back and tearing five ribs loose from the backbone. The ribs pierced his right lung. he was brought to Potosi and is under care at the Austin Hotel with Dr. H. J. Bloet noting improvement and expectations of recovery.
Kerryman J 8 and J B Cook of Fredericktown travel by auto from Piedmont to the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. They left Monday, expect about three weeks on the road, plan camping as needed, and aim to see much of the western United States. They are well provisioned for emergencies and anticipate hardships but consider the trip worthwhile. Hillsboro recorder.
Will Lewis formerly editor of the Banner, holding an official Jeffertonity post, saved his room mate Hawkins secretary of the State Bureau of Mines from asphyxiation in a hotel bathroom. Hawkins was unconscious in a half-filled gas-heated tub after about thirty minutes. Two physicians revived him after two hours. Hawkins is the son of Senator Charles P. Hawkins.
Gov Major’s road-working days on Tuesday and Wednesday signal limited highway work in the county this time. The author urges widespread, sustained effort beyond the Potosi district, proposing township road clubs and voluntary labor to build good roads without bond funding, with influential locals leading the push.
Iron County post office at Vulcan was burglarized Sunday night. Constable Luther Daniels tracked suspect Benson Huddleston from near Vulcan to Annapolis and custody was taken on the train to Bismarck. About 60 dollars in cash and checks stolen. $53.30 recovered on Huddleston. He is 19, and faces federal prosecution. Daniels praised for prompt work.
Deputy Sheriff Buddie Flynn returned from Excelsior Springs Missouri with Israel Declue in custody. Declue is jailed in Pond Creek for stealing Joe Potashnic’s horse, which Potashnic traced to Bixby Iron County where Deelue sold it for 60 dollars. Poultry Potashnic and Sheriff Cresswell recovered the horse. Declue may plead guilty at August circuit court. Also jailed is John Dean of Cadet for stealing harness from John Long’s Cadet barn. he fled to Jefferson County to sell the loot and has a prior two year penitentiary term for stealing a mare and colt.
De Soto Bank Under Investigation. The Jefferson County Bank of De Soto, a private savings bank owned by the late Otis M. Monroe, died April 9, is under inquiry by the State Banking Department and the Jefferson County prosecuting attorney. The bank failed to open the day after Monroe’s death. KR. B. Monroe, the cashier and son of the owner, previously managed it.
Elder Monroe’s financial dealings come under scrutiny as the Monroe Bank, 30 years old, faces a collapse with about $120,000 in deposits and $103,000 in liabilities as of March 4. Administrators inventory show $255,000 in the estate, but actual value is expected to be much lower. Depositors await settlement pending a full overhaul of O. M. Munroe estate.
Irondale reports a Monday visit by F. William of Caledonia and Rev Hargraves en route to Marquand. Mrs Ed Brennecke of DeSoto visits her mother Mrs Middleton. J D Humphrey and sister Vada depart for Cape Girardeau for summer Normal. Couples Mrs Mamie Wood and George L Province wed at home. Arbor meeting posters announce a gathering on the 15th. A hard rain Sunday damaged fruit trees and wheat.
The article outlines German wartime devices including armored car destroyers, motorcycle-mounted quick firing guns, canal gunboats, and a stereo telescope by Reiss. It notes an airgun dropping bombs from planes, wireless signaling over 30 miles, chalk puff signaling from exhaust, and the Krupp illuminating projectile with parachutes to light the ground at night.
A local listing advertises a fork sale featuring two large dressers a wardrobe bedstead and springs an Axminster rug and a Brussels rug. Purchasers in St. Dora Livingston can inquire for details and prices.
Buffalo Wyoming June 10 1915 Editor Journal landed at this place on March 18th and have seen most of the eastern portion of Wyoming which is mostly occupied by large ranches devoted to grain and stock raising. The land which must be irrigated produces heavy crops such as alfalfa wheat barley and oats. Up in the Big Horn Mountain there is abundant grass for stock grazing. The mountains open up into broad level plains with running streams in the lowest valleys. To the west about 4 miles is Cloud Deak rearing 1000 feet above sea level and crowned with everlasting snow. On the west side of the peak is a small glacier which never melts away being always rebuilt from the snows above. North of the glacier lies what is known as the Piney Reservoir from which the irrigation water is supplied. Nearby is also Elk Lake about one and a half miles long and half that wide and five miles to the southeast are the Seven Brothers Lake where we find good fishing. The waters of these lakes are clear and cold and fine for drinking. A beautiful summer resort is located on the shore of the Seven Brothers Lake. To the northeast of this lake about two miles is a beautiful level tract encircled by trees known as Soldier's Park. There one may still see the trenches from which the soldiers fought the Indians years ago and the grave of one of the brave boys in blue who fell in the fight. A public highway leads off to the south east to the Yellow Stone Park. On the south about 25 miles from Buffalo is Union Gulch a deserted mining camp where gold was discovered in Wiz MELVIS DECLICE formerly of Troutt Mo
European demand for wound dressing materials is described as immense. German military surgeon Krecke, cited by the Medical Record, forecasts that up to half of combatants may become incapacitated. Surgeons tighten use of materials, patch wounds with mull and adhesive plaster, limit padding to fractures, and employ plaster of Paris dressings for gunshot fractures to save supplies.
The minute organism causing infantile paralysis, identified by Dr. Simon Flexner and associated researchers, survived over a year in cultures. Journal reports inoculations in monkeys not producing paralysis may also fail to yield immunity, and the virus in infected nervous tissue does not confer resistance. Experiments indicate the monkey parasite is the same as that causing polio in children.
Readers learn Hall’s Catarrh Cure is advertised as a universal cure for catarrh with a constitutional approach. The firm offers $100 to anyone not cured, promising testimonials and nationwide sales through druggists, while noting internal remedies and associated products.
A radioactive colorado carnotite earth additive, used as an experiment, increased crop yields by 19 to 105 percent over untreated plots. Dr H H Busby of Columbia College of Pharmacy reported in the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. The study notes radium earth emits different rays from ordinary soil and suggests scientists test which rays most stimulate growth.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes that money cannot mend old social ties. A rich Mrs Stiggins no longer speaks to the speaker, who recalls their former neighborly days and the commonness of the past. The remark ends with the idea that money can't buy forgotten memories.
A Potosi resident, W. 13 Compton of Main St, testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved back pain and kidney trouble after using them following a friend’s suggestion. He claims the cure is permanent and urges others to buy the same Doan's Kidney Pills from City Drug Store, price 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
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