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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
4
A young married pair settles into their home and receives a new cook book with quirky instructions to stir the stove. A local shop advertises a pant sale, promising a 15 percent discount, with prices slashed from 3 to 7 dollars, amid a display of general goods and seeds.
Trains stop at Mineral Point with routes going south and north. The Belmont Mail and Gaius Mail show times around 12.50 pm 11.04 am and 4.28 pm with references to Biemarck and debt notes in the fragment.
Market report lists prices per 1000 pounds and per unit for wheat 55. Corn and oats priced. shelled corn at 18.00, fowls, hides, wool, feathers valued. Wool and hides detailed ranges. apples, sugar, and beef cuts show per unit figures. miscellaneous commodities with bid prices included.
Muddy roads slow the town as circuit court convenes this week. Irondale, St Louis, Bellefountain, Old Mines, Caledonia residents visit. Births, visits, seed oats and potatoes for sale, bank notes show surplus, railroad troubles brief.
Hopewell caller Mr H C Lore settled with the printer. Verner Ryan of Poughkeepsie visits family as his father W A Ryan grows a touch better. Rainy spell ends drought fear. court attendees include Burns, Dinning, Williams, Bean, Anthony, Huff, Isenberg, Wodgen. County Board of Education to meet in Potosi March 21–22 to examine teaching applicants. American Lead and Baryta Co. drilling a shaft at Mineral Point for lead after acquiring Walton lands. John Carson judged sane, sent to Fulton asylum. another inmate to appear. Vincent Allen’s remains moved to Shirley. died of pneumonia at Liondale. Town Trustees subdivide city into two wards. April election will have two precincts, electing mayor, two aldermen per ward, and city marshal. Circuit court未: McCormick trial for petit larceny. Fatchett murder case postponed to March 10. venue change requested, Dearing disqualified for prejudice. Judge Riley to preside.
Notice to the public from Davinson and Son announcing a wagon shop addition linked to a blacksmith, with H C Guyton as a partner. They offer all wagon and wood work, use premium materials, sell wagons at St Louis prices with freight, guarantee every job, and continue horse shoeing and repair as a specialty. They solicit patronage.
State cases include Motley malic murder of stock continued generally. Puckett felonious assault continued. Doyen felonious assault nolle pros. Walton felonious assault dismissed for want of prose. McCarron disturbing religious worship pleaded guilty fined 1.00. McCarron unlawfully discharging firearms nolle pros. Fatchett murder first degree case continued to March 10. Laramore grand larceny plea not guilty. jury to acquit after testimony. Coho Pels v St L M & S R Co penalties. Sikes v Mo Granite Co damage suit continued by stipulation.
William Sparks, the Lead Miner, is erecting a two story business building on lots he recently bought from Louis Bean. F. A. Bone of Hopewell, once leg amputated, now has small pox. Viola Trumphrey suffered severe scalding after a beans boiling incident blew a lid off a stove. Mrs. Rebecca Ramsey sold her farm near Sunlight last week to J. W. Tedder for 300 dollars, reserving the house and three acres as a home until death or vacating, with Tedder to pay 50 dollars more later.
For sale description lists a ge span of zood fat work mules and four tons baled straw. Buyer contact available through Jos. E. Stoan in Caledonia Missouri.
Vincent Allen born October 17 1861 in Washington County Missouri died February 26 1902 at his Irondale home from pneumonia aged 40 years four months and days He left a wife a daughter five brothers and eight sisters He was buried at Shirley Cemetery with Rev J Sitton conducting the services The community offers sympathy to the bereaved family in their loss.
Mr. Vincent Allen, born and raised in this locality, died in Irondale last Wednesday at age 66 and was buried at Shirley the next day. Rev. Clark Martin will preach at Downard school house the second Sunday this month. S.P. Patterson and Will Allen attend circuit court in Potosi this week. Rev. A. B. Sparks preached at Grove Sunday last. Dor.
Mr. C. A. Stocking of Richwoods visits town for court and reports that Jono Jamison, a 103 year old Black resident of Richwoods, is near death.
Last Wednesday February 26 1902 a quiet home wedding united Miss Zora K Martin daughter of Mr and Mrs James W Martin of Hismarck Missouri with Warren A Johnson of Fort Benton Montana. Rev J G Hardy of St Louis performed the ceremony at 2 30 pm with a small intimate gathering. The couple will reside in Fort Benton Montana. Myrtle.
March arrives with signs of spring as blue birds return and farmers resume work. Local improvements include Wm Hancock building a tenant house, Francis Compton constructing a dwelling on land bought from Wat Cole, and Harrison Richardson building on land he homesteaded. Jos Owens family to relocate to Colorado and J V De Clue family to Richwoods. Maple sugar production noted and A L B Co mines yielding lead.
A vintage advertisement describes nagging wives as unhappy, nervous, and run down. It claims Electric Bitters cures female troubles, melancholy, loss of appetite, headaches, sleeplessness, constipation, fainting and dizzy spells. Thousands report improved health and happiness after use.
A local report recounts 1818 tax lists versus 1901 figures, noting 443 taxpayers then with total taxes $1367, vs about 3500 taxpayers and $36,000 in 1901. It names Rueben Smith as largest landowner, Moses Austin as top taxpayer, and lists the Sloan and Boyer families among frequent names, plus notes land and carriage counts and a stave yard search.
Public notices praise Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for constipation sick headache biliousness jaundice and indigestion sold 25c at all dealers in medicines. widespread endorsement from users highlights their digestive health benefits.
Miss Frankie Kirby of St Louis visits sister Mrs J G Walton. Wallace Gibson and Arthur Sloan were in town last Wednesday. Tom Tullock moves to Emma Breckenridge’s farm two miles east. O W Roop is ill with grip. Mrs Sue Coleman visits Farmington relatives. Ed Bond improves his west end residence. Walton Bros open a lumber yard with their mercantile business. Mrs J M Pelton travels from St Louis for business last Tuesday.
Messrs Wiley and Shirley have leased Mrs Peltons roller mill and target big business this year. McAtee is miller. Wm Shirley bought a nearby house and lot for 500. Shirley will live there this week. McAtee moved to Newcomb house earlier. Grandma Fortune celebrated her 84th birthday on Friday Feb 28 and remains the towns oldest resident. Chas Wiley returned from college in St Louis and was not well. Dicx.
An advertisement claims the drug cures consumption asthma and lung ailments, promising relief for pneumonia bronchitis croup and whooping cough. It asserts thousands were saved and offers trials free with purchases at dealers. price 50 cents to 1.00.
The Gatling plow, inspired by Richard Gatling, uses a motor to drive a row of plowing discs for rapid soil turning. Estimated daily cost is six dollars with solid fuels or two dollars with gasoline, and it could replace thirty to forty workers using sixty to eighty horses. A wheat drill may attach to sow grain as discs plow, saving about 40 cents per acre. A St. Louis group plans to form a company to market the device.
A 19 year old Sudanese boy named Ibual Lacho is described as learning German, adopting elegant dress, and undergoing electrical treatment by a neuropathic specialist after returning from Africa. Over two years he reportedly lightened to Caucasian skin color, while facial hair remained unchanged.
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