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Shelbyville grows with hopeful promise amid county progress
Shelbyville, Missouri, emerges as a prospering town in Shelby County with strong farming, new business blocks planned, and improved county buildings. The Shelby County Savings Bank expands capital to 100000, local merchants strengthen trade, and education advances include a high school and free colored school. The brief notes growth in housing, stock farming, and roads, while observing drought and hog cholera impacts, and local calls for a fire engine.
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Shelbyville
Quincy
Suoecpyviniz
Shelby
Missouri
Mildinga
Grand Jury
Tate
County Fair Association
O. P. Clahn
I. N. Bonta
William Ridge
Wilson Vaughn
Fay
G. G. Muldrow
M. J. Munvill
Devin
Ming Mary Engle
Free Colored School
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Shelby High School
W. W. McMurray
0. M. Conway
Mira Billa Taylor
Ida Pritchett
Presbyterian
Shulby County Savings Bank
Juli I. Cooper
Phil Dimmutt
Grecerich
Collier, Darrah & Co
Dunuah & Dimmitt
F. PF. Graves
M. H W. Marmaduke
N. C. Miller
J. W. Chick
J. M. Ennis
W. OL. Flack
John G. Stuart
H.B. Dines
C. B. Duncan
la Bella
Conn
Andrew Warfield
Kenson
Iriplet & Ewalt
Lewis Triplett
Lewistown
John Beacock
Lewis County
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