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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1873
Page
3
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Voters in Rolla Phelps County Missouri are notified of a general election for mayor, recorder, five councilmen for five years, and one councilman for one year to be held at the courthouse on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June 1873. Voter registration is required two weeks before election. banks open for registration May 12 at the city hall and close May 19 at 6 p.m. Also reports sidewalk orders, a jail escape attempt by Stephen A. Douglas, local social events, and notices from Sempla Birge & Co. agricultural dealers in St Louis, plus Dawson township creation and Grange meetings.
The County Court selected 125 jurors for the July term including grand and petit jurors. Names listed include Graxp Jenons Thos Jackson J L Perkins Tip Asher L L Yowell Frank Grayson BE W Bishop Josiah Brookshire Tho R Craig Jas M Fleming T A Wath Thos 4M Brewster Jos A Kelly Wm Brown W M Lissner Robi Duncan J R Strawhan Wm Robson and David Newman. A note adds that Storts is slightly indisposed after dining out last evening.
City council met at 2 p.m. in Rolla Missouri for the May regular session with Trustees and officials present. Reports covered Bishop petition to vacate blocks along Pine Street and North Main, fence permissions granted for several blocks, fines and marshal fees approved, accounts paid, brush clearing on Main Street ordered, jetty tax books limited to June 1, licensing debate on resident photographers rejected, stallion and jack ordinance adopted, warrants issued for street work and county court fees, ministerial relief discussions and local notices noting deaths and marriages, and mayoral race speculation and county court finances detailed.
A circuit court suit in Boon County names the State of Missouri and the Board of Curators of the State University as parties. The plaintiff argues the Legislature’s act allowing county bonds for the School of Mines without two thirds voter approval is unconstitutional, making the bonds null. The case is set for June at Columbia. The report also covers local notices, lectures, tax equalization data, and a federal court decision on a postmaster bond appeal in Jones, Phelps County. A Sunday-school library gift to Rolla’s Presbyterian Sabbath School is noted.
In the Missouri Democrat dated the 5th a letter from Rev. G. K. Dunlap of Kirkwood praises the school of mines visited in Rolla. He commends its discipline thorough science instruction including chemistry, and notes practical courses for surveying engineering mining and metalwork. He mentions cheap board and nominal tuition and signs as A. DusLor.
Describes a house at Louse and Latin St James with 3 rooms and portico. Calls for applying at the paper office or William J. C. Taylor at Rolla Book and Stationery Store. Announces 2,000 rolls of handsome cheap wallpaper for 1873 Spring Summer. Also mentions curtain fixtures and a subscription gift of two garden seed packages from Wick Nursery in Rochester New York.
Overview to Missouri by ventors for the week ending April 15, 1873. Each bearing that date, furnished by Cox & Cox, sources of parasts, Washingtons.
A celebrated Ethiopian astronomer named Jons Epwanns arrives from St Louis to study Venus and Mars with a lady friend, wife of William Guy. Jealous husband Guy challenges him to a private duel in the countryside, but the astronomer vanishes at the moment of combat, leaving the crowd disappointed and Guy's household restored to calm.
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