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Appleton City Journal
Appleton City, Missouri 21 June 1894 Price Five Cents. Journal Jottings. O.E. Robinson is attending court at Joplin, Missouri. Good-bye chinch bugs, but we cannot drop a tear. Our merchants report trade unusually good for the time of year. R.M. Daniels made a flying trip to Clinton last Saturday morning. Col. J.M. Laughlin of Rockville was transacting business in our city Monday. Dr. Wm. Jones of Sedalia will preach at the M.E. Church Sunday evening. Rev. Powelson of Grand Junction, Colo., preached in the Presbyterian church Sunday evening. We understand that T.J. Yonce has purchased a feed store at Butler, and will soon move his family to that place. Mr. E.M. Brooks is having a flagstone walk laid in front of his elegant residence. Our matrimonial barometer has been indicating something for a long time. This explains the whole matter. We wish, however, to see others manifest the same spirit of enterprise. The heavy rains of the past week, in addition to being of incalculable benefit to growing crops have undoubtedly destroyed the young chinch bugs. W.A. Williams, whoa few weeks ago moved his family to Butler, was attending to business and shaking hands with friends in this city last Saturday. Grandma Taylor has been very sick the past week, but her many friends will be glad to learn that she is improving and will soon be enjoying her usual health. Next Sunday morning at the M.E. Church the Pastor will preach on "'Principle - Are we in the sunrise of its Era?"' Dr. Wm. Jones of Sedalia will preach at night. Miss Mary Reed, who taught one of the departments of our public schools last year, will teach the coming year in the White Hall District, a few miles east of this city. Miss Carrie Burns, who has taught school the past year in Bates county, has returned to her home to spend vacation. We understand she taught a very successful school. An interesting game of base ball was played between the white and colored mines of Appleton City, on Tuesday afternoon. The score stood 18 to 14 against the colored boys. That time-tried, jolly and never faltering Republican pillar of Osage township, Chas. Minns, was transacting business in the Metropolis Tuesday and honored the Journal with a renewal of his subscription. Charley is one of St. Clair's oldest and most useful citizens. Abundance of garden truck in market, dirt cheap. The chinch bug and the cycle are having a tussle this week. Health continues exceedingly good, considering the very warm weather. Prof. S. Pirkey of West Plains, Mo., made Appleton a brief visit last week. The City Authorities are having the grass in the Park cut, which adds to the looks of the same. Everybody wears a smiling face as a result of the refreshing rains and promising outlook for the future. Appleton City is strictly in it this summer, notwithstanding financial troubles, strikes, and rumors of war. Arthur Chambers, of Johnstown, and S.B. McFarland, of Urich, visited friends in Appleton City Friday evening. The wheat, flax and hay crop is now assured and these three alone mean thousands upon thousands of dollars to Appleton City and the surrounding country. An exchange says that it takes a rich man to draw a check, a pretty girl to draw attention, a horse to draw a cart, a porus plaster to draw the skin, a free lunch to draw a crowd and an advertisement in your home paper to draw a trade. During the rain storm on last Saturday evening lightening struck the Post Office building, doing no damage except tearing several brick out of the wall. To retain an abundant head of hair of a natural color to a good old age, the hygiene of the scalp must be observed. Apply Hall's Hair Renewer. There will probably be held at Clinton during the month of August a State District Institute for teachers of the higher grades. Every teacher holding a first grade County certificates should attend. Our old-time friend and patron, W.E. Nation, of this city, came in Tuesday and honored the Journal with a renewal of his subscription. Mr. Nation is one of our oldest and most prompt paying subscribers. The Journal is indebted to the kind forethought of Mrs. Julius Mauck, one of the most estimable ladies of Hudson township, for the first blackberries enjoyed this season. They were large, fine and delicious, for which any thanks are returned. Mr. Harry Culbertson, who has been attending the State University at Columbia, Mo., passed through Appleton City on his way home in Rich Hill, on last Friday. A Kansas editor says hay fever is caused by kissing grass-widows. A Missouri editor says it is caused by grass-widows kissing a fellow by moonlight. An Illinois editor says it is caused by kissing the hired girl while she is feeding hay to the milch cow. The Ottowa Free Trader is of the opinion that it is caused by missing the girl and hitting the cow. Prof. J. Pickerill of Clinton will assist with the music on Thursday evening at Durley Hall. Everything promises the coming Fourth of July celebration the best ever held in our city. Wheat harvest has begun. Farmers report the yield and quality better than they anticipated. The merchant who desires to enjoy a good trade must plant an ad. In the Journal and keep it there. Every business house in the city will be dressed in Holiday attire on the 4th. Come early and stay all day. Appleton City will royally entertain the thousands on the Fourth of July. Don't fail to be among them. If you have anything to sell or wish to buy anything make the fact known through the columns of the Journal. A new flagpole is being erected in the Park to take the place of the old one. It is 75 feet long and can be seen for quite a distance. S.M. Curtis of Ohio, whose family has spent the last year here, joined them Saturday and will spend the summer with them. The splendid rains of the past few days are having a good effect upon growing crops. Corn is in good condition and growing rapidly. P. Wheeler, of Johnson City, Republican candidate for County Clerk, was shaking hands and "'kissing a baby"' occasionally in Appleton City Tuesday. There are quite a number of boys on our streets that do nothing but engage in hoodlum sport. They surely can find something to do of a legitimate character to occupy their time; they should at least try. Prosperity never attend a young man who spends all his time in idleness. We are in receipt of the annual catalogue of the Rich Hill Fair association, which will be held on August 21st to 24th. The premiums offered are very liberal and everything betokens a successful meeting. The catalogue was published by the Warren Bros., of the Rich Hill Tribune and is certainly a model of printers art. A number one Gold Medal contest with at least seven contestants coming from Osceola, Brownington, Clinton, Hudson, Cole Camp and Appleton City will be held in Durley Opera House Thursday evening, June 21st. Orchestral Music, and Miss Alice Linney, of Osceola, assisted by her class and Prof. J. Pickerell, of Clinton, will render a few selections. Notwithstanding the fact that Col. Drew was elected Mayor of the prettiest and best town in Southern Missouri, and is making a model official, his reputation as a gardener is not suffering, as shown by the fact that a few days ago his Honor presented the Journal with a bunch of lettuce that weighed one pound and fourteen ounces. It was of the variety known as Gregory's Mammoth Marble Head. Let us convince the visitors from other towns that Appleton City is alive to her interests, and one way to do this is to attend our second annual District Convention Thursday afternoon and Friday - also patronize the Contest at Durley Opera House Thursday evening - and Dr. Jones lecture at the M.E. Church Friday evening. Admission to contest 15 cents, reserved seats 25. Tickets at King's City Book Store. Dr. C.H. Riley has sold his residence in the south part of the city to F.H. Miller and with his family will the latter part of the week remove to St. Louis, where they contemplate making their future home. The news of the contemplated departure from our midst of dr. and Mrs. Riley will be received by all of our people with deep regret. They are honored and esteemed by all and will carry to their new home the kind wishes of all Appleton City people. The City Hotel, under the excellent management of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Williams has become very popular with the traveling public, as well as with our home people. There was never a time in the history of Appleton City when her future had a more golden tinge than at the present time. The outlook for both town and country could not be more encouraging. Mrs. R.C. Hume, of New York, representing the Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions, will speak in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. She is highly spoken of as an interesting speaker. We were slightly in error last week in stating that A.P. Stroup had secured the exclusive right to dispense refreshments in the park on the 4th of July. We understand the right has been disposed of to Reed Williams and E.B. Smith. Wm. Taylor, the rock-ribbed and dyed-in-the-wool Republican of the "'Kingdom of Speedwell"' accompanied by Mrs. Taylor, visited Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Streid Friday and Saturday. Mr. Taylor honored the Journal with a substantial call while in the city. Mrs. A.R. Wesson, one of our old-time and most highly esteemed lady friends, has the thanks of the Journal for a liberal supply of delicious ripe peaches presented a few days ago. They were a portion of a box that come from Mrs. Wesson's daughter, Mrs. Dell Cobb, of Fort Worth, Texas. Some people are constantly troubled with pimples and boils, especially about the face and neck. The best remedy is a thorough course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla which expels all humors through the proper channels, and so makes the skin become soft, healthy and fair. Card of Thanks. John Hill, the rustling real estate agent, visited Taberville yesterday on business. Quite a number of health and pleasure seekers from different parts of the State are now whiling the time away at Monegaw Springs. Rev. B.F. Powelson and family of Grand Junction, Colo., who have been visiting Mr. T.D. Austin and family, returned to their home Tuesday. The Appleton City Base Ball Club played the Montrose boys a game on last Friday in which our boys came out second best. The score stood 10 to 2 in favor of Montrose. Rev. W.F. Jones, formerly pastor of the M.E. Church at this place, but now of Smithton, Mo., preached two excellent sermons at the M.E. Church on last Sunday morning and at night. The Appleton City Rifle Club gave an exhibition of their skill at target practice on last Saturday. The members at present are, Jas. M. Burns, Dr. A.C. Kincheloe and Dr. S.R. Cates. Dr. Kincheloe won first honors. Prof. Louis Theilmann departed on Monday morning for Warrensburg, Mo., to be present at the annual meeting of the State Teacher's Association, which is now in session. The Theilman Brothers always spend their vacations in a way that is calculated to make them better instructors. Mr. A. Buskirk has just completed a neat and commodious house on the farm occupied by Mr. John Pippenger, where the house and almost its entire contents was destroyed by fire some time ago. Mr. Pippenger and family express themselves as being well pleased with a brand new house, after living a camp life for nearly three months. We find the following "'queer"' little item in the Kansas
City Daily Drovers' Journal of the 16th inst: Borrowing the idea of the title to Stead's book, "'If Christ came to Chicago"', I note some things he would find in Appleton City if He should so visit us: He would find a state of harmony and good will existing between the different denominations of Christians, so that while each church worked to build up its form of faith and worship; yet when the occasion came they could all unite their forces in teaching the good principles of truth, purity and temperance, and that even some recognize the fact that colored children had souls and bodies worth saving. Witness the Mass Meeting in the Park, June 17th, and other Union Meetings, such as are conducted by the Christian Endeavor societies. He would also find that a majority of our tax-paying citizens were sufficiently imbued with good principles and anxious to save our young people from ruin. So that no would-be saloon-keeper can get their consent to open a death trap. What intoxicating drink is sold in our city is done in violation of the State laws for the punishment of crime. Can you believe we would have been without saloons if temperance agitation had not been kept up? The Gold Metal is a beauty, and the contestant who wins this prize may well be proud of her elocutionary talent. Come and see who wins. Prof. J. Pickerill will render some choice music on the Mandolin, Instrumental Duets on Piano and Mandolin Thursday evening at Durley Opera House. Judge Wyckoff informs us that arrangements are being perfected for another colt show later in the season at which much larger premiums will be offered. Notice. - A special meeting of Geo. Frank Gouley Chapter Royal Arch Masons will be held in Masonic Hall, on Monday evening, June 25th, work in the Royal Arch degree. All Companions in good standing are invited to be present. S.H. Cotton, Sec. Mr. John Keeler, one of the most prosperous and enterprising farmers of this section, called on the Journal Tuesday and renewed his subscription for another year. He reports the crop prospects excellent. In every department and branch of farm industry our young men find great room for improvement, and the profits to be in exact proportion to the degree of science employed in that particular line. They find too that the present condition of farmers is in a large degree due to the waste that has characterized the farming of the last half-century in the west. A Pleasant Anniversary. More and more as we grow we appreciate the finer traits that are in human nature. Men going out into life never forget the mother who stays at home, and who has presented to them a nature with a reason dominant with a high moral sense, with refined and sweet affections, with taste, with patience, with self-sacrifice and with disinterestedness. A man may go through every stage of belief and disbelief, but there will be one picture that he cannot efface. Living or dying, there will rise up before him like a morning star the beauty that remembered goodness which he called mother. The teacher who has no higher ambition than to remain in the school room the time required by law, and wish for 4 o'clock and the end of the month to come, does not deserve the name of teacher. The teacher who desires to shape the characters of our rising generation, making truth, honesty, industry and patriotism the prevailing virtues in the students, is the one that must lead in the profession. Merit will be recognized, and there is no merit without industry, honesty of purpose and a desire for professional advancement. |
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