Appleton City Journal
Appleton City, Missouri
12 July 1894

Mrs. Carrie Slater and daughter, of Creston, Iowa, left for their home on last Saturday, after visiting relatives here for several weeks.

Mrs. F. Mayhew, formerly of this city, has gone to Dunavant, Kansas, where she will spend the summer. She orders the Journal to make her weekly visits.

Mr. James Hodkins and Mrs. Bell Naylor, accompanied by Misses Maggie Robords and Mary Hodkins to their home in Butler last week, remaining a few days with friends.

The members of the W.C.T.U. and their husbands are invited to a Social Tea at Mrs. Hilton's next Saturday, to be given in honor of Mrs. Barnes, of Osceola. Ladies to meet at the usual hour, gentlemen expected at 6 o'clock P.M.

Mr. Geo. A. Vannice and Miss Sadie McAlister, both of Vista, Mo., were married last Tuesday, the 3rd inst. Miss McAlister is a successful and popular teacher and Mr. Vannice is a well to-do farmer and favorably known in the county.

Rockville Reflex. - Most of the people from around this city went to Appleton City to celebrate. - Misses Carrie Sharpless and Emma Shockey visited Mrs. O. Housley, of Appleton City this week. - Messrs. McGee and Field, accompanied by Misses Maude Boreing and Lulu Scott celebrated at Appleton City.

Mrs. R.M. Daniels treated her Sunday School class to ice cream and cake on last Saturday afternoon and a royal good time was had playing croquet. Those present were: Katie Baugh, Ben and Fred Brown, Evert and Harry Griffith, Mable, Harry and Willie Harris, Claude Biglow and Birdie Baugh.

Divinest Thing in Childhood.
The very finest expression on the face of a child or infant seems to me to be that of open-eyed and often open-mouthed curiosity and wonder. The objects of nature charm and entrance the soul, which for the moment becomes almost one with the face. This divinest thing in childhood, which only bad school methods can kill, which prompts the primeval experiments of infants in learning to use their senses, limbs and minds upon nature, is the root of the spirit of research, which explores, pries, inquires so persistently, and often so destructively in older children, and comes to full maturity in the investigator behind the telescope or microscope, in the laboring expeditions. At its best, this spirit of research has awe and reverence enough in it to give it a high and positive religious character, and the best and most characteristic feature about the new movement in higher education I am trying to describe is that its upward tendencies can best be characterized by the word "'research"', a word, alas, now more often praised than understood. - President G. Stanley Hall, in the July Forum.

Prosecuting Attorney, W.W. Lawton, of Osceola, was attending to business in Appleton City yesterday.

For Sale. - A second hand gasoline stove, in good condition. Call on W.H. Stone.

The strike-leader, Eugene V. Debs, and three of his associates were arrested Tuesday evening, July 10th, at Chicago, and placed under $10,000 bond.

The Populists of this, the 6th congressional district, held a convention in this city on Wednesday, July 11th, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Senator.

Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer has restored gray hair to its original color and prevented baldness in thousands of cases. It will do so to you.

The gray four-year old Artist Montrose saddle gelding, owned by A.F. Wyckoff disappeared on the night of the 8th. It looks very much as if he had been stolen. A suitable reward will be given for information of him.

Two of the greatest powers in this beautiful world may be seen in the form of a genuine boy and a trustworthy girl. On the quality of these two beings depends the progress of our civilization. Every community is becoming more and more conscious of the necessity of giving the boys and girls the best means for their upward growth. There is no town but what is proud of her educational advantages.
Parents are working today in the fields, in the kitchen and in the shop with the sole intention of gathering the honest means for expanding the brightness, purity and intelligence of their offspring. Mothers are sacrificing the transient pleasures and fathers sometimes deny themselves the necessities of life for the sake of multiplying the chances of the young to become better and more useful. This is a high and worthy motive. It is the element that moves the world to happiness. It is the very spirit that has pervaded the hearts of our people and the teachers of the Academy, causing the educational wave to run swiftly in hundreds of souls. It is the purpose of our people to keep this educational tendency constantly alive. The good that has come from the Academy during the previous years will bring a fine class of students to our town for the great work to be done in the seventh year. Now is the time to get ready and lay plans for the opening of school on the first Monday in September. The teachers of the Academy tell us that letters of inquiry are already coming in concerning the next school year.

Call and consult Dr. Stewart - the great specialist.

Capt. H.C. Donnohue, of Bates County, was in town yesterday.

Mr. V.R. Hines, of Windsor, Mo., visited his son, W.M. Hines, our worthy townsman, several days last week.

T.J. Armstrong, a prominent attorney of El Dorado Springs, was here Wednesday attending the Populist Senatorial Convention.

Mrs. Eli Wells had a very severe stroke of paralysis this week. The hope of a speedy recovery is entertained by her many friends.

W.O. Atkeson of Butler, editor of the Bates County Union, was in Appleton City Wednesday attending the Populist Convention, and called on the Journal.

J. Belt Hammond, our efficient Circuit Clerk, and candidate for re-nomination on the Republican ticket, was in the city Wednesday, and made the Journal a pleasant call.