Appleton City Journal
Appleton City, Missouri
9 August 1894

It is a fact. Money is Scarce!
Another Fact is
People need goods now just the same as when times were good.
You had a Dollar to spend then.
You have Seventy-five Cents now.
Hammocks, Croquets, Base Balls and bats, Fruits, Cigars, Tobaccos, Confectionery, Stationery, Books, Albums, Fancy Goods, Etc. Etc.
Post Office Book Store. J.S. Finley, Proprietor.

Neighborhood News.
Gleaned by the Journal's Live Correspondents in the Surrounding Community.

Pleasant Valley Items.
From our Special Correspondent.

Mr. L. Green is on the sick list.

Plenty of rain at the present time.

Mr. Clifford Page came home on a visit last week.

Mr. McKinley has purchased the farm belonging to Bas Burgas.

Mr. Jas. McKinley and Eugene Culver made a flying trip to Butler a few days ago; how about that trip boys?

The Indians had a big fight at their wigwams the other evening; some of the neighbors rushed in to see the fight, but as good luck would have it, no one was hurt.

Mr. Lucian Green received the nomination for recorder on the first ballot. We hope that every true loyal citizen of Bates County will vote for Mr. Green.

Johnson City:
From our Special Correspondant.

Farmers are plowing for wheat.

V.C. Strickland is quite sick this week.

Sherman Short's little son is quite sick this week.

A.C. Ditty and daughter visited Will Ditty and wife in Lamar, Mo., last week.

Jerome Sumpter and Mr. H. Baxter's two oldest sons left last week for Arkansas.

Andrew Clark, of Cooper County, is visiting his uncle, John Carpenter this week.

P. Wheeler left Monday for Greenfield, Mo., to attend the congressional convention.

A good many from this section went to Osceola Monday to attend the Democratic convention.

Lem Walters, of Appleton City, spent Sunday in Johnson City with his sister, Mrs. Dr. Smith.

Samuel White, of Cass County, spent last week in these parts, the guests of Hillis Britten and wife.

Geo. Teeter and wife, of Carroll County, are spending this week with their daughter, Mrs. Bashaw.

Mrs. Mary Emmett, of St. Louis, visited her father and brother, Capt. Hurt and son last week.

Rev. Murphy, of Rockville, will begin a series of meetings in Johnson City on Tuesday evening after the second Sunday in this month.

Mrs. E. Boots, of Osceola, spent a day or two of last eek in Johnson City with her parents, P. Wheeler and family.

C.B. Ridgway and sons, Sam and Marion, and Albert Thompson returned last week from a visit to McDonald County. They report good crops at that place, but in places between here and there the corn is badly damaged by dry weather.

Maggie, little daughter of Charles and Lucy Schireck, died Sunday evening after days of great suffering and was laid to rest Monday afternoon in the Short cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Schiereck have the sympathy of the entire neighborhood in this their sad affliction.

E.J. McSherry and James Markham, of Johnson County, spent Saturday and Sunday in Johnson City visiting their old friend, Dr. Smith and looking at the country. Mr. McSherry was so well pleased that he bought a farm and will become a citizen of St. Clair County next Spring.

Missouri Corn.
It is Greatly Damaged by the Drought in Many Counties.
Columbia, Mo., Aug. 2 - The weekly bulletin of the Missouri weather service says:
In nearly all of the northern counties corn has been greatly damaged by the drought and hot winds. In many counties it is fired to the ear, the tassels are dead and much of it is beyond recovery. Corn on timber land seems to have suffered most. In some localities corn is being cut and fed to stock. With a good soaking rain within a few days there would probably one one-half to two-thirds of a crop in most counties, though some correspondents state that it cannot make more than one-third of a full crop.
In portions of Clay, Ray, Lafayette, Jackson, Buchanan and Pike counties corn is still in good condition and promises a full crop. In the central and southern sections the damage is not quite so general, though in nearly all the counties the crop as been injured to a greater or less extent. In portions of Howard, Cooper, Newton, McDonald, Bates, Jasper, Cass, Hickory, Taney, Christian, Polk, Greene, Pettis, Barton, Barry, Morgan, Pulaski, Lawrence, Webster, Johnson, Ripley, Franklin, Butler, Stoddard, Mississippi, Cape Girardeau, Howell, Madison, Scott, New Madrid, and Oregon counties corn is reported in good condition with prospects for a full crop with seasonable rains from now on. In a few counties named, correspondents state that the crop promises to be the best for several years. In other counties it has been greatly damaged and many correspondents report that unless rain comes very soon it will not make more than half a crop.
Reports received indicate that during the night of the 28th and morning of the 29th good showers fell in a number of counties in different section of the State, greatly improving the prospects for the corn crop in those localities.

Harrison Brooks, New Livery Firm, Are well equipped with first-class rigs and will be pleased to accommodate you. Their terms are reasonable. Located near Durley Hotel.

Conceding that the labor troubles are at an end, it would be the part of wisdom for everybody, after duly thanking providence that the country was not called upon to face a Revolution, as many predicted, to throw aside all thought of further trouble, buckle down to business, cease talking about hard times, and thus start again on the road to material prosperity. The road was left to one side some months ago. Now is a good time to get back to it, to take our bearings anew and to push on straight for legitimate business. Let us all take this course. Let us all forget that "'times are not what they used to be"', and do what we can, individually and collectively, to get back to first principles. This is too grand a country, its possibilities for development too great, to allow a flurry like we have been passing through for some time to have any permanent effect upon its destiny. A long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together is all that is needed to make this good old nation blossom as the rose.

Of Local Importance.
Wanted. - Stock to pasture, good grass, plenty of water and shade. Inquire of John Hill.

New Baker in charge of the Bakery Ovens now. Try his work.

A good new buggy for sale cheap, call at this office.

I have the best Machine Oil in town 35 cents a gallon or 3 gallons for one dollar. E. Allen.

Don't sell your Poultry an Eggs before seeing East & Mendenhall.

Straight Eight Per Cent. Money on Farms. E. Mason.

East & Mendenhall handle the Sedalia Flour; see them for prices on 500 pounds or more.

Money to loan on farms at 8 per cent. No Commission. E. Mason.

For Glass and Queensware, or anything in the grocery line, call on E. Allen, for the best.

For prices on Glass and Queensware see East & Mendenhall.

No delays in securing Money on Farms at 8 Per Cent. E. Mason.

Take your Poultry to East and Mendenhall and get the highest market price in cash.

I have a nice stock of Groceries and Queensware, and will take all kinds of Produce in exchange for goods. E. Allen.

Ice cream by the dish, paper buckets to carry home, or by the freezer full packed to keep for parties, now ready daily at The Bakery.

Will B. Stout, of this place can tell you all about Hog Cholera and how to cure it. Will doesn't deal in humbugs.

Just arrived, two crates Queensware at East & Mendenhall's. Don't fail to price them as they are very low.

Fine Crayon given away with each dozen Cabinet size pictures till the first of Sept. at Tussey's Gallery. Call and see samples.

You can see those life size pictures of American Statesmen and Generals of the late war by calling at Curtis' Barber Shop.

To The Ladies: -- Those who are indebted to Miss Anna Robinson for Millinery Goods are earnestly requested to come in and settle their accounts as soon as possible, as she is needing money to meet obligations and appeals to her friends to assist her.

Everything for the table. No need to cook as it gets warmer. Call at The Bakery.

Encouraging.
Good Crops - Fair prices in prospect - and our Goods bought at low water mark figures, gives us ample assurance that we can please our customers - Come take your choice from our immense line of Goods.
Luchsinger & Streiff.

Dun's Review.
An Important Turn in the condition of Affairs Near.
New York, Aug. 4. - R.G. Dunn & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade say:
An important change in the state of business is near at hand. Congress will act on the tariff question, one way or the other, in all probability, within a week. If it passes the pending bill, or if it fails, in either case, the definite basis for future business will enable many to act who are now waiting. Whether the one course or the other would stimulate the greater increase, it is certain either would give relief from present paralyzing uncertainties and cause some increase in business at least for a time. So much business has been deferred during the past year and merchandise stocks have been so reduced that the mere approach of a decision, without certainty what it is to be, has this week encouraged large preparation for increased business. In spite of outgrowing gold and sinking treasury reserves, small railroad earnings, some injury to crops, and increased trouble in the coke regions, the tone and the outlook are more hopeful.
The injury to crops by hot winds and drought, if as great as some report, will affect all interest, but at this season it is never easy to distinguish between local and general damage. Western receipts of wheat were 6,400,254 bushels, against 4,002,696 last year, which does not encourage notions of a short yield, and exports were only 1,599,563 bushels from Atlantic ports, against 3,185,464 last year. Corn exports were only 116,438 bushels against 1,599,781 last year, and the receipts 1,952,843, against 2,532,976, but it seems undeniable the crop has sustained considerable injury. Cotton declined another 1/8, with commercial estimates of a yield exceeding 8,500,000 bales.

Value of Chemical Fertilizers.
At the Ohio station work has been carried on to ascertain the real value of the so called chemical fertilizers, and after considerable thought and experiment it is summed up in bulletin 49 that they should be used only in connection with some nitrogen storing crop.
In other words, nitrogen is too expensive an article to purchase for the soil, and that this element must be supplied by growing crops that produce it, and then the commercial fertilizers can be used with profit. Clover and all of the leguminous crops supply the nitrogen, and they must come in frequently in the rotation to obtain the best effect. Unless we supply the soil in this way with nitrogen the commercial fertilizers will rob the soil for a few years and grow good crops, but will nearly ruin the land in the end.

Old Newspapers For Sale.
Suitable for wrapping paper; 25 cents per hundred. Call at this office.

Wanted. - An active agent in each county in the United States, to solicit subscriptions for the Twice-a-Week Republic. A liberal commission will be paid to hustlers.
Address, Superintendent Circulation, The Republic, St. Louis, Mo.

Private Money To Loan.
I have some Individual Money to loan on first-class real estate, in Bates or Henry Counties at 8 per cent interest, payable annually with no additional cost except abstract fee and acknowledgement expenses. For full information call at the law office of John A. Gilbreath, in First National Bank, Appleton City, Mo.
William Baskerville.