Appleton City Journal
Appleton City, MO
22 December 1898

Johnson City Jottings.

Mud, Mud, Mud.

On Monday morning a little son arrived at the home of Mr. Chester Ditty.

Mr. B. Hoovers little son was on the sick list last week.

The nimrods report that rabbits and quail rather scarce this season.

Mr. M.C. Baldwin’s family were all down with the grip last week.

Mr. John Robinson left Tuesday for St. Louis where he will spend a month or more visiting relatives and seeing the sights of the city.

Our mail carrier Mr. S.G. Foote well earns the 55 cents he receives a day from Uncle Sam for carrying the mail from Iuka via of this place to Appleton City. Guess he don’t “stand in” with the administration.

Mr. John Morgan sold his effects Monday and will in a short time leave for the state of Washington where he will make his future home. John is a hard working man and above all scrupulously honest and will be greatly missed in this community.

Some able physicians now claim that the good results obtained by the use of antitoxin in diphtheria and membranous croup are due to the carbolic acid which the serum contains and that just as good results can be obtained by the use of a one-eighth of one per cent solution of carbolic acid. The high priced and highly priced antitoxin will no doubt be short lived.

There is a burial ground in New York where the pet dogs of the rich are laid to rest in jeweled caskets while in this same city thousands of people are being buried in paupers graves in potters field. These dogs of the rich wear necklaces and bracelets set with diamonds and other rare jewels amounting to thousands of dollars and we have thousands of poor with hardly enough clothes to cover their backs and children who cannot enjoy the benefits of a school education from lack of sufficient clothing and yet this is a Christian nation.