~For Our Farm
Friends~
Eggs are sold in
Miss HAGELMAN of Route 1 was
in town Monday paying taxes and subscription for her father, A. G.
HAGELMAN. No place like a farm
home, says she.
John PARTNEY of Route 2 has
a new six horse power engine for his hay baler but has added the necessary
equipment to make it a first class wood sawer.
Julius A. FREIDMEYER and
mother of DeSoto, Route 1, were here paying taxes at the year end and expressing
his appreciation for a good paper in more than one way.
August BONACHER, one of the
county's most substantial farmers and living on Pevely Route 1, transacted the
usual year end business at the county seat.
Scholarships good in the
short course in Agriculture at the – have been awarded to every county in the
district. Miss –essie GRIFFITH of
Hillsboro and August ROSE of Belews Creek, a champion boy corn raiser, have won
those for
~Sulphur
Springs~
Mrs. James SHELTON of
Excelsior Springs spent a few days with relatives last
week.
Mrs. Jas. SMITH (nee Lilly
KIRK) died in
Willie BULLIS and Rush STEIN
have gone to Neelyville on a hunting trip.
Prof. Wallace HULL of
Dr. and Mrs. P. H. MORRISON
have been spending a few days at their country home.
Mrs. John M. SAXTON has gone
to
Mrs. SPENCER is entertaining
a house party from
Mrs. MARSHALL returned home
Sunday evening from
Mrs. C. E. CORBY [CURBY ?],
Mrs. BLICKHAIN, Mrs. BYRD and Mr. Clarence CORBY are at Casa
Loma.
Miss Kitten HULL spent
Saturday in
John M. STITES and S. P.
HARRIS attended the TUTTLE sale Friday at
The Sulphur Springs children
gave a Christmas entertainment at the Sulphur Spring’s church Christmas evening
with Mrs. McMINN and Miss Myrtle BULLIS as leaders. Mrs. McMINN drilled the children with
recitations and Miss MYRTLE played the piano for the children to sing some
beautiful songs….They had a most beautiful play, “A Christmas Dream,”
representing an Indian, an Italian, a Puritan and Dutch girl, a page, a Japanese
and an American girl. Mrs. Jesse
MOORE acted as the Indian maid and certainly made a dandy. Louis SILKWOOD acted as the Puritan
maid, Mary MOORE as the Japanese girl, Julia EIFERT the Dutch girl, Ruth MOORE
the Italian, William WALLACE the page, and Myrtle BULLIS as American girl who
acted as in a dream. They certainly
play their parts fine. A most
pleasing Scripture Reading was read by Rev. W.A. McMINN.
Columbus McCULLOCH and John
BRUNS of Morse Mill were
W. M. MUSE of
Rudolph STADLER of Route 2
raises fine sweet potatoes and brought
At present we have but one
student taking the Agriculture Course at the University, Ernest RUSSEL of
Pevely.
Richard ROZIER of Route 2
was in town Friday attending to the usual year end business which included the
Record.
~DeSoto~
Mr. and Mrs. A.D. WILLIAMS
are spending two weeks with their daughter, Mrs. RICHIE and family at
Miss Nina McLANE is
entertaining Miss JAMISON of
Mrs. Marie REEB and daughter
Miss Delphine, of
Dr. and Mrs. L.A.
CHAMBERLAIN and daughter, Lois have returned from their visit with relatives at
Mrs. Frank DAUSS of
Mrs. J. NEDWEDECK has
returned.
Miss Viola ENGELBACH
returned to Pevely after spending a few days with Miss MEEK and attending
several parties given her by her friends.
Harvey FARRIS of
Master Clyde DOUGLASS is
enjoying vacation days with relatives in the city.
Miss WEISE returned from a
trip to the city Monday morning.
Mr. Will GOFF and son Dave
have returned from Des Loge where they visited relatives.
Messrs. W. SELLMAN and Ira
PILLIARD attended the dance at Festus Friday night.
Mrs. Sam BYRNS and niece
Miss Melissa were the guests of relatives at Festus for the
weekend.
The little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. BEAN who has been quite ill is some better.
Miss Luella WALTHER who is
spending the holidays at home will entertain a number of friends Tuesday
afternoon.
Rev. GAUSS of Carondelet
will preach at the Presbyterian church next Sunday.
Mrs. W.E. GIBSON, Mrs. O.F.
MEEK and Mrs. Louis SUDDICK of the DeSoto Woman’s Club and Rev. BRITE made a
trip to the
Miss Ruth CLYDE is at home
from
Dr. Frank LONG has returned
from Fertile where he spent Christmas with relatives.
Mrs. FROMHOLD entertained
Mr. and Mrs. Ben JEKYL and son, Ross, and Walter ALLEN of
Wesley MELLOW of
L. A. BROWN of Horine had
business here Saturday.
Misses Melissa BYRNES, Nan
MUNROE, Justine BURGESS, Dala and Mayme MAUTHE were in Festus, Friday and
Saturday.
Mrs. MEYERS of
~R.G. MORGAN
Dead~
Just as we are agoing to
press we learn of the death of R.G. MORGAN of Zion, one of the leading citizens
of the county. The funeral occurs
at
Miss ? BAKER has returned
from a visit to
Mrs. L. ?. FULLER has
returned from a visit with
Miss Margaret GLENDINNING of
Pevely visited friends in our town over Sunday.
Miss Tillie CAMPBELL gave a
heart party Saturday afternoon complimentary of the Misses WALTHER and
CHEATHAM. Miss Viola ENGLEBACH won
the prize, a pretty medallion.
Ed HANSAM will leave the
first of the year to travel for a wholesale grocery store in
Mrs. Williard HUSKEY and
baby Phyllis returned to
Mrs. PAUL and daughter, Mrs.
CAREY, are visiting Mrs. SHEREO [SHERE- ?] of
Mrs. R. E. CURTIS has
returned from a visit with her parents at Ironton.
Dr. and Mrs. E.W. BLISS have
returned from a week’s stay at
Mrs. J. NEDWEDECK has
returned home to
Mrs. O.P. DAVIN and son,
Kern, returned from
Miss Emma HERMAN is here
from TX to spend a few weeks.
Mrs. And Mrs. Frank WOODS of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank CLYDE
entertained a family party at their home Christmas night.
Miss Nan MUNROE gave a card
party Thursday afternoon at her home on
The Misses LEDERER gave a
card party Tuesday afternoon.
F. KNAPP had a small fire in
his shoe store Monday morning at half past one. The building was not damaged but
he lost several pairs of shoes.
Eugene PRIMM and little
daughter of
Miss DAVIS of Fredericktown
was the guest of Miss Anna DONNELL last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles CURTIS
have returned from their wedding trip to
~Festus~
Dorothy, little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed OSTERWALD has been quite sick for several
days.
Hon. Sam BYRNS of DeSoto
spent Tuesday in Festus.
W.D. BOYD ate Christmas
dinner in DeSoto, his former home.
Mrs. Rose JARVIS, of
Hematite, visited friends in Festus last week.
Everet, son of Dr. and Mrs.
C.G. HARRIS, who is attending school in
G.M. TURK of Colorado
arrived home last week for a month visit with parents. Mr. TURK went to
A. WORSCHEIM, who has been
absent in
spend the holidays with his
family.
The claim agent for the
Frisco was here last week settling claims.
Lee FORSHEE and wife spent
Christmas in Mineral Point.
Messrs. WAKEFIELD and
BRICKEY and Miss Zoe BOOTH assisted with the music at the Catholic Church
Christmas morning.
The business college is
flourishing; the pupils are doing excellent work, and Profs. TAGLIN and McMULLEN
have proved themselves excellent instructors and the people of Festus should
feel proud of the school and give it proper encouragement and try to make it
permanent.
C.H. FLINT, Road Master of
the Bonne Terre Road and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. WELSH and little daughter, Helen of
Sikeston, MO and Mrs. E.C. FLINT and little daughter, Virginia of St. Louis ate
Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. LEAGUE.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam BROOKS have
a sick baby.
Little Gilbert DRAKE is
still very sick. He was taken with
pneumonia and after recovering from it was attacked with stomach and bowel
trouble and is in very critical condition and improves very
slowly.
Uncle Eli DONNELL attended a
family reunion at Herculaneum Christmas.
Lawrence GRIESHARBER has
been quite sick for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Chad LONG and
Mr. Al LONG spent Christmas in
Mrs. Fred SCHAFER who was
taken to a hospital for treatment is improving.
Cliff SIEGRIST who is
attending the Rolla School of Mines is home for the
holidays.
In tearing down an old
building last week Tom KINNER was seriously hurt by the building falling on
him.
Mrs. T. H. LEAGUE and son Du
Bart are quite ill but the Dr. says it is only a cold.
E. C. FLINT left here last
Thursday to attend a convention and banquet of the McPike Drug Co. Salesmen at
Miss Nellie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R.P. BUREN has been quite ill for several days but was able to drive
downtown Saturday.
~Transfers~
Frank FUCHS to Herman
DORNSEIF (?) 72 , US Survey 2901
43-5 ….$12,000.00
Ira DRENNEN et al to Thos.
F. PIERCE, 40 a, 28-40-4 ….$1.00
Soloman WELLS to Franz
FUCHS, 22a, 43-5
6…..$.1.00
Fritz LANGREDER to Peter
MACOL, 3a, 10 39 - , $100.00.
W.R. DONNELL to Anton
SRAHLIA [SRAHIA ?] 120a, 1039-6….$1200.
Anton SRAHLIA [SRAHIA ?] to
W. R. DONNELL, 16 17 - , 32-41-6……
Geo. NECK to J.C. GOFF, 2
lots in DeSoto, …..$275.
~Stockholder’s
Meeting~
Notice is hereby given that
there will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Kimmswick at the
office of said bank in the town of Kimmswick, on Monday, Jan. 13th, 1913 at 2
p.m. for the purpose of electing directors for ensuing year and such other
business as may come before the meeting.
C.H. GERARD, Pres, G.A. WENOM, Cashier
~Stockholders
Meeting~
Notice is hereby given that
the annual meeting of the Stockholder of the J.M. ENGLAND Farm Company of
Hematite, MO will be held at the office of the Company,
A meeting of the citizens of
Festus and vicinity regarding the glass factory resulted in raising as
subscription of twenty-five thousand dollars. This will be a
~Notice~
I hereby forbid anyone
trespassing or hunting either by day or night on my premises and those caught
will be prosecuted for the full extent of the law.
Henry
WAHLBOLD.
Notice to Personal Property
Taxpayers
All delinquent personal
taxes unpaid on and after
Lost – Ten days or two weeks
ago, a stick pin, dull gold knob set with a single pearl. Reward at this office.
~Kimmswick~
Will ZELLER of South St.
Louis spent Christmas and a few days following visiting friends in
Kimmswick.
Jules ECCOFFIER, the
enterprising proprietor of the Empire Hotel, gave a Shooting Match on the
Commons of Kimmswick last Saturday which was well patronized and it was a common
occurrence to see a man going home with a goose, turkey or duck under his arm
but others got 'nix.'
M.T. CHESTNUT was down from
the City, Sunday looking after his Montesano interests and say the Park will
show up in the Spring as good as it ever was.
The new
Orrick and Lawrence
WHITEHEAD of Bonne Terre spent Christmas week in
Miss Flora ARNOLD has been
ill.
Misses Molly and Jessie
CASSIDY spent Christmas at home.
Mabel McMINN is spending the
holidays with her parents, Rev. W. A. McMINN and wife.
Mrs. GORDON of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred OBERMILLER
entertained their relatives Christmas Day.
Walter WHITEHEAD and wife of
Bonne Terre spent Christmas with S. A. WHITEHEAD
and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. B.J. WATERS
spent Christmas with their daughter, Mrs. Grover BRISTOL in
Edna WHITEHEAD spent the
week end at Bushberg.
~Antonia~
Louis KOHLER and his bride
for a month, left here for
the 11th to visit Mr.
KOHLER's brother, Andrew, and with the intention of making their future home
there.
Louis THEIS has about
completed building a new barn. Ed
HOFFARTH was the builder.
SCHNEIDER's and KOHLER's
sawmill caught fire Monday night and did about $50
damage. Through sparks of the engine, the scrap
pipe caught fire.
Walter BERGMEYER came home
Thursday from Great
J.P. GILLMAN is the happy
father of another girl that arrived at his house one day last
week.
E.C. STAAT and Rudolph
RAEBEL were to DeSoto, Sunday getting Christmas goods.
William GLASS of Barnhart
was seen here Sunday getting Christmas goods.
The STRABER brothers bought
George SCHNEIDER's interest in SCHNEIDER's and
KOHLER's sawmill. They have this mill at Henry SCHMIDT's
where they have 1000
logs to
saw.
William and Sam KUENSKI (?)
are dragging logs to be sawed into lumber for a new house.
George SCHNEIDER has about
finished sawing ties and lumber on his father's place and will move his mill on
William BUECHTING and wife
of
~Card of
Thanks~
We desire to extend to our
neighbors and friends our sincere thanks for their many acts of kindness during
the illness and death of our beloved husband and father.
Mrs. P.H. BYRNE and
children
~Marriage
Licenses~
Samuel E. SAFFELI, Bonne
Terre and Bessie COLE, DeSoto
Edw. LAYMAN,
J.B. DAHL,
Edward MAUPIN, Maupin and
Ida PULEN, Maupin
Keath KEATON - Colored,
Valle Mines and Mattie CASEY, Valle Mines
~Jarvis~
A very fine Christmas was
enjoyed at the German Lutheran Church Christmas evening. Rev. W.W. WALLNER preached a Christmas
sermon and the children gave declamations and sang songs. Then a big treat of
candy and fruit followed.
Henry J. MILLER made a trip
to the county seat Friday.
The son of J. William MILLER
is confined to the house with some form of rheumatism.
Doc DRENNEN, and old citizen
living near
Isaac DRENNEN and wife
visited some folks over Christmas.
~Of Local and Personal
Nature~
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. STONE
gave a party Saturday night.
Judge DUNNIGAN and Taylor
EAVES are kindred spirits this week because misery loves company. Each is suffering from a bad rising in
the head.
Miss Susan JONES who has had
a slight sick spell has recovered.
Martin ZIMPHER and Adolph
KLABLE of Antonia were here Monday.
Frank PARKINS [PERKINS ?] of
Mr. and Mrs. Dick SCHRODER
of Goldman spent the holidays here with relatives.
Mrs. John HELLER went to
House Springs Saturday for a visit to her daughter.
Mrs. Charles HERMAN and Miss
Lillie HEMME made a trip to Sr. Louis Saturday.
Miss Linnie PRICE and Miss
MOSS of Pevely have been the guests of the FRAZIER
family.
Mr. and Mrs. William RICHERT
of Kimmswick made a trip to the County Seat Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. F.E. SPILKER
and Mr. and Mrs. James BOUGHTON made a week-end
motor trip to
Amid the stream of taxpayers
Monday were Mrs. A. BOWSTAUGH and little girl of DeSoto.
Philip HINKEL, our itinerant
merchant has had a busy campaign this fall in the County, the roads and weather
being fine.
Fred EVANS, Sam and Joe
ECKLE attended the box supper at Victoria Christmas eve and had big fun running
box prices up.
Charles KARTE, W.E. CROW,
W.A. WELSH and M. F. HERRINGTON of DeSoto transacted business in the County Seat
Monday.
For Sale – Good, gentle-work
and buggy horse, or trade for cow, etc. L.H. MYER, Hillsboro, Rt.
1.
The drought and dust
continue. A drizzle of rain fell
Sunday evening, but not of sufficient quantity to lay the dust. Wheat is needing rain badly. Aside from that, the clear dry sun shiny
weather is much enjoyed.
Christmas night ant New
Year’s eve were celebrated at the hall by private dances which were much
enjoyed. After the New Year dance
the young men took their instruments and went serenading.
A meeting of the citizens of
Festus and vicinity regarding the glass factory resulted in raising a
subscription of twenty-five thousand dollars. This will be a Jefferson County
enterprise exclusively as no one outside the county has taken stock, and it is
thought that the remainder of the stock can be easily disposed of in Festus and
Crystal City.
~NOTICE~
We hereby forbid anyone
trespassing or hunting either by day or night on premises and those caught will
be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Elizabeth BECK, John A.
BECK, Fritz BECK, William BECK.
~FARM FOR
SALE~
85 acre farm in cultivation.
Balance timber with good house and outbuildings, cistern several good
springs. Suitable for general
farming, fruit, stock and poultry raising.
1-2 miles from public school, 1-2 miles from Lutheran Church. Farm is
situated 2 1/2 miles south of Maxville, MO, or 3-4 miles east of Henke Station
on Frisco R.R. For further
information call or write. Peter
BLANK, Kimmswick, MO.
~FOR
SALE~
I offer at private sale the
following live stock and many other things too numerous to mention. 2 good aged brood mares in foal to jack,
1 three year old gelding, 3 register-yearling saddle fillies, 5 weaning stud
colts, 1 pure bred jersey heifer in February, 1 first class cow, 12 head of
angora goats, 300 bushel of corn, 15 tons hay, all my farm machinery. Come and see and buy at your own
price. Terms given when
desired. J.A. TUTTLE, DeSoto, RFD
No. 3
Our Sunday School had its
annual election of officers and teachers last Sunday resulting in Superintendent
Miss Carrie KLEINSCHMIDT; First assistant, Mrs. Frank DEITRICH; Second
Assistant, Miss Clara LEUTZINGER; Secretary, Miss Laura WILLIAMS; Assistant
secretary, Miss Kathleen REPPY; Treasurer, Miss L. HILL; Organist Miss Kathleen
REPPY, Teachers: Gleamors, Mrs. F. DIETRICH; Record Breakers, Robert
KLEINSCHMIDT; Honest Workers and Busy Bess, Miss Carrie KLEINSCHMIEDT; Sunbeams,
Miss Clara LEUTZINGER.
T.E. SCHNEIDER spent Sunday
in St. Louis.
Harry FORREST is taking a
two week vacation.
Claude F. JARVIS, court
stenographer, was here yesterday.
Miss Eva PILLIARD and her
brother, William, are Hillsboro visitors this week.
John L. BECHLER and wife are
quartered at the Jefferson for the winter.
John ENGLEBACH of Pevely
made a trip to the county seat at the weekend.
How long is your list of New
Year's resolutions? How long will
it be March first?
Frank DAVIS and sister from
Edwardsville, IL are visiting Mr. OFFE and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Thornton
HENSELY of Pevely spent the weekend here with relatives.
George MOSS and Will FOREST
of Granite City, IL came home for New Year's.
Mrs. W. HOPSON and daughter
of Ware vicinity were in the County Seat on business.
F.A. HERSCHER of Argenta,
ARK was a holiday guest of the SEEMEL family on Route 3.
Misses Nellie SCHNEDIER
& Gertie BUCHMILLER spent Christmas with home folks on Route
2.
Misses Zoe and Medora BOOTH
made a holiday visit to Hillsboro.
Their brother Charlie is also here.
For Sale - Two Fresh Young
Jersey Cows. S. MAXWELL, Rt. 2,
Hillsboro, MO.
Dr. Stanley D. JEWELL of
Fredericktown was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J.N. REPPY Friday and
Saturday.
Ben DAHL, the nineteen year
old son of Sheriff DAHL, took out a marriage license Monday to marry Miss Sylvia
HUSKEY, also of Route 2.
Jack MARSDEN, a son of
Clarence MARSDEN, who is studying in a business college in St. Louis, spent part
of his Christmas vacation with Hillsboro friends.
Hoyt HOEKEN attended a
Christmas party at the home of Robert COXWELL, Jr. and returned to his position
in St. Louis New Year's afternoon.
Hillsboro has had a festive
holiday week. Besides a number of
home gatherings there was a Sunday School social at the hall. Table games and box lunch occupied the
time of the guests.
Miss Hazel BOYER of Potosi
has been employed to fill the position as principal of the Hillsboro schools,
following the resignation of Miss Medora McMULLIN who leaves Saturday for her
Ohio position.
The Bankers had a holiday
New Year's and T.L. BURGESS of Pevely and R.B. and T. BURGESS motored out to
exchange greetings with the bankers here.
They were accompanied by Andy LABEAUME and Del STOCKING.
Henry T. REPPY visited his
brother, the editor, this week. His
health has gained greatly since a serious operation in November and he expects
to return to his position in
An auto party from Kimmswick
motored down to the County Seat New Year's Day in one hour and six minutes. They were Frank NAES, Frank NAES, Jr.
and wife of DeSoto, William NAES, William LUDERMAN, Cesar TUNBOLD and John
ARNOLD.
~Advertisements~
[Ad]
[Ad] Henry HURTGEN &
Son,
[Ad] Jefferson County Bank,
[Ad] Bank of Kimmswick -
G.H. GERARD, President; M. ZIEGLER, V.P.; G. A. WENOM,
Cashier.
[Ad] Your Stove or
Range.....CUNNINGHAM-HAMEL Mercantile
[Ad] The 'Lily White' Patent
Flour - DeSoto Roller Mills
[Ad] 'It is a duty you owe
yourself' - People's Bank of DeSoto