Jefferson County Record, Hillsboro, Mo
February 22, 1917

 

On Thursday, February 13th the County Court met at Hillsboro and made the necessary orders to take up the bonds heretofore issued and to pay them off with the interest due thereon.

 

The other $463,000 were sold on the same day to the William R. COMPTON Investment Company of St. Louis at par, which ale was duly approved by the Court.

 

Wm. R. COMPTON Investment Company at the same time offered par for $463,000 of Refunding bonds, said bonds to bear four and one-half percent interest, payable semi-annually to mature without option of prior payment as follows:

 

$21,000 in 1922.

$21,000 in 1923.

$22,000 in 1924.

$23,000 in 1925.

$25,000 in 1926.

$25,000 in 1927.

$26,000 in 1928.

$28,000 in 1929.

$29,000 in 1930.

$30,000 in 1931.

$32,000 in 1932.

$33,000 in 1934.

$36,000 in 1935.

$38,000 in 1936.

$39,000 in 1937.

 

The entire issue of $500,000 was then delivered to the County Treasurer and the New Refunding Bonds having been prepared, printed and ready for delivery, were taken by the County Treasurer of Jefferson City and upon the registration of the bonds by the State Auditor, the whole issue of $500,000 in the presence of an officer of the Compton Investment Company, the State Auditor, the County Treasurer and Clyde WILLIAMS as agent for the County Court were burned and the new issue delivered to Compton & Co.

 

The bonds retired amounted to 37,600 and the interest paid on them amounted to $843.29.

 

This leaves a balance in the sinking fund of the $9,000 and collections by August are expected to bring the amount up to a sum sufficient to pay the semi-annual interest on the refunding bonds which will amount to $10,417.50.

 

The Court made an order levying the tax necessary to meet the interest and principal on the bonds as they respectively become due. It is certain that the tax rate next year on account of the bond issue will not exceed 25c on the $100 valuation and this levy will not be increased during the next five years but may be materially lessened if our valuations increased as they should. We’ve got the bond money and we expect the Court to try to get value received in its expenditure.

 

W. R. DONNELL, Jr., Cashier of the Bank of Hillsboro refused to accept the check for $463,000 and claims that under his contract he cannot be forced to do so. Inasmuch as his contract calls for Four and five-eighths per cent on county moneys the County could make a profit by allowing him to keep it. As Mr. DONNELL’s contract expires in two months, we assume that the Court will not attempt to force him to accept it and pay the rate he bid for the current county funds, but

will obtain the best interest possible until a new depository is chosen.

 

~ Obituary ~

H. Henry KRIENHEDER was born May 8, 1829, in Hanover Germany, and came to America when a young man. He was a blacksmith by trade and worked in St. Louis for some time. He lived in Iowa for a while and came to Jefferson county in the sixties. He was married in 1856 to Miss Carolina STRATMAN. To this union fourteen children were born. He died at his home at High Ridge February 8, 1917, and was buried February 10th in the cemetery of St. Martins Evangelical church at High Ridge. Rev. S. P. GOEBEL of the Church officiated. He is survived by his aged wife, five children three son and two daughters. Twenty-eight grandchildren, six great grandchildren and a host of friends. He was a good loyal citizen and fought under the flag of his adopted country during the civil war.

 

~ Notice ~

Notice is hereby given that the Rock Township Mutual Protective Society will hold its 33rd Annual meeting on Saturday, March 3rd, 1917, at 2 o’clock p.m. at KOHLER’s Hall, Antonia, Mo. All members should try to be present.

E. BERGMEYER


~ County Court ~
Accounts allowed:

E. BLACKWELL, Festus and Ste. Gene. road, $33.75

Aug. HEILIGTAG & Son, road mahy., $28.00

George CORNELL, imp., grub and work road, $77.48.

C. J. DAVIDSON, sup. Victoria and Festus road, $8.10

Green HEARST, auto livery $93.33.

Frank HUSKEY, Imp and
Lemay and Cedar Hill roads, $133.40

John GENZLING, Lemay Ferry road, $29.40

John F. WILLIAMS, auto hire, $5.00

W. E. KIDD, Imp. Cedar Hill and
Hillsboro road, $133.20

Seidler Roesch Merc. Co., Bd. Tools $86.05

Harris KING, blk smith wrk. $6.00

MILLER & BOREHERDING,
Isle AuBois bridge, $34.52

E. F. WILSON, board eng. and crew $13.60

T. M. BOONE, sal. asst eng., $29.25

J. M. AGNEW, sal. asst. eng., $45.00

Harry D. GRIFFITH, sal. eng. and In. $70.62

Austin Western Machinery Co., road plows $31.35

Val SPROCK, road dist 3, $15.00

~ Probate Court ~

Inventory and appraisement lists filed in the following estates:

Frances WILJECK, Michael CLOVER, V. PETRAN, Andrew SCHERER and Mary RECHT all examined and approved.

Semi Annual Settlement filed in Estate of John Wm. BURDS.

John G. KOCH allowed $279.00 and Dr. Martin DALTON $44.50 against estate of Frances WILJECK.

Adm. ordered to sell personal property of Michael CLOVER.

Will of V. PETRAN presented and admitted to probate and V. J. LEIGHT appointed executor without bond.

Executor ordered to sell real estate under terms of will and to secure some person to care for stock until day of sale.

John NAHLIK allowed $17.75 against estate of V. PETRAN.

Thos. HOLDMAN appointed curator of the HOLDMAN minors Alva, Alma and Amos.

The following claims were allowed against estate of Levi SCOTT: R. COXWELL & SON $45.50, W. E. GIBSON M.D. $27.50, HAMIL MFG CO. $24.80, DeSoto roller Mills $45.15, WALKER & COUCH $76.07.

Wills fixed and probated:

Marie RECHT and Xavier F. RECHT granted letters testamentary without bond.

Andrew SCHERER and
Lizzie SCHERER granted letters bond filed and approved.

Leander MITCHELL will filed, but not probated.

D. W. FARRAR allowed $6 and Louis HUSKEY $20 against estate of August SEYPOHLTOWSKY.

Fee bill of appellate court filed and classified in estate of Alex MILLS.

~ High Ridge ~

Andrew HILGERT and Louie HUNNING are busy sawing wood. Each have a saw mill.

Mr.
Lizzie SCHAFER of Grubville visited with Mrs. Andrew MILLER Sunday.

Fred BONACKER attended the masquerade ball at House Springs Saturday. On his way back to
St. Louis he stopped here to visit his sister, Mrs. KREINHEDER.

The literary society meeting Friday was fairly well attended. The question debated was: Resolved that the government should own and operate the railroads. Those who debated were: Affirmatives, Arthur HARTH and Andrew HILGERT.

Negatives, Roy LEE and Albert WALLACH.

The negatives won. The next debate will be Wednesday evening, February 28th. The subject for debate is: Resolved that money has more influence upon mankind than education.

Affirmatives: G. E. BONACKER, Andrew HILGERT and W. J. CLOVER.

Negatives are Mrs. BONACKER, W. J. HILGERT and Albert WALLACH.

Jacob DEALS, well known here, died of LaGrippe in
Eureka February 13, and was interred in High Ridge cemetery February 15. He came to America from Germany when a young man and lived in this community. He was about 37 [87?] years old.

James MURRY JR. was brought out to the
County Bastile by Marshall POLK of De Soto and lodged therein yesterday, pending a hearing on a charge of burglary and larceny. He was suspected of being implicated in the burglary of the Muse Mercantile Co., Monday night and the larceny of about $26 in cash and some other goods. He admitted his guilt according to Marshal Polk and implicated another boy who lives in St. Louis, but who has been at DeSoto visiting him. The boy is only about 13 years old.

~ What Our Contemporaries In The Twin Cities Have To Say About The DeSoto Court ~
Ray G. TOWNSEND in the
Crystal City Press says:
DeSoto Wants a Court House, So Do We.

There are about ten per cent of the cases that are settled by the court from DeSoto and nearly seventy-five per cent from this end of the county. About sixty-five per cent of the taxes come from this end of the county, but DeSoto wants a court house and our percentage of taxes will pay the expense.

“Their” representative not “ours” has a bill in the Legislature to get the court house at DeSoto regardless of the fact that they have rock roads to county seat and can reach there in about twenty minutes by auto and regardless of the fact that the business and money comes from this end. The prominent lawyers and county officials are against spending the money of the people to benefit a few, who have a vacant building to rent and who are trying to unload their white elephant on the county.

The people, money and taxes coming from this end would entitle us to anything in this line, but as we have no bill in the legislature for assistance we wish to know on what grounds DeSoto, or the little peanut gang who control the village, can have to ask the county to erect them a court house and then make us pay the bill.

Henry F. KRATZER in the Tri-City Independent, Festus, says:
House Bill 582 introduced by the County Representative Dr. G. A. AUERSWALD providing for a term of the Circuit Court to be held at De Soto annually is receiving an unusual amount of discussion in Eastern Jefferson County. The consensus of opinion may be summed up in a very few words. “Why” and “Wherefore?” Why need there be a division  of the court entailing unnecessary delay, and in substance and fact create  two separate courts and entailing costs to be encountered by the citizens of the entire county, and absolutely no benefits whatever accruing to the masses. We see no cause for DeSoto and its accessibility to the county seat at all times and in all conditions of weather to find cause for such a proposed change that in reality would benefit only the favored few, whereas rightfully western, northern and eastern Jefferson county heretofore the direct sufferers in the way of reaching the county seat have yet to harbor a complaint in response to such as appeal as indirectly sounds in House Bill 582. With good roads at this very hour on the horizon of possibility and certain to usher in the unborn tomorrow affording means for access and egress at all times we see no great unused? Why the tax payers should be asked to share alike the burden incurred if such a proposed step is carried into practice.
Hillsboro will continue to serve its purpose better in the future than in the past, hence why should the question of a change of court be an issue. The people to a greater extent interested have yet to appeal for such a contemplated change and until they do, no cause for action remains.

Mrs. H. L. MARBURY in the Festus News says:
One term of the Circuit Court at DeSoto means additional taxes; do you want to pay more taxes and drive no benefits, Mr. Taxpayer? Is Dr. AUERSWALD representing you Mr. Taxpayer, when he is asking for one term of court at DeSoto thereby increasing your taxes?
Hillsboro is more convenient for Festus, Crystal City and Herculaneum that DeSoto. Why add additional taxes to establish one term of court at DeSoto? If DeSoto is in earnest and they want a term of Circuit Court and it will be so much for them, why don’t they offer to furnish everything in connection with the Court at no expense to the taxpayer?

We understand Dr. AUERSWALD claimed before the committee that one term of court was an issue in the last campaign. If anyone ever heard of it, we would like to know who he is. These papers are published east of the
Iron Mountain railroad which runs through DeSoto. They are published at the cities which combined represent the greatest population center of the county. DeSoto is very patriotic in trying to secure them accommodations they do not want and are opposed to as indicated by their several articles and editorials.

~ Sugar Creek News ~
The people of Sugar Creek are still calm and peaceful, but also as lively and ambitious as ever.

Last Sunday a large number of our good folks gathered at Mr. Wm. MRAZ. They were well entertained and royally treated. But in such pleasant company the evening passed so fast that no one noticed the thunder storm which was coming on. Nearly all got a taste of it on their way home.

Nearly all of our people attended the LONNING BROS. Sale last Saturday. The sale was well attended and everything sold well at price.

Last Sunday night Mr. SCHEYBAL’s barn was struck by lightning. The building was not seriously damaged however.

The “wedding” is dated for Esquire DIEHL’s place on February 19, and Mr. Chas. BOUZEK has been busy selecting the officiating staff. Many speak about attending it.

Two weeks ago Pat VON Sugar Creek took sick suddenly and in spite of all medical assistance, died. He lived to be a ripe old age and we must say he was a faithful worker through life. His remains were brought to repose in one of the hillsides of Sugar Creek. Pat was not an Irishman.

Neighbors if some of your dogs have gone astray don’t worry. The dogs of Sugar Creek are at present holding an inquest and are quite busy with the matter.

~ In Memoriam ~
In loving remembrance of our dear brother, Emil G. FREDERITI, who departed this life 3 years ago
Feb. 23, 1914.

 

~ Four Ridge ~
No items have appeared from here [f]or a long time, hence this sketch for we are still on the map.

Mr. Joseph NALIK who has been in ailing health for nearly two years is confined to his bed now most of the time.

Wm. BOLLIFER and Pete SWEHLA are working near Ten Brook hauling ties.


Lewis HILGERT was in
St. Louis Monday and Tuesday on business.

The entertainment given at the school Sunday the 11th was a decided success. Despite the cold weather which prevented many from coming, an overflow crowd was present. The teacher, the pupils of the school and the young people of the district had been at work for some time preparing a program of recitations dialogues and plays and their performance is a credit to their efforts. Every detail of the program of four hours length was successfully carried out. If you Mr. Doubter and Knocker, who believe or may have formed the idea that we cannot do things, are still under that impression you had better put on your thinking cap for you have another guess coming. DAISY.

The annual exhibit of the work of the 8th grade pupils of
Jefferson County commences to-day. Most of the work was in place Wednesday. To give a description of the individual work of the various schools at this time would be premature. Suffice to say that the work is excellent and will be a revelation to persons who may come to see it. Rock, Big River and Meramec schools are to visit the exhibit and give their programs today. Hillsboro also will be on the program tonight. Friday, Festus and County School; Friday night, Victoria and other Central Township Schools; Saturday, Crystal City and other schools will close the exhibit.

Joseph J. HOEKEN left for
St. Louis Monday night and expects to be away on business for a few days.

 

~ Twentieth Wedding Anniversary ~
A social dance and wedding anniversary given by John R. BAKER and wife to his many friends and neighbors on Saturday evening February 17, 1917. They all responded to the invitation and filled his residence to the utmost capacity and all wore that real wedding smile and enjoyed themselves dancing and playing cards. Mr. BAKER and wife were kept very busy trying to make the evening pleasant and enjoyable to the many friends. Along towards
midnight preparations were made and a lunch was served with some good cake and not to forget the good old lager which was well enjoyed by all. But in the meantime John R. began to look a little worried and some few guests were wondering what his worry could be but to the surprise of all John got busy and in a few minutes selected a few of the young people namely R. F. BLEIKER, Robert, Paul Jr. as groomsmen and HAMEL SIEDLER, Clara BECKER best maids. the bride and groom each wearing white carnations proceeded to the east room of the residence and after arrival Mr. D. W. HOEK retied the wedding knot of twenty years ago which no doubt might have loosened some in the course of twenty years. After this all had passed over, all went back to the dancing room and danced until about 3 o’clock a. m. After this everybody got ready to depart for their homes wishing Mr. and Mrs. BAKER joy and happiness during the next twenty years of married life and then hoping to all meeting again.     A GUEST.

~ Obituary ~
Mrs. Maria Iordtha [Ioratha ?] Louisa WOLGAST, (nee ISAPHELT) wife of the late William WOLGAST who died in 1902, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, April 23, 1843 and came to the United States when eight years old. She first lived in
Ohio later coming to St. Louis where she attended school. She then came to Jefferson county and lived at High Ridge. She was the mother of seven children, three sons and four daughters. One son died in infancy, and one daughter Mrs. John KREINHEDER died September 30, 1916. She died in St. Louis while visiting her daughter Mrs. August MEYER, February 9, of pneumonia. She was buried in High Ridge Cemetery February 11, 1917, Rev. S. GOEBEL officiating. She is survived by two sons and three daughters, thirty eight grand children and four great grand children and a host of friends. She was a good Christian. She will be greatly missed by her many friends and relatives who will say: Green be the turf above thee friend of our better days,
None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise.

~ Rubin - Winter ~
On last Saturday, February 4th, occurred the marriage of Mr. George RUBIN of Fairland, Okla., to Miss Dorothea WINTER of Kimmswick, Mo., at the Evangelical Lutheran church of Antonia, M. Rev. M. BANGESLDORF of that place spoke the necessary words that made them husband and wife. Men of honor were Mr. Oscar SAEGER,
House Springs, MO, and the bride’s maids were Miss Lydia DREYER of Alenberg, MO, and Miss Ella RUBIN of Fairland, OK. After the ceremony they all took a hike for the bride’s home, where a nice table was set with all kinds of goods food to eat awaited them. The evening was spent in all kinds of amusements and games. They all departed at a late hour, wishing the newly weds happy journey through their married life.

On Tuesday evening the wedding party arrived in Fairland, where they were met with a car and motored to the home of the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. August RUBIN, where all the relatives were gathered to congratulate them on their return. They will make their home on the O. M. HILL farm one and one-half mile west of town. Success to them.
     One Who Was There.

~ Belews Creek ~
The social at Mr. MEYER’s was a success, everybody reported a good time.

The date of the business meeting of the Belews Creek Presbyterian church has been changed to the 23 inst. All the members especially invited to attend Friday evening,
8 o’clock.

The Catechism class Saturday at the usual time. E. S.  at
10 o’clock a.m. Church services at 11 and in the evening as usual.

One day last week Fred BARTH o Berry Hill farm and Ethel TUMAN of
St. Louis were married at St. Louis where they will make their future home. BARTH is employed at the WAGGONER ELECTRIC CO

 

~ Recommends Farm Agent for County ~
HOLEKAMP Tells of Advantages Obtained By Procuring the Services of a Farm Advisor.

In the last issue of your paper I told you, my fellow farmers some of the things the farm agent can do for us. I will tell you of a few more things he can do and he is doing in other counties.

A good many of us have grown cowpeas. Cowpeas are a splendid feed and the cultivation of this crop ought to be encouraged. Cowpeas are not hard on the land, to the contrary they help to build up the land. You are probably aware that a large part of the seed is raised in the extreme southeastern part of the sate. When we buy the seed in small quantities we have to pay a large price for it. WE may just as well buy it by the carload and divide up. This is what Farm Agents do in other counties.

It seems that soy beans are going to be one of the main feed crops of our state. To grow soy beans the best as to be inoculated. the farm agent will procure the inoculation for you, or will tell you how to get it. He will tell you which variety is best suited for your purpose and for your land. He will order the soy beans for you, or tell you where to get them.

In our county there are many fields where alfalfa would do well, provided the land was properly prepared for it. The Farm Agent will tell us that the land needs to make alfalfa a success. The land will probably need lime, manure or some other fertilizer. The farm Agent will tell us what kind of fertilizer is required. We do not need guessing at what fertilizer we ought to use, and possibly waste a lot of money buying the wrong fertilizer or a fertilizer which has been recommended to us but is not worst so much money as is asked of it. The Farm Agent will know whether we will get our money worth or not. The land will have to be inoculated and the Farm Agent will show you how to do it.

There is the orchardist. He wants to plant an apple orchard. Part of the land is a rich hill side, facing the north; part is a hillside facing the west, not very good soil somewhat rocky. The same variety of apples will not do well on both locations Certain varieties if planted on the rich soil will grow very rank and not produce much fruit. This variety should probably be planted on the poorer soil, while some other variety which has not much rank growth should be planted on the richer soil. The farm agent will be able to tell you which varieties will best suit your land and your purpose.

There is some other work being done now on sloping land of the state. This is terracing. There may be a good deal of land in
Jefferson county where terracing could be done to advantage. The farm Agent will know where it is advisable to terrace the land and he will also be able to show us how it ought to be done.

If farms are washed farms are filling up the gullies. You all probably may think you know how to fill them up yourself; there are, however, ways which may be better than the way you would do the work and the Farm Agent is prepared to show us the best way and tell us which grasses to sow to hold the soil to best advantage. If we knew the best way they would not need to lecture to the farmers about this important work, Farmers Week, which they do.

Some of you may say: We get all this information in our farm paper. It is true, the farm paper and other papers give us lots of good advice but it does not make the impression on us which the correct advice given by the Farm Agent will make, especially where we can ask questions when everything is not just clear to us.

In another article I will mention what the Farm Agent is doing in other counties and, what he can do for us in a different way.
Robert A. HOLEKAMP, Route 1,
Hillsboro, Mo.

~ The Weather ~
Foremost of the week beginning
Sunday, February 18, 1917.

For the Plains states and upper and Middle
Mississippi Valley: The first half to be week will be cold, but considerably warmer during the latter half of the week. Snow is probable the beginning of the week, but the weather will be generally fair after Monday.


~News Common and Editoria~
Doe Crow in the De Soto Republican is very philanthropic. Doe don’t want anything that is not for the benefit of the people. Well Doe read what your contemporaries in the eastern part of the county say about a term of Court at
De Soto and they are the very fellows whom your folks
claim are to be benefited.


Dr. AUERSWALD insists that he did not state to the House Committee at the hearing on his bill to remove one term of the Circuit Court to
De Soto that the matter was an issue in the campaign. In a letter to a friend in Hillsboro he charges the erstwhile candidate for Circuit Judge with being responsible for the story in the Jefferson County Democrat and of course in the Record. The doctor is just as correct in one statement as the other, neither is true. The whole Hillsboro delegation are united in the statement that the doctor declared it to be an issue in the campaign. Mr. Dietrich was naturally indignant and denied it and stated that he had campaigned the county and never heard of it. It now appears that the doctor was right and that secretly and among the De Soto folks, the information was given out that if the doctor could be elected he would get a term of court for De Soto, but the matter must not be allowed to get out or it would defeat him. This information was conveyed to us last week by a reputable citizen of De Soto in the presence of two other citizens of that city, one of whom, if not both admitting that they had information of the same sort. What do the people of Jefferson County think about such stealthy and contemptible political methods? No doubt the doctor will deny knowledge of it and we sincerely hope he did not have it, for while the doctor has a temper like an old tabby cat with kittens, we have always had a better opinion of him than to believe him guilty of a thing so contemptible.


~ Festus ~
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar OGLE spent a few days last week in Hematite.

Miss Cressie HOBBS of
Potosi spent Friday with Mrs. Mary A. BLUNT.

Professor O. J. METHIAS attended a Parents-Teachers’ meeting in St. Mary Saturday. He addressed the afternoon session of the meeting.

Several joint meetings have been held between the school boards of
Crystal City and Festus. There is talk of a consolidation of school purposes and this would mean one good Central High School. Let us hope that such wonderful possibilities will be realized.

Miss Roberta MEYER who has been confined to her home on account of illness returned to her duties in the school-room.

Ted MEYERS spent the week end with his parents in Ste. Genevieve.

C. C. ENGLAND spent Wednesday in the city.

D. McCLANAHAN of Danby visited at the home of George SEIFERT Sunday.

Ray HOPKINS went to
St. Louis Thursday and brought back a new Ford for himself.

The revival meeting which has been in progress at the Presbyterian Church for the past two weeks closed Sunday evening. Rev. LAWSON of
Cape Girardeau who conducted it was a very eloquent and interesting speaker and we feel that he was indeed a success.

Quite a little excitement was caused Friday evening when the fire bell rang. The fire proved to be at V. A. CANEPA’s home. The roof around the flue was damaged quite a bit before the fire was extinguished.

Rev. C. E. FOARD spent a few days last week in
Johnson City, IL, helping to erect a tabernacle for a Burke & Hobbs revival. Johnson City is a mining town of six thousand inhabitants and we trust these men will meet with much success while there.


The Festus high school held a mock trial and carnival at the school Friday evening. There were thirty penny shows of much wit and interest and refreshments from which the sum of twenty-six dollars to be used for cataloguing the library.

Mrs. Charles TOWNSEND and her daughter are visiting her mother Mrs. SHUMACK in
Maplewood.

Mrs. Frank LACKEY and Mrs. Geo. OSTERWALD are visiting relatives in
Farmington.

The Y. V. P club gave a dance on last Monday evening. Extra music was brought down from
St. Louis. This was the last dance before Lent will begin and it was thoroughly enjoyed.

Harvey REDDICK has purchased the
GRIFFITH place on West Main street.

Harry BOYER spent Sunday with home folks.

Paul BRICKEY of
St. Louis spent Sunday with his parents.

The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ZIMMER is threatened with pneumonia.

~ Four Ridge Items ~
Quilting is all the go these days.

Everybody is well pleased with the new mail route.

The entertainment and box supper given by the school was a great success and will do honor to the teacher, Lewis HILGERT and also to the pupils and young people of the district that took part in the program.

Wm. STEINMEYER of Glaize Creek, who was confined to his bed for three weeks with inflammatory rheumatism, is up and around again.

Herman DANNAMANN Jr. who had his hip dislocated some weeks ago by being run over by a wagon is improving rapidly.

Mrs. Louise NAUSEL the oldest living resident of this neighborhood was injured the day after celebrating her eightieth birthday by a fall but she is improving rapidly and will be up in a few days.

It is rumored that two of our prominent dudes intend making an even trade in the matrimonial way before the year rolls around.

We are sorry to report that Wm. NAUSEL Jr. will not be able to do much farming this year as the mule he recently purchased and intended to do his farming with has passed away.

We are having very cold weather with no snow, which is very bad on the wheat.


Mr. Ed KASSEL and family visited at the NEUSEL Home Sunday.

~ Maxville ~
Joseph WEBER of
St. Louis was visiting Philip GANGLOFF Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred GRAZCAK and son were visitors at Mr. and Mrs. SIEDLER’s place Sunday.

Otto FREDERITZI spent Sunday at Maxville.

Mr. and Mrs. John R. BAKER celebrated their twenty years of married life Saturday evening by inviting a few of the neighbors and they were remarried by D. W. HACK, and Clara BECKER, R. Paul Jr. and Hazel SIEDLER, R. BLEIKER acted as bride’s maid and groomsman.

Arneda HOOGE and Adalia TIEFENBRUN spent Sunday with Hazel SIEDLER.

The masquerade ball which Peter FREDERITZI gave Sunday evening at his home was well attended. Nick EMS from West Mattes attended the ball with about forty of his friends.

Mrs. SIEDLER gave a quilting last week for a few of her friends and expects to give another in a week for her
Breezy Heights friends.

Miss Alice HERMANN spent last week in
St. Louis with her friends.

Gar gigging is reported very good.

Barney BECKER is the champion, he actually gigged a gar weighing 33 pounds.

~ Frumet Items ~
Jesse MERSEAL has bought our store from the HENRY BROS. One of the latter has gone back to their old home at Bliss, and the other will continue arming here. MERSEAL moved his family here last week.

Mrs. Garland GREAVER of
Bloomington, Ind., and little boy are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. STOCKING near Richwood. Since coming here, their small son has been seriously ill with pneumonia and the father was sent for. The child is out of danger, but Mr. GREAVER will remain a few days longer.

Mr. Elmer DOVER of
Montana was here visiting his brother George and wife. Elmer thinks by way of change that he will fix up the old Dover homestead and farm in Missouri next season.

The wheat outlook in this locality is not very promising; the dry winter has put a crimp in the fall crops that will tell a sorry tale at harvest time.

Our farmers are shipping milk to the Cedar Hill creamery by the truck load.

The BOISRAME ford has been pronounced unsafe for vehicles and most people use BROWN for now.

Mrs. Anna FERGUSON, wife of William FERGUSON died Feb 12, and was buried at Pilgrim Rest cemetery on the 14th. Rev. Price McKAY conducted the funeral services. Mrs. FERGUSON has been a sufferer of cancer for a long time at the home of her daughter. Mrs. James Q. WILSON. Jesse, William and Mrs. DOBB are the other children with their aged father, who survive her. Mrs. FERGUSON had lived her
three score and ten as wife, mother, friend, neighbor and Christian woman. Her life wasfilled with kindly helpful deeds, and she will be sadly missed from the
community where she has spent most of her life.

Miss Ella FRISSELL who has been seriously ill, is recovering sufficiently to finish the remaining one week of the school term, through she is far from well.

We are to have night telephone service. A switch has been put in the home of Jesse MERSEAL. Lack of night service this winter has been a serious hardship on sick folks.

~ De Soto Items ~
Mrs. Clyde who is teaching at Wicks spent Sunday at home.

Lou BURGESS who was unable to be at the bank at Pevely several days last week on account of rheumatism was able to take up the work Monday.

The Elk’s and their friends enjoyed a dance at their rooms Friday night.

Dan ROUGGLY and wife spent Sunday at Bonne Terre and his niece Miss Gladys MOSTILLER came home with them for a few days stay before going on to
St. Louis to buy goods for the MOSTILLER DRY GOODS CO.

Mr. and Mrs. A. D. WILLIAMS decided not to take the MITCHIM property and will probably not return to
De Soto to make their home as they fully intended to do when they first returned here, but last week went to Poplar Bluff to visit relatives.

Mrs. T. F. FULLER was hostess of the DORCAS Society Thursday afternoon.

The annual chicken pie supper will be served by the Presbyterian Church ladies at the church February 22nd Supper 35 cents.

Mrs. Willard HUSKEY was shopping in
St. Louis, Monday.

Lee GOFF and wife of Bonne Terre were here Sunday.

Mrs. Harry ROSENBERG is entertaining her brother and wife of
St. Louis this week.

The Poplar Bluff Basket Ball team played against the Y. M. C. A. boys Saturday night.

Mrs. Will GOFF went to
Little Rock last week to see her daughter Mrs. Mark Potter who has been ill.

Gus FRECH has purchased a new Ford to be delivered soon. Derwood KETCHUM and Oscar OBERCRUMB received theirs last week.

Frank FRAZIER of
Hillsboro spent last week in DeSoto helping in the Times office.

Mrs. Robert COXWELL entertained the Home Culture and Civic Improvement club last Friday afternoon at her home on
Fourth Street. After a splendid program the sextet young ladies, Misses Urusula STONE, Tillie CAMPBELL, Margaret and Lucile BENSON, Lulu CROW and Ethel HAMEL and Miss Alberta CASTLEBERRY at the guests of the afternoon were charmed with the singing of these talented young ladies. The hostess served refreshments assisted by Mrs. Dan ROUGGLY who poured the chocolate.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas MILTON have the sympathy of their many friends in the loss of their baby born Sunday morning.

Miss Lois WEEKS, principal of the South Ward, was ill and unable to teach Monday.

Quite a number from our town will attend the school entertainment at
Hillsboro this week.

The D. A. R. will be unable to have their reception as had been planned on account of sickness and some of the members being out of town.

Attorney B. IRWIN had business in the north part of the
county Monday.

Bard AAMee of Fletcher had business in town Wednesday of last week.

Mr. O’TOOLE is the Y.M.C.A.’s new secretary.

~ In Memoriam ~
In loving memory of my dear uncle Emil Frederitzi who departed this life
February 25, 1914.
 

~ Notice To Taxpayers ~
The land and person assessment books for 1917 are now in my possession subject to inspection of the public.

If not satisfied with your assessment call and look it up and be ready to present your grievance to the county board of equalization which meets on
April 2, 1917.
             G. W. GASCHE, County Clerk

~ Jack For Sale ~
Seven years old fourteen hands high heavy bone, a sure foal getter, will trade for young mare or mule, apply Chas. F. WOHLBOLD [Wahlbold], Hillsboro, Mo., Route 2.

~ Announcement ~
All box-suppers, pie-suppers and gatherings of like nature, given for the purpose of raising funds, must be accompanied by twenty-five cents to insure their appearance in the columns of the Record.

 

~Obituary~
Mrs. Dora Williams LANHAM died at
Hillsboro Monday morning, February 19th. She was about 43 years old and has been married to Thomas M. LANHAM for about 26 years. She was a daughter of Phineas and Ann WILLIAMS and was born on the old homestead about two miles north of Hillsboro, where also she was married. There were born to the union eight children, five of whom are living. Laura, now Mrs. Joe BUERGER, Elliott, Evelyn, Walter and May. Mrs. LANHAM and her husband, Thomas M. LANHAM, who survive her …. the Baptist church in St. Louis, where they were then living about four years ago. She leaves two sisters, Miss Laura WiLLIAMS of this place and Ruth ASHBY of St. Louis, and two brothers, Willis and William who are out west somewhere. Mrs. LANHAM’s mother died last August just six months ago. She and her husband having been running the Commercial Hotel in Hillsboro for the past two or three years and Mrs. LANHAM was well known to a great many citizens of our county.



She was taken ill last week with some severe gastric disorder and suffered intensely from the very first, so that it was necessary to keep her well under the influence of opiates almost from the first and while there seemed periods of improvement, but they were only transitory. Her funeral was Tuesday afternoon, Rev. GOODWIN of DeSoto officiating after which she was interred in the
Hillsboro cemetery.

Mrs. LANHAM was a woman of boundless industry, was a kind and indulgent mother and a loving wife. She had her troubles as do all, but the clouds of despair never darkened her vision for any great length of time.  She sleeps well in the little cemetery she so often visited to pay tribute to those gone before and there may she peacefully rest until the morning when the day breaks and the shadows fade away.”
____________________________

“The newspaper man” is about the only great producer who is not sharing in the war-made prosperity. Everything he buys has gone up and he still sells his paper at the same old price and takes a chance at that.” To prove this he offers the following: “Please send me a few copies of the paper containing the obituary of my aunt. Also publish the enclosed clipping of the marriage of my niece who lives in Lewistown. And I wish you would mention me in your local column if it doesn’t cost anything, that I have two bull calves for sale. As my subscription is out please stop my paper as times are too hard to waste money on newspapers.”
--Ex.
We know him, too!

~NOTICE~
To Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Curators:

You are hereby notified that your Settlements as they appear on the February term docket, and for any and other terms hereafter, will be called for such settlement on the date set, in the Probate Court Docket, which will be published for four weeks before the first day of the term following. And if you fail to appear on or before such date, your settlement will be continued for ten days, and unless good cause is shown, the Court will have to issue Citation, which means expenses to you as such, Executor, Administrator, Guardian and Curator, which will be in accordance to law, as per Sections 225 and 48 of the revised Statute 1909.

Now here is the point. Every settlement must be put on the docket, and every docket must be published for our weeks and the court sends on notices to every such Executor, Administrator, Guardian and Curator stating the date set on the docket for such settlement, which must all be paid for by the Estate. And if such settlement is not made at the Term Docketed, it must be continued, and be placed on the Docket for the next term of court, which means still more expense for the estate. Now there have been from 15 to 30 settlements continued almost every term of court, and dragged along from one term to the other, which is absolutely uncalled for and unjust to the estates, and is entirely contrary to the statutes.
Yours Respectfully,
J. P. MILLER,
Judge of Probate Court

~NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT~
All creditors and others interested in the estate of J. W. TULLOCK, Deceased, are hereby notified that I, the undersigned intend to make final settlement of said estate at the next term of the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Mo., to be held at Hillsboro on the fourth Monday in February, 1917
Mrs. Mary TULLOCK, Administratrix.

~For
Sale~
Choice clover seed, apply at J. WALDORF, Kimmswick, Route 3,
Mo.


~Administrator’s Notice~

I, the undersigned administrator of the estate of Michael CLOVER, deceased, will offer for sale on his farm, east of Cedar Hill, on March  3, 1917, at 10 o’clock, the following described property:

Two bay horses, 4 years old [list of animals: mules, cows, lambs, bulls, calves], Truck, 2 McCORMACK mowers, 1 self-dump hay rake, 1 wagon, harrow, etc. All sums of $15 or under cash, over $10 approved secured note bearing -per cent interest from date.
12 noon time.
W. J. CLOVER
Albert WEBER, Auctioneer

~ Executor Notice ~
Notice is hereby given that ---
term testamentary on the Estate of V. PETRAN, deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 17th day of February, 1917, by the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Missouri. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them for allowance to the Executor within six months after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit such Estate and if such claims be exhibited within one year from the date of the last insertion of the publication of this notice, they shall be forever barred.
V. J. LEIGHT
Executor

~ Public Notice. ~
The County Highway Engineer of Jefferson county, will on Saturday, the 24th day of February, 1917, at Two-O-Clock p.m., near the residence of Toney OBER, at the foot of the Antire Hill on the Gravois Rock Road in Meramec township, let at public outcry to the lowest and best bidder, the complete contract for making fill and building side wails to same at the new concrete bridge at such place. Plans and specifications of said work are now on file in the office of the Highway Engineer at
Hillsboro, Missouri. The County Highway Engineer reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
Harry D. GRIFFITH, Highway Engineer
______________________

~ Notice of Stockholders’ Meeting~
Notice is hereby given that the annual stockholder’s meeting of the Farm and Dairy Bank will be held in the town of
Barnhart, Mo., on the 3rd day of May 1917. Said meeting will be convened at 9 o’clock a.m. and continued during at least three hours unless the objection which such meeting is called be accomplished sooner. The purpose for which this meeting is called is to elect seven directors to the said bank, to serve during the ensuing year, and for the transactions of any other business which may properly come before the meeting.
Wm. SCHMIDT, President
George P. WITTE, Sec.
______________________

~AD~
Dr. W. H. G. WHITE, Dentist
Old Post Office Building - Phone Office 197 Residence 197
De Soto, Missouri

~AD~
Dodge Brothers Motor Car with Dodge Brothers Service
The J. W. DUGAN Automobile Co.,
Herculaneum, Missouri

~AD~
The St. Louis
Daily Globe Democrat
The Globe Printing Co., Publishers,
St. Louis, MO.

~AD~
Picture Show
West Kimmswick, Sunday at 2.00 p.m.
Maxville, - - Wednesday Nights
Barnhart, - - Friday Nights
Fenton, - - Sunday Nights
J. W. CADWALLADER, Operator

~AD~
The Record is Now $1.50. Pay Up.

~ All Over
Jefferson ~
For
Sale: Two fresh milk cows. Henry DITTMER, Hillsboro, Route 1.

The associate editor has recovered from the Grippe and went to the City Tuesday on Business.

Kerry DAHL has purchased the John STADLER farm about a mile north of town and will keep his home near the county seat.

Frank DIETRICH and Clyde WILLIAMS were in
Jefferson City last week. They went up to attend to the matter of registering the new refunding bonds of the county.

Raymond ASHBY a nephew of Mrs. LANHAM’S came down last week to visit the family and was here during the illness of his aunt which terminated in her death Monday.

William and Adolph NOLLMAN of High Ridge were
Hillsboro visitors Tuesday. They were here on business connected with the purchase of some real estate in which they have an interest.

Adolph DINSE who lives about a mile
north west of Hillsboro is suffering with a severe attack of pneumonia. As he is a strong hearty man his recovery is confidently looked for by his friends.

Judge W. C. KEREKHOFF was in town Tuesday and was looking up the title to the CHARLES farm which the Judge is about to purchase from W. R. DONNELL, the executor of the will of Catherine CHARLES.

William A. WILSON passed through
Hillsboro yesterday morning with a new Maxwell ear. He used his old Maxwell about four years and took it up to the St. Louis Agency and traded it in for the new car.

Herbert MURTGEN came dangerously near to having his skull crushed yesterday when a mule he was shoeing kicked him on the forehead. It made an ugly cut but Herbert treats the matter as through it was an ordinary event in a day’s work.

W. J. CLOVER and his brother, Walter, were in town last week and visited the Record office. Walter came up from
Georgia where he has lived for the past eight years to attend his father’s funeral. He is pleased with the south and has no intention of returning to Missouri.

Our town folks seem to be somewhat musically inclined. Dick MARSDEN bought himself and family a new Victrola last week, and Dr. MOCKBEE and Ross DONNELL are about to or have invested in the same sort of instruments. Frank CLARK and Mrs. Chas. H. KLEINSCHMIDT also own Victrolas, so that
Hillsboro is well supplied with music of the classic as well as other sorts.

~ Real Estate Transfers ~
Mable C. THOMURI to W. R. DONNELL; Part lot 5, Gamels sub in sur. 1948, Festus, consideration $700.

Wm. H. RINKER and wife to James HEDGEPETH; lot 6 Stephenson’s sub. sur. 747 cont. 7.28 ac., consid. $100.

Henry BAUER and wife to Henry E. COURTOIS, lot 3 of lot 10, McAllester sub. Festus. Con. $1,200.

John M. WILLEY and wife to A. O. WHITE and wife; lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, blk. 4, Mount Pleasant addition, DeSoto, Consid. $1,500.

George C. DUGGE and wife to Louis BOHLE; 15 acres, sur. 397, con. $1,500.

Louisa GONZ and Lenora GONZ to Wm. GONZ and wife, lot in Cedar Hill, con. $1,400.

G. E. ENDERS and wife to Fred L. GERBIG, lot in blk. 25, DeSoto. Consideration $1.00.

Jos. LAROSE and wife to Waggener Store Co., lot 18, blk. 1 addition 1
Crystal City, consideration $2,150.

Lucinda E. WILSON and husband to Jas. S. McKEAN, 280 acres sec 30-41-4. Consideration $250.

The regular services of the Evangelical church at Cedar Hill will be held on Sunday, March 4th at
10 a.m. Services will be conducted in English. Everybody is cordially invited.
S. Peter GOEBEL, Pastor.

~ Administrator’s Notice ~
Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration on the Estate of John G. PLACK, deceased were granted to the undersigned on the 24th day of January, 1917, by the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Missouri. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them for allowance to the Administrator within six months after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of said estate; and if such claims be not exhibited within one year from the date of the last insertion of the publication of this notice, they shall be forever barred. This 24th day of January, 1917
A. J. WESSLER, Administrator

~ Public
Sale ~
I will sell my personal property at public sale,
Tuesday, March 6,
1917
. For particulars see posters.
Peter BRINKMAN   
Hillsboro, Mo., Route 1


~ Notice ~
Executor’s Sale of Real Estate.
Notice is hereby given that I, V. J. LEIGHT, Executor of the last will and testament of V. PETRAN, late of Jefferson county, Missouri, deceased, by vested of the power and authority in me vested as executor of the Last Will and Testament of said V. PETRAN, deceased, and by virtue of the direction to me as such executor of the Last Will and Testament of the said V. PETRAN, which said Last Will and Testament, duly proven and admitted to probate by the Probate Court of Jefferson county, Missouri, is recorded in Book 4, page 169, of the Record of Wills of said Jefferson county, Missouri, will on SATURDAY, the 24th of MARCH, 1917, at the front door of the post office, in the town of House Springs, county of Jefferson and State of Missouri, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described real estate, situate in the County of Jefferson and State of Missouri and belonging to the estate of the said V. PETRAN, deceased to-wit:

All of the 4.8 acres of land in the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section Thirty-four (34), Township Forty-three (43), Range Four (4) East, described as follows: Beginning at a stone for the south west corner of said Section Thirty-four (34), thence east 10.01 chains, thence north 43 degrees 48 minutes, west 18.87 chains to the west line of Section Thirty-four (34); thence south 9.6 chains to the place of beginning. Also that part of the west half of lot 2 of the northwest quarter of Section Three (3), township Forty two (42) Range Four (4) East. bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the west side of the Rock Road, 200 feet south 37 degrees west of an iron pin set for George BOEMLER’s southeast corner, thence south 29 degrees, west along said rock road 150 feet, thence north 39 feet, thence east 306 feet, thence south 46 degrees east 222 feet to the place of beginning, containing 1.42 acres. Excepting, however from the above described real estate that portion of said tract conveyed by Vaclav PETRON to Vencene MODER by deed dated
November 14th, 1908, and recorded in Book 67 at Page 145 of the Warranty Deed Records in the Recorder’s office of Jefferson
County
, Missouri
.
           Executor of the Last Will and Testament of V. PETRAN, Deceased.

~ For
Sale ~

One dark bay horse, six years old this spring, sixteen hands high, works double or single, and is gentle. Can be seen at my stable at Horine. Mo. Address John H. YESBURG, Muse Mercantile Co., 6th and Boyd Streets, DeSoto, Mo.

~ AD ~
If you want the news Read the Record.

~ AD ~
HOLEKAMP Lumber Co.
Yards -
Afton, Kirkwood, Old Orchard, Webster Groves, Gratiot Station
St.
Louis. Planing Mill, Old Orchard.

~ AD ~
Henry HURTGEN & Son
First Class Horse Shoers
All kinds of machinery repaired on short notice, Try us and see,
Automobiles Repaired.
Hillsboro, Missouri

~ AD ~
R. A. MARSDEN
Dealer in General Merchandise, Harness, Shoes Etc
Hillsboro, Mo.

~ Probate Court Docket. ~
February Term, 1917
Docket of cases in which settlements are due from Administrators, Executors, Guardians and Curators, at the ensuing February Term of the Probate Court of Jefferson County, to be held at the Court House in said County, commencing on the fourth (4th) Monday of February, 1917.

Name of Estate   -  Adm. Guar., Ex. or Cur.   -   Kind of Set.

Monday, February 26th, 1917, - - First Day

BRADLEY, Daniel A. a minor - Thomas J. BRADLEY, and C - Annual
BERRY, Minors - Edmund KERRUISH?, Cur - Annual
BOSTON, Peter, a minor - Georgia A. Boston, Curr.  - Annual
BYRNES, Sam, deceased - Melissa BYRNS, Admix - Final
BOWLES, Anderson T., a minor - Charles BOWLES, G. and C. - Annual
BAILEY, Wilson W., deceased - J. L. BAILEY, Adm. - Final
BAGE, Clara, deceased - J. A. BAGE, Ex. - Final
BYRD, G. W., deceased - Margaret M. BYRD & R. E. Byrd, Exs.
BURDS, John William, dec - Laura C. BURDS, Exx. - Semi-annual
BUECHTING, Louise, dec. - Herman BUECHTING, Ex. - Semi-annual
BLACKWELL, Wm., dec - Wm. BLACKWELL, Jr., Adm. - Semi-an.
BROWN, John, dec - Caroline BROWN, Admx. - Semi-an.
BAUR, Frank A. dec - Catharine BAUR, Exx. Semi-annual
CHOTT, Albert, dec - John CHOTT, Ex. - Final

Tuesday, February 27th, 1917, - - Second Day

COYLE, Mary, dec - G. A. WENOM, Ex. - Final
CRAFT, Mary A., dec - Elijah BURGESS, Ex. - Semi-annual
CAMPBELL, Minnie, dec - Michael S. CAMPBELL, Adm. Semi-annual
DONNELLY, Elsie, Huck and Frank, - A. G. MEDLEY, G. and C. - Annual
DIPPAL, Jacob, dec. - Henry DIPPAL, Ex. - Final
DICKINSON, Walter L. dec - Sarah E. DICKINSON, Exx. - Final
DONOVAN, J. F., dec. - Julius DONOVAN, Admx - Final
DICKHUT Fred, dec - A. G. MEDLEY, P. Ad. - Semi-annual
ENGLEBACH, John, dec - Dora ENGLEBACH, Admx. - Semi-an
ENGLEBACH, Louis, dec - Harold ENGLEBACH, Ex. Semi-annual
ECKLE minors - John W. ECKLE, cur. - Annual
EVRARD, Louis J., dec - Eliza Jane EVRARD, Admx. - Final
GRAHAM, Charles E., a minor - J. W. PATTERSON, G. and C. - Final
GNICKWITZ, Robert, a minor - J. F. WALTHER, G. and C. - Annual
HAGUE, George, dec - P. S. TERRY, Adm. - Final


Wednesday, February 28th, 1917, - - Third Day

HASTINGS, F. M., dec - J. W. HASTINGS, Adm. - Final
HUSKEY, Delia S., dec - Albert AGER, Adm. - Semi-annual
HEMME, Kate, dec - John F. MEIER, Ex. - Semi-annual
KARTE, John Frederich Carl, dec - Martha KARTE, Exx. - Final
LEWIS minors - R. B. JONES, Cur. - Annual
LEONARD, Rose Catherine, dec - Rudolph LEONARD, Ex. - Semi-annual
MARTIN, Vianna, dec - D. D. McLANE, Ex. - Final
MILES, Alex, dec - Alice MILES, Admix. - Final
MAHONEY, M. D., dec - E. J. MAHONEY, Ex. - Final
MARSDEN, Elizabeth, dec - C. MARSDEN, Adm. - Final
MOORE, Jesse Wm., dec - Florence B. MOORE, Admx. - Final

Thursday, March 1st, 1917, - - Fourth Day

MELTON, George, dec - A. G. MEDLEY, Adm. de bonis non - Fi.
MAUPIN, Stanley, a minor - W. W. MAUPIN, G. and C. - [not entered]
McMULLIN Minors - F. E. McMULLIN, G. and C. - Annual
McMULLIN Minors - Archie McMULLIN, G. and C. - Annual
McE
LWAINE Minors - Mary McELWAINE, G. and C. - Annual
McMULLIN, Harry, a minor - John L. McMULLIN, G. and C. - Annual
McCARTY, Minors - William McCARTY, G. and C. - Annual
McCARTY Wm. B., a minor - Emmet McCARTY, G. and C. - Annual
NANSEL, William, dec - Geo. VOGT, Adm. - Final
POHLMAN, Annie, insane - A. G. MEDLEY, Guar. - Annual

Friday, March 2nd, 1917, - - Fifth Day

PUCKETT,  James Allen, dec. - Edmund KERRUISH, Ex. - Final
PARKER, Elijah T., dec - H. Ellis VAUGHN, Ad. de bonis non - Fi.
REMICK minors - R. B. BOYER, G. and C. - Annual
RUESS, Edward Simon, dec. - Mary RUESS, Admx. - Semi-annual
SCHWALBERT Minors - W. SCHWALBERT, Cur. - Annual
SCHUBEL, Henry Louis, dec - F. E. SCHUBEL, Adm. - Final
STATZEL, Hannah, dec - A. G. MEDLEY, Adm. - Annual
SCHMIDT, August, dec - George MAHN, Ex. - Semi-annual
SAFFELL, Samuel E., dec - Bessie SAFFELL, Admx - Final
SCHULZ, Bruno, dec - Ludwig SCHULZ, Adm. - Final
TUCHUMPERT, Peter, insane - Felix LEUTZINGER, Guar. - Annual

Saturday, March 3rd, 1917, - - Sixth Day

TULLOCK, John W., dec - Mary TULLOCK, Admx. - Final
TULLOCK, Walter, dec - J. E. TULLOCK, Adm. - Final
WILSON, Minors - Jennie WILSON, Cur. - Annual
WILLIAMS, Harriet, dec - E. D. SMITH, Adm. - Final
WHALEY, Harvey, dec - Arthy WHALEY, Admx. - Final
WYNN, Mathew, dec - Magdaline WYNN, Exx. - Final
WEAVER, John I., dec - Mrs. E. AA. WEAVER, Admx. - Annual
WHITESIDES, Naomi, dec. - G. A. WENOM, Adm. - Final
YATES, Ramond, a minor - Arthy WHALEY, Curx. - Annual

J. P. MILLER, Judge of Probate Court

~ Notice of Final Settlement ~
All creditors and others interested in the estate of Alex MILES, deceased
[...]
Mrs. Alice MILES, Administratrix

~ Notice of Final Settlement ~
All creditors and others interested in the estate of Cordelia MUNSON, deceased
[...]
Ida E. WILLS, Executrix


~ Notice of Final Settlement ~
All creditors and others interested in the estate of Naomi WHITESIDES, deceased
[...]
G. A. WENOM, Administrator, de bonis non

~ Notice of Final Settlement ~
All creditors and others interested in the estate of Mary COYLE, deceased
[...]
G. A. WENOM, Executor

~ Notice County Warrants ~
County warrants which are registered will be paid January 16, 1917.
Frank DIETRICH, Treasurer

~ AD ~
Sheet Metal, Roofing
Otto HUBELI
Hillsboro, Mo.

 


~ Box Supper ~
There will be an entertainment and box supper at the
Mount Olive school, on Saturday night, Feb. 24. Ladies please bring boxes. No admission. Everybody come and have a good time.
L. M. HILL, Teacher.

~ Lost ~
In Hillsboro, ten dollar bill. Finder return to
Jefferson hotel and receive reward.
ATHLETIC COFFEE MAN

There will be a pie and cake social at Mr. L. R. MEYER’s home Saturday evening, for the benefit of the S. S. Everybody cordially invited. Ladies bring pie or cake.
THE COMMITTEE

~ Notice of Final Settlement ~
State of
Missouri, County of Jefferson, ss.
In the matter of the Estate of Charles F. GRAHAM, formerly a minor, J. W. PATTERSON, guardian and curator. In the Probate Court of Jefferson County
To Charles F. GRAHAM:
You are herby notified that on the 27th day of February, 1917, bring the 2nd day of February term, 1917, of the Probate Court of the County of Jefferson, or as soon thereafter as I can be heard at said Court, I will make to and with said court, my final settlement as guardian and curator of the estate of Charles E. GRAHAM, minor heir of Elijah GRAHAM, deceased, that a just and true exhibit of the account between myself and said ward has been made and filed in said Probate Court. Dated this 19th day of January, 1917
J. W. PATTERSON, Guardian and Curator

~ Notice of Trustee’s Sale Under Deed Of Trust ~
Whereas, by their deed of trust dated on the ninth day of April, Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen (1914), recorded at page 409 in book 46 in the offices of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, James SULLENS and Lou SULLENS, his wife, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following described real estate, lying, being and situate in the county of Jefferson and State of Missouri, to-wit: All of Lot No. Ten (10) in United States Survey No. 1939, Township
Forty-three(43), Range Four (4), East, as per plat of Subdivision of said Survey made on the 22nd day of February to March 9th, 1876, by W. H. COZENS? and recorded in the Recorder’s Office in Jefferson County, Missouri, June 20th, 1898, containing 41.05 acres, more or less; also a strip of ground 30 feet wide off of the West side of Lot No. 9 of said Survey No. 1939; Also all of the South east fractional quarter of Section Twenty (20), Township Forty-three (43), Range Four (4) East, containing 39.3 acres, more or less; also the North east fractional quarter of the South-west fractional quarter of Section Twenty (20), Township Forty-three (43), Range Four (4) east, containing 38.6 acres more or less being the same land conveyed by Nicholas BURKART and wife to James SULLOUS, on the 5th day of January, 1914. in trust to secure the payment of a certain promissory note in said deed of trust fully described:
And Whereas, default has been made in payment of said promissory note;
And Whereas, I have been requested by the legal holder of said promissory note to exercise the power of sale in me vested by said deed of trust;
Now, therefore, Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the power vested in me by said deed of trust and pursuant to the request of the legal holder of said promissory note, I will on Monday, the 12th day of March, 1917, between the hours of nine o’clock in the forenoon and five o’clock in the afternoon of said day, at the Court House door in the County of Jefferson, State of Missouri, sell the above described real estate at public venue, to the highest bidder, for cash, to satisfy said note and the expense of executing this trust.
V. J. LEIGHT, Trustee
Hillsboro, Mo., February 8, 1917.

~ Order of Publication ~
In the
Jefferson County Circuit Court To May Term, 1917.
The Sate of Missouri, at the relation and to the use of Chas. J. SIEDLER, Collector of the Revenue of Jefferson County, in the State of Missouri, vs. H. H. ENSMINGER and G. R. ENSMINGER, No. 2657. Action to enforce tax lien.
Now, at this day comes the Plaintiff by counsel, before the undersigned, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Missouri, in vacation, and files herein its petition and affidavit, stating among other things that the defendants H. HL ENSMINGER and G. R. ENSMINGER are non residents of the State of Missouri and can not be served with the ordinary process of law in this state. It is therefore ordered by the Clerk aforesaid, in vacation, that publication be made notifying said defendant that an action has been commenced against them by petition in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in the State of Missouri, the object and general nature of which is to enforce the lien of the State of Missouri, for taxes upon the following described lands, to-wit:
Tract No. 1. Lots One (1), Two (2), Five (5) Six (6), in block Four (4), of Mount Pleasant Second Addition to the City of De Soto, Mo. And to recover the amount of taxes due on said lands for the years, 1911, 1912, and 1913.
That unless they be and appear at the next regular term of this Court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the town of Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri, on the first Monday in May next, 1917, and on and before the first day thereof, and answer or demur to Plaintiff’s petition, the same will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. It is further ordered that a copy hereof be published in the Jefferson County Record, a newspaper printed and published at
Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least fifteen days before first day of the next regular Term of this Court,
A true copy. ATTEST: W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Circuit Clerk.
J. H. REPPY, Attorney for Plaintiff. By A. HURTGEN, Deputy Clerk
State of Missouri,
County of Jefferson, ss.
I, W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County, hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original Order of Publication in the cause therein named, as the same appears of record in my office.
Witness my hand as Clerk and the seal of said Court. Done at myoffice in
Hillsboro, Mo., this 1st day of January, 1917. W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Clerk.
Per A. HURTGEN, Deputy.

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In the
Jefferson County Circuit Court To May Term, 1917.
The Sate of Missouri, at the relation and to the use of Chas. J. SIEDLER, Collector of the Revenue of Jefferson County, in the State of Missouri, vs. Annie Louise THOMAS and Harry THOMAS, her husband. No. 2637. Action to enforce tax lien.
Now, at this day comes the Plaintiff by counsel, before the undersigned, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Missouri, in vacation, and files herein its petition and affidavit, stating among other things that the defendants Annie Louise THOMAS and Harry THOMAS, her husband, are non residents of the State of Missouri and can not be served with the ordinary process of law in this state. It is therefore ordered by the Clerk aforesaid, in vacation, that publication be made notifying said defendant that an action has been commenced against them by petition in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in the State of Missouri, the object and general nature of which is to enforce the lien of the State of Missouri, for taxes upon the following described lands, to-wit:
Tract No. 1. Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 in block Ten (10) of C. C. FLETCHER’s Addition to the City of De Soto, Mo. And to recover the amount of taxes due on said lands for the years, 1911, 1912, and 1913. That unless they be and appear at the next regular term of this Court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the town of Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri, on the first Monday in May next, 1917, and on and before the first day thereof, and answer or demur to Plaintiff’s petition, the same will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. It is further ordered that a copy hereof be published in the Jefferson County Record, a newspaper printed and published at Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least fifteen days before first day of the next regular Term of this Court,

A true copy. ATTEST: W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Circuit Clerk.
J. H. REPPY, Attorney for Plaintiff. By A. HURTGEN, Deputy Clerk
State of Missouri,
County of Jefferson, ss.
I, W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County, hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original Order of Publication in the cause therein named, as the same appears of record in my office.
Witness my hand as Clerk and the seal of said Court. Done at office in
Hillsboro, Mo., this 1st day of January, 1917. W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Clerk.
Per A. HURTGEN, Deputy.

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In the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Missouri, in vacation -
Action to Collect Back Taxes and Enforce Lien The State of Missouri, at the relation and to the use of Chas. J. SIEDLER, Collector of Revenue of Jefferson County, in the State of Missouri, Plaintiff, against W. J. F. KIRK, and Carrie L. KIRK, his wife, John J. A. HILGERT, Bert AXLEY, Wm. J. HAMPEL and the acting Sheriff of Jefferson County, Defendants. ss. No. 2630.
Now, on this 16th day of December 1916, comes the State of Missouri, at the relation and to the use of Chas. J. SIEDLER, Collector of the Revenue of Jefferson County, Missouri, by  its attorney, and files its petition herein, stating among other things that the defendants are the owners of the following described tracts of land, situate in the said County of Jefferson and State of Missouri, to-wit: The North three-fifths of block 12 of the Town of Kimmswick and that the taxes for the years 1911, 1912, and 1913, amounting to Sixty-eight and 3-100 dollars, are overdue and unpaid; and that the defendant, Bert AXLEY is a non-resident of the State of Missouri, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served on him. It is therefore ordered by the Clerk of the Court, in vacation, that publication be made, notifying Bert AXLEY, the said defendant that an action has been commenced against him by the plaintiff herein by petition in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Missouri. the general nature and object of which is to collect the taxes due and unpaid on the aforesaid real estate, situated in Jefferson County and State of Missouri, for the years and the amounts above stated, together with the costs of this suit, and to enforce the lien for the State on said real estate, and that unless he be and appear at the next regular term of said Court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the town of Hillsboro, in said County for Jefferson, on th e second Monday in May, A. D., 1917, and on or before the sixth day of said term (if the same shall so long continue, and if not, then before the end of said term,) and plead, answer or demure to the plaintiff’s petition, the same will be taken as confessed, and judgment rendered accordingly. And it is further ordered that a copy hereof be published in the Jefferson County Record, a newspaper printed and published at
Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be not less than four weeks before first day of said term.
W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Circuit Clerk.
State of
Missouri, County of Jefferson, ss.
I, W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County, hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original Order of Publication in the cause therein named, as the same appears of record in my office.
Witness my hand as Clerk and the seal of said Court. Done at my office in
Hillsboro, Mo., this 1st day of December, 1917. (seal) W. J. A. SCHUBEL, Clerk.

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Albert MILLER, Attorney at Law, Hillsboro, Missouri

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Fred J. MEYER, House Mover, Houses Moved and Raised in all Parts of the County
Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Route No. 10

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L. A. CHAMBERLIN, Dentist, De Soto, Mo.

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Farms Wanted
F. J. ADAMS, Real Estate,
Hillsboro, Mo.

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Bank of Kimmswick, Kimmswick, Mo.
C. H. GERARD, President
M. ZIEGLER, Vice-President
G. A. WENOM, Cashier

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The Officers and Directors of the People’s Bank of De Soto extend to their friends and patrons their very best wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year. They trust that the year, 1917 may have much in store for their friends and patrons, and offer the services of this Institution to any one desiring a connection with a well established strong, safe institution.

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The
Jefferson Trust Company, Hillsboro, Mo.

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GERARD Milling Co.,
Kimmswick, Mo.

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The Big Brick Store wants Your Butter and Eggs,
J. W. ECKLE, Hillsboro, Mo