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VOLUME XXV. KEYTESVIILE. MISSOURI, ! tlPAY, JULY 21, 1896. NUMBER 27.
These
.1
Days
are a splendid tin: to
drink Blanke's Hoasted Cof
fee. In the morning, "before
cin to work, a cupful of
this oVlicioua colleo will put
the system in line s!ir.p? for
the day. One cupful is
worth a dozen glasses of ice
water, for the more ice-water
you diink, the more you
want and the more you
perspire.
IUanke's Coffee is the best
in the world. When I say it
is best, I merely repeat what
everybody says who tries it.
Three pounds, 1.
Summer Time
is the season when folks
are most likely to get sick.
The hot air seems to invite
disease. Most all summer
sickness cau be traced to
either food or drink. The
xvay to keep well is to be
temperate in everything,
drink moderately of Blanke's
Coffee and buy your Gro
ceries at my store. My
Grocery is the place to get
standard, healthy food. The
more yoa buy of me, the less
you will spend at a drug
store.
S.-IV3.-WH1TE,
Pure Food Grocer.
KEYTESVILLE, MISSOURI.
Republican County Convention.
The basis of representation for the
Republican county convention, which
has heen called to meet at Kcytesville.
on Saturday, Aug. t st, at i o o'clock
a. m. for the purpose of nominating
a county ticket and for the transaction
of such other business as may properly
come before the convention, has been
fixed at the same as at the Republican
county convention, which was held on
Saturday, April nth. This will give
the various townships representation
in the county convention on Aug. ist
as follows:
TOWNSHirS. NO. DEI r.:.VTES.
Bee Branch 3
Brunswick iS
Bowling Green 7
Chariton '. 6
Clark 3
Cockrcll 2
unoi3Kiro 6
Keytesville io
Mendon 3
Missouri 4
Mussel Fork . 3
Salisbury n
Salt Creek 5
Triplett 4
Wayland 3
Yellow Creek 3
It remains to be seen whether or not
there will be any delegates in the con
vention, who are opjxscd to the in
famously oppressive single gold-standard,
and whether or not they will have
courage enough to refuse to vote for
an endorsement of the St. I.cuis Re
publican golden platform, but which
doesn't, in any sense, promulgate the
L,' golden rule. That platform enriches
the rich and impoverishes the poor.
AM honor to the Republican who re
fuses to endorse its shylock principles.
Wanted,
I want to trade a good i r -horse
power traction engine for a stationary
engine and boiler from 25 to 40-hcrsc
power. F.J. Ellis,
Guthridgc Mills, Mo.
So More Duns.
Beginning with the first issue of the
Courier in January, 1897, the pay
ment of all subscriptions will be in
variably required in advance, and
when a subscriber's time expires his
name will be dropjcd ur.til hi paper
is paid for again.
By adopting this rule, the readers
of the Coi kikk will pay for nhat they
get and get wliat they pay for, and no
more.
Fourteen years experience in the
Held ot journalism has thoroughly con
vinced mc that the average reader of
a country newspaper is, sometime.?,
dyspeptic, and I have discovered his
dyspepsia gets wcrse and his ble he
roines turbulent when he is dunned.
Of course there are honorable ex
ceptions, but they are hie angels' j
visits few and far between.
Therefore the Courikk is going cut
of the dunning business in order that
its delinquent subscribers who get of
fended at being dunned may not exert
themselves in wearing out their brains
by saying "smart things" about the
editor, who has been kind enough to
credit them for his paper, and v.h'i
has sympathized with them in their
misfortunes and who has rejoiced with
them in their prosperity.
The Cor Kit r will henceforth hoard
its pearls to cast before those uho pay
for their pajer in advance.
If you want to be in the pearl crowd,
drop in or send in and square up old
scores with $ 1 aditional as an c idence
cf good faith, and your conscience will
be eased and your dyspepsia'' cured.
All arreages must be iaid at the
rate of $1.50 a year before a $1 cash-in-advancc
rate will be obtainable.
Yours Truly,
C 1. Vanwvkr,
Pub. Courier.
The Rainfall.
Probably the heaviest general rain
fall that ever occurred in Missouri wa
witnessed last Sunday night and early
Monday morning. In Kcytesville,
Mr. Hill says his fountain basin filled
six inches which indicates the depth of
the rainfall.
A dispatch from Macon says the
gauges there showed almost an 3-inch
rainfall.
A dispatch from Shelbina says:
"Men who were out on Salt rivcT, fish
ing, report that that stream came up
six feet in 30 minutes. It is probable
that the destruction of crops on the
bottom lands will be very extensive.'
A dispatch trom Hannibal says:
The Burlington track between this
city and Quincy on the east side of
river is overflowed and trains are run
ning on the west side, small Landslides
and minor washouts have occuircd on
all roads entering here and trains are
generally late.
We Don't Believe It.
The Mendon Ciliu assumes the
rcsjonsibility for the following, but
we don't be'icve a word of it;
A good-looking well-to-do bachelor,
of Kcytesville, was being teased by
the young ladies of a club for not be
ing married. He said: I'll marry
the girl of your club whom, on a .se
cret vote, vou elect to be my wife."
There were nine members in the club.
Each girl went int a corner and used
great precaution in preparing her bal
lot and disguising the liand-wTiting.
The result of the vote was that there
were nine cast, each girl receiving one.
The young man remained a. bachelor.
the club is broken up and the girls are
all mortal enemies untted in one de
termination that they will never sjcak
to the nasty man.
Priced Trouicn.
Dave Williams, the Triplett ncgTO.
who mas sentenced to the county jail
in July, 1S95, by 'Squire I II. Shipp,
of Trblctt township, for stealing a pair
of trousers from J. A- Hooper's livery
stable, in Triplett, was released from
jail and his labors on the rock pile
last Monday, he having paid the pen
alty for his crime at an outlay to the
state of something orcr $aoo. The
trousers Dave stole were not worth
over $1.50 or $2, but they" came much
higher to the tax-iayers. Oh, for a
whipping post for such pcUy pilfcclrgs'
Consmendsbly Cuss til.
With its usual capacity for blunder
ing, the Chariton County Kf publican
omitted the names of three townships
in its published call for township mass
meetings on July 25th and a county
convention on Au. ist, which- ap
peared in the last issue of that apology
for a 7.'j;apcr.
The omitted townships were Cun
ningham, Kcytesville and Mendon.
If the .Va.VV.r-r would pay more
attention to correctly giving its arty's
olitical news and the news of the
county in general, and devote less of
its space to publishing lies on the
county court and the editor ot the
Ch:ki::r, it would have more of an ex
cuse for its existence and would be
more cordially patroau-cd by its few
readers, many of wham now unhesi
tatingly denounce it as not being worth
a . ana ranaulaly admit that
they are compelled to take the Couu
ilr in order to get the county news,
and even proper reports of Republi
can county olitical gatherings.
It is no wonder the Chariton Coun
ty fit fl! icon is cussed' by members
of its own party with such enthusiastic
and commendable ardor.
Two Jewelry Thieves Captured.
On Thursday, July iCth, the rural
residence of Wm. Kchling, a farmer
living a mile or so west of Indian
drove, was entered in broad daylight
and ransacked of a lot of jewelry, con
sisting of a gold watch, some collar
and cuff-buttons, a finger-ring and
probably one or two other gewgaws,
while tne family were from home.
Two men, who had been traveling
through the neighborhood selling some
kind of a compound or contrivance to
prevent the explosion f coal oil lamps
and gasoline stoves, were suspected of
the thtft. -These two men, who ' were.
traveling in a spring wagon, were
tracked as far as Triplett, and had
started from there to Mendon, but
were overhauled about half way be
tween the two last named points on
Friday morning and placed under ar
rest by Constable John Kahler, of
Triplett township, who, upon searching
the suspects, found the stolen articles
belonging to Mr. Rehling.
The thieves were taken back to
Triplett, and, on being arraigned before
'Squire L. H. Shipp, their preliminary
trial was set for last Monday.
Irosecuting Attorney Wallace was
notified of the arrests, but as the grand
jury was in session at Salisbury the
states witnesses were subpvnaed be
fore that body on Saturday, , resulting
in a true bill being returned against
both of the accused, charging them
with burglary and grand larceny.
Sheriff J. K. Heropsey went up to
Triplett Friday afternoon and returned
with the two prisoners Friday night
and lodged them in jail.
Their case will come up for trial at
the adjourned July term of the Salis
bury circuit court, which convenes on
Monday, Aug. 17th.
One cf the men is about 32 or 33
years old while the other is about iS
or 19. The older of the two gave his
name as Chas. Clifford and the younger
as Chas. Mosely, Clifford being Mosc
lys step-father. Both of them hail
from Hrookfield, Linn county.
A Mrs. Forrester, of Ilrookfield,
was here Tuesday and called at the
county jail. She told Sheriff Dempsey
that the man who gave his name as
aiflbrd" was her husband, that sue
was married to him List November,
and at that time he represented him
self as being Chas. Forrester, and
claimed to be from Toledo, Ohio.
The Luly seemed to know very little
of her liege lord's antecedents, and
said that she had seen but little of him
since their matrimonial bark had been
launched as he had been traveling
alout the country and had seldom
been at home.
Young Mosely is Mrs. Forrester's
son, and, like poor dog. Tray, has cvi
dcnJy gotten into bad company by
associating rilh Lis sicp-papa.
. A Usual Fine.
Oz Webb, a colored youth, of Key
tcsvi! , was in Mayor Gilliam's court
last 1 tday afternoon for creating . a
disti: uncc on the night previous by
throi; n;a rock at Elmer Williams,
cel. fhe rock passed over a rocking
chair on J. W. Lewi's' front porch,
from ahich Mrs. Lewis hod gotten up
onb a' few moments before.
Af.Lr throwing the rock, Webb
skipped out, going to Huntsvi'le that
night and from thcr to Brunswick, re
turning to Kcytesville on the 12:47 P
m. train on Friday.
lie had no sooner shown himself on
our streets again than Marshal Km
brce jaccd him under arrest and es
corted him before Mayor Gilliam, who
assessed his fine at $1 and costs, mak
ing a total amount of $6.95.
In' default of payment of his fine
and costs bis obstreperous coonship
was put to work on the city's rock
pile.
Judzt Rucker lias 33 Delegates.
The numerous friends of Judge W.
W. P uckcr will be glad to learn that
his chances to secure the Democratic
nomination for congress from this (the
Second) district continue to grow
lrighter, and it nov looks as though
he will be our next congressman.
This congressional district is com
posed of eight counties with delegates
as follows:
COUNTY. NO. TiEI-EOATKS.
Carroll 12
Chariton 14
Grundy 6
Linn 10
Livingston 9
Monroe 15
Randolph 15
Sullivan 8
- Total 89
Necessary to a choice, 45.
Of this number Judge Rucker has
already 38, he having carried Chariton
with 14, Grundy with C, Linn with 10
and Sullivan with 8 delegates.
There are five candidates. Judge
Rucker, of Chariton; R. X. Bodine, of
Monroe; Dr. N. M. Basket, of Ran
dolph; Scott J. Miller, of Livingston,
and Ralph F. Lozier, of Carroll.
Counties which have candidates
will, of course, back their favorite
sons, but the fact that Judge Rucker
will be second choice in Carroll, Liv
ingston and Randolph counties and
probably in Monroe county, also,
practically makes him a winner.
All of the gentlemen who are seek
ing the nomination arc worthy scions
of Democracy, and would make the
district a faithful, able, clean-handed
and clear-headed representative in
congress, but Chariton, by any rule of
fairness, is entitled to the next con
gressman, and we believe her claims
will be recognized as just when the
congressional convention meets at
ChiUicothe on the Sth of next Septem
ber, that all formalities will be dis
pensed with, 'thc rules suspended,'
and Judge W. W. Rucker, Chariton
county's talented jurist and fearless
champion of the people's rights as
against Wall street plutocracy and ag
grandized wealth, nominated by ac
clamation. Camp'Mcctlnz.
Rev. A. M. Buchanan and wife, the
evangelists, who held the tibernacle
meeting five miles north of this place
nearly two years since, will hold their
first camp-mecticg this year in Dr.
Harvey's pasture, two miles east of
Roanoke. It will begin tke last night
in this month. They have a new
tabernacle, one that will turn water.
Four congregations have united to
bold this meeting. From present
prospects this will be one of the largest
religious assemblies ever seen in this
part of the country. A cordial in
vitation is extended to all to come.
For further information about tents or
other camping arrangements write at
once to Rev. A. M. Buchanan, Mq-
berly, Mo.
Keytesville Markets in 1872.
From an old file of the Kcytesville
IfertilJ we clip the following local
market quotations for July 27th, 1S72.
The report was corrected weekly by
I .ay S: Hounds, at that time a thriving
Kcytesville grocery firm:
Apple, Rrpon, per bu
Apples, dried, per lb.
Huckwbcal flour per lb
Urn xi pcrnrt
liaeon, rides, per lb
Bacon, ham, per lb
llacon, -lioullerj. per lb
liutter ier lb
Corn nival per bu
Com prr bfcl
Chit-kens p-r Ci
C"miI per lu
C'oIIee, IUo, per lb
('once, Java, per lb
IyTK per loz
Flour pT cwt
....
in
121-2
w
75
12 1-2
CO
12 1-2
73
203
1 TO to 2 M
IS
1
33
13
4 33 to 5 (A
Hay per t-wt . 73
Hide. Ory, per lb 15
Hiden, Krcen, per lb .. ti
Horw shoe i-r lb tx
Horse bhoe nail per lb 25
tvrdperlb 10
Oalapcrbu , 40
Pork, urns, per cvl 5 23 to 3 Z3
l"ork. net, pir lb 03
IottoM per bu 50
renthes, dried, per bu 3 00
Rice per lb 15
Suznr, N. O , p?r lb 12
Suar, elarined, per lb 15 1-2
Suar. povdercd, per lb 162-3
S;;aniW-s sacks, each Wtrt 50
Halt per bbl 3 23
Tea, K-een. pr lb 2 SO
Tea. black, per lb 125
Tallow per lb 10
Vinesar per pal 30 to 50
Wheat per bu ... ISO to 175
The table we give below shows
Kcytesville's markets for July 24th,
1S96. In 1 87 2 the farmer was in a
prosperous condition, but 24 years af
terward finds his products selling but
little, if any, above the cost of pro
duction: Apples, frrecn. per bu - 23
Applet, dried, per lb C2 to 03
Buckwheat flour per lb 04
Uranpcrcwt 0
bacon, hide, per lb OS
i;acon. bam, per lb 10
Iacon. f houlderK. per lb OC
Batter per lb 13
Corn meal per bu 43
Corn per bbl 103
Chicken per Uoz. 1 50 to 1 75
Coal per bu 10
Coflee. Rio. per lb 23
Co nee, Java, per lb - - 85
ZiOfn per dox.. . - 08
Flour per cwt . v 1 TO to2 1
Haypcrcwt SO
Hides, dry, per lb 05 1
Hide!, Rreen. per lb 02 1-2 to 03
IIone Phocs per lb OS
Horre hoe naila per pound.... 20t 23
Lard per lb OS
Oatu ier bu - 12 1-2
Pork, prosa. per cwt 2 SO
Pork, net, per cwt 390
Potatoea perbu 25
Peaches, dried, per bu 5 to 1 03
Rice per lb 03 to 08
Sugar. N. O., per lb
Sugar, clarined. per lb 6C to 07
Koicar. powdered, pir lb OS to 09
Seamles aacks. each 23
Kalt p-r bl.l 123
Tea. Kreen. per lb 25 to 75
Tea, black, per lb 40 to 63
Tallow per lb 02 to 03
Vlnccar per gal 20 to 25
Wheat per bu... . 41
I5y a comparison of the markets of
7 z and '96 it will be seen that while
the farmer paid higher prices in 1872
for some of the articles he had to buy,
he got, in many cases, proportionately
higher prices for what he had to seJL
CofTce is about the same price now,
but three times as much sugar can be
had for $ 1 in 1S96 as in 1S72. On
the other hand, the farmer got twice as
much for his corn and about four
times as much, for his wheat then as
now.
In the main, those were prosperous
times for the farmer, not only so for
the farmer, but for the country ia gen
eral, as theie was plenty of gold, sil
ver and paper money in circulation.
The year 1872 was the year before
silver was demonetized, and since that
time the farmer's proSts have been grow
ing gradually less, in the aggregate, but
Wall street, the protected manufactur
er and the millionaire have flourished
as a green bav tree.
The remedy is plain. Let every
voter do his duty as a patriot at
the polls in restoring bimetallism, and
the farmer will again be restored to the
right of reaping a legitimate profit on
the (:idts of his toil.
Notice.
There will be an ice-cream supper
at Centenary Chapel, five miles north
west of Keytesville, on Tuesday even
ing, the 28th inst. If the weather is
unfavorable at that time, the supper
will be deferred until the succeeding
ev ening. Proceeds to Le applied in
repairing the church. All axe invited
to attend.
The Old Settlers' Reunion.
The committee appointed to select
and prqure the grounds on which
to be held the Chariton County OM
Settlers re-union on Saturday, Aug.
3th, met Tuesday and selected the
beautiful grove in I.. M. Applegate's
pasture, a few hundred yards north of
the Keytesville depot, where there is
plenty of room and shade. In George
Chapman's brickyard adjoining the
grounds there is a well which furnishes
an unfailing supply of good water for
the people and close by this is a pond
that has an abundance of water for
teams. General K. vV. Trice has con
tributed a good supply cf ice for the;
occasion. The grounds will be put in
apple-pie order.
Speakers from a distance, including
Col. Wm. F. Switzler, the veteran Mis
souri editor, of Boonvillc. and Judje
Thos. Shackelford, of Glasgow, have
been invited, and these two gentlemen
have been heard from and have ac
cepted the invitation.
Senators Vest and Cockrell and Gov .
crnor Stone have also been invited
and no doubt some of them will be
here.
J. A. Merchant, of Brunswick, the
president of the Old Settlers' associa
tion, and all the other ofneers are
actively engaged devising ways and.
means to make the meeting of Aug
8th the most successful in the May or
enjoyment and attendance that has
ever been held in the county. Let
everybody begin at once to make cal
culations and arrangements to come
and spend the day in the renewal oi
old associations. It is predicted if the
day is a pleasant one this will be the
largest gathering ever held in Chari
ton county.
Dtstutbed tils Mother's Peace.
Wra. Ewing, cob, who lives with his
aged mother, "Aunt Mandy" Ewing ,
on Bridge street, just east of T.'P-v
Wood's livery stable, kicked up a row
at the maternal cabin last Sunday and
threatened to shoot his nephew, Walter '
Ewing, who was at his grand-mother's,
and went into the house to get a gun
for the purpose of carrying out hisi
murderous threat.
"Aunt Mandy" sent( for Marshal
Embree and had her pugnacious off
spring arrested on a charge of disturb
ing the peace. The old negress al
leges that William has been making;
himself very disagreeable about the
house for some time, and says that on.
more than one occasion he has ex
pressed a fervent desire to brain her.
hence she concluded to have him
punished for his intolerable abuse or
his old mother.
On being arraigned in Mayor Gil
liam's court last Monday, William sub
mitted his case to his honor upon the
evidence offered, and was fined $2 and
trimmings, which he is now working;
out on the streets.
The dusky defendant insists that an
effort is being made to "disfranchise'"1
him, but he hasn't yet decided what.
he Is going to do about it
Gogle-Eycd Cba wly to Wooden Head .
ed Willie.
The Courier has no ammunition ire
stock small enough to shoot at such
diminutive insects as Willie G. Ross, of
the Triplett Herald, and we therefore
leave the puny, miserable little worm to
vomit his ignorance into the colamns
of his imaginary journal, unmolested-
If we ever find time to go fishing, we
may conclude to use the little worm
on our hook, but until then we leave
him to his colicy squirms.
Accidentally Shot.
James Mizener, an employe of
Newton Long, of near Mendon, met
with a painful and serious accident on
last Thursday while driving along the
road in a two-horse wagon. Mr.
Mizener had a shot-gun with him and
was leaning against it with his left,
hand, when the weapon was discharg
ed, the contents tearing away the mus
cles of the arm near the shoulder and.
badly lacerating his left sids. The
wound, though pa.'nful and serious, i
1 is hoped will not prcye fatal.
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