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W. E. BUTLER visited relatives in Lutesville Saturday.

A new roof is being put on the building adjoining the Gazette office on the south.

Miss Mae BELL is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. C. DENT.

A number of persons took advantage of the excursion rate last Sunday and came to 
Bismarck to visit friends.

F. J. BEQUETTE has opened a photograph gallery in the rooms adjoining the Gazette
office and is prepared to do all work in his line promptly and satisfactorily and
at moderate prices.  

Mrs. J. M. BURKE left for Little Rock Wednesday to visit her husband.

Hon. E. M. DEARING, representative of Washington county was in town on business
Tuesday.

E. N. SINCLAIR made a business trip to Farmington Monday.

Mrs. Fred MEYERS has been attending the meeting of the Woman's Home Mission Society
at Oran.

G. J. GOELTZ and family attended the horse show at Farmington Monday.

D. S. PAINTER is working at the I.M. depot while E. A. BEARD is laying off.

J. M. BURKE visited his family here Sunday.  Mr. BURKE has a position in Little 
Rock, Ark.

Lee ERBACHLOE, photographer, late of this city but now residing in St. Louis, was
here on business last week.

Frank BUST of Potosi, a prominent grain merchant, was in town for a short time
Tuesday enroute to Fredericktown.

A meeting of the board of managers of Hospital No. 4 was held Tuesday.  Arrange-
ments are being made for the erection of an amusement hall and other buildings.

Clare McCOMBER of Irondale passed through here Wednesday with 11 head of cattle 
which he was taking to pasture on the St. Francois.  W. H. SIMMS and his celebrated
stock dog were assisting in the driving.

Henry ADKINS returned from St. Louis Friday of last week, having successfully 
passed the state examination and received his diploma from the Missouri College of
Embalming.  We hear that his rating was very high in the examination.

Mrs. W. E. BUTLER returned home Sunday after a few days' visit at Charleston and
Lutesville.

Jake BARGER and Henry VALLE attended the funeral of the late Rev. J. C. BERRYMAN
at Caledonia last Thursday.

J. T. STEPHENS is building a five room cottage with a dehorned porch at one end
for his son-in-law, Emmet THOMPSON, on the street north of the Baptist church.

Wes BAKER and Dr. GOODYKOONTZ of Caledonia passed through here last Friday enroute
to Farmington with Mr. BAKER's little boy, who is in poor health, taking him to 
the sanitariam.

The horse show at Farmington last Tuesday drew a large crowd of people and the 
display of fine horses is said to have been beyond expectation.  St. Francois
county has long been noted for the number of fine horses within its borders and
the late horse show proves that the county is steadily increasing in popularity
along that line.

Rev. LaTOUR spent Sunday in St. Louis.  He said he wanted to be a listener for
awhile.

John BOSS of St. Louis visited his mother, Mrs. A. D. BOSS, Sunday.

Mrs. D. W. POOR of Fredericktown visited her mother, Mrs. G. F. HUNT, last week.

Services in the Baptist church Sunday May 20th, at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.  Church 
business meeting Saturday, May 19, at 8 p.m.  Sunday school at 9:30.  You are 
cordially invited to all these services.  H. J. LaTOUR, Pastor.

The Sunday school children of the Baptist church are preparing for Children's
Day.  The exercises will be held on Sunday, June 17th, at 7:20 p.m.

The first of the Griffin excursions, St. Louis to Arcadia, was well patronized
last Sunday.  There were nine passenger coaches all well filled when the train
arrived here.

Hon. M. L. CLARDY passed through here Monday morning enroute to St. Louis after
spending Sunday at his home in Farmington.

Our friend, Andrew P. ROBINSON of Irondale has been suffering severely from the
effects of a slight cut on the hand made by a piece of tin, and for a time it
was feared that very serious results would follow, as symptoms of blood poison
were plainly manifest.  We are pleased to hear that the danger has been passed 
and that he will soon be able to attend to his duties at the mill as usual.

Judge LUCY of Wayne county has been visiting his brother at this place this week
and it has been a hard matter to pick out which one of the LUCY boys you wanted
at the store.  The LUCY brothers are twins and very much alike in appearance -- 
except that each is handsomer than the other.

The Jackson Cash Book says:  "Will MASSENGILL shot and badly wounded 'Grassy' 
FISCHER in the Cape last Saturday night."  What a lucky thing it was that he 
didn't leave his cape at home.

J. I. ROBINSON, president of the Irondale bank, accompanied by Mrs. ROBINSON, 
were in Bismarck Monday, the guests of the family of N. A. COTTRELL.  The 
Gazette acknowledges a pleasant call from Mr. ROBINSON.

J. M. HUGHES, a prominent Washington county farmer, was here Monday.  The Gazette
has previously intimated that Mr. HUGHES had his eye on Bismarck as a residence
place, and although he says it is a pipe dream we still believe that before long
Bismarck will add another rattling good man to its roll of progressive citizens --
and the first letters of his name will be John M. HUGHES.

Mrs. Lake HORTON, we are pleased to hear, is recovering from her recent illness.

Emory BAKER and Tom MOODY from the country visited the family of M. W. BAKER
of this place last Sunday.

Finis ST. CLAIR has resigned his position as engineer at the mill.  A. D. DAY
of Potosi has been employed to take his place.

Mrs. Sarah MAXWELL of Belgrade was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Dr. J. L. EATON,
several days last week.  Mrs. EATON and her mother attended District conference
at Elvins.

Sunday will be observed as Children's Day at the M.E. church at Hickory Grove 
and a very entertaining program has been prepared for the occasion.  Everybody
is invited to attend.

Mr. Wm. MESTER may be well proud of his daughter Theresa, who, with her little
brother, has been driving his vegetable wagon and delivering fresh vegetables
to the entire satisfaction of his many customers.

Mr. SMOLLINGER has the new race track completed at Iron Mountain and several
flyers are now being speeded around the same.  Among the horses at present there
are Echo Belle and Angeola, two of the most famous trotters in the country, the
former having been a $30,000 winner on the circuit last season and is looked
upon as the coming world beater.

The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church of this city will give an ice
cream festival and bazar at the A.O.U.W. hall on the evening of May 25th.  
Further announcement will be made of the affair.

Dr. J. L. EATON was called professionally to Iron Mountain Wednesday.

We are sorry to learn that John MANGAN, who resides between this place and
Caledonia, has been quite ill with pneumonia.

Among those who came down on Sunday's excursion was the son-in-law of Mr. J. H.
WHEELER of this place, who, with his family, dropped in for a visit with his
parents.

Rolla T. KING of Irondale was a pleasant caller at the Gazette office yesterday.
He informs us that the Irondale Band boys have invited Pete ODLE to accompany
them to Hopewell on the 30th and execute a few numbers on the jews harp.

Irene MONTGOMERY, aged nine years, found Miss Nellie WOODS' gold watch near the
M.E. church last Sunday night and promptly restored it to the owner, refusing to
accept any reward.  Mr. WOODS, however, wouldn't have it that way and later 
presented the little Miss with a handsome dress pattern in such a pleasing manner
that she could not refuse it.

The railroad company has been missing freight and express at the station at Iron
Mountain for some time and has had detectives working up the case.  A young man
named MORRIS was arrested Wednesday and lodged in the calaboose here over night
and taken to Iron Mountain yesterday morning by Constable Webb where he will have
a hearing before Esq. ELKINS.  He is charged with breaking into the depot and 
taking goods therefrom.

Its reported here that the citizens of DeSoto are now badly worked up on account
of the recent death of Dr. KEANEY, one of the resident physicians of that place,
it having transpired that he died of small pox.  The funeral was largely attended
and it is supposed that many were exposed and are liable to be taken down with
that dreaded malady.  We hope that the reports are exaggerations of the real state
of affairs.  It is also rumored that there is a case of small pox at Iron 
Mountain but we have been unable to verify the report.

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