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"Local and Personal" Column:

Roy SLOAN visited home Sunday.

G. F. HUNT attended the Cape Girardeau Centennial this week.

Misses Edith BOSS and Leslie FLEMING visited Arcadia Sunday.

Jake WOLFORD was home on a visit Sunday.

Less HUFF made a trip to Granite City, Ill., Sunday.

D. S. ADAMS is enjoying a visit from his son Joe, of Leadwood.

Miss Florence McCOY returned Sunday after a visit to friends in St. Louis.

Mrs. Martha WOOLFORD is home after an extended visit with friends in St. Louis.

The skating rink is furnishing a lot of healthful sport to the young people in this
city now.

F. F. BEARD, who has been serving on a jury in St. Louis, returned home last Saturday.

Miss Lora DENTON of Nashville, Ill., was a guest of Miss Nellie McGREW last Sunday.

Miss Alva WOOD, who is employed in a millinery establishment in St. Louis, was here
on a visit to home folks Sunday.

Harry McGREW was in Irondale on business the first of the week.

Misses Madge WHEELING and Anna LINZA of Irondale were the guests of Miss Nellie McGREW
Tuesday.

B. T. EATON has assumed active management of the Breckenridge Hotel.  Mr. BRECKENRIDGE
and family are at present at Mr. DACE's near Caledonia, where they are visiting.

Attorney PRATT, of the I.S. Ry. was here Sunday for a short time, as was also Wm. H. 
LEWIS of Flat River who expects to represent St. Francois county in the next legisla-
ture.

Rev. James W. HODGES, late pastor of the M. E. Church, South, in this city, left Friday
for Oak Ridge, Cape Girardeau county.  Rev. L. R. MAUK, who succeeds Mr. HODGES,
preached here last Sunday.

The ladies of the Baptist Aid have concluded to each earn a dollar and contribute it 
to their treasury in lien of a supper or dinner.  They are selling pickles, apple
butter, bread and cakes to make their dollars.

We hear that some of the young ladies who went to see the ball game between the 
Caledonia and Bismarck nines have got a whole lot of cheers left over -- the wrong 
crowd won.

Miss Edna BEARD returned Tuesday evening from a visit to friends in St. Louis, Mattoon,
Ill. and other points.  Mrs. BEARD, we are informed will not return for a couple of 
weeks.

Again the rumor has cropped out that a round house and repair shops are to be built
here by the Iron Mountain people.  It goes without saying that this is welcome news, 
if it materializes.

Mr. HARCOURT, representing the DeLaval Separator Co., Chicago, was here last week
arranging for the display to be made by his company at the Farmers meeting here Oct.
19-20.

The skating rink at the A.O.U.W. Hall is open two nights in each week for benefit
of the band, which will give concerts.

John W. FRASER, Esq. of Bonneterre favored the Gazette office with his presence Wednes-
day; he was not talking politics, but was simply making himself agreeable, a think not
at all difficult for him to do, and the Editor certainly appreciated his visit.

County Collector DENMAN was here Monday and Tuesday, officially, receiving taxes for
the year 1906.  While here his office was at the post office.  He is a very popular
public officer.

Your attention is called to the program of the Southeast Missouri Farmers' Meeting
published in today's Gazette.  Indications are that a very large crowd will attend 
the meeting and the exhibits will well repay a visit.

G. W. BRAME, who has been keeping a restaurant on Front Street for several months,
has retired from the business and, we hear, will conduct a boarding house.

The teachers and scholars put in a strenous day Tuesday wrestling with the cold snap,
the stoves for the building not being ready for use.  Prof. SHERREL dropped into the
Gazette office in the evening but we were prepared only with a warm greeting and a
pleasant smile and he hiked himself off to the hotel to get warm.

A crowd of young folks made an overland trip to the river Saturday and had a delightful
time.  A dainty lunch was spread by Miss Minnie DENTON and there were several very
exciting incidents during the day.  Miss Alva BEARD was terribly frightened by seeing
a hunter armed with a gun; Miss Lora DENTON screamed herself hoarse over the advent of
a large spider; Miss Alta HUFF was nearly drowned wading a dry branch and Miss Nellie
McGREW stampeded 13 grass hoppers at one time.  The girls came home thoroughly tired.

Miss Clara BOSS returned home Tuesday evening after an extended visit to friends in
DeSoto.

Hon. Norman J. COLMAN of St. Louis was a welcome visitor at the Gazette office yesterday.  
The Ex-governor although in his 80th year, is remarkably vigorous and keenly alive to 
every issue of the day.  He was enroute to Doniphan, Mo.

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