Pacific Transcript from Pacific, Missouri • 1

Pacific Transcript PACIIC MO MAY 34 ig95 NUMBER 37 I cash Stohl J'" there thief over lawn Mrs AT ST LOUIS PAST WEEK Mrs Wellcnkamp Win Kno ble A Mauthe Mr and Mrs Thomas Bacon and son Milton Seaburn I Close has cleaned the street and gujter adjoining his residence in front OfIns icsidenoe in fine 'shape If a JI the property holders dn Pacific wo uld do as well the city would pre sent a splendid appearande A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY The mansion at St James is to become a soldiers home and be occupied after being vacant for twenty years Wm( James a wealthy planter built it during war times and had no more than completed it till he wns bankrupted The buiidcr favored the confederacy and little knew that ii was remain unoccupied until years after veterans of the United States would find shelter there The mansion contains over twenty large rooms IX THEY LIKE CHILDREN Esq CC Close has done tin un usual thing He has actuallybuilt a play house for his children finished With windows and ceiling painted it and put a cai pct on the floor There tlie little ones Jennie and Johny re cievc company and entertain at a tiny tea table with all the hospitality Of babyhood Powers is also a lover of the little ones Hardly a day passes but he may be seen driving about town with hisbuggy literally full of chil dren He picks them up everywhere and seemingly enjoy a ride unless he can share it wsth a number of little ones NOTICE All persons arc asked not to Missouri Pacific check for May issued to Tuner for $3975 also to Aubry for $113 85 These checks were stolen from my safe atid should properly bo paid to me If the notes and private papets taken from my safe on Monday last will be returned to me no questions will bo asked Whitsett PACIIC io CELEBRATE July fourth wil! be celebrated in Pacific at reeman's grove under the auspices of St school society and laplies of the Catholic church Refreshments and music will be on hand and dancing ack rac7 inf target shooting foot ball and base ball are promised THE SCHOOLS The Pacific schools close this week Examinations have been in progress all week and tho work of the scho'ol is now practically over In the lowtr rooms rhetorical exercises were li'tld this morning and the higher rooms will hold its rhetorical features this afternoon Tho colored school Also has an entertainment or the most part this session of the schools has been very successful Thomas Coch rane the principal has held the po sition three year Next year he will LOCAL The Whoop Las went to Becker station Sunday to play tho Tavern Bock nine The score stood nine to twenty two in favor of the latter Three Union boys played with tho Tavern Rocks Earl Wise John Mooney and Lnry McHugh went to St Louis on their bikes Monday starting at 7:05 in the morning and ariving at 11:25 making the distance of fifty six miles in four hours and twenty minutes Harry Rit tenhouse editor ofthe ashington Journal passed through Pacific Saturday en route to Moselle and while here favored tho Tran script with a call Mr Rittenhouse is publishing a good paper and is do ing an unusual making daily paper succeed in a city of 4000 inhabitants He is an enthusiastic bicyclist end holds several champion ship medals THE CHURCHES Rev Hill went to his former home in Bonne Terre this week to get bis library Rev Barker is in Pacific again He has just concluded a revival at Zion school house south of St Clair there being eighteen professions The Methodist Sunday achool will give an entertainment at the church the second Sunday in June at night that being their day Rev James will preach at the church Sunday morning on Claim on the Conscience a nd in the evening on Applica tion of Christ to The first ice cream and strawberry festival of the season was given at the Presbyterian church Wednesday evening of this week The attend ance was large and a pl casent evening was spent by alkprcsent TIioTran sClllTT force is indebted to them for a feast of delicious cream sent them A lawn social at which strawberry and ice cream will be served for the benefit of the Baptist church will be givcp at the residence of Mrs A II Wilson riday evening all being invited Her lawn is a beauty now being walled all sides with a mass of roses in full bloom re ceipt of 11 handsome bouquet from Mrs RosaRobihson Thisdady's yard isaminaturc garder being filled with 11 collection of many kind of flowers that make it a mass of bloom al! summer long is cer tainly very beautiful accidentally shot While attempting' to shoot a frog Tuesday Jos aLssulnier jr acciden tal wounded himself in the wrist' Pure Lard Corned Beef resh ish Wieners and Bologna every ri day Veal for Sundays at Strati Meat Market 32 tf Mrs Mary Leber had a number of guests from St Louis Sunday include mg Mr and Mia Predock Misses Miirthuind Annie Rose and Emial Dellender The Transcript still has need of money due it and would be pleased to have those in arrears pay up Some are behind several years and they are the ones especially referee! to llcidenfeldcr has moyedhisshoo shop to house south of 'he risco depot where he would be pleased to have bis customersand nil who need good footwear imide or re paired to call on him John Murphy of Webster Groves is one of the delegates to the Atlanta Ga exposition He will join his brothers in law Louis M' Roemer and Eddie Roemer at Now Orleans and thence go to Atlanta Young man send your particular lady friend a subscription to the Transcript Its visit will thus cause her thoughts to revert to you at least once in seven days Try it The TUanscrict lust week looked an item referring to a social intended to bo given at Wednesday evening of this week Jt was written but failed to get in the paper It is very sorry and will hereafter exercise gaeater care A DAY LIGHT ROBBERY safe was on Mon day dispoiled of a pocketbook con tnining $210 in cash and railroad chnckg to the amount of about $240 Mr hitsett had as usual on op ening the store opened his safe leav ing the inner door unlocked The inner door was merely caught by a latch About two in the afternoon he had occasion to go to the safe end found tho pocketbook gone It is presumed the thief was familiar with Mr manner ol leaving the safe and while no one was observing had made away with the book Pay day on the railroad being the 15th Mr Whitsett hud just had set tlement with a large number of cus tomers accumulating several railroad checks and ns he was preparing to send drafts to wholesale houses in St Louis he had an unusnl amount of cash in his private safe Unfortun ately he had norecuid of the exact amount and number of the many checks so it will be difficult to trace them and stlp payment on them particularly as they circulate as cash A few however are watched and ore hopes of capturing the through tlfom SOCIAL CHAT A picnic was given by Mrs mon for her Sunday school class hist Saturday near the edge of town Several very amusing games were pliyed A delicious dinnerwas ser ved at noon The class consists of Kila and Belle Peanick Jennie Nap ier Zettie Aubrey Lena Kiburz Allie Ritchey Dollie Krueger Mamie Beard Bessie and Gertie awconer Georgia Stohlmun andllattieBurgcss Mrs' Parsons and daughter Edna from St Louis were also present All had a very pleasant day VOL SERIES VOL XVI IS INSANE John Reynolds who wrote Twin a book roasting the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries and went around with a wagon mid music selling them is hopelessly in sane and is kept under the influence of opiates about half the time An ex change explains why this is done thus: have to do it to prevent him from talking himself to death He wants to make speeches day and night One morning he commenced to deliver a temperance lecture and did not quit for twenty seven hours and only then when he fainted from hungorand exhaustion He weighed 200 pounds when ho entered tho asy lum He talked himself down to People often talk others to death but seldom themselves Reynolds and his book will be remembered in this locality MARRIED Dr Ulysses Miller and Miss Olive Reinhard were married at Union May 17th by Rev Miller They wil 1 reside in Union red Koserand Miss Katie Welsh were married at the residence of the groom in Pacific Saturday by Esquire Close Miss Clara Koser was bridesmaid and JamesWelsh grooms man BEAUTIUL LOWERS I The Transcript acknowledges Public School Building of PacillQ teach atDozier switch Misses Andrae Stierberger and Montague tho assist ants have proven themselves excel lent teachers and are generally liked'lissAndrae will not teach the coming year It is not known where the other two ladies will teach They will all pend vacation at their homes Miss Montague at Summit Miss Aniline at St Patil and Mis Stierberger at Union Mrs Johnson ofthe colored school and a good instructor having mar ried during the year will abandon teaching She will reside with her husband at Washington The Transcript wishes all these and all teachers of the county apleas aiit vacation Mrs Anna Snow will begin pri vate school Monday June 3d in school building 1 CHANGE IN TIME TABLE A change has been made in the Missouri Pacific time table ajfoyill be seen by reference to the card Neat ly every train has changed time and 4 has betm changed from ing to an evening train 1 OR THE MERAMEC Says the WashingtonQbsencr handsonio little yacht Madaline belonging to Mr A A Trilqbe after teing repainted and overhauled vtill be taken to the Meramec river where she will cruise the greater part of the summer The yacht is a beau ty and will be missed by our 'ij'he Oakfield school will close Sat urday with a picnic Tue Pacific Stars will be in attendance and play ball Prof Will McHugh isthe teach er and is very popular with patrons ofthe school The Allenton school closed Tues day Prof Denny the teacher has given excellent satisfaction and it is understood that he has been re employed for the ensuing year The board of directors ofthe public school according to tbeJbwnal held a meeting Wednesday night and sel ected the following teachers for the next term of the Washington public schools namely pbas A Cole prin cipal Miss AmanaKloentrup assist ant principal Miss Maggie Pufvcs primary department Miss Mota Eit zen 1st intermediate mJss Lillian Dickbrader 2nd intermediate Miss Helen Godt 3d intermediate Von Pfleger German instructor The New Haven school board has selected the following teachers for tho ensuing year Principal Prof Mcadden first nssistyint Miss Mary Robinson second assistant Mrs Canter third assisjftjnt Miss Mary Emmons The teachqrs elected arc the same as lastyeai except Miss Mary Emmons Miss Virginia Stanly was elected to preside over the colored department Miss Jessie Martin of the Washing ton school lias bee employed to teach at Labadie next year an eight term At tho commencement exercises of the Stute university at Columbia June 2d to 6th the new academic hall and department building will bo dedi cated 7 MAY MENTION Try tho Transcript for stationery Miss Clara Koser went tc St Louis Sunday Vq Mrs Rosa Robinson was in St Louis Tuesday i I The Tiianscbip would like to do your job printing I Rev Charles Elliptl of Washing ton was in Pacific ilonday Henry ry of St Louis visited Pacific friends last week red Speck has moved his stock of goods here from Anaconda Mrs Adams is visiting relatives and friends in Springfield Mo Harry Rogers of Kirkwood was guest MiPeck Jr Sunday The tent sho'otliig gallery has pulled up stakes and arc gone Mrs Mary Leber and son Arthur made trip to Poplar Bluff this week Schneer was down from Wash ington the latter part' of last week? Mrs Louis Roemer was in St Louis last week refreshing her stock of goods Tom Crews the St itouis attorney spent Wednesday night with' friends' in Pacific: Edward and Louis Roemer have gone to New Orleans to visit for a fortnight Abundance of Veal and Lamb Sat urday and Sunday at Meat Market Raming pas gone to Califor nia with a gang of mon to fit up a railroad pond Another fresh arrival of millinery goods at Tho Bacon's Como and' make your selection I' Miss Clara Mueller after a visit with the family of MrRau has return ed to St Louis Bush of St Louis visit ing his sister Mrs Henry Kirch Sat urday and Sunday last Tho spring rajins appear to have set in nt last nceompninied by a Jan uary temperature 1 A fresh invoice of iew and spark ling spring millinery has just been recicved by Thomas Bacon A Pittman of St Louis was (Visiting in Pacific this week and work ing in tonsorinl parlors Sale Two steam threshers used one season ten horse Jumbo engine thirty two separator wind stacker Apply tn Meurer Miss Wellenkamp who is stopping nt Bole was visiting her par ents in Pacific the hitter part of hist CAPTURED COMMENTS rom the New Haven Notes There is a revival being held at the Meth odist church in Pacific The attend ance is said to be1 good and there was considerable interest rom the Iberia Intelligencer The Pacific Transcript has been increased in size to an eight page paper Editor Phifer is always alert to the increase of business rom the Dixon Echo Pacific has passed an ordinance prcvcntingcattle from running at large in the town If this was done in Dixon farmers could feed their teams with a great deal more satisfaction rom the Union Tribune litpub lican: This county now possesses the finest lot of newspapers so far as general nppennincc and make up is concerned the best that it ever has in its history And there are more of them too 'I rom the Pt Louis Mrs Tapley Thomas nee Rodgers died at her home in Texas on the 5th inst Mrs Thbmas was a sister of Mrs Jos Mendom of Kirkwood She has been a sufferer from consumption for sev eral years She was a most estimable lady and her death will be noted with much regret by her friends Mrs Thomas was buried from the 'Baptist church at Pacific Tuesday RevSawyer of Kirkwood conducting the services DECORATION DAY I Decoration day will be obervedj in 1 acific Thursday May SOth by ap propriate memorial services con ducted by thg rederick Hacker Post No 290 A The public and the school children are cordially in vited to attend and bring flowers for decoration purposes The procession will start from hall promptly at two 0 clock Committee Memorial or decoration day May 30th will be celebrated by the James Owens post No 332 A at Washington Kiskaddon being the orator of the occasion A aalute of forty four guns will bo fired in the morning and graves at Washington Campbellton Lyon and Clover Bot tom will be decorated Arirr DIED Harry oldest son of Henry Noelke died at New Haven May 11th of pneumonia aged twenty one ritz Rusche a brickmasoh while whitewashing his cellar at Washing ton fell dead of appoplexy Monday of last week Jasper Wright a farmer resident of near Union died near armington Ill May 5th from consumption aged twenty three Mrs Kelly of St Louis died at Sullivan on the 10th of consump tion She was raised near Sullivan hir maiden name being Ellen Kib bler lf 7 i 1 4'7 dr '1 1 A''.