December 24, 1891 – The Sumner County Standard – Mayfield News
Excerpted from Page 357 - "Mayfield: Then & Now."
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The
grippe has made its appearance in our community and quite a number have been
attacked.
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Mr. Miriam Roberts residing six miles southwest
of here, was bitten by a mad dog last Monday. He at once started for Geuda
Springs where a mad stone was applied and it adhered seven hours to the
wound. It was a very sad affair, Mr.
Roberts is one of Sumner County’s best citizens. He is getting along very well at this writing
and we wish to say to the People’s Party elect a man at the next election to
the legislature who will pledge himself to help make a law to tax a man twenty dollars
for every dog above one. They are
getting so well trained that they will chase a passerby for a half mile and by
that time there will be another team passing, and they will hurry back to meet
it.
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The young folks of our vicinity will have to go
to Milan for their Christmas tree as our burg will be about dead.
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T. S. Creekmore of William Jewell College, was
one of the four debate contestants for a $15 gold medal last Friday night. The contest was held at Liberty, Missouri. The
judges declared T. S. Creekmore the winning man. The medal was presented by the ladies of the
female college.
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R. F. Ingram has pulled in his thresher for a
while. He has threshed 90,000 bushels of
grain this year and has about 10,000 bushels more to thresh between now and
spring.
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Will Armstrong , who has been visiting in
Missouri the past two weeks, returned Saturday.
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The Mayfield School will have a vacation of nearly
two weeks.
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Hart and Jarvis are doing a good business with
their mill. They keep constantly on hand a good supply of crushed corn, ground
feed, and first-class meal. They are
straight, reliable gentlemen and the farmers would do well to patronize them in
getting feed prepared for their stock.
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