Appleton City Journal - Supplement
Volume XIV, No. 33
Thursday, 14 March 1894

Johnson City Jottings:
Mr. John W. Carroll and wife spent the first day of the week with Mr. Bird Estes and family.

Miss Minnie Shoup, who has been on the sick list for the past five or six weeks, is slowly recovering.

Uncle Nick Patterson went to Osceola last week to attend the funeral of his son-in-law, Mr. John Gordon.

Mrs. Belle Wheeler and sister, Mrs. Mattie Hall, returned last week from a visit with their parents in Stockton, Mo.

Misses Grace Chapin and Kate Ring spent Saturday and Sunday in our community, the guests of Miss Lillie Hollstrom.

Mrs. Luther Caton and daughter, Nora, were quite sick last week, but are improving at this time and will soon be able to be out again.

Mr. James Haskins, of Deepwater, moved to our town recently and is now engaged in mining coal in the Gore bank east of this place.

Mr. Clark Wyatt, who has been down for some time with the measles and pneumonia, is improving nicely and will soon be enjoying his usual degree of health.

P. Wheeler, of Osceola, spent Sunday in Johnson City with his family. Mr. Wheeler's health has improved somewhat since he has been sojourning in the county seat.

Mr. Simon Shoup, of Nebraska, who last fall purchased the old Herndon farm, arrived last week to take charge of their new home. We give Mr. Shoup a hearty welcome.

Moving time is here, yet a good many who will have to move have no place to move to. More houses will have to be built or the editors will have to quit howling for immigration.

Mr. John Hollon and family and Mr. Varnel Gore left Monday for Arkansas, where they will make their family home. We regret the loss of such good citizens, but wish them well in their new homes.

The proposition recently submitted to a vote of the people in Osage township to restrain sheep and swine from running at large was badly defeated; and now the defeated fellows have a petition before the county court to divide Osage township and attach the western half to Taber and the eastern half to Center.

Mr. William Wyatt had quite a painful accident Saturday afternoon. He was at Mr. A. Blenden's mill, when his team took fright and started to run, throwing him out of the wagon and breaking his left arm between the elbow and shoulder. Dr. Smith was called, and adjusted the broken member, and when last heard from he was doing well.

Mr. Eli Deardoff died last week at the home of his father southwest of this place. He had been in failing health for some time and was just returning home from Kirksville, Mo., whither he had gone for treatment. When he got to his father's he concluded to remain there until his wife and children recovered from the measles. But his mother took down with the measles shortly after his arrival, and in course of time Eli took them, and being already reduced, they proved too much for him. His family have the sympathy of the entire community.

Aunt Margaret Sloss died at the home of her son, Filmore Sloss, on Sunday afternoon of pneumonia. Mrs. Sloss was about seventy-five years old and has been afflicted with rheumatism for a number of years, yet bore her sufferings without complaint, anxiously watching and waiting for death to free her soul from its prison house of clay that she might join in the loved ones who have passed on before. Her daughter, Mrs. Ellen Bates, of Bentonville, Arkansas, came in Sunday afternoon, but not in time to see her mother alive. The remains will be laid to rest on Tuesday in the Appleton City cemetery.

Rockville Ramblings:
For the benefit of our many friends, and for the purpose of proclaiming to the public that we, the citizens of Rockville and vicinity, are still hanging out at this quarter of the globe, pushing business and enterprise into our fields and workshops, and by the horny hand of industry earning the prosperity which we now enjoy; now, therefore, I make my debut into journalism for the purposes mentioned.

J.S. Myers was in St. Louis last week on business.

Lawyer Smith made a business trip to Appleton City Monday.

Gaylord Douglas was hustling land buyers through our city last week.

V. Griggs shipped a car load of very fine hogs to St. Louis Tuesday.

Weather damp, with all farmers and tradesmen busy at their season's work.

With roads settled as they have been in the past ten days, much grain is being marketed, with corn at 32 cents, wheat 46 cents, oats 55 cents.

The improvement placed on the M.K. & T. depot adds much to its appearance and to the convenience of our agent, Mr. Seth.

J.E. Smith went to Taberville Wednesday to take depositions in the slander case of Heath vs. Heath in the (*paper torn*) court.

J.E. Smith is doing a law and real estate business in our city, and reports a successful week's work. Examine his farm list if you desire to purchase.

The Democrats of Rockville township met in convention last Saturday and nominated a township ticket. Be careful, boys, that you are not snowed under.

In the case of Ballach vs. Smith et al, tried in J.M. Boreing's court, an appeal has been taken by plaintiff to the circuit court. J.E. Smith represents the plaintiff.

Quite a number of our citizens went out for a day's sport among the ducks in St. Clair Monday, and your correspondent is informed that at every shot the feathers flew with the ducks.