Just to remind everyone -- Charlotte's "Pearls" are now archived permanently at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/mo_newspaper.htm -------------------------------- Jefferson Democrat Hillsboro, Jefferson county, Missouri WEDNESDAY, 21 APRIL 1886 George K. LEWIS, of Louisville, visited his relatives here last week. MOVING TO ST. LOUIS - I will have a public auction at my residence, in Victoria, Mo., on Saturday, April 24, 1886, and will sell to the highest bidder, one horse, one mare, one cow, sow and pigs, a buggy, one barouche, plows, harrow, farming implements, a good piano, household and kitchen furniture, and other articles too mention. Terms - All sums under five dollars, cash; over that amount, a credit of six months will be given, purchasers giving notes, with approved securities. J.H.G. MEYER, Victoria, Mo. DEATHS AND BIRTHS - The following deaths were filed with the County Clerk the past week: Date Name Age March 15 Matilda PERRY --- March 23 Nerces BOYER 35 yrs April 5 Geo. F. SERMERT 1 yr April 2 Mary A. GRIMM 58 yrs BIRTHS Date Name of Mother Sex Feb. 5 Mrs. Joseph SMITH girl Mar. 25 Mrs. Joseph M. GUERNEY girl Mar. 23 Mrs. Mark HUSKEY boy Mar. 19 Mrs. Henry W. BEATT twin boys Mar. 31 Mrs. Armstead TOWNSEND girl Apr. 5 Mrs. George W. LUCAS boy Apr. 21 Mrs. James AIKENS boy Apr. 4 Mrs. William JONES girl Emory, Texas, April 5th, 1886 - Editor Jefferson Democrat: I have been receiving the J.D. regular since the 17th of March, and feel like if I was at home since I hear from there every week. The weather is very warm here, and it rains about every other day. Farmers are all done planting corn and some of it is two inches high. In the woods and on the prairie the ground is covered with grass and flowers. The strike is not over yet, and some of the stores have closed their doors. There is quite a lot of malarial fever here. I just got over a two weeks shock of it. Texas has the finest weather in winter of any country I ever seen. M. ROSENAUER. PROBATE COURT - Estate of SCKMERMUND minors, Jno. SCHMERMUND, guardian, 1st annual settlement. Estate WATSON minors, W.R. DONNELL curator, 2nd annual settlement. Wednesday, May 12th, 1886. Third day. Estate Geo. FRAZIER, minor, Peter STEIMAN guardian, 4th annual settlement. Estate Isaac FRAZIER, minor, A.H. MOORE, guardian, 4th annual settlement. Estate Barbara FRAZIER, minor, Lemuel FRAZIER, guardian, 4th annual settlement. Estate James FRAZIER, minor, Henry B. FRAZIER, guardian, 4th, annual settlement. Estate Anna M. FLAMM, minor, J.H. EHLERS, guardian, 1st annual settlement. Estate SCHANTLE minors, Johanna SCHANTLE, guardian, 2nd annual settlement. WEDNESDAY, 28 APRIL 1886 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE - Notice is hereby given that letters of administration on the estate of Lucretia SCOTT, deceased were granted to the undesigned, on the 10th day of April, 1886, by the Probate court of Jefferson county, Missouri. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them for allowance to the administrator within one year after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and if such claims be not exhibited within two years form the date of this publication, they shall be forever barred. Samuel SCOTT, Administrator, April 14, 1886 ORDER OF PUBLICATION - State of Missouri - County of Jefferson, In the Circuit court of Jefferson county, Mo., to the September term, 1886, - in vacation, March 22, 1886. Peter LEE, Paul LEE and John M. LEE, an infant, by his next friend, Peter LEE, plaintiffs, vs. Martha L. GANNON and Edward GANNON, her husband; Mary G. LEE, George W. NICHOLS, Mary GLENN, William GLENN, Sarah GLENN and Robert GLENN, defendants. At this day come the plaintiffs herein, by their attorney, Jos. J. WILLIAMS, and file their petition and affidavit, alleging among other things that defendant - Edward GANNON, one of said defendants, has absconded or absented himself from his usual place of abode in the State of Missouri, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon him. Whereupon it is ordered by the clerk that said defendant be notified by publication that plaintiff's have commenced a suit against him in this court the object and general nature of which is to contest the validity of a certain will made by one John LEE, late husband of Martha L. LEE (now Martha L. GANNON), and the father of plaintiff and the defendant, Mary C. LEE, dated February 15, 1876; admitted to Probate March 30, 1876, and approved by the Judge of Probate during the session of said Probate court on the 31st day of March, 1876; and asking the court that an issue be made up whether the said writing, which was admitted to Probate as hereto fore stated, be in fact the last will and testament of the said John LEE, deceased, or not, and for such orders and judgments in the premises as may be just and proper; and that unless the said Edward GANNON be and appear at this court, at the next term thereof, to be begun and holden at the courthouse in the town of Hillsboro, in said county, on the second Monday of September, next, and on or before the sixth day of said term, if the term shall so long continue - and if not, then on or before the last day of said term - answer or plead to the petition in said court, the same will be taken as confessed and judgment will be rendered accordingly. And it is further ordered that a copy, hereof be published, according to law, in the Jefferson Democrat, a newspaper printed and published in said county and State. </HTML>