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, 24 MARCH 1886 IN MEMORIAM: To Birdie STAETZEL, who died February 15, 1886, aged 17 years. Sandy, Mo. Aunt Sarah. ( There was a memorial poem included which I chose to not include in this file.) SPECIAL NOTICE - Whereas, my son, Aaron C. HINCKLEY, a minor, has left his home, I hereby warn all persons not to harbor him, as I am entitled to his services and will require payment for same. Aaron HINCKLEY DEATHS and BIRTHS - The following deaths were filed with the County Clerk the past week. Date Name Age Aug 15 Samuel HAMMOCK 1 yr 3 ms Jan 20 Infant son Henry FRAZIER 7 days Mar 7 ---- HODSON 4 months BIRTHS Date Name of Mother Sex March 10 Mrs. Philip JACKSON son March 3 Mrs. Wm. B. METCALFE son March 8 Mrs. Lucilla M.A. STEWART son March 3 Mrs. Thos. J McKEEVER son March 13 Mrs. Otto MILLER son March 1 Mrs. Clark DEBOSE son March 5 Mrs. Wallace SMITH son Feb'ry 17 Mrs. Sobert J. JOHNSTON son Feb'ry 13 Mrs. William DACE son Feb'ry 3 Mrs. Arthur STERNS girl Feb'ry 24 Mrs. John RAINS girl Feb'ry 17 Mrs. George HERBERT son Feb'ry 22 Mrs. Thomas EDELMANN son Sept. 39 Mrs. Jeptha HAMMOCK son (The date of birth here is as it was/is printed in the paper.) Mrs.C.M. WILLIAMS and daughter May, who have been visiting at Tipton, Mo., during the Winter have returned home. The cooking club met at Miss Emma HAMMEL's last Thursday evening. The usual crowd attended. The principal amusement was progressive euchror. The first prizes were awarded to Miss Minnie DAY and Ben CONWAY, and the low or booby prize to Miss Winna THOMAS and W.F. EDINGER. At 10:30 supper was announced, which consisted of all the delicacies of the season. De Soto, March 22, 1886. Mr. BELL finished baling hay in this vicinity last week. He baled 300 bales for Smith DUTTON, 160 for W.S. McCORMACK. He moved into the Hematite neighborhood this week. We understand that his children have scarlet fever, but in a mild form. WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH 1886 John SHELTON is in St. Louis, attending the United States Circuit court as petit juror. Our town is somewhat lonesome without him. Martin OGLE sold his farm, north of Hillsboro, to Millard F. HERRINGTON, and will start, the last of this week, for Texas county, Mo., where he expects to make his home. On the 23rd inst., there was a wedding in the Recorder's office. Charles COOMBS and Miss Sarah E. CRAWSHAW, both of Crystal, were the contracting parties and 'Squire MOCKBEE officiated. Licensed to Marry - Frederick GRIMM and Catharine HEIMBACH, John B. DELOOY(?) and Darley VAUGHN, Charles COMBS and Sarah E. CRAWSHAW, Gottleim R. BOLINE and Frances M. HUSKEY, Michael ROESCH and Anna G. YUNGERMANN. (My working copy was very dim and almost impossible to read.) The Mirror of last week tells of the death of Roxie McDANIEL, an old colored woman,who lived near Judge MADISON's. She fell on a pair of scissors, which penetrated between the fourth and fifth ribs, and caused almost instant death. W.J. HUSKEY lost two of his girls in one week, and didn't go into mourning either. Miss Idell was married on Sunday, the 21st inst., to George W. RUSSELL, and Miss Frances M., on the 25th, to Gottleib R. BOHNE. Rev. FRAZIER had the pleasure of uniting both couples. We congratulate the young people on their start in life and wish them success all the journey through. John A. RICHARDSON, photographer at Festus, died on the 20th instant, of pneumonia, aged nearly 48 years. Mr. R. was an old newspaper man and, since the Mirror started, had been connected, more or less with that office. He leaves a wife and two children. He was a prominent member of the Knights of Labor, and the assembly to which he belonged passed some tender resolutions in his memory. Last Wednesday William CLARK was burning some trash about his farm, when the fire got into the leaves along the fence, and it required several hours of hard work to save the fence from being destroyed. William DEER and Hermann SIEMERS lost several hundred panels of rails, by fire, the same day. Mr. KLEINSCHMIDT has had an addition to his family. A wee bit of a lass arrived at his house Thursday forenoon. Charles is not as happy as he should be, and all because the little one is not a boy, and can not become AttorneyGeneral. This is a mistaken idea, however; of the new addition attains the age of 17 years, she may be the means of giving a good lawyer to her father for a son, while a young man of 17 would be a poor pettifogger at best. Many of our readers will be glad to hear that our former fellow-citizen, Mr. H.H. HARLESS, still liveth, and that very likely on the fat of the land, judging from the business he is in. He is the editor of the Buckley (Iroqois county, Ill.) Inquirer, a large eight-column folio, and the "fat of the land" expression we use because of our personal experience in that line of business. Else where we publish an Obituary clipped from his paper, and the following we take from his locals: "Mr. Fred LANGHENNING, Sr., and wife and daughter, and Mr. Fred LANGHENNING, Jr., attended the funeral services of their daughter and sister, Mrs. LUHREEN." </HTML>