A Twelve-Month's Tale., The record of 1884 in Cooper County

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1884 exerpt came from Boonville Weekly Advertiser, Boonville, Cooper Co.,
MO, 2 Jan 1885, page 2.

A Twelve-Month's Tale.
The record of 1884 in Cooper County
Births, Marriages, and Deaths, and General Local Happenings.
JANUARY
1 - Miss Jane Howard died, aged ninety years.
2 - marriage of J. R. Quarles and Miss Mamie Bunce; Samuel
Reynolds' house on farm of John J. Gibson burned; work on
creamery commenced; week of prayer observed in Protestant
churches.
5 - Thermometer stood at 32 degrees below zero - coldest of year;
A three-year-old son of Sallie Fry, colored, froze to death at
Chouteau Springs.
4 - Complimentary pop-corn banquet (?) tendered to W. M.
Williams.
9 - Married, Silas L. Rankin and Miss Allie Humphreyville; relief
committees doing good work among the poor; David C. Byler died in
Cass county, aged seventy-one years; Charles DeWitt robbed store
in Franklin, and is captured in Sedalia.
12 - Charles Weber badly burned by blasting accident.
11 - Nat. R. Harris died at Pilot Grove.
13 - N. M. Crooms commits suicide near town -- cause, insanity;
$3000 in city bonds retired; Simeon T. Davis died at Pilot Grove.
15 - Emil Palliou robbed at depot by unknown tramp; festival for
poor, by ladies of Boonville; net receipts, $112.50; Pilot Grove
MIRROR declares for T. P. Bashaw for Governor; the Boonville
TOPIC announced for Marmaduke; Morgan Cammack arrested for
forgery.
17 - Captain J. H. Orr died; McDearmon and Finney form a co-
partnership as contractors;
25 - "Doc" Arnold suicides at Pisgah
29 - Leap year ball on 29th.

FEBRUARY
1 - Professor T. A. Johnston announces intention of erecting a
$50,000 college in Boonville, and buys ground; Lester Wright and
Miss Mollie Williams, Thomas D. Turner and Miss Blanche Reid, F.
McCune and Mrs. Mary Wood were married; the hull of the wrecked
"Bright Light" raised by Captain H. McPherson;
8 - Mrs. Nancy J. Cooper died; Newt. Monday attempts life of Jim
Quinn.
12 - August Hadelich died, aged fifteen years; Knights of Pythias
gave entertainment at Hall; Patrick Sullivan and Miss Barbara
Hall married; Mrs. Francis M. Davis died; Boovnille Creamery
Company incorporated.
14 - Robert Bone and Miss Sadie Russell married; German M. E.
church dedicated;
19 - Major Wm. Lusk died;
25 - Mrs. T. W. Cartledge died; circuit court in session, large
number of cases disposed of.
26 - Stephen Weber died
25 - Married Thomas Drinkwater and Miss Lutie Harrison, W. E.
Richey and Miss Helen Carpenter, Charles D. Rowles and Miss
Fannie Harris.
28 - Married, Miss Ida Koontz and Isaac Hupp, Riley Holman and
Miss Ruth Staples.

MARCH
5 - Married, Charles B. Gaunt and Miss Josie Eckhard.
2 - Frame house in rear of City Hotel destroyed by fire.
4 - Married, J. O. Reeson and Mrs. Nancy Robbins.
6 - Jerry Edwards, of Pisgah, died from effects of wound
inflicted by Benjamin Palmer.
16 - Married, Michael Cohn and Miss Carrie Waterman.
18 - Clear Creek township voted seventy-five to five in favor of
compromising bonded debt.
23 - Cooper County Bible Society holds its annual meeting; Thomas
McLeod and John Morrissey, tramps, attempt to rob Ellis' store at
Pilot Grove, and are captured; Henry Saunders gives himself up to
the officers.
27 - Rock-road meeting at Tipton, with Cooper represented.
25 - E. B. Mellor, of Lamine, died.
26 - Married, Albert Matthews and Miss Mattie Hulett.
29 - Republican city convention held, and full ticket nominated.

APRIL
8 - Boonville city election held and full republican ticket
chosen, with exception of W. H. Harrison, democrat, for street
commissioner.
4 - J. E. Baker died near Otterville.
5 - Horse-show held in Boonville.
9 - Robert Gault died, aged seventy-one.
20 - Married, Frank Wilkins, of Boonville, and Miss Iola Workman,
of Kansas.
17 - William Dengolesky and Miss Sophia Meisel were married.
18 - John W. Wilson commits suicide at Moberly; county court lets
the contracts for working roads.
23 - The Bunceton deport burns.
24 - Married, Elmer L. Koontz and Miss Josie Smith.
22 - Dr. Sonneschein, of St. Louis, lectures to crowded house.
24 - Wm. Rayl died aged eighty-eight years.  Pilot Grove bank
organized.

MAY
2 - Frank James brought to Boonville to answer charge of
Otterville robbery.  Released on writ of habeas corpus to appear
in July, bond, $6,000; married J. C. Spahr and Miss Mollie Lingo;
C. A. Arlington arrested at Pilot Grove, for passing counterfeit
money; died, Mrs. Chas. F. Weyrich;  Horace Leonard's leg broken;
4 - Mrs. P. H. McNulty died.
3 - W. C. T. U. organized in Boonville; Cicero Berson arrested
charged with grand larceny -- wanted in Kansas.
13 - W. C. Bronaugh and Miss Eva Blankenbaker married.
10 - A. R. Hutchison died, aged twenty.
17 - Democratic primary election held, 2092 votes cast.
20 - May party, Miss Mamie Spahr crowned queen; Boonville
Publishing Company incorporated.  Married, Phil Back and Miss Lou
Meisenheizer.
22 - Democratic congressional committee meet in Boonville; Daniel
Devine died at Clifton, aged one hundred and three years; annual
examinations and closing exercises of the various schools take
place.
25 - John Thro's safe robbed.

JUNE
3 - Died, Bettie V. Kratz; Augustus Keucklehan commits suicide;
F. Piper has leg broken by rock falling on him.
9 - Democratic conventions at Boonville to elect delegates to
state and congressional conventions.
12 - The Kemper School form an alumni association.
9 - Married, Mr. Wm. Campbell and Miss Ella Greenlease;
Otterville post-office robbed of $75.
8 - Sam Bruce, colored, drowned in Petite Saline creek.
17 - Dr. John Fetzer died; married, Louis Dibrell and Miss Ida
Nelson.
15 - C. B. Combs killed by the cars at Lamar.
18 - Died, Mrs. Baz. Wells; city ordinance passed, making
assessment on $100, 50c for general purposes, 20c for interest,
and 25c for hydrant rental.
18 - James Baker died; J. D. Coates killed in Arkansas.
28 - Jos. Stephens, Sr., died, aged eighty-three; Mrs. Christine
James died.
25 - Married, Frank Swap and Miss Jennie McKenzie.

JULY
1 - John Zshirpo killed near Billingsville by a runaway team; Dan
Briggs arrested in Lamine township charged with murder; Bell &
Bro. enlarge their apple factory; the Boonville REPUBLICAN makes
its first appearance.
6 - Charles Allen's residence destroyed.
7 - The steamer "H. C. Coleman" blown up by boiler explosion, and
Taylor Smart (colored) drowned.
9 - Richard D. Holman died, aged eighty-eight years.
? - Burglars rob the houses of G. G. Weare and Wm. Mittelbach; W.
D. Mahan's new book published: "Life of F. T. Kemper" placed on
sale.
12 - Dan G. Davis died.
14 - Pat Sullivan's house struck by lightning, no one hurt.
12 - Benjamin Palmer arrested in Arkansas for killing Jerry
Edwards.
14 - Boonville democrats ratify.
18 - J. J. Wilkins ordained as pastor of the Episcopal church.
14 - Mrs. W. H. Trigg died, at the age of sixty-seven years; Dr.
F. Swap elected president of Missouri Dental Association.
16 - Charles Drake died at Minnetonka, Minnesota; Cleveland and
Hendricks clubs formed.
24 - John T. Heard nominated for congress.
25 - Sam Hickam shoots Harrison Davenport, in Saline township.
30 - J. C. Gross died, aged fifty-three years.
28 - Normal Institute commenced a three weeks' session.
30 - Mrs. Margaret Ellis died at Pilot Grove.

AUGUST
2 - Died, John L. Windsor, aged twenty-one years.
4 - Mr. R. Meirhoffer and Miss Emma Smith married.
? - Dr. H. C. Gibson's leg broken.
9 - Steamer "Martha Stephens" sinks, and Henry Hoefer, the
bartender, and three roustabouts are drowned.
10 - Rev. O. W. Gauss tenders resignation as pastor of the
Presbyterian church; Henry Saunders pardoned.
18 - Rev. G. W. Horn died; circuit court in session; the Frank
James' case continued.
22 - S. W. Crossley died at Bell Air, aged forty-two years.
21 - Married J. F. Krebs and Mrs. L. Osgood; E. A. Cochrane
appointed school commissioner; the firm of Muir, Quarles & Ferrel
formed.

SEPTEMBER
3 - E. S. Mills and Miss Annie Tucker married; Bunceton organized
an A. O. U. W. Lodge; republican mass meeting held to elect
delegates to different conventions; Miss Laura Withers died.
12 - S. W. Ravenci retires from ADVERTISER, and takes charge of
TOPIC; Speed and Lon Stephens assume control of the ADVERTISER;
Benj. Hess drowned in the Lamine river; C. L. S. C. organized in
Boonville.
9 - Grand democratic rally at Boonville.
15 - The "Rob Roy" sinks and 1,200 sacks of wheat are lost; Mrs.
Schiller dies suddenly.
18 - Geo. G. Weare, Jr., died at St. Louis.
20 - Republican rally at Boonville; Republican county convention
"indorsed" a county ticket; Theo. Christine, of Otterville,
injured by a fall from a train.

OCTOBER
1 - Marriage of Miss Maggie Cooper and Mr. Reuben Bryant, and of
Miss Ellie Adams and Dr. Sam'l Johnson; Boonville Literary Club
organized; Water Street bridge broken down by heavy rains;
Elopement of B. W. Plant and Miss Mamie Kline and Paul Minor and
Miss Alice Kline.
12 - Mrs. Charles Williams died.
11 - Missouri Pacific depot entered and robbed.
27 - Opening of new Thespain Opera house by Sol Smith Russell; N.
M. B. club organized.
21 - Marriage of S. S. Harnaca and Miss Ella Summers.
31 - F. M. Caldwell, L. H. Stahl and Phil W. Stahl take charge of
the ADVERTISER as publishers and proprietors; Speed and Lon
Stephens retiring.
29 - Marriage of Herman P. Weyland and Miss A. M. Wilson, of
Tipton; Mrs. Rosina Labbo died, aged seventy-five years.
27 - Republican rally at Pilot Grove; Died at Clark's Fork,
Christopher Kosted.

NOVEMBER
5 - The ADVERTISER presents, in its extra, the first news of
Cleveland's election; Marriage of H. H. Leonard and Miss Claude
Chappell; John Darmstadt died.
4 - Death of Mrs. Nancy Green
6 - Death of Mrs. M. E. Stephens; Rev. Dr. Gauss preaches his
farewell sermon.
11 - N. A. Gilbreath celebrates his fiftieth anniversary;
Democratic ratification meetings over the county; Circuit court
in session;
16 - Death of Mrs. Jessie Main.
19 - Marriage of W. H. Allison Jr. and Miss Amelia Hosp; Max
Heller and Miss Leonora Beck married at Pleasant Green.
14 - Miss Minnie L. Russell gave entertainment at Thespian Opera
House.
22 - John Keithley kills Ike Martin, col'd; Keithley bound over
in $8,000 bond.
27 - Death of Mrs. Ann M. Windsor.
15 - John Sharp died near Billingsville.

DECEMBER
3 - Marriage of Mr. Clark Bowmer and Miss Birdie Edwards; Mr.
Holla Hopkins and Miss Lydia Farris.
1 - Mr. Ed. Stewart has hand sawed off; Will Back brought home
from Illinois with a broken leg; Marriage of Mr. Wm. E. McMahan
and Miss Vena Russell; W. R. Baker sells his store to Kosted &
Allison; Wm. Maher disposes of one-half interest in Globe Shoe
Store to Chas. L. Glasscock.
3 - M. M. Singleton, formerly of Boonville, died in Louisiana.
7 - Henry, son of Jas. Gault, died, aged four years;
9 - Marriage of Miss Fannie Plant and Mr. B. B. Ray.
10 - Marriage of R. H. Goodman and Miss Elenora Sombart; Henry
Kline and Miss Josephine Mitchell; Irvin Powell commits suicide;
Henry Saunders attempts to take his own life but fails.
16 - Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sloan celebrate their golden wedding;
Burglars rob Hays, Winterbower & Co., at Overton; Henry Bills,
colored, of Pilot Grove, lodged in jail for assault; Mrs.
Gustavus Reiche seriously injured by a fall; Rev. W. D. Morton
called as Pastor of Boonville Presbyterian Church; Account of C.
B. Rush's elopement published in The ADVERTISER of the 9th.
22 - Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Speed celebrate their 14th wedding
anniversary; Lodge of K. and L. of H. organized in Boovnille;
26 - ADVERTISER publishes eight page review of Resources of
Cooper County.