ANNOUNCEMENT ..I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Recorder of Lawrence county, subject to the decision of the Democratic county convention. ... D. B. Loy. Miss Ora Davis returned Monday from a visit to friends in Marionville. Mrs. J. T. Teel left for her old home in Illinois Saturday evening. Miss Maud Johnson, of Spring River Prairie is visiting Miss Ethel Shelton. Frank Gillette left for Colorado last week on a health seeking tour. He is accompanied by his brother George. Miss Lizzie Collier, who has been visiting Miss Ida Gillingham, returned to her home in the east part of the county the first of the week. Those interested in the Ogle cemetery are requested to be there August 28. Business of importance will be transacted. Mrs. Pernie Lacey was in this city Saturday and left that evening for her home in Oklahoma. She had been on a visit to her mother in Ozark township. C. A. McCanse, C. R. Landrum, T. E. Shriver and J. M. McPherson are attending the Republican State convention at Excelsior Springs. W. S. Banner has sold his stock of groceries to E. E. Zentz, late of Mammoth Springs, Ark., who will continue the business at the same stand. David J. Skinner, father of Wm. B. and John M. Skinner, of this city, died at his home in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, Saturday morning. He had been sick a long time. Mrs. Caledonia Elliott will start in a few days to southwestern Texas with her niece, Miss Minnie Fullerton, who is very low with consumption. They go hoping to be benefitted by the climate. Demorest Gold Medal Contest to be held at Ozark C. P. Church at Union, Tuesday, August 21st, 8 p.m. Collection to be taken for the Temperance work. All invited. Committee. The Grand Jury adjourned Saturday. Eleven indictments were returned. The jurors report that they thoroughly investigated all cases brought before them, and yet it was the least expensive of any grand jury for years. Thomas Catts and Bud George arrived Saturday from Hempstead county, Ark. Mr. Catts came to look after a case in court and Mr. George will remain here until spring when he will return to the "land of cotton." Mr. Catts reports that himself and partner, George King, are well pleased with their new home and have good crops. Mr. B. B. Dyer died at his home in this city Monday morning, at 4 o'clock, of inflammation of the liver. His death was sudden and unexpected as he was able to be up Sunday morning. He was 42 years of age and leaves a wife and eight children. Funeral services were held at the C. P. Church, of which he was a member, and the interment took place in the city cemetery. Mr. Dyer was a good citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Harley entertained the young people of Mt. Vernon Thursday evening of last week in honor of Miss Autie McKennon, niece of Mr. Harley, of Clarksville, Ark., who has been visiting here for some time. [Omitted decorations, etc.] Those present were: Misses Blanche Stephens, Lizzie Kelton, Lenna Wilson, Autie McKennon, M. Lister, Jennie Seamons, Nona Davis, Janie McKnight, Dan Fulbright, Alma Leathers, Ida Gibson, Lucile Erskine, Ellen Potter, Clara Manlove, Gertrude Guthrie, Nora Millsap, Addie Manlove, Leni Smith, Grace Matthews, Lilly Thompson, Lora Wright, Lynnie Johnson, Eula Linzee, Dosia Wilson, Mamie Wilson, Carrie Davis, Mable Denney, Bessie Cecil, Nell Millsap. Messrs. Tom Newman, Finis White, E. E. Tedrow, W. N. Marbut, Hub Jones, Herbert Burke, Rob Matthews, George Kendall, Claude Kendall, Liss Kendall, Frank Leathers, George Gillette, John Stone, Dr. Voorhies, O. G. Estep, H. S. Fowler, Joe Manlove, Gus Cox, Liss Trimble, D. Newton, Charles Baugh, Frank Gillette. CIRCUIT COURT ..Mt. Vernon Bank vs. John D. Porter; plaintiff take non-suit with leave to move to set same aside. ..Lula O'Neal vs. John O'Neal; final decree of divorce granted plaintiff and custody of two minor children awarded her. ..R. H. Fite vs. N. T. Clevenger, appeal from J. P. court; case striken from the docket. ..D. C. Rose vs. Watson and Mary Lamb, appeal from J. P. court; cause dismissed for failure to prosecute. ..John Wolfenbarger et al vs. B. O. Wheeler et al; action for damages; defendant files motion to dismiss for failure to file cost bond. ..John D. Hillhouse vs. John W. Ballard, note; dismissed by plaintiff. ..Assignment of W. F. Sater; petition filed and W. A. McCanse, assignee, to take charge of goods and effects of W. F. Sater instead of M. L. Lee who refuses to act as asignee. ..State vs. Michael Staffleback, indicted for burglary and larceny; nolle as to burglary and plea of guilty to larceny and sentenced to penitentiary for a term of two years. ..E. C. Gillette vs. W. G. Likins et al, recovery of real estate; jury discharged by agreement and cause submitted to the court and judgment finding for defendants A. W. and D. M. Likins. ..A. B. Beavens vs. C. H. Barnard; satisfaction of judgment acknowledged. ..John W. Wolfenbarger et al vs. B. O. Wheeler, damages; dismissed for failure to give cost bond. ..Hannah Grey vs. Lewis C. Grey; decree of divorce granted plaintiff and custody of child awarded her.

[CIRCUIT COURT, cont.] ..Mattie A. Agan vs. John Agan, action for divorce; dismissed by plaintiff. ..Sarah E. Titterington vs. Jesse M. Titterington; decree of divorce granted plaintiff. ..State vs. James M. Vires, indicted for murder; plea of not guilty; defendant files application for change of venue and same sustained and change awarded to Barton county and sheriff ordered to transmit body of defendant to Barton. ..State vs. Frank M. Moore, indicted for felonious assault; plea of not guilty and defendant released on bond in sum of $600. ..State vs. Andrew Boyd, indicted for rape; plea of not guilty. ..W. D. McNeill, administrator of the estate of Neal McNeill vs. John A. McNeill; judgment in default against defendant for $862.45. ..T. E. Shriver vs. W. J. Hood; action on note; trial by jury; judgement for defendant. ..F. B. Waltz vs. E. C. Waltz, decree of divorce granted plaintiff. ..Mary E. Thompson vs. Amanda Jane Cline, action for damages; defendant files application for change of venue. ..Isabell Duncan vs. Wm. B. Duncan, decree of divorce granted plaintiff. A FREE LECTURE ..Dr. Curl, D. D., president of Marionville Collegiate Institute, will lecture on Education Thursday night, in the M. E. church at Mt. Vernon. Dr. Curl is an educator of eminent ability and is able to handle his subject in a masterly and interesting way. Every one come and hear him. CARD OF THANKS ..We wish to express our thanks to our many friends for their kindness and sympathy during the short illness of our darling little Clo. Also to thank the minisgter for his words of comfort in our darkest hour, the choir's appreciated music and the lady who brought those lovely flowers, which if Clo could have seen, she would have said, "u, u, au'sy p'itty." .....Robert and Cora Morgan Mrs. Crockett and Hal Matthews, her grandson, are visiting relatives in the north part of the state. COUNTY COURT August 7 ..Accounts dismissed as follows: Phillis Snead, Malissa Fortner and T. S. Robinson. ..Accounts allowed as follows: ..C. W. Likens, material for jail, $4.00 ..C. A. Wilkerson, med att paup, $2.75 ..F. M. Johnson, coffin for paup, $7.00 ..B. B. Dyer, labor and material for county jail, $6.40 ..Wilder Bros, team for county, $1.50 ..A. R. Wheat, express for co., $0.90 ..J. D. Whaley, repairs on collector's office, $5.70 ..J. B. Good, stationery for probate court, $1.05 ..Jewell Sta. Co., stationery for county, $9.00 ..Frey Sta. Co., stationery for county, $4.90 ..G. D. Barnard and Co., Books ect. for county, $105.80 ..G. A. Ryan Co., Tr. for State Lunatic Asylum, $364.10 ..G. A. Ryan Co., Tr. for State Lunatic Asylum, $219.35 ..R. C. Sedwick services as J. P. in insane case, $1.65 ..Standard Printing Co., books, $24.14 ..G. M. Carey, sta. and ex. for co., $18.25 ..J. M. McPherson, expenses as Prosecuting Attorney, $8.60 ..G. A. Ryan, services as co. tr., $200.00 ..W. C. Trimble, sta. for county, $4.15 ..W. C. McCanse & Co., matting for Court House, $32.84 ..G. A. Ryan, for state in. asy'm, $65.00 ..J. W. McAndrew, ser. as sur'r, $64.00 ..For help in surveying pub roads, $17.50 ..R. B. Gillette, ser as co. clerk, $489.23 ..J. S. Wilson, taking person to poor house, $2.50 ..Reed Bros., coffin for poor per, $7.00 ..J. M. McPherson, ser pros atty, $200.00 ..Petition of Wat Cantrell et al to vacate road, read and continued. ..J. E. Grubaugh granted exemption from road labor. August 8 ..Petition of J. C. White et al to vacate public road dismissed for the reason that proper notices had not been served on resident land owners. ..The following accounts allowed: ..Luther Howell, for self and family, aid to poor persons, $8.00 ..Farmers Bank of Mt. Vernon, for discount on asylum war, $5.00 ..B. A. McCormick's constable bond approved. ..Tax levy ordered on the valuation of the St. Louis and San Francisco railway property, Missouri and Western Branch thereof, Greenfield & Northern railroad, and Western Union Telegraph Company at the same rate as is levied on other property in this Co. ..Geo. A. Ryan granted quietus on fair ground property. ..The following fee bills from Barry and Newton county circuit courts ordered allowed to Geo. M. Carey, circuit clerk, viz.: State of Missouri vs. Vess Thompson, John B. Williams, Samp J. Allen, Ed. Brown, Elisha Engle and Samp J. Allen (2) $988.85. And the following from the Lawrence county circuit court, viz: State of Missouri vs. Walter Edington, R. M. Gardner, Bert Wells, John Shaski, Houston Haislip, John Carney, Jacob Roe, H. D. Clark, Robert Dean, Joseph Harper, Lewis Casey, Carson Jenkins, Frank Gaddis, W. H. and Cora Frey, Henry Thatcher, William Shockley, Fred Bridges, Geo. Jones, Ida White, Fletcher Adams, William Martin, Ben Hatcher, Carson Jenkins, Ray Drit, Harve Choate, Geo., James, and Jacob Brown, Sam Lewis, Calvin Wright, Bud Connell, Ralph Smith, Thos. B. Leach, John and Levi Nelson, Fred Shoe, Frankie Johnson, Ida Hauch, Charles Price, Wm. Shockley, John T. Threat, Herman Davis, Geo. Gordon, Geo. Hollingsworth, Effie Angle, U. M. Stapp, Jane Doe, Mollie Messick, Reuben Paul, Arthur Beard, A. Shellenbarger, Emmet Poindexter, Fred Carter, Frank Gaddis, W. H. and Cora Frey, Lewis Griffith, James Wallis and Verni Gordon, in sum total of $1053.36.

[COUNTY COURT, cont.] August 9. ..Ordered by the Court that the State Auditor be requested to draw his warrant for $8356.80 in favor of Co. Treasurer for account of pub schools. ..Ordered by the Court that J. M. McPherson, Prosecuting Attorney, proceed to collect from Dade County the sum of $100 erroneously paid into the Dade county school fund for fines on change of venue from this county with interest on the same. ..Following accounts allowed: ..Geo. A. Ryan, interest on Peirce Township bonds, $1614.75 ..J. W. Hopper, for sta and express for county, $3.75 ..T. A. Miller Lumber Co., Phenyle for jail, $10.00 ..McCanse Bros, hardware for court house, $7.27 ..County Treasurer's settlement approved. ..John Allen, med att o poor, $10.00 ..J. Houghton, sta for county, $3.50 August 10 ..J. E. Grammar road, probable damages fixed by court at $2.50. ..Peirce township divided into two voting precincts; voting place in No. 1 to be in Peirce City and No. 2 to be at Forest Park school house. ..J. H. Russell road, commissioners appointed, W. B. Hutcheson, J. L. Carter, and James R. Dobbins. ..Thomas Wilkerson road, commissioners appointed, J. N. Hope, B. Cantrell, and Joseph Hood. ..W. H. Moore road ordered established. ..L. W. Gum road ordered established. ..J. P. Richardson road ordered established when new road is opened. ..The following accounts were allowed: ..Clark Bros. for burial clothes for pauper, $5.00 ..J. R. Woodfill, services as road commissioner, $2.00 ..Samuel Bridges, same, $2.00 ..Robert Lee, same, $2.00 ..John D. Allen, swearing road commissioners, $0.50 ..State, county, township and other school money ordered apportioned. August 11 ..W. S. Johnston ordered commissioned as J. P. for Pierce township for a term of four years from Nov. 8, 1892, as by law required, he having been heretofore erroneously commissioned for a term of two years. ..Accounts allowed as follows: .. George S. Wilson, for guarding county jail, $29.00 ..John S. Wilson, for services as sheriff, $65.50 ..A. T. King, for taking insane person to asylum, $29.55 ..R. B. Gillette, for stationery, express &c, for county, $19.40 ..G. A. Ryan, county treasurer, for board of insane patient at asylum, $65.00 ..Harley & Porter, for evidence of title in tax suits, $133.40 ..J. W. Wilkerson, for services as county judge, 31.90 ..W. W. Brashers, same, $31.40 ..Aug. Fritz, same, $31.00 ..Ordered that the court adjourn until Monday, September 3d, 1894. PROBATE COURT ..Estate of Araminta Adams, deceased; 1st settlement of D. V. Worsham, executor, approved. Balance due estate, $1,209.24. ..Estate of Selina M. Derrick, deceased, 4th settlement of I. B. Young approved; Balance due estate, $15.90. ..Estate of Phillip Orahood, deceased, final settlement of Phillip Brewer, administrator, approved and administrator discharged. ..Final settlement of John W. Bell, administrator of the estate of James Wilson; deceased, approved and administrator discharged. ..Estate of W. C. Stotts, deceased; 1st settlement of A. C. Wilson, administrator, approved. Balance due estate $11.89. Administrator ordered to sell real estate. ..Estate of David R. Stahl, insane; 3d settlement of W. R. Stahl, guardian, approved. Balance due estate, $1,038.44. ..Estates of John R. and Emory E. Phariss, minors; 1st settlement of Samuel A. Lee, curator, approved. Balance due estates, $127.43. ..Final settlement of Charles Lawson, curator of Ethel Ryan, approved and curator discharged, ward having acknowledged full satisfaction. ..Estates of John R. and Emory E. Phariss, minors; sale bill in sum of $169.59 approved. ..Estate of John Fox, deceased; C. A. Raupp, appointed administrator and bond in sum of $1,000 filed and approved. ..R. W. Jones appointed administrator of the estate of Elizabeth M. Calhoon, deceased; D. J. Griswold files additional inventory in the sum of $71.70 approved. ..Estate of Araminta Adams, deceased; private sale bill in sum of $145.54 approved. ..Will of Cornelius Seburn admitted to probate. The will gives to the widow all the property with power of sale, for use during her lifetime and at her death to be equally divided among the children. ..Estate of Leonard Cook, deceased; C. P. Cook, administrator, ordered to distribute $512.35 among heirs.