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From: Linda Reichert <>
Subject: Jefferson County Record - February 22, 1917 - Volunteer Transcription Part 10
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:08:35 -0600


Jefferson County Record, Hillsboro, Mo
February 22, 1917
Vol. XIII, No. 9

Volunteer Transcription - Part 10

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[top is VERY dark, words in [brackets] are best guess and *could* be
something else]

Obituary.
Mrs. [Bess?] [Williams?] LANHAM [according to
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mojeffer/hillsboro.html, this would be Medora
LANHAM b.1873 d 1917] died at Hillsboro Monday morning, February 19th.
She was about 43 years old and has been married to Thomas M. LANHAM for
about [26?] years. She was a daughter of Phineas and Ann WILLIAMS and
was born on the old homestead about two miles north of Hillsboro, where
also she was married. There were born to the union eight children, five
of whom are living. Laura, now Mrs. Joe BUERGER, Elliott, Evelyn,
Walter and May. Mrs. LANHAM and her husband, Thomas M. LANHAM, who
survive her >>>>>> the Baptist church in St. Louis, where they were
then living about four years ago. She leaves two sisters, Miss Laura
WILLIAMS of this place and Ruth ASHBY of St. Louis, and two brothers,
Willis and William who are out west somewhere. Mrs. LANHAM’s mother
died last August just six months ago. She and her husband having been
running the Commercial Hotel in Hillsboro for the past tow or three
years and Mrs. LANHAM was well known to a great many citizens of our
county.

She was taken ill last week with some severe gastric disorder and
suffered intensely from the very first, so that it was necessary to
keep her well under the influence of opiates almost from the first and
while there seemed periods of improvement, but they were only
transitory. Her funeral was Tuesday afternoon, Rev. GOODWIN of DeSoto
officiating after which she was interred in the Hillsboro cemetery.

Mrs. LANHAM was a woman of boundless industry, was a kind and indulgent
mother and a loving wife. She had her troubles as do all, but the
clouds of despair never darkened her vision for any great length of
time. She sleep well in the little cemetery she so often visited to
pay tribute to those gone before and there may she peacefully rest
until the morning when the day breaks and the shadows fade away.”
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“The newspaper man” is about the only great producer who is not sharing
in the war-made prosperity. Everything he buys has gone up and he still
sells his paper at the same old price and takes a chance at that.” To
prove this he offers the following: “ Please send me a few copies of
the paper containing the obituary of my aunt. Also publish the enclosed
clipping of the marriage of my niece who lives in Lewistown. And I wish
you would mention me in your local column if it doesn’t cost anything,
that I have tow bull calves for sale. As my subscription is out please
stop my paper as times are too hard to waste money on newspapers.”
--Ex.
We know him, too!

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NOTICE
TO Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Curators:
Your[sic] are hereby notified that your Settlements as they appar [sic]
on the February term docket, and for any and other terms hereafter,
will be called for such settlement on the date set, in the Probate
Court Docket, which will be published for four weeks before the first
day of the term following. And if you fail to appear on or before such
date, your settlement will be continued for ten days, and unless good
cause is shown, the Court will have to issue Citation, which means
expenses to you as such, Executor, Administrator, Guardian and Curator,
which will be in accordance to law, as per Sections 225 and 48 of the
revised Statute 1909.

Now here is the point. Every setlemnt[sic] must be put on the docket,
and every docket must be published for our weeks and the court sends on
notices to every such Executor, Administrator, Guardian and Curator
stating the date set on the docket for such settlement, which must all
be paid for by the Estate. And if such settlement is not made at the
Term ?ocketed, it must be continued, and be placed on the Docket for
the next term of court, which means still more expense for the estate.
Now there have been from 15 to 30 settlements continued almost every
term of court, and dragged along from one term to the other, which is
absolutely uncalled for and unjust to the estates, and is entirely
contrary to the statutes.
Yours Respectfully,
J. P. MILLER,
Judge of Probate Court

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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
All creditors and others interested in the estate of J. W. TULLOCK,
Deceased,
are here by notified that I, the undersigned intend to make final
settlement of said estate at the next term of the Probate Court of
Jefferson County, Mo., to be held at Hillsboro on the fourth Monday in
February, 1917
Mrs. Mary TULLOCK, Administratrix.
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For Sale
Choice clover seed, apply at J. WALDORF, Kimmswick, Route 3, Mo.
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~AD~
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