. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. and Jesse A. Gilley. They wereall prominent in the life of the town in itsearly years. We may well suppose that life in a com-munity like this was hampered in many waysand that the growth of the , and neces-sarily the towns, was slow. Possibly one ofthe most remarkable records ever entered bya court was made by one of the courts inPoplar Bluff, as follows: It is ordered bythe court that the slieriff borrow $20 fromanybody who would loan it to him for thepurpose of bu
. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. and Jesse A. Gilley. They wereall prominent in the life of the town in itsearly years. We may well suppose that life in a com-munity like this was hampered in many waysand that the growth of the , and neces-sarily the towns, was slow. Possibly one ofthe most remarkable records ever entered bya court was made by one of the courts inPoplar Bluff, as follows: It is ordered bythe court that the slieriff borrow $20 fromanybody who would loan it to him for thepurpose of buying two seals, one for the cir-cuit clerk and one for the county clerk. Weare left in doubt as to whether anyone wasgood enough to lend this money, but as sealswere used by the courts within a short timeafter this we reasonably conclude thatthe loan was made. At the present time there are in PoplarBhiff about seventy-five mercantile establish-ments of every kind; this large number indi-cates the amount of mercantile business trans-acted in the town. In addition to these there 294 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. Poplar Bluff High School
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