Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-02
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trinm visit during the week.
We hear of numerous weddings upon
the tapis. A sure sign of cold weather.
James Graham, Richmond's popular
>voung banker, spent last Sunday IN II
Aay.
Quite a number of changes were made
in the CITY assessment by the board OF
appeals
> Only two persons in the calaboose:
Iexinotou is certainly becoming exceed
ingly moral.
Albert Graham is at present engaged
as lightning picker at the A. II. T. de-
pot, in old town.
The ..white coat has been placed up
on the Lewis buildings IS, and they will soon
be ready for occupancy
Our merchants have lately received
LARGE additions to their stocks OF goods,
and the fall trade is quite lively.
Claude, son of DR.. l.. Watson, OF this
CITY. left last Tuesday for st. Louis, to
attend medical lectures during the TALL
and winter.
John I. Pigott has been in the city
during a portion of this week, attending
to business and hobnobbing with his nu-
merous friends.
Messrs. Grimes & Vcnable were the
first persons in town to have gas fix
lures placed in their store. This firm Is
Railways on time.
! The doctors say that carly rising is
very injurious, especially at this season
of the year. Don't get up too soon-iet
Your wife make the fires
I. may be of interest to sportsmen to
know that they now have the legal right
to kill duck, deer, doe, fawn. wild tur-
KEY, quail and prairie chickens.
1t is a pleasant thing to see roses and
lilies glowing upon a young Lady,
cheek, but a bad sign to see a young
mans face break out in blossoms.
Messrs. Kriehn & Wilker have remov-
ed to their new store. one door west OF
their former stand, on Franklin street,
and are nice and comfortable in then
new quarters.
H. j. E. Ahrens is having his store,
corner of Franklin and Cedar streets, re
modelled and painted throughout. When
completed, it will be OF the finest
store-rooms in the city.
The o. S. Presbyterian Synod of Mis-
souri, will meet in Sedalia October 10,
1875, and will remain i'll session. proba,
bly,, four or five days. 100 members are
expected to be in attendance.
With the thermometer at 80 IN the
shade, this week the weather was some
what more pleasant th;tnlast week, while
:.sfhe thermometer was bobbing around
40 and 40. AS a necessary consequence
everybody is happy.
The following officers of the school
Soard were elected nj IFS meeting, las,
Monday evening: II. j. L. Ahrens. pres
ident; A. H.. McFadlen. treasurer; ant
j.. II. Mediation, secretary. John Jen'
kins was elected as second assistant IL
the colored school.
Geo. Farrar has the walls of his new
store on Franklin street completed. and
the carpenters will shortly nave it ready
for occupancy. The vacant lots i'll this
part of the city are being rapidly BULL
mp, and the street is fast growing in IA
vor with business men.
And now comes Lynn Il. Gordon and
produces two Peerless potatoes, n o
which measured l54xl:i4 inches, ant
weighing one pound seven and three
fourths ounces. He claims that Maiol
Blewitt owes him IL big apple if he does
not produce one to beat this.
DR.. Watson this week sold his fine sad
die horse, s.Dandy Jim," to jeff Bridge
ford, of Monroe county, for $3.50. dan
dy'' was sired in Boone county this state
and is %asplendid piece of horse flesh, ant
the price paid for him was exceedingl.
low. He was shipped to San Francisco
California, last Tuesday.
Don't forget that the LAFAYETTE fai
commences on the 18th. Be sure t.
come and bring something with you 70
exhibition. Let the people see wha
Lafayette can do even in grasshoppe
seasons. With Il little effort upon tn
- part of those who should be most inter
ested (the farmers) the exhibition G
:, cereals and fruit will far exceed that G
kanv former years. Let's try.
The Masonic fraternity expect t.
move into their new hall sometime mex
week. 1t will be one of the finest room
in the state, and is being placed in appl
- pie order in every respect. The oil
ihall has been occupied by the Mason
for nearly thirty years, and many a
l'toII stager" will heave a sigh of regre
%t leaving the room where, perhaps, hi
ewes first beheld the beauties Of the mys
tic tie.
W. G. Matthews. from Brownsville
was arrested in Sedalia on Friday oath
Several weeks ago Matthews purchase
stock and borrowed money from NJ
James NJ. Wall, of Johns" county
promising to refund Immediately, say
ng he had money in the Knob Noste
bank. This proved untrue. In til
peantime Matthews shipped the stoc
ST. Louis, and forgot to call on hi
turn home. He was taken TO Wa
nsburg for examination.
AS Misses Maggie Marshall, Fanni
brter, Belle Tommerson and Kati
raham were enjoying an evening
rive, last Monday, while near til
ietnodist church, the buggy was ups'
Y a too short turn, and the whole part
tremendously pitched into the mi,
lie of the street. Fortunately the horse
Fhich is a very gentle one, immediatel
topped, and the only damage done wa
ae dislocating of Miss Graham's wris
few slight bruises and scratches TO I'll
4, a,.o Of tho Marty an,I q hr, lion lnSI