Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-03

at one OOllar per CANON.
The thermometer has ranged from 70 to ~
degrees during the week.
Spring chickens at twenty-five cents each,
are now quite plentiful in market.
Rev. Mr.. Kerr has resigned rs a member
or the board Of trustees Of the E. A.. Semi
mary. '--ia
Mr.. H.. Winkler is MAX ing quite extensive
improvements to his residence on Franklin
street. -
Next Tuesday will tell each candidate for
| CITY Offices whether he is one Of these or one
Of those. go !. .a.s.
Mr.. Stewart Summers, who has been ABB
sent for some months in Texas, got home
yesterday. ,74 a-F
The smoke stack to Winkler's furniture
factory, which fell last week, has been re-
stored, and the factory is now at work as
usual. F-
A committee from various orders, In our
city, has taken steps toward arrangements
for a celebration Of the fourtASof July. We
will publish the programme in full next
week. s. -.e
Chas. Morrison, 1t the Excel Iron Works, Will
this evening cast 100 wheels for 40 Marrow
00uRe OO8I ChE tIuSASS ~
600 pounds. This being an unusually large
heat, and always an interesting sight, will be
well worth seeing. ,.6Iao ettDs-' - ."ta
Having accepted the position Of salesman
| with O'MsIey & Bro, lumber.dealsrs, would
announce to my friends and the public
wanting lumber, 1t will be to their interest
to zee me before purchasing elsewhere.
H. SNOW. g. lii irH. a. .F.
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The mscadamizing Of Third street, west
OF the old Washington house has progressed
quite lively this week. With anything like
good management, the th~oroughfsre from
the rock bridge to he depot ought to DO
completed this year. : - ~ IS
The Lexington Coal Company has secured the
| contract for furnishing the Pacific railroad with
coal for another year. We congratulate our
people upon this result, a. the Withdrawal OF
the d .5es or q. 600 per week at present paid to
the employees ofths company would DO . serious
loss to our city.
The transfer buses Of Messrs. Young & Rus
sell took IS passengers from the Baptist Female
College, to the Pacific raiioa depot, yesterday
morning, and 50 to the North Missouri. Seven
ty-one persons taken out Of the family OF Piof.
Fleet in one morning, must make the college
seem rather lonesome. ..-.-.l
w. G. MeCauslsnd, eur popular dry goods
| merchant, arrived home last Monday. he
| had been absent shout three weeks, In at
tendance upon ! nesting Of the Southern
| Presbyterian Gensral Assembly, At Sa-
vannah, Georgis. r5 g. IS -.-l
A kiss for each falling star IL the lovers
| rule. and Whenever meter shoots across.
the armament the listening pedestrian may
hear frsn the shadows Of the front steps
such ordinations NJ: "ohl George, don't!
There, now, you naughty man, I hope you
are satIs6ed.g D. .r- t
The Missouri Pacific IL now doing an im-
msnss shipping business. For the past
twenty.four hours, ending ct 9 O'Clock this
morning, 1893 Gar loads Of live stock were
forwarded from this city n dead freight
in proportion. or the 1873 loads Of live
stock, 81 came in ON the Lexington Branch.
ISedalia Bazoo. s,a- D. ..oa q
Al the adjourned meeting OF the city council.
last Thursday night. the following changes
were made In the judges and clerks fer the en-
suing city election First Ward, Alex. Ben
melt in place of John Swanson. who Is Q can
didats for assessor ; Second WARD. z. S. Mitch
ell and John E. Bacon. in place Of G.. A..
Kriehn and John McKinnon, who are not res
idents Of the ward ; and Thomas W. smallwood
in place Of Taylor Wlnn, in the fourth ward.
This kind of weather 10 not conducive to
energy-except to find the shady side of the
street. A man usually gets up when his
necessities compel him, eats = hearty break
fast, ii he has . talent In that way, looks
over his garden patch, providing he has enc,
takes his hoe and spade, and puts 'sm In the
shade, and goes down town to ''sse u man."
Will the persons holding the franchise for
. street railroad through town. e~nlighten
our people Is to when they expect to COM
mence work upon this much needed improve
ment? Or do they expect to act the dog In
the manger, until some other company gives
them . good round price for their franchise
Build the road, or make way for some othsl
company. 10
Five printer boys from the In%teIligencer
Office went on fishing frolic, last Monday
The trip down and back was made in . skitf
t As = result OF their days sport, they show
about LOCO. 0e0 musquito bites, ten badly
t blistered hands, i've sun-burDed faces,f. {
COMPOUND. fracture of tbs third command
msnt. SIX empty bottles aud one gar shout
. six inches long. ga a-
The distinguished judge Of the court o
3 sshigh pints" blew out the gas when he re
tired to bod, one night last week., and seri
: GUS results might have followed, had it NO
happened that his roommate, contrary I
his usual custom, came in at an early hou
, that night. The virtuous judge, had hi
companion tarrisd . little longer, woul
{ soon nave been an angel.
Section twenty, road law, reads: "Ever,
ovsrseer shall erect and keep = post at ever,
fork or crossroads in his district, t
which shall be affixed . finxer-hoard, COZ
taining . legible inscription, directing th
o way and noting the distance to the next i'm
portant place ON the road" How man
D road overseers In our county have compile
with this requirement Of the lsw.
1t Judge Hill. OF the criminal court, was /
j. town on Wednesday and Tuesday last, I
d afford Willis Hill an opportunity to furnis
l. bail, which was fixed at $1,000. The Juda
It thought the bond offered insufficient, 30 tn,
Hill ID still in jail, and will remain thel
le until . decision In obtained from the 81
10 preme court to which he appealed.
ID No sooner had Judge Meet been a
nounced n Q candidate for councilman tbs
ID an accident occurred in his family While
y, will prevent him taking an active part
K the canvass, and he will have to trust to IL
Of efforts Of his friends for success. On sstu
lr day morning. after the labors OF the mig
D. before, he went home and found that b
cow had v calves, and he has not bet
~ able t. think OF snything else since.
of Van Amberg's circus and mensgsrie
W heading this way, and nav be expect,
about the middle Of June. We predict tn
en- the esoyass will be ailed to overfowin
to notwithstanding the fact that one Of OF
Ill city divines preached q sermon, last snnda
nd against such iniquitles. II the reverel
We gentleman will keep q sharp look out, '
on would not be surprised if he did not I'll
some Of his hearers Of last Sunday In .
IT. TENDANCE upon the circus.
p, The wheat harvest Will commence abo
ID the 18th inst, Never before iH the histo
en- Of our county has the wheat crop promis
e a q more bountiful yield, and although t
ed acreage is somewhat less than in 1874 n
lY, 1915, still with favorable weather, the cr
int for the present year will be among the lar
o est eyer grown in Lafayette. Harvest han
as are already in demand, engagements bel
hn made in soms instances at % 90 per day.
When the blacks become generally int
,g, gent, they will discover that what Rlsmar
Ird calls the "ir0n dice of destiny" falling FRI
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