Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-01
WATERLOO.

EDITOR ISrELLIGEHCER - AS you have not
| visited the great sporting place of Lafayette cOun-
ty hi. season, | Will give you some items con-
corning 1t. This sheet OF water. known rs
Helms Lake. Is about TO become the property
Of one or two prisons. and will be known as
Sprin. Lake, nom the fact that 1t Is fed by =
number of line springs rs pure AS crystal. which
never decrease in volume summer. fall. spring
or " inter-, and the branches oil which seldom
freeze over. II is the object of the party who
will control this water to improve it ~ fast ~
possible with the means nj hand. But the work
to be done. 10 increase the depth OF the water.
Is great. II is the intention TO lraIn Of the shall
low surplus water. then. raise an embankment
three fourth Of a mile, running north and
south, then another emhanement, about 900
yards long, To the natural onbankment, on the
west. These embellishments are to be twelve feet
wide at the base. and eight feet ut the top. AMI
about i've feet high. This will give to the lovers
OF III. most innocent. and At the same time iaci-
mating sport, II sheet OF water over one-third
OF Il mile wide by ,hrse-fourth or one mile long,
and six feet deep, for spring. summer or fall
resort. Col. John Reid. our state fish commits
si"ncr, has promised to furnish al! kinds of
gam. fish Tor this water, which We know he
will TO. When th"s. embankmcnts are raised,
it VIII be impossible for the river to back INTO
it as often occurs now. This is bound 10 become
the great resort for fishing on this side o! the
Missouri river. | think there have already vlsii-
ed this point not less than eight hundl ed persons
this season. probably one thousand, and some
days ns many rs eighty have been here; and this
crowd who have visited us includes gray
haired ministers. Judges. s~tatesnans. lawyers,
editors; IN fact. all professions and trades. IN
terminyled with the fair ladies of Lexington.
Kansas City, independence and all intermediate
points, also OF the rural district. the most OF
whom represent our highest type of christian
civilization. ON last Friday w were visited NY
some twenty-five coul dealers from Kansas City,
accompanied by some members of the pres.
This was gotten up by thar prince ofgoOd nature
and jollIiy, our Goa! boss of the X. G.. and +. Il.
r., j. I. rcndieton. May his circumference
never grow less. They encamped on the sward
and stayed over night. and took ab0ut two thou
sani fish home. Never WAS there a jollier crew
aboard of q flat boat. All enjoyed them
selves after a years work with coal in its most
fst,cned condition, financially. May they have
a better year in the twelve months to come.
Mr.. stephen Gates drove his IA, cattle to your
city last Monday, and shipped two car loads to
St. Louis. via the Pacific Il. Il. He still has a
car load of good hogs on hand. This about
cleans up our stock in this district.
Don't YOU think Hon. b. F. Butler is trying
to pay back, in small installments. to the peg
pie, what he took in the way of pianos, tsble
ware. &c, in his defense of the working classes
in congress? Really l feel like shaking hands
with him, and saying he is IL much better demo-
crat than some of our southern and New York
democrats; but this is politics-eNcuse us.
Captain, that's a rough decision on Sunday
schools by the superior court. II any one IN n
school district objects to holding Sunday school
in the district school house. 1t cannot he done.
Well, that virtually drives the Sunday school
ont, Tor there Ia always one or more to growl.
We have Ii adj that ex perIence up here, but II did
not work, rs the courts had never been appealed
to. If this decision had been known four years
ago. there would never have been Il Sunday school
in our district. Sorry. but let 1t pass.
Now as to what we knew about farming. One
day before our last general rain hundreds were
ready to give up their wheat crops AS gone and
lost; to-day i doubt if oue ofihem Is in that mind.
Every one we have asked give the same answer:
'',t has come out wonderfully since the rain"
1t was common to hear the young men joke each
other about borrowing sheep shears to cut their
crops with. think most of 1t Will require the
craile. Quite n number of tarners are blowing
their corn the third time, and most OF them once
and twice, and will he about us we'll up with
their work at wheat harvest m usual. although
harvest will be from one to three weeks earlier
this year than usual. l.. TENDER.