Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-16
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
SHORTS.
Business is rev!ying.

Business Is rev!yInE.
Plsnt your sass-deep.
Tue March wind doth blow, occasionally.
Come In to the concert next THURSDAY
night.
Read Smith s MaItlsnd's nursery sdver-
ttSsment.
House for rent onCedsr street. Apply to
Mrs. X. Nichols. ml6t3.
Brethren of Lexington let us ~paint-our
houses and fences.
This Is sprins-spring into something to
do, ifyou possibly can.
MIR. A. V Boblusou Il improving his new
residence en- Main street.
PstrouIz. home industry. Buy your
plows from WIN. Nj. Jordan.
Jus, received. q handsome line of wall
paper al RoyIe's Book Store. m9:i
Mr.. HsinkeE intends to put an additional
story on his Pine street building.
Don't worship Msmnon. 1t Is = very
small business In this country. Worship
your God, and love your own wife.
Do not fail to call aud examine the hand
some stock of wall paper and window shades
Just received at Chas. Ii. Royle's. m9t4
Remember in your spring work that
sea~OnaOiS uOue II Is WOEtu IKE tiHies .
mulch As when accomplished "a ittt!s lSts.'
There Is no law against opening postal
cards. but tast does not give you the right
20 read them when they are addressed TO
some one else.
Have you seen the IF. +. improved
no!>eiess sewing mschine: Call At Bonnet s
Lees City Book Store and examine them
whether you wish to purchase or not. o20tf
A four horse team drawing an empty
wagon mired down, last Tussdsy. near the
NcGirk place. One OF the horses had to be
priced out with rails. .. glorious mud!
Buds are swelling, odors yelling,
Shock our nostriIs every day.
Clean your alleys, lovely Ssllys
Or there'll be the dsil 10 pay.
The only way in which we can ever build
up manufactures In our midst is TO patron
lie those We have. II you want to buy
plows buy home made ones from Mr.. VIM.
II Jordan, of this city.
Mir. VIM H.. Chilss' apricot trees bloomed
this year, March sIh; the three previous
years they bloomed Apri! :. !. and Is, re-
spectirely. SO ii Will be seen that our season
l. full q month earlier than usual.
CsiiCaN VI - "s
entered by : thief last Monday afternoon
and robbed of $35 in money, q razor and
some tobacco. The family being Temporal
rlIy absent had left the house unlocked.
Mr.. John Le,iesSt is preparing to build a
three story brick house adjoining the Pres
bytsrisn church lot on Pine street. He has
for this purpose commenced tearing down
the old building which occupiss the ground.
II you have = thought Of buying, now or
In the future, write and l viii come at once
and let you examine the wonderful, simple
aud light running New Home Sewing
Machine. Address, Ayres c. NJ. Bird, Mt.
Hope or Lexington. mar2t4
Mr.. Abner Hayden, OF Lexington town
ship. lost q valuable horse last Mon'iay. He
rode the animal home from town, when 4,
became quite warm, IsboriRg through the
mud, permitted it TO drink freely, aud I.
cied the Same night.
The first use to which macadam .hould
be put IN the city ought to be to dill the ruts
worn IN the m.csdmsn already laid. Ii this
Is not done the wheeIssSill soon cut through,
and drag the broken rock into holes and
piles, and toe WORK which has been accom-.
pii.heI will hs, TO 3 certain extent, destroyed
Miss sue Ride Is now rersiving New Style,
In Millinery. Also a variety OF Fancy
Notions, includinE kid gloves, neckties. and
m.ny other fancy articles that please the
lsdics. She solicits q continuance OF ID.
patronage OF her many friends and custo
mers. at her new room. second door west Of
City Hotel. mgtt
We still have = few pieces OF very fin,
black mohslrs. black csshmeres, black silks
one piece bIsrk silk velvet and q lsrRs lot o
color-d dress goods, which we are Offering
lower than any one else can sell them. Re
member that our prices are closing on
prices to quit business. McCsusland 1
Bedford. feb16tf
Columbia Statesman: Judge Wood, o
Lexington, Mo-, is visiting DR.. Laws ant
family. Judge Wood, when seeking a loca
ton for the practice of his profession, lef
kentucky fifty years ago last January an
came TO Columbia on horseback. He r.
mainei here a few months. during whicl
time lie represented MS client in a case be
fore Justice of the Peace Henderson Il
PeIchs township. A few weeks later b
moved to Lexington. Missouri, where he ha
since resided.
Mr.. John Wickuier has suffered for aoou
two years with an uncurable disease of tn
knee, known to ply sicians as osteo-sdrcomd
He declined an amputati"n at the TINA thu
his physicians regarded i. as very certai
to succeed. After suffering for some month
he demanded the operation at their hand;
when they considered it by no means ac
yisable. IL was performed, last Thursday
g.-,,l.t.Ir t.tn,r ,b> btn and h;e ,arl
ton. notwithstanding his age, about 90,
quite satisfactory.
Mr.. Robert Ramsey, Of Washington tow
ship, who called to see us, last Monday, "a,
that our Mt. Hope correspondent undo
stated the length of time that bis shephsr
dog was imprisoned in the tree. Instead
four, the dog was Inclosed In the tree, whel
ne had scratched his way after . rabbit. mir
dsys.without food or water excepting. ma,
be, the rabbit. The space In which he ",
confined was SO small tina, he could not tur
and ne had beaten the skin from his head
bis Efforts to do SO. The dog was very We.
when his barking attracted Mr.. Rams,
and caused his release, but he Is now
right.
The Fannie Lewis, the hrst boat Of Il
season, passed down .i4st Monday ~afternoo
on her selusn from Wyandotte. She TOT
o. l5f barrels OF four and SIX bales of hem
shipped by A. V. Robinson y Co.. "
horses, shipped by Meksrs. Green i Youn
500 bushels of COAL and put of a small lot
salt. The Lewis Is commanded this seas
by Capt. L. b. Tllden, an old Nilsson
river pilot and commander, we'll and fave
ably known to many OF our citizens. Und
his watchful care the Lewis Will make RI
ulAr and quick trips, and we bssp.ak I
her liberal patronage on the part Of Ii
shippers OF Laiay cite county,
A little over two years ago the IntelliRe
Ger agitstsd the subject of inter-collegii
s1auina tions for the schools Of Lexipgto
The Idea was popular with parents, and
Stimss seemed TO be popular with our 81
Gators, but for some reason the latter fall
to agree on the character of the examinatl
to be b I'D, and the thing fell through. \
do not propose to take UP time a
space In repeating the reasons then civ
why such examini tions would he useful
scholars, and beneficial to Lexington as
educ ltiOnal point, but thinking that {
gentlemen now In charge OF our colleg
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