Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-13
Meeklp 3ntellisenfer
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
SHORTS.

Who cares if he doesn't w an overcoat
The trade In pslm-lest fsns has been lirel.
this week.
Take OF your flesh, and sit in your bone,
for q while.
Torchon laces in great variety. at krIehr
4 Wilker's. julyl3t4
repaired lately.
B%lsckberries are selling At i've cents pei
gallon in Indiana.
Day board At the Commercial Hotel. u
meal tickets for a %. jurl5tf
Our churches should be decorated with
flowers every Sabbath.
The City Hotel looks as neat as q new pin
since 1t was re-painted.
The place to get good goods and low prices
Is at Smith i MaitIsnd's. july6tf
The semi-aunusl grand clearance sale Is in
full blast at ConkIing h Cos.
Full returns In from all the precincts. and
none compare with Us for low prices in dry
goods. CoNKLING Il Co.
Wheat stacking Is about over. The wheat
not now In the stack will be threshed from
the shock.
Five cents saved is 3 nickle earned"
Kriehn & WiIker can save you many nickles
in the purchase of dry goods. July6t3
We would much rsther endure the pres
SO hasten on, oh ye September the one time.
Smith and Maitland are selling red ~
dour st - % per sack, salt At 81 "a per
barrel and other goods at correspondingly
low prices. juiy6tf
Some Of the street shade trees need TRIM
ming up. The lower limbs are III The wsy
OF pedestrians and obstruct the light from
the gas lamps.
Mr.. BENZ. Hummer, Of Clay township, pre-
scented us = number of peaches tHsle's Esriyl
last Monday, which were the finest we have
seen this year.
smith Il Maitland have just received 4
large invoice of very best sugars. coffee.
teas and syrupS and are selling at prices that
defy competition. julyGtf
The county grange met IN this city last
Tuesday. The attendance was rather small,
and, We are informed, nothing OF public in
tsrest tIsn>pired.
Grand clearing and reduction sale of dry
goods At kriehn t Wiiksr's Mammoth store
jill r IauhIiu stitcl. cuE Guilt clOCh LlIs
be sold within thirty days. july6t5
The colored folks will have a grand festi-
val st Hsgen's Opera House on Thursday
night. the 18th inst. Several societies will
turn out in full! dress on the occasion.
The prices that kriehn Il Wilker are max
ing In order to close out their surplus stock
OF dry goods are very healthy for the people
but sickenlng for all competitors. july6t3
A special train will leave Sedalis fer
Boonville st . o'clock on the morning of july
"a, for the accommodation of persons desi-
ring to attend the congressional convention.
The boys and men perched upon the horse
rack, south of the courthouse yard, eXamin-
ing the show pictures, resemble 3 long line
OF tu~rkey-buzzsrds on 3 fence discussing
their late feast.
Call st the principal grocery stores IN Lex
ington for RObinson's celebrated brands of
-four. made from new wheat. Choice RET
r." only 81 30. Choice xxx Lexington
City Mills. 81 %.
Mr.. James A Boyd, independent candidate
for coBgsess, addressed 8 moderate sized
audience st the courthouse last Thursday
night. He wss followed by A. J. Hall, Esq,
who was loudly called for by the auJiencs.
and by Mr.. r. W. Davis.
Miss Gussie Keller, of this city. has been
rendered and accepted the position OF
teacher at the public school at Wellington.
Mss Gussie taught there last year to the
satisfaction Of patrons and pupils, and We
are glad she has been re-employed.
"You can't plant cats too early, nor Is II
raESfhIa IN nat "a an, -, n hull w.,
not raise anything else that season where
the cat Is planted, but in the meantime the
cat will not have raised anything either, and
that IL where the enormous profs comes In
Mr.. John Spears lett at our office yester-
day 3 stalk of field corn nearly twelve feet
in length, which had four good sized shoots.
The stalk was not fully In tsssel. If this is
q fair specimen of the corn in the county.
the prospects for a crop are fisttering In
deed.
Somebody In the neIghbOrhood OF LOOMS
store makes night hideous for the neighbors
by beating q snare drum He beats 1t very
we'll, but the neighborhood has not such IL
love for music a. to cslmly listen to the rattle
Of q drum till twelve or one O'Clock every
night.
1t IL absolute cruelty to hitch q horse in
the hot sun to fight flss aud be scorched
nearly TO death, while his owner hastens 10
the shade aud exclsims "how's this for hot
Take your horse 10 the stable or hitch him
10 the shade. "A mercifu, man Ia merciiul
to his beast"
IA Quarles & Co. have lately added sew
ersi improvements and repairs to their fine
antn fnrnfatn and 4 &c nnu. tN ,,rn-I~t
running order. The fountain is filed with
ice twice a day aud parties desiring a nice
cold drink OF soda water after night fall, can
be accommodated.
The desdtsll in front of Mrs. Pomeroy's
property, on South street, should be attend.
ed to at once, or the city may have another
Dsvy Locke case on hand one of these days.
A broken limb or q broken neck would cost
the city more than its taxpayers would like
to pay these hard times.
Cretonnes, percsles and cambrics are be-
ing slaughtered st Conkling Il Cos.
The thermometer marked 9Ss at the north
door OF CoRklIng i Cos. store, last Tuesday
evening. Several other thermometers In
dinereat parts of the city also marked the
same. and one at Grimes L yenable's store,
1909. We understand that DIR. Alexander,
who Is the ..ofhcial' weather reported here,
only reports 80.
Linen suits are offered at a great sacrifice.
Only a few left, at Conkling 4 Co.'S.
A happy wife is a blessing, and many have
rejoIeed in the year that has CLOSED. And
now just think of the magnificent new wheat
flour, made by A. ". Bobinson Il Co. which
surpasses anything ever sold in this market,
aud at the low price of 81 80 per sack for
Red R." Choice NIX City, only So %
per sack.
Conductor Fineld's train was DELAYED
over an hour, last Saturday, by a co Al car,
which some one had run from the switch at
Seswelrs coal bank onto the main line.
The car was In an upright position. but the
wheels were not on the track, and it took
considerable work to get 1t out Of the
way. 1t was full of coal, all of which had to
be thrown out before anything could be
done.
Save your quarters and half dollars by
buying your shoes at Conkling Il Co.'S.
II will be see from the council proceedings,
published sewhers. thst'Mayor John, has
appointed his nephew. Thoma John as
policeman and superintendent of the Gala
boose. While we cheerfully acknowledge
that the new incumbent OF the office will
~oEo . noaA oH{a StiIi ua ,,p~ot n,l,