Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-21
Harvest is progressing.
What glorious mig hts for sleep!
This 70 tho loncest day IN the wear.

90 cents. MIAMI
The dolefuI song of the locust Is no longer
heard In the land.
make one this summer.
Don't forget those % cents slippers at
Davis g. AlIstadt's. miami
For the delights of the fair he pants, He,
and .'his sister, bis cousin and his aunts.'
Grand Fourth of July celebration at
Odessa. See correspondence from that place.
We're going to have a good fair IN old Ls-
fayette this time, ..und don'tyou forgot it!'
The doctors say with a sigh that they
never knew the health of the county to be
SO good.
In time of peace prepare for war. When
the weather get, hot buy your next win
ter's coal.
A contemporary warns its readers against
buying spring chickens with their toes
frozen OF.
Mr.. Jno. c. Young's improvement on the
corner of Main Cross and South streets, is
progressing.
Many people think that taken altogether
this will be the best crop year Lafayette
county ever had.
Births, marriages and deaths are dull in
this county just now-the people are too
busy harvesting.
Ii wasn't Jake Corners little girl that got
OF that conundrum about making a little
hare go a long way.
We print elsewhere q piece of we'll written
temperance poetry, the author being a citi-
zen of this township.
Vegetables continue to sell at high prices
reach of ordinary purses.
Speaking evil OF your neighbor does not
build you up much in the estimation Of psO-
pie whose good opinion is worth having.
A man in Polk county, Mo-, has made q
successful experiment In raising tea. Why
don't some smart boy try 1t In Lafayette!
The fellow that was born tired is the one
who is always bewailing his bad luck. In
nine case, out of ten a man makes his own
luck.
Don't drink too much ice water f; 1t Will
give You cramps. We don't mind if you do
tell your sisters and your cousins and your
aunts.
Ours is the only town of any size that
hasn't an archery club. 1t is pretty sport,
and Is superceding croquet everywhere else
than here.
A correspondent, this week, spells sfbou-
quet,'' b-o-q-u-e-t. As half the newspapers
blamed much.
Boys, It is a very poor Joke to tie a tin pan
to a dogs tail. Imagine yourself the dog
no, imagination is not necessary II you in
dulge in such sport.
The Metropolitan band Of this city has
received letters from Pleasant Hill, Indepen-
dence and several other points, asking them
to play on the fourth of July.
An Interesting tabulated statement will be
found on our first page showing the appor-
tionment to the various districts In this
county Of the state school funds.
The ~spread-esgle orator rising OIL high,
will soon be sailing through an ambient sky.
In poetic realms he will most graceful fly,
apotheosizing the Fourth OF July.
Jake Conner Is already iu training for the
fair. He says that be will work himsel bald
headed but what it shall boom. An unchar-
liable friend says that he wont have to work
very hard. and we believe him
MIR. A. v. Robinson is thoroughly over
hauling and repairing his already well
equipped mill on the river 'front.'. In dbl
ton to other improvements he IS putting ID
a corn burr, and will, when he starts up
again, be prepared to make number one
bolted meal.
Our church buildings need repairing aud
painting very badly. They are certainly no
credit to their congregations as they stand,
and even though times may be a little hard
they should not be neglected. People are
largely judged by the care they give to their
places Of worship.
We heard a little girl, a day or two ago.
ask her father, who is quite barefooted on
top of the head, why a bald-headed man
was like a dog chasing a rabbit. He gave 1t
up, when the young lady told him that 1t
was because he either the dog or the daddy
made a little hare go a long way.
As the roads and culvsrts in the county
are now IN pretty good order we desire to
suggest to the county court and to road over.
seers the desirability Of replacing, as rapid.
ly as practicable, the wooden ~culverts with
stone. we'll put down, SO that they will be
permanent. that is, will last always. Why
cannot this be done?
Much of the prompt dispatch OF the busi
ness of the special term OF the crimina
court this week, was due to the efficiency o.
the grand jury. Col. Jos. Davis was fore
man, C. Y. Ford, clerk, and Baxter Lank
ford, grand jury sheriff. With Blackwell
Mountjoy and Trigg to assist them they pu
things through In a hurry.
We will print the fair pamphlet durin.
the coming week. Those of our bushes
men VINO want advertising space in 1t shout,
send in their cards early IN the week. ",
will print 1900, and they will nearly all b
distributed at the fair grounds. A better O
cheaper way Of advertising cannot be found
, Any sized ad. received, at the rate of So pc
! page. Don't neglect it. See premium lis
l on fourth page.
Toilet soaps, perfumery, combs, brushe
&c. Royle & New. may3m1
1t Is very common to hear it justly sal,
that Lexington has more pretty girls tina
e any other town of its size In the country. blu
3 no one seems to take the pains to say VIVA
: Is equally true, that she also has a larg
I number of good looking, well behaved an
, sprfghtly young men. There may be som
truth in what ex-Mayor Jno. C. Youn
elsewhere says about their attire since tn
seminaries disbanded, but this is only M
8 other proof of the influence for good fo
which the sex is provsrbial..
80 cents will buy d sewed goat shoe
e Davis & Allstadt's. m24ml
The Knights of Pythlas, of Sedalia, hav
n extended a special invitation to Goule
lodge, number 45. K. P, of this city, to a
tend their grand Fourth OF July celebration
and bring with them ''their sisters the
cousins and their ~aunts," and any 9th,
friends they may have. All knights an
d their invited friends are to be cared for /
the Sed lila brethren. The invitation
signed by MIR. Charles A. Dexter, charms
executive committee, who prudently recor
is mends his friends to bring their wives aIon
Ladies sewed goat shoes ut Davis j. A
Is stadts, only 80 cents. m24m1
Brownsville Herald The Lexington l
telligencer OF last week is pretty we'll fill,
up with reports of the closing exercises
her various educational Institutions.
these she has good reason to be proud tn,
Il furnish the best possible basis for the mol
and Intellectual advancement and materl
70 welfare of a community !; and we look fe
ward confidently to a not remote future VIII,
Brownsville Will be widely known throu,
:. the Institutions of learning for which h