Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
Snow last Tuesday.

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the bottom.
Convention to select school book
Tuesday. January s.
They are holding "pan cake test
vals' deown east. They are said TO
fiat.
Extremes meet. The ice men an
coal dealers have both been happy til
week.
The kindergarten closed Wednesda!
with an exhibition. and will reopen
March.
The town was full OF people Tuesday
and the stores were crowded with Gu!
toners.
The Intelli gencer hopes you had
Merry Christmas. reader, and wlshe
you a happy New Year.
The people of Ray county vote to-da
on a proposition to compromise thei
county bonds at sixty cents on the do
lar.
Lost-Wednesday, December II, o
Main street, a gold and jet breastpir
with three pendants. Please leave q
this office.
Hoffman's ice-house holds 400 loads
The loads put In this winter will aver
age II tons, thus giving him about 5O'
tons OF ice.
By sending their anne to Jno. j
Brown s. Sons, Boston, Mass, our rea
ders can obtain, free, by return mail.
neat and useful calendar for 1880.
Mr.. Fred Meet hauled a load of ic
from the river, last Tuesday. whicl
weighed $500 pounds; with the wagon
the two-borse team drew from the rive
$500 pounds.
Presidents OF school boards through
out the county should bear in mind tina
the convention to select school book
for the next five years, will meet in thi
city, Tuesday. January G.
Mr.. Z. Hoffman. our brewer, finished
Fl lag his large ice house last Tuesday
Mr.. Hoffman is an enterprising business
man. and his brewery is a very success
tul manufacturing enterprise.
There is a young gentlsman in THU
city who has a pony which. if not fleet
he says, will beat s.Jackson's bes'
p ug.' If be chews-es TO talk about hi!
steed in that manner. why shouldn't hei
The following are the delegates from
Middleton township to the county con
vention: B. T. Cooper. H. j. Galbraith
George Thornton, j. B. Fletcher. They
are instructed to vote for Xenophon Ry.
land. Esq.
Christmas day passed of very quietly
in this city. Services were held at thu
Catholic and German Methodist church
es, and at the Baptist, Methodist and
Presbyterian churches there were fes
rivals for the children.
The apportionment IN the congress
sional convention at Boonville, next Tues
day, is as follows: Benton, 8; Camden
2; Cole, 5; Cooper. 8; Dallas. 2; John
son 9; Miller, 2; Moniteau, 5; Morgan
3; Pettis. 9; Polk. 4; Hickory, l; La
fayette, II.
1t is given out in Kansas City that thu
Narrow Gauge railway has been con
solidated with the Missouri Pacific, il
order TO bring it under the Gould man
agement, as there is a state law which
prevents competing lines from having
the same directors.
Our faithful carriers, Reid Moreland
and Walker Ewing. will call on our pa
irons, New Years day, with the usua
carriers address. They are active ant
polite boys, who do everything in ihei1
power to please our city subscribers
and we hope they will literally reward
them for their many tramps to thel
doors in bad weather.
The 'sSolld Ten Of Independence,
gave their annual holiday Hop OF
Wednesday evening last. in Wilson's
new opera house. The hall was beauti
fully decorated. The music. the fines
in the land, and the supper one that tn
dancers will not soon forget. Large
numbers OF young folks were in atten
dance from all the surrounding cities ant
towns, including st. Louis and St
Joseph.
We placed a copy of the proceeding
Of the sporting club on the printer
hook, last week, but by some acciden
it was lost, and the article was omitte'
from the paper. At the last meetin:
the annual hunt was arranged, to tax,
place Tuesday next, December 3Oth
On the night OF the following day. De
cember 3lst, the ANIMAL supper will b
given at the City Hotel. The hunt vii
last from dawn to dark. The game Q
the town members will be counted a
the Office of A j. Hall, Esq, on tn
evening of the hunt, and that of tn
country members at the same place a
II o'clock "Wednesday. Game will b
counted as follows: Wild turkey, 10
prairie chicken. 3; quail, l; squirrel. 4
rabbit. l; hawk, 2; pheasant, 5; goose
3; duch..2; woodcock, 5; dove, l; jac
snipe. ?; 'possam, l; coon, l; snipe, l
lark, l The following are the teams
Col. John Reid, capt in, E. Turner. Gee
Schotield, E. F. Nicholson, VIM. j. Mo-
rison. John E. Ryland, w. B. Parson.
j. w. Rinehart, j. w. Meng. Wn
Waddell, A. F. Weedin, j. F. Hassel
F. X. Tut, Samuel DAVIS, VIM. CAVIAR
, augh, Samuel Lilleston, Thos. johnson
. Robt. Wilson. A. j. Hall, captain, v
B. Hamlett, R. F. Waddell, j. R. Davi
Geo. w. Young, Camillus Barnett, Jr
E. B. Mckee, Thos. D. Saunders, Jaco
Appel, f. K. Trigg, Jos. Ramey, Fran
Stewart, Fred Young, H. w. Winso
n Joseph b. Silver, c. Ben Russell, Il.
Mitchell, David Fleet, S. IL. Houston
The leader in number will wear Ii
e cub medal until it is won by some 9th,
g member. The club adopted a resol
8 ton empowering Col. John Reid, Il
president, and A. j. Hall, Esq, to pro
ecute violations OF the game and fl
S laws.