Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-18

advertisement on the HTSl paSe.
A full line of the Standard Screw boots
and shoes and at very low prices. Conk-
ling & 20.
No matter how low our competitors price
you goods, come to us and do u little beter.
Conkllng Il Co.
The elevator is fastIshipping out Its. wheat
preparatory to filling up with corn. Read
the advertisement elsewhere.
A Ia ge and we'll selected stock OF custom
made boots and shoes. dry goods, clothing
and groceries. Harrison II Jackson, Aull-
vile. DISH
A number of young folks, of this city,
went out to attend u party. last night, given
by Messrs. VIM. and Jno. Green, near May
view. OF course they had Il good time.
There will be a twenty-five mile walking
match III Hagen's opera house to-day, at 3
O'Clock p. IN. Feyhey, Lockhart, Anderson
and Lawson will he among the contestants.
No smoking. Abundance, % cents; re-
served seats. 80 cents.
DR.. r. S. Hughes, OF Greenton. presented
us, Wednesday,. two apples, of the Red
June variety, of the second crop for this
ytlls lucy L WV shhthS ehN
irregular in shape, but otherwise very good
June apples to have matured in October.
Unavoidable circumstances preventing any
OF the Intelligencer corps from attending
the Prairie church concert and festival last
Friday night, We are under obligations to a
friend for the interesting account of the
event which appears sewhe in our local
columns.
Messrs. Wilson & Ballard have four or
lv. thousand feet of good pine lumber, now
In circus bulletin board, which they will sell
to be delivered on. or after October 9th, at
a very low price. 1t Is suitable for shed or
barn siding or for fencing. Call early and
get q bargain. oct1S-lt
Geo, Wilson,, ESQ, showed us, yes. relay.
a mammoth pear which he had received from
his son-in-law, Mr.. Gus. Alexander, ut
Phoebe, New. 1t lacked but a half ounce of
weighing three pounds, and measured Is
inches in circumference .one....way and %
inches the other.
Messrs. Grimes & Venable will remove
their stock of jewlry and notions. in a few
days, into the store-room formerly occupied
by the Zeilers, on Main street. The room is
being re-fitted with u view to adapting 1t to
their business, and as soon as 1t is completed
they Will occupy 1t.
The steam ferry Undine got back to-her
post, yesterday at 3 O'Clock, p. IN. She
made the trip up safely except breaking out
five wheel arms at a bar below town. She
did not wet a spar, however, though the
river is very low. Commodore Thomas alb
solutely refuses to publish his log of the trip
Messrs. Grimes Il Venabfe's standard
thermometer has marked during the past
week, at 9, II and 3 O'Clock each day, as
follows: Oct. IL, Hs, ZOE, S1s; Oct. II,
40, re, 100, Oct. Is, $50. $50. $40 ; Oct.
II, 40, 49,, $50 ; October 10, $50, 500, $40,
Oct. 16, 75o, 500, 500 I; Oct. II, go, CO., Csc
Every lady should preserve her teeth-I
she uses Browns Camphorated Saponaceous
Dentifrfce, 1t will prove to be the best pre-
sentative of her teeth and beauty. 10 meet
this almost universal demand Of mankind.
1t was reserved to Browns Camphoratet
Ssponaceous Dentitrice to prove its super
iority over all others in this direction. 2
1t seems as If the Washington House viii
never be removed, even though it has NOR
| Iudu OuCc uCch uCCldlCo q hoiSahSC oy th'
council. We understand that parties have
slgnltied their Willingness to remove 1t fol-
the lumber and brick in it, and We hope tn
day is not far distant when this eye-sore viii
be no more.
The Lexington sporting club went up
Thursday, to Helms lake to look at til
springs there. They have made no repor
vet. but will probably do so at a meetin
next Tuesday night. We understand that
large price is asked for the springs and
small piece of land. No other place in tn
state that desires the location of the hatcher
r asks a cent.
S Mr.. Thos. Powell came very near bein
E kicked out OF the grand jury last Thursda
] morning. He had siaid all night at Majo
Ben. Wilson's, and in trying TO drive a hors
out Of the yard, slapped 1t, unthoughtedl
+ on the hip, when it kicked him in the pit
o the stomach. If 1t had got q fair shake
him it would have finished him.. AS it WI
1t made him feel a little squeamish durin
8 the day.
For profitable information read oil
double column. Conkling & Co.
= While Kansas City buys Il great deal
furniture from Messrs. Winkler, of tn
city, sOme OF our citizens go to Kansas Cit
to buy furniture. Winkler will sell 1t
you for less money than any other hous
either in Kansas City or elsewhere. WI
pay commissions to middle men,, when "
can patronIZe home manufactures for lie
money, and get a hetter class of goods! Til
= is an important question. j21
The store of Messrs. X. Puck EFT & So
d Mayhem, was robbed on the night OF Oct
Der Sth. The ithief or thieves effected
entrance by breaking open the transom
the front door. Tuesday last a young neg
), man, named Leander johnson, was capt.
q ed. confessed the theft, and told where t
rs stolen plumber was. 1t consisted of $50
w $50 worth of ready made clothing and
~ pair of boots, all of which was recovere
johnson is now in jail. He says a man
s. the name of Lewis Williams helped him
the job.
IN The Intelligencer has to thank the f
If. ladies of Prairie church neighborhood fol
IN generous supply of the excellent cake whi
lis was part OF the festival there on Frid
as night of last week. 1t 1t is true that
by way to mans heart is through his-h-n
ur appetite, then no ladies' on earth could "
nv more hearts than the danes and damsels
: whom we speak. But We know that til
to have other and higher attractions even til
y. their culinary skill, in bright eyes and Il
UT hearts. There are few such neishborhot
re- on this sublunary planet, for beauty, in
th ligencs and virtue !; and we hope what
le- say will not be attributed to the oak
1t having flown to our head, but simply to
aw fact that whenever We think of the folks
m there it is as we have here written i ioy
an NJ. E. Keller has a stock of ladies' clio
ne from 81 % to S12 a piece. Dim
'h An amusing and annoying circumstal
!ck occurred at the Lilliston place near to
I'LL last Saturday night. MIR. j. r. Peters, v
lives there, returned home at q rather
Lne hour. He expected to find the house EN-,
.nu but on approaching 1t he heard stral
" noises emanating from one of the fir
lne rooms. Visions Of various sorts presen
'se themselves rapidly to the young mans IN
to account for the unusual and uninvi
III presence, the principal and most coHvinc
JUG of which was that 4 burglar had entered
ICY premises and was plundering the no
the quite at his leisure and with little fear of
cry faction This thouebt soon h,d firm hoI
iho him, and not liking TO attack the tntru