Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-11
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hot weather.
The latest Lexington slang:-"How'syour
fountain pen?'
A full line of the Standard Screw boots
and shoes and at very low prices. Conk!lhS
Il Co.
Now that the schools are in nice running
order, parents should visit them OCCASIONAL
ly. to encourage both teachers and pupils.
Prof. T. &. Trueblood, teacher o! elocu-
ton, has now more than sixty pupils attend
Ing his classes In this city. Pupils may be-
GIN at any time, but it is greatly t" their adj
to enter classes Mt the beginning.
Wheat in this county is coming Hp very
the recent rains having been timely.
The ground was generally put in thorough
and the promise is for a good
crop. The acreage is large. probably p per
cent. more than ever before.
Mr.. Hammerle. whose market-garden
wagon may be seen daily upon our streets
this office. a day or two ago, a
bottle of very fine tomato catsup. He has u
quantity OF 1t on hand, which has been
very carefully made, and which he sells, in
jugs, at 81 per gallon.
We print in our poetry column this week.
by request, William Allen Buffers great
satire, ..NothIng to Wear" 1t has appeared
in these columns before, but 1t is worthy to
be published once a year, and being
published to be read and %pondored over
by the daughters of Earth.''
A barn In Oakland, Pa, was recently burn
ell by the spontaneous combustion of clover
In in an uncured condition and covered
over with marsh hay, which pre-. ented the
gas formed by fermentation of the clover
from escaping, until an explosion took place
was heard u mile and a quarter away,
and which let the air so suddenly upon the
that it ignited.
Salem, Ind, Democrat :-'.lf your local
paper happens to tread on your toes a little
in performing Its mission don't get hu1fy
and say harsh things about it, but stop anu
take a good long breath and think back for
a short season and see if you can't remem-
Der some of the fayors and kindnesses it has
shown you and yours in the past. Then re-
fleet that it may not be long before you may
want favors again.
Corder correspondence ulgginsville .Ad-
vance :-''Our pOstOtfice has been changed
by the posImaster-.eneraI from Cordella to
COrder. = " Mr.. Nethercutt from near
WaverIy was in town this week looking az
ter his property that he purchased from Rev.
Shafer. He contemplates moving here about
the 18th OF the month and is talking some of
erecting an elevator ut this place which is
much needed.'
We shall be very sorry if a inadvertent
remark upon our part shall result in bad
feeling between the public and private
schools OF this city. We have labOred hard,
IN season and out of season. to build up the
school Interests here. which are our chief
boast and glory, and We can see neither
sense or decency in iOmentIng trouble where
unity and concord should exist. The effort
snouId be TO build up all together, and to
that end we shall continue TO work.
We print elsewhere an account, taken from
the Sedalia Democrat, of the arrest and escape
of Jim Hill from Constable Bradford, who had
arrested him on q charge of theft. Though this
man has been for years n pest to the community
IN which he lives, we do not believe the vigil
lance committee, at Aullville, intends to take
the law into their own hands in his case. That
they should organize for the pursuit and capture
of criminals who depredate upon them is all
right, but the punishment should be meeted Out
by the courts, and We hope that the statement
made ut the close of the article to which We
allude may prove to be a sratuItous one.
Work upon the Wellington road, by the
prisoners from the county jail, under the
superintendent of Howard Williams, is
progressing favorably, and in a short time
the worst part OF the road will have been
placed In splendid order for the mud OF
winter. The road-bed is being thrown up
from two to four feet high, with bitches on
each side sufficient to carry Oft all the water,
culverts placed wherever needed, good sub
~stantiaI, wide bridges built, and the railroad
crossings made as good as the other portions
Of the road. The only drawback now viii
be the danger from horses soaring ut The
cars, which of course Is unavoidable.
A large and enthusiastic meeting was helt
at HigginsvilIe, last Monday, TO further Thu
building OF q railroad from that place t.
Holden. thence south through Cass ant
Bates counties to Fort Scott, Kansas. Dele
gates were present from johnson, Cass ant
Bates counties. MIR. W. G. Smith, of Hol
den, was made chairman and Mr.. &. q
Wolfe, of Columbus, johnson county. wa
appointed secretary. The following resolu
tions were adopted: "First-That it is tn
sense of this convention, that q railroad iron
Higglnsville via. Fayetteville, Columbus
Holden, Rose Hill, Index, Dayton, Altoona
Butler, Rich Hill to Fort Scott, Kansas, i
both practicable and desirable, and will be
paying institution, both to the people an
the railroad company operating It. Second
That we recommend to the people along tn
line proposed, that they proceed immediate
Iy to work in the interest OF the road, an
ascertain Just how much can he done to ST
cure the same. Third-rhat a review of til
route be made at once, by some engineer i
the confidence of the G. Il A. r. r., and hi
estimate be exhibited to said company, afte
which the company be requested TO state |
US on what terms they will build and opel
ate the road. Fourth-rhat we pledge OF
time, our labor anu our means to secure tn
road, and will use every honorable means
advance the project After which an eI
ecutive committee of three was appoInte,
!, as follows A.. E. Asbury, Higginsville !; |
b. Haws. Holden, and +. J. Tigard, Bulle
, The meeting closed by the passage OF res
: Iutions of thanks TO the people o! HIggIn
S vile for their hospitable treatment, and vii
? requests to certain papers to publish Il
r proceedings.
In our article entitled, Fan academy f
boys" last week, we inadvertently did Il
public high school in this city an injusti
which we take pleasure in retractlng We,
freely and fully. In speaking of the subje,
with the ideal school in our mine which v
IA think Lexington should have, we sal,
y "There lis but one high school for boys
n the county. the SECOND ward school in Il
city, and it is hardly worthy OF the nan
~ Not that its teacher Is not competent n
Jealous, but he has in the same building
graded school, from a. B.. q. up, and as t
Is large number in attendance plainly shows
is impossible that sufficient time can be
voted TO the higher grade scholars witht
neglecting the little ones, or the reverse
This language was unnecessary to our ar.
ment, and we are sorry that We used
,o Especially SO as the TWO teachers OF the'hi
nc school have Our every confidence, both as
>, competency and industry. We should
t. ha,s said that the school was not worthy
N the name Of high school, rs the statemen,
not a fair one. We fnd that two teachers &
their entire time to the high school, exc
-, a little time which the principal devOtes
~ supervision of the second ward scho