Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-12
PROSPERITY OF TIE sEMisAHY.
SAM" IN HIGGINSVILLE.

EDITOR INTELLIG GENCER:-The last
time wrote you closed my letter with
promise to write again. and said that
/ felt safe in guaranteeing larger re-
turns. believe that l can fulfill the
promise, and this communication will
show whether or not l have dsne SO.
don't find it as easy to get bran
new subscriber as / do to get one to
continue his subscription after he once
commences it, which fact is, l think,
conclusive evidence that the lntelligen-
Ger. as newspaper, Is appreciated; but
l get new ones, all the same.
don't feel as confident of getting
subscribers in this place as in the ether
towns which l visit, ter the simple rea-
son that a paper is published here, but
try just as hard, nevertheless. l
"tackle" Higslnsvillians differently
from others, on this account, and, to
show you what success l have met with
since wrote last, you may put the fol-
lowing named gentlemen-all OF whom
"came down with the stamps''-on your
subscription list at this place: Messrs.
Frank Mitchell. jeweIer; j. K. Major,
proprietor Occidental Hotel; j.. w.
), Endly, proprietor meat market; Tony
Hays, confsctiener; George w. Hsux,
mechanic; w. E Layne & Brother,
) liverymen. think that's rather nice
little bunch ut names, and / know | an
going to get equally as many more.
Il l might mention, too, that Mr.. j. NJ
Horn, OF Independence, wants the In
telligencer, and. OF course, he can have
it-.o can any one else-and l always
: have blank receipts with me. Mr.. Horl
:, saw copy of the paper here, where hi
gave me his subscription. -' .'.'
8 Mi. W. Z. Harrison, whom met OIL
II this trip, and wheh got as subscri
4, Der in March, 1878, while on his way t.
ST. Louis. ever the Chicago & Alton
II with cattle, wants his paper change
,t from Aullville to Concsrdia. .......
~, Mr.. L. z. Clark, of Odessa, want
: two hundred aud fifty business cards
re white. Mr.. Clark is q painter and pa
: per-hanger, and does all kinds Of wor
a, in his line at reasonable figures.
4 have never yet gene east from Hie
n ginsyille, and think shall 60 in th;
y direction, hereafter, ter few weeks.
. The primary election was going o
or while l was here, and it was real
'e- amusing to see the candidates and the
friends pulling, and tugging, and tall
or ing among the voters. All seemed
10 10 be in jolly vein. and though tho
&c. who tosk any very great interest in Il
ras contest worked hard and dililgentl
sy they met their opponents fairly al
hS pleasantly, each one, however. claimir
nd that the gentlemen whose cause
IN champisned would come out victsriou
w as a matter of course. l don't thil
In there were any disturbances origins
IN. IN, ing from the election, although N
de Henry Duggins-who is well known
osa your city-received rather an ugly {
. on Is in the iace. 1 tried to learn somethi
aed a'"e.d about it, but could get no definite init
, OF mation-did not even hear the name
thu the man who did the cutting. 1t is
'tGa tne ugly and painful, though not necessar
dangerous wound, and bled profusely
aY. One can scarcely keep track" OF (
conductors on the Chicago & Alton,
ates he seldom sees the same one more I'll
,,. rne twice a week, but that is often enou
llese to find that they are gentlemen in
ear. broadest sense of the word l am ~
ago; Intimately acquainted with Conduc
no, Thomas Hughes than any of the othe
ear and more genial gentleman would
'reat hard to find He has a kind word .
~" 81, cheerful smile for everybody aud v
Ella actually answer, readily, as many
nmie two questions without becoming q
i'f or surly. He reads the Intelligent
are too. getting it at Mexico, Mo, and
; OF nounces 1t Il. number one couI
Fi'e' weekly" -.
reat-
, ON. l always enjoy my trip on the Pac
,sic=, as Conductors Merri6eld and Nj