Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1881-10-15
ODESSA.

1ufs. oaIneS heltn Is quite sick.
mrs. Harry Tunstall Is now coavalescent.
MIR. James Bumgarner ia still confined tn hi
room.
sherln Elliott is to sell out b. F. KIle's saloo
stock tO-day. "
Ihe early wheat is looking fine, and q larg,
acreage sOwn.
Our w-townsman Mr.. p w Gum hos
a very sick child.
ODESSA Is looming up with the fall trade. Fai
prospects for the future
Rev. JAS. Carmichael, of Knob Nostar 10 ,,s
lung his parents near Odessa
Hon. H. g. Wallace, of Lexington. attends,
church In Odessa last Sunday.
Miss Mary Canole, who has been danuarous,v .
SICK is now slowly recovering.
| len new coaches for the L. & s. r.. nas.ad
west over the g. A. Thursday
| There was quite o number of mule huvors H.,
town last Monday. but few sales made.
Dr. johnson can still be found at his old p,aca
Oh business oyer Broughton's hardware store.
johnnie Maxwell is happy and then he ia not
nappy, he has found an heir and lost a toe mail
over thirty new buildings have gone nm in
ouessa this year, and improvements steadily
go on.
uncle Ihomas McChesney has his new resi-
dence in South Odessa well on the way of cam
pletiOn.
Maxwell 4 Williams have refitted their drug
store. ltlooks quite nobby and neat. Call and
see them.
Mrs e. L. Townsend returned home last
Monday night from visit to her parents ,t
Solomon City, Kansas
Robert Murry, residing Blk miles southeast of
Odessa, is not expected to live; has been given
up by his physicians to die
Mr. D. Z. Cobb has made the first common
sense watering pond for stock we have seen.
others would profit by the design.
Mr. Ii. b. Tunstall recently has added tn his
large store building an addition Of 3 feet. and
he now has the whole filled to the root with ney
goods.
MIR. Z. l.. Frost has just returned from Chica.
60 where he has been laying in quito supplv Of
CLOCKS. watches and jewelry. Call and see bis
new and selected stock.
ihere mas been protracted meeting going on
IN the Baptist church in thus city for the past
week, conducted by Rev. r. ]. Downing and
kev MIR. Russell, considerable interest mani.
tested.
MIR. Wm Vestel decamped last Friday night,
leaving his wife and five small children tn the
hercies OF the public, and the worst feature of
lie coWardly act was to leave his HELPLESS wife
confined to her bed with malarial fever.
F. NJ. Nerhany, quartsrmaster agent IT.
A. with headquarters at :Ssdalia, was in town
ast Wednesday adjusting old war claims, He
Was taking testimony on claim Of Washington
= Martin for over $1,000, that had been
He'd in 1868, nearly twenty years ago. Mr..
Martin will soon know whether the claim will |
De allowed or rejected.
quite concourse Of the young hopefuls of
odessa congregated at the railroad pond last
sunday evening and concluded to amuse them
elves In the way of u few dog fights. from which
difficulty arose and Jimmie Kirkpatrick re-
elVed quite a dangerous wound by knife cut
II the back by the hand of one Edwards, q bow
bout 10 years old. And on Monday the Young
nan Edwards and his father were arrested and
ent to Lexington jail, the father was arrested
or exciting the difficulty. Young Kirkpatrick
vas doing well when last heard from,
PICK WICK.