Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-18
Personalities
Bismarck's health is improving.

Mo.
Miss Ella Clagett has gone to St. Joseph on a
visit.
Mr.. Howard Williams has gone to Eureka
Springs.
Mr.. Richard stumpf has removed his family
to st. Joseph.
Mr.. Robt. F. waddell spent a day or two in
town this week.
The idiot fringe is only excelled by the idiot
black on the lower eye lash.
Miss Gladstone, daughter of the great COM
moner, is to marry Dean Lake.
Miss Mamie Walker, Of Higginsville, left,
Sunday, for a visit to Nebraska.
Miss Bette Hays has gone to Maryland for an
extended visit to relatives and friends.
The manner of the death of Mr.. j. j. Cloud 10
told in an article on the outside Of this issue.
They say that Blaine's health is good. Conk-
ling. at any rate, needs NO assurance to this
effect.
Mr.. John Kics spent a day in Lexington this
week. He. is doing a prosperous business at
Marshall.
Miss Mary Carpenter has been elected ono OF
the assistant teachers in the Humboldt school.
Kansas City.
The death is announced at Brighton, England,
of George Armour. of the firm Of Armour, Dale
& Co., of Chicago.
/ NlTb. OcueI6Ou DhVl6 u ASA AZ
hatred of the negro race by teaching q colored
Sunday school class.
Mr.. Geo. H. Hereford has been changed from
nights for the c.. & A.
Gov. Crittenden has gone to New York to ex-
anime the accounts of the states financial agent,
the Bank of Commerce.
Rosa Bonheur is at work on a grand study OF
some lions she kept in her grounds last summer
and then gave to the Paris 600"
Mr.. Stabler, the new conductor on the Narrow
Gauge, seems to be . clever gentleman. and an
old. experienced railroad man.
Uncle Albert Keller has rheumatism again.
We hope he will recover without the severe sui
ferlng he had with a previous attack.
Capt. w. A. Thornton has been in town this
week. Lafayette county grain shippers should
help him out by consigning to his house.
Misses Smith and Atterbury. of the Aullvilie
neighborhood. passed through town this week
on their way to visit friends at Wellington.
Andrew D.. Robson, nephew Of ex-Secretary
Robson of New Jersey. was instantly killed
by lightning at H%unnewell. Kansas, last Sum
day.
Miss Janet Berry and her sister, Miss Belle.
who had been visitingsthe E. A. Seminary, left
for their home. Carlinville, Ills.. Thursday
evening.
Mr.. James Lightner. of st. Joseph. was here
on q visit this week, Misses Mary Martin and
Annie New gong home with him Thursday
morning.
Gene Field:-'Col. Granville Adkins is billed
to appear in Jefferson City this week and the
people are already fleeing to the adjoining
counties"
1t was very ungsllant In the old bachelor who
was told that a certain lady chad one foot in
the grave,'' to ask ''if there wasn't room for
both feet9''
A woman prefers the man whe thinks her
handsome over the man whom she thinks hand
some. There is q world of comfort in this
thought to many men.
Mr.. Thomas johnson is back from Southeast
Missouri, where he had gone intending to make
his future home. He has not yet definitely de-
termined upon q location.
Mr.. Robt. Norfolk will travel from and after
August LIST, for The large furniture msnufactur-
err, Charles E. Lewis. st. Louis. We wish him
big sales and lots of luck.
Young lady throwing down the New York
Sun in apparent disgust, CALCULATES: -''That
old paper amt worth a cent. There's nothing
in it 1 ought MT to read"
Mr.. Geo. d. Blanchard, express messenger
on the branch. has been promoted to a position
in the company's office at Sedalia. He entered
upon his new work Tuesday.
NJ. Henri Say, of France, who sailed from
Baltimore on Sunday in his new yacht. the
Bretsgne, before leaving sent his check for
81. 600 to the Free Excursion Society.
III you want to find any Lexington folks when
you go to Kansas City. go to 10. Baehr's. Only
nineteen Lexipgtonisns, We are told, were there
at one time, early last Saturday evening.
Prof. H. A.. Reid. geolosist, histo riographer,
etc., for the Missouri Historical Company. has
his Office for Lafayette county. over the Lexing-
ton Savings Bank, Main street, in this city.
Russell Fl. Robbins, editor of tic Knights Of
Honor Monthly Magazine. Of st. Louis, Is in
the city in the interest of his paper. He will
probably call upon the membership to-day.
| Mrs. Ann Norvel q member of one of the lead
ing tamil les of Virginia. died at Richmond,
aged ninety-eight years. She was married in
1905, and was the eldest Baptlst in the state.
Beneath this quiet. turfy,
And iower-scented green,
Lies Arabella Murphy,
Who died OF kerosene"
independence Sentinel: "Miss Florence
| Arnold, a pleasing and agreeable belle of Lex
inston, Mo Is the guest of Miss Lizzie Dunn.
| So nth Liberty street. She will remain several
days"
Emison Chanslor left, last Monday, to take Q
| position as travelling salesman for Messrs.
| Grimes, Wood, LaForee & Co., of Kansas City.
His route will be mostly In Kansas and
Colorado.
A lady applied to be allowed to go with the
| Arctic search expedition. Lieut.. Berry wisely
said no. The Rodgers would have had Q
happy time with all her crew making love to
one woman.
Mrs. Louisa Lamkin wife ofMr LewisLamkin,
| editor of the G ,llatin Democrat. died Thursday Of
last week. Her husband writes. a touching
| tribute to her memoay, which shows him to be
a man of soul.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June l4th:-"Col-
onel William Bedford Hamlet and Captain
David Russell, of Lexington, Mo-, are In the
city, guests of Capt. Geo. g.. Keith and Hunter
Ben. Jenkins
Mr.. Sam. Keller, who has, for the past eight
years, worked in this office, has gone out to see
the world as it Is. and will go to work at
Leavenworth, Kansas, for 3 while. We wish
him good luck wherever he goes.
Mrs. E. D. Jennings, nee Elizabeth D. Bur-
bri lge, ormerly of this county. has secured, in
the circuit court of Buchanan county, a divorce
from her husband. Watt z. jennings, with the
care and custody other children,I
Miss Matte Reynolds, of st. Joe. whs has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. A. v. Robinson,
for the last month. returned home Monday OF
this week, accompanied by Misses Lulu, Fanny
and Mary and Master John Robinson.
Mr.. NJ g. Leiblich. formerly of this city,
now of New York city, was here On business
this week. He was locking we'll and informed
us that his wife had almost entirely recovered
from her severe burns and would soon he as
Well as ever.
Miss Telulah K. Bair has returned from an
eleven months visit to the large cities Of Penn.
~sylvania and Virginia. She gives graphically
interesting accounts of her trip, and was much
pleased with and benefited by it. Her home is
now in Kansas City.
A young lady walking along Main street with
a friend the other evening was heard to say
"Every gentleman hugs in a different way.
There isn't a bit of expression In some mems
hugs, is there ?" o. dear, o, dear, what a
horrid thing to be talking about.
1t WAS reported, last week, on our streets,
that Bob. Flynt had been married 10 q Kansas
City lady. Bob. says the report originated
through the mischievousness of the gentleman
who took his place during q leave OF absence
granted him by the express company.
The following, in a handsome gilt card, has
been sent to frIends:-''Mr. and Mrs. John NJ.
Hagood, At Home, Thursday evening, June
30, 1881, At nire O'Clock, John NJ. Hagood-
Maria Henderson,, Lexington, Mo-, Marriage
Ceremony at Beautiful Zion church. at eight
O'Clock.