Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-05-05

Lost-A folding, steel, store-key. Return
to this office. milf
Black cattle are becoming popular In La
fayette county.
Old Mems club, at Hon. Jos. F. Smiths,
Saturday, May 10. -
Ten or fifteen car loads Of steel rails arrived
here this week for the Missouri Pacific road
between here and Independence. We are
promised first-class service on that road after
June L.
We print in another column the semi-annu.
al statement of the Lexington Savings Bank.
The large aggregate of their resources, $685.
973 OF, is creditable to the officers Of the
bank, and a good indication Of the prosperity
of our town and its vicinity.
Mr.. j. B. Silver arrived in Lexington
Tuesday morning and purchased from 3. M.
Sparks two car loads of high grade bulls and
sold them the same day to L~eayenworth par
ties, and left for st. Joe the same evening.
That makes the sixth car load he has shipped
within the past six weeks.
The Morrison-W Wentworth bank prints its
statement elsewhere. It Is an unusually fine
showing, the best ever made by the bank in
y AlStotSs u oCPoSlts AooS oP Liz A0AAN
some yum of $685. 23 Al, beside a surplus Of
hand of s16,144 40. This shows confidence
in the bank, to which Its careful manage
ment entities 1t.
Richmond Democrat :-"The Judges Of
the county court Of Lafayette county, having
refused to make a levy to pay OF some I'M
compromised bonds of the county, have been
put in jail. This Is all wrong. The man who.
refuses to take a just compromise for his
bonds, when a county is struggling to get
out of debt, Is the one that should go to jail.
The court say they will never make the
levy"
We are requested TO publish the following
notice 1--WE, the undersigned, citizens Of
Waverly, feeling the want Of q bakery in our
town, take this method of making our wants
known; and would further state that We
would gladly patronize one that would fur.
nish us with good fresh bread and such other
goods as are usually kept In a bakery. Mes
danes o. F. Thomas, N. s. Hanks, Matte
Mosely Emma Chapline, salie Zeysing, Lizzie
Williams, Sallie Furguson, E. Buford, Mar
garet Miller, Geo. o. Feagans, 8. W. Booton,
Lizzie Harper, H. G. Francisco. m6t3
The commencement exercises Of the high
school in this city took place last Wednesday,
ut the schoolhouse. There was a full attend
ance of parents of children and friends of the
school. The programme was as follows:
Prayer by Rev.'G. L. Leyburn; defamation,
"The Gladiator" George Venable; recitation,
"Little Nellie in Prison." Myra Nichols;
essay, ."Timour and Bajazet," George
Kriehn; recitation, "Prayer and Answer
Fanny Stewart; recitation, "Deacon Browns
Mistake" Bird Rathbun; essay, ga Search
for Happiness" Ella Bates; recitation, 'Too
Utterly Utter," Lucy LaBertew; recitation,
lamation, "The March Of Mind" Howard
Atkinson; essay "Aims," Gamma Brown;
essay, "The Enc of the Beginning" Fanny
Allen; presentation of diplomas; benediction.
All the exercises were creditable, and the
essays of the two graduates were particularly
able and we'll delivered. We are exceedingly
glad to be able to speak in the highest terms
Of the manner in which Miss Hawkins has
acquitted herself as principal Of the school.
She has been firm in discipline, maintaining
rs good order as the school has ever known,
and the progress OF the pupils has been. very
satisfactory to parents. Miss Mamie Shaw,
as her assistant, has had much Of the higher
work assigned to her, and she has done it
c~onscientiously and WELL. Lexington is
naturally proud of its seminaries and its male
academy, and it may be congratulated upon
having as just cause to be proud of Its public
schoolss