Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-15
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
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Read Clagett Il Co.'s big Christmas ad.
Drop in on the children at the Episcopal
church to-day.
Sell your old iron at Joldan's Foundry and
Machine Shops. m6tf
$780, 900 worth of boots and shoes at cost, at
kriehn & Meyers. decltf
Wheat in St. Louis, Thursday, $1@1 OF.
Corn, 4s@4s3 cents.
A good assortment of wardrobes cheap and
fine ones at H. & F. Winkler's. June2tf
The Brown Milling Company's mill at Aull-
Vile will soon be ready for work.
go, 900 worth of boots and shoes at cost,
for cash only, at Kriehn = Meyers. decsH
= Look at Royle & Sons handsome Christ
ma window. 1t is artlstically arranged.
Mr.. John Bears team ran away. Monday,
broke a lamp-po and smashed the wagon.
The Mulligan Post g. A. R. ball, last Mon
day night, was a very pleasant and success
full affair.
Best bands of liquors, at bottom prices, can
be had at Charles F. Homer's, Franklin
street. declo
The public schools will have holiday from
Friday, December 81, to Wednesday, Janu-
airy 2. 1884.
We now have a supply of State Warrants
and Af6dav1ts for same, for use Of Justices OF
the peace. u
Saunders makes copying a speciality from
a locket picture to life size in crayon, ink,
wafer colors. &c. apr14tf
All the children stop at Tate's window to
see Santa Claus and the pretty things he Is
going to bring them. 49,.
A. v. Robinson s Co. have the only mill
in the county that grinds wheat on rollers
and makes a frst-class patent -four. t2Otf
To-the buyers Of fancy groceries, read what
we have to say in the latter part OF our big
ad. W. 8. Clagett & Co. decs
Read the Ahrens' Dry Goods Bazaar new
advertisement in to-day's paper. 1t Will pay
YOU if you are in search of holiday goods.
Don't forget to call on Thornton & Har-
graves for furniture, in their new store OPP
posite Grove Young, Higginsville. octl3t1
James Jarboe was tried before Esquire
Offut, at Waverly, last Monday, for stabbing
A.. G. Berry, last week. BE was Acquired.
A yery large assortment of walnut bed
steads, medium and fine, at low prices, all OF
our own make, at b. & F. Winklers'Lexlns-
-, No june2tf
The two handsome dry goods stores OF
Abreus and Kriehn Il Wilker, on Franklin
rect. have specially fine displays in their
snow windows.
Louis Petsch, a white coal miner, had his
loo broke at the shaft east of town on last
Monday. DIR. Russell set the fractured limb,
and it will soon be all right again.
Dresser suits in Italian and Tennessee
:rarbletops, cheap, and our W make. d.. q
.Winkler, in their new rooms, corner Pint
and Franklin streets, Lexington, Mo. 1sd
The w. N. A. boys are said to be so hard
ON their natty new uniforms that there IL
talk of putting them in jeans. Why not:
Henry Clay used to wear a homespun suit in
congress.
Go to Adam Toeppe or the best sugars.
coffees. teas and fancy groceries, glass and
uueensware. He will sell as cheap as any
house in Lexington, as his terms are cash. "
Tr.rtI;n street o13tf
A team of horses belonging to a farmer
named Wolf ran away Monday on Franklin
street, no great damage done. 1t was q good
day for runaways though, as there were three
Of them in town.
S. T. Corbitt, Odessa, keeps constantly on
land a large assortment of Undertakers
goods, such as metallic, wood and cloth collins
shrouds, &C. Prompt attention given to all
Che details of funerals. nov24tf
negro boy, IA years old, a son of Harriet
1 lnith, while playing with a pistol, last Mon
lay, shot himself in the hand. DR.. Chambers
extracted the ball and the boy is now doing
well. Boys, don't handle pistols carelesslyi
if you have them.
Mr., Geehner has completed the erection Of
a very handsome monument to the memory
the late b. j.. E. Ahrens, Esq. 1t is
& .apery column. with sandstone base. TIT
shaft is of the best white marble, and is l:
feet high. 1t is q very creditable piece o
work to its builder, and is one Of the fines
monuments in the cemetery.
Count nine for C. Ben! He would not taxi
no for an answer, and succeeded in getting
us an evening train on the Wabash, which
give us an east and west connection. He ha
also induced the Wabash officials to repai
he depot at North Lexington. Telephone
will be put in, and last but not least, he in
-sluced General Transportation Manager Wad
and Superintendent Minor to take activ
steps in giving US q commercial and RAILROAD
wire across the river. Hurrah for C. Ben!
We would respectfully, but very firmly sa.
to the Concordia Post, that the Intelligence
is no more Mr.. Duling's organ than MI
D,.noh,s The s1looot;on 10 M onawer IN TN
J erfectly fair and impartial summary we CAV
II the dispute between the two. The Pos
asserts that in q certain case the mayor an
Mr.. Duling charged illegal fees. The mayo
by his affidavit proves that there was no sue
case as the one cited, and the attorney show
that in such cases fees may be collected b.
he mayor and attorney. To the mayor an
attorney the Post has made no reply.
"W." writes from Doyer:-"Uncle ALE
darwood leaves to-day the fertile fields {
Lafayette to make his bed amid the rocl
clad hills of Wright county. 1t is necessar
TO know something of Uncle Aps true char
acter in order that you may sympathize wit
the good people of Dover. First, he is jus
ice of the peace, which Office he fills wit
satisfaction to all. Second, he is president
he school board, and his signature is neces
sary to the validity of all school orders, an
leis q warm advocate of strict discipline, s
strict as to advise in some cases q free use
he rod. Next the widows of the entire con
n,unity 90 to him fer counsel and cOmfor
And this is not all, if q man is absent fro
his home for any length of time, the GOO
woman Of the house who is left to attend
a~ffairs,if any thing occurs to give her troubl
at once sends for uncle Al;' IN truth. l
is aman to whom all look. If u mans col
I ails to come up, if there are bugs in tt
wheat, cholera among the hogs, horse sick
anything and everything-everybody mu
have uncle Als' opinion. But although s
have the utmost confidence in his ability az
honesty, in all the questions which annoy Il
vicinity, we do not consider him at all tim,
consistent. For Instance, he advises 9TH
men to doctor their hogs for the cholera, b.
he sells out. May the smiles of Heaven
upon him."
"Eugenia' writes from Corder:-"Tl
{ .autiful weather still continues and is seen
.ngly appreciated. Mr.. William j. Lei
has been much complaining for sever
ilays-...Mrs. McCanna, daughter of E. !
Hawks, in company with her husband, is vi
iting In Chicago. Mrs. Richard Barley
improving though quite slowly -. Throul
he young people of this place were MAJ
happy by enjoying the sociable given by the
on Wednesday evening to Miss Lizzie Rim