Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-08-18
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
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baQ rOaQ3.
Mary dust. :
Peaches scarce.
Going to the fair?
Crops round about are fair.
ggy-wiggy-"Resurgamw
Painting still going on lively.
The river is now at a moderate stage.
Must be a wet moon, however it lies.
Missouri river business seems to be picking
up.
See Chas. W. Loomis' card in to-day's pa.
per. july2St3
Bed lounges In carpet and spun silk, at II,
& F. Winkler's. june1tf
Splendid evenings for making love. Wonder
If the boys know it!
II we don't all get rich this year we can al
least live and not lose ground.
A good assortment of wardrobes, cheap and
fine ones at H. & F. Winkler's. June2tf
Roller mill -four at Kerdoln's mill. Try II
and you will never use any other. july14n
For sale-My store on Main Cross street;
lot 41x75 feet. Apply to J. W. Grant. tt
Get Boston Betting C%ompany's Standard
Betting, at Jordan's Foundry and Machine
shops. m6tf
Call and see Clagett & Co.'S. new additions
and improvement, corner of North and Laursl
streets. augl9tf
Contractors, see advertisement addressed
to you. The city wants some work done i'm
medistely.
The city wants a large amount of work
done immediately, and calls on contractors to
do It. See ad.
Road overseers, read the county courts
order and go to work. The responsibility is
now all on you.
The best steam threshing outfit in Lafay-
cite county, for sale at little more than half
Its value. Chas. A. Morrison. aug11n
A. v. Robinson & Co. have the only mill
in the county that grinds wheat on rollers
and makes q frst-class patent -four. j30f
We are now opening our fall stock of jeans,
yarns, blankets, &c. . Call and get new fresh
goods at bottom prices. Wilker d Miller.
Avery large assortment Of walnut bed
steads, medium and fine, at low prices, all Of
our own make, at a. & F. Winkler's, Licking
tom, No. june2tf
Farmers take notice, you can get Robinsons
celebrated roller four in exchange for wheat
at their efice, next door to the Lafayette
County Bank. july21tf
A certificate Of Incorporation has been is
sued by the secretary of state to the Laclede
Hotel Company. Of Odessa, Missouri. Capt.
tai $4,000.
hale is q good name. From the old Eng
lish chief Justice down judges of hat sp-
pellation are apt to decide the law correctly
Vide, Judge hale on the hog law.
House and lot on Cedar street for sale. The
House contains II rooms; the lot is IS feet
S13 40 per month. Price, $3.50. Apply to j.
W. Grant. j~une3etf
Catarrh is the seed of consumption, and
unless taken In time is q very dangerous dis
ease. Halls Catarrh Cure never fails to cure.
Price Is cents. Sold by c. W. LOOMS, Lex.
lngton, Mo. July2sm3
We are selling our lawns, light prints, par
asols, ginghams, in fact all summer goods at
cost. Do not be bulldosed bya firm advertise
ing q reduction of prices from 10 cents to one
dime per yard. Wilker y Miller. a18t2
Harrison Circles, colored, q man aged about
80 years, was up before Squire Clayton, Mon
day, for wife-besting. He was fined $50 and
costs and was remanded to Jail to work out
his salvation. o, righteous Judge!
We have received a copy of the new paper
at Walnut. 1t is called the Walnut Journal.
This is q misnomer. 1t should have been the
Walnut Kernel. All the same it Is q lively
little sheet, bound to boom its burg.
Cook@"Looka hyar Missus, whar you git
dat las -four you bought yestedyT" Lady of
the house@sIg got it at Kerdolf's roller mill,
Aunt Maria" Cook-''You did? Why bress
yo' soul, honey, dats de whites and bestes
-four you ever seed. You bet it is! Don't
sou never get no odder kind. 1 kin make
light bread out n dat -four watts whittier N
Pm black" aug11f
Messrs. Mills q Smith hailed the writer as
he was going up the street the other day with,
"Hello, look here, we don't want any cruelty
to animals charged On u.s. p, And lure enough
they had made q number Of neat little troushs
to water their coop chickens from. Even
chickens may suffer, then why not be humane
to them? Messrs. Mills q Smith have set an
example worthy to be followed.
Kansas City Times, August 14:-"sum-
monses were issued In the United States cir
cult court yesterday in two cases against La
fayette county, on bonds and coupons Issued
in July, 1870, to the Lexington, ChilIicothe
and Gulf Railway Company. In the first suit
Henry Forsyth is plaintiff, and the claim is
$500, while the second plaintiff, Thomas w.
White, asks for judgment for 8 1900"
Sedalis Democrat:-"Sunday night Con-
ductor Whites train from Lexington came
near being wrecked between Aullville and
Higginsville. Som person had placed five
railroad ties across the track, and the engi- !
neer noticed them too late to stop the train
before reaching them. Fortunately, the cow-
catcher Of the engine was of the low pattern, |
and knocked the obstruction away without
doing any harm."-
A pardon was granted by Gov. Campbell,
Monday, to Kate Jennings, who was convict /
ed Of arson at the April term, 1881 of the La
fayette criminal court, and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary. The pardon is
granted upon the certificate of the prison
physician and the recommendation of the
prison inspectors, under section 6,525 Of the
revised statutes, the woman being sick with a
dbroid tumor of the uterus. Longer impris-
onment, it was asserted, would shorten her
life.
Mr.. Thed Gedney, q musician who has re-
Gently located with us, will, in order to en-
courage and interest in vocal music, open q
class in choral singing in the basement of the
Methodist church on next Monday night, at
g o'clock, the same having been kindly ten
dered free Of charge. Mr.. Gedney will make
no charge for his services land every one inter-
ested is cordially invited to attend. As this
Will be a good school of training for church
singing we trust Mr.. Gedney's kind efforts
will meet with q hearty cooperation.
Franklin street, in the neighborhood of
the Male Acadamy. is being rapidly improved.
NJ. A. LOOMS has just completed his hand
some two-story brick residence, Mr.. C. II.
Barron Is putting up = large two-story bust
ness house and residence, Mr.. Jacob Fegert
IL building quite a large addition to bis resi-
dence, which when completed will make a
marked improvement in its appearance, and
Mr.. E. Allen and Mrs. Stewart have had their
houses painted, papered and penciled. These
improvements will add much to the beauty
of the street in that locality. Let the good
work go on all over the city.
The most noteworthy of society events dur +
ing this week, was the entertainment given
on Monday evening at the residence of Mr..
C. Ben Russell, on Main street, by his daugh- |
ter, Miss Myrtle. in honor of her friend and
guest, Miss Maud Gregory of Kansas City. !
The spacious dining-room having been pre-
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