Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-29
Personalities $

MIR. John j. Waddeil is still very Ill.
Senator Logan Is in Washington hair and all.
Tilton Davis, ESD, has been in the city a
day or two.
Miss Anna Price is visiting her sister at
Leonard.
Mr.. c. H. Pierce, of ST. Louis, was i'll the
city yesterday.
G. II. Dulle, a prominent citizen of Jeffer-
City, is dead.
DR.. j. B. Burbridge has moved back to his
old home near Dover.
Mr.. Marcus W.. Withers is getting some
what better, but slowly.
Hon. Alexander Graves, and family, left
for Washington City last night.
Mr.. VIM. c. Hicks, of Kansas City, ate his
Thanksgiving turkey in Lexington.
Mrs. Price and Miss Jennie Grimes have
returned from their visit to ST. Louis.
Miss Fannie C. Allen came home to eat her
Thanksgiving dinner with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Green Bedford came home
from Independence Wednesday morning.
Mr.. Linz 4. Gordon is not 30 well. and his
relatives have very little hope of his recovery,
Senator Vest and Cockrell are in Washing
ton City at work on their committee duties.
Mrs. Il. O. Mead, nee Maggie Cowie, OF
Slater, spent Thanksgiving day with her
friends here.
last Monday from q weeks visit TO her par
ents in Dover township.
Mrs. F. c. T. Brightwell returned home.
Wednesday. from u six weeks visit to friends
In Platte and Vernon counties.
Mrs. Robt. Smith and Miss iona Rvland
returned last Wednesday from their visit to
Independence and Kansas City.
DR.. Geo. W. Young is still very i'll with
dropsy. There has been 40 marked change
in his condition for some time.
Mr.. Edwin F. Berkeley, of st. Louis, spent
several days with friends here while his faith.
er. DR.. Berkeley, made 4 business trip south
Mr.. and Mrs. Tim Cosgrir. are here visit
ing the family of Mr.. VIM. F. Meet. Mr.. c,
is water commissioner at Sedalia and is eX-
aiming our system.
MIR. Buford Chinn and wife have returned
home from a visit of two weeks to the family
of Col. Jno. Donaldson. near Waverly. Blu
ford says he had a good time, and killed all
the ducks he wanted, and gained abou ten
pounds in weight.
Rev. II. Talbird, d. D. leaves for his new
home to-day. He will remain IN st. Louis
over Sabbath. He carries with him the res
pect and affection of all who know him. May
the richest blessings of Heaven rest upon him
and his in his declining years.
JEFF. w. bedford, ESP, OF Omaha. was in
the city visiting friends and relatives last
Saturday. He reports his family to be in
good health and much pleased with their new
home, but still with many fond memories Of
Lexington and its people.
Several of the young ladies of the B. F. c,
took their Thanksgiving dinners at theil
homes in adjoining counties, the remainder
had a grand feast in the college. Among thu
guests at the college were DR.. and Mrs. Tai.
bird, MIR. Sid. Simmons, of Harlem, and Mis-.
Wagner, of Warrensburg.
Mr.. j. w. Benz amin, who has go long ant
~scceptably TILED the position of road master
on the Missouri Pacific railroad from Sedali,
TO Independence, has resigned that place
He will probably be assigned as conductor O
q train, a berth that he knows perfectly vel
how to fill. We hope the change in his en-
ployment may not take him away from Lex
ingtOn, where he has many friends.
Capt. Samuel Shanks, of Pettis county was
in the city, yesterday. examining more fully
our educational facilities, and seeking
house with q view to sending his family here
more particularly for the education of
daughter. He has a son here now In the W
NJ. A. He expresses himself as more thar
satisfied with his tour of observation of tn,
town and the schools, and is lavish in hi.
praise of Lexington. He also says that hi
has several neighbors, men of means, wht
are situated as he is in regard to the educa.
tion of their children, and he believes severa
of them will follow his example and com,
here. We hope they NAV, and we feel as
slred that they will in no way be disappoint
ed, unless it may be agreeably so. w,
think we may safely extend to them q heart,
welcome, and a free entire into a societ
which if not extravagant in display is orna
mented with all the homely virtues an,
many of the ~adornments of education an,
cultivation.
Mexico, Mo-, Ledger: PROF. Jno. F
Lanneau was elected president of Hardi
College OH the 18th inst, for a term of tiv
years, and was highly commended to til
board of directors for his capabilities an
efficiency as a teacher and officer. He ha
been a teacher for twenty.eight years, an,
thirteen years of that time the president O
fem ale colleges in Alabama and this state
He is As years old and in the prime of life
He graduated in the military school of Sout
Carolina with the highest honors of his class
and served IN Furman University in the sam
state, first as a tutor Of mathematics, and at
terward as adjunct professor of natural phil
osophy and chemistry. In 1861 he entere
the confederatate army as captain of cavalr
in the Hampton Legion, and subsequently be
came a captain of engineers, aud was EN-
ployed in the construction of the delenses q
Richmond and several other cities in tn
south. He served in the field on the stats O
Generals Lee, Longstreet and others, an
during the last campaign of the wal was che
engineer of Hampton's cavalry corps. Afte
the war he served as professor of mathematic
and astronomy In Furman University. I
1868 he was called to the professorship {
mathematics in William Jewell College, Lib
erty, Mo-, and served there five years. 1
1873 be was called to the presidency of tn
Alabama Central Female College. and cor
Quoted that institution successfully for 81
years. In 1879 Prof. Lanneau accepted til
presidency as the Baptist Female Colleg
Lexington, Mo-, and under his efficient maj
agement continued until this day, the scho
enjoying a very high degree of favor. The.
facts, taken mainly from 4 sketch we ha,
seen of Prof. Lanneau, show that he has ha
an eventful life and a very large experience
an educator, and as president of female co
ileges.' Prof. Lanneu deserves all the soo
things said of him in the above. As TO h
acceptance of the position offered, that is II,
yet determined by him.
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