Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-25

| Wednesday.
MIR. John Kemple. of Odessa, was in the
| city Monday.
Miss Ella Edelen returned from KANSAS
City Thursday.
Misses Maggie and Matte Green returned
home Monday.
Mr.. G. A, Sturges has been east ms week
buying lumber.
Miss Jessie Peake, of Kansas City. is visit
ing Mrs. Edelen.
Colonel and Mrs. McClelland were in Kan
sas City Sunday.
Mr.. R. 8. Dinwiddie, of Waverly, was in
town Wednesday.
Miss Bette Waddell has been at Sweet
Springs this week.
Mr.. w. S. Clagett went down to Sweet
Springs this week.
Miss Lulu Ingram. of Slater, is visiting
relatives in this city.
Miss Sallie Fife is visiting the family oil
Mr.. Thomas Afford.
Miss Annie Kemple returned to her home
at Odessa last Sunday.
Mr.. Ed. Winsor went up, this week, to
hear Rev, Sam Jones.
Miss Carrie Hines returned, Saturday, from
a visit to friends in Kansas.
Mr.. D. Callahan, of Nevada. Mo-, was here
Thursday, en- route to Waverly.
Misses Rosa and Lille and Master Sammy
Reams are visiting in Kansas City.
Mr.. Geo. s. Rathbun. Jr. spent from Satur-
day to Wednesday here with friends.
Miss Katie Holland left, Wednesday, for q
| few weeks visit to relatives in Texas.
Rev. W. A. Crouch passed through town
twis week en- route for Monegau Springs.
Dr.. G.. W. Young was down town q few
days ago, the first time since last October.
Mr.. W. B. Bray asks US to change his ad-
dress from Du Quoin, Kansas, to Waverly,
Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Morrison went to
Plattsburg, Tuesday, to hear Rev. Sam
Jones.
Misses Octavia and Aimee NARROW, of st.
Louis. are in the city visiting relatives and
friends.
Miss Hattie Mexican. Of sedalia. came here
last Saturday, to spend a month or two with
relatives.
Col. and Mrs. Reid left, Thursday morning,
for Neenah lake, Wis.,, where they will spend
q few weeks.
Mesdames Thos. s. McChesney and Sue
Hammond, of Odessa, are on a visit to Trini-
dad, Colorado.
Miss Hester Kirtley, at the residence Of her
uncle. Mr.. Joseph Chinn, is distressingiy and
dangerously i'll.
Mr.. James Grant, of Waverly, was In the
city Tuesday, and favored the I%ntellIgen-
Ger with a visit,
Mr.. Fl. Wehrhahn who e to Detroit,
from Concordis, last spring, has returned to
the latter place.
Harvey J. Higgins, Esl., was in town
Monday. looking better than we have seen
him for a long time.
Judge John E. Ryland, who was very i'll
with iux for a day or two, the first of the
week, has recovered.
Miss Cleveland is the first lady of the White
House to write, or rather to publish, any con-
tinued literary work.
Mr.. W. G. Musgrove went to brownsville,
Thursday, to attend the state Christian
preachers association.
Mr.. W. s. Epperson has been. this week, at
Eldorado Springs looking after the building
of Judge Woods cottage.
Hon. H. e. Wallace will likely reach home,
next. week, in time to prepare for cireuit
court the week following.
Miss Carrie Clarkson, of West Virginia,
formerly Of this county. is In the city visiting
her relative, Mrs. Vim. K. Trigg.
Elder R. E. SwartE has been, this week, in
attendance on the lectureship Of ministers Of
&ka Cl,,,&.,- ,1,,.oL "A D.~u,,et1o
Miss Rose Walkenhorst was in town last
Saturday, and passed q successful examina-
ton for a certificate as q teacher in the public
schools.
Higginsville POst:-"Prof. Sellers, princi-
pal of Wentworth Male Academy Lexington,
was in the city Friday night, returning from
a trip to Saline county,"
John Mccullough has been adjudged by the
commission of inquiry, to be insane. His
general health is so much shattered that it Is
not likely that he will live long.
Nine. Patti has just settled finally her finan.
cal troubles with the Marquis de Caux by
the payment to him Of $3.50, 900. 1t may not
be out of order to remark, right here, that le
Marquis est un cocAon.
Ex-Mayor c.. Z. Ballard and wife left,
yesterday morning, for Alum Springs,
health has been delicate for q long time, and
the trip, it is hoped, may benefit him.
Miss Lille Dale and Miscellany Willie and
Kate Trail left, here last Saturday for q visit
to relatives and friends at Slater and Marshall.
Miss Dale will prolong her visit some three
| or four weeks; the Misses Trail will return
this morning.
Christopher Mann, who for several years
has claimed the distinction of being the old
est man in Missouri, died a few days ago at
the age of Ill, at his home on the Indepen-
dence and Wayne City pike, one and a-halt
miles from Independence.
Elder B. W. johnson, editor in charge of
the Christian Evangelist, at st. Louis, was IN
the city Tuesday morning, and gave us a
pleasant call. He was on his way to the
Christian preachers meeting at Brownsville,
where he was to preach Wednesday night.
Edmund HoVle, the patron saint of old
fashlond card players, was born over two
hundred years ago, and lived to the advanced
ago Of 20. dying in Cavendlsh Square, Lon.
don, in 1869. Therefore there must be som
mistake about the frequent allegations that
he has written rules for progressive euchre.
A circ ular letter announces that Charles E
slayback, at one time president of the Mer-
chants Exchange of st. Louis, but recently
In the commission trade in New Orleans, has
accepted a position with the commission
house of Culver 4 Co., Chicago. Mr.. Stay
bhck is well and favorably known throughout
this section and in the south.
The Richmond Democrat, in an elaborate
article upon Sam Jones, says:-'The evan
gelist, who owe no little of his fame to the
newspapers, is Il mall man, S feet 6 or
inches in height and looks something like oui
journalistic friend, Sam Keller, of the Lex.
ington Register. though he has larger fea.
tnres and is dark complexioned. His darl
hair is worn brushed back from his forehead.
Add a stiff and dark moustache and YOU have
Sam Jones, rs near as he can be described
A private letter from Elder G. S. Lucas wa.
received in this city, a few days ago, In which
he says:-"I shall always remember my three
years in Lexington with the deepest pleasure
| would have visited you last fall, was sick a
st. Louis. and was in bed several months af,
ter l got home. l intend to try to come this
fall if possible. l am so full of. work 1 car
not say positively now. Ny general health
is quite good. Ny family. went to Virgins
on the 18th, to stay TIL frost. They are quite