Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-01
OONOORDIA.

Rev. j. Demand returned from Soda
liza on the 9th.
Two sons of Rev. Biltz, from st. Louis,
are visiting here.
Mr.. Otto Walkenhorst~ returned from
Nebraska Thursday morning.
Mr.. Albert Althoff returned from a
two days trip to St. Louis, Monday.
Mr.. f. G. Cook took a trip to We'll
lington and Kansas City during the
present week.
Mr.. Chas. Wehmeyer, of St. Charles
county, vas visiting here. He started
home yesterday.
A son of Mr.. Vaughn, 9 miles south
of here, drowned while bathing in
Flagstaff last Sunday.
Town election takes place on Aug. 3.
Henry Ficken is the nominee for coun-
Gilman in the End ward. .
Messrs. Herman and Diederick Brock
man, from New York, are visiting their
brother, 3 miles north of town.
A fine hoy vas born to the wife of
Henry Meinecke, Jr., ON the 20; also a
boy to the wife of Henry Steinman, on
the 2eth.
The German Methodist campmeeting
commences here on August Ii. All
necessary arrangements have been made
for the anne
The Evangelical Synod of the seventh
district will convene here August Goth .
About two hundred ministers are ex-
pected to attend.
The Baptist Sunday school picnic was
held three miles south OF town on
Thursday. All who attended had a
very sociable time.
A German drummer lost $50 while
at Brownsville M day last week.
When will people learn to come to
Concordia when they wish to keep their
money =?
Henry Deuchler left here on the 29th
for Greenfield, Mo-, where he will en-
gage in shipping wheat until corr ripens
here, when he will resume the grain
business here.
Mrs. Henry kirchoff, who has been
married to Mr.. Kirchoff about a yeal
and had a baby about three months old,
took sick with d congestive chill, and
died very suddenly on the morning OF
July &c.
Maj. William Warner, of Kansas City
will speak here OH August 8, that being
the day of Gen. Grants funeral. A
large tent will be pitched on the com.
mons, in COncordia, in which 600 peo.
pie may be seated. We expect a large
number Of people here on that day.
"Young America" has again heer
heard from. This time he was in the
shape OF MIR. Claus Brandt's boy, who
experimental on riding an old SOW
Result, boy enjoyed it; sow didn't
Next dissolution of partnership. Ther
the SOW walked Off with a s~atisfac
tory grunt, while the boy turned VI
with a broken arm. Such is life.
The Blackburn Strikers played the
Concordia baseball club OF Friday o
last week. The game, which lastet
about three hours, was very interesting
The Concordia boys scored SO, Will,
the Strikers could show up but ID. Thi
is almost us bad as the Strikers bea
our boys some two weeks since. Tn
deciding game will be played at Ain;
next Friday.
1t seems that old Lafayette count,
is on the eve of a general waking up
a horticultural meeting, at Lexington
August 3; Il teachers institute, a
Odessa, August /, and Il grand reunion
!, at Higginsville. August 20. All Lafay
) cite county is interested i'll each OF thes
institutions, and the very sense of tn
same has Il ring about it which glad
l dens the heart of every energetic an
well-meaning man in the county. Re
l. garding a horticultural society, this
something long wanted in our count.
for OH no other subject are the poop
generally SO ignorant as on hort
culture. This society then means
D better knowledge of this department
: and Il better knowledge of this depar
nent means better orchards, mo
pleasant and beautiful homes, sc. III
teachers institute means more intere
in our public schools. and tn
again means more and better know
edge to each child in the county. Al
the reunion means-well, we have II
the time to tell what, but It means 10
v Of things. D1cTo.