Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-19
waving of the wand OF wonderful
magician, whom the

waving of the wand OF u wonderful
magician, whom the
PEOPLE CALL A. l.. ASBURY.
This Captain Asbury is Il farmer, a
stock raiser, banker, Il dealer in cat
tie, mules, horses and hogs. y builder
of houses. A coal miner. a telephone
operator, who has connected ioGr ont
lying towns, in each OF which he has
branch bank, with the central town of
Higginsville. Calling about him such
men as Isaac Neale, Grove Young,
Hub. Campbell,W w S. Thornton, Harvey
j. Higgins, Saml Downing. George
Shamlin. DR.. j. j. Fulkerson, c. e.
Catron, r. A. Collins, DR.. r.. G. Car
ter, DR.. G. w. Seeber and host of
others who had faith in hard work and
united effort, they began with = bare
prairie and built Higginsville. II grew
from the start. 1t continued to grow.
1t is growing to-day like a banyan tree.
The 900 capitalists saw this miracle
of mans industry and enterprise. ard
they were asionished. They saw more,
they saw Lafayette county, that
AGRICULTURAL PARADISE OF THE EARTH,
III all the gold and glory of glorious
harvest. They saw land with twenty
lttl VI soli. utN SAW SlpIh ItItts
which had just produced thirty bushels
OF wheat to the acre, as killing as had
been the winter. They saw almost in
terninabe stretches of corn land where
the usual average is ten barrels, or fifty
bushels to the acre, and they saw thrift
tv orchards, tree embowcred dwelling
houses, numerous herds of short horn
cattle grazing in the sunshine, gardens
everywhere, evidences OF perfect thrift
abundant on every hand, and not few
of these momeyed men resolved right
then and there to return again.
| TO THE TOWN AND The COUNTY
and cast i'll their fortunes with il people
who had done So much for themselves,
and had had so much done for them by
nature and natures God. Thus out
side of and beyond the delight OF the
re union itself rs a social gathering to-
gether of old soldiers, many practical
business transactions are to ensue.
The next re- union of Shelby's Bri-
gade is TO be held at Marshall, Saline
county, The town itself being indebted
for the honor To the untiring and de-
voted efforts of DIR. j B. Wood. Dir.
Lester Hall. j B. Breathiit, Hez Pur-
dom, G. Whit Williams, G. w. Lank-
ford, Mike Sandidge, Lee Hughes. Il.
G. Robertson, j Rockwell, E. Il.
Starke, Elem Stratton, V. b. .Slusher,
L. G. Sublett, A. 5. Swisher, A. P.
Tucker, |. M. Dawes, " w. Dawson,
w. G. Dawes, II. W. Hickman, G. w.
Holt, Boyd Ingram. Cy. Kirtly, g. w.
Latiner, and in fact the most of the
, cOnfederates from Saline. 1t is pre-
dicted by many that the next reunion
will be a monster affair, even surpass-
,, ing the one at Higginsville in the num-
ber of those who attend. Should such
I prove to be the case, Marshall will be
! MORE THAN EQUAL TO THE OCCASION,
. and Saline county, not to be entdone
\ by Lafayette, will turn out en- masse, as
f Lafayette did, to guarantee splendid
success. Scores of those who took part
in the Higginsville reunion will visit
f st. Joseph and take part in the reunion
a there, having accepted the invitation so
4 pressingly and Hospitality extended to
, them by Messrs. Elijah Gates, Abe
4 Fmrst, Waller Young and John N. Ed
:, wards. the committee empowered by
a the Veteran Association of Northwest
ern Missouri and Southeastern Iowa to
perform this duty.
1t is useless To deny the fact that the
y absence of General Shelby was the
l. eau of much real grief to many, and
feeling of keen disappointment to all ;
s. but he had his reasons. Until these
q are generally known. and they can be
70 made known only by himself, none
II have right to criticize his absence, OF
condemn him for not mastering circum-
y stances over which he had no control
II And although away from his men in
: the flesh, be sure his spirit was with
'e them as of old throughout all of theil
y festivities. He will, if living, be will
IL them next year at Marshall, and there
fore, let the next re- union be not a re
3 union of Shelby's Brigade alone, but O
ai Shelby's whole division.