Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-12-12
BBENEZER EBBINGs.
Persimmops ripe.


Jacob Taggart sold "a hogs, averag
ing $50 lbs, at 3 cts, last week.
The wind storm of Friday, the 4th
Uneasy wags the opossum's head
around the persimmon patches o.
Peaving.
Miss Alice Covington, of Concordia.
attended the funeral obsequies, LAS
Wednesday, I'd inst.
A dog belonging to VIM. Rowe
having symptoms of hydrophobia, re
ceived his doom last Monday.
The beautiful tints Of the lingering
autumn are yet visible on sumack, OAK
and the twining American ivy,
Miss Florence Cundiff, the girl SO
long Ill at Mr.. Stills was, in a feeble
state, conveyed to her fathers in Hlg-
ginsyills.
John Hanley offers his forty acres
for $1,000. 1t is q good tract of tim
Der and the boys say it can't be beat for
possums and coOns.
George Benton is improving his farm
which lies in the land of the 'possum
and the coon. Hymen is prowling
around his premises.
AAo AoSA hoo q OllSAt lulu wv
year old orphan girl that she would be
glad to give to some good family to
care for and educate.
Squire VIM. B. Taggart, the eff
cient school clerk of Ebenezer, took a
pleasant drive with his wife to Hig-
ginsville, the S0th ult.
Mr., Chas. Bradley removed from the
old church burying ground, was the
first body inferred in the New Hope
cemetery, more than forty years ago.
At q meeting of the New Hope Pres
byterian church, Goth ult., Mr.. Zeigler
wss elected elder. On the same day
Joe BurroWs was received into the
church.
School children of Ebenezer expect
a gay time at the Xmas tree. Parents
should encourage their children in
pleasant and innocent amusements,
giving time for holiday recreation.
Ebenezer school will have a Xmas
tree for the children on the evening of
Thursday. Dec. gath inst,A A. J. Sparks,
the teacher, will give the children a
treat. Parents arc requested to con
tribute to the uccess of the festivities
of that evening, by giving their chill
ouSN kOhCuo Va oACCllOu do DGCOllc
parents.
Mrs. w. H. Still passed to the I'M
e world just as the clock was strik-
ing midnight, 30th ult., after lingering
for many months between life and
death within the clutches of the dread
disease of consumption. Her funeral
sermon was preached at New Hope
church, Wednesday I'd, inst. by Rev.
Jesse P. Osborn, after which she was
inferred in the New Hope cemetery.
She was a faithful Baptist.
David Wears favorite dog was bit
ten by the rabid canine which bit little
John Harde q few weeks since; but,
thinking we'll of his %canineship, Mr..
Wear only chained the cur instead OF
dealing the fatal blow so common to
dangerous curs. In a short time the
animal showed signs OF hydrophobia,
and made al attempt to bite Mrs.
Wear. In his last tit the dog died
and the people rejoice.
Henry Elling,a Virginia City banker,
and brother Of Mr.. Filing, the nery
democratic postmaster at Concordia,
went to Montana when comparatively
a poor man, working for wages, he is
now no. only a good banker but far.
mer and stock raiser, land on Thursday,
last, Thanksgiving day, he purchased
a t~wo-year-old colt, paying for him
$4,000 in cash. How is that for IA poor
German boy?
The following pupils of Ebenezel
school had 100 per cent. in attendance
last month: Sarah j.. Helt, Rosa E
Iaggart, Lucy E. Taggart, VIM
Froesche, Sterling Taggart, FINS X
Taggart, Walter Summers, Chas. W
Rowe, Jno. w. Kresse, Perry NJ
Rowe, Arnold X. Kresse, Charlie,
Kresse, Emil Guenther, Edward
Guenther, Edwin Echelmeyer, Otto
Herueskev and Edward Rowe.
LAFAYHTTE Boy,