Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-06-20
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
SHORTS.

SHORTS
Remember the Dacotah's excursion, July
2 to 8.
New beets and potatoes are making their
appearace.
The courthouse looks better since it has
been painted.
Sell your old iron at JoIdan's Foundry and
Nooh;ns Sbons m6tf
Saunders cabinet photographs at 50 per
dozen, are the best. ma!'ol1
Farmer Hall says he beat Mr.. Chiles out Of
/; sight on early potatoes.
/ Latest styles in millinery goods just received
at Mrs. s. P. Arnold's, 100 Main st. jel3tf
Goodbye to the school girls and the teach
ers! Time will drag slowly till they come
again.
Capt. Jos. A. Wilson has some home money
to loan, as public administrator, on real estate
security. )unezolz
MI. Garland Graham has built in front OF
bis residence a very handsome wire fence,
with cedar posts.
ar Saunders will make all the latest and best
-,tyle photos for less money than any other
house west Of St. LOUIS. may30t4
The second ward scale house has been new
" whitewashed inside. Charley White was
the artist, and he did q good job.
Every farmer that raises wheat should get
one of the double land rollers manufactured
by W. NJ. Jordan, Lexington, Mo. 1uly2Stf
Mr.. Frank TUFTS reply to a request from
his successor in office is said to have been
classical In its style, in more senses than one.
General debility, femal weakness, loss OF
physical power, Bright's disease, and nervous
diseases. are speedily cured by Hunts reme-
dy.
Itch and prairie mango, cured in ~ min
utes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This
never tails. Sold by Chas. W. LOOMS
drupoist. Lexington. mar21-1y
There was a pleasant moonlight picnic and
dance at Wade's Knob a few evenings ago.
There were about 100 persons present. Ship
ley's band furnished the music.
For Sale-A good residence, one OF the
best 10 the city. ON Main street, large house,
good outhouses, well. cistern. etc. Price
only 81 600. Terms easy. Inquire of j. T.
Ardinger. noV2Stt
For Sale-l75 acres of extra good land
within one mile of Page City. Price sS5
Der acre. More land adjoining can be bought
II desired. Terms to suit. Inquire Of ). I.
Ardinoer. nov2stf
We acknowledge the receipt from Mr.. I.
=. Wallace, Tacoma, W. T.. of an illustrated
Journal of general information concerning
that part of the world, which we fnd of very
, great interest.
Last Wednesday night was eminently ora
torical night at the council. If ea~rnestness
constitutes eloquence, even a Demosthenes
need not to have been ashamed of some OF
the speeches.
Mr.. Homer has come to the conclusion that
the powerful spring that has for SO long a
time been located in Alderman Williams
chair, at the council room. has been trans
ferred to the chair of Alderman Russell.
The storm last Saturday night was very
severe between here and Sedalia. In many
places cornfelds were turned into lakes, and
little creeks became raging torrents. Con-
siderable damage was done, mostly to grow
ing crops.
Time is money, and yet you will find mer-
chants trying to induce customers to use
other brands of -four that may or may not
give their trade satisfaction, when they know
when they sell a sack of Robinson's celebra-
ted, that it will give satisfaction beyond a
doubt. nov22ti
To purchase an instrument of any kind call
on or address the smith American Organ and
Piano dealer, Odessa, Mo. Chickering and
Sons, Knabe 4 Co., Voss Il Son, Behr Bros.
d Co., Guild. Church & Co. and Wheelock
pianos. The above instruments can be bought
of Bird, the Odessa dealer. may2tf
The Young men around town have been
working the patent spring-board racket
for the past few days. 1t consists OF
getting a victim to sit dow on a very nice
seat. with q pin attachment. 1t is funny to
watch the various changes of eountenance
that overcome some of the victims.
A press dispatch of June II says:-"The
: body of an unknown man about q years old
was found floating in the Missouri river at
WsyerIy last evening. The body was in a
very advanced state of decomposition. The
man wore dark pants, spotted vest and num-
Der seven boots, and q colored shirt. with u
collar button bearing the initial 'A.'"
The excursion train from Kansas City TO
Brownsville, last Sunday morning, had u
pretty hard time. Near Lake City the track
was covered with water, and in some places
10 deep it was feared the fire in the engine
would be extinguished. When halfway be-
tween Page City and -Higginsville one Of the
springs, under the hind end of the boiler,
broke, and it took an hour to get it out. The
train proceeded In a crippled condition, and
got to Brownsville at II 80 O'Clock.
The school board Of Lexington district met
Wednesday and elected the following named
teschers:-F First ward, Miss Maggie Speers.
principal, Miss Fannie tewar assistant.
Second ward, no principal elected; Miss
Mamie Shaw, assistant in high school; Miss
Mary Smith, first assistant; Miss MOllie
Cheatham, second assistant; Miss Mary Hale,
third assistant. Third ward, no principal
elected. Miss Katie Greer, first assistant;
Miss Fannie Allen, second assistant. COlored
school, E.. T. Cottman, principal; Lottie
Doniphan, first assistant; Minnie Robinson,
second assistant; Mamie BurrIls. third assis-
tant.
The rain yesterday at noon was very heavy
while it lasted. Main street was q sheet Of
water, and in several places throughout the
CITY the calverts were too small to carry off
the flood. At the corner of 18th and Franklin
streets the water was backed up in the
street, and the wooden aprons we've afioat.
Near Mr.. Farrar's house the water could not
10 through the culvert, and ran over the top.
The retaining wall on Main street, at the
head of Goose pond, is in a bad fix 1t is
slightly bulged. and water is running under
#. From Spring street westward, about $50
feet, the side walk has sunk considerably and
about 40 feet of curbing has sunk out OF
place, causing q gap IS feet long. 6 feet wide
and 4 feet deep In the edge of the street.
Another rain will fill the gap with water,
which has already found an outlet under the
wall. and the probability is that the wall
will be down before anything can be done to
save 1t.
A gentleman of education from a far south
srn state, who has travelled all over the United
States, and especially a great deal in the east,
said to US the other night at the opera house,
that he had never been in a place where the
ladies were so uniformly pretty as they are in
Lexington. He said, ut is an exception here
10 see an ugly, OF even plain looking woman,
while In most places it is the exception to see
4 pretty one." In endeavoring to explain
the circumstance, for it is true, the healthful-
ness of the place was suggested. No doubt
that has much to do with it; we think it has
but blood has a good deal to do with it too.
Our girls are Of good stock. They belong. to