Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-01
Get ready for the fair.

Lightning struck Central College Sunday.
Very slight damage.
Mr.. Hoffman, as usual, is making improve
meuts at the brewery.
Help out on the tow clock. A few dollars
from each will do the work.
We hope when the county court meets that
Tod and Simmons will be cared for.
The best -four in the market is the Excel
sior brand. Ask your grocers for It. n16tf
Lawn Settles 4, 5, and 8 feet long, cheap,at
b. & F. Winkler's, Lexington. Mo. asst
Every farmer sholld have something at the
fair, If it is only his fair sweetheart or wife.
Get Boston Betting Company's Standard
Beltlilg, al Jordan's Foundry and Machine
shops. m6tf
government barges are being loaded
with coal ut Mr. w. b. Steele's mines near
Dover.
Our patent spiral hustle is the only one
which will not break down. Call and see 1t.
d. Wilker. july25t2
extra low prices at h. q F. Winkler's, Lex
ington, Missouri. m36
Revised time tables for the Missouri Pacific,
Wabash and c. & A. railroads will be found
on our hrst page.
Saunders will make all the latest and best
style photos for less money than any other
house west of st. Louis. msy3Ot4
Subscribers who fail to get their psper reg
ularly from the carrier will greatly oblige US
by promptIy reporting to this Office. tt
The city marshal should compel property
owners on Ninth street, between Main and
Franklin, to repair their cellar doors.
The reunion meeting. last Monday night.
owing to the rain, was not largely attended.
and was adjourned until next Monday night.
The trees in the school park have been
trimmed up about twelve feet, and the grass
has been cut, so that the place looks much
better.
If ,ou want anything hobby, durable and
cheap in head or foot wear, call on Smith Il
Bolton, corner 18th street and Franklin
Avenue, may9tf
Go to Msrtlsnd's new gallery for the best
photographs. HIS cabinet size ut % per
dozen can't be beat. Remember opposite the
postofice, apr4tf
The coal miners strike OF Higginsville Is
about to come to an end, q number Of the
men having returned to work. ct the rate OF
4 cents per bushel.
Major Fred. Meet is talking Of renting
Longs hotel. He AUG his estimsble wife,
who Is one of the most energetic women in
the world, would be surf to succeed.
For Sale-A good residence, one Of the
best in the city, on Main street, large house,
good outhouses. well, clstern. etc. Price
only - 600. Terms easy. Inquire Of J. p.
Ardinger nov2Stf
Mr.. Winston Jordsn's little ad. Of q msre
taken up by him found the owner who lives
several miles south of Odessa, BY Tuesday
morning. Great is the powoer of q very
small advertisement in the Intelligencer.
We are very sorry that we have to again
ask those that have been owing US for some
time to come in and settle their accounts with
us; we need the money and hope this notice
will be sufficient. Respectfully. Chinn q
Chinn. july25t4
Is it not about time for that old bill board
on the courthouse fence to come down:
Placing bill boards on the courthouse fence
at all is of doubtful propEIety. and it is certain
ly not right to permit an old, disused one to
remain there to deface- the beauty Of the
square.
Mr.. VIM. Smith, engineer of a threshing
machine south of town. had q heavy beard
and mustache. He perspired so much the
other day, and was SO warm, that the skin
pealed off his face so that he had to have the
beard cut off. He don't know whether he
sweats steam or boiling water, but all the
same it scalds.
Higglnsville Post:-"The fair grounds are
to be fixed up for the coming meeting Of the
association in a style never before attempted
by the directors. No pains nor expense will
be spared in making the place s'thing of beau
ty and q joy forever Several hundred dol
lars will be invested and much work eXpend.
/ ed in white washing. painting and fixing, SC
that OLD frequenters Of the place will scarcely
know it. Everybody; is coming this fall sno
the directors propose to make 1t possible fol
people to enjoy themselves and 60 away salts
fed that they have been repaid for time ant
money spent"
Our contemporary. the Post. says:-"Mr
b. Tunstall, q leading merchant Of Odessa
has made an assignment. He couldn't stsnt
the pressure of the hard times. Who will b,
the next one to 60 under, not being able t,
sail close enough to the wind to weather tn
storm? The political change last fall, was
change in more senses than one and has pro
duced, and will continue to produce. result
never anticipated. By its fruits ye shall know
It." With all due reverence and politensss
and with no intention to offend, we must b,
permitted to say that the conclusion abov
drawn IL simply partisan nonsense. Th
hard times from which we are now s~ufferin
began q year ago last June. In tn
recent canvass Mr.. Blsine's hsrdes
work was to 20 about among Idle min
ers and artisans and explain to them VIII
they were out OF work. If party supremsc
produced this crises it was republics
supremacy and not democratic. The trutl
is, while the end of q depressed season
always the hardest, as the darkest hour
just before day, that there are fewer failure
now than there were last year, and for small
er sums. The worst panic this country be
ever suffered from was the one Of 1877;
There had been no ''chsnge" then.
The Intelligencer Is very heartily in fave
of the project to place q clock in the court
house tower, and had q good deal to say re
garding the matter two years ago, when
subscription was made for the purpose b
citizens of Lexington. At that time th
then county court, it was understood, agree
to pay one half of the expense, &400, BIZ
when the subscription was obtained it ",
found that the county revenue was somewhi
short and tha enurt aSEe1 us tn wait awhiI
This was done, and as the times have been
little hard Of late the project was allowed
rest. Our contemporary, the Register, sen
: weeks ago, unaware of what had been don,
started a ten cent subscription for the Hul
pose. We did not oppose it, though v
l thought it impracticsble because it might ha,
looked as If it was done merely In oppositio
. to a contemporaries effort. A few days ago "
: learned that the Register had reached IL
= same conclusion as ourselves, and we locke
= over the old subscription list In Mr.. Kauf
. mans possession, and as the county is now
better condition, we suggested to him that |
. see the subscribers and have them agree
= stand by their subscriptions, and then that
IL number of citizens 60 before the count
" court and ask it to carry out the form,
pledge. OF course there are now two ne
y judges on the bench, Judges Hale and Ellin
who will act in the matter as to them seen
best. but we are satisfied, in view of all tn
has been already done in the matter, tn
y they will be disposed to favor the enterpris
> The clock will be of great value, especially
country people who are in town and the be
u beside striking the hours, eau be ma,