Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-30
EBENEzER EBBINGs.

past week.
Craig Cecils, of Cornelia, has been
visiting relatives here tine past week.
A "shindig' was given at the resi-
dence of Henry Taggart Monday eve
ming the 18th inst.
John Sims had boy brought him
during the late blizzard.
Rev. s. T. Ruffner, of Higginsyille,
preached here on the 7th and 10 insts.
Eureka scholars spend most of their
time rabbit hunting. This is why SO
many parents complain ofpoor teach
ers.
The following schools have eight day
clocks from SearfOss, the HigginsviIle
jeweler: Ebenezer, Wiley and Osborn
schools.
Capt. S. Taggart, a former citizen,
but now prosperous farmer of john
son county, was visiting relatives here
last week.
Herman Mahnken is standing the
stormy winter unusually well. He now
greets you with smile and says, 81
have three boys"
Bennett s. Taylor, commission stock
dealers, shipped a car load OF fat hogs
raised in the swamps of Mulkey, to
Kansas City last week.
Ebenezer night school is in pro-
yress. If Sparks does not teacI
You to calculate interest, write gooo
| hand and post accounts, no pay.
The writing school meets Monday
| Wednesday and Friday nights. Mar
ried as we'll as single men attend
Terms 81 so for fifteen lessons. -,
Friday, 22d inst, closed the 4tl
month of Ebenezer school. Writer
examinations are given the last day o
each month. New questions are printed
each month.
Rev. L. Bedsworth. OF WaVerly
! breaches once q month at Eureka. In
j night of the 10th inst, the severity o
: the climate forced him to accept tn
. hospitality of one of the dwellers o.
, the borders of Mulkey.
Miss Hattie S. Parker, the leader l
the organization of New Hope Presby
terian church, but an invalid the pas
few years, has always been zealou
a worker tor the church. She Is no'
making an effort to organize We
|, mans Sewing Circle. Succeed! I
:. course It will be a success, and goo
u auxiliary to the church.
While the cold wave was sWeepln
O (Friday, 10th inst,) across the plan
:. from Dakota to the Gulf OF Mexic
Montana was basking in sunshine al
the gentle Chinook from the Japt
is current, with the thermometer abo'
e. freezing, but suddenly on that day
Butte the mercury fell to forty degre
ne below zero, making it real mounta
g. winter climate.
v, The irate, obtuse editor OF the Eurel
A. News, from the sandy hills OF Bla'
Jack, is off his base. Under the ca
ne ton Of Ebenezer Christmas tree'he w
he far from the truth. He is Ignorant
mt history not to know that it has be
ed 1888 years since the wise men ga
be presents to Christ in the manger.
CIV also stated that the tree only contain
es few paper sacks and box OF gra
er Here again he is false. The tree "
he we'll loaded and contained 175 pl
'e- sents, and was good success. If Il
ch is the kind of gossip usually fou
&C. among the Inhabitants of ''Buzza
.er Roost" it is no wonder that the carrl
ok birds are so numerous, and that
raj sobriquet has been appropriately 8
I'D piled.
ID The district assessment for sch
ew purposes the past year was only IL
the mills on the dollar-a small sum
of 80 rich district. Even some OF
ro- poverty stricken counties of Kan
on, beat that. Silver Bow county, Nj
mt, tana, has for years never gone bel
that. The principal reason that so
=. of the western states and terrltor
are doing so we'll is their good scho'
In the last few years the country schC
have been looking up and Ebeneze
i'm better than ever before. Let any
visit the school and compare it "
=. the past. If district will only c
llss ploy the best talent as teachers t
will find that it is money saved
SIS making better citizens, and be
community. In many districts in
state children are sent away to Sc
rest private school or academy long BET
ed. they have completed the CONT
and branches, thus taking hundreds of I
,,,, lars from our country schools to b'
'"" up some private schoolrecommendet
tod some pastor or acquaintance.
lavI aud school is cheaper than the public sci
al" and no school should be better I
ron the public school. On an average, t
Uho thirds of the money sent off v
"N' children TO towns for preparative /
MN. poses would sustain a good schoo
p epnds each district with competent tea'
@'' at fair wages eight to ten month
villa the year. Education is necessar
iaS, . the good of society and costs but
,nst compared to other expenses. The
toct to keep these children and their me
10, in the district is TO have good schC
hem hAf + D0