Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-04-03
EBENEZER EBBINGS.
Flowing has commenced.

Flowing has commenced.
The wheat looks better than any ten
years previous.
The peach crop will be a failure.
A good idea-subscribe and read the
IntelIigencer.
Alex. Fox was expecting to return
TO the Eisenhower State," this week.
VIM. Lanham has been afflicted with
rheumatism for some time. He ex-
poets to leave in a few weeks for the
coast of southern California.
Miss Alice Welborn has returned
home. She taught a successful school
at Dunksburg this winter. She taught
several terms in the Mock district.
Freedom township has about twelve
miles of railroad.
Lafayette county is older than the
state. 1t once extended as far south
as the Usage river.
Freedom township was organized
in 1912.
In 1916, Jno. c. Bledsoe, of Lafay-
cite, and A. FL. Perry, of johnson,
made a survey of the line between La
fayette and johnson counties, at a cost
to Lafayette of 1896 35. In 1854, in
order to settle a dispute a similar sur
vey was made.
Freedom township is one of the
richest and best townships of the
county.
Col. Robt. L. Greer shipped three
car loads of Angus calves last week.
Patrick Henry and Chris. Mulkey
were the leading pioneers of this Sec
ton. We have two creeks christened
tor the Mulkeys.
VIM. Rowe, an esteemed pioneer of
the county lived in Lexington till the
war, when he enlisted in 1861 with the
confederates in Capt. Barnett's company
under Col. Ward Cockrell. He was
with Pap Price and Gen. Shelby
through the war, and after the sur
render he settled in Ebenezer. At
present he is very feeble, not able to
walk about by himself.
Robt. Green will study agronomy
this summer OH the farm of Mr. Glad
ish.
Elmer Lindsey, only child of VIM.
and Rebecca Lindsey, was inferred at
Oak Grove cemetery, Sunday the 14th
inst. The bereaved parents have the
sympathy of their many friends here.
The child was tour years and five
months of age.
John Reynolds, VIM. Stlgdon and a
few comrades have had several Sleep
less nights.
Herman Helt has set to wooing an
other girl. His friends are ready to
give him a furious charivari in case he
does capture the maiden's heart.
Austin Fahrnam has a girl visitor to
cheer his sylvan haunts this spring.
How does Jake Green like Kansas?
He thinks the snowstOrms blow SO
strong that after the clouds go over the
snow is driven off and the ground left
bare. Since his return from the Jay
hawker state he has been counting car
cases viewed in the land of Lizards .
AS early as 1912. Freedom chapel
stood near the present site of New
Hope.
A certain pious husband often reads
scripture to his wife in regard to ecom-
omy, but OF late he reads Time,
IL Hob.
Diphtheria patients have been num-
erous this spring. Almost every fami-
ly al De counted III the list.
Willie Froeschle, u pupil of EbeneZ-
er school, accompanied his father home
last Friday.
Charles Stevenson, a dusky son OF
African extraction, after lingering for
a while with consumption, passed tt the
unseen world the 18th inst, and was
Inferred with appropriate ceremonies
at New Hope cemetery the following
day. The mOurners and relatives in
black passed i'll solemn procession to
and from the grave.
March weather is fine. The lion
has gone to his lair and the lamb is
gamboling.
There is an old saying here, "That
I ever since the days of Pap Price there's
money hid" There have been many
: in quest of the hidden treasure. A
! company appeared here last autumn
from Kansas and other localities with
maps from widows, whose deceased
husbands are said to have been eX-
ecu.ed after hiding their treasure.
t Several prospect holes have been SUM
on the old stage line between Sedali;
< and Lexington. The old Mock place
. now owned by G.. III. Uphaus, tn,
ground east of Ebenezer school, anC
| the old Price place in johnson county
: have been searched in vain, last fall
and winter, for the treasure.
j. X. Byers commenced a secont
= term of school at Eureka last week
: He is working for the good of pupils
, and the families who don't want thei
t children corrected are doing them
selves and their children an injury
n The state superintendent says: 9Th,
o teacher has the same authority owe
school premises while school is in ses
a sion that a man has over his owl
d premises" Good parents have 600
children. II parents have neglected t,
e train their children to respect order an,
their teachers, such children will b