Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-09-25
OONOORDIA.

CoNCoRDIA, Sept. 16, 1886.
Business good.
Plenty of country produce.
Democratic boys are coming to the
front.
The report published last week that
| Claus Brockman had lost some money
by burglars turns out to be false. The
money was misplaced.
JnO. D. Zentmyer, a leading stock
feeder from near Dover, was visiting
his sister, Mrs. A. j. Sparks, last Sum
day.
A contest between the baseball boys
of Knob Noster and Blackburn took
place north of town last Saturday, 18th
inst. In the match the boys from the
Knobs won the victory 16 to G. All
because Will Carr was in the mess and
the game was Carried on in a Gently
manner. Frank Heitmeyer was UNI
pire.
A very suspicious courtship and fir
tation was discovered at an unusually
late hour one day last week.
Maj. VIM Warner, member of con-
gress from this district, was here last
Friday mastering his squadrons for the
fall campaign. No doubt, he and all
the men on his ticket will have trans
portation on the Salt river packet next
November.
The republicans held a campaign
meeting at the City Hall last Friday,
snd took initiatory steps for their de-
feat. In the speeches considerable was
said about pensions, but who denies
Tho rIDhf tn niuo q orinnlo1 c0llio. n
pension? Both democratic and repub-
lican soldiers who bled for the Union
cannot be cut off from their pensions.
Soldiers, it is a false alarm to get your
vote.
Business is quiet, but no one is COM
planning. COncordia is drawing trade
from the suburbs of Nnob Noster on
the south, and the paw paw patches Of
the Missouri bottoms on the north.
The "prohibs" of Brownsville lurk
hither to trade, and Ebenezer farmers
are daily on the streets.
Henry Ostemeyer left last Tuesday
morning for Kansas City where he will
visit his daughter and attend the expo
sition.
Mr.. and Mrs Fiene are visiting rela-
tives near Brownsville.
At a base ball contest last Sunday
the "college boys" beat the .stown
bOys"-52 to %. The town boys boast
that they will make a better score next
Sunday.
j.. ii. Pfoger, a salesman of the firm
OF Thieman Bros, expects to attend
college this fall.
Robt. Taubman, of Lexington, was
in town last Saturday.
The democrats met, last Saturday,
1lth inst, and organized a campaign
club. Henry Filing was chosen pres
ldent, and A. j. Sparks secretary. The
meeting adjourned to meet in Town
Hall at 2 O'Clock, Saturday, I'd prox.
: Fail apples are selling at G5 cents
per barrel.
The city schools opened last Monday
with a good attendance.
Mrs. A. Althoff has been confined to
her bed with a violent fever; DIR. Henry
Becker is the attending physician.
DR.. A. P. Reed took in the Kansas
City exposition. Rumor has it that he
is looking thitherward.
Frank Bruder and his son, Oscar,
lett, Wednesday, tor the Kansas City
fair.
Frank White, proprietor of the Cen
trail Hotel, is unusually happy. A new
boy baby entered the family circle last
Monday at 2 O'Clock and weighs eleven
pounds.
Cook & Walkenhorst are shipping a
few hundred barrels of apples. They
are paying 65 cents a barrel. Mr.. #.
q. Cook, of the firm, expects to start
in a few days for Kansas
Any n wishing to subscribe for the
Intelligencer can do so by handing his
name to Andrew j. Sparks, secretary
of the democratic campaign club, or to
j. B. Filing, assistant postmaster.
Last Thursday was made pleasant by
the copiOus showers.
Grim autumn is approaching.
LAFAYETTE Boy,