Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-14
Water YOU horses at the city trough.

w dtcI NOuT uOISCo " tuC IL SAou8u.
Look out for that hunting dog. If you have
not paid your tax. up will go your canine.
Mr.. Frank Gillespie, Of Kansas City, is in
the city with q view of locating here in the
plumbing business.
The drouthd does not effect our water trough.
There Is plenty Of good water there at all
times, without money and without price.
Country people coming to own now can
find plenty of pure, clear, good water for
themselves and their teams at the city trough
on the public square.
A basket picnic will be given by the Cstho-
lie Association of Lafayette county lat Murens
Grove, one mile east of Higginsvllle, on
Monday, August 10th. Everybody is invited.
~POst:-"Bud johnson, the negro who shot
himself at Brownsville last week, while beat
his wife with a loaded gun, as mentioned in
our last issue, has since died. He formerly
lived here"
Mr.. w. B. Shuttle brought US a war relic
the other day, In the shape of a grape shot
fired from the fortifi cations during the battle
here. He picked 1t up in his garden. 1t Is
somewhat pitted with rust.
Capt. D. X. Shields has been delivering .
very successful series of temperance lectures
In Lexington this week. He is an easy, fluent
speaker, not fanatlcal but sensible and prac-
good. Go and hear him.
Mr.. R. Field Is superintendent of his Sun
day school. In his prayer a Sunday or two
ago he asked that confidence might be given
to all that they had made their calling and
election sure. A little toddler afterward
asked somebody If Mr.. Field was abiding to
his election for judge.
A negro man named Richard Anderson
had a difficulty, Saturday, With Charles +.
Osborn, son of Geo. Osborn. of Davis town.
ship. Anderson advanced threateningly on
young Osborn when the latter drew q pistol
and shot him in the arm, the ball entering
near the elbow and emerging near the body.
The wounded man went to HiggInsville
where DR.. Fulkerson attended to him, and
left him in good shape to recover without
serious consequences. He was to be tried
yesterday, and has been put under bond
to keep the peace toward Osborn.
The council did we'll in ordering 500 feet of
hose, at its last meeting. 1t is absolutely
necessary to the safety of the city. as has
been illustrated several times of late. The
council will make a mistake, however, it in-
stead Of purchasing q regular hook and lad
der outfit, with truck. it undertakes to fprn-
ish a few of the needed articles piecemeal. In
the FIRST place the latter plan will never be
satisfactory. There will always be needed
just the thing that has not been procured; the
detached and pncsred for articles will be lost
and altogether the fire service will be little if
at all benefited by them. On the contrary, if
q full equipment is procured at once. a com.
pany can be organized to care for them,
which will have an esprit du corps that will
cause it to be ever ready, with every ladder,
bucket, hook and axe in place. With our
two excellent hose companies, q hook and
ladder company, and our wide-awake chief,
Lexington will have q fire service of which
it may be pro6t. Give the boys the truck
hooks, ladders and buckets, aud see how
quickly they will learn to get all over oul
highest buildings in a little less than no time,
They give their services free, why should
they be called upon to risk their life and limb
upon rotten l dders and shsky awning posts
Bates City:-Just q light rain Monday
night. Water getting scarce. Mr.. J. ",
Wilkiason shipped . car load of cattle to Kan.
sas City Monday. s. l.. Cheatham shipped a
load of hogs. sheep and cattle. mixed. Tues
day night. to Kansas CITY. Ar. and Mrs.
Strsder, the Misses Bowie and Miss Davis
were spending the day at R. A. H. Hip.
Tuesday. Jim Gilmore, Misses Matte EIn.
kead and Nettie Kelly were regists red at thu
Mitchell hotel Sunday. Mr.. Walter Rays,
iQp. young Baptist minister from Ohio, Il
visiting ct Nr. Reams' near this city. Oul
Or. Flqprnoy is G.Sipg 2 thriving business
don't suppose u day passes That lie lon't have
q gall, we see Wellington has renewed IL,
fight on salQo4s. Hope they may be NOR,
successful than they we're last spripg. Wei
lingtol had better take our plan for it; whet
they find the honorable eopaty court deter
mined to force saloons OF them go to wori
and starve them out. We notice little VII
! lie, better kno Sn as Sweetie, has got quite
r crop growing On bis upper lip, and the littl,
fellow seems to be vesy EFagd Of it. WondeI
when Chris will get done moving Nesds
Mr. John Allspaugh has sold his farm nesi
this place to . gentlemen from near Noun
Leonard, Saline county. Mr.. A. contem
plates moving to W~arFensburg. While WI
I are glad to hear that the purchaser is q mic,
; gentleman and = member Of the Christian
} church and extend to him a hearty welcome
we regret very much to loss Mr.. Allspsigh
: as he was one of our leading men in boil
/, church and business matters. We have tw'
Eastwood at the Methodist church and Elder
Henry at the Christian church.