Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-20

A vein OF lubricating oil has been struck
in Ray county, Missouri, and q company is to
be formed to work it.
John Simmons Is back upon our streets.
1t does look as if the community ought in
some way to be able to rid itself of John and
Todd.
The slaughter house belonging to Mr.. Geo.
Setter, and near his ice house on Water
street, burned down last Monday night.
With its contents 1t was valued at about
$500. Insured with E. Winsor 4 Son for $500.
The new mill has been running. this week,
10 test belts, pulleys, carriers, &C. 1t will
probably get down to business to-day or
Monday. The whistle is very melodious
one and will soon be known to everybody in
town.
Mr., j. b. Mabry and wife come to town
Thursday down the bottom road from Well
ington. Near the Jim Mitchell place the hind
axle Of the wagon broke and threw both of
them out into the road. They were pretty
well Jared up, and Mrs. Mabry had one
hand hurt. No bones broken. They walked
into town, and sent after the wagon and mad
it repaired.
The following prominent horticulturlsts
are expected at the state m~eeting:-J. G. Ev-
ans, president; J. A. Durkes. vice-president;
l.. A. Goodman, secretary; D. S. Holman.
treasurer; Professors 8. NJ. Tracy and L. R.
Taft OF the state university, the editor of the
Rural World, st. Louis; f, w. Taylor, vice.
president of the Iowa State Horticultural So
ciety. and perhaps Prof. C. V. Riley. U. S.
Entomologist, beside many other prominent
and practical hOrticulturists.
Names of those who contributed apples for
the exhibit of the Horticultural society, to be
made on the It'll, 9Th and 9th of December:
Jos. Shelby, Jr.. Lock Terhune, Mrs. Martha
Catron, Evan Young. +. Lehrmsn. d. H
Lyons. j. and P. Eeinhard, p. Ryan, R. 9.
NOVEL;, John Mcintyre. Rufus Young. c. E.
Landlord, Ferd. Smith, L.. X. Binker, Ben.
| Weedin, Fred Young. P. G. Trotter, RObt.
H. Smith, j. Fl. Lockhart, WIN. Shacklett, f.
and P. Marshall, c. Gru5er and Bro. John
Vaughan, Geo. w. Carr, DIR. j. G. Russell,
Geo. F. Maitland. j. j. Shultz, DIR. Jas. Belt,
Eli Adams, G. Shull, j. Il. Barnett, Jesse
Warder, DIR. w. A. Gordon, Chas. Teubner.
Bates City:-Plenty Of mad. -Four inches
I of snow the night of the 18th of November,
Ahu ~ AEohN ooSh - Wv" hAhSo Va
this place, the snow was eight inches deep,
Last Tuesday morning it began to rain here
about eight O'Clock and kept 1t up all day. l
think, Mr.. Editor, if you had been in Bates
City about Tuesday evening you could easily
have decided as to who had fibbed, your cor
respondent or the man who said the mud
never got four feet deep in Bates City. Our
people in this end Of Clay township are
anxious to know whether or not the saloon
men in Wellington got their twO.thirds ma
jority, or did the honorable county court go
back on their word and grant license on q
bare majority. We would also like to know
when their petitions were gotten up.
The concert at the Methodist church
on the evening of November IL. was
s grand success IN every particular. The
church was beautifully decorated with ever
greens and flowers. and long before night the
crowd commenced gathering. and by seven
O'Clock, Notwithstanding the inclemency Of
the weather the house was full to overflow
ing. About eight o'clock the exercises were
opened by the Sunday School superinten-
dent, DR.. G. W. Bates, making 3 lengthy ad-
dress OF welcome. 1t was given up by all
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the expectations of every one else, Next on
the programme was. sweet rest at Home"
sung by Mrs. Andrisi, Mrs. Mitchell, Messrs.
Andrist and N. c, Ewing. Next came an
essay by Miss Bette Porter, subject, I'VE
are Drifting;" next anthem, by Mrs DR..
Bates and E. l.. Andrist; next dialogue, by
Mrs. Maud Ream and Precilla ODell; next
was a song by Misses Bette Porter, Katie
Ferguson, Mr.. H.. Mccormack and others
then came exercise By class A, at the close of
which Superintendent Bates made a few re.
marks, in which he said that class A was an
exceedingly large class, hut it had dwindled
down until it was quite small, and he had
about concluded that if there were no women
there would ne no children, and if there wei
no children there would be no Sunday
school. Next came recitation by Misses Bessie
Ewing, Katie Ferguson, Ella Griffith aud
Bette Porter; then came the best of all, Il
solo by Prof. Bowman; then Il few more
songs; then the small fry. We think they all
did remarkably well, but we think the little
folks taught by Mrs. Geo. Bates eycelled
them all. Then came a speech by Miss Fannie
Burton, subject, People Will Talk which
was simply immense. The closing and crown.
ing scene was chronicles written by Mrs. q.
W. Bates, in which she spoke of the mighty
men of the church and the founders of the
concert. The last thing on the programme
was an address by Rev. w. T. Eastwood,
subject, Little Snakes" The concert was
given for the editication of the little children,
but the old folks seemed to be as much de.
lighted as were the children, and looked al
though they thought 1t was good to BIZ there.
We head of some one who was present al
the concert saying that such things in a church
were antagonistic to religion, but we just
consider the source from whence it came.
We forgot to mention an essay by Mrs. East
wood, which was both grand and sublime
Capt. Mark Belt and lady left Bates City
!, Thursday morning, for their home in Texas
We commend Mrs. Belt to the people o.
Texas as a good kind neighbor and q Chris
} tian lady. We regret very much to give hel
up. Everybody go to the concert tonight a
Pleasant Prairie church.