Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-29

1arie0lS anu idnS are cheaper This SEASON.
than they have been for msnv years. You
will find the largest stock and lowest prices
of above, at Henry Wiiker's, Franklin ave-
nue.. may.at3
The baccalaureate sermon before the
! Baptist Female College aud the Wentworth
Male Academy will be preached at the Bap-
fist church Sunday morning, May 80, by Rev.
j. P. Greene, Of st Louis. may22w2
J. W. Grant, dealer in wall paper. window
shades, glass and mixed paints, and carpet
paper. Also keeps a large stock of toys,
wagons, doll carriages, trunks and dolls.
Contracts house painting and papering cell
ings and walls. apr2ImG
The Art Rooms of the Baptist College will
be open 10 visitors on Monday and Tuesday,
May 81 and June l.. from . to . in the after
noon. There will be on exhibition one hun-
dred and forty beautifully executed drawings
and paintings. may22w2
City election next Tuesday.
John Lee caught, Wednesday, 3 cat fish,
weighing 1876 pounds.
Remember the strawberry show at the
courthouse. at . o'clock. p. M, to-day.
IL ELdSlc VI VIII hdNC u hchN CdISO
if she accommodates all the Salt river pas
sengers.
.Shall our girls whistle? OF course if
they strengthen their lungs by taking DIR.
Bulls Cough Syrup.
Tickets for the Commencement exercises Of
Wentworth Male Academy are now on sale
at Royle " Sons book store. Admission %
cents.
The military exercises at the Academy on
next Thursday, June 3, will be as follows:-
3 p. m.-guard drill; 1920 p. m.-battalion
drill; 4 p. m.-dress parade.
We need a cheap library in town. Help
out the LOOMS Brothers with the Franklin
Square. 1t costs very little and yet affords a
great deal of reading matter.
Mr.. A. LOomis lost a valuable yearling
heifer, last Sunday. from clover bloat. A
%teacupful of soda mixed with a pint of warm
water is said 10 be an infallible remedy.
The brick work upon the new front to the
double house on SOuth street, is completed
and the carpenters will soon have the premis-
es ready for occupancy. When completed it
will he one of the most slightly places in the
city.
Til transfer steamer Camp ell, from
Nebraska City, going down to some point on
the Mississippi, passed here Thursday even
ing. She took on from Mr.. Walton's bank
800 bushels of coal. The Dakota passed down
the same night.
TIL wife and daughter of Mr.. Charles
Schaefer. near HIgsinsville, were bitten by
a supposed mad dog on Thursday of last
week. The dog also bit several hogs and
cows and then escaped, being at large at last
accounts. Another was killed under the res
idence of DR.. FulkersOn, on Saturday. Better
it vas you look a leetle oud, not only al
Higginsville but in til is city also.
The wife of John Williams. house servant
for Mr.. G. NJ. Mountjoy, has a little boy
with her, aged about three or four years,
who has frequently seen his father shaving
himself, and concluded, one Gay this week,
as the shaving tools were within his reach
to try how il was himself. He got along very
well with the lathering part of the operation,
but in attempting to use the razor, cut him
self several times on the cheek and chin and
becoming discouraged laid Town upon the
floor and went to sleep, the blood in the
iShiihS uo" oUOuI us ucCk anu
upon the floor and rendering him a horrible
sight to look upon. About this time his moth
er discovered him and raised the neighbor.
hood with her screams that he was dead. An
examination of the ''cOrpse" and the expla-
nations of the little fellow soon set matters
all right again, but in the future the mother
will see that his pap's shaving tools are moi
within such easy reach.
Bates City, Gardens which have beer
planted since the recent storm are coming up
The Baptist church, which was greatly dam.
aged, is being repaired, and the Christian
church is under good headway again. Mis-:
Annie Armstrong. of Blue Springs, was the
guest Of Miss Bessie Ewing the third Sunday
in this month. Mrs. FRANK Kesterson is al
her fathers, quite sick. Mrs. Jos. Hill, Of
Carrollton, is visiting her sisters. Mrs. DIR
Flournoy and Mrs. Chas. Hill. this week
r. A. Hill Il Son shipped a car load of cattle
and hogs to Kansas City a few days ago. We
were honOred with quite a musical treat
one evening last week, by blind Charlie
which was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Sullins and
two little sons visited friends in Grain Vale,
this week. The ladies of the Women's Nils.
sionary Society of the NJ. E. church are talk
ing of having a public meeting saturday eve
before the second Sabbath in June. Mr.. E
L. Andrist, our station agent, has been ap
: pointed notary public and can now transact
> any business under that head; give him
: trial. Dave Martin has opened an art CALLER
: near the city, and while canyassing the town
ship for constable, also advertises his i'm
r paintings and tin types. We wish HIM sue
= cess in both his undertakings. 1t is reported
that Mr.. Zach Wright has sold his propert,
e here to Mr.. T. W. Itidings, of Wellington
: Who will take possession in a few months
v While we regret to lose MIR. Wright from OIL
midst, we are glad to have his place filled b,
such a gentlemanly parsonage as MIR. RIding-
Look out, girls, for he's a heart sm.sher
+ and Nan says if it h tIn't been for the e, clon
I that damaged the wheat so and made the sal
[ of his Plano binder a failure, he really dom
don't know but what he would have married
n but lis postponed indefinitely now G.. X
e Blackwell says If he hadn't had to d
e all OF his house work, such AS taking up ear
: pets after the storm, washing and ironing
which takes him two SOLID days every week.
9 and attend singing, at Concord, three even
lngs in the week he would have been throusI
Y planting corn. We think he is DONG ftmuu.
. iy.iHe has eight acres planted and thirty iiy
to plant, and just plenty of time. viii Sean
I'm says this way of having preaching at
n O'Clock in the evening don't suit HIM al al
q especially when he has an eng ~ N. nj :. f.,
miles in the country and the clock, dom
@ happen to be together like they were (nol
last Sunday. He thought. sure. he would ge
n there before m to go to church; but, alas
Ie he met her, and what could he do but folio,
on behind the wagon back to church, as h
re didn't like TO miss the sermon? Then VIII.
could he do but take the second trip behIn
n her, in order to fulfill the engagement. He
n be better posted next time. Mr.. Mitchell Ii,
0 had a sick horse since last Sunday evening
E, He thinks it WAS caused by riding too har,
as a certain young gentleman hli The hor,
l. hired and was compelled to do a good deal
t. riding in order to comply with an engage
Iment.