Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-13
Bell Ringer matinee this evening.


Matinee this evening; admission 2o cents
10 cents.
The china hall is located in the old express
Office, opposite Dutch Row.
The ice stuck up eight feet above the top
of the water tow r last Monday morning.
DR.. r. r. Vaughn can be found in the
back room, over the Lexington Savings bank.
As landlord of the commercial Hotel, Mr..
Lewis Neale is a great success. His house is
ALWAYS full, and everybody is well If
The Intelligencer returns its thanks TO
Collector Harrison and Sheriff Bowman for
taking care of its books and papers during
the fire.
Mrs. Nj. F. Price had So in silver IN her
room, and found it alter the fire. This was
about all she saved. At present she has not
located.
DIR. j. W. Meng, dentist, will be found in
the back rooms over Royle & Sons store I'M
til his old rooms, destroyed by the fire, are
restored.
The Commercial bank did not stop business
on account of the fire, and would not have
stopped if the whole building had been de-
stroyed.
Lexington lodge, No, 149, A. F. 4 A. NJ,
will have work in the third degree next Mon
day night; and some other business of i'm
portance.
Itch and prairie mango, cured in 30 min
utes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This
never tails. Sold by Chas. w. LOOMS
druggist, Lexington. mar2l-ly
Years have not seen and time shall not
see" the people SIT down quietly to suffer
pain, when enterprise can afford such IA pam
acea as Salvation Oil.
In view of an article in the Democrat we
suggest that the fund derived from the
McGibeny concert at Odessa be invested
in q town scratching post.
Little Reid Rylsnd is a born Methodist.
| His emotions are spontaneous and genuine.
| When the fire was gotten under control, last
Monday night he exclaimed: "Well, l feel
so good 1 think L ought to sing a song" And
he began IN his most vigorous tones to sing,
"Glory. glory, halleluiah!"
Fair Play" writes from ~Mayview:-"A
paragraph appeared in your paper Of Feb. u,
purporting to be an account of \ spelling
match between the MAYHEM school and the
Wheailey school, and calculated to cast a
l SLUT, IL nOt u ulTtCl luSuiIu pou II
school. Since the paragraph referred to a2-
peared in your paper we have tried to get all
particulars aboutthe affair from parties who
were present on both sides, and they are as
follows: 1t was known at Msyview that Il
T spelling match was to come of at the Wheat
ley schoolhouse on the night in question, and
T sleighing being fine a party OF boys and girls,
sixteen IN all, not twenty as your cOrrespon-
dent SAYS, was soon formed for q sleigh ride
to the spelling. but not with any view of hav-
, ing a school match. As said party only con-
tanned four or five Of our best spoilers.
:. When our party reached the schoOlhouse they
found it well filled and spelling soon COM
q menced; our party joined in and spelled on
I both sides as they were chosen; when thai
. match was ended some one said let one scl0O
spell against the other; our party being Oh
9 for fun consented, suppOsing 1t was to be on
r school against the other, but they soon foun'
it was the MAYHEM school against the crowd
. and the ruling was that if any one on til
e Wheatley side could spell the word given OH
they would do it. Sometimes a dozen spell
ing the same word at once. while MayvieN
r had to spell by turns, and only one trial at
word. (I got the above from one of tn
Wheatley spellers.) Under the above sullin
q our MAYHEM party, soon got spelled down
having expressed themselves pretty freely o
the treatment they had received; ii WAS de
/. cided to try It over again, and at it they wen
, twelve spelling OF. MAYHEM side. includin
:. the two teachers mentioned in your pape
aud twenty on the Wheailey side, inclulin
T a teacher who hal formerly taught til
Wheatley schOol. This was The match i
IN night, and the ranks on both sides were gel
!. ting hiuned when the same ruling as abON
stated was again commenced and objected
from the MAYHEM side, about this time Il
is 'fear and trembling spoken Of by your co
respondent commenced. Fearful that Il
:, few boys and girls from MAYHEM would d
o. feat the whole crowd, and trembling wi
rage in not being able to defeat our party /
nd any means yet tried, new tactlS is now Ell
acted the Wheatley school teacher which ";
Nd prOnouncing the words to be spelled, plung
M into French words, while u gallant? you
: knight seats himself on a bench with two
three perched on "A desk before him, his ey
~. suspiciously looking toward the floor, a
a. whenever 4 hard word Was given TO t
~ Wheatley side he would spell it although
~ had been spelled down, and his spelling t
of word in that way Was accepted. In that W
nv Mayview's strength was reduced TO two WI
their opponents counted seven or eight. No
nd ing daunted, though Omewhat discourage
these two, our teacher and her 14-year-'
:, brother, kept the combined forces OF III
in. enemy at bay for a full half hour when
u.-l ,-l t.al. hi, an.t
v. orother in'sseo d worn anu = NE 'e"'
was now noticed that thirteen stood oppo
in to one while eight stood against two half
hour before some who had been defeated h
tho rallied to the charge, even a gray hal
:, i, grandfather who in other days might h;
hot boosted of being able to spell all the words
N Mr.. Webster's big book, came to the res
of his school district, thus 1t continued
nearly an hour longer when the fatal W
dor came which downed our last representa-
iea'ihs iour vi IL opposi'e nus VI ;. "n
e. tried the word twice and all missed W
,ro our knight of the bench told a little
sts something who was standing Il mute spec
RI, tor of the contest and he spelled the VIC
lilo Our party had to spell against representa-
S1o spoilers from three schools districts and
defeated as above stated. VS. are authori
ron to give the names of our infOrments if ne
9TH sary. Our party on leaving invited
Wheatley school to come to MAYHEM
spell against our school. Last Friday N
me- they were on hand about twenty strong
the 49,, ILL.,. ,-on, r,i,h;n ono and a.
miles of MAYHEM to the johnson county
res They refused tn spell by schools, but wal
wv to spell by districts, which was consented
when all had taken their places Mr.. l.
Weaver made a neat little speech, telling
.r that the dogs of war had given them the
tory in the former contest, and hoped |
was no hard feelings abOutit, AS he had NJ
About fifty of our school stool up to spe
- large majority of them being small chill
the which were spelled down, in the mean
unity about half of our ~yisiters had resumed
arian sa.ts. one of them now discovered one V,
M: man OH the Mayview side that does not
Eyer: live here, and mentioned the fact whel
ong; promptly took his seat. A glance was
x Oh taken at the personal of their party wh'
ports was found to represent four if not five
tricls; they looked at their opponents
found our line solid, not one Of our adva
anu pupils having yet missed u word, and sa
vited n. On home And these dogs of war,
ready their n,messkes of sheen killing propen
left the field Of carnage on the first appeal
sur of danger, and scampered off to their re
quite tive kennels. We will say to our frien
emen the Wheatley district, that we like I
lplete spelling matches when fairly conducted
Is, on as no one here knew of the former IN
resent being one of our school we are authOri2
irant, challenge heatley school to a smelling I'M